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5 Japanese movies that everyone is talking about in 2018: Part I
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September 21, 2018 International
Every year we witness a number of movie titles that inspire us, uplift us and invite us to take an imaginary journey to another reality. In 2018, however, Japan’s film industry created several standout films that beyond succeeding in entertaining us, had us glued to the cinema chairs for one very simple reason: they appealed to our deepest emotions; such that we could all easily relate to. Here are five of the titles that won our hearts this year and got us talking — and thinking about life themes we, as victims of the modern busy life, unfortunately, forget at times.
1. Chihayafuru: Part 3(ちはやふる ―結び―)
“Opportunity,” we’re told, is a door without a knob — you can’t open it by yourself. But when someone opens it for you, you have to be there, ready to jump in and embrace it regardless of what lies ahead. The final installment of the movie adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu’s popular comics, Chihayafuru Part 3 is a closure just as it is a new beginning inspired by the theme of embracing one’s opportunities in life. As the famous protagonist trio, Chihaya (Suzu Hirose), Taichi (Shuhei Nomura) and Arata (Mackenyu Arata), are getting ready to bid goodbye to their high school lives, they find themselves standing on precarious grounds: conflicting choices, doubts and unrequited feelings. But one day they come to realize that a strong person is not one who’s always winning, but one who has the will to inspire those around them to be stronger by pointing at their possibilities even when this means giving up one’s own feelings. Watch as the story of Chihaya, Taichi and Arata gets more complicated than ever — until it isn’t.
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p>Watch with：Your childhood friends.
Must-see scenes：Every scene that has that look in Chihaya’s eyes when she hits a karuta card, and the final match.
Why we recommend it?：The most powerful installment of the series, this one is a masterpiece. Watch as the love story between our three lead characters finally unfolds.
2. Perfect World (パーフェクトワールド 君といる奇跡)
Love takes various forms — and none of them are perfect. But if there is one place where the feelings we have toward someone are so pure and strong that any obstacles become just a minor stop along the long road, that’s where perfection comes close. Tsugumi (Hana Sugisaki), a 24-year-old company employee, by chance reunites with Itsuki (Takanori Iwata), her senior high school sweetheart, through work. But his body — and state of mind — are no longer what they used to be. He is now in a wheelchair, needs assistance wherever he goes, and on top of that, he has given up on love, believing that he would only be a burden in other people’s lives. But as the two become close, Tsugumi starts to play a special role in his life until he discovers that a perfect world could potentially exist.
The people we love will not always be with us. Five, ten years from now, they may not be here or they may not be the same. But love means walking hand in hand even when things are tough. This movie reminds us exactly of that.
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Watch with：Someone very dear to you.
Must-see scenes：When Tsugumi visits Itsuki in the hospital and the two discover what a great team they are.
Why we recommend it?：It’s a difficult theme played spectacularly by Sugisaki and Iwata. It will move you to tears.
3. MIXED DOUBLES (ミックス）
There is no homerun in table tennis. And there are no miracles. It’s a simple sport without the glory, without the fancy uniforms and without the spotlight. But it’s a sport that teaches you a few things in life, including when to give up, when to keep pushing, and when to change. Heartbroken former ping pong prodigy Tamako Tomita (Yui Aragaki) takes us on this realization journey as she moves back to her hometown in rural Japan, drunk and angry after her famous table tennis-star babyface boyfriend ditches her for another girl. Determined to win him back, she resolves to revive her late mother’s ping pong gym and bring its very few students along to the national competition where her ex is also playing. Tamako’s team is comprised of a middle-aged couple, a rebellious celebrity-but-don’t-want-to-be doctor’s wife, a nerdy teen, and a former pro boxer who picked ping pong up out of regret over his lost family — Hisashi Hagiwara (Eita). Tamako pairs with Hagiwara, who eventually becomes a key player in her own life and helps her restore her faith and love for the game. A story of overcoming complexes and insecurity, this one is a real smash that’ll leave you refreshed and all smiles.
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Watch with：A heartbroken friend who needs her/his confidence back.
Must-see scenes：When Hagiwara goes to pick up Tamako and take her to the final match, and when he confronts Tamako’s ex at a restaurant in the coolest possible way.
Why we recommend it?：It’s a sports movie that’s essentially a rom-com and it’s full of laughter and tears that will leave every movie fan satisfied.
4. The 8-Year Engagement (8年越しの花嫁)
How long would you wait for love? And how strong and determined can you stay even when all odds are against you? Based on a true story of a young couple living in Okayama in southern Japan, the release of The 8-Year Engagement brought the nation to tears, becoming one of the most beloved love stories of modern age Japan. We follow our protagonists — full of life Mai (Tao Tsuchiya) and her polar opposite Hisashi (Takeru Sato) — as they meet, fall in love, get engaged and start planning their wedding. But just several months before their big day, Mai suffers a seizure that leaves her first hysteric, then unconscious and at last, hospitalized with no good signs of recovery. A year later Mai wakes up and begins to recuperate, but only to find out that she has no memory of Hisashi. But despite being encouraged to move on, Hisashi keeps hoping, praying and booking the same wedding venue every year. Until eight years later a miracle occurs. A heartwarming and ultimately tear-jerking romance that will make you believe in love again.
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Watch with：Your partner and other couples on a double date.
Must-see scenes：When Mai confesses to Hisashi that she doesn’t remember him but nevertheless goes ahead to tell him how she truly feels about him. And, of course, what he tells her right after.
Why we recommend it?：Because it’s a wakeup call that happy endings do exist after all. If you think that the plot is too perfect to be true … remind yourself that this is a real story. The Tsuchiya-Sato combo give us an acting performance worthy of a standing ovation.
5. YAKINIKU DRAGON(焼肉ドラゴン）
Tucked in an unpaved narrow alley hidden behind barely standing houses and laundry drying in the sun, stands the house of a family who have proudly called it home for years. But unlike their precarious house, the family is tied by bonds that extend deeper than blood and national borders. Here is Yakiniku Dragon, a grilled meat diner run by the Kim family — father Ryukichi (Sang-ho Kim), mother Young-Soon (Jeong-eun Lee), Ryukichi’s daughters Shizuka (Yoko Maki) and Rika (Mao Inoue), Young-Soon’s daughter Mika (Nanami Sakuraba) and Ryukichi and Young-Soon’s teenage son Tokio (Shinpei Ooe). They are Korean residents living in Japan and while the two parents were brought to Japan during the war (and could never return after its end), their children were raised as Japanese citizens — until they’re reminded that they are not quite. Amid many tears, a little too much fighting and shouting within the family, we find warmth, acceptance of the way life is, hope for the future, and a constant return to one’s roots — which, after all, is family. A film exploring the sensitive topic of living as an ethnic minority in Japan, the differences between ethnic generations’ views on life, the very human struggle of learning to accept loss, and the ultimate realization that home is where your heart is, this one is for anyone who has ever doubted their origins, ethnicity and self.
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Watch with：Alone. But ring your family after you’re done.
Must-see scenes：Ryukichi’s heartbreaking acceptance of a reality he can’t compete against, and Rika’s passionate forbidden kiss.
Why we recommend it?：It tells the story of a type of family that, despite playing an essential role in Japan’s post-war economic growth, never receives the attention it deserves. It’s a heartwarming tale that has both laughter and tears and an impressive cast you should definitely see on screen!
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Text: Japanese Film Festival Editorial Team
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Spools of copper wire stolen from Oconomowoc school construction site
Seventy spools of copper wire were stolen from the St. Matthew's Lutheran construction site in Oconomowoc.
Spools of copper wire stolen from Oconomowoc school construction site Seventy spools of copper wire were stolen from the St. Matthew's Lutheran construction site in Oconomowoc. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2x42iYT
Evan Frank, Now News Group Published 7:37 a.m. CT May 23, 2018
Seventy spools of copper wire were stolen from the construction site of the new St. Matthew's Lutheran School on Highway P in Oconomowoc.(Photo: Curtis Waltz)
CITY OF OCONOMOWOC - Seventy spools of copper wire were stolen from the construction site of the new St. Matthew's Lutheran School and First Steps Child Care Center on Brown Street just south of Highway K.
"The contractors had several spools of copper wire inside locked bins inside the school," said Oconomowoc Police Chief Ron Buerger. "Sometime between Saturday (May 19) at 3:30 p.m. and Monday (May 21) at 6:30 a.m., someone entered the building and cut the locks on the containers of wire and stole the wire."
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Buerger was unsure of the value of the stolen wire since the contractor had not provided police with that information yet.
Another contractor had an air compressor stolen.
"He had that locked and chained to something," Buerger said. "That lock was cut, and the compressor was stolen as well."
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Buerger said the department has investigated similar burglaries in isolated areas. In the early stages of construction of Mills Fleet Farm in Pabst Farms, there was some construction equipment stolen from the site.
"That's somewhat of an isolated area, and you can say the same about St. Matthew's," Buerger said. "It's out in the field; there's really not much around it. It does happen."
If anyone has information about the stolen items at St. Matthew's, they should call the police department, 262-567-4401.
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Tyler Williams works part-time utility shifts at the Hartland Fire Department and is active in the Department's parade and fire prevention appearances. C.T. Kruger/Now News Group
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Today’s letter writers discuss police-community relations, shootings, a divided nation, redistricting and the Journal Sentinel’s political coverage.
Letters Today’s letter writers discuss police-community relations, shootings, a divided nation, redistricting and the Journal Sentinel’s political coverage. Check out this story on jsonline.com: http://on.jsonl.in/29LFV9w
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 1:00 p.m. CT July 16, 2016
We must come together
Retired New York Police Department detective Graham Weatherspoon tells us that we Americans live in two states: the state of fear and the state of denial.
Our fear propels us to rush to war before war has been determined to be a last resort, as in Iraq. Our denial causes us to perceive ourselves as patriots who are above reproach. We approve a $600 billion a year military budget to keep us safe, while deadly assault weapons filter down through our increasingly violent society making us definitely less safe. We are awash in deadly weapons, with many militarized police departments. Tensions run high. The National Rifle Association reigns supreme, having bought and paid for many of our spineless government officials.
We will not have safety or peace until we rid ourselves of these deadly weapons. They have no place in a civilized society. The American people, black and white, want change, not empty talk. White police officers who gun down a black man for minor offenses, such as a broken taillight, must be brought to justice. These man are not fit to serve on the police force and must be reprimanded, removed from the force and brought to justice. A slap on the wrist will do nothing to correct the sad state of race relations in this country.
We must come together, white and black together and all of us, to build a strong and unified society. We must spend as much money on affordable housing and mental health care and human needs as for police departments. Justice has been slanted toward whites over blacks. This must change. There must be equal justice under the law.
President Barack Obama calls us to rise to the greatness to which our Founding Fathers called us. We are better than what we appear to be today. We must come together in peaceful dialogue. We can do this.
Joan Picard Bleidorn
'I'm right here with you'
After more than 20 years working on the issue of gun violence in our society, the events of the past few weeks in Madison and around the country have left me in deep despair.
I began to work on the issue as a law enforcement official and, for the past 10 years, as a pastor. I know finding ways to limit our exposure to guns and gun violence would help. But those lifesaving changes are locked in a deadly grip of political brinkmanship that has only resulted in our mutually assured destruction.
We must keep trying, but in the meantime, what do we say and what do we do? We can begin by telling each other always and everywhere, with our deepest sincerity, across all boundaries, what the 4-year-old daughter told her mother from the back seat of the car in St. Paul as her mother's friend was dying: 'It's OK; I'm right here with you.'
Maybe we should make 'It's OK; I'm right here with you' stickers to put on our bumpers along with every Clinton and Trump sticker, on every police car and on every sign to carry to every Black Lives Matter rally. Maybe then we can rediscover our shared sense of community. Maybe then we can move forward, because no matter how bad things get, 'I'm right here with you.'
Rev. Jerry Hancock
First Congregational
All Americans matter
I am white and I am privileged. But the fact that I am privileged has absolutely nothing to do with the color of my skin. It is unfortunate that the concept of 'white privilege' has somehow become an acceptable theory in journalism and academia to explain the rapidly deteriorating race relations in America.
I am privileged because my grandparents worked hard to provide my parents with better lives than they had themselves. I am privileged because my grandparents taught my parents the differences between right and wrong and my parents in turn instilled those same values in me. I am not privileged because I am white; I am privileged because I have a hardworking and loving family that sticks together through thick and thin.
I am not privileged because I am a white American. I am privileged because I am an American — just an American. There is absolutely no adjective needed to describe the type of American that I am. In fact, no adjective should ever precede the word American.
Being an American is one of the greatest privileges that any person could possibly have. But people need to stop putting other qualifying words in front of the word American. The word American should stand alone.
Whether a person is rich or poor, black or white, college-educated or street smart, the common denominator is that we are all Americans, and that is what truly matters. All Americans matter.
Eli Jacobs
Troubled by column
As the mother of a police officer, I am very troubled by several things James Causey wrote in his column on July 10 ('It's scary and stressful being black' Crossroads).
First, 'Well on the flip side, there are a lot of minorities who don't feel support from police most days either.' Really? Every day my son and his fellow officers put their lives on the line for the citizens of Milwaukee. Many of these citizens are minorities who live in the worst parts of the city. They stop drug dealers and rapists and murderers and thieves. They go into dangerous situations to protect and assist minorities. Every day. If that isn't support what is?
Second, 'Not all officers are bad.' Causey and many others throw this out like, oh, yes, there are a few good cops. What if I said well, not all African-Americans are bad? The majority of cops are good people.
Third, 'Gov. Mark Dayton...stated the obvious when he said that 'police wouldn't have shot and killed Philando Castile if he'd been white.'' Why is that obvious? There have been cases of whites shot by police officers that aren't publicized. How can Dayton or Causey know the mind set or heart of this officer when this happened?
And finally, 'I'm angry because I see dozens of times when white criminals fight back and even shoot at officers and they live to tell about it.' And does Causey know of times that black men have fought back or shot at officers and lived to tell about it? It happens all the time, it just doesn't make the news.
Every day, I fear for my son's life as he goes to work. Yes he chose to be a police officer, but it should still be lauded as a noble choice, one that is respected. He chose to be a police officer because he is a good, decent man who wants to help and protect his city and the people in it, no matter their color or ethnicity. Every day he does acts of kindness to help people, but that will never make the news and if it does, it is presented as 'imagine this, a police officer doing good.'
Mr. Causey, look in your own heart about your views about police. Just as black people don't want to be stereotyped for bad actions of the thugs, police don't want to be stereotyped for the actions of a few.
Patty A. OConnell
Heightened fears
First off, who wants to be a police officer in the current charged climate? If you were to walk in am officer's shoes, would your point of view change? Do you have a job where you could be shot at each day?
As an analogy, who is afraid of snakes. If you saw a garter snake would you be afraid even though garter snakes are nearly harmless? Is the fear all in your head because you do not know how to handle them or you have been told to avoid them?
Many of our fears are self-defining, nurtured by second-hand stories or someone else's experience. We cannot discount others' experience, but we should not fear all experience because of someone else's misfortune. Policemen go through training in classes, but much of training may be on the job. I am sure the fears the police officers have is heightened by the unknown and whether they can handle it. For every story of a motorist being shot, there probably is a story of an officer being shot or shot at.
The current charged climate has heightened everyone's fears and may be aggravated by confrontational actions. There also may be many who take advantage of the charged climate to push confrontational actions to see where they will go.
If officers do not follow training, they need to be disciplined or moved to desk duty. If the training is out of date for today's complex society, it should be modified and/or we should have more nonlethal weapons for police departments. Video evidence from cameras mounted on squad cars or light poles could be used more for traffic violations and tickets issued without the need for a traffic stop.
Community leaders and the media would help the current climate if they are not sensational. How many traffic stops are made every day for people of all backgrounds that end without incident? I hope that we can move beyond politics, budget battles, denying events happen and personal bias to resolve these issues rather than having to accept the new norm.
Roger Rutz
More divided than ever?
The president saying that we are not divided, as some say, shows just shows how out of touch he really is with what is going on and happening to this once great and proud country ('Obama: We are not divided,' July 10).
It's truly sad and depressing. We as a country have never been more divided. Whether it's black or white, red or blue politically, Christian or non-Christian, gay or straight, there is division that seems to get worse by the day. Even the groups that should be united together have division in them.
We just celebrated our Independence Day, but if our Founding Fathers saw us now, they would see that we truly have become the 'Divided States of America.'
Peter Meyer
Dealing with the legally armed
We're not in the Old Wild West, but we live in a time when everyone has the potential to be legally armed. Back then, it was the way of life, and we need to adjust to that way again it seems.
We have a sticking point in that we aren't quite so lawless now. So are we training law enforcement today how to deal with the legally armed? If a law enforcement officer is going to panic and fear for his/her life (not that you can argue with that) anytime someone in a routine stop admits to having a weapon, don't we need to address that?
Our sheriff tells people to arm themselves to defend themselves. I think our police chief cringes at that advice. But it's legal today and somebody needs to tell officers in both agencies what the heck to do when one of those armed and relatively innocent citizens is confronted over some minor issue.
Did anyone think about this repercussion when they made it legal to carry a weapon?
Glorifying the monsters
Something bothers me — even scares me — on the news lately.
There have been a few weeks of uproar, no argument, and President Barack Obama said some things about them that made resounding sense. What bothers me is the amount of time on prime time television given to violent outbursts, night after night, with some events repeated almost verbatim for as long as a week.
That's 'entertainment' would be the normal response and it's probably correct. But these programs glorify the monsters who committed these horrors in the smallest detail, ironically giving them their spot in the sun. Their gore becomes 'glory,' their fate 'martyrdom,' and all this could quite possibly encourage unstable or unhappy people elsewhere to copy them on their way to 'stardom.' The networks made these people 'stars' with a national audience that had no choice but to be sucked in.
I'd rather move on to other world affairs than to hear what these fiends think about the weather or what cereal they eat in the morning.
Curtis Stotlar
District distortion disturbing
Reality: You vote and you are part of the majority but you are not the majority represented in Madison or Washington. In the election of 2012, Wisconsin Democrats had the most votes, but due to 'packing, splicing and dicing' of districts, the Republicans represent 60 of 99 Assembly seats.
How does this happen? Historically, both parties have manipulated electoral district maps following the Census. Now, due to high tech and post-Citizens United dark money, district distortion has reached shocking proportions.
Wisconsin — along with Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Florida — is not just suffering from 'political geography' (when like-minded voters live in contiguous areas), but we face a situation in which present legislators practically choose their voters. In Madison in 2011, taxpayers funded private lawyers who only allowed GOP legislators who signed secrecy oaths to view proposed maps before the day of the vote. Traditional counties were split 58 times and working files destroyed.
How serious is the situation? Many are worried. Deeply homogeneous districts have a cancerous effect because extremists on left and right win if a contender is labeled 'compromiser.' In the last Badger election, one-third of districts had only one party with a candidate. Cynicism, apathy and anger abound.
Yes, the Democrats in California and Illinois have been equal opportunity manipulators. Sadly, Iowa with its 35-year tradition of respecting county and municipal lines has not inspired followers despite its much cheaper and less contentious nonpartisan commission method.
Judicial intervention is likely. Three judges in the United States Western District already have heard the case (outcome pending) and the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been searching for a 'reliable measure' will probably take up the case citing the 'efficiency gap' (In Wisconsin, one party needs to win over 55% while the other only needs between 44% to 45%).
Bottom line: Our Founding Fathers would not be proud.
Nancy Ripp Scripko
Great political coverage
Thanks for the great political coverage of the Journal Sentinel team. It's the only reason I subscribe.
No one else is spending the money to provide original reporting as the Journal Sentinel does. Sending reporter Craig Gilbert to the conventions is great. And his campaign analysis is fantastic. The Madison capital guys are great, too.
In an era when too many papers merely reprint tired AP stories, I am glad the Journal Sentinel is continuing the investment in original reporting. I was worried the new ownership would mean an end to that.
Jason Childress
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Christian Smith
Air Castle
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Air Castle (Laurent Garnier 2019 remix) - (9:19) 126 BPM
Review: Originally released on Christian Smith's 2014 artist album Input-Output, "Air Castle" now gets released in remixed form. The Tronic boss has tapped Laurent Garnier to provide the reshape and his version gives the track a brand new identity. Airy and melodic, it sees the veteran French producer conjure up evocative synth pads over a warbling, bubbling groove. While it does feature a build up, this is executed in a subtle manner, with brooding bass tones and complex layers of percussion guiding the way. It's somewhat different in tone to the majority of Tronic releases, but still as powerful - in its own musical way.
Input-Output
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Destination Unknown (original mix) - (6:14) 124 BPM
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Air Castle (original mix) - (6:43) 126 BPM
Input-Output (original mix) - (7:01) 124 BPM
Interlude (original mix) - (3:17) 122 BPM
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Stevenson, No. 24 Shockers Roll Past Ole Miss
WSU Athletics ReleaseJanuary 4, 2020
WICHITA, Kan. — Erik Stevenson’s career scoring day helped No. 24/23 Wichita State rout Ole Miss, 74-54 on Saturday afternoon at Charles Koch Arena.
Stevenson hit four of his five three-point fields goals in the first half as Wichita State built a commanding 39-24 lead at the midway point. The Shockers led by as many as 23 down the stretch.
About the only thing that could slow Stevenson was the scorer’s table. The sophomore cut his hand on a headlong dive for a loose ball with 4:28 to play in the period and spent the next two minutes in the tunnel receiving treatment. He returned at the 2:35-mark and drilled a corner jumper 14 seconds later for his 18th and 19th points of the half.
Stevenson’s final line: 29 points, six rebounds, three steals and five stitches in 34 minutes.
Jamarius Burton added 16 points to go with 10 from Grant Sherfield.
Khadim Sy and Devontae Shuler scored 12-each to lead Ole Miss (9-4), which lost for the first time since Dec. 3.
The Shockers (13-1) have won seven-straight heading into next Thursday’s American Athletic Conference showdown with No. 9 Memphis (6 p.m. CT, ESPN2).
Wichita State held Ole Miss to 30.8 percent from the field (4-of-18 from distance) and outscored them 20-1 off of turnovers.
Six different Shockers grabbed at least five rebounds, as WSU won the battle of the boards 38-30.
The Shockers held the Rebels without a field goal for a stretch of over eight minutes midway through the first half. Stevenson drilled two threes and a pair of free throws to key a 15-2 run that stretched a 14-13 Shocker lead to 29-15 with just under five minutes to go.
Between the 6:29-mark of the first half and the 11:59-mark of the second half, WSU players nailed 14-of-18 shots.
Stevenson finished that stretch with a layup to grow the martin to 61-39. Those points were his last of the day. The sophomore attempted just two more shots over the final 12 minutes.
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China wins Qatar World Cup stadium contract
By Mike Hayes2016-11-30T10:05:00+00:00
Artist's impression of the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Qatar
The stadium set to host the semi-finals and final match of the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar, will be built by a combination of Chinese and Qatari contractors.
Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy has jointly awarded the contract for the Lusail Stadium’s construction to China Railway Construction Corporation and local firm HBK Contracting.
Designed by British architectural firm Foster + Partners, the stadium will be located in Lusail City, some 20 km north of Qatar’s capital, Doha.
The total cost of the contract to build the 80,000+-seater stadium is US$ 767 million, with completion due in 40 months.
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Cement maker reports an almost tenfold increase in net income for the first three months of 2017
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This loan may have a higher risk but higher impact. Learn more here. In light of International Women’s Day week, support IMPAQTO, the all-female founded social enterprise that helps other female founded social enterprises succeed! The Co-Founders are pictured above; read more about IMPAQTO’s Co-Founder & CEO Michelle Arévalo’s mission to support other female entrepreneurs succeed here and some of IMPAQTO’s work with female entrepreneurs here. The Problem Ecuador’s economic development is limited to a narrow range of sectors and extractive industries. To find a new, sustainable economic model that no longer depends on extractive industries, Ecuador has one key ingredient required to do so: 1 out of every 3 adults in Ecuador is an entrepreneur. However, the mortality rate for most startup businesses is exceptionally high. With no access to capital, high rents, low social mobility and gender-based obstacles, the barriers for social entrepreneurs are even higher. The Solution IMPAQTO is a Certified B Corp (a social enterprise that is legally required to make social/environmental impact) that aims to resolve this problem by helping social entrepreneurs succeed: IMPAQTO removes the barriers to startup success through providing social entrepreneurs with a network of coworking spaces, a community of like-minded entrepreneurs, and a business incubator. After developing a track record with two co-working spaces, the all-female founding team is reviving a once emblematic and now vacant jazz club in La Floresta - the creative district of Quito. This new coworking space will act as a hub for social entrepreneurs to grow, learn, and flourish together. Known locally for its inspirational networking events, IMPAQTO has connected over 8,000 participants in workshops, talks, panels and open innovation events. Loan Use and Impact This loan will allow IMPAQTO to set up its new location and help more than 250 social entrepreneurs succeed per month. Since 2014, IMPAQTO has supported almost 2,000 entrepreneurs of which 180 have graduated from its impact incubator.
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Railroad Shop Workers Vote No on Merging Jobs
February 19, 2016 / Jon Flanders Enlarge or shrink text login or register to comment
A boilermaker works on a locomotive plow, a part that often gets damaged in operation. Railroad workers recently voted down a concessionary deal that would have blended machinists' and pipefitters' jobs together. Photo: Jon Flanders
Union members have become used to a certain pattern: threats of plant closings and layoffs, followed by a vote to reopen the contract and make concessions to “save jobs.”
In the railroad shops of the CSX corporation, this pattern has been broken.
Last fall CSX made an offer to its machinists and pipefitters—backed by their unions, the Machinists (IAM) and SMART. The tentative agreement would merge the two crafts into a single job, “Master Mechanic.” For instance, the master mechanic would install both power assemblies (previously machinists’ work) and radiators (previously pipefitters’ work).
Management painted the concessionary deal in glowing terms. But in December, workers in both crafts bucked the threat and overwhelmingly voted no.
FIXING ENGINES
Nationally there are around 8,000 railroad machinists. They rebuild locomotives from the ground up and do preventative maintenance such as replacing power assemblies, turbos, traction motors, and other mechanical items.
Pipefitters work on the extensive pipe systems on locomotives: air, fuel, and oil.
Collectively, these railroad shop workers maintain the locomotive fleet for all the major railroads in the U.S.
The critical role they play got front-page attention after a defective locomotive led to a 2013 disaster in the town of Lac Mégantic, Quebec. A runaway train carrying crude oil exploded, killing 47 people.
MORE WORK, SAME PAY
CSX Chief Administrative Officer Lisa Mancini claimed in a September press release that the contract deal reflected the unions’ and company’s “collective commitment to finding innovative ways to support our employees while driving long-term efficiency.”
Needless to say, the affected workers saw things a little differently. It looked to them like more work for the same pay.
Machinists and pipefitters would have to learn each other’s jobs. Previously, if a job called for both piping and mechanical, the two crafts might have worked together on a team. Now the whole job might be done by whoever was at hand—leading to job losses all around.
CSX was promising to guarantee jobs for two years, but not many thought the guarantee would last much longer.
The agreement would have given up not only traditional job jurisdictions, but also seniority and employee-protection agreements, where laid-off machinists are paid a percentage of their wages for a period of time based on years of service.
Layoffs are a particular concern for these workers—who might otherwise be forced to move rather than spend time looking for another job near home.
RAUCOUS MEETINGS
The initial proposal met with resistance; meetings reportedly went very badly. Workers who’d always been quiet before were making ominous-sounding threats against union officers.
Next CSX closed the 100-year-old Corbin locomotive shop in Kentucky and the Erwin railyard in Tennessee, citing the decline in coal shipments.
Many machinists and pipefitters lost jobs in these shops. Layoffs of other crafts, such as the boilermakers, followed. Obviously management hoped this would bring pressure to bear.
In reality, despite the decline in coal shipments, CSX has yet to go in the red. Last summer, while it was negotiating the concessions, the company announced its profits had risen 4.5 percent in the second quarter and it had beaten its own expectations for earnings. In the full year 2015, the company made $3.6 billion in operating profit.
LIGHTLY SWEETENED
As both union leaders and CSX saw the unhappiness grow, they organized a full-court press to convince workers of the need for this change. Company mailings went out urging participation in the contract vote.
At the beginning of December, leaders of the affected local unions attended a meeting at the Machinists’ national labor education center with company officials and national officers of both unions.
To make the tentative agreement seem sweeter, unrelated items were added—for instance, a proposal to change overtime rules, which was actually already in the works.
The negotiations failed, however. Local officers at the meeting still refused to support the slightly revised tentative agreement.
VOTED NO 8 TO 1
Voting took place at locals; the results were mailed in to district officials and counted in December. The no vote was overwhelming.
SMART members voted 80 percent against the contract. IAM members voted 90 percent against. Across the two unions, the combined tally was roughly 8 to 1 against the agreement.
The unions only reported that the total result was to reject the tentative agreement—and didn’t mention that the leaderships had campaigned for it or report the vote count in the press release. But the members who organized opposition used Facebook to communicate between shops and keep track of the various local tallies.
At a number of terminals, machinists voted unanimously against the contract. These included Waycross, Georgia (0 to 141); Nashville, Tennessee (0 to 41); Cincinnati, Ohio (0 to 28); Russell, Kentucky (0 to 54); and Selkirk, New York (0 to 93).
In most cases, turnout was close to 100 percent. Only one local of the IAM voted narrowly to support the agreement.
Particularly notable was the no vote at the Corbin IAM, even though the shop there had been closed. Corbin workers retain rights to bid on jobs in other shops—but they opposed seniority provisions that would have given them rights over workers in shops that were still open.
Another big rejection was at the IAM shop in Huntington, West Virginia. This shop had been selected for the trial consolidation of machinists’ and pipefitters’ work. The union and CSX had touted it as a model for the industry, where jobs had been saved.
OPPOSITION SLATE?
Machinists who opposed the Master Mechanic agreement are now discussing organizing an opposition slate in the next election for District 19, which includes all IAM machinists in the railroad industry.
Members are frustrated with General Chairman Jeff Doerr, who was “helicoptered in” by the International and has never worked in rail.
There’s also the looming concern that the district could be merged into the Transportation Communications Union (TCU), which merged with the IAM in 2011. The TCU represents railroad clerks and carmen, but so far it hasn’t merged the locals.
While craft union divisions have always been a problem in rail, the work of mechanics is quite different than the largely clerical TCU, amalgamated locals would make little sense, and the IAM has done little to integrate District 19 mechanics with the TCU ahead of any grand merger into a common district.
The last international IAM election saw the first real opposition slate in decades. Former railroad machinist Jay Cronk’s slate won in about 100 locals, including the largest industrial locals at Boeing, while losing the overall vote.
Jon Flanders is a retired railroad machinist and past president of IAM Local Lodge 1145, which represents Machinists at CSX in upstate New York.
A version of this article appeared in Labor Notes #443, February 2016. Don't miss an issue, subscribe today.
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Thanks for the article! But... how did a "defective locomotive" cause the Lac Mégantic disaster??
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DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS Business Opportunities (RFP) New Trees 2019 To-Date: 713
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Chief Joe Losorelli is a 35-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He retired from the LAPD in 2017 as the Commanding Officer of Rampart Detective Division. Chief Losorelli is married and has a son who is also an LAPD officer. In 2019, Chief Losorelli joined the team of Proud Park Ranger Division as Chief Park Ranger.
Chief Losorelli and his team of rangers are responsible for the safety and preservation of all city parks within the City of Los Angeles. The park rangers patrol the city parks in a variety of different methods such as vehicle patrols, mounted unit patrols, foot-beats, etc. The park rangers are sworn law enforcement officer and are certified firefighters with credentials to fight fires and administer basic first aid. In addition to the safety and preservation of the park, the Park Ranger Division is also responsible for teaching educational programs throughout the city parks. Educational programs to include nature walks for all ages, nature presentation, a Junior Ranger Program designed to teach young kids about wild life and vegetation, and more.
Chief Losorelli strongly believes in community partnerships designed to bring the Park Ranger Division, residential and business communities and other governmental agencies together to safeguard and improve the quality of life in our parks.
To Protect and Preserve
The mission of the City of Los Angeles Park Ranger Division is to enrich the lives of the residents of Los Angeles by providing safe, welcoming parks and recreation facilities for people of all ages to play, learn, contemplate, build a sense of community, and be good stewards of our environment. Park Rangers, through careful efforts, protect those who are using parks and protect park resources so that future generations may enjoy them.
Los Angeles City parks are open to the public from 5:00 am until 10:30 pm, unless otherwise posted. Several parks or designated areas have been authorized for sunset closure. Some park facilities offer equestrian trails for riding horses.
Park space is usually available on a first-come, first-served basis for picnicking and other recreation opportunities, though in some instances a reservation may be required. Please inquire directly to the facility of interest for information prior to your visit.
Park Rangers currently only provide service to Griffith Park, Runyon Canyon, Elysian Park, Hansen Dam, Debs Park, and Harbor Regional Recreation Area.
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
The Park Ranger Communications Center is located at Park Ranger Headquarters and can be contacted at 323-644-6661. It is staffed from 6:45 am until 11:00 pm, 7 days a week, to provide callers with a central contact and dispatch center for routine and emergency needs. After hours emergency calls are transferred to LAPD Security Services Communications. The Communications Center can be contacted for:.
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Park Ranger Headquarters is located at the Griffith Park Visitor Center, 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90027. Stop by the Visitor Center for information regarding Griffith Park activities, attractions, and permits. You may also call the Visitor Center Permit Office at (323) 644-2050, Tuesday to Saturday, from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm.
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For information about a career with the Park Rangers, please refer to the City employment link provided below. As hiring for positions periodically opens and closes, interest cards may be available, and those filing them will receive notification when a position opens.
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How Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
Vijay Prashad: While extremists spread inflammatory language in mainstream political discourse under the guise of ‘populism,’ hate crimes and hate speech continue to rise.
By Vijay Prashad posted on October 23, 2019
The Forgotten Trauma of a Forgotten War
Nick Turse: Violence has stalked the Congo’s far east since at least the nineteenth century, when slave raiders plied their trade here and local mutineers from a Belgian colonial expedition rampaged through the region.
By Nick Turse posted on October 10, 2019
Looted Art in America
Steve Hochstadt: Although the US was not part of the colonial scramble which divided up Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American collectors and collections now possess large quantities of the stolen objects.
By Steve Hochstadt posted on June 12, 2019
Nonviolence or Nonexistence
Robert Koehler: Here in the U.S., we have a military budget pushing a trillion dollars annually, which is a hell of an investment in nonexistence. But we also have a growing peace consciousness that cannot and must not stop until it changes the world.
By Robert Koehler posted on May 4, 2019
Is a Conflict-Minerals Law Helping or Harming African Miners?
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By Jessica Goodheart posted on April 18, 2018
buildOn: Empowering Urban Youth Through Community Service, Building Schools Overseas
Tania Verafield: For two decades, buildOn has been mobilizing rural communities in some of the economically poorest countries on the planet, such as Haiti, Nepal, and Malawi.
By Tania Verafield posted on January 19, 2018
Notes From Europe’s African Border
Vijay Prashad: What they want is to make it to Europe, which — since the early days of colonialism — has broadcast itself as the land of milk and honey.
By Vijay Prashad posted on January 3, 2018
Reverse Logic — No ‘God Bless America’ But Damn America for Its Deeds
Paul Haeder: He’s an easy mark, really, Trump, and he is not the president of the USA, in any sense of the George W way, if you barely delve into the voter fraud deployed by his conservative, wacko-Zio-Christo henchmen.
By Paul Haeder posted on October 7, 2017
Reality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen
In FY 2016, the U.S. admitted 84,995 refugees, but Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world took in 117,000 new refugees and migrants in 2016, and hosts more than 255,000 refugees from Somalia.
By Kathy Kelly posted on March 21, 2017
The Scandalous History of Illegal Immigrants from Africa
Jaime O’Neill: Unlike all other immigrant groups, black Africans never were required by law to show their papers, to submit to extreme vetting, or any vetting whatsoever.
By Jaime O'Neill posted on March 7, 2017
Arab Winter: Dispatch From Algiers
Vijay Prashad: The Arab Spring did not come full-throated into Algeria largely because of the experience with civic disorder in the 1990s. What has happened to Libya and to Syria further discourages any kind of rebellion
Rwanda Again Faces Lunacy and the “Rubbish of Injustice”
Georgianne Nienaber: As Africa continues to throw off the shackles of European colonialism and emerges as a significant global power, it is remarkable that the African Union is coming together in defense of Rwanda.
By Georgianne Nienaber posted on July 3, 2015
Vindicating the Ways of God to Man in Gihembe Refugee Camp
Georgianne Nienaber: International media did not broadcast this important and moving ceremony, but camp residents and leaders used the power of still photography and social media to communicate thousands of words that demanded to be heard.
By Georgianne Nienaber posted on May 27, 2015
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Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by John Tiffany
Location: Booth Theatre
First Preview: September 5, 2013
Opening Night: September 26, 2013
Cherry Jones (Amanda Wingfield)
Zachary Quinto (Tom Wingfield)
Brian J. Smith (Jim O'Connor)
Celie Keenan Bolger (Laura Wingfield)
Tennessee Williams (Playwright)
John Tiffany Director)
Bob Crowley (Set and Costume Design)
Natasha Katz (Lighting Design)
Clive Goodwin (Sound Design)
The Glass Menagerie returned to Broadway following an engagement at the American Repertory Theater. The Broadway engagement, which began previews Sept. 5, was originally scheduled to end Jan. 5, 2014, but was extended through Feb. 23, 2014, at the Booth Theatre.
Tony Award-winning director John Tiffany and Tony-winning designer Bob Crowley set Williams' memory play about an overbearing mother and her fragile daughter, inspired by the playwright's own mother and sister, over a pool of reflective black liquid that surrounds the Wingfield apartment.
Underscored by the music of composer Nico Muhly, Tiffany's production is filled with moments of theatrical magic.
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Western Europe Map Quiz
We made a map of all the countries that are historically considered to be part of Western Europe.
Fill in the map by clicking each highlighted country.
This is mostly based on the Cold War
We are aware that some of these countries seem pretty far east
Quiz by Pinoccio
First submitted November 12, 2017
Times taken 25,675
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This Country is:
Becca1235467
I really liked this quiz and recommend it to all students in 7th grade
I need to work on the small countries!!!
Pinoccio
Wow! Thanks!
great quiz! ill be waiting for all of north and south africa!
BEST QUIZ EVER!!!!
I LOVE THIS QUIZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mynameisxyz
Why is Finland considered Western Europe country?
mrnafe
I think it vaguely follows the Nato/Warsaw pact dynamic
jellyperson
Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, and all of the micronations except Luxembourg are not part of NATO. Most European countries are (although they all joined after the collapse of the Warsaw pact, of course).
HebedusMagnus
Dude ... Finland is nothing ... Greece ! like ...just why?
RPHXX
Why is Greece Western Europe XD?
skukka
Because it was a NATO country during the cold war and politically aligned with the 'West'.
EvaR
Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and many others are also part of NATO and not included here. This quiz is really questionable
HatemAli
These only joined nato after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc.
Here we go again, conflating geography with politics. A blind man can see that, given the parameters, Greece is in Eastern Europe!
Djilas
The general geography knowledge hasn't been updated much since about 1990.
I would say it ties back to Greece being seen as the "birthplace of Western civilization". Whether that historical characterization has much bearing on current cultural or geopolitical realities, I am not sure.
tshalla
I wonder if Aristotle knew that he was representing "the West." He and his contemporaries might even have been crazy enough to think that Persians (and others) offered more of "civilizational" value than folks present elsewhere on this map.
Sifhraven
Because it isnt eastern europe.
BlackJohn
Greece has been considered a western country throughout the last century. Its politics were mostly aligned with the West, it was a member of NATO and it had a western, "developed" way of life especially compared to the rest of the Balkans. Of course it retains some eastern elements, such as Orthodoxy and cultural similarities with both the Middle East and the Balkans but it is ethnolinguistically distinct.
sumguy
Why aren't there any country names in the Answer Stats?
Quizmaster
level ∞
USAsoccer9876
never understood the point of having to select the countries from a list instead of just typing them out
MayaB
This way you're sure to get the correct answer even if you don't know the proper spelling of the country.(Monaco is easy to spell, Philippines - not so much.) It's also easier for the not-geography-nerds to have a limited list of countries from which they have to choose.
I always take way longer for Switzerland and Austria than I should. They're my neighbors yet I have to think about which is which. Knowing where Basel belongs to and what it borders usually helps me out.
It might help to remember that about a quarter of Switerland('s population) speaks French!
Me too, always ! And been on this site 6 months now, so have come across quizzes with both of them several times.
With this quiz it finally clicked though AUSTria is east... you know... it is the eastern country... Österreich..
I feel silly now not having looked at it that way before (and no not 100% obvious, cause switzerland is east of something aswell... but between these though I keep mixing up, the most eastern country is the eastern realm/lands :)
Got 100% on this, but never can handle Eastern Europe (Damn you Yugoslavia breakup!).
snegi
Wasn't part of eastern block...more like undecided;)
MajorPlank
Great quiz!
duHuxinator
Rename it Downwards Spiral Map Quiz.
You should make now for eastern europe!!!
GeographyGeek42
Cheese and Rice that would be controversial.
I don't get this quiz at all, Finland is way more to the east than Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia, in the south you added Greece but Croatia, Albania or Slovenia would be more to the west than Greece. So you included some of north east but didnt include some of central european countries, what sense does it make?
I hope that one day you will get internet and will be able to google "Western Europe"
GeoDude
I destroyed my computer in anger.
You dont seriously think that the guy creating ths quiz has just made it up did you? That is like saying on a quiz (not as a general thought, but aimed at the quizmaker) Why is british colombia (in the west of canada..) not considered to be usa.. alaska is, and it is much further north than british colombia... So so should british colombia.. fix the quiz please..
And yes, in a way all borders are made up obviously (just not by jetpunk quizmakers)
So, when have the Nordic Nations or Greece been considered "Western Europe. I learned the regions of europe like this: Western Europe: Portugal, Spain, France, Andorra, Monaco, UK and Ireland. Northern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland Southern Europe: Italy, Vatican, San Marino, Malta, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Northern Macedonia, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Georgia, Azerbaijan Armenia and Turkey. Eastern Europe: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan Central Europe: Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. This is just my opinion and I may be wrong don't judge me.
Cetone
This is my vision, based on geographic and historical elements :
You're not wrong, and neither is the quiz... Western Europe is not an official term, and Greece and Finland might belong to it on cultural or historical grounds. I presume that the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg belong to Western Europe in your system? :)
what tour said. Also the definitions of western and eastern Europe used on the two jetpunk map quizzes pertaining to them seem to sort each according to whether they were more in the American or Soviet sphere of influence after World War 2. This was a very common way of dividing up the continent during the Cold War and up through today.
emoney9
I got Denmark wrong because I wasn't paying attention and assumed Sweden would be after Norway
SkuxxKiwi
Yeah i did that too!
mikeyp
Is Turkey in Europe?
I mean the animal not the country.
WanHuangdi
Nope, it’s strictly a North American bird, which is why Benjamin Franklin supported making it the national animal over the Bald Eagle.
Guineafowl, birds from the west coast of Africa that resemble American turkeys, were imported to Europe around the time that European colonial empires were being founded via the Ottoman Empire, and thus via Turkey, and so came to be called "turkey hens" in Europe to differentiate from the chickens that were more common on the continent. When Europeans first settled in North America and saw the American fauna there, they noticed some birds that resembled these African fowl, and took to calling them "turkey birds" as well. Even though they had never seen this exact species of animal before.
Western Europe according to what? Just FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Europe
FYI according to what? Let's argue about some more irrelevant stuff.
World Map with Random Merged Countries
Lady Gaga Songs Quiz
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Cammell Laird
Mersey tour operators say Cammell Laird plans for historic site could threaten their business
Critics say shipbuilding giant's plans will cut off vital access point at Monks Ferry and block only 24-hour public slipway to Mersey
Updated 11:54, 15 MAY 2014
Gary Flint and Stan Dickinson from Mersey tour operators who say Cammell Lairds to build on the slip way in Birkenhead will kill their business
Mersey tour operators are fearing for their future because of plans submitted by Cammell Laird to build on an historic site in Birkenhead.
Sailors who lead fishing, diving and bird watching trips claim the proposals would block the only slipway on the Mersey accessible to the public 24 hours a day.
The Monks Ferry site is a crucial pick up place for operators and the only place they can guarantee being able to meet the emergency services at all times.
Thousands of anglers travel to the area every year to fish on the Mersey, providing good business for tour operators on the river.
But that could be under threat after Cammell Laird revealed plans to build a new warehouse on the Wirral council-run Alabama Way car park.
If given the go-ahead, the scheme could create up to 45 jobs maintaining wind farms off the Merseyside coast.
But Gary Flint, who runs Discovery Charters from Liverpool Marina, believes the plan would hit his business severely by closing the site at Monks Ferry - which has been open to ferry crossings for 700 years.
As the only publicly accessible slipway not affected by the tide, losing it would dramatically reduce the number of tours he could operate each day.
He said: “It would become uneconomical to carry on, it would restrict the number of trips we could do.”
In the winter as many as 200 anglers are taken on chartered Mersey boats each day.
With all other Mersey access points, including Liverpool Marina, dependent on tide times the slipway is also the only place boats can always meet the emergency services.
Documents submitted to Wirral council by Cammell Laird suggest that, while the slipway would be closed to the public, it could still be used by the emergency services.
But Stan Dickinson, who runs Tuskar Charters, is not sure how such a plan would work if a crew member became ill on board, and is fearful the loss of access would restrict business.
He said: “It’s our life and soul. It’s the only 24 hour access point to the Mersey with public access. We have thousands of visitors from across the UK every year. There are eleven local boats in Liverpool Marina and mooring at Tranmere.
"The Tranmere boats have to pick up there – they can’t use Liverpool Marina – and if anything goes wrong with a passenger that’s the only place we can get to [at all times], or if we have trouble with crew it’s the only place police can come. We use the slipway up to four times a day.”
The application has also come under fire from people who live nearby, with campaigners believing it will take away the “last open site in the area”.
And Birkenhead MP Frank Field has now joined the battle by telling Wirral council there is no need to block public access to the slipway as part of Cammell Laird's plans.
Mr Field said: "The council ought to be able to facilitate the wind farm industry without placing local jobs and businesses at risk. It must avoid cutting off Birkenhead from Merseyside’s fishing and tourist industries. Local businesses have already reached an agreement to co-exist with the wind farm industry. Monks Ferry should therefore be kept readily available for all vessels that require access.”
A Cammell Laird spokesman said: “We appreciate there will be supporters and benefits to many in relation to the project at Alabama Way. We also appreciate that similarly there may be opposers to the project, and organisations who may have some issues as a result.
"We will therefore rely on the planning authority to undertake their own due diligence and make their decisions taking all into consideration. We at Cammell Laird are committed to creating employment and making a positive difference to the community wherever we see opportunity to do so.”
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Woman's body find in search for man
A WOMAN was found in a watery grave in Liverpool docks as police investigated the disappearance of a missing man, an inquest has heard.
Divers made the discovery when they came across a Renault Megane submerged in Nelson Dock.
They found Ann Manning, 43, whose body was pulled from the car.
Liverpool coroners court was told that police were actually looking for Bernard Cooke, director of estates for Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.
But a search instead revealed Mrs Manning, who had disappeared nearly 10 days previously from her home in the Eldonian Village.
The pharmaceutical dispenser had not been seen since November 12 until the grim discovery on November 21.
It is thought her body had been underwater for a long time.
The court was told that Mrs Manning had left behind a note at home which was found shortly after her disappearance.
It was by chance that she was found as Mersey-side police looked for port chief Mr Cooke, who went missing on November 16.
Mr Cooke, responsible for 2,000 acres of Liverpool's docklands, had left his office but never returned home.
Merseyside police have confirmed that there was no third party involved and there is no connection between their disappearances.
The court was told that Nelson Dock was one of the few waterfronts in Liverpool without barricades, allowing motorists to drive straight through the dock.
Since Mrs Manning's death, police had acted swiftly to erect barriers to prevent access.
Coroner Andre Rebello said that Mrs Manning's death was consistent with drowning.
He recorded a commentary verdict.
Mrs Manning's family was at the inquest but did not wish to comment.
No leads in hunt for dock director
POLICE hunting missing dock director Bernard Cooke have had little success tracing him.
The director of estates has not been seen for more than two months despite appeals from his family to come home.
A spokeswoman for Merseyside police said no reported sightings had materialised into positive leads.
She added: "We would, however, like to thank the public for their calls."
The 57-year-old port boss left his car at the office.
It is believed he may have taken a work pool car, a white Peugeot 206 van with an orange light on the top.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Merseyside police or the National Missing Persons Helpline on 0500 700 700 or visit its web-site at www.missing persons.org
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Lille 0 Everton FC 0: rate the players
Your chance to rate the Blues after their Europa League draw
David Triggs
Everton line up before kick-off
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Everton fought out a 0-0 draw with Lille at the Stade Pierre Mauroy to consolidate their place at the top of Group H in the Europa League.
Roared on by thousands of travelling Blues, Roberto Martinez's men delivered a resolute defensive display and came close to nicking the three points through Aiden McGeady and Samuel Eto'o in the second half.
But what did you make of the performance of the men in royal blue? Now is the chance to have your say and mark each player out of 10.
Over to you...
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How to Download Songs from Amazon with Your Web Browser
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Mark Harris is a former writer for Lifewire who wrote about the digital music scene and streaming music services in an easy to understand, no-nonsense manner.
Amazon Music (previously known as the Amazon MP3 Store) offers free software for downloading music purchases to your computer. After you purchase music or if you're a member of Amazon Prime Music, you'll enjoy that music in several different ways, including downloading it with a mobile or desktop app.
However, while it's true that Amazon's MP3 downloading tool might seem like the easiest way to download music to your computer, there is always the option of saving the songs through your browser, eliminating the need to download any software.
Download Amazon Music Through Your Web Browser
Sign in to your Amazon Music by entering your regular Amazon email or phone number, and your password.
On the left side of the Amazon Music page, under the My Music section, find the content you intend to download.
Place a check mark next to one or more songs that you want to download through your browser and then click the Download button. To select everything on the page, use the topmost check mark to capture all of it.
If you're downloading music from the Purchased section, you'll see a simple list of all the songs you've bought on Amazon.
If you're looking at an album of songs, and you want to download the entire album as a ZIP file, the download button is hidden away in a small button with three vertical dots. To select a specific song to download out of the album, you can hover your mouse over the song to see a different three-dot button that lets you download just that one song.
A message displays that asks if you want to use the Amazon Music app to download the music. To save the Amazon music without using the app, click the link called No thanks. You may see a message that says that you need to authorize the device before you can download music. You can authorize several devices with your account, so click Authorize device to give your computer the authority to download music out of your account.
Buy Music From Amazon Music
To purchase music through Amazon, log into Amazon then:
Go to Amazon's Digital Music section to look for music you can buy.
Use the menu on the left to browse for songs. You can also use the search bar to quickly find something specific.
When you find a song you want to buy, use either the buy button (the one that has the price written on it) to reach the last step of the process to buy the song or use the cart button to add it to your MP3 cart so you can keep shopping before making the purchase.
When you buy a song on Amazon, you'll get a message showing that the order is complete. On that final screen you'll see a Play Now button to listen to the song in your browser, as well as a Download Purchases button to save the MP3 right away.
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Zero Albums Predicited To Be Certified Platinum In 2014
No, this is not some click bait headline, and yes, you read it right- Zero Albums are expected to be certified platinum in 2014. 0, zilch, nada, donut- whatever you want to call it- this is the first time this has happened since the RIAA first announced the certification for selling one million albums back in 1976.
The news, which broke on the blog Death and Taxes, states that although Beyonce and Lorde releases are close to making the cut at about 800K units sold each, they both are not selling at a pace to crack one million with just a few more weeks left in the year.
The only upcoming release that has even a remote chance of hitting a million units sold is the Foo Fighters "Sonic Highways"- but the last time they received platinum certification was over a decade ago.
The article goes on to cite changes in the way people are listening to music, with many listeners opting for music streaming services like Pandora and Spotify instead of purchasing albums, as a possible reason for the decline. These are subscription services which pay artists royalties based on plays, instead of actual album sales.
Another indicator of shifts in listening habits is the strong performance of single sales in 2014, with 60 individual songs expected to hit platinum. Death And Taxes writes "this is a clear reflection of the overall shift that the industry has made back to a singles-based focus." Keep mind, however, that overall single sales are down 20% to last year.
What are your thoughts? Does this mean and end to the major labels and the traditional business model or is it still relevant? Does the popularity of electronic dance music (a more 'single' dominiated genre) have any impact on these numbers?
NOTE:The soundtrack to Frozen has sold over 3 million units, but because it is not an artist album, it is not considered for this category.
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Happiness Here & Now
Looking for some timely wisdom? Kirkus Reviews says the latest book from Pope Francis offers "gentle encouragements to do the right thing",
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Andy's Sleeve
Thomas Jones
To much general British disappointment, Andy Murray hasn't made it to this year's Wimbledon final. I was distracted during his defeat at the hands of Andy Roddick by the insignia on the sleeve of his generally quite tasteful Fred Perry shirt. Subtler than Roddick's black armbands, the logo of the Royal Bank of Scotland was still highly visible throughout the tournament. Cause, then, beyond mere patriotism, to get behind Murray: having bailed RBS out to the tune of who knows how many billions, British taxpayers aren't just Murray's supporters, they're his de facto sponsors, too.
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I'd been wondering about Roddick's black armbands. These days if sportsmen aren't holding a minute's silence before a match, they are wearing a black armband in memoriam or a pink band for breast cancer or, in the last of the Lions-Springboks matches, a white band in protest against Bakkies Botha's banning.
I thought perhaps the bands were a preemptive mourning for his loss to Federer. Now I see they advertise Lacoste.
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Street WisePat Rogers
Vol. 7 No. 17 · 3 October 1985
Street Wise
Pat Rogers
Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 218 pp., £8.95, September 1985, 0 241 11664 3Show More
Paradise Postponed
by John Mortimer.
Viking, 374 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 670 80094 5Show More
High Ground
by John McGahern.
Faber, 156 pp., £8.95, September 1985, 0 571 13681 8Show More
It takes no time to see that Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor is a book wrought with extreme cunning. A slower discovery arrives, that this virtuosity on the surface goes with imaginative density and profundity of inquiry. Inquiry into many related topics: the vagrancy of youth, the corruption of obsession, the permanence of evil. Allusive throughout, the text (though it contains a character named Eliot) does not utter the passage from The Waste Land which seems to underlie its themes, the one on the ‘unreal city’ at dawn:
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet,
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hour
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
The novel at a crucial point reaches the same mood as well as the identical locale; and Stetson’s corpses ‘planted last year in your garden’ are likewise mimicked in the plot.
Ackroyd’s double-track narrative switches between London in the period of the Queen Anne churches (say 1714 to 1715, though the building process is telescoped) and the city of today. Across the divide of idiom and landscape, there is a parallelism of event: murders committed in identical places – around the site of Hawksmoor churches, in fact. But history, as one might suppose, has suffered an alteration, and the architect of these Baroque edifices turns out to be one Nicholas Dyer – with a career as Wren’s protégé but a life-history significantly different from the real Hawksmoor’s. Here Superintendent Hawksmoor turns out to be a senior detective based on (new) New Scotland Yard, where his predecessor had worked from the Board of Works in Old Scotland Yard. For that matter, the two men each inhabit an obscure lodging round about Seven Dials: topographic coincidences mortice together a staggeringly well-made plot. Hawksmoor, assigned to the modern murders, stumbles on the dark events of an equally neurotic and frightening past.
There is another discrepancy with the history we have been taught. Dyer is busy with the construction, or reconstruction, of six great, we’d say ‘Hawksmoor’ churches. These are Christ Church, Spitalfields; St Anne’s, Limehouse; St George-in-the-East; St Mary Woolnoth; St Alfege’s, Greenwich; and St George’s, Bloomsbury. Here the six murders occur in each era: always a virgin male, as the murderer’s occult creed demands. But there is to be a seventh church to fill out Dyer’s design and to complete the mystic heptagon upon the map. This is a church dedicated to the classic small-boy victim, Hugh of Lincoln, to be built among the alleys and foul closes of Moorfields. Here the detective comes at the climax of the story, as victim or as murderer.
The older world is rendered with total conviction and an unflagging sense of period. Ackroyd is able to do as much because he achieves what is emphatically one of the best reproductions of 18th-century language that any modern writer has essayed. Not only does he catch the cadence and syntax, which parodists generally miss: he is brilliantly exact in trapping the stage of semantic decay which had set in among words, and he hardly puts a foot wrong in his displacement of idiom. The text is replete with proverbs, saws, stock formulas, all chosen with remarkable taste. There are also numerous snatches of riddles, children’s rhymes, catches and ballads – the detective is always overhearing potent but unconnected phrases, as though he has eavesdropped on the inner griefs and shames of a dissociated community. Such things are not unexpected in a book which often focuses on boyhood, but they are enlisted here with consistent point – the language and lore of schoolchildren seem not to be drawn from a season with the Opies but from a deep Augustan street-wisdom.
So, curiously, the author is able to impart a fresh and first-hand quality to a book bristling with antiquarian detail. We are given entry to Execution Dock and Rag Fair, the glasshouses of Ratcliff Highway, and the foredoomed ‘fields’ where the churches are set, like markers on a battle-plan, as the urban tide flows irresistibly out to the east. The tramps and waifs in the earlier period might have stepped from Colonel Jack, though their inner life is more richly apprehended by Ackroyd. The modern derelicts are cast out by institutions, and grow strange in their isolation: ‘He was a collector, and at weekends he would search paths or fields for old coins and artefacts; the objects he discovered were not valuable, but he was drawn to their status as forgotten and discarded things.’ In general, the modern narrative is comparably effective, except when it turns into a police-procedural near the end as the detective thrashes about to find a line on the murders, or a plot to connect the grisly churchyard profanations. Sometimes the symmetry becomes a perfect mirror-image in the story, as when a 1980s character reverses the journey which Dyer makes from London to Stonehenge. A sign of the times, by the way, that both Ackroyd and John Fowles, in his latest novel, should send their Georgian creations crawling about Stonehenge, which not long ago would have seemed one of the purest un-Augustan activities.
Ackroyd has taken Hawksmoor’s known interest in pre-Gothic architectural theory and made Dyer into a kind of rebel against the Enlightenment. He encounters Christopher Wren in the role of a devotee of Gresham’s College empiricism, and then takes part in a dialogue (appropriately, in a Restoration comedy mode) with John Vanbrugh, cast as inquisitive modern in contrast with Dyer’s suspicious loyalties to the ancient. He believes with the most credulous antiquarians in the reality of a Temple of Diana beneath St Paul’s. And the modern Hawksmoor in turn is forced to look for truth in the flickering signs of an electronic age, in the desperate semiology of urbanism. Ackroyd makes an intense and memorable logic of such phantasmagoria, in a novel remarkable for power, ingenuity and subtlety alike.
The historic span of Paradise Postponed is that of post-war England, as witnessed chiefly by the family of a fashionable left-wing cleric named Simeon Simcox. The story looks back from his death in 1985 and, neatly and undemandingly, intertwines events of the past forty-odd years. This family saga side works comparatively well, and John Mortimer could properly have been content with exploring his Thames Valley Forsytes in their several roles. But a demon whispered to the author that a chronicle of the nation was called for, and so we get periodic anatomies of Britain dropped into the book without much reference to anything else going on. As a result, the decent truth of Mortimer’s observation is overlaid with unconvincing passages, asserting how representative these people all are. They are, but that is exactly the trouble, and something a more skilful artist might have suppressed.
As it is, the author’s genuine talent for farce and comic anecdote is here laid aside in favour of humdrum versions of instant historiography: ‘It was the end of the sad Seventies, a decade whose contributions to history, the Watergate scandal, President Carter, hot pants and the skateboard, vanished from the memory more quickly than a Chinese dinner.’ The main characters are pre-packaged and fill their allotted space in the narrative with a depressingly perfect fit: the irritable elder son, Henry Simcox, for example, who is described in the accompanying publicity hype as ‘an angry young man turned crusty old Blimp’ (the sad thing is that what we see of him in action doesn’t add to this journalistic shorthand or make it seem an inapt idiom). At the centre of the book’s intrigue is Leslie Titmuss, a working-class lad who ends up as a Tory cabinet minister. His background is evoked with wincing distaste:
His father always came home at exactly the same time and always said: ‘Is tea ready, dear?’ When he had eaten he would push his plate away with the usual words ‘very tasty, dear. That was very tasty’ ... All deaths were known as ‘a blessed release’. At half-past nine every evening George Titmuss dropped asleep in the leatherette chair on the right side of the fireplace, his mouth fell open, his breathing became soft and regular and his wife and son would have to sew and read in silence. At ten-thirty exactly Leslie’s father would wake up with a start, say, ‘Time for Bedfordshire!’ and lock up. All hope of a different sort of future was known as ‘living with your head in the clouds’, all ambition had to be confined to keeping the Prefect in running order.
The snobbish particularisation of leatherette and Prefect is the kind of touch Simeon Simcox would enjoy.
Potentially the most interesting areas of the book are those surrounding the younger son, Fred, and his lover Agnes. Fred is a doctor, a jazz fan with the awful traditional pieties of the days of New Orleans revivalism; Agnes an irresolute and impulsive girl who ends up marrying the wrong man (Henry, who is depicted as being wrong for anyone) and later catering for high-class dinner-parties in the region of Chelsea. Nobody ever travels north of Watford (except to study at Cambridge), though they zoom back and forward on the Los Angeles shuttle. Mortimer is guiltily aware of this, and makes characters with a conscience refer to their privileged location: but the fictional prospect of Britain remains irredeemably Home Counties in tone and perspective. Mortimer’s narrative stance makes him oddly a part of the cultural history he purports to recount.
A strikingly good collection of short stories by John McGahern provides a subtler sense of the interaction of character and environment. McGahern confines himself largely to one of two groups: young professional people in Dublin, a little déraciné in outlook, and then the families they have left behind in the provinces. The first set are flat-dwellers, whose local is the Shelbourne and who spend their weekends in the Wicklow mountains, not daring to go home. Back in the country – usually the quiet lakeland of the upper Shannon – becalmed Ascendancy families sink peacefully into oblivion, whilst the true native Irish reflect on their complex fate: ‘Only in Ireland is there right time and wrong time. In other countries there is just time.’ It isn’t true, but McGahern shows how these sad myths become self-consolatory.
His previous collections have prompted comparisons with Chekhov, and that’s not altogether absurd. But much of the time he seems to be using the data of William Trevor almost as though the setting were Yoknapatawpha county rather than Roscommon. There is the same use of minor characters like the Garda sergeant and the bartender drifting in and out of stories; the same close hold on family trees and private shames; the same sense of a ritualised and inevitable way of doing things: ‘Race memories of hedge-schools and the poor scholar were stirred, as boys, like uncertain flocks of birds on bicycles, came long distances from the villages and outlying farms to grapple with the calculus and George Gordon and the delta of the River Plate.’ Two stories of Dublin, ‘Gold Watch’ and the previously unpublished ‘Bank Holiday’, both take up the rare theme of fulfilled love, and both have the eloquence not to need excitable linguistic gestures. In form and style John McGahern’s stories are unmistakably conservative: their freshness proceeds from close observation, a deep inwardness with the milieu, and a willingness to let events and description do their work unmolested by the urge to be wise about human affairs.
Pat Rogers, a professor of English at the University of Bristol, is the author of a study of Robinson Crusoe and of Hacks and Dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street.
Defoe or the Devil
Oddity’s Rainbow
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Brace yourself for one of the most realistic, authentic military gameplaying experiences ever! In Super Battletank: War in the Gulf, you are an Allied Forces tank commander in charge of the awesome M1A1 battletank, armored warfare champion of Operation Desert Storm. At your disposal is all of the state-of-the-art weaponry that gives the M1A1 its fearsome reputation. Smoke grenades, 7.62mm machine guns, 120mm armor-piercing shells controlled by a laser range-finder. Add to that power a first-person out-of-tank view, blistering sound effects, and spectacular graphics, and you'll feel you're right at the core of the Persian Gulf War!
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Excellent game reminds me of the original battle tank. Cartridge in great condition.
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Herbstreit Love
Keeping with the outpouring of Michigan love for Herbie these days...for your consideration, the following smattering of YouTube videos...
Kirk loses his head against Michigan:
Kirk non-stop complaining on ESPN:
Kirk says Purdue sucks (I mean "struggles"):
Okay, that's a stretch, but hey, when we're talking Herbie...we'll make an exception. But I must say, three posts about this guy in 2 days is more than enough to last me until next year. However, should he provide us with more dandies in the next week, by all means, we'll throw them up on here for ya.
And while we're on the subject, allow me a brief editorial...Since when has Kirk Herbstreit become the ESPN golden boy of college football? Don't get me wrong, I like ESPN's coverage...and I think with a few minor tweaks, it could be great. First thing I would change? More Lou Holtz!
But I am sick and tired of seeing his face everywhere I look. I mean, lets face it, regardless of what he says, he's a former Buckeye, he loves OSU, he lives in Columbus...this guy is the face of Ohio State football. He's all over Tressell's b*lls. He and Brent Muskrat lead the charge when it comes to people who hate Michigan. And it seems like they will be calling the play-by-play for every Michigan-Ohio State game until Brent dies or Kirk's head eventually swells up and explodes. I'd sooner have 2 air-raid sirens call a game than listen to these two yahoos stroke each-other's egos (among other things) for 4 hours straight.
People...this is really happening. ESPN is turning Kirk into the next Keith Jackson, but without the class and distinction. And the problem is, he's only like 10 years older then me! We have to live with this guy for the rest of time. He's not going away. People...I'm telling you...we must end this! REVOLT! Call your congressman. Call the fire department. Call someone! This must end. Tell ESPN you can't take this any longer.
Unite, my people! We have the power!
For Your Monday Afternoon
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We Hardly Knew Ya
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Crown Em'
Stickergate
What a Joke
Video Link-a-thon
Lloyd Carr's Post-Game Speech
It's Tebow Time!
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Manchester City Transfer News
Man City manager Pep Guardiola targets three big summer signings and more transfer rumours
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola wants three big signings in the summer window, according to the latest transfer gossip round-up
05:00, 13 APR 2018
Pep Guardiola wants three big summer signings to make Manchester CityChampions League contenders, according to a report.
The Telegraph suggest the Blues are hoping to recruit a defensive midfielder, versatile forward and 'probably' a centre-half.
According to the report Julian Weigl, Fred, Jorginho and Jean-Michel Seri have all been shortlisted as potential signings to fill the midfield role at the Etihad.
Guardiola is reportedly keen to secure a long-term successor to Fernandinho and believes the club would benefit from adding depth in the centre of the pitch.
The report also suggests City are looking to recruit an attacking player who is capable of playing both out wide and in a central role.
Monaco forward Thomas Lemar is reportedly the most realistic signing, however he has a reported £90m asking price which could put the club off.
Tottenham star ruled out of Man City clash
Eden Hazard is considered 'the dream' attacking signing but City have supposedly conceded defeat that he is not a realistic arrival.
According to the article, Guardiola would like to add another central defender if possible, but only if a suitable player is available without a large transfer fee.
In other transfer news, City are chasing a deal to sign Sao Paulo defender Militao at the end of the season.
According to the Daily Mail the Brazilian centre-back is one of Gaurdiola's 'primary targets' in the summer window.
It is suggested Militao would be available for as little as £20m and his ability to also play as a defensive midfielder could make him the perfect addition.
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Overseas Citizens of India permitted to enroll in National Pension System
Source: PRS, Monthly Policy Review Key highlights The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has permitted overseas citizens of India (OCIs)...
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Source: PRS, Monthly Policy Review The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) notified the framework for the issue of depository receipts What...
Inter-Ministerial Committee on money laundering
Source: PRS, Monthly Policy Review Recently the Ministry of Finance constituted an InterMinisterial Co-ordination Committee on money laundering Key highlights The Committee...
Revised procedure for strategic disinvestment of CPSEs
Source: PRS, Monthly Policy Review The Union Cabinet approved changes in the procedure for strategic disinvestment of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)...
Committee of Officers to suggest measures for increasing GST revenue
Source: PRS, Monthly Policy Review The GST Council constituted a Committee of Officers to suggest measures for increasing GST revenue Key highlights...
Physics Nobel Prize, 2019
Source : The Hindu Manifest pedagogy: Our Nobel Prizes coverage has reached third week. Physics Nobel 2019 was shared between two topics –...
Google’s Sycamore Machine and Quantum Computing
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Amazon gains as Morgan Stanley sees retail shift
By Dan Gallagher
Published: Mar 30, 2011 3:14 p.m. ET
Broker says Wall Street is ‘underestimating’ changes in specialty retail
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Editor’s Note: Corrects a previous error to specify that Borders, not Barnes & Noble, is closing 200 underperforming stores.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Amazon.com Inc. shares got a boost Wednesday after Morgan Stanley raised its price target on the stock, on the belief that investors are underestimating a significant shift in the retail sector that will benefit the online retailer.
In a note to clients, analyst Scott Devitt raised his price target on Amazon AMZN, -0.70% from $205 to $225 — one of the highest targets on Wall Street for the stock, which has jumped more than 10% in value over the past two weeks, but remains below its all-time peak above the $191 mark from mid-January.
Shares of Amazon were up 3.3% to $180.44 by late Wednesday afternoon.
“We believe the market is underestimating the positive share shift from specialty retail to Amazon,” Devitt wrote in his report.
In particular, he predicted that traditional retailers in both the books and electronics segments are likely to continue losing sales to the company. Troubles at book sellers Borders Group Inc. BGPIQ , which filed for bankruptcy protection last month and is closing 200 underperforming stores, and Barnes & Noble Inc. BKS, +0.00% present a $6.7 billion opportunity for Amazon in this business, he wrote.
He also believes sales at electronics retail giant Best Buy Inc. BBY, +1.11% “have reached an inflection point,” though Amazon’s share gains in that category will likely take longer to play out than in books.
“We believe specialty retailers will experience accelerated erosion of market share to Amazon,” he wrote. “As investors gain clarity on the sources for Amazon’s sales growth, they will better understand the length of the runway and overall story.”
Devitt also said his $290 “bull case” for the stock is starting to play out. This scenario is built on the assumption of adding market share in traditional retail categories as well as the company “actively” participating in digital distribution of media products such as video, music and books.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced a cloud-based music service that allows consumers to upload their music files to Amazon’s servers and be able to access them from any PC, as well as smartphones and tablets running on the Android platform. Read full story on Amazon's cloud service.
In a report Wednesday, Mayuresh Masurekar of Kaufman Bros. said the new service could help the company gain more share for its digital music business, which is a small player in the market next to Apple Inc.’s AAPL, +1.11% popular iTunes.
“We view these cloud offerings by Amazon as a defensive play to protect its distribution of media sales,” Masurekar wrote.
Some in the music industry say the service could face legal challenges if Amazon does not have a license for the service from record labels. Tony Falzone, an intellectual property litigator who also directs the Fair Use Project at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, doubted that Amazon would face any legal problems from the service.
“It’s basically like having a hard drive with a really long cord,” he said in an interview. “The DCMA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] should project this sort of thing.”
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Poppupians have no names; they know who they areImpossible Man
On the planet Poppup in the 10th Galaxy, a world inhabited by numerous dangerous species, the native intelligent lifeforms developed complete control of their own molecules as a defense, allowing them to instantaneously transform into anything they could imagine. Eventually they tamed their planet and developed a group mind; while they had individual personalities, each one instantly knew what any others experienced. Shortly after the Fantastic Four debuted, a vacationing Poppupian traveled to Earth. Hungry from his long trip and naïve to Earth’s rules, he robbed a bank to obtain money to purchase food. The police, Fantastic Four and army proved equally helpless to stop him. Dubbed the Impossible Man after a comment made by the Thing, he went on a fun-seeking rampage, briefly encountering the timeslipping New Warrior Turbo, whom he followed for a while smitten, and helping her teammates against the time-distorting Dr. Yesterday, before returning to his original time. At Reed Richard’s advice, everyone on Earth began ignoring Impossible Man, who soon grew bored, and left.
When the Poppupians later grew bored with living, the Impossible Man returned to Earth and, disguised as the Invisible Girl, directed the planet-eater Galactus to Poppup, thus sparing the Earth from being devoured. Galactus ate Poppup, but was stricken with near-terminal indigestion. The only surviving Poppupian, the Impossible Man returned to Earth, where his shapeshifting antics soon caused chaos. He visited the Marvel offices, announcing he wanted his own comic, like the one they did based on the FF. Told that readers had disliked him when he appeared in the adaptation of his first visit to Earth because he looked too silly, he had a temper tantrum which ended only when Reed made Stan Lee promise to do a special issue featuring him. When the cyborg Deathlok was sent to attack the U.S. President, Reed had Impossible Man impersonate him, thus rendering the assault ineffective. Impossible Man stayed at the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building, which was attacked by their enemies the Frightful Four immediately after he arrived. While the Fantastic Four were captured, the Impossible Man was oblivious, having become fascinated by television, but when the channel he was watching finished, Impossible Man thought there was a problem with the power; tapping into the building supply, he unwittingly cut off the power to the Fantastic Four’s restraints, freeing them to defeat their opponents.
Impossible Man stayed with the Fantastic Four for a while after, picking up the nickname Impy. When Klaw and the Molecule Man attacked the building, they knocked out Impy, but their subsequent ambush of the Fantastic Four was disrupted when he angrily revived. He proved immune to both villains powers now that he was aware of their attacks, and almost accidentally overpowered Klaw, but when Molecule Man possessed Reed’s body, the Fantastic Four stopped Impy attacking him, afraid he might cause serious injury. Deciding that they were no fun, Impy left, eventually ending up in Hollywood, where he amused himself causing chaos on film sets. Becoming bored, he returned to visit the Fantastic Four, but found only the Thing present. He accompanied him in hat form to Alicia Masters sculpture show, where, witnessing Thing and Alicia’s love for one another while helping defeat the Terrible Trio, Impy was inspired to create an Impossible Woman. Following Reed and Sue Richards’s example, the new Impossible couple created children, soon producing dozens of Impossible kids. Using the Baxter Building facilities to find an uninhabited world to replace Poppup, they departed Earth. Soon after Impy returned seeking his missing spouse, approaching private eye Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman), and lending both aid and hindrance when she tried to apprehend some jewel thieves, before being reunited with his wife.
To decide whether who should be in charge of the family, Impy returned to Earth on a Scavenger Hunt, beginning by taking the X-Men’s Mansion. With the mutant team in pursuit, Impy nipped round the globe, collecting Nick Fury’s eyepatch, Ka-Zar’s sabretooth tiger ally Zabu, the Fantasticar, Wasp’s costume collection, the window from Dr. Strange’s Sanctum and the Black Queen (Selene)’s costume. However he failed to collect his last item, Stan Lee, and thus lost the contest. Having enjoyed meeting his new “friends”, Impy soon returned to the X-Men Mansion, finding the New Mutants home instead. When they refused to play, he accused them of cowardice, and his challenge was taken up the team’s own alien shapeshifter, Warlock. Pursued by the other New Mutants, the pair competed round the world with one another to prove who was the better shapeshifter, until Warlock, prompted by his teammates, won by doing the one thing Impy couldn’t – he changed color.
After trying to purchase the movie rights to Rick Jones autobiography, Impy ran into the Silver Surfer out in deep space while being pursued by an angry alien armada; despite this threat, Impy was more concerned with making the overly serious Surfer lighten up. He secretly followed the Surfer, watching his subsequent encounter with Thanos. Alarmed to hear Thanos’ plan to kill half the galaxy, in case he was in that half, and fearing the Surfer wouldn’t be able to beat Thanos if he was too serious, the terrified Impossible Man again pestered the Surfer to get a sense of humor.
Impossible Woman asked Impy to take her and the 4,682 children on vacation to Earth. They split up to see the sights, and while Impossible Man annoyed Spider-Man, Dr. Strange and the Punisher, Impossible Woman asked Quasar to help convince her non-shapeshifting child Impia to shapechange. The kids decided to set up a clubhouse in Dr. Doom’s armor; swiftly realizing he couldn’t force them out, Doom employed psychology to convince them to move to a new clubhouse, Iron Man's armor. After Impy annoyed Impossible Woman she called a halt to the holiday and the Impossibles set off to the Skrull world Satriani, to show Empress S’Byll their vacation pictures. Impy realized they had misplaced a child, and returned to Earth seeking him, checking the Microverse and Asgard. Meanwhile Impossible Woman visited the Savage Land, pursuing tales of a green shapeshifter, but found only the stranded Samuel J. Skrull, whom she adopted. They finally found their son playing in a rock band, which inspired the whole family to go on an intergalactic singing tour.
After starting a riot in a "Bar With No Name" by taking on the form of a deck of cards with an extra ace, and watching Makkari win the Galactic Marathon, Impy discovered he had not been invited to Rick Jones wedding. Feeling left out, he sent invitations to others who had been similarly “forgotten”, including Drax the Destroyer, Absorbing Man, Mister Hyde, Living Laser, and the Wizard, Kree and Skrulls. When 3 of his kids became slackers, Impy looked up his old friends the New Mutants, now known as X-Force, wanting to put his children on the team so they could learn discipline. Caving in to persistent nagging, Cable agreed to try, but failed to inspire them to action until the island they were on was attacked by the monstrous Barrachus the Kalinator. Encountering an interdimensional imp he called “Mixed Pickles” in a dimensional interface, he entered into a competition with him; they agreed to combine powers to swap heroes from their respective universes to play with. While Pickles annoyed the Silver Surfer, Impy disguised himself as the Super-Skrull to battle Pickles normal opponent, the last survivor of his destroyed planet. Believing he had won, Impy jumped dimensions to where Mixed Pickles was fighting the Surfer, but was angered to see him endangering innocent bystanders, something he had promised not to do. When Pickles stated he had lied, Impy cheated and tricked the imp bringing both heroes together in one reality, one way of winning the contest.
Eventually the Impossible Kids all left home. Distraught, the Impossible couple created new kids, but they left too. Unable to cope, the pair traveled to Earth and inundated first the Baxter Building and then New York with Impossible clones, who, because of their progenitor’s darkened moods, had a nastier streak to their humor than their older siblings; 4 of them even tried to kill and replace the Fantastic Four. While the Fantastic Four were distracted containing this problem, the Impossible couple kidnapped Franklin and Valeria Richards, who they felt wouldn’t run away like their own children. The new writer of Marvel’s licensed Fantastic Four comic book, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, having witnessed the Impossible chaos, researched Impy’s history and figured out the couple were grieving for their own children; The Fantastic Four helped the pair accept that all children eventually leave home, and Reed built a tracking device so they could find them. Impy recently returned to Earth uncontrollably changing form due to hiccups, but the Thing cured him with a fright, after which he was invited to attend his Bar Mitzvah and superhero poker game.
Note: Excalibur once ran into an Impossible Man controlling an insane alternate Earth for his amusement. Given his powers, it’s possible this was Earth-616’s Impy. Mixed Pickles has also impersonated Impy on at least one occasion to torment the Fantastic Four of an undisclosed dimension. If impossible man got smarter he could probably beat anyone.
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Guang Lin received the 2019 Sigma Xi Mid-Career Research Award
The Purdue chapter of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, has named its 2019 Research Awards recipients and will hold its annual banquet to present the awards on April 3.
The chapter’s 2019 Research Awards will be presented to:
Sigma Xi Research Award: Mark Cushman, Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy.
Sigma Xi Mid-Career Research Award: Guang Lin, director of Data Science Consulting Service and associate professor in Department of Mathematics, School of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Statistics (courtesy).
The banquet also will recognize the winners of the Sigma Xi Poster Competition, held Feb. 20 for graduate students and postdocs. The guest speaker will be Jeffrey Karpicke, the James V. Bradley Professor of Psychological Sciences.
The banquet will be held 6-8:30 p.m. April 3 in Marriott Hall's John Purdue Room.
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Victoria University MBA graduate and entrepreneur Halinka Panzera is living proof of the impact earning an MBA can have on your professional trajectory.
As the founder and CEO of the market research company, BDC Market Intelligence, Halinka specialises in consumer and social research, innovation and strategy consulting. Together with her BDC colleagues, she helps businesses successfully access broader markets, including throughout Asia-Pacific.
“I completed an MBA at VU when I was looking to move out of a corporate career and launch myself as an entrepreneur. It was part of my launch strategy, and I’ve never looked back,” says Halinka. “Now I’m running a global corporation with offices located all around the world.”
Known for delivering insightful business solutions to wide-ranging clients, BDC Market Intelligence partners with some of the world’s largest companies across the FMCG, government, property agriculture and start-up sectors.
Halinka also recently founded Uchews, an online learning platform that combines her years of knowledge and experience in the food industry to transform the way Australians eat and choose their food.
A sought-after presenter and keynote speaker, Halinka says a key learning from her VU MBA was the confidence it gave her to be unafraid of change.
“If I think about where my business was 18 years ago compared with the model we are running today, it’s completely different. Change isn’t something to be scared of.”
VU’s MBA program also broadened Halinka’s network, connecting her with like-minded local and international peers.
“I’m an innovative thinker and my thinking is not task orientated, it’s about business growth and development,” she says. Halinka enjoyed the fact that VU’s MBA program fostered diversity in ideas and creativity.
“I wasn’t expecting to meet people from across the globe, but it was a pleasant surprise to make friends with people from the Middle East, from Asia, America and Canada. We would share knowledge and problem-solve together and I think that really helped set me up to run a global corporation.”
According to Halinka, VU’s MBA program is “suited to anybody who has a bit of fire in their belly. If you feel that you can do more…the MBA is definitely worth investigating.”
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In today’s fast-paced digital era, the ability to transform and lead organisations into the future has never been more important. With its focus on the development of transferable skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving and creativity, VU Online’s MBA helps graduates position themselves for success in an ever-changing business landscape.
Innovative subjects such as Art and Practice of Leadership and Business Ethics and Sustainability also help students develop desirable interpersonal and communication skills, as well as sought-after skills in collaboration and teamwork, self-regulation and time management.
Delivered 100% online via intuitive learning platform, VU Collaborate, VU Online’s MBA also equips students with the essential digital literacy that underpins exceptional workplace performance in the 21st century.
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With units including Strategic Management and Business Policy and Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, VU Online’s MBA helps students effectively manage and set the strategic vision for any organisation.
Whether you’re at the helm of a small business, community organisation, larger organisation or even a multinational, the business and strategic leadership skills derived from an MBA will never go out of fashion.
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Known for fostering rigorous business acumen and expertise, VU Online’s broad MBA equips students with deep commercial knowledge, as well as the confidence to make sound decisions across key business functions such as marketing, research, finance, change management and HR.
This broad skill base equips graduates for success in dynamic environments, providing them with the ability to lead and manage specialists further down the chain. It also allows graduates to develop skills that are transferable across multiple industries, which is so valuable in the context of today’s competitive jobs market.
It’s true that an MBA can change your life. As Halinka Panzera’s story reveals, an MBA can set you up for success and help future proof your long-term career opportunities.
Whether an executive role, business leadership and management or even small business ownership is on your radar, your only question post-MBA may be ‘why didn’t I enrol sooner?’
At VU Online, attaining an MBA is achievable even if you’re currently working or balancing family commitments with the rest of your life. Delivered 100 per cent online, this top-tier qualification is tailor-made for busy people looking to enhance their skills and give their CV a winning edge.
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A hippie shares a meal with her rich opposites.
Directed by Miguel Arteta
Starring Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, and Connie Britton
Initial Review by Jon Kissel
Alternative medicine practice is a killer for me in movies, much like it is in real life. I am being told something about the user/practitioner, and it’s not flattering. There’s not a huge sample size (a term alt-med practitioners are allergic to) of films that engage with this topic, but one that comes to mind is druggy road-trip movie Crystal Fairy. Its woo-woo moron is treated as deeply unstable, loony, and damaged, and is made tolerable by the sheer intolerability of the protagonist. Beatriz at Dinner takes a similar tack. It resists canonizing its titular bullshit artist and humanizes her by putting her in sharp relief to someone with an antithetical belief system. Watching two unlikable people parry and thrust is de riguer for a domestic potboiler, and Miguel Arteta’s film is a strong version of that subgenre.
A man kept in captivity his whole life tries to reconstruct the sci-fi series his captors used to keep him pacified.
Directed by Dave McCary
Starring Kyle Mooney and Mark Hamill
Initial Review by Jon Kissel
We’ve been doing this long enough that anyone who’s paid attention to my reviews should know that I’m in on pretty much any movie about a cult. The Master is an all-timer, but my fascination with cults extends to smaller units than faux Scientology. Dogtooth is also in the top 50, and that’s a film where the cult is one family. Wherever there’s people telling bald-faced lies to fawning followers who unquestionably believe them, I’ll be there. Brigsby Bear immediately gets interest points by fitting in this box, but I can’t slap an A on every film whose premise pushes my buttons. The Master or something like Martha Marcy May Marlene are deeply curious about charismatic leaders, mindless ritual, and the creation of dogmatic rule systems, but Brigsby Bear is barely related to that kind of film. It uses a premise I often love to tell a story about making dreams into reality of the let’s-put-on-a-show variety, a premise I am much less fascinated by.
A family of superheroes goes on a PR campaign to lift the ban on their public existence.
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After 14 long years and sequels to “Toy Story (fine),” “Finding Nemo (sure),” “Monsters Inc. (ehh…)”, and a double-dose of “Cars (WHAT?!),” Pixar finally gives us the one movie that actually went out of its way to set up a sequel in “Incredibles 2.” The original, “The Incredibles,” holds up today as one of Pixar’s less-weighty and joyful movies in their catalog. Did the sequel do the same? Indeed it did, and maybe a little too closely.
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Just like today. At the turn of the century, there weren’t many places that a Melanated man or woman could turn for quality non-bias news pertaining to black society. One publication that would become heavily involved in the civil rights movement was The Arkansas State Press, owned by civil rights activist and writer L.C Bates.
With the Jim Crow laws and mentality in full effect, Mr. Bates used The Arkansas State Press to express the sentiments and the concerns of the black community.
In 1957, Mr. Bates and his wife Daisy Lee Gadson played a huge role in desegregating Central High School in little rock, AR using the newspaper as a catalyst to document the struggle between the Little rock nine and the Little Rock School District.
While his wife was the spokesperson for the “little rock nine”( The nine Melanated students attempting to get admission to Central High School) he ran the newspaper in the day but had to protect his home at night from White Supremacist groups upset about the possibility of the schools intergrading.
From 1941-1959, Mr. Bates was primarily responsible for the content in the newspaper as well as the production. His goal was to model The Arkansas State Press after other notable Black newspaper publications like the Chicago Defender and The Crisis, a newspaper published by the NAACP. The Arkansas State Press is yet another shining example of how much influence you can have when controlling your own narrative is your objective.
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Reaching Into Infinity North American Tour 2017 - Dragonforce, & Once Human - Metal Master Kingdom show review
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Photo: Rob Botten
Closing off the night was DragonForce. As "Reaching Into Infinity" played on the P.A, they entered the stage and launched into "Ashes Of The Dawn". This was honestly the cleanest-sounding show I've ever seen at the Opera House. Whoever did the sound for DragonForce deserves a raise. The crowd was absolutely insane during the set. Keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov was absent from the show and will be absent for the remainder of this album cycle due to family commitments, which is understandable. The band treated us to several fan-favourites like "Operation Ground & Pound", "Seasons" and "Fury Of The Storm" as well as new material like "Judgement Day", "Curse Of Darkness" and "The Edge Of The World". Before the latter, Marc Hudson asked the crowd bring out their phones and lighters to light up the venue during the song's intro. Fred later came out to have some fun with the crowd by having the audience sing back melodies and notes he would play on guitar. He then followed it up with a medley of video game themes, starting off with the "Ken Masters" theme from Street Fighter, then Marc came out with a bass and they
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Photography: Rob Botten
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Interview with Marc Hudson can be seen here.
Lots of great shows happening in Toronto this summer. On July 24th, DragonForce returned to Toronto for a headliner at the Opera House for the first time in six years. I've only seen the band once before when ZP Theart was still in the band back in 2008, and I finally got to see them again nine years later. Wow, I'm feeling old, hahaha. I listened to DragonForce a lot when I was in high school due to the fact that they were getting a lot of recognition for "Through The Fire & Flames" being the ultimate song on Guitar Hero 3. Remember those days? There was a period in my life where I forgot about most of the old songs, not because I started to hate them, but because I was focusing on many other bands, but I still kept up on what DragonForce were doing with the new stuff after the welcomed Marc Hudson into the band. In the last couple of years, I went back to the old songs from the first four records. Listening back to stuff like "Through The Fire & Flames", "Operation Ground & Pound", "Fury Of The Storm", "Heroes Of Our Time", "Valley Of The Damned", "My Spirit Will Go On" and "Storming The Burning Fields" was a total nostalgia trip because they were all a big part of the soundtrack to my high school years. The Opera House was nearly packed to the gills, which is always cool to see, especially on a Monday night. I would say that this show blew away the first time I saw them.
Starting things off were Once Human. The main focus of this band is that it features Logan Mader on guitar, who we all know played with this little band you might've heard of called Machine Head on the first two records. They took the stage to a packed house, which is usually rare for an opening act, and it kept filling up as the night went on. The crowd was also very receptive to the band. Vocalist Lauren Hart may look small, but her vocals contradicted her appearance as she unleashed some brutal growls. Vocally, she seemed like a combination of Angela Gossow and Alissa White-Gluz. Close to the end of the set, we were treated to a cover of Machine Head's "Davidian", during which Fred Leclercq from DragonForce came out and sang with them.
jammed to the "Overworld" theme from Super Mario Bros. 2. Gee Anzalone would then have the opportunity to shine with a drum solo and the medley closed off with the "Green Hill Zone" theme from Sonic The Hedgehog. Oddly enough, Fred was playing a guitar with a Sonic paintjob.
Starting off the second half of the set, the band dug pretty deep into Valley Of The Damned and treated us to "Heart Of A Dragon". One of the best parts was during "Cry Thunder" where Marc wanted to split the audience in half to see which side could sing louder, but the crowd mistook that for a wall of death request and proceeded to do one, leaving the band completely surprised. They even stopped playing and the let the moshers mosh in silence. I've never seen that before. They even brought a fan up on stage to sing the chorus during this segment. The band's in-between-song banters are incredibly entertaining as they unleash their goofball sides. It's pretty funny to see that even after 14 years, Herman Li and Sam Totman still display their playful competitive attitude towards each other when it comes to soloing. The encore started off with "Valley Of The Damned" and their Johnny Cash cover of "Ring Of Fire". The band even decided to go over their required stop time and give us two more songs, which were "Three Hammers" and "Through The Fire & Flames". A great ending to a great night of metal at the Opera House. It definitely won't be another nine years before I catch DragonForce live again.
Marc Hudson - Vocals
Herman Li - Guitars & backing vocals
Sam Totman - Guitars & backing vocals
Frederic Leclercq - Bass & backing vocals
Vadim Pruzhanov - Keyboards & backing vocals (Absent)
Gee Anzalone - Drums
Label: Metal Blade Records (US) Cadence Music Group (CAN)
Website: www.dragonforce.com
ONCE HUMAN
Lauren Hart - Vocals
Logan Mader - Guitars
Max Karon - Guitars
Skyler Howren - Guitars
Damien Rainaud - Bass
Dillon Trollope - Drums
Label: EarMusic Records
Website: www.killermerch.com/once-human
Korn - The Serenity Of Summer Tour 2017 w/ Stone Sour, Skillet and Ded - Metal Master Kingdom review
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w/ Stone Sour, Skillet and Ded
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Boonsdale Metal Fest 2017 - Featuring Axxion, Final Trigger, Zeroscape, Mokomokai, & Operus - Metal Master Kingdom show review
Written by: Amina Abdelwahab
Photography: Rob Botten
July 14, 2017
D.D. 'Dirty D' Kerr - Lead vocals
Shred - Guitars
Aid'n Morris - Bass & vocals
Emily Anne - Drums & vocals
Label: High Roller Records
Final Trigger
JRoc - Guitars & vocals
Faz - Bass & vocals
J.J. Tartaglia - Drums
Metal D - DJ/vocals
Skitzo Da Clown - Hypeman
Label: Boonsdale Records
Zeroscape
Binski - Vocals
Speshalizt - Guitars
Maaax - Bass
Jizzle - Drums
Label: Boonsdale Records
John Ellis - Guitars & vocals
Jeremy Pastic - Bass guitars
Bobby Deuce - Guitars
J J Tartaglia - Drums
Label: Boonsdale Records
David Michael Moote - Lead vocals
Robin Howe - Cello & backing vocals
Rob Holden - Guitars
Oscar Rangel - Guitar & backing vocals/growls
Wojtek Sokolowski - Bass & backing vocals
Label: Darkstar Records
Photo: Rob Botten
Next up, Mokomokai. Within the first few moments of their show, this band proved that they were not only masterful musicians, but that they were also impeccable performers. With John Ellis as their front man with a guitar in hand, Jeremy Pastic raging on bass, Bobby Deuce shredding his guitar, and J.J. Tartaglia majestically powering through his second set of the night; Mokomokai stole the night – and they couldn’t have done it without Ellis. Displaying Plant-type stage dynamics, accompanied by spot-on vocals, and wicked guitar solos; the triple-threat owned the stage. Playing originals like “Heavy Metal Sky” and covers like “Holy Diver”, in addition to an unforgettable drum solo by J.J., Mokomokai brought an onslaught of metal aristocracy.
As the night raged on, so did the drinks – and it was time to mosh. Skitzo Da Clown, Final Tigger’s hype-man, did not disappoint. Dressed in a Slipknot-style costume, Da Clown did everything from shoving us into the pit to diving off the stage, getting the night’s first – and only – mosh-pit going. As J.J., now going by 2 JAYS, slayed through his fourth (and final) set, he became the talk of the crowd. Originally the drummer for Skull Fist, J.J. took on four other bands in order to pursue music full-time; setting a true, heroic example for all aspiring musicians. As for Final Trigger’s front man, JRoc; there stood none as metal as him on the stage. With a treacherous top-hat, a grenade etched into his microphone stand, great intra-song interaction and solid vocals, JROC had us at “Just A Freak”, endlessly moshing at his mercy. These innovators of “Skrap-Metal” set the bar high for future hip-hop infused metal bands.
For the classically trained and the operatically inclined, Operus opened up the night with an ode to the roots of music. With a well administered light show accompanied by pre-recorded eerie operatic tones, the band took to the stage in order. First, the drummer, J.J. Tartaglia, followed by Robin Howe on the cello, and then the rest of the band – minus their vocalist, David Michael Moote, who could not make the performance due to being out of the country. As the rest of the band took off into their first song, they faced a few technical issues; yet, they boldly persisted to make it through the song – a sign of true artistry. When technical issues were resolved, the band set us into a trance with musicality reminiscent of Nightwish, infused with heavy basslines evocative of Opeth. They also brought out a phantom disguised man to get us hyped! Between Tartaglia’s wild drumming and Howe’s mad cello playing, the night was off to a spectacular start.
Following Mokomokai, were Zeroscape – a reggae infused band bringing a sweet, upbeat twist to your usual angry, dark metal tunes. The band premiered the release of their latest album Finish Dem, out August 28th. The album includes ten tracks of raga-metal rhythms, just like the ones that got us jumping at Boonsdale fest! Vocalist Binski and guitarist Speshalizt manned the audience, encouraging us to not only head-bang, but to also “get your ass up on floor”. Also, let’s not forget J.J., now going by Jizzle, who rocked on through his third set of the night, impressing us all with his perseverance and talent. Overall, Zeroscape was astounding by individuality, setting themselves apart from the rest with their unique musical antics.
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ACLU of Michigan says it has concerns over state's plans for Benton Harbor schools
By Dustin Dwyer • Aug 2, 2019
Benton Harbor High School is one of nearly 100 schools on the list of the Michigan's "lowest achieveing schools" for 2011.
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The ACLU of Michigan is asking Governor Gretchen Whitmer to let local leaders in Benton Harbor decide what happens in their schools.
The ACLU delivered that message in the form of a letter to the governor’s office on Friday.
The governor’s office says the Benton Harbor Area Schools district is $18.4 million in debt. Whitmer’s administration proposed closing the high school to help pay down the debt. Local leaders oppose that plan. The two sides are still trying to come up with an alternative plan they can both agree on.
“In recent weeks we have spoken with Benton Harbor residents and activists with whom we have had both long-term and recent acquaintance ,” wrote Mark Fancher, staff attorney for the ACLU of Michigan’s Racial Justice Project. “Based on those discussions as well as our overall experience with education issues and previous administrations' use of emergency managers, we strongly urge against any inclination to revive the idea of unilaterally closing the high school, or to resort to state control of the school district in some other form.”
You can read the full letter from the ACLU of Michigan here.
In a phone interview with Michigan Radio, Fancher said state-imposed plans for school districts “cut against the democratic rights of a community.”
“And when you’re talking about a community that is predominantly black and predominantly poor, it takes on even more concerning implications,” Fancher said.
The governor’s office says it’s plan was just one proposal, and the state continues to work with the school district.
“The governor has attempted to work with the board, the community, and local leaders to find a solution that is best for the BHAS students,” says Tiffany Brown, a spokesperson for the governor’s office.
The BHAS Board of Education has submitted a counterproposal to the governor’s office to turn the district around.
“Discussions are ongoing and we look forward to working with the board on a solution that is in the best interest of BHAS students,” Brown says.
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One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep ageing - they get hurt and sick - but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. With all the extra people, resources are finite. It’s said that in four month's time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can’t be a natural event – someone’s got to be behind it. It’s a race against time as C.I.A. agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. ...
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Part CSI, part X-Files, Torchwood is the team we’d all love to be part of, where excitement comes before morality and the rules are made as you go along…The 21st Century is when it all changes and you’ve got to be ready… Separate from the government, outside the police, beyond the United Nations: Torchwood sets its own rules. Led by the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible.
1. The New World
Season 4, Episode 1 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
When everyone in the world stops dying, the CIA is alerted by a single word: Torchwood. Agent Rex Matheson is impaled in a car crash, and miraculously survives, while his Analyst, Esther Drummond, sets out to discover what Torchwood is. Far away, in Wales, Gwen Cooper lives in hiding with her husband Rhys and daughter Anwen – she’s the last surviving Torchwood member and is determined to stay hidden. In Kentucky, convicted murderer Oswald Danes survives his own execution. And when Esther meets the mysterious Captain Jack Harkness, assassins are activated to kill them all...
2. Rendition
Rex takes the Torchwood team back to the USA. But when Esther reveals to her Section Chief, Brian Friedkin, that she’s part of Rex’s rendition, she finds the CIA turning against her, and has to go on the run. Oswald tries to enjoy his newfound freedom, and meets the mysterious Jilly Kitzinger. Rex’s surgeon, Dr Vera Juarez, joins the Washington D.C. medical panels, to investigate the Miracle, where the scientists discover that mankind is immortal but still ageing. And on the plane, Captain Jack is poisoned – it’s a life or death struggle to save him, but who can be trusted?
3. Dead of Night
The new Torchwood team of Jack, Gwen, Rex and Esther swings into action – and they discover that an international pharmaceutical company called PhiCorp had advance warning of the Miracle. But when the team splits up in acrimony, Rex turns to Vera for solace, while Gwen finds out more about Esther’s family history. Oswald succumbs to Jilly’s charms and is taken in to meet the PhiCorp executives – at the same time as Gwen enters the building on a secret mission. And Jack’s focus on Oswald precipitates him towards a deadly meeting...
4. Escape to L.A.
Escape to L.A.
The Torchwood team arrives in California, to plan a major raid on PhiCorp headquarters. But a lethal stranger known only as the Gentleman is following them. Oswald finds his freedom threatened by a new media rival, as Ellis Hartley Monroe’s ‘Dead Is Dead’ campaign gains strength. But when Esther’s intervention in her sister’s life spirals out of control, she sets in motion a chain of events which threatens to expose Torchwood, and puts Jack and Gwen’s lives in danger, as the Gentleman takes immediate and violent action...
5. The Categories of Life
The Categories of Life
Vera travels to Los Angeles to join the Torchwood team, as governments across the world swing into action with the new Category System. Gwen flies home to the UK, to save her father and infiltrate the UK healthcare camp, while Rex, Vera and Esther go undercover at the San Pedro Facility. But a deadly trap is closing around them all – while Jack tries desperately to make Oswald Danes change his message to the world, the other members of Torchwood discover the awful truth behind the Category System. But are they too late..?
6. The Middle Men
The Middle Men
Gwen is trapped inside the UK Overflow Camp, with her father’s existence hanging in the balance. And across the Atlantic, Rex is determined to get his secret out – but when Colin Maloney’s men capture him, only Esther can save him from a fate worse than death. When Jack tracks down and confronts PhiCorp’s Chief Executive, he discovers that the conspiracy is more vast and complicated than he ever imagined.
7. Immortal Sins
Immortal Sins
Gwen is faced with a terrible decision – she must choose between her family, and Jack. When the assassins strike in the UK, to hold Rhys and baby Anwen hostage, their demand is simple: Bring us Jack. Gwen has no choice but to deceive Rex and Esther, and make Jack her prisoner. She then travels through the night with him, on a long, dark journey of the soul, during which both have to face terrible truths about themselves. But if the key to these events depends on Jack’s history, then what part of the Captain’s long life holds the key..?
8. End of the Road
In a mansion in Montana, the Torchwood team makes an amazing discovery. But as Olivia Colasanto explains her family history, and the origin of the Miracle, the CIA is closing in – with Brian Friedkin determined to stop Rex, before he can expose Brian’s corruption. In Texas, Oswald Danes finds that his media empire is short-lived as Jilly activates Category Zero. And the Montana mansion swiftly becomes a trap - when Section Chief Shapiro arrives, Gwen finds herself thrown out of the USA, leaving Jack alone and in terrible danger.
9. The Gathering
As the stock markets collapse, the world is plunged into recession, and the Torchwood team is splintered, defeated and scattered across the world. In Wales, Gwen must take fierce action to fight for her father’s survival, while far away, Jack and Esther stay in hiding, to prepare their last, desperate weapon. Rex uses the might of the CIA to fight the Three Families, but the team soon realizes that Oswald Danes holds all the cards. A terrible alliance begins, which will send them all on a final mission to save the world.
10. The Blood Line
The Blood Line
Season 4, Episode 10 TV-14 CC HD CC SD
The battle lines are drawn. As Torchwood take their places in a final attempt to find the mysterious Blessing, the enemy is waiting for them. Traitors take action at the CIA to leave Rex stranded and alone, while Jack and Gwen must strike a bargain with the devil himself in order to survive. But as Jilly Kitzinger rises in the ranks of the Three Families, to discover the truth behind Miracle Day, it seems that the Torchwood team will have to make a terrible sacrifice for the sake of the entire human race...
Extra: Introduction to Episode 1
Introduction to Episode 1
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John Barrowman and Russell T Davies give an exclusive preview into the explosive events of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 1 - The New World.
Extra: Character Profiles
Captain Jack Harkness: Discover what drives Captain Jack Harkness in this exclusive character profile, featuring unseen interviews with Creator Russell T Davies and star John Barrowman. Who is Gwen Cooper? Discover the identity of this Welsh warrior in an exclusive character profile. Featuring interviews with Creator Russell T Davies, Eve Myles, Kai Owen and Executive Producer, Julie Gardner. Rex Matheson is a new addition to the world of Torchwood, what makes him tick? Find out in this exclusive character profile. Featuring interviews with Mekhi Phifer, creator Russell T Davies and John Barrowman. Discover the darkness behind Oswald Danes in this exclusive character profile. Featuring interviews with Bill Pullman, Creator Russell T Davies, Eve Myles, John Barrowman, Mekhi Phifer and Executive Producer Julie Gardner. This is an exclusive character profile of Rhys, Gwen’s long suffering partner, featuring interviews with Creator Russell T Davies, Kai Owen and Eve Myles.
John Barrowman and Russell T Davies give an exclusive preview for Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 2 - Renditions.
Russell T Davies and John Barrowman give an exclusive preview into the upcoming events of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 3 - Dead of Night.
Russell T Davies and John Barrowman give an exclusive preview into the upcoming events of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 4 - Escape to L.A.
Russell T Davies and John Barrowman give an exclusive preview of the drama about to unfold in Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 5 - The Categories of Life.
Russell T Davies and John Barrowman give an exclusive preview into the upcoming events of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 6 - The Middle Men.
John Barrowman and Russell T Davies give an exclusive preview for Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 7 - Immortal Sins.
Russell T Davies and John Barrowman give an exclusive preview of the drama about to unfold in Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 8 - End of the Road.
John Barrowman and Russell T Davies give an exclusive preview for Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 9 - The Gathering.
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Introduction to Episode 10
John Barrowman and Russell T Davies give an exclusive preview into the explosive finale of Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 10 - The Blood Line.
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Probe by East Dunbartonshire Council into inappropriate behaviour in social work services
Published: 11:01 Tuesday 12 November 2019
East Dunbartonshire Council has started an investigation into allegations surrounding “inappropriate behaviour and culture” in social work services.
It is understood the allegations relate to alleged harassment and other related behaviours.
Ann Davie, Deputy Chief Executive for Education, People & Business wrote to social work staff on October 29 this year, advising them that the council had commenced the “serious investigation.”
On Monday, Ms Davie told the Herald: “We take any such allegations seriously and having been made aware of concerns in Social Work Services, we immediately launched an investigation and have been engaging with trades union colleagues on this matter.
“Our investigation will follow robust Council procedures and employees and trades unions will be informed of the outcome.”
Simon Macfarlane, UNISON Regional Organiser said: “This is a deeply concerning situation and it is right there is a thorough and detailed investigation.
“UNISON has been supporting members to raise their concerns and will continue to do so.
“It is vital the Council takes every step to ensure that confidentiality will be respected, there is the expected high standard of support given to those raising concerns and that all due process and natural justice is adhered to.
“Our Social Work members are tasked with the highly demanding work of supporting the most vulnerable members of the East Dunbartonshire community including at risk children.
“It is essential that East Dunbartonshire Council and the Health and Social Care Partnership provides a safe, supportive and well resourced working environment.”
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For those who don't know, Fitch's Pharmacy and its resident nurse practitioner, Clinton, both have cameos in The Mirror Image of Sound.
How that came to pass is something I'll discuss in a moment. Let's just say that I was more than chuffed to hear that Fitch's wanted to stock the novel - in time for Father's Day (today!). What's more, they wanted me to do a book signing there!
So this last Wednesday I rocked up at lunch time, signed some books and was made to feel like royalty.
How did it all begin?
Well it was the night of Saturday, 8 March 2014 and I was knee deep in writing the last third of the novel. Of course, I was publishing it online as I went.
Clinton, my nurse practitioner, works from a pharmacy (Fitch's) here in Perth. I've been seeing him for years to renew routine scripts and have him administer injections and so forth. In fact, I'd just seen him that week and we'd recently become Facebook friends.
So I was sitting there …
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Golden Eagle Release
by Damian Fagan
There is an old fable concerning a young girl walking along a storm-strewn beach throwing stranded sea stars back into the ocean. Informed of the futility of her actions, she tosses another star into the ocean and proclaims, “Not for that one.”
This attitude may also be the mantra of the modern day wildlife rehabilitator. Injuries, disease, malnutrition, poisoning, and shootings are just some of the problems that wildlife, especially birds of prey, have to contend with every day. Though some injuries may not be so great unto themselves, they can limit a bird’s ability to forage, care for or protect itself. In a weakened condition, the likelihood of survival is minimal. If the animal is lucky, it will be transported to a nearby wildlife rehabilitation center.
And though death is a part of the natural cycle, we humans take exception to just standing on the sidelines and doing nothing. Our interventions are borne from a desire to care for all things wild, even when the odds against survival suggest a withdrawal.
Well, such was the fate of a golden eagle, found in the Cisco Desert last fall. Unable to fly, suffering a leg/foot injury, and dying of malnutrition, this golden eagle was captured and taken to the Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation center in Price, Utah.
Petrie, as this golden was nicknamed, was covered with lice and in poor shape. After an examination, his leg and foot injury revealed swelling but no broken bones. Debbie Pappas, the licensed rehabilitator who owns the center, treated his injury with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs. Fed a regular diet, Petrie’s health improved, and after 3 ½ months of recuperation, he was ready to return to the wild.
Though Petrie came from the Cisco Desert, and often rehabilitated birds are returned to their found locations, the decision to release Petrie in Moab was a good one. Though he would be released in a different territory than the Cisco Desert, the Moab release would be close enough, and one that could be witnessed by the public.
Pappus contacted the owners of the Sunset Grill in Moab. This restaurant, which was once the home of Charlie Steen, is perched high on the east bench of Moab. The owners were delighted to host Petrie’s release.
On a wintry December day, over fifty people were in attendance at the release. With a chorus of “oohs” and “ahs”, Petrie was given a gentle toss into the winds of freedom. He flew but a short distance and perched atop a rocky outcrop. Perhaps he landed to get stock of his new situation or to shake off the touch of humans, no matter how loving their hands were. Taking a moment to assess his situation, Petrie looked out over the valley and thought the thoughts that only a wild golden eagle could understand.
Though this release ended in success, accidental or deliberate golden eagle fatalities far outweigh these rehabilitations. Poisoning, shooting, electrocutions, collisions with vehicles, and disease are factors that contribute to many eagle deaths. Natural mortality occurs, as birds succumb to old age, malnutrition and injuries, but it is the human-induced ones that are the hardest to accept.
Fortunately, there are rehabilitators like Debbie Pappus who spend their time and finances helping injured wildlife return to health. Their rewards are through seeing their patients taking that first step or flight to a second chance at life.
And as Petrie took his leave of the gathered crowd it would have been fitting for someone to say, “Not for that one.”
Thanks to Janine Pyrek for her image of Petrie. Contributions for or inquiries of the Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation may be directed to Debbie Pappas at 435-637-7055.
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Andrew is an associate and legislative specialist in Morris James' Health Care Industry and Government Relations Groups. Andrew works on a range of healthcare issues throughout the practice of medicine, assisting clinicians, practices, and other entities through licensing questions, regulatory compliance, and generally how to grow their practices.
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We match volunteer befrienders with young people aged 16-25 who are making the transition from living in supported accommodation to managing their own tenancy and living independently.
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The Breaking and Making of Images
Edited by Rachel F. Stapleton and Antonio Viselli
Art/Photography/Design, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory & Criticism
Case studies that investigate the paradoxical nature of iconoclasm, when destroying icons only enhances their iconicity.
Iconoclasm - the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons - is usually considered taboo or profane. But, on occasion, the act of destroying the sacred unintentionally bestows iconic status on the desecrated object.
Iconoclasm examines the reciprocity between the building and the breaking of images, paying special attention to the constructive power of destructive acts. Although iconoclasm carries with it inherently religious connotations, this volume examines the shattering of images beyond the spiritual and the sacred. Presenting responses to renowned cultural anthropologist and theorist Michael Taussig, these essays centre on conceptual iconoclasm and explore the sacrality of objects and belief systems from historical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives. From Milton and Nietzsche to Paul Newman and Banksy, through such diverse media and genres as photography, the popular romance novel, pornography, graffiti, cinema, advertising, and the dictionary, this book questions how icons and iconoclasms are represented, the language used to describe them, and the manner in which objects signify once they are shattered.
An interdisciplinary, disconnected, and non-linear consideration of the historical and contemporary relationship between the sacred and the profane, Iconoclasm disrupts entrenched views about the revered or reviled idols present in most aspects of daily life.
Contributors include T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko (Toronto), Christopher van Ginhoven Rey (Pomona College), Helen Hester (West London), Emily Hoffman (Arkansas Tech), Natalie B. Pendergast (Yukon College), Beth Saunders (Maryland), Adam Swann (Glasgow), Michael Taussig (Columbia), Angela Toscano (Iowa), Brendon Wocke (Perpignan).
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
Rachel F. Stapleton is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.
Antonio Viselli is a lecturer in French and European studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Figures / ix
Acknowledgments / xi
INTRODUCTION If It’s Broke, Don’t Fix It: The Back-to-Front Logic of Iconoclasm / 3
Rachel F. Stapleton & Antonio Viselli
1 Iconoclasm Dictionary / 21
Michael Taussig
KEYWORD Religion / 33
2 An Aesthetics of Splendour / 38
Christopher Van Ginhoven Rey
3 Visionary Camera: The Polaroid sX-70 and Marian Apparition Photography / 60
Beth Saunders
KEYWORD Pop Art / 81
Natalie Pendergast
4 The Bluest Eye: Paul Newman, Iconoclasm, and the Shameless Exploitation of Beauty / 83
Emily Hoffman
5 Q Is for Queer: Banksy, Iconoclasm, and the Queering of British Traditional Authority / 102
Brendon Wocke
KEYWORD Nation / 119
6 What the Disaster Writes: Contemplations of the Fall / 127
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
7 Twilight of the Idle, or How to Historicize with a Hammer: Milton, Nietzsche, and the Iconoclasm of English Identity / 147
Adam Swann
KEYWORD Sexy / 168
8 The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature / 173
Angela Toscano
9 Vampire, Cannibal, Iconoclast: Displacing Genitality and Desecrating Genre / 193
Helen Hester
Contributors / 211
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MWWPR News, New Jersey
Senior Political Strategist Jennifer Holdsworth Joins MWWPR
Brings Deep Public Affairs, Issues Management and Campaign Experience to the Firm
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2019 — MWWPR, one of the world’s top independent public relations firms, announced today that Jennifer Holdsworth has joined the firm as Senior Vice President of Issues Management and Corporate Affairs in the Washington, DC. office. Holdsworth will also serve as the firm’s Senior Political Strategist.
Holdsworth brings decades of experience integrating politics and government relations into real marketing strategies for clients, both proactive and reactive to MWWPR’s Washington D.C. team. In this role she will be a senior member of the issues and affairs team, developing and implementing strategic, integrated programming across all practices and office locations under the firm’s one P&L model.
She joins MWWPR from DSPolitical, a premier digital campaign technology company in Washington, DC, where she served as Chief Revenue Officer, leading business development and marketing campaigns.
Previously, Holdsworth, also a licensed attorney, has served as a senior staff member for several high profile campaigns and organizations including as New Jersey State Director for Hillary for America, National Finance Director and political advisor to Representative Seth Moulton and Serve America PAC, Campaign Manager for Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s run for Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Political Director and Deputy Executive Director of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, Director of Policy and Communication for Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, and Director of the coordinated campaign to re-elect New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
“I am thrilled to join MWWPR and lend my experience as a strategist to enhance the agency’s Corporate Communications practice and Issues and Crisis Management offering.” Holdsworth continued, “Businesses and organizations are continually looking for unique ways to enhance their civic awareness and corporate responsibility, and I look forward to working closely with Michael Kempner and his team to develop integrated communications programs that both raise the visibility of, and grows the reputation of the agency’s clients inside Washington and beyond.”
“Jen’s extensive public policy and campaign experience make her an indispensable resource for the firm and our clients,” said MWWPR Founder and CEO Michael Kempner. “In an era where consumers expect companies to take stands on critical issues and brand purpose, she will serve as a client and agency leader to guide those positions, integrating her political expertise into authentic and engaging communications strategies.”
Holdsworth serves as a frequent guest political commentator on Fox News, and Hill TV Live.
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Canberra Girls Grammar School (CGGS) is an independent non-selective Anglican school with an enrolment of approximately 1,600 students.
Spread over two campuses, the School is co-educational from Early Learning to Year 2 and girls only from Years 3 to 12. Boarding facilities are available for girls in Years 7 to 12.
In our Junior Primary years there is a commitment to the education of both boys and girls and a focus on the explicit teaching of foundation skills in literacy and numeracy. Students are encouraged to take risks in their learning, identify with strong role models and engage in higher-order thinking.
From Year 3, Canberra Girls Grammar School is a girls-only school and provides a teaching and learning environment that specialises in the education of girls.
The curriculum in classes from Years 3 to 6 flows naturally from the curriculum used in the Junior Primary years. A diverse, globally significant curriculum has been embraced by our community of staff, parents and students.
Canberra Girls Grammar Junior School is located in the suburbs of Canberra Central and Deakin, the council of Canberra and the federal electorate of Canberra.
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Samsung Galaxy S11 Series and Clamshell Foldable Phone Tipped to Launch on February 18, 2020
Mukul Sharma
Published On: Dec 12, 2019 | Last Updated: Dec 13, 2019
We have already started receiving a lot of leaks and rumors surrounding the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S11 series of smartphones. The launch date of the series, however, was not known as of now. This might not stay the case for too long as the rumors mill has started digging intel on the same already. As per the recent report we have received the Samsung Galaxy S11 series would be launched on February 18, 2020, and it won’t come alone. We might be getting a new clamshell foldable smartphone by Samsung on the same day.
Samsung Galaxy S11 lineup and a clamshell foldable smartphone could be launching on February 18, 2020
As per a recent tweet by the famous tipster Ice Universe, the Samsung Galaxy S11 devices and a new foldable smartphone are likely to launch on the said date. It should be noted that the person has put it under the “rumored” tag as of now, so we might as well consider it to be one too. That said, the tipster has had a pretty decent track record when it comes to leaks. Furthermore, the tipped date more or less falls in line with Samsung’s launch schedule (before the Mobile World Congress events, every year).
As of now, little is known about the clamshell foldable device, but the same cannot be said for the Samsung Galaxy S11 series of smartphones. As a matter of fact, the Samsung Galaxy S11 is already confirmed to run on the recently launched Exynos 990 chipset. The chipset will be coupled with up to 12GB of RAM. Moreover, the device is tipped to feature 8K video recording which makes sense as the Exynos 990 SoC supports the same. To know more about that, you can head to our previous coverage of the same.
Heading back to the specifications, the Samsung Galaxy S11 is tipped to feature a 108MP primary camera which will have support for up to 5X optical zoom. As it turns out, the company has dubbed the camera of the Samsung Galaxy S11 as “Hubble” which is named after the Hubble Space Telescope (which, in fact, was named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble). Speaking of the Plus variant, the recently leaked renders of the Samsung Galaxy S11 Plus suggest that the device will have a Penta-rear camera setup and a single punch-hole arrangement at the front.
The display of the Samsung Galaxy S11 is also rumored to feature either a 90Hz or 120Hz refresh rate. Lastly, the device is said to come in Black, Grey, and Blue color options.
To know more about the Samsung Galaxy S11, you can head to our existing coverage of the same.
As of now, this is all we know about the devices, but we are sure to get more news on the same in the times to come.
What are your thoughts on the Samsung Galaxy S11 lineup of smartphones? More importantly, what do you think the name of the upcoming clamshell foldable smartphone by Samsung would be? Do let us know in the comments section below.
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Dragon Names in Mythology
Why are myths about dragons so universal in human cultures? According to anthropologist David E Jones, it's because dragons are an imaginative amalgam of all of our natural predators. They resemble big cats, venomous snakes, and predatory birds all at once. When we lived in trees hundreds of thousands of years ago, these predators were our biggest threats, and fear of them is programmed deep into our DNA. Dragons are also associated with fire, and often dwell in deep bodies of water - two more natural threats to our safety.
In Akkadian and Mesopotamian mythology Ušumgallu, Bašmu and Mušmaḫḫū are three dragons or serpents. Ušumgallu means "great dragon"; in Sumerian and he is usually described as a dragon-lion demon, Bašmu means "venomous snake"; and he is described as a horned snake with two forelegs and wings, and Mušmaḫḫū means "exalted serpent" and he is described as a hybrid of serpent, lion, and bird.
In ancient Babylonian mythology, the goddess of the salt sea is depicted as a gigantic sea serpent called Tiamat, who mates with the god of the fresh waters called Abzu or Apsu, who is depicted as a lion-like winged creature. Together they create the younger gods, who later kill Abzu to usurp his role as lord of the universe. Tiamat is enraged and creates the first dragons, filling their bodies with venom instead of blood.
Dragons are even depicted in the Bible. In the Book of Psalms, the sea dragon called Leviathan is slain by Yahweh as part of the creation of the world. In Revelations, the author describes a creature he calls the Great Red Dragon, which has seven heads, ten horns, seven crowns, and a massive tail.
In Ancient Greek mythology, a dragon-like monster called Typhon who has one hundred serpent heads that breathe fire is slain by Zeus, whilst the similarly named Python, who is depicted as a serpent or a dragon that lives at the centre of the earth, is slain by Apollo with poisoned arrows. Heracles, meanwhile, is the slayer of a water dragon with many heads called the Hydra of Lerna.
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In the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, Beowulf battles with a dragon who is angered by a slave stealing a jeweled cup from its lair. Contrary to popular belief, the dragon is not Grendel, or Grendel's mother, these two monsters are thought to be giants who are the descendants of Cain.
Perhaps the most famous legend is about a dragon who plagues Silene in Libya. It lives in a pond and spews venom that poisons the countryside. It is slain by Saint George, who happens across the dragon just as the princess of Silene has been left as a sacrifice. Saint George spears the dragon with his lance and then leashes it with the Princess's girdle and leads it back to Silene. The entire town agrees to convert to Christianity when George slays the dragon.
Dragon Names in Chinese Mythology
China has a vast and fascinating mythology about dragons, where unlike the rest of the world they are seen as positive forces and symbols of luck and prosperity. There are many dragons in Chinese classical texts, and they often derive from the suffix -long, which is the Chinese word for dragon. Dragons in Chinese mythology include Tianlong (heavenly dragon), Shenlong (god/thunder dragon), Fucanglong (hidden treasure dragon), Dilong (earth dragon), Jiaolong (crocodile dragon), Panlong (coiled dragon), Feilong (flying dragon), Qinglong (azure dragon), Qiulong (curling dragon), Zhulong (torch dragon), and Chilong (demon dragon). Some names derive from the prefix long-, such as Longwang (dragon kings), and Longma (dragon horse). Other dragons do not have long as part of their name. For example Hong (rainbow serpent), Shen (giant clam, sea monster), Bashe (ba snake), and Teng (soaring snake).
Dragons in Folklore
One interesting British legend is a story about a dragon called The White Worm, or The Lambton Worm. According to local folklore, the young John Lambton from the Lambton Estate in County Durham was a rebellious fellow who missed church to go fishing in the River Wear. John catches a small eel-like creature that he declares to be the devil, and he throws the eel down an nearby well. Years later, John goes away to fight in the crusades. Meanwhile, the eel grows into a huge white serpent that poisons the well and eats the livestock. The worm emerges from the well and wraps itself around a local hill seven times. The White Worm terrorizes the area for a number of years until John returns home and vanquishes it by covering his armor in spear heads.
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Letters to the editor for Naples Daily News Monday, June 17, 2019
Letter writer: Our community must make school safety a priority and put our money where our communal mouth is.
Letters to the editor for Naples Daily News Monday, June 17, 2019 Letter writer: Our community must make school safety a priority and put our money where our communal mouth is. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/opinion/readers/2019/06/17/letters-editor-naples-daily-news-monday-june-17-2019/1453260001/
Naples Daily News Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 17, 2019
'School safety is a community issue'
Despite a recent spate of school shootings, the Collier County Commission decided to renounce its willingness to fund the Youth Relations Deputy program.
3 types of Snowflakes: June 13, 2019 (Photo: Adam Zyglis)
For 40 years, sheriff’s deputies have been placed at Collier County schools, and the Sheriff’s Office covered the cost of the program. The deputies provide parents, students and school staff a sense of comfort and safety, knowing that a trained police officer — not just a security person or staff member trained under the guardian program — is present during the school day.
Now, the county wants the school district to come up with over $3 million to cover half of the cost of this program.
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County Commissioner McDaniel defends the decision, saying the county is “not obligated” to pay for the Youth Relations Deputy program and that schools should pay their fair share.
This is not a question of obligation. It is a question of values. It may well be that taxpayers are indifferent as to whether the school district or Sheriff’s Office pays for the program, but financial responsibility matters greatly to the payor. Funding of our public schools continues to erode, and layering on an additional non-instructional expense will further erode the district’s already limited financial resources.
If we as a community value our children’s safety in school, then we as a community must be willing to fund the deputies in our schools. School safety is not just a student issue. It is not just a parent issue. School safety is a community issue. Our community must make school safety a priority and put our money where our communal mouth is.
Diane Moore, North Naples
'The Mueller Report'
I just finished reading "The Mueller Report." I believe we can agree Mr. Mueller has a reputation for being honest and meticulously going by the book.
I was both surprised and happy because I had previously learned about most that was written therein, except for the in-depth legal research and case studies that were cited. I learned about this because the information had been reported in major media sources, including The Washington Post and New York Times, as well as CNN and MSNBC. So let’s face reality. There is no such thing as fake news when it comes from reliable sources.
Irv Povlow, Marco Island
Fossil fuels and alternatives
George P. Ahearn’s assertion in his guest column Tuesday that California is “wasting money on welfare for their teeming illegitimate population” reveals his true nature. Do the publishing standards of the Naples Daily News include giving valuable news space to racist, classist screeds?
Dinosaurs like Mr. Ahearn have found their natural home — as immoral confederates of the fossil fuel industry. Fortunately, for the rest of us who will live on this planet longer than Mr Ahearn is likely to, worldwide renewable energy production and use has been inching up since 2012, despite the efforts of oil and gas acolytes to deflect and deny the lethality of their products (single-use plastics, anyone?). Because they fecklessly and unimaginatively ignored the consequences of their “marvelous innovations,” our planet’s current desperate state of deterioration can be laid at the feet of those venal fossil fuel evangelists.
Julia Smith, North Naples
Vouchers and teachers' salaries
The key Republican principle of limited government has been forgotten by the governor and the Legislature.
The Tallahassee leaders continue to expand the expensive state takeover of the funding of private schools. With the 2019 addition of the Family Empowerment Scholarship (voucher) program, Florida now has five state funding voucher programs to subsidize private K-12 schools.
Unlike the first four, the Family Empowerment program takes $130 million directly away from the students of public schools.
How can Florida afford to do this? That is easy: The average salary of teachers in Florida public schools ranks 46th in the country, and their pension benefits have been significantly reduced. Is it time for Tallahassee to freeze additional funds subsidizing private K-12 schools until Florida salaries of public school teachers rank at the national average?
Another key principle of the Republican Party is home rule. Tallahassee leaders continually enact laws reducing the rights of county commissioners, city councils and school boards to make local decisions. Do Florida residents wish to have locally elected officials make as many decision as possible?
Richard Woodruff, Naples
Comprehensive Plan and mining
Lee County has a Comprehensive Plan that lays out an orderly and researched process for smart and appropriate development. It allows development in a wise manner that many knowledgeable people have discussed, debated and agreed to.
However, this County Commission has been pushing through changes to the Comp Plan without regard to the desires and reasonable arguments of constituents and various stakeholder groups, with the exception of development and mining interests. We have been trying to alert the commission and Lee County residents that those changes are detrimental to the greater good — our quality of life.
The commissioners been changing the rules of the game to the benefit of a few select players. Home buyers originally were told smart development would occur under those rules. We based our decisions to be here on those rules, which now are being yanking from beneath us.
The tenfold increase of residential density in the DR/GR and the unleashing of where mines can be located by deleting Map 14 of the Lee Plan are just two examples.
County commissioners should vote "no" on the mining amendments June 19.
Peter Cangialosi, Estero
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Weapons To Hunt Blessed In Sin
Isn't metal silly? Black t-shirts, fast drums and it's all so LOUD isn't it?
Why can't we hear the words? What are they playing? It's too distorted for me. This band are called Weapons To Hunt, well that's just daft isn't it? Tell you what was a good name, The Beatles, because at first you think; "Oh yeah, that's the type of insect..." then you look again and shit, no it isn't they've cleverly used the word 'beat' because they play music and that has beats in.
If you like music that sounds like angry wasps and sewing machines going wrong, then put this album on. The cover is red (which reminds me of the Phil Collins album No Jacket Required like tomato soup) and has an evil-looking demon or devil on it too.
One of the members, the young man who plays guitar is called Bas Brussaard, he manages to at least be heard over this din, his pealing notes are quite pleasant when they chime over the man being sick for the whole CD (his name is Adrie Kloosterwaard and he has a bee in his bonnet, are bees insects? I think they might be).
Most of this band also seem to have been in a band called SINISTER too, which is about as scary as Scooby Doo as a name. Weapons To Hunt doesn't seem so bad now. The worst name is Mr Brussaard's old band though, they were called Fondlecorpse, I'm not even making that up.
If you like shoot-em ups and want to move on from stuff like Drowning Pool, this is the next step up.
All together now children; "I HATE MY PARENTS!"
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You had an unexpected car repair; a squirrel got into your attic, your water heater ruptured. Sudden unplanned expenses can play havoc with your budget and you are not alone. More than one-third of households (34 percent) endured a major unexpected expense over the past year, according to Bankrate’s latest Financial Security Index survey.
Only 39 percent said they could cover a $1,000 expense with savings. A quarter of the households would borrow from friends or cut back on other regular monthly expenses. One out of five would use a credit card and pay off over time, making the total cost even greater. Your best protection is to have an emergency savings fund as a cushion.
An emergency fund is a separate savings or bank account used to cover or offset the expense of an unforeseen situation. It shouldn’t be considered a nest egg or calculated as part of a long-term savings plan for college tuition, a new car, or a vacation. It isn’t a slush fund for large entertainment and leisure purposes. Instead, this fund serves as a safety net, only to be tapped when financial crises occur.
A true emergency is a situation that requires some sort of immediate action, and that can affect your long-term well-being or impact the viability of an important asset such as repairing your roof after a storm or fixing your car so you can get to work. A new big screen TV doesn’t qualify as an emergency, even if your old TV breaks down.
Tips to help create an emergency savings account.
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Save first. Many people try to save out of the money left over each month. Do the reverse. Have a portion of your paycheck go directly into a savings account.
Start early. Get in the savings habit. The sooner you start saving, the easier it is to stick with the habit and the sooner you’ll have your emergency cushion.
Separate your money. Open a dedicated savings account for your emergency savings. A separate account will remove the temptation to spend the emergency savings you might have if its mixed with your checking account. When you have an emergency fund, you have peace of mind. Your money is on guard, just waiting to be called into action. You don’t have to scramble to come up with money needed or turn to credit cards. Even if your emergency fund isn’t big enough to handle everything, it can still help reduce the amount of money you ask from friends and family or pay with credit cards.
You can find more tips about starting the saving habit at the America Saves website www.americasaves.org.
Dr. Raymond Kirk, Ph.D. is a former Federal employee with over 40 years of Federal Service, 34 of which were spent with the Office of Personnel Management. He was the manager of the Benefit Officers’ Training and Development in Retirement Services for the last 12 years of his career. He is a Federal Benefits Specialist and seminar presenter for NITP.
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How will the conformity determination affect my project proposal?
Project proposals in a planning region must conform to the applicable land use plan. Before a license or authorization is issued by a land use authorizing agency, the NPC must confirm that the project is consistent with the applicable land use plan.
Project proposals not located in a planning region with an approved plan still require review, with a decision made within 45 days on whether screening by the Nunavut Impact Review Board is required.
Licenses and authorizations that are issued by authorizing agencies will implement any applicable requirements identified in the determination.
What happens after I receive a positive conformity determination?
The NPC will send its determination and any recommendations to the appropriate authorizing agencies identified by the proponent.
The NPC will also send the project proposal, with its determination and any recommendations, to the Nunavut Impact Review Board for screening, unless the project proposal is exempt from screening pursuant to Schedule 12-1 of the Nunavut Agreement.
The proponent is responsible for contacting and submitting license/permit applications to the appropriate authorizing agencies, and, when applicable, contact the Nunavut Impact review Board to submit an application for screening.
What happens if my project proposal does not conform to the land use plan?
If it is determined that a project proposal is not in conformity with a land use plan, proponents may apply for a minor variance when applicable, a plan amendment, or for a Ministerial exemption.
Who can I contact for more information?
You can contact the NPC for information on submitting and reviewing project proposals or any other questions you may have about the role of the NPC.
Brian Aglukark, Director of Policy and Planning, can be reached at Aglukark@nunavut.ca or 867 857 2242, and
Jonathan Savoy, Manager of Implementation, can be reached at jsavoy@nunavut.ca or 867 983 4632.
What is a conformity review?
A review of a project proposal located within a planning region by the NPC to determine whether or not the project proposal is consistent with the provisions of the approved land use plan.
What triggers a conformity review?
All project proposals must be first submitted to the NPC for review. If a project proposal is located within the approved North Baffin Land Use Planning Region or Keewatin Land Use Planning Region, it must be assessed by the NPC for conformity with the applicable land use plan.
What information do I need to provide as part of a conformity review?
To submit a project proposal to NPC, the proponent needs to create an account on our online portal. You will then be able to fill out the online application form and add any additional documents you may feel are necessary for NPC staff to better understand the scope of your project.
Generally, you will have to provide a brief description of the project proposal, the project proposal location, the land uses and licensing requirements, materials and equipment to be used, and impacts and waste management.
In the event that your project proposal is more complex, or the information provided is insufficient or unclear, the NPC will contact you and request additional information.
How long does a conformity review generally take?
The NPC is required to complete the review of a project proposal within 45 days.
What is a conformity determination?
A conformity determination is the decision issued to federal and/or territorial agencies from the NPC regarding whether or not a project proposal conforms to the approved land use plan. A positive conformity determination may contains terms that a proponent must adhere to as part of the project undertaking.
Why is the Nunavut Planning Commission developing a land use plan for the Nunavut Settlement Area (NSA)?
Land use planning is a benefit to Inuit and required under the Nunavut Agreement and Nunavut Planning and Project Assessment Act (NUPPAA).
A single land use plan for the NSA will provide certainty to residents and investors by identifying where development can occur, where wildlife and wildlife habitat is preserved, etc.
Are there land uses or areas that the land use plan does not apply to?
Yes, Land use plans developed by the NPC do not apply to:
Traditional land uses of the Inuit including non-commercial fishing, hunting, and camping.
The construction, operation and maintenance of buildings and services within an established municipality, except for bulk fuel storage, power generation with nuclear fuels, hydro power, and any industrial activity. See Internal Procedures: Conformity Determination for more information.
Uses within the boundaries of established National and Territorial Parks.
What information does the Nunavut Planning Commission consider when developing a land use plan?
Information about population growth, birth rates, education and employment rates.
The natural resources and patterns of resource use. (i.e. mining, lodges, commercial wildlife harvesting and fisheries)
Economic opportunities and needs.
Energy requirements, sources and availability.
Community infrastructure requirements, including health, housing, education, and other social services
Environmental considerations, including Parks and Conservation Areas, and wildlife habitat.
Cultural factors and priorities, including protection and preservation of archaeological sites and outpost camps, and
Special local and regional considerations.
How does the Nunavut Planning Commission make land use planning decisions?
Within its established budget, the Nunavut Planning Commission provided numerous opportunities for government, the public, Inuit organizations, and others to share information to inform decision making on the 2016 Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan.
The Nunavut Planning Commission must balance the information received to promote and protect the existing and future well-being of residents and communities. The policies, strategies, and legal responsibilities of Government, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, and the Kitikmeot, Kivalliq, and Qikiqtani Regional Inuit Associations are also taken into account.
Being mindful not to duplicate the legal responsibilities of Government (federal and territorial), the Nunavut Planning Commission determines the content of the land use plan by considering all of the information received in combination with various public policies and strategies.
What does the land use plan do?
The land use plan guides and directs resource use and development in the NSA and is legally binding.
The land use plan informs land users on activities that may/may not occur, and during what times of the year.
‘Valued Components’ identify areas of importance to residents and wildlife.
What does the land use plan NOT do?
The land use plan does not replace or duplicate the responsibilities of Government (federal and territorial) and other IPGs.
A land use permitted under the land use plan must still be approved by the respectful authorizing agency before it may proceed.
The land use plan does not guide and direct the development of Municipal Plans (that responsibility belongs to the municipalities).
How does the land use plan affect communities, residents, and other interested parties?
The land use plan addresses important issues such as protecting community drinking water, promoting job creation, and maintaining healthy wildlife populations.
Can the Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan be changed?
The Nunavut Planning Commission encourages anyone to further inform the development of the land use plan by providing feedback on the Draft.
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The Nunavut Land Use Plan is considered a ‘living document’ and can be amended as new data becomes available.
Can I provide input into the development of the land use plan?
Communities, residents, and others are encouraged to identify important areas or land use issues that may benefit from management under the land use plan.
The Nunavut Planning Commission welcomes everyone’s ideas, and encourages you to contact the Commission at any time.
Does the NPC share the data that it receives from planning partners?
The Commission does not share third party information. Requests for data should be made to the original data sources.
GIS files for the Land Use Designations and Recommendations contained in the Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan are available here.
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YMCA Norfolk’s first-ever pantomime is a hit
Young people and staff from YMCA Norfolk have staged a first-ever pantomime at St George’s Theatre in Great Yarmouth about the life of YMCA founder George Williams.
The performance, which took place on December 3, told the story of Williams who, appalled by the terrible conditions in London for young working men in Victorian times, wanted to create a place where his fellow drapers could safely live.
That place was the YMCA, which he founded in 1844. Williams was knighted in 1894 by Queen Victoria for his work and after his death in 1905, was commemorated by a stained-glass window in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
The pantomime centred on The Book of Days book which Williams had to protect from his former partner Mary Stride and other dark forces.
The production was written and directed by YMCA Norfolk staff members Mike Howard and Andde Syder and was performed by a cast of staff members and young people from the YMCA.
Mike said: “The young people have been involved in creating the pantomime, including acting, music, designing backdrops and making costumes. It has developed their skills, increased their confidence and built positive relationships with other young people.”
Before the performance began, YMCA Norfolk chief executive, Tim Sweeting, spoke about the Christian organisation’s work supporting young people.
“Much like Mary and Joseph searching for shelter 2,000 years ago, many of the young people we meet are desperately in need of a safe place to stay, which is why we have launched our Christmas Appeal ‘Home For Christmas?’,” said Tim.
The evening, which was attended by Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Marlene Fairhead, was dedicated to the life of YMCA colleague Les Gostling who sadly died recently. Les had helped to build some of the pantomine scenery.
Tim said: “Les has been a much loved and valued member of the YMCA family for nearly 20 years. Over his 50 years of service to young people and the local community he has had a significant and life changing impact upon hundreds of young people and will be greatly missed.”
After the performance finished, YMCA Norfolk colleague Peter Atthill spoke about scientists going off in search of the origins of life on a distant comet and how over 2,000 years ago three wise men also followed a star to find Jesus the saviour of the earth.
Find out about the ‘Home For Christmas?’ Appeal
Pictured above are scenes from the YMCA Norfolk Christmas pantomime.
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Man who gave cannabis to boy behind medical pot law charged
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Cannabis debate: 'SA likely to prioritise health and human rights' - lawyer
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Denver — A man who made cannabis oil for a Colorado boy who was instrumental in passing a state law requiring schools to allow students to use medical marijuana is facing several felony drug charges.
Mark Pedersen had been providing the oil to Jack Splitt before the boy's August 25, 2016, death. Jack, who was 15 when he died, had severe cerebral palsy and dystonia, a disorder that causes involuntary muscle contractions.
After he was denied the use of marijuana oil at his school in Jefferson County west of Denver, he became the impetus for a 2016 state law that allowed eligible students to use the drug on campus.
When he died, a Lakewood police officer who was assigned to the West Metro Drug Task Force began investigating Pedersen, 60, who is accused of manufacturing with the intent to distribute marijuana, Denver television station KMGH-TV reported on Thursday.
Officers found several jars and bags of marijuana, suspected cannabis oil and other items related to the manufacturing of marijuana oil during a search of the boy's family home shortly after his death, according to an arrest affidavit. Pedersen was renting a room in the basement at the time.
Officers also found notebooks that listed treatments for Pedersen's "patients", several of whom were minors, as well as Facebook posts written by Pedersen touting the benefits of medical marijuana.
"I need to be reminded my life is not my own. I have a purpose ... I can make oil. I can provide hope," one post read.
Pedersen's attorney, Matthew Buck, told KMGH-TV the charges are unfounded and that the case would not have come about had it not been for Jack's death.
"We feel strongly he's overcharged because they're charging him with possessing a significant more amount of concentrate than he had," Buck said.
Pedersen was not registered with the state as a medical marijuana caregiver, although he did have a medical marijuana card.
A phone call to Stacey Linn, Jack's mother, was not immediately returned on Thursday evening.
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Brexit: New Zealand dollar gains on pound
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The New Zealand dollar has made fresh gains against the British pound overnight, rising to 53 pence.
The kiwi was last at these levels in May 2013.
The New Zealand currency has fallen against the US dollar as investors exit Britain and seek "safe havens" like the US greenback, the Japanese yen and gold.
The kiwi has fallen below 70 US cents, trading at 69.95 US cents at 6:30am on Tuesday.
The pound has continued its slide on global currency markets as concern grows about the prospects for the British economy following the Brexit vote.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's today cut Britain's credit rating overnight from triple-A to AA. S&P was the last of the ratings agencies to cut Britain's sovereign credit rating from AAA.
The pound fell 3.41 percent against the greenback overnight to trade at US$1.32.
That followed a fall of ten percent against the US dollar on Friday as it became clear that the 'Leave' campaign was going to win the referendum.
Chancellor George Osborne had contributed to a small rally in the pound late yesterday (NZ time), after he spoke to reporters, saying Britain was "open for business" and its economy was strong.
But that rally turned out to be short-lived.
The pound looks like coming under further pressure, with the currency reportedly now being targeted by hedge funds. Fund managers are betting the pound and British stocks will continue to fall.
As global investors pull out of the British share market it puts further pressure on the British currency.
The UK's FTSE 100 stock index closed 2.6 percent, while the FTSE 250 was down 7 percent.
The FTSE 250 contains many smaller British companies and is considered a barometer of the UK economy.
The FTSE 250 has lost 14 percent in two trading days, its worst performance since the 1987 crash.
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Stomach-turning passenger peels his feet on flight
Is this the most disgusting thing you've seen on an airplane? Photo credit: Jade Thomas
A passenger's stomach-turning actions on board an AirAsia flight have caused a wave of nausea around the world.
Jade Thomas and her boyfriend Trong Nguyen were flying from Malaysia to Vietnam on Sunday when they saw a barefoot passenger across the aisle.
But their bemusement turned to horror after the passenger proceeded to place his feet on the fold-out food table in front of him. He then started picking and peeling the dried skin off his feet and dropping it on the floor.
Wearing a face mask to protect himself from his own lack of hygiene, he proceeded to scrape the foul waxy build-up from under his toenails, then discarded his foetid body waste for staff to clean up.
Ms Thomas said the man's disturbing actions were vomit-inducing, and she "felt sick" after watching. But the other passengers weren't much better.
"I was returning from a trip to Bali with my boyfriend," she told 7 News.
"During the flight, we also observed some poor behaviour that is not uncommon on these kinds of flights.
"There was shouting, loud burping, not following requests of airline staff. For example, everybody stood up and started getting their hand luggage before the seatbelt sign had been switched off."
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House Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and other leaders in the House are planning to make a case for taking up a controversial plan that could include some path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants during the annual GOP retreat under way in Maryland.
Among the most contentious issue is a push by Boehner to pass some sort of immigration reform this year even as weary Republicans face tough midterm elections back home, The Hill reports.
On Thursday, secluded at a bayside hotel on Maryland's Eastern Shore for a three-day closed-door retreat, Republicans were thrashing out policy principles, guidelines for the 2014 mid-term election campaign, and ways to find common ground with President Barack Obama.
But the debate on immigration reform was front and center.
"This problem has been around for at least the last 15 years. It's been turned into a political football," Boehner told reporters on the sidelines of the closed-door sessions.
"I think it's unfair, so I think it's time to deal with it. But how you deal with it is going to be critically important," Boehner, of Ohio, said.
Republican leaders have acknowledged the need for reform, citing the party's low support among a growing Hispanic community.
But they have stressed they will proceed piecemeal rather than allowing a single grand reform bill to pass, while passing separate laws to address issues like improving border security.
"Doing immigration reform in a common-sense step-by-step manner helps our members understand the bite-sized pieces. And it helps our constituents build more confidence that what we're doing makes sense," Boehner added.
He would not be drawn into a discussion on whether the proposals address the critical legalization-versus-citizenship issue.
"We're going to talk to our members today about the principles that the leadership team has put together," he said. "I'm not going to get out any further."
GOP leadership is sensitive to concerns raised by party conservatives that legalizing undocumented immigrants is akin to amnesty.
After Obama's State of the Union address, conservative Republican Steve King of Iowa said he would be leaning hard on members at the retreat against backing a pathway to citizenship or legalization.
"If we set up people to say 'we're going to legalize you, but you'll never get a path to citizenship,' then there are two classes of people in this country. That's a bad idea," King said.
Last year's landmark bipartisan Senate bill offered the most comprehensive immigration overhaul in a generation, boosting border security, reforming visa rules, and providing a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions.
But the Republican-led House refused to take it up, despite calls from some business groups which lean Republican but support immigration reform as a way to boost the economy.
Ryan has also said that immigration reform in the House would happen in pieces, and on Wednesday hinted that rather than a full "path to citizenship," the GOP plan would entail granting probationary legal status to some illegal immigrants, but citizenship would not be automatic.
The federal government would have to meet certain requirements, like securing the border, before there would be outright amnesty.
The former vice presidential candidate said House Republicans think such requirements are necessary to make sure President Obama actually enforces it, which, he added "is a big concern of ours these days."
Some Republicans are quite vocal in their beliefs that the immigration issue is political suicide heading into the 2014 midterm elections, due to the divisive nature of the issue in the Republican Party.
"You can probably look to the Senate to see what [immigration] does to Republican unity," said Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia. "It's a very divisive issue, a very difficult issue."
A bipartisan immigration measure failed in the Senate in June, tarnishing the reputation of some of its strongest GOP supporters, especially co-author Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.
The American Principles Project, a conservative group that is trying to engage more Latinos in conservative issues such as immigration, has said that getting conservatives in the House on board with an immigration plan is essential to its passage.
Several conservative commentators have come out against passing immigration reform this year.
"It's one of the few things that could actually disrupt what looks like a strong Republican year," Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard told The New York Times.
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Sebago Lake is the second largest lake in Maine—one of the only lakes in the nation with clean enough water for use by a drinking water facility without filtration requirements. Residents of the Greater Portland area are the beneficiaries, and they are invested in maintaining their lake’s health.
A joint project between the Portland Water District (PWD) and Saint Joseph’s College of Maine (SJC) assisted by the NexSens team submerged around 145 pounds of new, high-tech equipment in Sebago Lake in 2018.
Challenge: Committed to Keeping Crystal Clear
The waters of Sebago Lake have always been very clear, but this monitoring project is a proactive attempt to prevent problems that experts predict changes in climate might cause.
“15% of Maine’s population is fortunate to have Sebago Lake as their drinking water supply,” explains Brie Holme, a water resources specialist with PWD. “However, New England’s lakes are changing in response to climate, use, and development stressors.”
An extended growing season, increased rainfall, and more frequent extreme storms with more runoff washing into Maine’s lakes can feed algae. These and other changes make it important to keep an even closer eye on the water supply.
Previously two similar buoys allowed for monthly monitoring of the lake from May through October for decades. Now, the new buoy will provide data from the Lower Bay’s deepest point every 15 minutes.
Solution: Real-time data, safely
The project team partnered with NexSens to tackle this challenge and its pain points:
a need for much more frequent data
a danger in contaminating the water during sampling or maintaining equipment
a need to share data publicly between stakeholders
ability to react to water quality issues fast.
The new NexSens CB-450 monitoring buoy’s sensor array monitors and transmits data on the lake’s chlorophyll, clarity, dissolved oxygen, pH, and temperature, updated every 15 minutes.
“The Sebago Lake buoy holds an AquaTroll 400 multi-parameter probe that we use to measure temperature, dissolved oxygen, and PH at a depth of 2 meters; a NexSens TS210 Thermistor String which has 14 temperature sensors throughout the water column; two Turner Designs Cyclops -7F Submersible Sensors for measuring chlorophyll at depths of 6 and 10 meters; an In-Situ RDO PRO-X Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor at a depth of 38 meters, just above the bottom of the lake; and two LI-COR LI-192 Underwater PAR Sensors at depths of 1 and 6 meters for measuring water clarity,” comments Holme.
Benefits: Staying clean and clear for less
Customized for the project, the buoy is almost entirely solar-powered, works even in bad weather, and can handle monthly calibrations despite its sensitive location.
“The buoy hasn’t lost power yet!” says Holme. “It’s located in the no bodily contact zone of the lake. We worked together to come up with a way to retrieve the AquaTroll Multiparameter Probe for calibration without putting our hands in the water. This involved attaching a perforated, 4-inch schedule 80 PVC deployment pipe to the buoy. The AquaTroll hangs inside the pipe, and can be retrieved from the top of the buoy.”
The new monitoring approach is part of an investment in healthy water in the lake and the region—a shared commitment.
“PWD is invested in the long-term health of Sebago Lake for clear reasons: it is one of the very few water utilities in the country that is exempt from filtration requirements,” remarks Dr. Emily Lesher, an assistant professor at SJC. “That is only possible because the water is so clean and clear. Changing the treatment scheme would be costly to ratepayers and more energy-intensive.”
Result: Better data, more opportunities
Having data every 15 minutes provides many new opportunities for both the water district and the community.
“We are able to better see time-based trends in the data,” states Dr. Lesher. “We knew that dissolved oxygen tends to decrease in the depths of the lake over the summer as organic matter decomposes, but we are learning more about that process as we observe the rates and nature of the changes.”
Having more frequent data also helps the experts react when weather affects the lake—and the drinking water that comes from it.
“Last October near Halloween we had some severe storms and even some tornadoes here in western Maine,” remarks Holme. “The real-time temperature data that our buoy collected allowed us to see exactly when the lake turned over and it was clear that turnover was initiated by the storm. Lake turnover and its associated increase in raw water turbidity require a change in the chemicals that are added to drinking water.”
Of course, there are also other uses for the data. Meteorologists at NOAA’s weather forecasting office in Gray, ME are using the buoy’s water temperature data in their weather forecasting models. And local educators like Dr. Lesher along with fishermen, homeowners, and other members of the public will also be putting the data to work.
Essential data at the right time can keep a clean lake healthy. NexSens research and monitoring equipment is created for each project’s goals, just as in this case, and our team is ready to help you start the process—and you know the team will continue to be here as you adjust and improve your system.
NexSens CB-450 Data Buoy
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LI-COR LI-192 Underwater PAR Sensor
The LI-COR LI-192 Underwater PAR Sensor Quantum sensor accurately measures photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) in freshwater or saltwater environments.
In-Situ RDO PRO-X Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
The In-Situ RDO PRO-X Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor uses the latest luminescent technology to measure dissolved oxygen (DO) in demanding environments.
In-Situ Aqua TROLL 400 Multi-Parameter Probe
The Aqua TROLL 400 is an all-in-one multi-parameter process probe that measures 12 water parameters.
Turner Designs Cyclops-7F Submersible Sensors
The Cyclops-7F submersible sensor is a high performance and compact fluorometer designed for integration into any platform that supplies power and data logging.
NexSens WQData LIVE Web Datacenter
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K-12 Schools Brownsville Area
2020 Elementary Schools with the Best Teachers in the Brownsville AreaAbout this List
Explore the public elementary schools with the best teachers serving your area. Ranking based on teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, teacher tenure, student-teacher ratio, the Niche Academics Grade for the school, and the district's Teachers Grade. Read more on how this ranking was calculated.
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John F. Kennedy Elementary School
La Joya Independent School District, TX
#26 Best Public Elementary School Teachers in Brownsville Area
Harry Shimotsu Elementary School
Sharyland Independent School District, TX
Rafaela T. Barrera Elementary School
Roma Independent School District, TX
Alton Elementary School
Mission Consolidated Independent School District, TX
Donna Wernecke Elementary School
Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District, TX
Lloyd M. Bentsen Elementary School
Niche User: I went to that elementary and it was awesome there. The staff is really good and the teachers have great lesson plans and have great teaching styles. The school is quite crowded though so many students attend class in the portables.
Emma Vera Elementary School
Escandon Elementary School
Austin Elementary School
Treasure Hills Elementary School
Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District, TX
Dishman Elementary School
Alum: Since leaving this school many changes have been implemented. The teaching has greatly improved and they have been able to help students set and reach higher goals. The school as a whole has also been able to accomplish great things and has even been recognized nationally as a Blue Ribbon school.
Anne L. Magee Elementary School
San Perlita Elementary School
San Perlita Independent School District, TX
Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District, TX
Idea Brownsville Academy
High School Senior: Ben Milam was my one and only elementary that I attended and don't regret anything about it.
Wilbur E. Lucas Elementary School
Valley View Independent School District (Pharr), TX
Paredes Elementary School
Brownsville Independent School District, TX
Roel A. & Celia R. Saenz Elementary School
Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville
Alum: Harmony had been a part of my life since i was in 3rd grade. I grew up surrounded by people who cared to watch every single student become greater. The diversity of the studwnt and faculty allowd students to become confortable with presence of different cultures, religions and ethnic back grounds. I wouldnt be the student I am today if it wasn't for Harmony Public School. They allowed me to succeed and learn to go above and beyond. Overall, I would never change my time at Harmony for anything else.
De La Vina Elementary School
Vista Academy of Edinburg
Veritas Collegiate Academy
Senior: As a student I would like note that I really enjoyed my years at Veritas. I experienced a great deal of bullying at my last school. It affected me greatly, and caused depression. Veritas provided shelter for me to heal. It was academically challenging, and at the same time, the discipline was not heavy handed, but administered in a loving way. My last school (a local large Christian school) put the blame on both the bully and the student being bullied, and we were forced to share it under a warped view of biblical doctrine. That being said, it wasn't all roses. I did have a tough time with one of the faculty, who seemed not to care about the students, but heard he's not returning next year, which is good for the school. Other than that, attending Veritas was a very great and healing experience. I most certainly will give it 5 Stars.
2020 Best Places to Teach
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The New School of Northern Virginia
Parent: The school provides a strong progressive academic curriculum for students who thrive in project-based and collaborative learning environments. Students are encouraged to take ownership of their education. Travel on one of the organized international trips during spring break is encouraged, but not required. Activities are student led and organized.
Parent: We have experienced the lower, middle, and upper schools and our children have had extraordinary teachers who have taken the time to get to know and appreciate them as individuals. Small class size (around 16 kids per class) contributes to this, but it’s just as much about the genuine interest and care that they show our children. Every time our teenagers rave about their teachers at dinner (a frequent occurrence!) my wife and I feel so fortunate that the strong connections they formed with teachers in the Lower School have been replicated in the other divisions. Our kids have different strengths and interests and they have each found a home and great friends through academics, the arts and athletics. Speaking of the arts, our daughter was so excited to watch the Tonys with friends and then learn that next year’s theater/arts trip to NYC will include seeing Hadestown and having dinner with the cast!
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Illinois Residents React to Shooting
Residents of Fox Lake, Ill., as well as Representative Robert Dold, expressed their grief after the shooting death of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Bob Dold, (R) Illinois: “Obviously our goal is singularly focused on we’re finding these suspects and reassuring the community that everything is going to be OK. I do think it’s important that we are letting the community know they need to be alert. They need to be vigilent and to make sure they report anything suspicious to the authorities.” SOUNDBITE (English) Tara England, who came with her 11-year-old son to pray at the memorial: Yeah it worries me. My kid has been out of school for all day today. He was on lockdown yesterday, which I believe was traumatizing for the children. They didn’t know what was going on. We had to pick them up one by one with photo IDs to prove who we were, just to get our children. Took an hour and 10 minutes. SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie Lilla, brought flowers to memorial: “Seeing the helicopters around and not knowing and keeping our doors locked, yeah very scary.” SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie Lilla, who brought flowers: It’s very sad to know that this happened to us, right here in our town. SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. Congressman Bob Dold: “I did know him. I didn’t know how well. But there wasn’t an event you could go to in Fox Lake and not see Joe. So he was involved in the scouting community. He was involved with the youth. So this is literally one of these types of individuals that has been a model citizen and really a model police officer and an honor to have known him.
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Occupational Therapy School
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Occupational Therapy School in Arkansas
Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and 33rd most populous of the 50 United States. Many renowned universities are there which provides quality education in the state of Arkansas. It has some fine quality universities like the University of Arkansas, the University of Central Arkansas, etc.
The Education Week magazine has praised the state, ranking Arkansas in the top 10 of their Quality Counts Education Rankings every year since 2009 while scoring it in the top 5 during 2012 and 2013.
Occupational therapy in Arkansas-
The demand is increasing for the occupational therapist in the state of Arkansas. And the job competition is less because the Arkansas state has only one OT college.
But, the state has 4 Occupational therapy assistant schools, so if the student wants to take admission in the occupational therapy domain, he/she can take admission in the OTA courses.
The number of working occupational therapist is not high, it may be because of the single OT school in the state. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 910 working licensed occupational therapists in May 2015, but the need is much more. Therefore the state of Arkansas has become a good opportunity for the occupational therapist from other states.
The occupational therapy in the Arkansas State has its own association, i.e. Arkansas Occupational Therapy Association (AROTA). The mission of the OT state association is to promote OT service quality and enhancing professional identity.
In Arkansas, Occupational Therapy is regulated by the Arkansas State Medical Board. The Arkansas State Medical Board takes the responsibility to issue licenses to the occupational therapist and occupational therapy assistants, which is provided soon after the passing NBCOT’s examination.
The occupational therapist and occupational therapist assistant in the state of Arkansas can practice for some time without a permanent license. YES! The OT and OTA can get a temporary permit from the Arkansas State Medical Board. But the condition is that the candidate must fulfill all the criteria of the permanent license holder except the NBCOT’s passing result.
But, the candidate must have a letter of eligibility to take the next available exam from the NBCOT. And after passing, he/she has to notify to the board to get a permanent one.
For licensure information, please contact:
Arkansas State Medical Board
1401 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 340
Little Rock, AR 72201-2936
https://www.armedicalboard.org/
Occupational Therapy School in Arkansas –
#1 College of Health and Behavioral Sciences- Department of Occupational therapy
This college is preparing occupational therapy practitioner, researcher, educators from more than three decades in the state of Arkansas. This college provides undergraduate and graduates degree program in health and behavioral sciences, including occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychology, and nursing.
This college is creating excellent health professional for the enhancement of health and well-being of the public.
The Occupational Therapy Program at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) has a long and prominent history. The program is continually accredited since 1974 by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE), this program has excellent pass rates on the National Board Certification for Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) exam and highly successful employment rates.
The Occupational Therapy program has two options-
Entry-level Master degree in OT, which is accredited by the ACOTE.
Recently, the School has applied for the entry-level occupational therapy doctoral degree program (OTD) to the ACOTE and it has been granted Candidacy Status by the ACOTE of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
The new OTD program is not yet accredited, but have completed the first steps in the 3-step initial accreditation process. The OTD Program having “Candidacy Status” successfully completed Step 1 of the initial accreditation process and the OT school may admit students into the program. But the students can’t appear the NBCOT examination until the program successfully complete the ACOTE accreditation.
University of Central Arkansas- Occupational Therapy Program
Courses Offered –
Master level entry program;
Doctor of Occupational therapy (Candidacy status).
University Campus Conway, AR
Public or Private- Public Institute
Program Head Jimmy H. Ishee, Dean
Course Duration- MOT Full-time regular course duration- 3 years.
Seat capacity Maximum 48
OT Admission Once a year fall semester.
Minimum requirement
Application submission through –OTCAS (centralized application program for occupational therapy program).
Baccalaureate degree.
GPA of 3.0 or better
Report from the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE)
A minimum of 20 contact hours with one licensed occupational therapist
References from a college/university faculty member.
TOEFL iBT (for International applicants only) minimum scores – total 89.
Pre-requisite course work
Address University of Central Arkansas
Department of Occupational Therapy
201 Donaghey Avenue, PO Box 5001
Conway, AR 72035-0001
Website http://uca.edu/ot
Occupational therapy salary in Arkansas-
According to the Bureau of labor statistics, the average annual and hourly income of occupational therapist were $82,600 and $39.71 (as per May 2015), respectively.
But the annual salary may vary, it may depend upon the practice setting, small or big city, need of therapy services.
According to Salary.com and Indeed.com, the average salary in Arkansas is $86,000 annually.
Average salary in different work settings-
OT in acute care $86,000
OT in Hand rehab $92,000
OT in Home health $94,000
Rest of OT practice areas
(Pediatric, mental health, outpatient, rehab, school) have an average salary of $86,000
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by Anastasia Chaguidouline
"Anxiety now prevails" A Conversation with Dmitry Vilensky
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In the evening of 2 November 2018, Dmitry Vilensky, a founding member of the collective Chto Delat (“What is to be done”) and I met in Zurich. We talked about Russia, anxiety, the failure of capitalism, and the territoriality of the New Left.
Anastasia Chaguidouline: What was your practice before founding Chto Delat?
Dmitry Vilensky: I gained quite meaningful experience in curatorial and self-organisational practices. I was running different self-organised spaces in Saint Petersburg and worked as a curator in Germany. The work was mainly focused on art practices rooted in photography.
Another important endeavour before Chto Delat was the collaboration between Olga Tsaplya Egorova and myself, another founding member of Chto Delat. We started producing art projects, publications, newspapers—that became later the Chto Delat newspaper.
AC: How did the collective Chto Delat and the practice of merging art, political theory, and activism emerge? Was this practice new to the Russian art scene?
DV: Chto Delat developed out of a political action. We, the participants, found ourselves in a very difficult political situation in 2003. The public action was called We Are Leaving and took place on the occasion of the 300-year anniversary of the city of St. Petersburg. This action was a culmination of a general discontent with local cultural politics, shared between a vast range of cultural workers. In addition, there was a very important new aspect that is difficult to grasp nowadays. There was a new understanding of Left politics and an appearance of a new political language, not only in Russia, but internationally. One can think, for instance, about the Zapatista movement. In the West, this happened somewhat earlier than in Russia, due the post-Soviet ‘90s. One can see proper documentation of this event in our first issue of the newspaper called “What is to be done” published shortly after.
I don’t think that there were really groups merging political activism and art before 2000 in Russia, at least not in a “Western sense.” One might mention the Moscow actionists, yet their practice belonged more to the field of actionism than activism. They did great work and linked it to political theory—people like Anatoly Osmolovsky, Alexander Brenner, Radek group, and some others. Also some neo-anarchist groups were active even after Perestroika; however, they did not necessarily use the medium of art. What we have done is quite different from the people I mention above. We were not really active in the form of street interventions; however, between 2004 and 2007 we realised a few actions like Stop the Machine (2004), Kronstadt Forever (2005), and In Praise of Dialectics (2006).
AC: How does the current political climate in Russia influence your practice?
DV: The opportunities for exhibiting and funding are scarce. However, they always have been scarce. Therefore, it is important to learn how to use them well. The state funding of critical contemporary art is close to 0%. Especially for us or other leftist artists who are considered dissident. There is no systematic funding for the established arts, unlike in the West. However, for specific projects, one might get support from foundations. There are several biennales happening, for example, in Moscow and in Ural, and new contemporary art centres are opening their doors. It is interesting to note that while Moscow has seen many important art centres open its doors, including Garage and Elektrozavod, paradoxically St. Petersburg lacks resources and does not have any important contemporary art institutions. There are some galleries, but very little in number. Generally speaking, the contemporary art scene in St. Petersburg is a very apolitical one and stays outside of social life.
After 2012, the opportunities decreased even further for contemporary Russian artists. Paradoxically enough, these repressive times brought up new opportunities for Chto Delat. We could open a Rosa’s House of Culture and establish our art school, School of Engaged Art thanks to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
AC: The name of your collective, Chto Delat, is a very prominent one, as it coincides with the title of a pamphlet by Lenin that was published in 1902. What importance does this name have for you?
DV: I think we were very lucky with the choice of our name. For us, it has more references to the 1863 novel by Nikolai Chernyshevsky and plays a bigger role in terms of meaning than Lenin’s pamphlet.
However, the concrete inspiration for the name appeared around the year 2001, out of my exposure to or exchange with the Western, namely German, context. I remember seeing a series on the TV channel Arte with the title Was Tun? (What Is to Be Done? in German). Back then, these series really struck me, as they showed such a panorama of new political activity, such as the Zapatista movement or the new Italian Left.
So, when we were thinking about the name for our own collective, the idea was to reclaim that title from the Russian perspective. The name felt right and remained. This gesture of positioning ourselves as politically left in Russia at that time was still very scandalous, as the whole intellectual and cultural world was generally right-wing liberal. I would not say conservative, because there was much less conservatism back then than there is nowadays in Russia. However, liberalism in Russia clearly differs from the West. In Russia, you have clearly more of a right-wing liberalism. That being said, our gesture back then was clearly a gesture of dissidence.
AC: How has the constellation of your workgroup / collective changed or remained?
DV: The constellation changed, but not very much. Some members left and others came. However, Chto Delat is not an open collective. Our core group is permanent. I can’t say that the core group is closed by protocol; nevertheless, we have strong generational and personal relations. The last person that joined the group was the choreographer Nina Gasteva in 2010. Since then, some members have left. I think we will either stay in this constellation in the future or disperse.
On the other hand, we have active and lively inter-generational temporal collaborations. Recently, we have worked with other prominent artists such as Anton Kats and Babi Badalov. Our pedagogical practice is closely tied to our artistic methodology. Indeed, the pedagogical practice became more and more important with, for instance, the founding of the School for Engaged Art. Art education is traditionally inter-generational, if one looks at the relationship between mentor and student. I think that the exchange between two different generational viewpoints can lead to completely new ways of creating and working. This can be very fruitful and beneficial for both sides involved.
We are positioning ourselves as a national and local St. Petersburg collective. For us, it is very important that the working language is Russian. The language and the territoriality are crucial for us as a collective. Chto Delat was formed in St. Petersburg. There was a small branch of the collective in Moscow, and some members live outside of the territory of St. Petersburg today, yet it still remains a St. Petersburg collective, through its histories and its main genealogy.
AC: How would you describe St. Petersburg’s genealogy?
DV: It is difficult to succeed in formulating what the St. Petersburg context really is. Many have tried describing it, everyone feels it, but when one starts generalising it, the result usually turns out to be bad.
On the one hand, the context is a very old one, starting with the era of great Russian literature, with Pushkin, Dostoyevsky. All these great writers could not fully grasp the city or its context, because after all, the city is in a way artificial. It appeared as a kind of mirage, as the city was copied from the West and then even became a double or mirrored mirage, when it lost its status as a capital. Andrey Beliy once wrote in his most famous conceptual novel Petersburg at the beginning of 20th century: “If St. Petersburg will not be the capital, St. Petersburg will not be!” So, before the October Revolution, the important identity feature of the city was its hold on political power and governance. Later, the city was deprived of its power, its glory, and its money.
AC: Do the individual members of Chto Delat all position themselves as politically left?
DV: Yes, however, without being overly dogmatic—left in a broader sense of the term. At the beginning, we had many discussions, “Auseinandersetzungen,” that were reminiscent of the arguments between, for instance, the Bolsheviks and Anarchists.
There are a lot of different positions within the Left, but there is a certain shared vision or understanding. The main point of this shared understanding stands in sharp contrast with the liberals. It is a strong feeling of disappointment in capitalism and human rights rhetoric. It is a serious understanding that capitalism is not the answer to the question, but instead the problem and maybe the central problem of society and democracy. And that most importantly, its hegemony is total, and it doesn’t allow for any doubt.
AC: Speaking about ideology and the future, do you believe that socialism could be an answer for Russia and/or maybe the world?
DV: At the moment, it is very difficult to say anything. The prevailing feeling is disappointment and depression. I have to say that we as a group are still carried by the optimism of the early 2000s. There was a social burst and various social movements emerged at that time. There wasn’t this permanent feeling of anxiety. Anxiety now prevails, it dominates. It has reached a stage of disease. Additionally, this anxiety is fed every day, by the media, by the politics, by your neighbour. On a daily basis, you hear about yet another disaster, and you can’t do anything.
AC: How did the feeling in the ‘90s differ from what is experienced now?
DV: Actually, we lived through the ‘90s quite happily, as I recall. When the restrictive Soviet Union crashed, it was a shock. However, freedom came to Russia and a certain openness towards the world outside, and a lot of possibilities appeared. Of course, there were a lot of people who had problems, whose lives crashed completely, and many families lived at the level of hunger. Actually, many people died or were not born those days. It was a tough moment, but I wouldn’t agree with the people that say that the ‘90s were a social disaster. It is difficult to generalise, but this is my personal experience. And I think ultimately there was this, in a way, hopeful feeling of: “Now, we will go through this suffering and at the end better times await!”
Of course, there were tragic biographies; someone who previously was an engineer would become a cleaner… Yet these unexpected trajectories brought with them a lot of adventure, sometimes tragic, sometimes magical. There was a sense of shock and transformation. In those times, even when I think about the generation of my parents, people were thinking that this hard transformative journey would lead to a better place. Maybe I am idealising, but there was a will to survive.
Another problem of capitalism, in comparison to the times of communist Russia, is the problem of choice. Nowadays, there is an abundance of things to choose from, which naturally leads to over-consumerism. No matter what you choose, you choose wrongly—you can only make the wrong choice and remain frustrated. You regret your choice, because someone has chosen something better than you. In the Soviet Union, there was no vicious circle of psychological frustration, because there was nothing to choose from. There was one party and one type of sausage. When there was only one TV channel, everything was easier.
AC: Did Chto Delat mostly work in St. Petersburg at the beginning of your collective practice? How fast did you enter the international realm?
DV: Exhibition-wise, in the first couple of years we realised a few large-scale projects in St. Petersburg. We also did some important stuff in Moscow in 2005 and 2006. At the same time, we had started grass-roots exchanges internationally along the activist networks, as a kind of micro-politics, but a very important practice. After this came a long period that was dominated by international practice. Then, we founded our school and the Rosa’s House of Culture locally again, so our practice at the moment is very local, but we manage to keep our international presence as well.
We always tried to claim a certain notion of equality. We don’t see ourselves as exporters of a certain knowledge to the West. In parallel, we are bringing a lot of materials and ideas from the West and translating them into local experiences. We started to speak about certain things which at that time in Russia were yet unspoken of. We saw ourselves as translators, not only in one direction, but in both.
Furthermore, the films that we are producing are very distinct. They are available online, and one can really see them as a digital archive. For us, it is important to show this narrative openly and clarify that we differ from common gallery artists in our standpoint on copyrights. We are paying a certain price for this standpoint, but I am sure that this type of distribution is the future—the development of new forms of commons and sharing. This standpoint on copyrights is our modest strive to adhere to the values that we are talking about.
AC: Is there a specific goal in your practice? How long do you think Chto Delat will operate as a collective?
DV: We have the possibility to make certain statements about the world, and we will continue to make them, as long as it remains interesting to us and to someone else. In my opinion, our practice is about insisting on certain values that not a lot of people would speak about.
I think, as a group we can operate as long as we are still interested in what we are doing and have a willingness to do something and argue/share with the younger generation. I feel that there will be an end, a limit of our practice, which will not come with the end of our physical lives, but some time before.
1 Herbert Marcuse, “An Essay on Liberation,” 1969. Available at marxists.org, www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/1969/essay-liberation.htm.
2 Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1997, p. 6.
3 I am deliberately not using the English translation of “powerlessness” for the German word Ohnmacht, as in Ohn- (deriving from Ohne = without) and Macht (power), because the construction “in Ohnmacht fallen” is a phrase in German used to describe fainting, a somatic reaction to being overpowered by forces outside of one’s body. To wake up from Ohnmacht would be described in German as “zu sich kommen,” which means to come to oneself. Hence, the process of being Ohnmächtig is connected to a detachment of the self from the body.
4 Fred Moten, “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh),” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 112, no. 4, Fall 2013, p. 739.
5 Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox. Grove Press, New York, 2008, p. 119.
6 Despite my fascination, I think it is always important to stress that Fanon’s writing was deeply heteropatriarchal. See also T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 1998.
7 When I write “imperial” I am referring also to its aftermath, which Alexander Wehelyie poignantly described as “the uneven global power structures defined by the intersections of neoliberal capitalism, racism, settler colonialism, immigration, and imperialism, which interact in the creation and maintenance of systems of domination, and dispossession, criminalization, expropriation, exploitation and violence that are predicated upon hierarchies of racialized, gendered, sexualized, economized, and nationalized social existence.” Alexander G. Wehelyie, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2014, p. 1.
8 Sara Ahmed. 2015. “Melancholic Universalism.” Accessed 15.12.2015. feministkilljoys.com/2015/12/15/melancholic-universalism/.
9 See Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World, ed. Nikita Dhawan. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Leverkusen, 2014.
10 Cornel West. 2017. “Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama.” The Guardian. Accessed 9.1.2017. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency.
11 Daniel Matlin, On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013.
12 David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2004, p. 2.
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At 2.6 ounces and just over an inch cubed, the Session will go places no other GoPro has gone before
Fully waterproof, no housing necessary. Oh, and it's really tiny. (Photo: GoPro)
Nick Kelley
When GoPro founder Nick Woodman began shuffling through his jeans last month at a bar in Vail, Colorado, I didn’t expect him to pull GoPro’s newest product out of his pocket.
The GoPro Hero4 Session is small. Really small. The 2.6-ounce matte-black camera is just over an inch cubed—or about the size of a whiskey ice block. This design allows it to sit flush and be mounted onto many places where other action cameras can’t.
But we’re not just excited about the size. GoPro packed a ton of pro-caliber features into the tiny Session, which will go on sale July 12 for $399. The camera comes out of the box fully waterproof down to 33 feet and is built like a tank—no extra housing required. That makes using the Session in the field super easy: No more worrying about spare cases or changing back doors or muffled sound. Just mount the Session and shoot.
Side by side with a Hero4 Black. (Photo: Nick Kelley )
Just one button—plus a tiny one to connect to Wi-Fi—controls the camera. One click and the camera turns on and starts recording at a previously determined setting. (More on this below.) Another click turns it off. Hold the button down for three seconds and the camera will shoot in timelapse mode. Whenever the camera’s on, it’s recording. There’s no idle time, which gives the Session an impressive battery life. (Again, more on this in a bit.)
The Session comes with a frame mount. Its cube design allows you to rotate the camera within that housing, making it far easier to change angles on the fly. The camera automatically recognizes its orientation, so you won’t come back with hours of upside-down footage.
(Photo: GoPro )
Will it replace the Hero4 Silver and Black editions? No. With shooting specs maxing out at 1080p60 and 8MP stills, the Session does not have the same high-level production firepower as its bigger brothers, like the Hero4 Black, which shoots up to 4K at 30 fps, and the Hero4 Silver, which shoots 2.7K at 30fps and has an LCD screen.
But what the Session lacks in resolution—which, truthfully, most weekend warriors won’t ever notice—it makes up for in ease of use, versatility, and size. As we mentioned above, it slots into spaces and looks much less obtrusive than other action cams, including its silver siblings from GoPro.
So who is the Session for? We think core athletes and pro photographers are the primary initial target (as evidenced by the new action-sport-heavy hype reel). You can mount the camera virtually anywhere, enabling a huge variety of shots. But (and especially if, or when, the price goes down) we can see the Session becoming an amateur’s favorite for its ruggedness and ease of use.
Want to know more? Read on.
The Good: The size and durability of the Hero4 Session make it one of the most versatile action cameras on the market. Its impressive battery life and one-button control also make it the easiest to operate.
The Bad: At $399, the smaller Hero4 Session costs the same as the much higher-performance Hero4 Silver.
The Verdict: A powerful camera with a tiny footprint that can mount almost anywhere. It's tough and designed to capture high quality video of any action sport.
The Specs
Video: 1440p at 30 fps
1080p at 60, 50, 30, 25 fps
1080p SuperView at 48, 30, 25 fps
720p at 100 fps
Stills: 8MP
The button on the Session lets you shoot steady video or timelapse. To change recording settings—like increasing frame rate or the timelapse interval, or switching into single and burst photo mode—you’ll need the GoPro app. The app doesn’t change with this release, but it continues to be basic, intuitive, and a great tool for any GoPro user.
Ranging from 1440p30 to 720p100, with 1080p30 and 1080p60 in between, the camera packs a good bit of performance into a tiny package. For still images, the Session captures 8MP files and up to ten frames per second in burst mode.
Video will offer both protune and superview settings for those looking to get a bit more out of their footage, as well as an impressive low-light setting, which will adjust your frame rate according to available light.
Waterproof cameras, and previous GoPro models, typically have less than stellar audio. Not the Session. The waterproof microphone holes drain really fast (about two seconds), which makes for good-quality sound when you’re shooting around water or submerging your device. For use filming high-speed sports, there’s a second microphone at the back of the camera that automatically turns on when the camera senses too much vibration and high audio levels.
The Session has a great battery life: about an hour and 50 minutes of record time. GoPro achieved this impressive feat by eliminating idle time—when the camera’s on, it’s shooting. Whenever you're not shooting, the camera's off, saving power.
Now, actual battery life is about the same as that of the Hero4 Black, but I’ve found that it’s easy to forget to turn off the other Hero4 models when not shooting, which obviously drains battery. Unlike other Hero models, the Session's battery is not interchangeable, which means you'll have to charge the camera directly. I got through a full day of shooting on one charge, but anything beyond that would require another charge.
(Photo: GoPro)
The Session ships with a ball joint—essentially a standard GoPro quick-release mount, except it features a sturdy ball-and-socket joint, which allows for full rotation of the camera and lets you make minute adjustments to the shooting angle. This ball joint will make a big difference on helmets and any other fixed sticky mounts where you want some creative freedom.
The Strap
Often referred to by the GoPro team as the Ironman, the Strap is one of the company’s best mounts. Both the elastic strap and foamed-lined arch mount are designed to fit over your hand, making the Strap ideal for sports like biking, climbing, and anything with a paddle. It’s like holding the camera without having to give up use of one of your hands. Set the camera to look forward or back. Perfect for selfies (or so I’m told).
A nine-inch arm attached to a strong clamp is a great addition to your collection of mounts. It’s lighter and lower profile than the super-useful jaws and gooseneck mount but packs a lot of the same benefits. The impressively strong vise clip lets you attach it anywhere. Adjust the arm and camera angle from there. Each joint can pan and or rotate, making it totally customizable.
GoPro will also release a Floaty attachment for the Session, plus a new foam windscreen called the Windslayer, which will reduce noise and improve audio during high-speed activities.
At $399, the Session costs about the same as the Hero4 Silver, which undeniably has better camera specs. It’s $100 less than the top-of-the-line Hero4 Black and $100 more than the new entry-level Hero LCD.
Why spend the $399 on the Session over the Silver? As we mentioned above, the Session isn’t designed to replace the Hero4 Silver or Black. It’s made to complement them. It may become the top camera in many people’s arsenals due to its durability, mountability, and size. It will be a great addition for those who already own other Hero4 models (and who can afford it).
GoPro athlete and X Games gold medalist Tom Wallisch shows off a Hero Black and Hero4 Session. (Photo: Nick Kelley )
Make the Most of Your Session
After a week of testing, I found 1080p60 with protune turned on to be the camera’s sweet spot.
Sixty frames per second enables you to capture some slo-mo and highlight the most epic moments. I personally like protune, which provides a flatter and less compressed image, which is better for color grading in postproduction. Turn it on if you’ll be working in advanced programs like Adobe Premiere or matching it with RAW footage from other cameras. If you’re not doing those things, don’t bother with protune; standard mode is bright enough and offers good contrast.
When it comes to photos, always use the timelapse mode. With a half-second interval, the Session will capture 8MP still images as you change the angle. You’re bound to get a good shot that way, and it’s better than constantly pressing the shutter.
Finally, get creative. Because of its size and weight, you can attach the Session to parts of your body and equipment where older models could never go. Put it inside a bike wheel, on your shoe, the front of your ski, the end of your paddle, the end of a three-foot rod sticking out of your helmet—you get the idea.
Pro tip: Use reliable, high-speed cards like those from SanDisk or Lexar. The specs on the camera call for a Class 10 speed or better microSD card. Trust us: Cheaper cards are more likely to corrupt and destroy your sweet footy.
Also, don’t get the largest storage size possible. Avoid the 200GB cards; opt for a 32GB or 64GB card instead. It’ll give you plenty of space and force you to stay on top of your footage. (You don’t want to wade through 200GB of video—or worse, lose it.)
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Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not the Rhetor but Pierre's sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre replied: "Yes, yes, I agree," and with a beaming, childlike smile, his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still blindfold) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfold, and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken of now as the "Seeker," now as the "Sufferer," and now as the "Postulant," to the accompaniment of various knockings with mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing aprons like the Rhetor's and holding swords in their hands pointed at his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from him and he was at once blindfolded again.
"Now thou hast seen the lesser light," uttered a voice. Then the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic transit gloria mundi."
Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President's chair sat a young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his neck. On his right sat the Italian abbe whom Pierre had met at Anna Pavlovna's two years before. There were also present a very distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the Kuragins'. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple.
"He must first receive the trowel," whispered one of the brothers.
"Oh, hush, please!" said another.
Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. "Where am I? What am I doing? Aren't they laughing at me? Shan't I be ashamed to remember this?" But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the first pair of gloves, a man's, he said that Pierre could not know their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man's gloves he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of women's gloves, he said: "Dear brother, these woman's gloves are intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry." And after a pause, he added: "But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck hands that are unclean." While the Grand Master said these last words it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed.
This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words of the statutes and these remained in his mind.
"In our temples we recognize no other distinctions," read the Grand Master, "but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother's aid whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which thou hast lost."
He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them.
The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of humility.
The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of "Collector of Alms" went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride subscribed the same amount as the others.
The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits and way of life.
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See: Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, University
Colleges Ontario
Organization of Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning
Provides communications, advocacy, and professional development in support of Ontario colleges and their contribution to employability, economic development and technological innovation
Related Websites: Colleges Ontario: The Voice of Canadian Colleges
Competitive Program
Postsecondary program receiving more applications than the program can accommodate
Applicants are selected based on criteria such as grades/grade point average, portfolios, or other supplemental information or procedures, depending on the institution
Sometimes called an oversubscribed program
See: Grade, Grade Point Average, Portfolio, Admission Requirements
Compressed Program
Modified delivery model of a regular college postsecondary program, referred to as an accelerated, intensive or fast track program which enables students to complete the program in a shorter time period through recognition of previously achieved credits or credentials; also referred to as an accelerated, intensive or fast track program.
May also describe a diploma program delivered in a continuous 12-month format with increased classroom hours per week and shorter vacation breaks than other programs
See: Accelerated Program, Fast Track Program, Intensive Program
Compulsory Credit/Course
Credit or course that a student is required to take in order to complete a specific program
Sometimes called a core course
See: Elective Credit/Course
A course or courses taken on a part-time basis at an Ontario college, university or secondary school
Includes courses, workshops and seminars offered for credit toward a postsecondary credential or for general interest
In an institutional context, a division within an institution offering part-time courses and programs, seminars, workshops, distance education and online learning
See: Distance Education
College or university program including both academic credit and formal workplace experience
In-school learning usually alternates with paid program-related employment in the public or private sector
Co-requisite
A course which must be taken at the same time as another course
Council of Ontario Universities
Organization of Ontario's publicly-funded universities, providing communications, advocacy, and professional development in support of Ontario universities and their contribution to research, international relations and accessibility
Related Websites: Council of Ontario Universities
Single unit of study, identified by a title, description and credit value, as well as a unique course number and/or code
See: Credit, Credential
Individual course(s) which you may receive credit for when transferring
Course Transfer Maps
Course Transfer Maps are comprised of a list of courses you have completed, and how they transfer to other institutions
Official document recognizing completion of a program or course of study
In postsecondary education, issued by the individual college or university
In Ontario, includes certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas, graduate certificates, bachelor's degrees in applied areas of study and bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees
May also be issued by professional or government organizations for licenses or other certifications, qualifications or memberships
A unit of value assigned to a course for the purpose of counting its value towards a credential such as a certificate, diploma or degree
The number of credits received by students for a course varies widely among institutions
See: Course, Credential
Acceptance or recognition of credit by an institution for courses or programs completed at another institution
See: Block Transfer, Degree Completion Program, Transfer Credit, Advanced Standing, Exemption
Defined academic program plan for a course, program, major, specialization or other academic designation
The term curriculum may be used to describe learning outcomes, course descriptions and content, learning activities, teaching and learning methods, assessment, and evaluation
Degree Completion Program
A program offered by a college or university that awards transfer credit to graduates of a college diploma or advanced diploma program in order to enter a degree program at a specified level
May require completion of bridge courses where applicable
Specifies additional credits necessary to qualify for a degree
Subject to conditions such as academic standing or minimum grades
Example: College Advanced Diploma in Chemical Engineering Technology to Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
See: Transfer Credit, Bachelor's Degree, Bridge Course/Program, Academic Standing, Grade, Ontario College Diploma, Ontario College Advanced Diploma
Degree Completion Program (Specially Designed)
Program designed to enable students to complete a bachelor's degree program following graduation from a diploma program
Usually offered in a field of study not closely related to the diploma program
Learners with physical, medical, mobility, sensory, learning or other disorders who may access special services and facilities to promote success
Related Websites: OSAP: Bursary for Students with Disabilities
See: Academic Discipline
Courses taught online, over satellite or local television, by video tape or CD ROM, through self-study or by correspondence
Timeframe for completion and/or sessions with teachers may be fixed or flexible
Designed for diverse populations of students whose schedules or personal circumstances make it difficult for them to study on campus
Doctoral Degree (Doctorate)
Highest level of academic degree
Normally require a minimum of three years of study and research, including the completion of a dissertation, after a master's degree
A doctoral degree may be granted as a PhD, or in particular fields of study such as music (DMus) or education (EdD)
Credit that may be applied to a credential at more than one institution, sometimes between secondary school and college programs or between college and university programs
Elective Credit/Course
Course taken in addition to compulsory or core courses to enhance breadth of knowledge and skills and encourage continuous learning
In colleges, usually referred to as General Education or Breadth courses
Normally included in requirements for graduation
See: Compulsory Credit/Course
Equivalent Credit
Transfer of course credit from one postsecondary institution to another where courses are considered equal in content or academic value
See: Transfer Credit, Exemption, Advanced Standing
Students may request a waiver of the requirement to take a specific course at a college or university if it is comparable to a course previously taken elsewhere. Waivers may be granted based on an assessment by the receiving institution that a course already taken is equivalent in level and scope to the required course.
See: Transfer Credit, Equivalent Credit, Advanced Standing
Academic division of an institution, such as arts or business, sometimes called a School
Academic teaching staff of the institution
See: School, Academic Discipline
Fast-Track Program
Modified delivery model of a regular college postsecondary program which enables students to complete the program in a shorter time period through recognition of previously achieved credits or credentials; also referred to as an accelerated, compressed or intensive program.
May also describe a diploma program delivered in a continuous 12 month format without extended vacation breaks and sometimes with increased classroom hours per week
See: Advanced Standing, Accelerated Program, Intensive Program, Compressed Program
See: OSAP
French Language Colleges or Universities
Colleges or universities where French is the language of instruction
General Bachelor's Degree
A General Bachelor's degree is typically completed in three years of full-time study and often involves more generalized study of a broadly defined area
General Education Diploma (GED)
Credential certifying that a person has achieved academic skills equivalent to a secondary school graduate
Related Websites: Independent Learning Center: Ontario Distance Education High School
Generic Skills/Essential Employability Skills
Skills considered essential for personal and career success including literacy, numeracy, communication, computer, interpersonal, work and study, effective thinking and problem solving
May be developed through elective or compulsory credits, or through seminars and workshops, or as part of non-credit college or employment preparation programs
Measure of a student's academic performance
May be expressed as number (percentage) or letter or on a ranking scale from unsatisfactory to excellent
Varies widely among institutions
Measure of a student's academic achievement at the end of a semester, year, term or program, usually calculated using the numeric value of grades earned divided by the number of credits attempted
May include other factors, such as weighting of specific courses or credits
See: Secondary School
Honours Bachelor's Degree
An Honours bachelor's degree is typically completed in four years of full-time study and usually focuses on a particular area of study
Usually requires a higher level of academic standing than a General degree
Independent Study Course
Customized learning experience under the supervision of a faculty member
Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Name used by certain Ontario colleges
See: College of Applied Arts and Technology
Intensive Program
Modified delivery model of a regular college postsecondary program which enables students to complete the program in a shorter time period through recognition of previously achieved credits or credentials; also referred to as an accelerated, compressed or fast track program.
See: Accelerated Program, Compressed Program, Fast Track Program
Internationally-accepted qualification for entry into higher education, recognized by colleges and universities worldwide, offered in English, Spanish and French
Related Websites: International Baccalaureate
Learner from a country outside of Canada
Websites of interest to international students in Canada include:
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials
TOEFL and English Language Testing
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities: Study in Ontario
Some college and university programs include a student internship where the student gets workplace experience in their field
This workplace experience may be full or part-time, paid or unpaid
Develops essential professional and general skills, provides practical experience and networking opportunities
May be completed at a college or university campus or with an external employer
See: Placement - Clinical/Field, Cooperative Education Program, Practicum
Joint/Integrated Program
A program offered co-operatively by university and college partners
May integrate two or more distinct programs also offered independently by partner institutions
Students study at both institutions either sequentially or concurrently
Graduates receive one or more credentials from partner institutions, for example, a student might receive both diploma in media arts and a degree in communications
May sometimes describe an educational program developed and delivered by two different academic programs or departments at the same institution, or concurrent programs offered within the same institution
See: Academic Discipline, Credential
Description of knowledge, skill and ability achieved by students through an academic course or program
May also describe knowledge and skills acquired through personal and work experience
Letter of Permission
Document issued to a student by the postsecondary institution where the student is enrolled verifying that one or more specific courses taken at another institution will be recognized for credit equivalency upon successful completion
Specific point in an academic program, usually expressed in semesters, terms or years
Measure or description of a postsecondary credential, such as a diploma or baccalaureate (first level), master's (second level) or doctorate (third level)
May also describe a measure of complexity or difficulty
See: Semester/Term, Program of Study, Curriculum
Focused and specialized area of study, such as geography or mathematics
Usually specified in credential, e.g., B.A. Psychology
See: University
Degree following Bachelor's degree which provides intensive study of a particular field, for example, English Literature, History, Physics
Master's degrees normally require one or two years of study after an honours bachelor's degree
Mature Applicant
College or university applicant without the required academic qualifications, and meeting the minimum age required by the institution
May describe an applicant who has been away from school for a specific period of time
Also known as adult applicants or special applicants
May be required to complete admission tests or preparatory courses, and other conditions for admission
Each school sets its own policies and procedures - most have a variety of options and pathways for mature applicants
Focused area of study with less emphasis than a major
Not usually specified in credential
See: Major
ONCAT
A member organization with participation of all 45 publicly funded colleges and universities in Ontario, ONCAT was established in 2011 to enhance academic pathways and reduce barriers for students looking to transfer among those institutions.
Ontario College Application Services (OCAS)
Central processing centre for applications to Ontario college programs
Related Websites: Ontario Colleges: Your Future Starts Here
Ontario College Certificate
Credential awarded by an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology or Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning on successful completion of an approved one-year program (two or three academic terms)
Requires secondary school diploma or mature student status for admission
Ontario College Diploma
Credential awarded by an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology or Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning on completion of an approved two-year program (four academic terms)
Ontario College Advanced Diploma
Credential awarded by an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology or Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning on completion of an approved three-year program (six academic terms)
Ontario College Graduate Certificate
Credential awarded by an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology or Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning on completion of an approved one-year (two or three academic terms)
Requires a college diploma or university degree for admission
Colleges may also consider an equivalent combination of education and related work experience, with each college setting its own specific requirements and equivalencies
Ontario government ministry that administers the system of publicly-funded elementary and secondary education in Ontario
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Education
Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Ontario government ministry that administers the system of publicly-funded postsecondary education in Ontario, including Apprenticeship
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities
Ontario Secondary School Credits
Grades 9 and 10
Academic courses emphasize theory and abstract problems
Applied courses focus on practical applications and concrete examples
Open courses prepare for further study in some subjects
Grades 11 and 12
University preparation (U) courses prepare students for degree programs at a college or university
University/college preparation (M) courses prepare students for specific programs offered at universities and colleges
College preparation (C) courses prepare students for most college certificate, diploma or advanced diploma programs or for apprenticeship and other training programs
Workplace preparation (E) courses prepare students for employment
Open courses (O) broaden knowledge and skills in a subject area, and may not be designed for specific requirements of universities, colleges, or the workplace
Locally developed (L) courses are offered by individual Ontario School Boards
Although there are general requirements for entry to college and university programs, each postsecondary institution determines specific subject requirements, minimum grades, and selection procedures for admission to each of its programs.
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Education: Secondary Curriculum
See: Ontario Secondary School Diploma
Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)
Official Ontario credential awarded on completion of 18 required and 12 optional secondary school credits, community involvement activities and the secondary school literacy requirement
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Education: What do you need to Graduate?
Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
Government loan, grant, scholarship and bursary program
Assistance is based on circumstances and/or academic achievement
Available to full-time and part-time postsecondary students
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities: Ontario Student Assistance Program
Ontario Student Record
Confidential record of a student's educational progress through elementary and secondary school in Ontario
Accessible to students, parents/guardians (for students under the age of 18), principals and educators
Ontario Student Transcript
Official record of a student's academic achievement at the secondary school level in Ontario, required for admission to a postsecondary program
Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC)
Central processing centre for applications to Ontario university undergraduate programs
Related Websites: Ontario Universities' Application Centre
ONTransfer.ca
ONTransfer.ca is a website provided by the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT) that connects current and prospective students to transfer opportunities.
Oversubscribed Program
See: Competitive Program
Evaluation of a student's knowledge, skill and ability related to a course or program of study
May be a written demonstration or performance of a task or activity
May be based on the work of an individual student or a team
Usually measured within a defined and controlled setting such as a laboratory or a classroom, or in work environments such as field or clinical placements or internships
Placement - Clinical/Field
Work experience related to an academic program
Supervised and assessed by the institution
Scheduled as a block of time within the program at a company, agency, institution, hospital or organization
Typically included in health, arts, media, and business programs, and usually unpaid or paid by honorarium
See: Cooperative Education Program, Internship, Practicum
A portfolio documents a student's formal and informal learning history and achievements, work experience, autobiographical background, career aspirations and personal goals
Most commonly used for prior learning assessment and recognition
Sometimes required for admission into a postsecondary institution, particularly for the performing and visual arts
Post-diploma program
See: Ontario College Graduate Certificate
Postsecondary Institution
College, university, institute, or school, either private or publicly funded, requiring secondary school completion or equivalent for admission
Postsecondary Program
Educational program offered by a public or private college or university requiring secondary school graduation or equivalent for admission
Workplace experience offered as part of an academic program under the direct supervision of an educator or workplace mentor
The practicum helps students develop job-related skills
Practicums are a required component of programs such as teacher education
See: Placement - Clinical/Field, Internship
Course or credit that must be completed before a more advanced course can be taken
Process to evaluate learning from work experience or independent study and translate into academic credit
Usually accomplished through portfolios or challenge tests/exams
Sometimes called Learning Assessment Recognition (LAR), Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Priority for Admission
For entry to college programs in semester one, a process granting first consideration to residents of Ontario, followed by other Canadian provinces and International applicants
For entry to semester two or later in college and university programs, a process granting first consideration to graduates or students of specific programs, particularly when partner institutions have a formal articulation agreement
A Professional Degree meets the accreditation standards of a particular professional association or college
Professional degrees may require some undergraduate study prior to admission to the program and generally include an internship or other work experience
Approved set of credit courses leading to a credential such as a certificate, diploma, or degree
See: Curriculum
Program Transfer is for students who have completed a credential at a college or university and would like to get credit for that credential at another institution
Program Transfer Searches
Searches you have saved when using our Block Transfer guide
Institution to which a student transfers during a program or level of study; not the first institution where the student enrolled
See: Sending Institution
Requirements for Graduation
Courses and conditions that must be successfully completed before a credential is awarded, with terms and standards specific to the institution
Includes successful completion of compulsory and optional subjects, general education requirements, and academic standing at a defined minimum level
May include other factors, such as the payment of any outstanding debt
For admission purposes, the status of an applicant as a resident of Ontario for a prescribed period of time, particularly for oversubscribed programs
For graduation from college and university programs, the requirement that a learner must complete a specific amount of the program at the institution awarding the credential
For example, a university might have a 50% residency requirement, meaning that students must complete 50% of their courses there in order to receive a degree from that institution
Monetary award for academic achievement either before or during postsecondary studies
Awarded by institutions, by government programs and by private donors
Institution of learning, or sometimes an academic division within an institution
See: Faculty
Second Career
Government sponsored program that provides career planning and financial support to help Ontario residents who have been laid off from their jobs to participate in training for a new job or further education
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities: Second Career
Division or segment of postsecondary education; for example, in Ontario there is the college sector and the university sector
Division or segment of business or industry, such as finance, health or manufacturing
Division or segment of employment or economy, such as public sector or private sector
Semester/Term
Defined period of time, usually twelve to eighteen weeks, during which classes are in session at a postsecondary institution, ending with evaluation and awarding of credits
See: Academic Year
Institution from which a student is transferring, or in a transfer agreement, the institution where course work was completed
See: Receiving Institution
Document issued by a college or university or other authorized body that legally reports a student's cumulative academic record, courses and credits taken, grades or achievement levels obtained, and credentials earned
The movement of a student from one postsecondary institution to another with credit granted by the receiving institution for courses taken at the sending institution
Provides academic mobility for students while maintaining the quality of educational programs and credentials
See: Equivalent Credit, Transfer Credit, Transfer Agreement, Transfer Student
Transfer Agreement
Formal agreement between postsecondary institutions that specifies how courses and credits completed at the sending institution will be accepted and applied at the receiving institution
See: Block Transfer, Advanced Standing, Transfer Credit, Articulation Agreement
Credit granted by one program or institution for courses taken at another program or institution
May apply to core courses deemed equivalent in content or may be used to fulfill optional elective course requirements
See: Equivalent Credit, Exemption, Transfer
Transfer Pathway
Defined route from one program or institution to another program or institution that specifies eligibility requirements and how transfer credits will be accepted and applied at the receiving institution
Usually applies to multiple sending institutions and one or more receiving institutions
Does not require formal signed agreement between institutions
See: Transfer, Transfer Agreement, Transfer Credit, Transfer Student
Student who moves from one institution to another and receives credit at the receiving institution for work completed at the sending institution
Postsecondary institution focusing on teaching, theory and research leading to bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees
Universities offer academic and professional programs in a wide range of disciplines
Other programming includes specialized professional certificates and diplomas, continuing education, distance education, and collaborative/joint programs with colleges
Courses and programs that prepare learners for further education, usually offered by colleges
Not typically included as part of a postsecondary program, and not generally applicable for postsecondary or transfer credit
Also called Academic Upgrading, College and Career Preparation, Academic and Career Entrance
Related Websites: Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities: Adult Learning
See: Secondary School Credits
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Home News Reports Massive development push in Red corridor - Centre to spend Rs 11,000 crore on roads
Massive development push in Red corridor – Centre to spend Rs 11,000 crore on roads
In an effort to expedite development push in Red corridor, the Centre has decided to spend a whopping Rs 11,000 crore for providing road connectivity to 44 Maoist-affected districts, including Chhattisgarh’s Sukma, where 25 CRPF personnel were killed in a deadly Maoist ambush last month.
It is pertinent to mention that all these Maoist affected districts are critical from a security and communication point of view. Out of these 44 Maoist affected districts, covered under the scheme, the maximum are located in Chattisgarh. Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra are the other states that will be covered under the scheme.
Of the total project cost of Rs 11,000 crore, Rs 550 crore – that is five per cent – will be kept aside for administrative expenses including for deployment of security forces at strategic locations, officials in know of the project was quoted as saying.
The development project will be operationalised in the next few weeks. The project will be implemented under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). Under the project, there will be construction or upgradation of 5,411 kms of roads and 126 bridges.
The Union Cabinet, last year, had approved the centrally-sponsored “Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism (LWE) Affected Areas” scheme. The Union Home Ministry has given a go ahead for the construction of a 5,412 km-long road connecting 44 Maoist-affected districts.
OpIndia, one of the earlier articles, had told you that development is a major way to fight the Maoists as they are scared of the development push by the government.
It could be noted that the last two attacks on CRPF personnel – 24 April Maoist attack and 12 March Maoist attack –took place when the CRPF battalion were engaged in securing under construction roads.
The Maoists, who look for safe sanctuaries to run their activities, are scared of development because they use lack of development as a facade to exploit the innocent tribals and carry out their activities. Once, development reaches deep into the Maoist hinterland, the Left ultra will finally lose their constituency and go out of business.
We had earlier argued that development push and an all out war against Maoists must go in tandem.
As many as 12,000 citizens had lost their lives in Maoist violence over the last two decades and of these, 2,700 are security personnel and 9,300 are civilians.
Maoist affected districts
Maoists
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Frederic S. Mishkin
Uris Hall 817
WWW: http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/fmishkin/
NBER Program Affiliations: ME , EFG
Institutional Affiliation: Columbia University
May 2019 Prospects for Inflation in a High Pressure Economy: Is the Phillips Curve Dead or is It Just Hibernating?
with Peter Hooper, Amir Sufi: w25792
Published: Peter Hooper & Frederic S. Mishkin & Amir Sufi, 2019. "Prospects for Inflation in a High Pressure Economy: Is the Phillips Curve Dead or is It Just Hibernating?," Research in Economics, .
December 2017 Making Discretion in Monetary Policy More Rule-Like
December 2014 Unprecedented Actions: The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective
with Eugene N. White: w20737
August 2013 Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy
with David Greenlaw, James D. Hamilton, Peter Hooper: w19297
June 2013 Comment on "Great Inflation and Central Bank Independence in Japan"
in The Great Inflation: The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking, Michael D. Bordo and Athanasios Orphanides, editors
January 2012 Macroprudential Policies in Open Emerging Economies
with Joon-Ho Hahm, Hyun Song Shin, Kwanho Shin: w17780
Published: Hahm, Joon-Ho & Mishkin, Frederic S. & Shin, Hyun Song & Shin, Kwanho, 2011. "Macroprudential policies in open emerging economies," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue Nov, pages 63-114. citation courtesy of
February 2011 Monetary Policy Strategy: Lessons from the Crisis
Published: in "Approaches to monetary policy revisited - lessons from the crisis," 6th ECB Central Banking Conference, 18-19 November 2010
December 2010 Over The Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2011. "Over the Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 25(1), pages 49-70, Winter. citation courtesy of
July 2010 Financial Conditions Indexes: A Fresh Look after the Financial Crisis
with Jan Hatzius, Peter Hooper, Kermit L. Schoenholtz, Mark W. Watson: w16150
Published: U.S. Monetary Policy Forum: “Financial Conditions Indexes: A Fresh Look After the Financial Crisis,” (with Jan Hatzius, Peter Hooper, Frederic Mishkin, Kermit L. Schoenholtz and Mark W. Watson) U.S. Monetary Policy Forum (Chicago: Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets, 2010) pp. 3-59.
April 2010 The Financial Crisis and the Federal Reserve
in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009, Volume 24, Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff and Michael Woodford, editors
How Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Evolved Over Time?
with Jean Boivin, Michael T. Kiley: w15879
Published: “How Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Evolved Over Time? (with Jean Boivin and Michael T. Kiley), Handbook of Monetary Economics (Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2011), pp. 369-422.
January 2009 Is Monetary Policy Effective During Financial Crises?
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2009. "Is Monetary Policy Effective during Financial Crises?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(2), pages 573-77, May. citation courtesy of
May 2008 Does Stabilizing Inflation Contribute To Stabilizing Economic Activity?
Exchange Rate Pass-Through And Monetary Policy
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2008. "Exchange rate pass-through and monetary policy: a speech at the Norges Bank Conference on Monetary Policy, Oslo, Norway, March 7, 2008," Speech, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
April 2008 Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy
Frederic S. Mishkin, 2009. "Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(s1), pages 187-196, 02. citation courtesy of
Frederic S. Mishkin, 2008. "Globalization, macroeconomic performance, and monetary policy," Proceedings, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). citation courtesy of
October 2007 Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science?
Published: Find out how to access preview-only content The Science and Practice of Monetary Policy Today 2010, pp 81-103 Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science? Frederic S. Mishkin
Housing and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2007. "Housing and the monetary transmission mechanism," Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 359-413. citation courtesy of
June 2007 Comment on "Monetary Rules in Emerging Economies with Financial Market Imperfections"
in International Dimensions of Monetary Policy , Jordi Galí and Mark J. Gertler, editors
Inflation Dynamics
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2007. "Inflation Dynamics," International Finance, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 10(3), pages 317-334, December. citation courtesy of
January 2007 Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference?
with Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel: w12876
Published: Vittorio Corbo & Óscar Landerretche & Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, 2002. "Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference?," Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies Book Series, in: Norman Loayza & Raimundo Soto & Norman Loayza (Series Editor) & Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (Series Editor) (ed.), Inflation Targeting: Desing, Performance, Challenges, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 5, pages 221-270 Central Bank of Chile.
September 2006 Two Decades of Japanese Monetary Policy and the Deflation Problem
with Takatoshi Ito
in Monetary Policy with Very Low Inflation in the Pacific Rim, Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, editors
Monetary Policy Strategy: How Did We Get Here?
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2006. "Monetary Policy Strategy: How Did We Get Here?," Panoeconomicus, Savez ekonomista Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia, vol. 53(4), pages 359-388, December. citation courtesy of
July 2006 Inflation Band Targeting and Optimal Inflation Contracts
with Niklas J. Westelius: w12384
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin & Niklas J. Westelius, 2008. "Inflation Band Targeting and Optimal Inflation Contracts," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 40(4), pages 557-582, 06. citation courtesy of
December 2005 Is Financial Globalization Beneficial?
Published: Frederic S. Mishkin, 2007. "Is Financial Globalization Beneficial?," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 39(2-3), pages 259-294, 03. citation courtesy of
How Big a Problem is Too Big to Fail?
Published: Mishkin, Frederic. “How Big a Problem is Too Big to Fail?” Journal of Economic Literature vol XLIV (December 2006): 988-1004.
December 2004 Inflation Targeting in Transition Economies Experience and Prospects
with Jiri Jonas
in The Inflation-Targeting Debate, Ben S. Bernanke and Michael Woodford, editors
November 2004 Two Decades of Japanese Monetary Policy and the Deflation Problem
with Takatoshi Ito: w10878
October 2004 Can Central Bank Transparency Go Too Far?
Published: Frederic S Mishkin, 2004. "Can Central Bank Transparency Go Too Far?," RBA Annual Conference Volume, in: Christopher Kent & Simon Guttmann (ed.), The Future of Inflation Targeting Reserve Bank of Australia.
July 2004 Can Inflation Targeting Work in Emerging Market Countries?
Published: Reinhart, Carmen, Carlos Vegh and Andres Velasco (eds.) A Festschrift for Guillermo Calvo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
June 2003 The Mirage of Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Market Countries
with Guillermo Calvo: w9808
Published: Calvo, Guillermo A. and Frederic S. Mishkin. "The Mirage Of Exchange Rate Regimes For Emerging Market Countries," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2003, v17(4,Fall), 99-118. citation courtesy of
May 2003 Inflation Targeting in Transition Countries: Experience and Prospects
with Jiri Jonas: w9667
Published: Woodford, Michael (ed.) Inflation Targeting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
January 2003 Financial Policies
with Andrew Crockett, Michael P. Dooley, Montek S. Ahluwalia
in Economic and Financial Crises in Emerging Market Economies, Martin Feldstein, editor
October 2002 The Role of Output Stabilization in the Conduct of Monetary Policy
Published: Mishkin, F. S. "The Role Of Output Stabilization In The Conduct Of Monetary Policy," International Finance, 2002, v5(2,Summer), 213-227. citation courtesy of
June 2002 U.S. Stock Market Crashes and Their Aftermath: Implications for Monetary Policy
with Eugene N. White: w8992
Published: Hunter, William B., George G. Kaufman and Michael Pormerleano (eds.) Asset Price Bubbles: The Implications for Monetary, Regulatory and International Policies. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2003.
December 2001 The Transmission Mechanism and the Role of Asset Prices in Monetary Policy
Published: Aspects of the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy, Focus on Austria 3-4/2001. Osterreichische Nationalbank: Vienna 2001.
NBER Reporter Winter 02
July 2001 One Decade of Inflation Targeting in the World: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
with Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel: w8397
Published: Loayza, Norman and Raimundo Soto (eds.) Inflation Targeting: Design, Performance, Challenges. Santiago: Central Bank of Chile, 2002.
January 2001 Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries
Mishkin, Frederic S. and Miguel A. Savastano. "Monetary Policy Strategies For Emerging Market Countries: Lessons From Latin America," Chinese Economic Studies, 2002, v44(2/3,Summer), 45-82.
Frederic S. Mishkin & Andrew Crockett & Michael P. Dooley & Montek S. Ahluwalia, 2003. "Financial Policies," NBER Chapters, in: Economic and Financial Crises in Emerging Market Economies, pages 93-154 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents
in Prudential Supervision: What Works and What Doesn't, Frederic S. Mishkin, editor
Prudential Supervision: Why Is It Important and What Are the Issues?
September 2000 Rethinking the Role of NAIRU in Monetary Policy: Implications of Model Formulation and Uncertainty
with Arturo Estrella: w6518
Published: Monetary Policy Rules, edited by John B. Taylor, pp. 405-430, 1999. The University of Chicago Press.
International Experiences with Different Monetary Policy Regimes
Published: Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 43, No. 3, 576-606, June 1999. Elsevier Science.
August 2000 Lessons from the Asian Crisis
Published: Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 18, no. 4 (August 1999): 709-723. Published as "Lessons from the Tequila Crisis", Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 23, no. 10 (October 1999): 1521-1533. citation courtesy of
Inflation Targeting in Emerging Market Countries
Published: American Economic Review, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 105-109, May 2000. citation courtesy of
March 2000 Monetary Policy Strategies for Latin America
with Miguel A. Savastano: w7617
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 66, no. 2 (December 2001): 415-444 citation courtesy of
Mishkin, Frederic S. and Miguel A. Savastano. "Monetary Policy Strategies For Emerging Market Countries: Lessons From Latin America," Chinese Economic Studies, Vol. 44, no. 2/3 (Summer 2002): 45-82
January 2000 Causes of the Korean Financial Crisis: Lessons for Policy
with Joon-Ho Hahm: w7483
Published: Shin, Inseok (ed.) The Korean Crisis, Before and After. Seoul: Korean Development Institute, 2000.
Comment on "The Onset of the East Asian Financial Crisis"
in Currency Crises, Paul Krugman, editor
August 1999 International Capital Movements, Financial Volatility and Financial Instability
Published: Schriften des Vereins fur Socialpolitik Gelleschaft fur Wirtscharges und Socialwissenschafter, pp. 11-40, 1998.
April 1999 Financial Consolidation: Dangers and Opportunities
Published: Journal of Banking and Finance. 23 (1999) 675-691 citation courtesy of
February 1999 International Experiences with Different Monetary Policy Regimes
Published: Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 43, no. 3 (June 1999): 579-605.
January 1999 What Will Technology Do to Financial Structure?
with Philip E. Strahan: w6892
Published: Litan, Robert and Anthony Santomero (eds.) Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services. Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
Rethinking the Role of NAIRU in Monetary Policy: Implications of Model Formulation and Uncertainty
with Arturo Estrella
in Monetary Policy Rules, John B. Taylor, editor
February 1998 Strategies for Controlling Inflation
Published: Frederic S Mishkin, 1997. "Strategies for Controlling Inflation," RBA Annual Conference Volume, in: Philip Lowe (ed.), Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting Reserve Bank of Australia.
Inflation Targeting: Lessons from Four Countries
with Adam S. Posen: w6126
Published: Economic Policy Review - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Vol. 3, no. 3 (August 1997): 9-110 citation courtesy of
January 1997 Inflation Targeting: A New Framework for Monetary Policy?
with Ben S. Bernanke: w5893
Published: Bernanke, Ben S. and Frederic S. Mishkin. "Inflation Targeting: A New Framework For Monetary Policy?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, v11(2,Spring), 97-116. citation courtesy of
December 1996 Bank Consolidation: A Central Banker's Perspective
Published: Mergers of Finanial Institutions, Yakov Amihud and Geoffrey Miller, eds., pp. 31-25, (Boston: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1998)
November 1996 Is There a Role for Monetary Aggregates in the Conduct of Monetary Policy?
Published: Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 40, no. 2 (1997): 279-304. citation courtesy of
May 1996 Understanding Financial Crises: A Developing Country Perspective
February 1996 The Channels of Monetary Transmission: Lessons for Monetary Policy
Published: Banque de France: Bulletin: Digest, no. 27, pp. 33-44, March 1996
December 1995 Predicting U.S. Recessions: Financial Variables as Leading Indicators
Published: Review of Economics and Statistics, vol.80, no.1, pp. 45-61, February 1998. citation courtesy of
September 1995 The Term Structure of Interest Rates and Its Role in Monetary Policy for The European Central Bank
Published: as "The predictive power of the term structure of interest rates in Europe and the United States: Implications for the European Central Bank", European Economic Review. Volume: 41 Issue: 7 (July 1997) Pages: 1375-1401
April 1995 An Empirical Examination of the Fisher Effect in Australia
with John Simon: w5080
Published: Economic Record, 71, September1995, pp.227-239. citation courtesy of
February 1995 The Rational Expectations Revolution: A Review Article of: Preston J. Miller, ed.:The Rational Expectations Revolution, Readings from the Front Line
Journal of International and Comparative Economics, 5, 1996. Forthcoming.
January 1995 The Decline of Traditional Banking: Implications for Financial Stabilityand Regulatory Policy
with Franklin R. Edwards: w4993
Published: Economic Policy Review, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 27-45 (July 1995). citation courtesy of
February 1994 Preventing Financial Crises: An International Perspective
The Manchester School, vol. 62, S1, pp. 1-40, September 1994 (Papers in Money, Macroeconomics and Finance, Proceedings of the Money, Macroeconomics and Finance Research Group, 1993)
Mishkin, Frederic S, 1994. "Preventing Financial Crises: An International Perspective," The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, University of Manchester, vol. 62(0), pages 1-40, Suppl.. citation courtesy of
May 1992 Central Bank Behavior and the Strategy of Monetary Policy: Observations From Six Industrialized Countries
with Ben Bernanke: w4082
Published: Blanchard, Olivier Jean and Stanley Fischer (eds.) NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1992. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.
January 1992 Central Bank Behavior and the Strategy of Monetary Policy: Observations from Six Industrialized Countries
with Ben Bernanke
in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1992, Volume 7, Olivier Jean Blanchard and Stanley Fischer, editors
December 1991 Anatomy of a Financial Crisis
Published: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2, pp. 115-130 (1992). citation courtesy of
August 1991 Does Correcting for Heteroskedasticity Help?
Published: Economics Letters, Vol. 34, pp. 351-356, (1990).
February 1991 Is the Fisher Effect for Real? A Reexamination of the Relationship Between Inflation and Interest Rates
Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 30, pp. 195-215 (1992).appendix published as "Nonstationarity of Regressors and Tests of Real-Interest Rate Behavior" in Journal of Business & Economics Studies, Vol 13, No. citation courtesy of
1, pp. 47-51, January 1995
January 1991 A Multi-Country Comparison of Term Structure Forecasts at Long Horizons
with Philippe Jorion: w3574
Published: "A Multicountry Comparison of Term-Structure Forecasts at Long Horizons." From Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 29, pp. 59-80, (March 1991). citation courtesy of
Asymmetric Information and Financial Crises: A Historical Perspective
in Financial Markets and Financial Crises, R. Glenn Hubbard, editor
December 1990 Yield Curve
Published: Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. London: Macmillan Press, 1992.
July 1990 Asymmetric Information and Financial Crises: A Historical Perspective
Published: Financial Markets and Financial Crises, edited by R. Glenn Hubbard, pp. 69- 108. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.
April 1990 Financial Innovation and Current Trends in U.S. Financial Markets
Published: U.S.-Japan Economic Forum, Vol. 1, pp. 63-77, (1990).
September 1989 A Multi-Country Study of the Information in the Term Structure about Future Inflation
Published: "A Multi-Country Study of the Information in the Shorter Maturity Term Structure about Future Inflation." From Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 2-22, (March 1991).
The Information in the Longer Maturity Term Structure about Future Inflation
Published: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. CV, No. 442, pp. 815-828, (August 1990). citation courtesy of
August 1988 Understanding Real Interest Rates
Published: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 1064-1075,(December 1988). citation courtesy of
June 1988 What Does the Term Structure Tell Us About Future Inflation?
Published: Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 25, pp. 77-95, (January 1990). citation courtesy of
May 1988 The Information in the Term Structure: Some Further Results
Published: Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 3, (1988). citation courtesy of
October 1987 Can Futures Market Data Be Used to Understand the Behavior of Real Interest Rates?
Published: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 245-257, (March 1990). citation courtesy of
May 1986 U.S. Macroeconomic Policy and Performance in the 1980s: An Overview
Published: Patrick, H. and R. Tachi (eds.) Japan and the United States Today: Exchange Rates, Macroeconomic Policies, and Financial Market Innovations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
August 1985 Monetary Policy Regime Shifts and the Unusual Behavior of Real Interest Rates
with John Huizinga: w1678
Huizinga, John & Mishkin, Frederic S., 1986. "Monetary policy regime shifts and the unusual behavior of real interest rates," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Elsevier, vol. 24(1), pages 231-274, January. citation courtesy of
Huizinga, John and Frederic S. Mishkin."Monetary Policy Regime Shifts and the Unusual Behavior of Real Interest Rates," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 24, Spring 1986, pp. 231-274.
September 1984 The Causes of Inflation
Mishkin, Frederic H. "The Causes of Inflation," Price Stability and Public Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansa City, 1984, pp. 1-24, Kansas City.
Frederic S. Mishkin, 1984. "The causes of inflation," Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pages 1-32. citation courtesy of
August 1984 The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates: The European - U.S. Connection
with Robert E. Cumby: w1423
Published: Cumby, Robert E. and Frederic S. Mishkin. "The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates: The European - U.S. Connection," Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 5, March 1986, pp. 5-23. citation courtesy of
April 1984 Inflation and Real Interest Rates on Assets with Different Risk Characteristics
Published: Huizinga, John and Frederic S. Mishkin. "Inflation and Real Interest Rateson Assets with Different Risk Characteristics." Journal of Finance, Vol. 39, No. 3, (July 1984), pp. 699-712. citation courtesy of
1983 Front matter, A Rational Expectations Approach to Macroeconometrics: Testing Policy Ineffectiveness and Efficient-Markets Models
in A Rational Expectations Approach to Macroeconometrics: Testing Policy Ineffectiveness and Efficient-Markets Models, Frederic S. Mishkin
Introduction to "A Rational Expectations Approach to Macroeconometrics: Testing Policy Ineffectiveness and Efficient-Markets Models"
I. Econometric Theory and Methodology
The Econometric Methodology
An Integrated View of Tests of Rationality, Market Efficiency, and the Short-Run Neutrality of Aggregate Demand Policy
II. Empirical Studies
Are Market Forecasts Rational?
Monetary Policy and Interest Rates: An Efficient Markets-Rational Expectations Approach
Does Anticipated Aggregate Demand Policy Matter?
December 1982 The Real Interest Rate: A Multi-Country Empirical Study
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "The Real Interest Rate: A Multi-Country Empirical Study." Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, (May 1984), pp.283-3 11. citation courtesy of
Are Real Interest Rates Equal Across Countries? An Empirical Investigation of International Parity Conditions
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "Are Real Interest Rates Equal Across Countries? An Empirical Investigation of International Parity Conditions." Journal of Finance, Vol. 39, No. 5, (December 1984), pp. 1345- 1357. citation courtesy of
October 1981 Does Anticipated Aggregate Demand Policy Matter? Further Econometric results.
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "Does Anticipated Aggregate Demand Policy Matter? Further Econometric Results." The American Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 4 (September 1982), pp. 788-802. citation courtesy of
August 1981 An Integrated View of Tests of Rationality, Market Efficiency, and the Short-Run Neutrality of Monetary Policy
with Andrew B. Abel: w0726
Published: Abel, Andrew B., Frederic S. Mishkin. "An Integrated View of Tests of Rationality, Market Efficiency, and the Short-Run Neutrality of Monetary Policy."Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, (January 1983), pp. 3-24. citation courtesy of
June 1981 Monetary Policy and Short-Term Interest Rates: An Efficient Markets-Rational Expectations Approach
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "Monetary Policy and Short-Term Interest Rates: An Efficient Markets-Rational Expectations Approach." The Journal of Finance, Vol . 37, No. l (March 1982), pp. 63-72. citation courtesy of
1981 The Real Interest Rate: An Empirical Investigation
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "The Real Interest Rate: An Empirical Investigation." The Costs and Consequences of Inflation, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 15, (Autumn 1981), pp. 151-200 and 21 3-218. citation courtesy of
July 1980 The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income: Estimates from Panel Data on Households
with Robert E. Hall: w0505
Published: Hall, Robert E. and Mishkin, Frederic S. "The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income: Estimates from Panel Data on Households." Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 2, (March 1982), pp. 461-481. citation courtesy of
Does Anticipated Monetary Policy Matter? An Econometric Investigation
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "Does Anticipated Monetary Policy Matter? An Econometric Investigation." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 90, No. 1, 1982), pp. 22-51. citation courtesy of
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "Are Market Forecasts Rational?" The American Economic Review, Vol. 71, No. 3, (June 1981), pp. 295-306. citation courtesy of
Monetary Policy and Long-Term Interest Rates: An Efficient Markets Approach
Published: Mishkin, Frederic S. "Monetary Policy and Long-Term Interest Rates: An Efficient Markets Approach." Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, (January 1981), pp. 1-27. citation courtesy of
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J Phycol. 2019 Dec 26. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12961. [Epub ahead of print]
Integrative approach reveals four new cryptic species in the genus Gayliella (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta).
Gomes FP1, Maggs CA2, de Barros-Barreto MBB3.
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, BT9 7BL, N., Ireland.
Laboratório de Ficologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Professor Rodolpho P. Rocco 211, bloco A, 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The filamentous red algal genus Gayliella, typified by G. flaccida, was segregated from Ceramium for a group of epiphytic species on the basis of morphological data and molecular phylogenetic analyses. However, while the genus was well investigated in some geographical areas, the treatment of the Brazilian taxa "Ceramium flaccidum" and "C. dawsonii" was incomplete and they were not transferred to Gayliella due to the problematic status of the specific epithets. Brazilian "C. flaccidum" did not fit within the circumscription of Gayliella flaccida; Brazilian "C. dawsonii" was positioned in three distinct lineages, none of which corresponded to known Gayliella species. Since the establishment of Gayliella, there has been no re-evaluation of Brazilian species, so this study revises the genus in Brazil using molecular and morphological data. Brazilian "C. flaccidum", "C. dawsonii" and other Brazilian collections were investigated by an integrative approach using phylogenetic analysis, genetic divergence, two species delimitation methods using three molecular markers (rbcL, cox1 and partial LSU) and comparative morphological and quantitative analyses. This molecular-assisted alpha taxonomy (MAAT) analysis placed Brazilian samples in five distinct well-supported lineages. For these, we propose a new combination, Gayliella dawsonii comb. nov. (lineage 2), based on analysis of type specimens and molecular data obtained from specimens collected near the type locality, and four new species: Gayliella ardissonei sp. nov. ("Ceramium flaccidum" from Brazil), G. iemanja sp. nov. ("C. dawsonii" lineage 3), G. tamoiensis sp. nov. and G. jolyana sp. nov. ("C. dawsonii" lineage 1).
© 2019 Phycological Society of America.
Ceramieae; LSU; cox1; molecular; morphology; rbcL; species delimitation
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Florida deacon says he was 'drummed out' of Catholic church
by Dan Morris-Young
Deacon Norman Carroll at a mission and retreat at St. Matthew Church in Baltimore (Courtesy of Mary Moran)
Norman Carroll says he is an Episcopal deacon today rather than a Roman Catholic one -- as he had been for nearly 35 years -- largely because he had a one-on-one conversation on Feb. 26, 2013, with a man who insisted that Carroll state his personal view on the Catholic church's doctrine on the ordination of women.
Carroll told the man he felt the church had the authority to ordain women and that Pope John Paul II's apostolic teaching on the ordination of women was not infallible.
His view was reported to Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski. A week later, on March 6, Wenski told Carroll's pastor to "instruct him [Carroll] that he is not to present himself for any diaconal ministries" and to "make an appointment ... to see me."
On the same date, Wenski corresponded with a parishioner of St. John Neumann Parish in Reston, Va., who had apparently been the person who complained about Carroll's mission presentation at the church.
"The deacon in spouting off on ways to reject the guidance of the Church in the formation of one's conscience was basically talking out of his depth and obviously beyond his competence," Wenski wrote.
He added, "I can appreciate the intemperate remarks of a deacon would cause you and others some scandal. I would hope that you would not confuse what he said with church teaching and therefore not allow his personal opinions to undermine your Catholic faith."
In the letter to the parishioner, Wenski said it was "my understanding that Deacon Norm Carroll was forbidden by my predecessor from preaching any missions" because Carroll had a "history of making confused and confusing representations of Catholic teaching."
St. John Neumann's pastor, Oblate Fr. Thomas Murphy, told NCR that he recalled Carroll's Lenten retreat of last year on the theme of the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Murphy said it was well-received, and did not recall "anything out of the ordinary."
Carroll and Fr. Roger Holoubek, pastor of St. Maurice Parish in Dania Beach, Fla., where Carroll served for the past 27 years, met with Wenski on April 9, 2013. One outcome was the mandate that Carroll forward materials he uses in his retreat and mission programs to Wenski. Carroll has directed some 200 retreats and missions since 1996.
The 81-year-old Carroll, who holds a Doctor of Ministry degree, told NCR that he had never been suspended by Miami Archbishop John Favalora, who retired in 2010. Carroll said that if there is a file of complaints about his teaching, it has not been shared with him, and that the parishioner's letter of complaint was never shown to him.
Efforts to contact Favalora and the parishioner were unsuccessful. Miami archdiocesan communications director Mary Ross Agosta declined comment, other than to say the archdiocese "does not play out personnel issues in the media."
Carroll charges lack of due process, lack of opportunity to respond to accusations, absence of a chance for fraternal dialogue, and that "church governance too often does not reflect what Jesus, our founder, stood for."
In a Dec. 20, 2013, letter to Carroll, Wenski said he was willing to meet with him to discuss a route for the deacon's return to active ministry "as well as the history of the complaints concerning your teaching ministry."
Carroll, however, says that he has "been drummed out of the Catholic church." On March 30, he joined St. Benedict's Episcopal Church in Plantation, Fla.
In a Feb. 3 letter to Carroll, Wenski had repeated willingness to meet with Carroll "to discuss some kind of remedial action plan" to correct the deacon's "serious deficiencies and errors of teaching."
Wenski wrote that he had "not given much thought as to what remedial actions might be necessary" and that he was "open to discussing such a course of action with you."
However, a Dec. 20, 2013, letter to Carroll from the archdiocese's vicar general and chancellor for canonical affairs, Msgr. Chanel Jeanty, stated: "A restoration of ... faculties will be considered when a petition has been received from you or your current pastor and the necessary evaluation made after you have satisfactorily completed a remedial theological program to address the deficiencies in your theological understanding of some of the teachings of the Church as indicated to you in the letter from Archbishop Wenski dated Dec. 20, 2013."
Those "deficiencies and errors" were the conclusions of Msgr. José Juan Quijano, who reviewed the retreat and missions content forwarded by Carroll at Wenski's request. Quijano is a doctoral-level theology teacher at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fla.
In the Dec. 20 letter, Wenski thanked Carroll for his patience and told him that Quijano found in the deacon's work "heresy, several errors, mistakes and confusing statements that can mislead and misguide the People of God."
Wenski concluded, "This judgment is about a faulty work product and a deficient articulation of the truths of faith. It is not about you or your personal integrity, or even your own commitment and fidelity to the faith of our baptism. I know this is not the result you wished for or even perhaps expected. Nevertheless, I ask you to accept it in a spirit of docility and communion."
In a written narrative summarizing his view of the past year's events, Carroll said Quijano's "critique needs critique," but he was not permitted that opportunity.
In a Jan. 14 letter, Carroll said much the same to Wenski: "I appreciate your sincere offer to meet with me, and still request such a meeting despite your precipitous effective decision to suspend me indefinitely. I do trust, however, that in this meeting you ... will provide me the opportunity to respond in the spirit of due process to the multi-pronged critique of my … materials although your letter indicates you did not forward to me the full text of Msgr. Quijano's critique."
In a lengthy March 6 letter to Wenski, Carroll summarized much of the previous year's exchanges and events, and underscored that their roots were a private conversation on women's ordination. Carroll said his accuser based his criticism on "the non-collegial, non-infallible opinion of Pope John Paul II."
Wenski bristled. He wrote to Carroll March 13 that he was "disappointed that your letter gives no indication that you are open to any remedial education that would help address the lacunae in your understanding of Catholic teaching -- evidenced by your dismissive characterization of the teaching of Blessed John Paul II on the inadmissibility of women to Sacred Orders as 'opinion.' "
"It is also not correct to say that in '27 years of preaching and teaching' you have never received any criticism, but only accolades. Your file is filled with complaints that long predate my coming to the Archdiocese," Wenski wrote, adding: "If you wish, you may ask Msgr. Jeanty for an appointment and he would be happy to allow you to review the rather large file of complaints and concerns."
Carroll told NCR that he declined further training.
"I have never violated any teaching of the magisterium. If I could be shown where I have taught error, I would have rescinded and changed my teaching accordingly," he wrote in an email. "Priestly advisors -- including a former pastor of 13 years -- have told me I have not ever taught heresy and should not return for classwork. Because of the long delay already, I have no indication that even after another year of training I would even then be allowed to resume. And, to request such of me when my pastors of 27 years and untold numbers of parishioners applaud my didactic and homiletic efforts seems untoward. ... I believe I have always been orthodox as well as updated."
Asked if he had considered a canonical appeal of Wenski's suspension, Carroll said he had spoken to several canon lawyers. "They told me that priests have very little defense in matters such as these, and deacons have even less," he said. "So between that and the rather prohibitive costs" he rejected the idea.
"And," he pointed out, "I am 81."
[Dan Morris-Young is an NCR West Coast correspondent. His email address is dmyoung@ncronline.org.]
This story appeared in the May 9-22, 2014 print issue under the headline: Deacon says he was 'drummed out' .
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Editorial: Who watches the shepherds who watch over the sheep? Us.
Catholics believe in God but 'don't believe in us,' Archbishop Wenski says
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Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
Roger Welsch
Foreword by Dick Cavett
One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: “Why am I an only child?” His father’s answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple retellings, these coarse tales were even delivered by such prudish sources as Welsch’s stern and fearsome German great-aunts. Speaking of cucumbers and sausages in a toast to a newly married couple, the prim and proper women of Welsch’s memory voice the obscene and unspeakable in stories fit for general company. Why I’m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales is Welsch’s celebration of the gentle and evocative bits of humor reflecting the personality of the people of the Plains.
Roger Welsch is a retired professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning. He is the author of more than forty books, including A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore (Nebraska, 1966), My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker (Nebraska, 2011), and most recently, The Reluctant Pilgrim: A Skeptic’s Journey into Native Mysteries (Nebraska, 2015). Dick Cavett is the former talk-show host of The Dick Cavett Show. Originally from Nebraska, he was a writer for The Tonight Show for host Johnny Carson and won three Emmy awards throughout his career.
"Very, very funny."—Julie Henigan, Journal of Folklore Research
"As a playfully analytical look at our human penchant for the "slightly naughty" this one, like all Welsch's other collections of Plains stories, is a delight."—Nancy S. Gillis, Nebraska History
"Roger Welsch is a superb writer and folklorist for the same reasons that he was a superb classroom teacher in our German class back in 1958. He has mastered his subject, he admires and respects his audience, he has an extraordinary sense of humor, and he is a thoroughly gifted storyteller."—Dwayne Strasheim, Great Plains Quarterly
“Roger Welsch is a funny man. He is also dead serious about making sure the traditions of his Nebraska homeland are not soon forgotten. . . . Place Roger Welsch securely in the good company of American regionalists whose catalog of life works spans the nuts and bolts of a life well told. . . . Whether your copy sits by your bedside or toilet, on your coffee table or tractor seat, buy it, read it, and by all means share it.”—Elaine Eff, Maryland folklorist
“Roger Welsch has his finger firmly on the pulse of rural Plains humor because it’s his own pulse. He knows this tradition from a life spent where it happens—in the field, the tavern, the church hall, and the pickup cab—and his ear is perfectly attuned to catch its modest, ribald hilarity.”—Tim Lloyd, executive director of the American Folklore Society
“I don’t know which I admire more, Roger Welsch’s life style or his prose style.”—Chris Porterfield, writer for Time magazine, author, and producer
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Why I’m an Only Child
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Cather's Kitchens
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Dance Lodges of the Omaha People
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Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse
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Decani and cantoris
Nicholas Temperley
The two halves of the choir (in an architectural sense) in an English cathedral or a large church or chapel: decani is the south side, cantoris the north. The names mean ‘dean’s [side]’, ‘cantor’s [side]’, and refer to the two highest officials of the chapter of a medieval cathedral. The Cantor, or precentor, ranked immediately after the dean in secular cathedral establishments. The dean’s stall was at the west end of the choir, facing east, just to the south of the central aisle; the cantor’s was opposite, north of the aisle. For certain duties the choir (in a musical sense) was also divided into two equal halves. The singers on the dean’s side – decani – took the leading part one week, those on the cantor’s side – cantoris – the next; during the seasons of the three great festivals the alternation was daily. Psalms, canticles and hymns were sung in alternation between the two halves. Together with much other Latin terminology, the names survived the Reformation, and have been used ever since in cathedral music to signify the two halves of the choir....
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[bin bādy]
In Cambodia, the primary classical ensemble played at court ceremonies, some Buddhist festivals, to accompany the large shadow theatre, masked drama, and dance drama. Both the ensemble and its name are closely related to similar ensembles in Thailand (piphat) and Laos (sep nyai/piphat). Ensembles vary in size from minimal (five instruments) to large. A basic ensemble consists of ...
Seises
(Sp. ‘sixes’)
From the 16th century to the 19th, the choirboys who sang polyphony in the cathedrals of Seville, Toledo, Avila, Segovia, Mexico City, Lima and elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world were called seises – six being their traditional number at Seville and Toledo cathedrals. The earliest papal bulls designating the income from a prebend for a master of the choirboys in Seville Cathedral were Eugene IV’s Ad exequendum (24 September 1439) and Nicolas V’s Votis illis (27 June 1454). Throughout the next three centuries Seville Cathedral (which set the pattern for the Spanish Indies) had both a master of the altar boys who sang only plainchant, and a master of the seises, generally the maestro de capilla or his deputy. The master of the seises boarded and taught them. When their voices changed, and upon receiving a certificate of good behaviour, they were entitled to a few years’ free tuition and other benefits in the Colegio de S Miguel or in the Colegio de S Isidoro maintained by the Sevillian Chapter. Similar ...
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Solution to electronic media issues: Notification to form task force soon: Pemra chairman
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ISLAMABAD: Pemra is constituting a task force for resolving issues pertaining to electronic media industry by reviewing existing Pemra laws and recommending appropriate proposals in this regard.
This task force would have representation of all the stakeholders including satellite TV, FM radios as well as that of media regulator. Formal notification of this task force will be issued, shortly. Mandate of this task force would be to identify issues and problems, electronic media industry facing currently and propose their solution. Muhmmad Saleem Baig, Chairman Pemra in an exclusive interview to the Jang Group on Friday afternoon expressed his firm commitment to uphold Authority’ mandate by facilitating development and growth of media industry and for the purpose task force being constituted that would review all Pemra laws with the intent to make these laws in consonance with the established international practices and to ensure level playing field for all the stakeholders. Proposed amendments would help investors in bringing latest technologies in electronic media boosting quality of programming.
Chairman Pemra further explained that Pemra is endeavoring to introduce regulatory regime and laws for Web TV and OTT (Over the Top) platforms. For the purpose, first draft has been shared with all the stakeholders so that new law is finalised in consultation with all the stakeholders.
Muhammad Saleem Baig acknowledged the hard time electronic media industry of Pakistan is facing and difficulties emerging thereof. He informed that task force constituted has been mandated to furnish suggestions for extending appropriate relief to the stakeholders within 30 days. Pemra being a regulator is committed not only to ensure but also to protect livelihood of the individuals associated with media industry.
Chairman Pemra had also expressed same sentiments before the members of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) with the firm resolve to avail all possible opportunities for redressing the issues, industry is facing for the last few years. While responding to a question, chairman Pemra informed that consultative process is underway with Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for finalizing laws for OTT and Web TV. In this regard a meeting with Chairman PTA Maj Gen (R) Amir Azeem Bajwa is also scheduled. Besides, meeting with Chairman FBR will also be scheduled in the coming days in orders to chalk out workable solution for issues pertaining to finances and tax related matters of electronic media industry.
Chairman Pemra Muhammad Saleem Baig also shared a proposal for digitalization of cable TV networks with the cable TV operators to overcome financial and technical impediments towards digitalization. For the purpose, consultations with multinational companies and financial institutions will be carried out so that probability of easy loan facilities could be ensured to cable TV operators across the country for accelerating process of digitalization through advance technology. In this regard, all cable TV operators’ representative associations are being approached in order to build consensus on this proposal leading to digitalization of cable industry in Pakistan, bringing the country among the list to developed nations.
He further vowed that digitalization would be reckoned as a landmark in the history of electronic media industry of Pakistan. Digitalization will provide platform to more than 250 satellite TV channels in Pakistan and generate employments to thousands of skilled and unskilled youth.
While responding to a question Chairman Pemra appreciated positive role of private electronic media during the recent tension between India and Pakistan on Kashmir. This positive role of private electronic media was also acknowledged by the civil and military bureaucracy. He said that private electronic media in Pakistan is showing maturity contrary to that of Indian channels which are following mere jingoism, provoking viewer’s sentiments for their vested interests. Private electronic media in Pakistan has not only becomes voice of innocent people of Indian Occupied Kashmir but also spreading tales of plight of Kashmiri brothers and sisters and that of Indian aggression /atrocities to the world through their channels. Pakistani TV channels unequivocally have emerged as true representative of Kashmiris.
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Owner said pub not linked to violent box cutter attack
The owner of downtown pub is upset that it was presented in court that his establishment was in anyway linked to a recent violent crime.
Bryan Gipson, owner of Clancy’s Pub, said he decided to come forward to set the record straight that what was presented in court last week differs from what he saw the evening that an alleged incident took place where a man was injured with a box cutter.
“We have had a few people coming in and asking what happened and have the assumption that something that happened inside of here provoked (the alleged attacker), but that wasn’t the case,” said Gipson. “It is upsetting to hear it was said there was an altercation at Clancy’s Pub. Outside maybe something happened I don’t know, but definitely nothing happened inside that night. I don’t want people thinking this is the place where fights break out.”
Dayne Douglas Jones, 27, is facing charges of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and one count of willfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer relating to events that occurred on Dec. 14. It is alleged Jones attacked a delivery person, Brian Booth, from Canadian 2 For 1 Pizza with a box cutter causing substantial injuries to the man’s face and hands.
A search warrant obtained by the Penticton Western News notes that police attended apartment 205 at 786 West Westminster Ave. on Dec. 15 and “observed blood on the ground and on the door of the apartment.”
“Jones answered the door and was arrested inside. Blood could be seen throughout the apartment as well as on Jones,” the warrant states.
A box cutter, a black winter jacket with blood on it were seized along with bloody towels, a canvas painting with blood on it and a bar of soap with blood drops according to the document. The document states that the jacket was in plain view on the floor upon entry to the apartment when Jones was arrested, as well as the box cutter which was found in plain view “observed in the washroom with blood on it.”
The information to obtain document filed by Cst. Liam McCready of the RCMP says that McCready attended the hospital on Dec. 14 after a man had come in who had been attacked with a box cutter. Multiple DNA swabs were taken from the area surround the door to Jones’ apartment.
During the bail hearing last week, Crown counsel said Jones alleged he had been in an altercation earlier in the evening and may have lost his wallet at that time and that was why he didn’t have money the first time the delivery driver came to his apartment door. It was on the second request to Canadian 2 For 1 Pizza when Jones allegedly stabbed Booth with a box cutter.
Defence counsel for Jones, James Pennington said at the bail hearing “all the evidence” points to an altercation inside of Jones’ apartment, contrary to what Booth told RCMP. And he added it could be an issue of self-defence and trespass to property.
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(Lord’s day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and do plainly see that her distaste (which is beginning now in her again) against Ashwell arises from her jealousy of me and her, and my neglect of herself, which indeed is true, and I to blame; but for the time to come I will take care to remedy all.
So up and to church, where I think I did see Pembleton, whatever the reason is I did not perceive him to look up towards my wife, nor she much towards him; however, I could hardly keep myself from being troubled that he was there, which is a madness not to be excused now that his coming to my house is past, and I hope all likelyhood of her having occasion to converse with him again.
Home to dinner, and after dinner up and read part of the new play of “The Five Houres’ Adventures,” which though I have seen it twice; yet I never did admire or understand it enough, it being a play of the greatest plot that ever I expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play, from beginning to the end.
To church again after dinner (my wife finding herself ill … did not go), and there the Scot preaching I slept most of the sermon.
This day Sir W. Batten’s son’s child is christened in the country, whither Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen are all gone. I wonder, and take it highly ill that I am not invited by the father, though I know his father and mother, with whom I am never likely to have much kindness, but rather I study the contrary, are the cause of it, and in that respect I am glad of it. Being come from church, I to make up my month’s accounts, and find myself clear worth 726l., for which God be praised, but yet I might have been better by 20l. almost had I forborne some layings out in dancing and other things upon my wife, and going to plays and other things merely to ease my mind as to the business of the dancing-master, which I bless God is now over and I falling to my quiet of mind and business again, which I have for a fortnight neglected too much.
This month the greatest news is, the height and heat that the Parliament is in, in enquiring into the revenue, which displeases the Court, and their backwardness to give the King any money. Their enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many among the chief, my Lord Chancellor (against whom particularly it is carried), and Mr. Coventry; for which I am sorry. The King of France was given out to be poisoned and dead; but it proves to be the measles: and he is well, or likely to be soon well again.
I find myself growing in the esteem and credit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my business again will confirm me in it, and the saving of money which God grant!
So to supper, prayers, and bed.
My whole family lying longer this morning than was fit, and besides Will having neglected to brush my clothes, as he ought to do, till I was ready to go to church, and not then till I bade him, I was very angry, and seeing him make little matter of it, but seeming to make it a matter indifferent whether he did it or no, I did give him a box on the ear, and had it been another day should have done more. This is the second time I ever struck him.
Sat 30 May 1663
Mon 1 Jun 1663
TerryF on 31 May 2006 • Link
"(my wife finding herself ill . . . . did not go),"
L&M: "(my wife finding herself ill of her months did not go),"
instancing again language hat's annotation of 21 May:
“month” as period:
That sense usually takes the plural; the OED cites this from the Diary:
1664 S. PEPYS Diary 27 Sept. V. 281 My wife having.. her months upon her, is gone to bed.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/05/21/#c50883
jeannine on 31 May 2006 • Link
"I slept most of the sermon"
John 8:1 1-11 reminds us that we should "Let the one without sin cast the first stone".... so any never slept through a sermon sin free volunteers to comment on this? I doubt it.
Robert Gertz on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
"...but for the time to come I will take care to remedy all..." Hmmn?
One wonders how our boy will "remedy all"?
An intense course of passionate lovemaking? Cheap anyway. And it would help to keep him away from Fleet Alley.
A new and fashionably extravagant dress? Oh, please...We're talking about Samuel Pepys here. Still he has grudgingly broken the piggy bank for her clothes once or twice...And summer clothes were in the works.
More playgoing? He'd certainly appreciate the excuse to cancel his vows.
A little travel and adventure? We'd certainly appreciate the chance to follow them.
Perhaps you should take a note from your new favorite author, Sam. "He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will." (Samuel Tuke, "The Adventure of Five Hours".)
Black-balled from the Batten bash...
But Sam, there is, after all, no "Sir" in front of your name...
To be fair about Sam's grumbling over the 20Ls spent on "things merely to ease my mind as to the business of the dancing-master..."(only in part on Bess) it does represent a fairly hefty chunk of cash, nearly half his old salary as Exchequer clerk.
Australian Susan on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Christening parties were an important part of the social fabric and for Sam to be so pointedly excluded from this one (all his neighbours are asked) shows us that his continued self-righteousness about Batten, Penn & Minnes being incompetent at work has its consequences in other areas. Such parties were a good chance to do what we would now term quality networking.
Sleeping through sermons seem to be the only instance we have of Sam having an afternoon nap, despite the often rigorous hours he habitually keeps. Wonder if he is the only one napping or not? I see a picture of their being a general move to get comfy in one's pew preparatory to dozing once the congregation has seen who is mounting to the pulpit, copious notes in hand. Wonder what the poor man thought of this reaction? Perhaps he was just grateful to get the chance to preach.
"My whole family"
Sam uses the expression for his household, servants and all: a medieval conceit still extant. Gradually over the next two hundred years, servants and true family separated out until we arrive at the Edwardian period in Britain when the gap was the largest and country houses were built with parallel staircases and hidden passages so servants need not pollute the sight of their betters.
TerryF on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
“I slept most of the sermon”
Jeannine, alas, this is the Scot who has bored SP twice before; and the 1662 Lectionary for today. the Sunday after Ascension-Day, prescibes a text that permits an elctrifying application...or not.
The Gospel. St. John 15. 26, and part of Chapter 16.
"WHEN the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them." http://www.eskimo.com/~lhowell/bcp1662/communion/…
Paul Chapin on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Will Hewer
The last two sentences of this entry make it clear that Will Hewer did indeed have servant's duties in Sam's household, a topic of discussion in the annotations to the 29 March and 23 April entries on which I yielded too soon, I now think. And contra IAS's concluding comment on the 23 April entry, it seems Mr. Hewer was not even exempt from cuffing.
Sorry to be a pedent, but TerryF has referred to the Gospel reading for the Communion service for the Sunday after Ascension Day. Sam would have been attending Evening Prayer (aka Evensong) when he went to sleep and the Lesson appointed for that Sunday service on that day is Deuteronomy Chapter 13. This concerns the dangers of false prophets and those who come to "secretly entice you" - I think we could give instances where this has happened to Sam! It concludes by commanding the listeners to keep the commandments and to do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
andy on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Their enquiring into the selling of places
are these geographical places or positions/titles (vide current debate in UK over selling of political honours including membership of House of Lords?
It's interesting that Sam draws no connection between Chancellor Hyde's and Mr. Coventry's woes to his own acceptance of fees for granting clerkships- I believe he took 100Ls for Will Hewer's position among others. Of course the jobs are of much less import and he is...Or was...a much smaller fish.
Will seems to be learning bad habits from his employer's disdain of his superiors. I think, apart from his own Puritan streak of independence, it's clear he wants to follow Sam's example and be regarded as an important member of the staff, not an ordinary fellow to be assigned clothes brushing and other such servile duties. It's a mixed message you're sending, Samuel.
Bryan M on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Not the best of days…
Awake, lay long in bed listening to wife complaining about Ashwell. These jealous women!
Rest of household lying in like a bunch of layabout lords.
Will hasn’t brushed clothes. Humph, mutter. WHACK!
To church. P-P-PEMBLETON!
Lunch and finally some peace reading new play.
Interrupted by wife advising no church for her this afternoon. Ill with her … (so no … for Sam).
To church. The boring Scot. Pretend to sleep in embarrassingly empty Naval Office pew. All the Sirs at christening, only Pepys Esq not invited.
Thoughts turn to other office matters. The esteemed Coventry in hot water. King being squeezed by parliament, ergo King will squeeze navy (King will also squeeze Lady Castlemaine but not in the same way. No … for Sam though, wife ill with …)
Home and make up month’s accounts. Burned 20l. That @*%!& dancing master.
To bed (but no … for Sam, wife ill with …)
My bet is that young Will spent most of the day hiding out in the house of offices. "Sorry Mr Pepys. Just took my physique Mr Pepys".
Rex Gordon on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
To Australian Susan -
I tried to e-mail you directly the other day about your reference to Thomas Pynchon's early novel, a favorite of mine, but it returned to me "server unknown" and undeliverable. Have you a new address? Please reply.
Todd Bernhardt on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Nice summation, Bryan M! (I particularly like "P-P-PEMBLETON!")
Perhaps you should contribute to "The story so far" section? :-)
Douglas Robertson on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
"This is the second time I ever struck" Will Hewer:
The first time having been on 8 June 1662, the date of Will's infamous "cloak-over-the-shoulder" transgression.
Tom Burns on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
A Rich Man?
So how rich is Sam, anyway? I know that compared to a peasant, he's well-off, but is he constantly worrying about money because he's avaricious or because he's concerned that he may not be able to maintain his lifestyle?
I used the website http://eh.net/hmit/ppowerbp/ to get an estimate of the worth of 727 pounds from 1663 in 2005. The value I got was approximately 65,000 pounds. So this is about a year or two's salary for a government functionary in England today?
Maybe Sam is rightly worried about his financial well-being. In his time, there was no health or life insurance (or was there?).
Mary on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Much of Sam's concern must be to make money whilst he can. In a society where 'fashions' in people and ideas can come and go at short notice, he needs to establish a solid position whilst, for example, Sandwich remains in good odour. Hence his concern not with his own reputation alone, but also with that of the Duke of York and other possible factions at Court. Hence also his concern at not being invited to the christening of Batten's grandson; Sam feels little respect for the man, but knows that he cannot yet easily afford to be openly snubbed by him in this way. His own reputation and his growing financial competence are his only form of insurance against possible hard times.
No need to apologize, Australian Susan: I was napping.
jeannine on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
A Rich Man, and what about the "Rich Man's Wife"
While Sam is able to earn a living, Elizabeth is totally dependent and not a wage earner. Her role is to keep the home. If Sam dies first, what happens to the widow?
Antonia Fraser in "The Weaker Vessel" tells us that
"City wives were particularly well treated; by Custom of London a wife had the right to one third of her husband's property at death, and if there were no children, their one third also (p. 5)... Even for the less priviledged, widow's rights were one area where the law was by no means unfavourable to women as it was elsewhere. For those outside the wealthier world of the marriage settlement made in advance of the ceremony [Elizabeth for instance??], there existed the traditional widow's 'thirds', that is, a third share in the husband's estate which under common law was her due. A widow's inheritance could take many forms, some of which could enable her to make a convenient second marriage on her own terms if she so wished, while others allowed her a position of her own in commercial society." (p. 97).
Note that in the case of Uncle Robert's will, he specifically excluded his second wife Ann Trice, due to allegeded fraud in that marriage and that added to the encumbrances on the estate and Sam's headaches.
in Aqua Scripto on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Re: accumulating wealth. Income was not guarranteed.
Need 10 times annual normal expenses.[at 7 or 8 interest rates] In one of Descartes essays, he is glad that he had enough funds to enjoy his brain, and that allowed him to think out his famous words.
Retirement was not an option for most,[by 60, thee be one over the odds]. It be like a modern sports guy, only a few years to get funds together else it be the highway then the gibbet. If thy notice, they did not retain their employees for long, so thee saved thy pennies to have a small business, if thy was in the employ of the more affluent. If thy were made redundant by being burnt out or be a victim of strife, if thee had some luck left then thee sold posies or rested up in the poor house.
People believe that they can be working til 60 plus but in reality, most, if they have not got their money for life by 40, they be eating cat food.
That be why the preoccupation with accumulation, Thee never knew when thee be rusticated. Remember the 2000 plus preachers now trying to find a place at speakers corner, or even Sandwich was forced to watch the Milkmaids.
Sam's Pa, he be one of the lucky ones, thanks to a brother [never rely on relatives for life income see poor old Eliza's Mama and Papa], other wise it be the doss house.
And it has not changed in spite of the publicity of how well off people be.
Then the Ffeeffes look after the less fortunate and still do.
" wot" goes up, comes down with a thump.
There were at least 6 residences for those that failed to pay their bills, due to being not in the money.
"because he’s avaricious or because he’s concerned that he may not be able to maintain his lifestyle"
Just read the dailies at the House of C. to see that life be rosy for the usual few, all others get out the paper squares for protection.
"it seems Mr. Hewer was not even exempt from cuffing" Yep, sad but true, one in the employ of a better was never exempt from physical chastisement.
It was known that the stocks were available for more serious offenses like taking a discarded piny, and as for the military, a hundred lashes were available for telling thy better to go and do an impossibilty on 'imself.
Re: Hewer's paycheck be from the Office and as he be under the acts of apprenticeship, received all the benefits due that is learn respect, put away thy toys etc..
Hewer got off light for his act of insubordination, Sam be push over.
PHE on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Re: Pembleton: "now that his coming to my house is past, and I hope all likelyhood of her having occasion to converse with him again".
Have I missed something? While I can see all the recent jealousy, I can not see a point where it was decided to stop his coming.
Last Wednesday 27 May, Pembleton was paid off
"my wife paid him off for this month also, and so he is cleared." but Samuel is not, since "After dancing we took him down to supper, and were very merry, and I made myself so, and kind to him as much as I could, to prevent his discourse, though I perceive to my trouble that he knows all, and may do me the disgrace to publish it as much as he can. Which I take very ill, and if too much provoked shall witness it to her." http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/05/27/
Lurker on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
Rex Gordon: Did you remove the "NOSPAM" bit?
Don McCahill on 1 Jun 2006 • Link
are these geographical places or positions/titles
I suspect these would be selling positions of influence in the court. Later (I'm not sure at this time) military and naval commissions were sold on the open market. The same was probably true in the civil service at the time.
Salary was not the way one made money in those days, as you may have noticed with Sam. Gifts, bribes, and "fees" for doing what was really ones job all totalled up to make many positions quite lucrative. The more money that could be made from a position, the more it could be sold for.
It is interesting that Parliament is not opposed to this graft. Instead they want the King to revert to the practise of giving these positions away to his friends and cronies, instead of selling them to the highest bidder.
Why? Because Parliament controls the purse strings of the nation, and they are a little miffed that Charles has discovered an independent source of income.
Perks be the word for post involving the transfer of funds/materials or government job "Gifts, bribes, and “fees” for doing what was really ones job all totalled up to make many positions quite lucrative."
Laws be written to make it tres dificile for the up and coming to lubricate their future. Why does a man seek a publick office and spend 10 X or more times the annual income for the position that is officially worth x. PRESTIGE? ALTRUISM? to make the little lady happy when she says 'my man be the BLAH BLAH of BLINK'
Neigh Then it was the norm to speed up the process of processing, building certificate for a new Mansion House with soe low drag polished silver and gold. We love having the serge covering our eyes.
For EG, go to Cobul to get cheap usb memories or any other location that has surplus toilets.
Ye want oars for thy wherry, I'm sure that they could be had in a shed at the back of the Halfway house.
Terry Foreman on 24 Jan 2015 • Link
"This day Sir W. Batten’s son’s child is christened in the country"
At Walthamstow, Essex; the child's father was William, elder son of Sir William. The child, too, was named William. (L&M footnote)
GrannieAnnie on 1 Jun 2016 • Link
"This is the second time I ever struck him."
Is Sam just keeping track of black marks in Will's Performance Record? No, I read into this that Sam is perhaps feeling some guilt, maybe even justifying to himself that he has only hit Will twice.
Sasha Clarkson on 1 Jun 2016 • Link
As has been regularly observed in these annotations, corporal punishment was an everyday part of life in Pepys' day, and indeed for most of British and European history. The Penal system reflected this.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Punishment…
Sam was in the King's service rather than in a trade, but Will's status was very similar to that of an apprentice living in the house of his master. "Excessive chastisement" was cause for the Lord Mayor's court to terminate an apprenticeship, but the term shows that some sort of chastisement was the norm. So Sam will not have been feeling guilty merely for hitting Will: indeed he felt that Will had neglected his duties., The "second time ever" is a comment the Will had been very diligent up to now. The relationship between Sam and Will will changes soon, but their lifelong friendship post diary tells its own story. We must judge people by the standards of their own day, if at all.
An extreme case of (alleged) excessive punishment which came before the Mayor's court in 1695 is given in the link below:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/londo…
Chris Squire UK on 4 Jun 2016 • Link
Price indices for converting between 1660 and 2014:
Income or Wealth:
historic standard of living = real price = RPI/GDP deflator = 120
economic status value = income value = per capita GDP = 5,200
economic power value = share of GDP = 29,000
Taken and simplified from https://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/ via http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/317/
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Home / News / Jack on track: recording news, album releases and a new concerto world premiere
Jack on track: recording news, album releases and a new concerto world premiere
Today marks the release by Albion Records of Time and Space, a delightful chamber album of songs by Holst and Vaughan Williams featuring Jack Liebeck alongside Mary Bevan, Roderick Williams and William Vann, and including Vaughan Williams' rarely heard song cycle Along the Field for voice and violin.
Thoughts around the passage of time are a recurring feature of Jack’s world as he approaches his 40th year in 2020. The release of Time and Space coincides with Jack’s return to the studio next week to record the Brahms and Schoenberg violin concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay. The album will be released on Orchid Classics next Spring to mark Jack’s next decade - for inspiration he looked both to his past and his future in his programming:
“Brahms’ concerto is one of the pinnacles of the violin repertoire and, as I enter my fortieth year, now seems to be the moment to record my grandfather’s favourite violin concerto. In the search for a suitable companion to the Brahms, I decided to look for something that would complement not just the music, but also put into some context my reason for entering the studio. I decided to focus on the seldom performed or recorded Schoenberg Violin Concerto (1934-36). Schoenberg, forced from Germany into exile in California a year before my grandfather’s own exile and settlement in Cape Town, wrote the violin concerto shortly after his arrival. Musically, the concerto seems to follow naturally on from the idiom of the Brahms… there is a troubled depth and darkness throughout much of the concerto, its harshness and great beauty mingle in an incredible dialogue between violin and orchestra. One can feel the turbulent atmosphere of the 1930s distilled into the music.” (Jack Liebeck)
Jack’s love and pursuit of scientific connections through his music, has led to the commissioning of a second new concerto and collaborative concert experience with Professor Brian Cox and conductor Daniel Harding. Paul Dean’s new concerto written for Jack, A Brief History of Time, is in memory of Professor Stephen Hawking and forms the centrepiece of immersive concert experience A Symphonic Universe, which will be given its world premiere by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the three friends on 15 November 2019. The three first collaborated for the commissioning of Dario Marianelli’s Voyager concerto.
Also on 15 November, album Raptures is released worldwide. In high demand as a composer for film, television and the concert hall, Stuart Hancock’s credits include everything from the score to BBC1’s fantasy drama Atlantis to the BASCA British Composer Award-winning Snapshot Songs. Jack’s love of the early Hollywood composers, and his prior film soundtrack work including The Theory of Everything, Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina, make Jack the perfect soloist to perform the world premiere recording of Stuart’s violin concerto. For more information about Raptures and to pre-order the album visit Orchid Classics.
Jack’s long-term chamber collaborations through his festivals and other work, have resulted in the launch of the Salieca Piano Trio: Jack, Amandine Savary and Thomas Carroll look forward to its Wigmore Hall debut next summer.
Jack launches his New Year performing Vivaldi The Four Seasons with Professor Brian Cox as part of the launch of Kings Place’s Nature Unwrapped series. In this illustrated talk, Professor Brian Cox will discuss the seasons, why they happen, what they mean, and the more fundamental concepts of how time passes.
These reflections will be mirrored by soloist Jack Liebeck and friends in a performance of the most famous musical evocation, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Join Brian, Jack and friends for an evening of fascinating facts, insights and images, united by wonderful music. "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself." (Professor Brian Cox). Jack and friends return to Nature Unwrapped with a programme From the Haunted Forest next May.
We are delighted to welcome Wildkat PR to Jack’s team, Wildkat will work alongside us for Jack’s new release and if you’d like to talk to Jack about the album, please contact George Percy.
To book Jack, or to talk about ideas, please call Libby Percival. For more information about Jack Liebeck please visit his website or click here; you can also follow him on Twitter. Jack contiues to inspire students through his teaching at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Business as usual despite American Airlines bankruptcy, says Qantas
Neil WilsonNews Corp Australia
QANTAS passengers travelling to the US have been advised that today's voluntary bankruptcy of key code-share partner American Airlines will have no short-term impact on their shared services.
American Airlines, which connects Qantas passengers with 400 North American destinations from its major Dallas-Fort Worth hub, filed for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy overnight but will continue operating its schedules as usual.
The problems for the OneWorld partner come just months after regulatory authorities approved the formal tie-up with Qantas, which is a key part of the strategy of Australia's flag-carrier extending its worldwide network to make it more competitive.
A Qantas spokesman said today the airline had been advised that AA, owned by AMR, would operate normally for now.
It is less clear what the longer-term implications are for AA services, although other major US airlines have continued to operate after also voluntarily filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
AA has had to carry the financial burden of a long-established "heritage carrier'', which has included high labour costs and funding employee health and pension schemes, which are not part of the workforce arrangements for newer US competitors.
The airline, the third-largest carrier in the US behind Continental and Delta, cited high labour costs and high fuel costs in a difficult market.
Like Qantas, it has been locked in difficult wage negotiations with its unions. Analysts said it the negotiations with pilots was the final straw topping the airline into the restructure.
American Airlines announced that Tom Horton would replace Gerard Arpey as chairman and chief executive.
"The world changed around us,'' Mr Horton said.
"It became increasingly clear that the cost gap between us and our competitors was untenable."
Both Continental and Delta had restructured themselves some time ago by using Cahapter 11 bankruptcy.
It is a method American companies use to give them protection from creditors while they re-organise their services, with a major shake-up of staffing and possibly routes due for AA.
The impact will also include a review of starting a new low-cost offshoot from its American Eagle operation.
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Portsystemic (liver) shunts, their resolution and their more rare, extended realities
by Dr. Patty Khuly
One of my patients will die within weeks. Her congenital portosystemic shunts, presumably the result of a pre-birth complication or genetic defect, have led to almost complete liver failure after three short years of life.
Lily is a pet shop Maltese. Her true origins are as unknown as the exact cause of her liver disease. But we do know her liver doesn’t work. And we know it’s the result of a variety of circulatory abnormalities that allow her blood vessels to bypass her liver, thereby limiting the ability of her liver to clear the blood of its toxins.
The Liver 101
The liver is an organ that functions to 1) aid in the digestive process by helping to break down food into digestible nutrients, 2) help the immune system, 3) produce important blood chemicals and 4) filter toxins through enzymatic reactions that eliminate their poisonous effects (among other wonderful functions).
It’s a multi-purpose organ that we think of mostly as one that secretes bile for digestion and biochemically breaks down bad stuff so that animals can survive the effects of toxins they’re regularly exposed to in their environments.
When the liver doesn’t do its anti-toxic job or doesn’t get enough blood, it can’t do its other functions either. That’s when it curls up and dies.
Luckily, the liver is one of those organs that has a surprising ability to regenerate. We don’t know exactly why that is, but we suppose it has something to do with its adaptation to occasional or chronic exposure to toxins. If it wasn’t able to absorb insults related to ingestion of or exposure to bad stuff, animals would never survive bouts of food poisoning or common encounters with other environmental toxins.
Portosystemic Shunts 101
Some dogs, unfortunately, (and some humans too) have a congenital malformation that leads blood vessels to bypass the liver. It’s called a “portosystemic shunt” but is also often referred to as a “hepatic shunt” or “liver shunt.” Others have the "acquired" form of the disease, which is typically secondary to severe, diffuse liver ailments in [usually] older dogs.
Here’s what happens: The abnormal vessel(s) allow blood to go around or through the liver without stopping to clear the blood of its toxins or feed the liver its normal quantity of blood. The toxins then move along to the rest of the body. Animals with portosystemic shunts eventually die of common toxins and infections normal bodies don’t stress over. But first, they usually show some or all of the following symptoms:
Abnormal behavior after eating
Pacing and aimless wandering
Pressing the head against the wall
Episodes of apparent blindness
Poor weight gain
Stunted growth
Excessive sleeping and lethargy
Normally, we see the first sign of a portosystemic shunt in dogs when they’re very young––six months is common––but some dogs won’t show signs until a year of age or later.
Some shunts are “simple.” A big vessel leading to the liver completely circumvents it. Instead of driving blood through the liver so that it can be “cleansed,” it gets “shunted” completely around it. The blood (in which all the bad stuff goes when it enters the body) just keeps circulating, taking the untreated toxic waste to all the organs and tissues. This is called an “extrahepatic shunt,” and it’s most common is small breed dogs.
Bad. But fixable––with surgery to clamp off or slowly constrict this “shunted” vessel.
Back to Lily:
Lily’s problem was not so easy to handle. When she was an eight month-old pup, she came to me as a second-opinion case as a result of chronic vomiting. Sometimes she would stumble around as if she was drunk, stare at walls or press her head against them, but her owners thought this was a Lily-ism...not a sign of disease.
Lily was easily diagnosed with a portosystemic shunt after some simple bloodwork (CBC, chemistry, urinalysis and a bile acids test) and X-rays (revealing a small liver because of poor circulation). Sometimes a test called nuclear scintigraphy is done to confirm the diagnosis of a shunt, but in many cases, as in Lily’s, exploratory surgery is a more immediate approach.
In surgery, the veterinary surgeon specialist found numerous vessels being shunted around the liver instead of just one. He clamped as many of these as he could, but assumed the worst: Lily’s liver might well have shunts that travel through it, too. In these cases, called “intrahepatic shunts,” the bad blood vessel is located in the liver but does not actually exchange blood with its tissues.
Intrahepatic shunts are more common in large breed dogs and they’re especially tough to handle because they’re very difficult to find and in most cases can’t be clamped off the way easier to see extrahepatic shunts can be. This is especially problematic when multiple intrahepatic shunts are present.
Because Lily had numerous extrahepatic shunts, and because her liver was already in such bad shape, the surgeon assumed he had missed many small intrahepatic shunts as well. The only good news was that the slice of liver he biopsied in the process (a common practice for careful surgeons) showed a liver that was still capable of doing its job––for now, anyway.
Back to the Present:
It’s two years later and Lily’s had been doing well all this time. She’d been eating a low protein food, taking liver supplements and drinking lactulose (a sugar syrup that helps draw toxins into the colon for immediate expulsion).
She’d had a few bouts of gastroenteritis, which were apparently always related to foods she’d managed to consume without her owners’ blessing, but otherwise had remained in great shape. Her liver enzymes had remained high on blood tests but they’d been stable, as had her bile acid levels (the blood test which often most specifically helps identify the degree to which the liver isn’t processing toxins).
When I saw her last week, however, she’d been vomiting again. While her liver enzymes and bile acids were unchanged from previous tests, an ultrasound at the specialists’ two days later confirmed this was no mere bout of gastroenteritis. Lily’s liver was shot. Within these two days, her bile acids had skyrocketed and her liver enzymes actually plummeted, (a sign that the liver’s most basic functions were shutting down).
Success?
Though 85% of dogs with portosystemic shunts do very well with surgery, Lily’s case was not among the typical success stories. Yes, two years of life beyond treatment is something of a success, especially given her numerous faulty vessels and the length of time her liver had lived with the disease before the surgical “fix,” but it’s nonetheless a heartbreaking story for her family.
Lily's now living with her family at home for what will most likely be the last few weeks of her life. She’s receiving a diuretic that helps relieve the fluid that build up in the abdomen due to backed up blood (portal hypertension), lactulose to help remove toxins like ammonia and antibiotics to kill the bacteria her liver isn’t currently handling.
So many of my cases do so perfectly well with liver shunts it’s a shame I’ve chosen Lily’s depressing case as an example. But Lily doesn’t so much seem to mind. Sure, she hates her meds and declines her prescription dog food (so would I) but for now she’s taking it as we all should...one day at a time.
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Travel: Plant-based food movement takes to the…
Travel: Plant-based food movement takes to the high seas
Are falafel power bowls the new surf & turf for cruise passengers?
Mariner, one of the Seven Seas Cruises ships that sails out of San Pedro, is shown in Skagway, Alaska. Seven Seas is among the cruise lines introducing more plant-based items to its on-board cuisine. (Photo by David Dickstein)
By David Dickstein | daviddickstein@hotmail.com |
PUBLISHED: September 14, 2019 at 8:33 am | UPDATED: September 14, 2019 at 8:33 am
As further proof that the migration to plant-based products is not a fad, but a bona fide trend, more and more cruise lines are keeping pace with current consumer habits by welcoming aboard the gastronomic movement to their fleets.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is the next to expand its cuisine with plant-based dishes. This fall, the luxury-class line is giving passengers more than 200 new and delicious reasons to feel less guilty about bypassing the fitness center and jogging track while on vacation. This meat-eater certainly will use that excuse thanks to an exclusive advance tasting of some of the plant-based dishes awaiting their debut.
Making notable and nutritious changes to its fare from bow to stern, Regent’s menu makeover appears to be on par with efforts of its direct luxury-class competitor, Oceania Cruises, and more aggressive than earlier plant-based pushes made by more modest cruise lines including Disney, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity.
Plant-based dishes will be identified on Seven Seas menus with this leaf symbol starting this fall. (Courtesy of Regent Seven Seas Cruises)
Soon on Regent ships, including the Seven Seas Mariner and Navigator that sail out of San Pedro, it will be out with a separate vegan menu and in with scores of gourmet plant-based dishes integrated into the daily menus of the main dining room and beyond. The new items, which include falafel power bowls and the already mainstreamed-on-land Impossible cheeseburger, will be identified by a small leaf icon. The designation will be an add-on to bills of fare that already have a symbol for lacto-ovo vegetarian foods, meaning they may contain milk and eggs. Based on Regent’s project timeline, the plant-based dishes will be rolled out fleet-wide by World Vegan Day on Nov. 1.
Among the 200 new plant-based dishes debuting on Regents new menus is the sweet and sour vegetables with tofu. (Courtesy of Regent Seven Seas Cruises)
Captaining the culinary creations is Regent Food and Beverage Vice President Bernhard Klotz, who noted that plant-based cuisine appeals to a broad audience of luxury travelers. “This is an emerging, modern specialty cuisine that allows our guests to enjoy more flavorful foods that are in harmony with their current tastes,” he said.
The project team also includes world-renowned chef and author Christophe Berg, a 15-year vegan who recently served in a similar consulting capacity for Oceania, which rolled out 200 plant-based dishes across its entire fleet in August. The new options have been described by Bob Binder, Oceania president and CEO, as “flavorful, colorful, bold and creative.”
Executing a similar vegetarian-rooted vision will be the galley crews of Regent’s four-vessel fleet — five when the Seven Seas Splendor arrives in February. The affected chefs and cooks will be trained a few days before each ship becomes a floating ambassador of the growing plant-based movement.
While similarities exist between plant-based and vegan diets, both of which are generally based on personal health, animal welfare and environmental concerns, the main difference between the two is followers of the former are free to eat dairy, as well as poultry, red meat, fish and animal bi-products. Vegans, vehemently, aren’t.
Dino Schwager, Seven Seas Mariners executive chef, presents a mushroom and asparagus main entrée and apple tart dessert being modified as plant-based. (Photo by David Dickstein)
Excited to climb aboard the plant-based train — check that, ship — is Dino Schwager, a nine-year executive chef with Regent Seven Seas.
“Plant-based is a movement, like a political movement,” said Schwager during a recent seven-day Alaskan cruise aboard the Seven Seas Mariner. “This is a new cuisine, a completely new niche.”
Proudly presenting a fully plant-based greens and fennel salad is Vladimir Cavic, food and beverage director aboard the Seven Seas Mariner. (Photo by David Dickstein)
Although the fleet’s galleys were still months away from being fully stocked for the new recipes, the affable German chef personally made this travel writer a three-course meal as close to being “leaf-worthy” as possible. Joining us for the exclusive, almost-to-spec chef’s tasting menu was a third avid non-vegetarian at the table, Vladimir Cavic, the ship’s food and beverage director. Leave it to the journalist to be gauche by asking that we enjoy the trio of dishes out of turn.
Replacing butter with plant-based margarine will earn the Warm White and Green Asparagus a leaf symbol on the menu. (Photo by David Dickstein)
First up was the gorgeously plated Warm White and Green Asparagus, currently served every 14th day in the Mariner’s Compass Rose and the line’s other main dining rooms. Accompanied by portabella and oyster mushrooms, Parisienne potatoes and sherry vinegar dressing, the dish appears plant-based. Looks, however, are deceiving. During the making of this dish, butter was used when boiling the asparagus, sautéing the fungi and soaking the spuds. The new menu calls for the butter to be replaced with a plant-based margarine. The main dish already tastes fresh and light, especially with a dressing too delicate to dare overpower the perfectly prepared produce. Exchanging butter for plant-based margarine, “a simple change,” according to Chef, will not only appeal to contemporary palates and lifestyles, but also “celebrate the vegetables.”
“The plant-based margarine we’re getting contains less water than the conventional kind and, thus, brings out more of the vegetables’ natural flavors,” he said.
Purposely using as little butter as possible to replicate how the dish will taste come fall, the kitchen staff proved that the non-plant-based fat isn’t required for this plate to appeal to us avid omnivores. Light, yet satisfying — on par with similar fare from Regent, which means well above average among all cruise categories. When prepared to spec, diners unaccustomed to go vegetarian with their main entrees may get an extra boost from knowing how much healthier each delicious bite is.
The Assorted Greens & Shaved Fennel is already plant-based as served in Seven Seas main dining rooms. (Photo by David Dickstein)
Next came the Assorted Greens & Shaved Fennel, a lovely salad course option that blends California and Hawaiian cuisines with orange segments and roasted macadamia nut dressing.
“What on the plate isn’t plant-based?” Schwager was asked. Chef replied with a devilish smile, “Nothing! This can be served exactly as is.” Cheater.
Making the Caramelized Apple Tart will require a few extra steps once the dessert is plant-based. (Photo by David Dickstein)
Making up for his attempt at sandbagging, the third course, the Caramelized Apple Tart, is a dish that will require longer preparation by the dedicated dessert crew.
“The apple stays the same, caramelized in the oven with the vinegar,” Schwager said as it was love at first bite for this fan of sweet, savory, sour and acidic. “The goat cheese will be replaced by a plant-based cheese, made with cashew. Like switching out butter with plant-based margarine, that’s a simple step. It’s the changes to the puff pastry that’s not easy.”
Plant-based pastry dough, at least on Regent ships, will be put in the freezer to set, then rolled thinly before cutting.
“This has to be done fast,” Chef said. “The dough is so sensitive, if you make it and don’t roll it, it doesn’t work. And you have to roll it between two baking sheets.”
The rules of baking science for a ship’s plant-based puff pastry are much more complex than that, but what most cruisers want to know is how it tastes. Based on the best the executive chef and his galley’s dessert station could do in advance of receiving proper training and plant-based ingredients, we can safely state that passengers are in for a real — and healthier — treat.
Net-net, Regent Seven Seas adding so many plant-based dishes to its regular menus is a big win for passengers on diets eliminating or limiting animals and animal by-products. The corporate move also will appeal to meat eaters considering healthier choices from a luxury cruise line known for serving top-notch cuisine.
Interesting to note, Regent estimates that a typical passenger eats about 30 percent more during the first two or three days of a cruise, then goes back on a normal level while simultaneously seeking healthier options. By the middle of a 15-day cruise, heck, even a Texas rancher might pass on a standing order of black Angus breakfast sirloin steak with crispy bacon in favor of chia cashew yogurt with carrot-hazelnut granola.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises — 844-473-4368; www.rssc.com
Oceania Cruises — 855-301-5504; www.oceaniacruises.com
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System and method for adapting an attribute magnification for a mobile communication device
GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC
MOTOROLA-MOBILITY, INC.
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ALAMEH, RACHID M.,ADY, ROGER W.,ALBERTH, WILLIAM P.,PAITL, KENNETH A.
Techniques and technologies are presented for adapting an attribute magnification for a mobile communication device. An output device for the attribute is connected to the mobile communication device. A sensor tracks distance of a user's head in relation to the mobile communication device; while a controller initiates a setting phase for magnification change and subsequently a tracking phase, opposite from the setting phase, for dynamically adjusting the attribute from the mobile communication device.
1. A system configured to adapt a magnification of an attribute for a mobile communication device, comprising: an output device, the output device being connected to the mobile communication device; a first sensor configured to track a distance of at least a part of a head of a user relative to the mobile communication device; anda controller configured to: initiate a setting phase for magnification change, the setting phase configuring a magnitude of the attribute based on an initial configuration provided by the user, and the setting phase being different than a tracking phase, and after initiating the setting phase, initiate a tracking phase for dynamically adjusting the magnitude of the attribute relative to the initial configuration provided by the user in the setting phase while a change in a distance is detected by the mobile communication device between the head of the user and the mobile communication device, wherein a change in dynamically adjusting the attribute during the tracking phase is opposite to a change in dynamically adjusting the attribute during the setting phase.
2. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the attribute includes at least an audio portion and wherein the output device is a speaker at least partially controlled by the mobile communication device.
3. The system claimed in claim 2, further comprising one or more sensors that determine: a context of the mobile communication device, the context comprising external environment, movement, orientation, GPS location, altitude, operational mode, and user-to-device relative position that is based at least in part on distance and angle; wherein the controller affects audio volume level, audio equalization, audio filtering, and audio directional steering, and wherein the audio portion is determined based at least in part on the context of the mobile communication device.
4. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the attribute includes at least a visual portion and wherein the output device is a display at least partially controlled by the mobile communication device.
5. The system claimed in claim 4, wherein the attribute is a character size presented on the display.
6. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sensor is a proximity detector capable of detecting at least one dimension in physical space.
7. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sensor is at least an imager.
8. The system claimed in claim 7, wherein the first sensor is a combination of the imager and at least one range estimator capable of detecting at least one dimension in physical space, wherein the range estimator uses at least one of infrared or ultrasound.
9. The system claimed in claim 7, wherein the imager detects the presence of a hearing aid and a user's focused eye gaze or looking direction relative to the mobile communication device.
10. The system claimed in claim 9, wherein upon the imager's detection of an averted eye gaze, the controller mutes a microphone of the mobile communication device.
11. The system claimed in claim 9, wherein upon the imager's detection of presence of the hearing aid, the controller adaptively changes an acoustic content according to a stored audio profile within the mobile communication device, wherein the audio profile includes volume level, audio spectrum, audio filtering, and audio directional steering.
12. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller receives an input to initialize the setting phase.
13. The system claimed in claim 12, wherein the setting phase includes sensing a relative location of the user's head with respect to the mobile communication device.
14. The system claimed in claim 13, wherein the relative location of the user's head relative to the mobile communication device encompasses distance and an angular position relative to a normal position, the normal position being relative to the mobile communication device.
15. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller receives an input that finalizes the setting phase and initiates the tracking phase.
16. The system claimed in claim 15, wherein the input for initializing the tracking phase includes, from the mobile communication device, at least one of an accelerometer signal, a manual selection, a handsfree gesture, a device gesture, or a voice command.
17. The system claimed in claim 16, wherein the accelerometer signal of the mobile device is coupled with a predetermined time period for switching from the setting phase to the tracking phase.
18. The system claimed in claim 1, further comprising the controller affecting content presentation on the display based on one or more sensors that determine: a context of the mobile communication device; a device operational mode, the context comprising orientation of the mobile communication device; an operation of the mobile communication device; a movement of the mobile communication device; an environmental condition in which the mobile communication device is operating; a device use prior history; and a relative location of at least one of the user, the head of the user, or the eyes of the user, relative to the mobile communication device.
19. The system claimed in claim 18, wherein text formats are dynamically changed depending on an output of the first sensor of the mobile communication device, the text formats selected from a group consisting of: 3D depth-effects, embossing, bolding, shadowing, underlining, italicizing, capitalization, text color, text color relative to display backlight color, text color relative to external background, display backlight color relative to external background, text spacing, font type, and text sizing.
20. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein the attribute includes at least an audio portion and wherein input device is a microphone at least partially controlled by the mobile communication device.
1. A system configured to adapt a magnification of an attribute for a mobile communication device, comprising:
an output device, the output device being connected to the mobile communication device
a first sensor configured to track a distance of at least a part of a head of a user relative to the mobile communication device
anda controller configured to: initiate a setting phase for magnification change, the setting phase configuring a magnitude of the attribute based on an initial configuration provided by the user, and the setting phase being different than a tracking phase, and after initiating the setting phase, initiate a tracking phase for dynamically adjusting the magnitude of the attribute relative to the initial configuration provided by the user in the setting phase while a change in a distance is detected by the mobile communication device between the head of the user and the mobile communication device, wherein a change in dynamically adjusting the attribute during the tracking phase is opposite to a change in dynamically adjusting the attribute during the setting phase.
2. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein
the attribute includes at least an audio portion and wherein
the attribute includes at least a visual portion and wherein
the first sensor is a proximity detector capable of detecting at least one dimension in physical space.
the first sensor is at least an imager.
12. The system claimed in claim 1, wherein
the controller receives an input to initialize the setting phase.
the controller receives an input that finalizes the setting phase and initiates the tracking phase.
18. The system claimed in claim 1, further comprising
the controller affecting content presentation on the display based on one or more sensors that determine: a context of the mobile communication device
a device operational mode, the context comprising orientation of the mobile communication device
an operation of the mobile communication device
a movement of the mobile communication device
an environmental condition in which the mobile communication device is operating
a device use prior history
and a relative location of at least one of the user, the head of the user, or the eyes of the user, relative to the mobile communication device.
Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relate generally to output communication for an electronic device. More particularly, embodiments of the subject matter relate to techniques and technology for dynamically magnifying output for a mobile communication device.
Users of a mobile communication device do not remain static when operating the mobile communication device (hereinafter referred to as “the device”). Their orientation and distance relative to the device may change and the environment (for example indoors versus outdoors, time of day, device context) may change during operation of the device. Accordingly, the output of the device whether it is visual content on a display screen or audio content emanating from the device's speakers or microphone levels and filtering can be compromised (that is it becomes more difficult to see visual output or understand audio output or communicate audio into the device) based on a user's relative distance to the device, or background environment, for example.
The prior art is somewhat limited in that it does not include or contemplate effective and user-friendly techniques to adaptively maintain a user's audio and visual interface preference with her device.
A more complete understanding of the subject matter may be derived by referring to the detailed description and claims when considered in conjunction with the following figures, wherein like reference numbers refer to similar elements throughout the figures.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary embodiment of a system having one or more controllers to provide dynamic user preferred audio and visual content;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of an initializing process;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of an active visual set mode process; have problem with FIG. 3
FIG. 4 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of an active audio set mode process
FIG. 5 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of an active text set mode process; and
FIG. 6 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a phone context tracking mode process.
FIG. 7 is an exemplary illustration of a method to setting user-preferred magnification;
FIG. 8 is an exemplary illustration of method to setting user-preferred magnification while device is being moved in an opposite direction from FIG. 7;
FIG. 9 is an exemplary illustration of a method for tracking user-preferred magnification in accordance with figure to maintain user preferred setting;
FIG. 10 is an exemplary illustration of a method for tracking user-preferred magnification while device is being moved in a opposite direction from FIG. 9;
FIG. 11 is an exemplary illustration of a method for setting user-preferred reduction one;
FIG. 12 is an exemplary illustration of a method for setting user-preferred reduction in another direction;
FIG. 13 is an exemplary illustration of a method for tracking user-preferred reduction in one direction; and
FIG. 14 is an exemplary illustration of a method for tracking user-preferred reduction in another direction.
User initiates request to enable a user-preferred readability and audibility interface mode with device. There are at least three types of controls for example, visual, audio (speaker and microphone) and text formats. Three phases are disclosed herein: initiating, setting, and tracking phases. The visual content magnification and audible level setting and tracking phases behave opposite to one another to counter device-user subsequent relative spacing changes following the setting phase, thus maintaining preferred user set interface. The text format and audio spectral selections are previously set and stored in device (different profiles can be stored by a factory) and are selected during the tracking phase based on sensor outputs at the time. In other words, the visual setting is driven by device user-relative positions (spacing and orientation).
The audio level setting can also be driven by device-user relative positions (e.g., spacing and orientations). The audio equalization and spectral changes are selected from a group of profiles stored in a phone, for example, for various user/device spacing, device context and environment conditions. In this vein, audio filtering can be done by assessing an output from a sensor and change spectral content of the audio, such as increased bass or treble, increased low or high frequency content for user-preferred audio intelligibility within a noisy environment. An imager can detect the presence of a hearing aid, thereby a controller adaptively changes the acoustic content according to a stored audio profile within the mobile communication device, wherein the audio profile includes volume level, audio spectrum, audio filtering, and audio directional steering.
The text formats are selected from a group of profiles stored in a phone (during factory setting) for various user/device spacing, device context and environment conditions. During the tracking phase, and based on changing sensor outputs, a best match with stored profiles is determined and selected for use. If sensor outputs and device context continue to change during tracking, other profiles are selected in an adaptive way accordingly. At the end of the call or device session, a device can go back to normal default mode. User can also manually select from various stored profiles irrespective of sensor readings and live detections. In the case an imager is used for determining eye gaze direction, i.e., a user's looking direction relative to the device is assessed and if determined that the user is averting her gaze from the display, the display is turned off for privacy and power saving. An imager can also be used to detect the presence of prescription glasses and or hearing aids (when user is looking away from the device the camera may have a view of a hearing aid) and use that to adjust best interface profiles accordingly. For example, an output from the imager may cause a controller to mute a microphone of a mobile communication device. An imager can also be combined with a range estimator.
During the setting phase, user can set one type (i.e. visual) or cycle through various controls to set other types (i.e. audio, text).
The initiating of the best interface mode is done with a button press, sensor detect, voice or gesturing on device or with device. The selection of setting preference is done via voice command, holding device motionless for a period of time, gesturing in front of device's display or with the device itself, blinking an eye (image recognition), gesturing with head or other handsfree gestures, tapping phone, etc.
The following detailed description is merely illustrative in nature and is not intended to limit the embodiments of the subject matter or the application and uses of such embodiments. As used herein, the word “exemplary” means “serving as an example, instance, or illustration.” Any implementation described herein as exemplary is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other implementations. Furthermore, there is no intention to be bound by any expressed or implied theory presented in the preceding technical field, background, brief summary or the following detailed description.
Techniques and technologies may be described herein in terms of functional and/or logical block components and with reference to symbolic representations of operations, processing tasks, and functions that may be performed by various computing components or devices. Such operations, tasks, and functions are sometimes referred to as being computer-executed, computerized, software-implemented, or computer-implemented. In practice, one or more processor devices can carry out the described operations, tasks, and functions, and the various block components shown in the figures may be realized by any number of hardware, software, and/or firmware components configured to perform the specified functions. For example, an embodiment of a system or a component may employ various integrated circuit components, e.g., memory elements, digital signal processing elements, logic elements, look-up tables, or the like, which may carry out a variety of functions under the control of one or more microprocessors or other control devices.
For the sake of brevity, conventional techniques related to signal processing, data transmission, signaling, network control, and other functional aspects of the systems (and the individual operating components of the systems) may not be described in detail herein. Furthermore, the connecting lines shown in the various figures contained herein are intended to represent exemplary functional relationships and/or physical couplings between the various elements. It should be noted that many alternative or additional functional relationships or physical connections may be present in an embodiment of the subject matter.
Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary embodiment of a system 100 having a user initialization controller 102. The user initialization controller 102 is suitably configured to communicate and perform data transfer with a processor 104. Processor 104 can also be communicatively coupled to a visual controller 106, a text effects controller 108, and an audio controller 110, wherein the audio controller 110 affects audio volume level, audio equalization, audio filtering, and audio directional steering. In addition, processor 104 is also coupled to one or more sensors 112, for example accelerometers, GPS, sensors (e.g., capacitive touch, proximity), and hardware sensors such as infrared and ultrasonic sensors. A memory 114 can also be communicatively coupled to processor 104 for storing user preferences for output of visual and audio content and user profiles.
It should be appreciated that a described process may include any number of additional or alternative tasks, the tasks shown in the figures need not be performed in the illustrated order, and a described process may be incorporated into a more comprehensive procedure or process having additional functionality not described in detail herein. Moreover, one or more of the tasks shown in a figure could be omitted from an embodiment of the respective process as long as the intended overall functionality remains intact.
An attribute as defined herein means either an audio or visual effect.
Magnification as defined herein can be considered as enlargement or intensification of either an audio or visual attribute. Reduction is the opposite of magnification and is defined herein as shrinking or lessening of an audio or visual attribute.
A first sensor or set of sensors as used herein assesses the user and the device's relative position, orientation, and angle.
A second sensor or set of sensors as used herein detect the device context and operating mode, tilt, environment, time of day, prior use, speed, elevation, humidity, visible light, sunlight, and other weather-related conditions.
In this regard, FIG. 2 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of a processor or network server operating process 200. The process 200 may be performed by a network server or processor 104 (as described earlier in FIG. 1). A user can initiate the calibration mode in task 202. The user may press a button, or activate a touchscreen, issue a voice command, perform a gesture on or near the device, perform a gesture with device, or activate a sensor to cause initiation and indicate that device is in such a mode. The process 200 may cycle independent set modes, visual, audible, and text format in task 204. In task 206 the user selects one or more of the independent set modes that were previously cycled. Thereafter, the selected set mode is activated via task 208. The process 200 continues wherein the user receives an indication of the selected set mode in task 210. An inquiry by the processor in task 212 determines which set mode has been selected. Depending on the selected set mode, one or more functionalities are driven by the processor. (task 214) For example, a graphics interface may be driven to project images, text, and numbers to the user.
Task 216 enables a user to calibrate device by varying her arm-length distance or orientating her head, relative to the display screen, in a different manner. The preferred distance can be set by dwelling or holding at a distance for a specific time period, activating a voice command, or other input control methods. The preferable user setting is stored in task 218 of the process 200.
Referring to FIG. 3, the process 300 may be performed by a network server or processor 104 (as described earlier in FIG. 1). In this regard, the process 300 activates the visual set mode. In certain embodiments, the process 300 cycles independent set modes for selection in task 302.
The process 300 continues by activating the selected set mode from above in task 304. A graphics interface is driven by the processor in task 306. The graphics interface can be used to project images, text, and numbers to the user as a graphical interface.
An inquiry is made by task 308 on whether to continue to another setting mode, for example, audio or text. If the user desires to start another setting mode, task 310 cycles the next selected set mode for the user, and continues back to task 306. Otherwise, the setting modes are ended in task 312; whereupon task 314 begins the tracking mode.
Audio level can be set similarly as the font size magnification was set and described above. A user can hear a tone from the device and uses the tone while moving the device either further or closer to determine the preferred level of audibility. The audio level setting phases are similar to the font size setting phases which include a setting phase and tracking phase based on the ability of the user to move the device. Once the user preferred audio level is set, the device operational modes and sensors are used to select one of many stored audio profiles for optimum audio spectral content and filtering techniques to improve audio intelligibility within the current environment that the device is used in.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of activating the audio set mode with process 400. The process 400 may begin by communicating an indication to the user of the audio set mode being available in task 402. The processor 104 drives an audio driver or controller to output audio (such as tone, speech, music, spectral content) in task 404. The audio controller affects audio volume level, audio equalization, audio filtering, and audio directional steering. Audio output of the mobile communication device can be altered based on the context of the mobile communication device, said audio output alteration can include adaptive acoustical spectrum change in contrast to an environmental presence of the mobile communication device.
The audio controller or driver can operate in one or more predefined time windows. Sampling of sensors is performed by task 406.
Task 408 selects one or more stored spectral profiles. Near the end of the process 400, task 410 inquires whether to proceed to the next setting mode. If affirmative, task 412 cycles to the next selected set mode. Otherwise, the setting mode ends and the tracking mode begins (not shown in FIG. 4).
FIG. 5 is a flow chart that illustrates an exemplary embodiment of activating the text set mode with process 500. The illustrated embodiment of the process 500 begins with task 502 communicating an indication, for receipt by the user, of the text set mode being available. Task 504 samples information from context sensors for device background conditions and environmental conditions, such as lighting. In addition, task 504 samples sensors of the device that may include darkness, sunlight, time of day, location, orientation, movement, speed, and device use mode, for example.
Operational modes and device orientation are assessed by task 506. Processor 104 may use input from sensors such as infrared (IR), imagers, ultrasound, touch, accelerometer, elevation, speed, and other sensors useful to determine device operational mode and device context. That determination is used to set certain text formats based on previously stored models and profiles in device for a variety of operation and context modes. Upon assessing the operational modes, stored text formats can be applied in task 508. Text formats can include color, backlight color, dynamically improving background to text contrast, 3D effects, bolding, capitalizing, embossing, engraving, font type, and font size, for example. The aforementioned list of text formats is not exhaustive, but is illustrative. In addition, text formats can also include 3D depth-effects, shadowing, underlining, italicizing, capitalization, text color, text color relative to display backlight color, text color relative to external background, display backlight color relative to external background, text spacing, font type, and text sizing.
An indication of the end of the setting mode is performed by task 510. Task 512 begins the user preferred tracking mode.
Upon the start of the tracking mode, the device context changes. In this regard, FIG. 6 illustrates an exemplary process 600 of the context changing for a device during the tracking mode, such as a mobile communication device (i.e., phone, tablet, PDA). Task 602 uses processor 104 to drive one or more of the following components: a graphical interface, an audio driver, or a graphical accelerator to counter device changes subsequent to the setting mode. These driven components will enable the device to maintain the user preferred visual, audio, and text interface selected during the setting mode. For example, during the tracking mode, as the device moves away from a pre-established reference point, the volume may increase and there may be magnification (or demagnification) of fonts, images, and texts which will cause a change in the opposite direction from the setting mode.
Task 604 ends the session, whereupon task 606 inquires whether the device should default to “normal” settings, i.e., settings that do not include the user's preferences as determined during the setting mode. If affirmative, task 608 ends session. Otherwise, task 610 stores the settings and provides an opportunity for the user to select the stored profile in task 612. These stored profiles can thereafter be used to drive the graphical interface, audio driver, and graphical accelerator. The user can have many stored profiles based on location, time of day, environments, vision that may or may not include glasses and audio that may or may not include hearing aid devices. Thus, when the user is in the same environment she is able to pick from previously stored profiles that are applicable to her preferences. The stored profiles best matching the device context and/or operational modes are also ranked and made more readily available when the device is detected to be in a matching or similar environment, for example a beach or a museum; wherein a beach profile has been previously stored in the device. Alternatively, a device's prior use history can be stored and recalled as well.
Referring to FIG. 7 an exemplary method of setting a user-preferred magnification is shown. Hereinafter, the terms “setting phase” and “tracking phase” are used interchangeably with “setting mode” and “tracking mode”. When the user 700 moves the device 702 closer to her head or when the device-to-user distance decreases, the magnification 704 on a display of the device 702 (or in some cases the character font size) increases. This movement 706 can be thought of as emulating the natural phenomena of moving a paper with writing on it closer to one's eye to see the writing more clearly, because the letters appear larger. Moreover, the starting point for the user to begin moving the device closer to set the magnification preference is arbitrary. That is to set a displayed font size, the user begins moving the device closer from the arbitrary point in space. Alternatively, the setting phase described above could be reversed from the natural or inherent movement. An example, in the setting phase the user would move the device closer to reduce the font or move the device further away to increase the font.
Referring to FIG. 8, another exemplary method of setting a user-preferred magnification is shown. FIG. 8 is the setting phase in the opposite direction of what is shown in FIG. 7. Font size changes can be limited within a predetermined range during the movement so that the user has a more manageable control of the magnification. For example, a maximum range of font size change can be within sizes 8-14 as the user-device distance varies. FIG. 8 includes a user 800 with a device display 802 having a set of dynamically changing characters 804 based on movement 806.
Referring to FIGS. 9 and 10, an exemplary illustration of a method for tracking user-preferred magnification is shown. During the tracking phase the device compensates for the changing distance between the user and the device, therefore, the tracking phase acts opposite from the setting phase. Specifically, if the setting phase increases magnification based on device directional movement, the tracking phase decreases magnification and vise versa.
In FIG. 9, for example, having completed the setting phase, the device switches to the tracking phase, where the magnification is reduced as the device is brought closer to the user. FIG. 9 includes a user 900 with a device display 902 having a set of dynamically changing characters 904 based on movement 906.
In FIG. 10, for example, having completed the setting phase, the device switches to the tracking phase, where the magnification is increased as the device is moved away from the user. FIG. 10 includes a user 1000 with a device display 1002 having a set of dynamically changing characters 1004 based on movement 1006.
Notably, the tracking phase in FIGS. 9 &10 could reverse direction, if the setting phase shown in FIGS. 7 & 8 also shows reduction of a character font size, for example.
Reduction of a larger character font is shown for another example of a setting phase in FIG. 11. FIG. 11 includes a user 1100 with a device display 1102 having a set of dynamically changing characters 1104 based on movement 1106.
Reduction of a larger character font is shown for a setting phase in an opposite direction is shown in FIG. 12. FIG. 12 includes a user 1200 with a device display 1202 having a set of dynamically changing characters 1204 based on movement 1206.
As a result, FIGS. 13 & 14 show corresponding tracking phases in relation to FIGS. 11 & 12, respectively. FIG. 13 includes a user 1300 with a device display 1302 having a set of dynamically changing characters 1304 based on movement 1306. Likewise, FIG. 14 includes a user 1400 with a device display 1402 having a set of dynamically changing characters 1404 based on movement 1406.
A user may navigate through visual, audio, and text format changes to affect her preferences for her device. A user may or may not employ the visual, audio, or text format setting and tracking phases at one time. The user can be prompted to navigate from one setting phase to another, for example, from visual to audio to text formats. However, the order of navigation is not fixed and can be selectively changed by the user.
While at least one exemplary embodiment has been presented in the foregoing detailed description, it should be appreciated that a vast number of variations exist. For example, the dynamically changed characters in FIGS. 7-14 can be text or symbolic icons that may indicate audio levels. It should also be appreciated that the exemplary embodiment or embodiments described herein are not intended to limit the scope, applicability, or configuration of the claimed subject matter in any way. Rather, the foregoing detailed description will provide those skilled in the art with a convenient road map for implementing the described embodiment or embodiments. It should be understood that various changes can be made in the function and arrangement of elements without departing from the scope defined by the claims, which includes known equivalents and foreseeable equivalents at the time of filing this patent application.
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Bobbie Amaya, who lost her mobile home during Hurricane Michael, talks with her insurance company as she camps in her minivan outside of her friend's vape shop along 15th Street in Panama City, Florida on Monday, October 15, 2018. Amaya and her son survived the storm inside the vape shop, but the unit next door totally collapsed and damaged her vehicle that was parked in front of the door. Gregg Pachkowski, Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Bobbie Amaya, who lost her mobile home during Hurricane Michael, waits online with her insurance company as she camps in her minivan outside of her friend's vape shop along 15th Street in Panama City, Florida on Monday, October 15, 2018. Amaya and her son survived the storm inside the vape shop, but the unit next door totally collapsed and damaged her vehicle that was parked in front of the door. Gregg Pachkowski, Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Cutie, a pitbull, relaxes near her owner Bobbie Amaya, who lost her mobile home during Hurricane Michael, as they camp in her minivan outside of her friend's vape shop along 15th Street in Panama City, Florida on Monday, October 15, 2018. Amaya and her son survived the storm inside the vape shop, but the unit next door totally collapsed and damaged her vehicle that was parked in front of the door. Gregg Pachkowski, Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Owner Tony Barr checks out the damage to his Bare Naked Vapors LLC vape shop after Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida on Monday, October 15, 2018. His friend Bobbie Amaya survived the storm by taking refuge in the bathroom of this store. Gregg Pachkowski, Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Bobbie Amaya, who lost her mobile home during Hurricane Michael, camps in her minivan outside of her friend's vape shop along 15th Street in Panama City, Florida on Monday, October 15, 2018. Amaya and her son survived the storm inside the vape shop, but the unit next door totally collapsed and damaged her vehicle that was parked in front of the door. Gregg Pachkowski, Gregg Pachkowski/gregg@pnj.com
Michael Matti, owner of Royal Used Tire Center in Panama City, had little power but nevertheless opened his business on Monday.(Photo: Wayne T. Price/FLORIDA TODAY)
PANAMA CITY — Michael Matti had a small generator powering his business — Royal Used Tires — and there was no means of communication except his buddies who stopped by with information and a cold bottle of Coors Light.
Still, Royal Used Tires was open along 15th Street in Panama City, one of the few small businesses in the city that wasn't devastated by last week's Category 4 hurricane.
"People are going to need tires," Matti said.
All around most of Bay County, at least the Panama City area, most businesses seem a tangled mess of broken glass, twisted aluminum and stark warnings against those thinking to take advantage of the situation.
"We Shoot Looters," read one wooden sign not far from Royal Used Tires, while a nearby liquor store noted it had an armed guard on the premises.
Not quite a week following Hurricane Michael the recovery efforts are still underway, but the fact that many traffic lights don't work and electricity and Internet service remain non-existent, means the local business community is staring down some trying weeks and months ahead.
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While structures and inventory are insured at many small businesses, a considerable number don't have small business interruption insurance, which would ease some of the pain of being closed for a prolonged period.
"It's going to be tough going," said Chuck Tibbetts, who works at the Tractor Farm & Equipment Co.
Tibbetts said he's lucky as Tractor Farm & Equipment is a fairly large company with numerous locations. They're pooling resources and getting the operation restored as quickly as possible.
Irie Jammin' Sports Bar & Grill in Panama City has a long recovery ahead following Hurricane Michael. (Photo: Wayne T. Price/FLORIDA TODAY)
Other businesses probably won't be as fortunate he said.
" A lot of them won't survive," Tibbetts said.
And the ones that do likely will have a tough time for a while.
The owner of a furniture store next to Royal Used Tires fled to Miami when Michael approached.
"He asked me to look after things," Matti said with a shrug. "There's a huge hole in his roof."
It's hard to imagine how numerous other small businesses can restart. At Old Mexico restaurant, the building's air conditioning sat in a tangled mess near the front entrance. As bad as that looked, a Jamaican eatery called Irie Jammin' Sports Bar and Grill looked considerably worse with the entire front sheared off and laying in the parking lot.
Old Mexico restaurant in Panama City, like almost every business in Bay County, was severely damaged by last week's Hurricane Michael. (Photo: Wayne T. Price/FLORIDA TODAY)
Another worry is that hundreds of people probably will be out of work, as it takes time for the service industry to recover. Those are people who work in hotels, beauty salons and restaurants.
Bay County, where Panama City is located, has a workforce of nearly 100,000 with a jobless rate in September of 3.4 percent. That could drastically change in the next few weeks.
More: Hurricane Michael power outages being restored at rapid pace
That's why Audrey Schull, a paralegal, felt so fortunate. The firm where she works lost power but the structure remained mostly damage-free.
"I don't have power at my house and our car was damaged," said Schull, a native of Connecticut. "But I have a job. I feel blessed."
One report issued this week by Womply, a small business software company, suggests the area may recover faster than expected.
Womply analyzed sales data from 80,000 businesses impacted by Hurricane Florence earlier this year, as well as last year's Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma.
"We expected to see a prolonged trough in sales," said Dan Lalli of Womply. "Instead, in all three cases we saw a massive dip around the storm's landfall, followed by a return to normal revenue levels within a week."
That might be tough in Panama City, said Edwin Walborsky, a well-known lawyer who practices in Panama City and Pensacola. While Panama City Beach — ironically — seems to be fairly unscathed, Panama City was badly battered.
"There will be people displaced for more than a year," Walborsky predicted. "And a lot of people may leave and not come back."
One resource might be the U.S. Small Business Association, which has a program of low-interest loans and deferred payments in federal disaster areas.
Contact Price at 321-242-3658 or wprice@floridatoday.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @Fla2dayBiz.
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The difficult and good work that officers do, and the contribution of wider societal problems, has been recognised as new figures relating to deaths during and after police contact are released.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) today (September 5) published its latest statistics for England and Wales 2018/19 which cover a range of incidents where there have been fatalities after the police have had contact with a person prior to their death.
The annual figures, which cover from April 2018 to March 2019, include road traffic fatalities involving the police; police fatal shootings; deaths in or following police custody and apparent suicides following police custody.
The figures show the following:
42 road traffic fatalities
Three fatal police shootings
16 deaths following police custody
63 apparent suicides following police custody
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No deaths occurred in a police custody suite
The report highlighted that 10 of the 16 people who died following police custody had mental health concerns, and 13 had issues with drugs and/or alcohol.
Issues with substance abuse are also highlighted when the figure for other deaths where the police had had contact with the deceased is considered, with more than half (90) involving some form of intoxication, and two thirds (104) involving some type of mental health issue.
Of the 63 apparent suicides following police custody 21 (33%) of those had been arrested for an alleged sexual offence.
Reacting to the report, IOPC Director General Michael Lockwood described the proportion of people dying who are vulnerable through mental health and links to drugs and alcohol as “concerning” and that it “highlights the reliance on police as first responders”.
He went on to say: “This is not just a policing issue – it’s a system-wide issue, which needs a concerted response by all those involved to prevent future deaths from occurring.”
Phill Matthews, Police Federation of England and Wales’ lead on conduct and performance, said: “No police officer goes to work expecting or wanting to be involved in an incident which results in someone dying. The effects of such incidents can be deeply traumatising and long lasting for all those affected.
“Not only are they distressing for families, but also for the officers who were just doing their job; trying to protect or help the public or, for example, working to their best abilities to help a person in crisis who tragically goes on to take their life when they are released or dies in custody due to drink and drugs.
“It must be recognised that police officers deal with some of the most dangerous and vulnerable individuals within our society who often are dealing with complex issues and live risky and chaotic lifestyles.
“Cuts to social care and other public services mean that increasingly the police are being used as the service of last resort and inevitably that will result in officers coming into contact with people in extreme situations - some of which unfortunately result in fatalities.”
Mr Matthews added: “It is quite right police officers are scrutinised when anyone dies and we will always welcome this, but it must be proportionate and fair for our members.
“It is pleasing to see the IOPC acknowledge that wider societal problems are a significant contributory factor in the volume of these incidents rather than pointing the finger of blame at our members.”
Out of the 42 road traffic fatalities, 30 were from pursuit-related incidents, an increase of 13 from last year; five resulting from emergency response incidents, a decrease of three from last year.
Five pursuit-related incidents accounted for 14 deaths. Of the 30 pursuit-related fatalities, 20 were the driver or passenger in the pursued vehicle, and 10 were in an unrelated vehicle or were a pedestrian hit by the car being pursued.
Mr Matthews continued: “Police last year carried out at least 13,000 pursuits and eight million response drives- therefore these figures represent a tiny proportion, with the majority of drives being safely completed; reflecting just how high the standard of police driver training is. Not to mention soaring crime figures and increasing road use which means the demand placed on our officers using their driving skills and training is peaking.
“Forces, along with the College of Policing, will continue to deliver and develop training for our members in order for them to continue to best protect the public they serve.”
He emphasised the work the Police Federation is doing to change the law to ensure officers who engage in pursuit and response drives are afforded better protection by legally recognising their skills and training.
He added: “Officers who have engaged in pursuits or response drivers have, in the past, been charged with dangerous driving offences, even if no complaints were made, and no one was injured, which is unfair and was incredibly stressful for these members to be wrongly hauled though the courts for simply just doing their jobs. This is unacceptable and we are fighting hard to ensure they have the protections they need to enable them to best serve the public.
“There are millions of interactions between police and the public each year, and when you consider that, you realise how very rare these incidents are,” Mr Matthews concluded.
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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' frayed ties with the president could create an opening for other Republicans to make a play for the Senate seat. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images
Alabama GOP: Sessions not guaranteed to win back his old seat
The deposed attorney general would be the front-runner, and he remains popular in the state, but Trump remains a big X factor.
By DANIEL STRAUSS and JAMES ARKIN
11/25/2018 06:47 AM EST
Republicans are certain they can win back the Alabama Senate seat they lost in spectacular fashion last year. They just aren’t sure whether Jeff Sessions is the one to do it.
Sessions’ name surfaced as a potential candidate immediately after he was dumped as attorney general this month. But he could be dogged by his strained relationship with President Donald Trump, who remains wildly popular in Alabama and savaged Sessions throughout his tenure at the Justice Department.
Though Sessions would be the clear front-runner if he runs, his frayed ties with Trump could create an opening for other Republicans to make a play for the seat — and cause a messy primary similar to the one that cost the party the seat last year, several Alabama Republicans tracking the situation said.
POLITICO interviewed more than a dozen GOP operatives and potential candidates in the state about the prospect of a Sessions comeback bid and the forecast for the Senate race against Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.). They agreed that Sessions remains overwhelmingly popular in his home state after representing it for nearly two decades in the Senate.
But the Republicans were split on whether the 71-year-old Sessions would take the plunge, and whether he would clear the GOP field if he did. The belief, at least among some Republicans in the state, that Sessions might not be a gimme for the seat shows just how tumultuous the past three years have been for the Alabama political icon: From coming out as Trump’s earliest and most prominent campaign supporter, to being tapped as the nation’s most powerful law enforcement official, and now, potentially, to a difficult campaign for his old seat.
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One Republican operative said he wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump get behind a different candidate if Sessions run.
It's unclear what Sessions himself is planning to do. One source familiar with his thinking said the ex-senator is “absolutely considering” running again. Yet Sessions has yet to say or do anything publicly to hint that he’s leaning in that direction.
Several potential Republican candidates indicated that a Sessions bid would not alter their plans. They are closely monitoring his actions, however, for any clues about whether he’ll run. The Alabama seat is easily the GOP’s ripest opportunity to flip a Democratic-held seat in 2020.
Rep. Bradley Byrne has taken steps to secure support and has publicly professed interest in the race for months. A spokesman for Byrne, Seth Morrow, said the third-term congressman is taking a “serious look” at the race, and added Sessions’ consideration “doesn't change Congressman Byrne's plans one bit."
State Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh is actively considering a run, and has signaled his plans to colleagues in the state. Rep. Mo Brooks, who ran for the seat in 2017, is often mentioned as a potential candidate, and some donors have reached out to newly elected Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth about running.
Marsh told POLITICO he is weighing his options and hoped to talk to Sessions before the end of the year. Marsh said he didn’t feel a sense of urgency about the race this early, and was weighing several factors, including Sessions.
“I've always had a good relationship [with Sessions] and I would have to think real hard if I would run against him if he were to seek it again,” Marsh said.
While several GOP primaries in other states this year became contests over which candidate was the bigger supporter of Trump, multiple Republicans in Alabama said Sessions would be a force whether or not the bad blood between the two continues.
Sessions might run for old Senate seat in Alabama
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Terry Lathan, chairwoman of the state Republican Party, said their contentious relationship would be an “unusual circumstance” if Sessions were to run. The former senator remains “beloved” in Alabama, Lathan said, but the state’s voters also overwhelmingly approve of Trump. She said supporting Trump and Sessions are not “exclusive of each other.”
“The president is highly appreciated for his conservative policy. He's just slaying it as far as we're concerned,” Lathan said. “But I also know how much people admire and respect Jeff Sessions."
Lathan predicted that if Sessions runs, the other potential Republican candidates might reevaluate.
“There could be a real reset,” she said, “and folks who were thinking about running could take a second look.”
Clay Ryan, chief lobbyist for the University of Alabama and a veteran of the state’s politics, described Sessions’ situation as the main force that will shape the primary. He said Sessions holds an “unofficial first right of first refusal” on the race.
“I think there are a number of potential candidates that will want to understand what Attorney General Sessions' intentions are with respect to the race before they make any decisions,” Ryan said.
Republicans in Alabama are mixed on whether he will, or should, mount a bid. GOP supporters note that Sessions has always enjoyed legislating more than campaigning. Skeptics point to his age, and say his tenure as attorney general likely represents the apex of his career.
Republicans are desperate to avoid a repeat of 2017, when Roy Moore defeated appointed Sen. Luther Strange in the primary, then went on to lose to Jones amid accusations that he preyed upon teenage girls. Republicans are confident they’ll take the seat absent another nightmare scenario.
“Too early to prognosticate on ... Sessions’ plans. Republican will win the seat so long as that republican is not named Roy Moore,” Strange told POLITICO in an email.
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By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and CAITLIN OPRYSKO
Trump‘s soured view of the former Alabama senator hasn't hurt Sessions' standing there, said Republican strategist Chris Brown.
“They love Trump here but don't pick on our boy Jeff Sessions,” Brown said.
But other Alabama Republicans think Trump would back another candidate over Sessions, which could create a nasty race, said Steve Raby, an Alabama Republican strategist.
“If Sessions wants to run I expect them [the White House] to pick them a candidate and bash Sessions for a year-and-a-half,” Raby said. “If Jeff is good in the way he approaches it, we will defend one of our own.”
Republicans operatives in Washington are eager to avoid that scenario, and hope that any potential animosity between Trump and Sessions is cleared up before he decides on a run.
For members of the Alabama congressional delegation, a shot at a Senate seat is especially tempting now that the alternative is toiling away in the House minority. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) was also seen as a potential candidate, but Republicans now doubt he will run after he was elected to chair the House Republican Policy Committee last week.
Brooks, meanwhile, didn’t shoot down the idea of running against Jones.
“Too many uncertainties,” Brooks said in a text message. “Senate? My intention right now is run for reelection to the House."
Marsh has told fellow Alabama lawmakers that he would step down from his leadership spot in the next two years, a move Republicans see as a signal that Marsh is plotting out a timeline for a Senate run.
Marsh told POLITICO in an interview he is taking a look at running against Jones, but hedged on whether he would challenge Sessions if he ran. Marsh said his combination of business and political experience would make him an obvious ally to Trump in the Senate.
“You have to look at a pathway to victory and see if you can get there,” Marsh said. “I don't want to get into a race I don't have any chance to win.”
Some Republican donors and political figures have also been reaching out to Ainsworth, who was elected to be the state’s lieutenant governor last week, to urge him to consider launching a bid, according to a source familiar with the conversations.
Jones became a top GOP target the minute he won the Senate seat. Alabama Democrats had hoped Jones‘ victory in 2017 would energize the party going into this year’s midterm elections. But Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, a Democrat, was handily defeated by incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey, and Bob Vance, the Democratic nominee for the state Supreme Court, lost decisively to Republican Tom Parker.
Still, Jones is keeping his political operation running in preparation for a reelection campaign. Throughout 2018, he used his valuable fundraising email list to help other Democratic senators up for reelection. He remains close to Giles Perkins, his 2017 campaign chairman, and Democratic strategist Joe Trippi is also in the loop. Jones’ has over $2 million going into 2019, according to campaign finance filings, and he paid $26,000 to a polling firm earlier this year.
“I don’t think you can ever count Doug Jones out,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster based in Alabama.
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Science-Fiction: What could impede the use of electricity on half of Mars?
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mars science fiction
Hello. I’m a new addition to the board, and if I’ve posted in the wrong place or this is otherwise unwelcome, please PM me and let me know.
I’m a writer and I’m working on a science-fiction novel set on Mars in the distant future. I can gather most of the information on the planet, the requirements for living on it, and the theories on terraforming elsewhere, but I have one problem for which I would appreciate the input of more knowledgeable people.
I have need for a plausible explanation on why half the world would be able to use electricity and the other would not. I have toyed with the idea of random electromagnetic pulses (or a constant electromagnetic pulse) that interferes with the majority of electrical devices and equipment, though as I understand it, older and solid state technology might be immune to electromagnetic pulse. My question, I suppose, is what explanation in our modern technology would explain the occurrence of repetitive electromagnetic pulses? I’m foregoing nuclear explosions, and I would prefer as natural a phenomenon as readers would find believable. Theory is quite welcome if nothing in our reality could cause such events.
Any response is welcome. If the novel is published, I would be happy to include people in a “special thanks” page for contributions that help me create this world. Thanks, everyone.
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Drakkith
I can't think of anything natural and realistic without messing with Mars orbital characteristics and the Sun. Perhaps Mars has tilted on its axis so that one pole faces the Sun at all times, as well as the Sun putting out far more solar flares and CME's that would cause technology to be near useless. There's also man-made things, such as subterfuge by a controlling organization or some long lost technology.
twofish-quant
Rando said:
I have need for a plausible explanation on why half the world would be able to use electricity and the other would not.
It's easier to come up with sociological or political reasons than physics reasons. Assume that half of Mars is settled by Amish farmers. Alternatively assume some political reason (i.e. half of Korea has cell phones and internet, the other half doesn't.)
Also, it's very likely that it's going to be very hard to create a power grid, so it's possible that half of Mars can't use electricity because the power lines haven't gotten set up.
My question, I suppose, is what explanation in our modern technology would explain the occurrence of repetitive electromagnetic pulses? I’m foregoing nuclear explosions, and I would prefer as natural a phenomenon as readers would find believable. Theory is quite welcome if nothing in our reality could cause such events.
One problem with nuclear explosions is that without a magnetic field or atmosphere, a nuclear explosion won't produce an EMP.
atrchi
Were you thinking that the half would be a contiguous hemisphere? I don't think that makes sense. Instead, the area would need to be something like a band around the equator or a radius around each of the poles, adding up to half of the planet's area.
If I were you I would try to elaborate some ideas around Tin Whiskers: http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/
Imagine Tin Whiskers were more prevalent and more pernicious in Mars due to the low gravity, terraformed atmosphere, lack of magnetic field, solar interference, unexplained causes, etc, in some way correlated to the geographic latitude. Perhaps those same areas are rich in some valuable rare element, giving your book characters a reason to live there...
Electricity would be deemed expensive and unsafe on those affected parts of the planet, perhaps on par with nuclear energy on earth - requiring expert engineering, special government permission, etc. So even though electricity would "work", it really wouldn't be available to the whole population. Perhaps it's something only the military and criminals would have access in serious applications, and even then it still would be dangerous and unreliable? There would be no electric grid. Battery-operated appliances brought from other parts of the planet would die out within a few minutes of operation, leaving an unmistakable smell of ionized metal in the (man-mixed) air :-) There would be horrible stories of people poked in the eye by a tin whisker suddenly growing out of clandestinely imported electrical equipment. Eventually the population just gives up and anyone seen with playing with electricity or illicit electrical devices is immediately suspected of terrorism and arrested.
Let me know if you use the ideas... I'd like a copy of your book :) Thanks
Nimbian
it Does not need to be EMP at all, and Atrchi's suggestion merits investigation.
One Idea I had is the continuous sand storms generating an overwhelming amount of atmospheric static electricity. Without a relatively high moisture content in the air to act as a ready made conduit to the ground this likely means the lighting on mars could be more significant (or not to actual knowledge here)
Metal Attracts lighting strikes, Free electricity you say? not if it hits a vehicle with delicate electronics. And Lighting Towers would require constant attention to make sure they function. Damage from Melting and corrosion being significant. Power lines would also be venerable to Corrosion and these strikes causing overloads, all which could damage electronics and maybe even melt the line.
The only real solution would either bury your settlements to reduce damage (which isn't always viable) or to make settlements with as little metal parts as possible. (Probably using Ceramic Composites or plastic/Plastic substitutes. (there is a Company in Europe some where I heard that is making plastics from Olives.)
Anyway thats my two cents
Ryan_m_b
How would people survive on Mars without electricity to power their closed ecosystems? Or are you envisioning this so far in the future that the planet has been terraformed to the extent that hunter gatherers could thrive? If the latter then the huge scientific and industrial capacity that the setting's civilisation clearly has would trump most obstacles like this.
My advice would be to go for some sort of authoritarian intervention. A terraformed planet would have all the necessary components for near total control, ultra-low powered micro-UAVs the size of small insects could allow total surveillance across the planet (look up smart dust for similar ideas) which would be necessary for the study and regulation of the various ecosystems. Settlements would likewise have ubiquitous monitoring as in the early days they would be dependent on it for ensuring environmental control. You could posit a regime that cuts off services and technology to various regions of the planet as punishment or preventative measures for stopping uprisings (of course mass stinging with nerve agent by the micro-UAVs would work too...)
I think what we really need is more "Setting" information. What time Frame are we looking at? How Colonized is Mars A few Hundred, Few Thousands? or millions and billions? For how long? why is "Half a world with out Power" is required? is this temporary? or permanently?
Also, there is many ways People can survive without electrical power, it just requires other ways of storing and releasing the energy, Chemical storage comes to mind as the easiest to achieve. Not to say it would be easy to design, Build, or even very safe to operate but building a car with no metal is possible.
Many systems could use Mechanical Computers, and control systems. All this can be accomplished by using non metals or non conductive materials, such as plastics or ceramics.
The Atmosphere can be accounted for in the design, and plantlife (algae or even food plants) can provide all the O2 a person needs to breath. There is no such thing as a closed ecosystem. or really a closed system anything out side of theoretical models. The best one can hope for is a self-sustaining system where the system provides all the material for maintaining said system, this still requires Energy input as well as "waste" management (usually thermal).
I'm not saying it would be a pleasant life, but many humans thrive in harsh environments. look at any people that live within the arctic circle. or in the Gobi or Sahara Deserts
Here's another idea. Assuming your setting is a terraformed Mars, it might include a man-made planetary magnetic field to keep solar flares from eroding the atmosphere. Perhaps the planetary magnetic field technology is so 'primitive' that it creates problems for electricity on half the planet (some of the earlier comments apply).
ReaverKing
I've got three ideas (and counting:
1. "Prison Planet" - in the original novelization of "the Postman" there are no more radio stations. The protagonist makes up a theory that orbital-based weapons are programmed to home in on and attack any sources of radio waves. He doesn't know but the other characters just buy into it. Targetting any large-scale power plant from orbit with kinetic or nuclear weapons or reentry-capable rocket would be child's play for a civilization that's regularily transhipping goods and colonists between Earth and Mars.
2. "Orbital Jamming" - a variant of Prison Planet. A derilict space ship or purpose-made satelite is emitting huge quantities of electromagnetic radiaton or radioactive particles into the upper atmosphere. Without a magnetic field or atmosphere to speak of, Mars would not produce the hemisphere-wide corona that setting off nukes in the Van Allen belts would but its possible it could elevate the background electromagnetic field directly underneath it. (the power output would have to be beyond the pale or rediculous)
3. "Superstorm" - I remember a book series (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars) where colonists on Mars dug a thermal borehole in order to terraform Mars. The result was a decades-long storm that covered a significant portion of the planet. The rising heat from the borehole created a weather system that generated huge winds and electrical activity. As mentioned above, lots of lightning won't eliminate ALL electrical usage but goodbye radio transmissions and goodbye surface power grids.
4. "metal-eating microbes" - pure cheese but it works. On earth, post of our power sources are made of zinc, copper and iron. Having an area teeming with bacteria that use one fo these metals as a metabolite drastically shortens the operating life of almost any object powered by electricity:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/11/new-metal-eating-bacteria-found-on-titanic/
http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/47950-metal-eating-bacteria/
There would also be all kinds of other consequences as well but preventing the inhabitants of a contaminated area from "sterilizing" the bacteria (either through extremely hardy/resistant bacteria or lack of access to sterilizing agents/equipment) would be all you need to severely handicap the development of widespread use of electricity in that area.
Everyone: Thanks for the replies on my post, your time and your knowledge and invention. I should have responded sooner, but I did want to give everyone a chance to interact with each other and all.
For the purposes of my sci-fi world, I am planning on a full hemisphere lacking electricity, but it’s not necessary that it be so precise as it starts at the 0-degree longitudinal line and extends to the 180-degree line. Say that the western hemisphere doesn’t have electricity, the eastern does, and at least as characters discuss the matter conversationally, that will be an accurate description. The shape and concentration of this “dead space” will be determined by the solution I ultimately rely on.
For the sake of understanding what I’m planning, imagine one-half of the planet Mars living in the 23rd century, the other half living in the equivalent of 19th-century England. My thought so far is that terraforming has been ongoing for about two-hundred years, the process is still happening, allowing enough air for moving around without oxygen masks, enough atmospheric pressure to excuse the use of suits, heat to allow warm temperatures, but especially in the west, more deserts than oases or jungles. Small farms, ranches, that kind of thing would supply food for the have-nots of the western hemisphere. I’ve also toyed with the idea of forming oceans on the planet, maybe from engineered crashes of comets, that sort of thing, to supply the water. I’m not imagining the coverage of oceans we have here on earth, but more than Mars could naturally supply. At least, that idea will live or die depending on how ridiculous it sounds to the more astronomically-inclined than me.
In the end, I’m going for plausible more than 100%-provable estimations on Mars of the future. A “warp drive” solution, something that can be hypothesized, even if it’s not likely to hold when vetted over the next hundred years.
My three ideas (maybe two in combination with each other) have magnetic fields/pulses, thunderstorms, and human factors to explain the absence of electricity. Posts have been great at suggesting these things, and fleshing out some vague ideas I’ve had. As atrchi suggested, a man-made magnetic field that’s either flawed or degenerates, or is made with the intention to supply the east at the expense of the west, that seems to be strongest idea for me so far. I’m quite intrigued by the “tin whiskers” mentioned as well—I will look into those, see how likely the production of metals on my fictional Mars will jibe with that idea, how the east might overcome the problem while the west cannot. I’ve had ideas about random pulses (of a non-nuclear origin) that also knock out devices, but the corrupt man-made magnetic field might explain something like that better. Nimbian’s notion of high static electricity caused by sand storms causing eroding or overloading of electric components as well. I’ve had thoughts that maybe the introductions of oceans leads to bad rain and lightning storms that produce similar effects in the western hemisphere, but not the eastern.
I’ve also thought, as far as the human factor goes, there is less of an authoritarian intervention and more of a prohibition mindset. For people living without electricity on a planet that isn’t ripe with food and comfort, a large contingent believing the wealth and luxury of the eastern hemisphere is sinful could be an explanation for why there aren’t more attempts to introduce electricity into the landscape. I think this works best with some initial limitation, hence working in combination with one or more of the ideas I mentioned above.
That’s where I am with the scientific background of the book at the moment. I imagine I’ll eventually produce five books set in the world, and I’d like to start the first in September. I have the outline already written, awaiting any revision that needs to be done in the wake of the background ideas I use.
Again, thanks for the ideas, they’ve really made me think about the possibilities. PM me if you would like your names to appear in the “special thanks” page, I would be happy to recognize you.
A quick post as I'm short on time. Given the Martian Dichotomy Rather than East/West have you thought about North/South? The drastic differences between these two hemispheres are more significant and could play into your story.
Also I'm wondering how believable it is that so much effort would be put into terraforming and colonising another planet only to allow half of it to be a sparsely populated low tech zone. It seems to me that whatever the reason the technologically advanced half (as well as the nations elsewhere in the system that I presume undertook this terraform endeavour) would be constantly working to solve the problem and move in. That could even be an interesting plot device as the "pastoral" characters lament that this phenomenon is all that keeps them "free".
On the ocean side you are definitely going to need them. Without a hydrological cycle you won't get a biosphere and without that no one is going to survive outside of a technologically advanced closed-ecosystem.
Lastly whatever phenomenon it is giving a reason as to why the other hemisphere is immune is going to be important. Because of this anything that could affect the whole world (magnetic field etc) probably isn't that useful.
Nimbian said:
Closed just means no mass comes in or out, energy still can (one where neither go in or out is called an isolated system). Earth is pretty much a closed ecosystem, we get some asteroid matter in and atmosphere blowing off but it's inconsequential wrt to the biosphere.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Mars has either en extremely weak or no magnetic field. Eath's magnetic field is what keeps Earth relatively safe from solar radiation. Mars has the advantage of distance.
what if there were some (phenominally difficult) means of generating or enhancing a magnetic field artificially? Such a field could be intermittent at times, especially if ill-maintained. That would allow magnetic phenomena like auroras at the magnetic poles, as well as magnetic fluctuations that could impair electric devices. At this point though, you're entering the realm of "force fields".
Those living at the equator would see minimal interruption but those at the north or south could face frequent interruption.
A society deliberately abandoning maintenance on some "dark tower" or network of magnetic field generators for quasi-religious reasons would surely piss off the rest of the planet (after all, they're endangering others). The only serious problem with that is that the high-tech "side" would still be capable of vastly superior materials science (i.e. soldiers with factory-built automatic weapons and body armor vs hand-made leather jerkins, homespun shirts and hand-made AK-47s). An unstable magnetic field won't level the playing field against a bullet that can be fired from over 2-3 miles away (lower Martian gravity means less bullet arc and longer flying times. A trained Martian Sniper would be scary and the high-tech side would have far more accurate weapons).
ReaverKing said:
The only serious problem with that is that the high-tech "side" would still be capable of vastly superior materials science (i.e. soldiers with factory-built automatic weapons and body armor vs hand-made leather jerkins, homespun shirts and hand-made AK-47s). An unstable magnetic field won't level the playing field against a bullet that can be fired from over 2-3 miles away (lower Martian gravity means less bullet arc and longer flying times. A trained Martian Sniper would be scary and the high-tech side would have far more accurate weapons).
I expect that in the nearish future guns and foot soldiers will be mostly for show or niche applications as drones from insect to B52 size take over all other roles. A society that can terraform a planet doesnt strike me as the kind that would still be waring with bullets anymore than we fight with sticks and stones lol.
To quote more authors than I can even remember:
There will ALWAYS be a need for soldiers on the battlefield.
Any sort of remote-control aircraft, vehicle or humanoid surrogate will only take you so far. Transmissions can be jammed and any kind of fully-autonomous or swarm-logic war machine is a flat-out TERRIBLE idea. You immediately run into the Frankenstien's monster problem of creating a weapon you can't destroy should something go wrong OR a weapon with an obvious achiles heel the rest of the time.
In fact, the BOLO series is based largely upon that very problem. No matter how vestigial, a human pilot or operator will always be a necessary component of a weapons system. After all, mankind has had 10,000 years or more to learn the ins and outs of the way humans fail. An automated drone will surprise us in new ways for at least as long.
And then there's the specific problem posed in this thread of a society living in an area where automated war machines simply can't venture without being destroyed. Human footsoldiers would be the only option no matter how "antiquated". To quote a phrase...
I think that depends highly on what you define as the battlefield. Drone operators can sit in Nevada while their aircraft fights a war across the globe. Are they in the battlefield?
Any sort of remote-control aircraft, vehicle or humanoid surrogate will only take you so far.
Currently yes. But we have no idea what the capabilities of future technology will be.
Transmissions can be jammed and any kind of fully-autonomous or swarm-logic war machine is a flat-out TERRIBLE idea. You immediately run into the Frankenstien's monster problem of creating a weapon you can't destroy should something go wrong OR a weapon with an obvious achiles heel the rest of the time.
Weapons are not "all or none" objects. Even a glaring weakness can be compensated for by various means including tactics, strategy, and especially upgrades.
I seriously doubt you can reasonably justify this. A work of science fiction does not count as reasonable justification, they are meant to explore different themes and other matters, not provide technical details on realistic future possibilities.
Bah humbug.
I had a huge post explaining the Math behind this but I a apparently used the window by accident for research.
In Human history guerrilla forces have had a long and mostly successful conflicts. Almost by definition they are a Lower tech force engaging a Higher tech force.
Long Story Short I had all the math and all the steps as I worked on it for an Hour before I lost it here is the highlights of ReaverKing's AK47 vs "Unknown Energy Weapon"
The below Logic experiment uses the Effective range and time of AK47 Bullets as the target Standard.
The Proposed armor is a Plate of Silicon Carbide ceramic, weighing 5kg, (I understand that design would play a critical role in how much a armor would be able to take, But for simplicity sake the above is a solid Brest plate.) at the Edge of effective range for the AK-47, 400m. One shot will take 0.55 Sec to reach its target
To Melt 5kg of Silicon Carbide (a commonly used Ceramic in today's armor) it takes 8308 kJ
To pass thru a Volume of air (without deviation) that is a cylinder that is 1cm in diameter, while only raising the air temperature 100c Costs approx 7.485 kJ
Meaning each shot costs 8315.485kJ per shot. or aprox 15.12 Megawatts. (W=Jules/Seconds) or 94.34 MeV
A typical wind turbine (or wind energy converter) has a power capacity of 1 to 3 MW
you would Need 5 - 15 Wind turbines to power your "Lethal Flashlight"
The total amount of energy produced in the 21H + 32He reaction is 18.4 MeV, which corresponds to some 493 megawatt-hours (4.93×108 W·h) per three grams (one mole) of ³He. (Source)
Using the Above reaction (provided you got is shrunk down to a portable size.) Each Shot would still consume roughly 15g of fuel.
The Typical Projectile for an Ak47 weighs 8g
We can't know that and as Drakkith points out there are subtlies. To expand a bit the definition of a battlefield can change as can the role and definition of a soldier. It seems likely that IRL within a few decades teams of soldiers will be directly supported by a variety of drones ranging from the size of fighter jets to micro air vehicles the size of birds or even insects. In many situations a soldier may be relegated to giving orders to the drones in real time as they track the progress.
I don't see how that necessarily follows. You seem to have made a jump from autonomous drone to self-perpetuating conscious entity.
You realise the fallacy of making absolute claims about the future right? Also the 10,000 years figure is misleading. Firstly our species is far older and secondly it really isn't that hard to envision machines easily programed to kill humans. Attach an Xbox Kinect to a gun and program to shoot in the middle (a silly example but it illustrates the point).
The original point of bringing drones into the conversation was to suggest a mechanism by which a population was kept subdued.
I was originally upset but its almost refrereshing to have to completely clarify my reasoning like this... almost.
The original post in this thread was looking for ways to suppress devices that used electricity over the majority of a planetary hemispehere. Said suppression of electronic computers or electrically-powered machines means that any kind of automated drone force would simply break down or cease to function upon entering the "suppressed" zone. Barring some really creative engineering involving diesel engines and photon-based computers, I cannot think of any type of "drone" more advanced than a kite or hot air balloon that would function in such an environment. A drone or robot army operating in such an area is a bit of a non-sequiter.
Secondly, I am aware that fiction is not fact. The reason I use fiction as an example is because I have a fine arts background and I feel that saying "we have no idea what the capabilities of future technology will be" is just a way of saying "Shut up and stop speculating". My intention in bringing up works of fiction is to compare themes in fiction to the issue under discussion. While the technical challenges inherent in developing autonomous weapons are many, the issue of controlling and deploying such devices in the field are another set altogether. The BOLO series deals with primarily the second category.
For starters there are questions like: how do you turn the weapon on? How do you turn it off? How do you keep the enemy from using it or turning it off? What happens if the weapon mistakes your troops for the enemy? How do you keep the enemy from exploiting any fail-safes that protect your own troops? What happens when the weapon loses contact with the human operator (if any)? These questions do not require detailed technological answers to reveal that small changes in design strongly impact the usability, effectiveness, and reliability of any weapons system from rocks to fighter jets to nuclear bombs. Is the device some sort of Nimean Lion or Death Star that is invulnerable save for some intentionally included or overlooked flaw that renders it far less effective than it otherwise could have been? Or is it just as unstoppable if it is turned against you instead of your enemies? Despite chasing it to the North Pole, Frankensiten was ultimately unable to destroy the monster he had created. Intelligence in this context is secondary to the inability to stop your own creationg from turning against you.
As the destructive potential of a weapon rises or the human control over a weapons system is reduced, there is an increased risk of a fault with the device leading to ever-increasing levels of disaster. New safeguards can be installed after the fact but preventing the disaster by requiring a human input is a time-tested safeguard in and of iteself. Sure an army of Terminators is easy to imagine. That doesn't mean anyone short of a madman will build them without requiring them to have direct oversight by a human operator. "Direct" in this case beign a somewhat flexible term. I see real-world StarCraft long, long before Skynet. Probably Forever.
That is why I make the claim that a weapons system that does not include a human operator carries significantly more (and largely unnecessary) risk to both sides of a conflict than any weapons system that does. It may lean toward being a moral position but it is still fact that at least as far as we can project, a human operator of some kind operating a weapon from within the combat space or remote-operating a weapons system from outside the combat space (which is what I meant by "on the battlefield") will remain a necessary safeguard on all weapons systems. Probably Forever.
Two things Reaver. First, you may be talking about THEMES, but I feel this thread is more about the technical aspects and not about the themes.
Second, your idea that not including a human operator increases the risk to both sides of a conflict is pure speculation and focuses only on the negative possibilities. Have you considered that automated weapons may be MORE BENEFICIAL to both sides? Or that new weapons may not be more destructive, but LESS destructive? Weapons of massive destructive potential are NOT as useful as they once were. That is why the military developed guided weapons; to reduce expenditure of resources, to reduce collateral damage, to reduce non-combatant casualties of the enemy nation, etc
Along that line perhaps you should center your Electricity free zone around the Hellas Basin
For the following reason
Surprisingly, many of the dust storms on the planet originate from one impact basin. Hellas Basin is the deepest impact crater in the Solar System. It was formed more than three billion years ago during the Late Bombardment Period when a very large asteroid hit the surface of Mars. The temperatures at the bottom of the crater can be 10 degrees warmer than on the surface and the crater is deeply filled with dust. The difference in temperature fuels wind action that picks up the dust, then storm emerge from the basin.
I'm sorry you felt upset, perhaps there has been some misunderstanding but no one was posting with any malice.
If you look back at post 6 you'll see that drones came into this discussion because I was proposing them as the reason for a lack of electricity. The rationale was that trying to come up with a natural phenomenon isn't going to work but a man made one might. The suggestion was for one hemisphere to suppress the other, this is accomplished by limiting their technology which in turn is accomplished by having drones everywhere snooping on what people are doing and destroying any attempt to develop.
Secondly, I am aware that fiction is not fact. The reason I use fiction as an example is because I have a fine arts background and I feel that saying "we have no idea what the capabilities of future technology will be" is just a way of saying "Shut up and stop speculating".
I really didn't mean it that way. When I said be wary of making absolutes about the future I meant it literally. It was not a way of getting you to shut up at all but a means by which to point out that absolute statements are flawed and we should acknowledge that if we are going to make them.
My intention in bringing up works of fiction is to compare themes in fiction to the issue under discussion. While the technical challenges inherent in developing autonomous weapons are many, the issue of controlling and deploying such devices in the field are another set altogether. The BOLO series deals with primarily the second category.
For starters there are questions like: how do you turn the weapon on? How do you turn it off? How do you keep the enemy from using it or turning it off? What happens if the weapon mistakes your troops for the enemy? How do you keep the enemy from exploiting any fail-safes that protect your own troops? What happens when the weapon loses contact with the human operator (if any)? These questions do not require detailed technological answers to reveal that small changes in design strongly impact the usability, effectiveness, and reliability of any weapons system from rocks to fighter jets to nuclear bombs.
These are indeed good questions but not insurmountable ones. Over the past decade or so military use of drones for intelligence and combat has skyrocketed. I've seen estimates range from 30-50% as to how much of the US warplane fleet is unmanned and that's now. Considering the civilian drone industry is only just beginning to take off (pardon the punn ) it seems like these problems are already being overcome somewhat. You do make good points though and there are interesting considerations like what should a drone be programed to do if it looses contact for a set amount of time? How will cyberwarfare affect this type of combat, will trying to hack and jam the enemies drones as well as protect your own from these things dominate as well as the drones fighting themselves?
Is the device some sort of Nimean Lion or Death Star that is invulnerable save for some intentionally included or overlooked flaw that renders it far less effective than it otherwise could have been? Or is it just as unstoppable if it is turned against you instead of your enemies? Despite chasing it to the North Pole, Frankensiten was ultimately unable to destroy the monster he had created. Intelligence in this context is secondary to the inability to stop your own creationg from turning against you.
Whilst that is a consideration it only really applies to strong (conscious) AI or some sort of superweapon. Both are questionable as to whether or not they would be desirable or possible. You don't want conscious AI because aside from the fact it's not clear if consciousness is necessary for high intelligence you have ethical and emotional problems to deal with. Superweapons also don't make much sense because outside of soft-SF I can't think of an example where a weapon was made that wasn't incrementally better than those proceeding it. Even a nuclear bomb doesn't really count because it's not like it came with a hypersonic invinsible stealth jet that couldn't be detected or shot down.
As Drakkith said destructive potential has not been the primary goal of weapon science for a long time, precision striking has. Sure the weapons of a modern jet are more destructive than the generation preceeding it but that improvement is mild (at best) compared to their accuracy, range, speed etc. Along similar lines research into less lethal weapons for the military, police and civilians has come along quite a lot and in interesting ways. With drone technology continuing along with these it's not unreasonable to envision them allowing far more effective and bloodless combat (need to take out a dictator? Send a MAV the size of a hummingbird to fly through his window at night and inject him with tetratoxin).
As far as the weapon being turned back on the owners well just don't make it too powerful and there isn't much of a problem. If one of your unmanned tanks is hacked and starts firing on the others it's just one tank, take it out with your other weapons and defend against it in future.
How do you mesh this with the fact that even today it is not true? That there are drones that are capable of only taking orders and aren't just flown remotely?
Also consider this: at the moment a human in a jet would win in a fight with a UAV probably all the time. But what if that becomes not true, what if drones in the future are faster and smarter (in aerial combat, don't expect a thrilling critique of economic austerity) than humans and can network together to work as one? In this scenario a country that tries to include humans in the mix will be handicapping themselves. Essentially what we have here is an arms race away from humans. Nation A might well be making the less risky choice of having humans in the mix but when Nation B's autonomous drones invade and outcompete that's not going to be much comfort.
I think a lot of the misunderstanding here comes from my own conversations with Reaverking over the years. And the nearly endless arguments we've had over this particular part of Computer technology.
For Clarification he might have been seeing AI as what we've termed True AI, as verses an Expert system. if your familiar with the Mass Effect series then think VI, vs AI.
Also today Many military drones do use Expert systems, Drone can be programed to turn off their receiver, follow a preset flight path, drop a bomb, then when they reach a certain location turn on their receiver again and make contact with the controller.
Yet even today some Drones have been hacked, Iran Claims, to have shot down one and forced a landing of the other after hacking it.
I currently have no knowledge of any others but then I haven't looked very hard.
The Authoritarian concept mostly works, but falls down in a few areas, First you need to have Total Intelligence of what every one is doing at all times. Using Spysats would work for most application, (you can track more then the visual spectrum). But if a Cave was deep enough you could avoid the Sats, know enough about the Nanoswarms, or Mico-bots, or other drones, and you could potentially create some thing that could either detect them or shut them down (I call them Bug-zappers in my setting). If you can shut them down, potentially you can reprogram them.
Of course the question is Why would they do it? Shutting down the electricity on half a planet is overkill, but you know Shock and Awe and all that, so possible. Next question is why leave the power off? (I mean other then because you want to write a story where the power is off). If the cause also affects your own technology you wouldn't use it except as a weapon of last resort.
Now a Flip of the Coin could be that the Half the planet without electricity, did it to themselves, and no longer remember why they can't use high tech. Maybe they buried the emitter(s), or its in geosynchronous orbit over their "Hemisphere", or Multiple emitters. (orbit is unlikely since the other side would just use a Kinetic Kill weapon on the satellite)
Will try to post longer answer later but for now re: surveillance. If you're terraforming a planet you need lots of real time detail about how various ecosystems are developing. This means not only monitoring the health, spread etc of organisms but also of abiotic factors like soil pH, daily sunlight etc.
In a society technologically and industrially advanced enough to build a biosphere it's not hard to conceive of micro air vehicles the size of and disguised as insects/birds and have them literally everywhere. Like 1 per metre or more. No need to go micro sized literally.
It may not be Necessary for them to be micro sized, but they may be much more convenient.
Macro sized robotics require maintenance, or a system of recovering damaged or destroyed probes else in a few years (thinking 10-30 years) the landscape would be littered with broken machines. Micro sized are infinitely more disposable.
Also a slight flaw in your reasoning, they aren't building a Biosphere as much as modifying one. (technically we've been doing that for a few thousand years). They would be taking a Near Earth environment and making it more earth Like. (to prevent misunderstanding, I view Creating a Biosphere to be like changing the Moon to have an Earth-like ecosystem.) Not saying it wouldn't require the above level of control, but then it may not be necessary. When making a picture in MS Paint you don't need to know where every Pixel is located, until your doing finishing touches. The Above description of Mars may indicate that the process is still only half done. Of course they might just have said Good Enough, if there was some sort of rebellion or religious/pseudo religious uprising on half the planet.
A micro sized machine has very limited uses, least of all how it can actually sense. I think we're thinking along very different lines; I'm viewing the proposal as incredibly cheap, disposable and degradable micro air vehicles. If it's desirable for them to be recycled then they can just be picked up by another drone and the pieces taken to a nearby bin.
If I could point out a huge flaw in your reasoning, Mars is nowhere near Earth like. It is barely better than the Moon in the fact that it has an atmosphere and more ice but that's about it. I think you seriously misunderstand the scope of the challenge.
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RAM Ratings upgrades Mukah Power’s sukuk rating to AA1(s)
RAM Ratings has upgraded the enhanced long-term rating of Mukah Power Generation Sdn Bhd’s (MPG or the Company) RM665 mil Senior Sukuk Mudharabah Programme (2006/2021) to AA1(s), from AA2(s). Concurrently, the outlook on the rating has been revised from positive to stable. This follows the recent (in October 2019) upgrade of Sarawak Energy Berhad’s (SEB or the Group) rating, from AA1/Positive to AAA/Stable. The enhanced rating continues to reflect SEB’s strong support for MPG, which the Group owns via its 100%-held subsidiary, SEB Power Sdn Bhd.
MPG is a power producer incorporated to construct, own, operate and maintain a 270 MW coal-fired power plant in Mukah, Sarawak, under a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Syarikat SESCO Berhad (SESCO) - a wholly owned subsidiary of SEB and MPG’s sole off-taker. The PPA will expire on 15 January 2034.
To boost its financial performance, MPG inked a new PPA with SESCO, which took effect on 1 January 2018. SEB and SESCO have demonstrated their support through an equity injection, a Supplementary Agreement to increase tariffs and the exclusion of major overhaul downtime - under scheduled outages - in the computation of the equivalent availability factor and capacity payments (CPs) of MPG’s plant (the Plant) for a specific span in 2016. These forms of support are further backed by a Letter of Support (LoS) from SESCO dated 21 August 2013, under which SESCO undertakes to ensure that MPG meets its financial obligations throughout the tenure of the Senior Sukuk.
Under the new PPA terms, MPG’s exposure to demand risk remains minimal. The Company is entitled to full CPs, subject to meeting certain performance requirements. MPG is also entitled to Energy Payments for electricity sold and is expected to be able to fully pass through its fuel cost - so long as the Plant operates within the allowable heat rates under its PPA.
Despite MPG’s volatile performance as well as its fluctuating capital and operating expenses in the last few years – due to the absence of an operation and maintenance agreement – its top line and OPBDIT margin improved a respective 11.7% and 33.7% y-o-y in FY Dec 2018, following an upward tariff revision under its new PPA. A similar trend is observable for 1H FY Dec 2019. Under RAM’s conservative assumptions, which include dividend payouts, the Company is expected to register a healthy average Senior Sukuk Coverage Ratio (SSCR) of 1.40 times (with cash balances, post-distribution, calculated over a 12-month period) over the remaining Sukuk tenure.
Chong Van Nee, CFA
vannee@ram.com.my
Ratings on Mukah Power Generation Sdn Bhd
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Brazil cancels only solar and wind auction of 2016
Dec 15, 2016 9:59 AM GMT
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) called off its 2nd Reserve Energy Auction after Brazil’s economic woes. Flickr: j.m. ambriola
Brazil has cancelled its only reserve energy auction for wind and solar in 2016, due to an expected power oversupply in the country, according to a Reuters report.
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) called off its 2nd Reserve Energy Auction after Brazil’s economic woes, enhanced by the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff, had seen demand for electricity reduce over a period of two years, an MME spokesperson told Reuters.
After solar was removed from Brazil’s first reserve auction of 2016 in July, the second auction touted for both wind and solar was then set back to 19 December and has now been removed altogether.
Developers building projects in Brazil’s first ever renewables auction in 2014 have faced their own problems with delays again as a result of a major slump of the Brazilian currency over the last two years.
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Banks Tap FinTechs For Remittance Overhaul
By PYMNTS
The cross-border payment market is thriving, and trends are expected to continue over the next few years. In fact, cross-border payments are expected to reach $240 billion in value by 2024.
For these transactions to run smoothly, however, communication must remain seamless and secure. Companies separated across borders want payments to be delivered on time so they can meet their payment deadlines, access capital and deliver products in a timely fashion. The new Smarter Payments Tracker highlights the infrastr ucture developments that are making cross-border payment systems faster, more seamless and interoperable.
Around the Smarter Payments World
A group of Nordic banks have selected Mastercard to overhaul its financial services operations for the region. Nordic bank-backed initiative P27 was launched to update the region’s aging infrastructure with a platform that enables real-time payments from different markets. Financial institutions (FIs) that use the platform can also access data that can be used to pursue new revenue opportunities.
In Southeast Asia, FinTech InstaReM recently released a new platform of its own. The platform, which relies on InstaReM’s existing global digital ecosystem that supports payments and remittances, enables companies to more easily issue branded cards without having to obtain multiple licenses. The cards issued through the platform can be used as virtual or multicurrency travel cards and allow users to earn and cash in loyalty points. The service can be accessed through an API.
Meanwhile, in the U.K., a collaboration between the nation’s Post Office and Western Union also aims to enhance cross-border payments. Under the agreement, Western Union’s cross-border money movement platform will be able to power international money transfers and payments as part of an integrated service from the Post Office’s digital channel. Users will also be able to access international payment services through an online portal.
Deep Dive: The Road to Real-Time Payments
Despite many advancements in cross-border payments, several pain points still persist. Shifting regulations and emerging technologies are enabling payments to move across borders faster, but it can be difficult to track payments as they move and achieve interoperability between different payment systems across the globe. The Tracker’s Deep Dive explores the frustrations businesses currently experience and how infrastructure upgrades could soon be implemented.
Making Global Remittances More Transparent
According to the latest World Bank data, roughly $689 billion in cross-border payments was sent last year. But the remittance market can be riddled with frictions, with senders and receivers left in the dark over the state of a transfer and often caught off-guard by fees. In the Tracker feature story, Khun Sarintorn, VP of international remittance business solution head for Thailand-based Kasikornbank, explains how the bank’s collaborations with FinTechs is helping to make overseas transfers more transparent and efficient.
About the Smarter Payments
The Smarter Payments Tracker, a PYMNTS and InstaReM collaboration, is a go-to monthly resource for staying up to date on global payments landscape developments. The Tracker explores how smooth payment flows can offer ecosystems improved speed, security and insights.
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Oath Pizza Artfully Balances Classic and Unique
The brand likes to offer LTOs with a local twist.
Menu Innovations August 2019
Oath Pizza
Oath’s crust is seared in avocado oil.
Originally started as a small seaside shack on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, Oath Pizza has grown to 12 company-owned locations and 40 franchises mainly along the East Coast. The brand believes guests are looking for classics alongside new and unique flavor combinations, as well as the ability to customize and personalize orders. The team, then, seeks to give customers it all. Each location offers a build-your-own station that allows guests to level up pies with premium toppings like house-made truffle spread, pickled onions, white beans, or humanely raised, GMO-free proteins.
Oath’s pizza crust is also a unique draw, as it is hand-stretched, grilled, and seared in avocado oil. “This serves as the base for all of our craft pizza creations, both savory and sweet,” says Josh Huggard, manager of operational services. “It’s lighter for a flavor that feels satisfying, yet guilt-free.”
To keep guests coming back and to drum up interest for what’s to come, Oath likes to offer LTOs with a local twist, like the Reuben Pizza, which was presented in partnership with Dickson’s Farmstand Meats in New York City; the Mr. Crunch pizza made with Cape Cod chips; and the Crazy Caprese summer heirloom tomato pizza, made with fresh mozzarella from Narragansett Creamery in Providence, Rhode Island. And, for Pride Month in June, the brand’s company-owned locations offered a sweet Choc Full of Pride Cookie Pizza made with ricotta, cookie dough, powdered sugar, and rainbow sprinkles. Twenty-five percent of the profits went back to local LGBTQ organizations.
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It is eighteen years since Chef Andrew Frost from Aberthaw was an apprentice in a Cardiff kitchen. Back in 1999, during the Rugby World Cup, he trained under Martin Green at St David’s Hotel. He honed his craft as the years went by in some of Europe’s most celebrated restaurants; Auberge du Lac, Petrus, and Le Cinq at the Hotel George V in Paris, to name but a few. Following a period at the helm of his own restaurant in the city of lights, the Welshman has now come home. Still only 34 years old, he’s now Head Chef at the Park House Restaurant on Park Place; I’m delighted to say that Paris’ loss is Cardiff’s gain.
Two months into his tenure, it was my absolute pleasure to experience his 7 course Autumn Tasting Menu. With an emphasis on sourcing the best ingredients available, it combines the freshest flavours from Wales, and beyond, with French flair and savoir faire. Prior to the meal, I savoured a Maple Syrup Manhattan at the restaurant’s stunning new bar upstairs; reminiscent of a bittersweet Old Fashioned, it warmed the cockles on a crisp autumn eve. And following the restaurant’s recent inclusion on a list of the 100 best wine restaurants in the world, I chose the wine pairings menu as well.
What an audacious return home for the ‘Chef Gallois’, a mere eight weeks after crossing the channel, with a knock-out autumn menu that left me aching for winter to come. If it’s been some time since you enjoyed the Gothic splendour of Park House, make it a priority to visit at once. Chef Andrew Frost is a master at work, and with big plans for Cardiff, he’s only just begun.
Park House Restaurant 20 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3DG Tel. 029 2022 4343
I am an avowed carnivore, but it was the menu’s seafood dishes that blew me away, and underscored the playful pleasure of some very unexpected winepairings. I relished the Cornish crab-meat cone, as well as the sweet Scottish hand-dived scallop, but the Penarth Sea Bass, served with Pembrokeshire sea herbs and heritage carrots, was a dream I dearly hope to re-live. I was pleasantly surprised that it was matched with a Hush Heath Estate ‘Manor’ Pinot Noir, full of lip-smacking berry flavours, and the fact that the wine was from Kent was a revelation.
The Paimpol beans with truffles was a comforting treat, as was the divine Brecon Venison served with smoked mash and plum jus. But it really was the matching wines that elevated the flavours to high heaven, especially the Spanish Priorat, which balanced the intensity of the rich game dish to a tee. A midcourse French cheese plate was a first for me, but I could have indulged the x-rated gooey-ness of the Mont d’Or Vacherin all night. And as we headed to a close, I adored the fresh combination of a fennel and pear crème brulee, followed by the intense Valrhona Chocolate Mousse with Buttermilk Ice Cream; two delicious desserts presented with a lightness of touch, that is rare.
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Children’s Ringette refers to all programs up to and including U10 and U12 programs introducing participants to the sport for the first time.
The Children’s Ringette initiative represents a concerted effort to make adjustments to ringette practices and competitions to meet the needs of children, while promoting a fun, safe and healthy environment which supports the development of physical literacy and the long-term development of all players.
Over the course of the coming seasons, a number of positive changes will be introduced including scaling the game down through the implementation of small-area games (cross-ice and half-ice ringette) and grouping participants by developmental stages rather than chronological ages.
Beginning in the 2019-20 season, all games for players under the age of 8 years old (U8 category) should be played on an area that does not exceed half the ice surface.
This change will be introduced at the U9 and U10 levels in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons respectively. If able, provinces and associations are encouraged to make this transition earlier.
Children’s Ringette Guidelines
The Children’s Ringette Guidelines intend to serve as a framework to structure Children’s Ringette programs across the country for the 2019-20 season and beyond. All local ringette associations at the U8 level and below should be implementing small-area games and are strongly encouraged to implement as many of the guidelines as possible for the 2019-20 season. These guidelines should inform future programming decisions at the local and provincial levels as the ideal to strive towards; however, it is imperative to remain flexible and adapt to the realities of your organization.
Children’s Ringette FAQ
Why small-area games?
Small-area games support development by scaling the game to the size of participants. Benefits of small-area games include:
Each player being able to spend more time with the ring, leading to improved ring control, passing and shooting skills
More opportunities to apply practiced skills
More opportunities to accelerate/decelerate and change directions reinforcing fundamental skating skills
Smaller nets provide an appropriate challenge for skaters and goalies
By changing the format of games, we hope to also influence the way practices are run. In essence, we’re changing the “test” games to better support development so that coaches who “teach to the test” will focus more on the right skills.
Each provincial ringette organization is responsible for setting their own implementation timeline. Many are moving forward faster than the national timeline. Please see the Provincial Implementation tab for an overview of each provincial ringette organization’s key activities and plans in regards to Children’s Ringette.
Small-area games were piloted across the country during the 2018/19 season, with small differences in order to identify best practices for game design. Differences included:
Size of the playing surface (not to exceed half the ice surface)
Number of players on the ice
Size of nets
Goaltending options (no goalie, rotating goalie, designated goalie)
Modified rules, including number of passes, shift lengths etc.
Feedback from the pilot programs was collected via focus groups as well as surveys from 503 players, 230 parents and 63 coaches. This feedback helped shape the Children’s Ringette Guidelines and will continue to inform the development of future resources.
The Children’s Ringette initiative continues to grow with national implementation of small-area games at the U8 level and below for the 2019-20 season
Provincial Implementation
The following is an overview of each provincial ringette organization key activities and plans in regards to Children’s Ringette. For more specifics about what is happening in your province/community please contact your provincial organization’s Children’s Ringette Lead.
Ringette British Columbia has launched a new Children’s Ringette Program with two divisions, FUNdamentals 1 and FUNdamentals 2 in place of existing U7 and U9 programs. Players are placed into divisions based on their individual skill and readiness rather than strictly age based teams.
Lead: Hannah Woodman (sportdevelopment@bcringette.org)
Since the start of the 2016-17 season, Ringette Alberta has required local associations to acquire appropriately sized nets.
In 2019-20, Ringette Alberta is beginning to phase in small-area games starting with Active Start and U10 Step 1 teams.
Lead: David Myers, Executive Director david@ringettealberta.com
Ringette Saskatchewan will be consulting with our local associations to have them review the Children’s Ringette Guidelines first and foremost with us, then work together to develop key action items and strategies so we can fully implement Ringette Canada’s mandate for the 2020/21 season with all U9 players and below using small-area games.
Lead: Carrie Livingstone (technicaldirector@ringettesask.com)
Ringette Manitoba was the first provincial organization to formally move to small-area games, when they launched the Ringette4U program in 2014. They will be continuing to offer this program in 2018-19 and beyond, while participating in the national effort to gather feedback about programs being offered and build consistency in developmental outcomes.
Ringette4U is an instructor-led ringette program focused on developing athletic abilities in children aged 3-8. Participants progress through a series of levels, identified by colours based on their skill development. A rural version allows for programs with lower numbers to be combined into a single program offering.
Lead: Melanie Reimer (ringette@sportmanitoba.ca)
Ringette Ontario will be working with its members to develop a plan to adopt small-area games province wide starting in the 2020-2021 season. This season, pilot programs will run in associations to test the use of small-area games and will gather feedback on different game formats in support of Ringette Ontario’s planning efforts.
Lead: Karla Xavier (techdirector@ringetteontario.com)
Following discussions with our local and regional associations, and in congruence with Ringette Canada’s suggestions, Ringette Québec has created a Children’s Ringette policy
in an effort to guide the development of our young players. The goal of this policy is to adapt the game of ringette to fit young participants, rather than asking them to adapt to the version of the game intended for adults. The main adaptation will be the transition to small area games for all players at the U8 level and below for the 2019-2020 season.
Website: http://www.ringuette-quebec.qc.ca/
Lead: Marie-Lyne Fortin (mlfortin@ringuette-quebec.qc.ca)
Several organizations within New Brunswick will be running programs in 2018-19. The decision to move to a small-area games format in 2018-19 rather than 2019-20 is being made on an organization by organization basis.
Lead: Rene Savoie (renlise93@gmail.com)
Ringette Nova Scotia is collaborating with ringette organizations within the Halifax Regional Municipality to run a supplementary program where players will be exposed to each game format twice over the course of the season. Sessions will be running in a loop starting in November 2018, with two organizations in attendance at each session and each organization experiencing the format twice.
Website: None at this time
Lead: Clarissa Oleksiuk (execdirector@ringette.ns.ca)
David Jones ( davidhajones@hotmail.com)
Ringette PEI will be continuing to run all events for U8 players with small-area games for the 2019-20 season.
Lead: Nicholas Longaphy (ringettepei@gmail.com)
Game and Tournament Formats
The choice of format ultimately depends on the number of players, number of teams, skill level and equipement/ice time available. Coaches and local associations are encouraged to choose from the options available, based on what works best in their setting.
Jamboree Guide
Cross-Ice Game Formats
Half-Ice Game Formats
If your association is offering a program which includes small-area games during the 2018-2019 season, we are interested in receiving your feedback. We ask you to please contact Erin Van Gulik at erin@ringette.ca
Coaching Tips and Practice Planning
Coaching small-area games is not much different than coaching a traditional game and players will quickly adjust. Here are some tricks to help you prepare.
Use small-area games in practice, don’t wait for a tournament
Start with simple rules that reinforce skill development and promote inclusiveness, then build on them. For example, every player must touch the ring, then make three passes before taking a shot etc.
Get quickly into action, then provide feedback
Keep it fun and be creative
Practice Planning
Divide the ice into two, three, four or more sections, with sections dedicated to skills and others to small-area game. Choose game rules that reinforce the skills that you are teaching during the practice.
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By ROCKET SPORTS and ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK on May 31, 2016
“Louisville: The Home Of Bourbon.
Great People. Great Food.”
Following a 2015 sellout with 50,000 in attendance, LOUDER THAN LIFE returns to Champions Park near downtown Louisville October 1 & 2, 2016 for the third annual destination festival celebrating the region’s culture and cuisine, and featuring award-winning bourbons and spirits, Gourmet Man Food, craft beer and some of the biggest names in rock music. Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold top a mindblowing music lineup of over 35 bands on three stages, with performances from Disturbed, Korn, Slayer, The Cult, Ghost, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Cheap Trick and many more.
Produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, America’s premier production company for rock music festivals, Louisville’s LOUDER THAN LIFE features a selection ofaward-winning bourbons, whiskey, spirits, craft beer, and Gourmet Man Food curated personally by festival creator Danny Wimmer, along with a powerful music lineup of rock legends and breaking talent. The festival celebrates the bourbon culture and culinary heritage of this unique American city. In 2015, Louisville was #2 on the USA Today list of Best Local Food Scenes and was featured in Time Magazine’s list of America’s Best Music Scenes.
LOUDER THAN LIFE founder and producer Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents declares, “Louisville: The home of bourbon. Great people. Great food. How can those ingredients not make a perfect place to have a festival? This is a place you have to visit if you’re a lover of bourbon, a lover of food…a lover of life. I asked my team how we could top last year’s LOUDER THAN LIFE sellout. The easy answer? Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold.”
LOUDER THAN LIFE tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 1 at Noon ET at www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com with limited quantities available at early bird discounted prices. Ticket prices will increase in the coming weeks, so fans are encouraged to buy early to save. See below for details.
The daily music lineup for LOUDER THAN LIFE is as follows:
Saturday, October 1: Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer, The Cult, The Pretty Reckless, Pierce The Veil, Cheap Trick, Chevy Metal, Anthrax, Motionless In White, Hellyeah, Sick Puppies, The Amity Affliction, Avatar, Neck Deep, Young Guns, Being As An Ocean, ’68, Twelve Foot Ninja, Dinosaur Pile Up
Sunday, October 2: Slipknot, Disturbed, Korn, Ghost, Alter Bridge, Clutch, Biffy Clyro, Pop Evil, Skillet, Sevendust, Zakk Sabbath, Parkway Drive, Trivium, KYNG, Skindred, Adelitas Way, Crobot, Smashing Satellites, Sabaton
One highlight of the Gourmet Man Food experience will be Doc Crow’s and Doc’s Cantina, featuring the cuisine of Executive Chef Jonathan Schwartz, including BBQ cheese fries, beef brisket sandwiches, and pulled pork sandwiches. In addition, a joint venture between two St. Louis based restaurants–Food Network star Tom Coghill’s Iron Barley and Bill Kunz’ Highway 61 Roadhouse–will be staging a full scale Pig Roast.
Based on over 50,000 attendees in 2015, it’s estimated that LOUDER THAN LIFE generated $13 million in economic impact to the city of Louisville, including more than $3 million in hotel revenue and more than 18,000 incremental room nights. Of those attendees, over two-thirds were from outside the Louisville area, and the majority said they came to the city specifically for the event. In addition, over 350 media were on hand to cover the second annual event, coming from around the U.S. and as far as away as the U.K., The Netherlands and Turkey.
“We decided to start a festival in Louisville because it is such a special city,” says Danny Hayes, CEO of Danny Wimmer Presents. “It has a great Mayor, hospitable local government, welcoming CVB and outstanding city services that in turn make our job really easy. We have a long term plan to grow LOUDER THAN LIFE that includes a significant increase to the economic impact we have created in just the first two years of the festival.”
“Louisville is a festival city – and LOUDER THAN LIFE, in just two years, has proven to be a huge success, both in terms of attendance and economic impact to the city. We look forward to many more years of hosting this impressive festival by the impressive Danny Wimmer Presents company,” says Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.
“We know from tourism research that attending a festival is one of the primary drivers for weekend visitation to Louisville,” says Karen Williams, President & CEO,Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau. “Hosting LOUDER THAN LIFE drives lucrative leisure business to Louisville’s hotels, restaurants and attractions.”
Here are the preliminary lists of LOUDER THAN LIFE celebrity chefs, bourbon, craft beer, and Gourmet Man Food partners:
Celebrity Chefs: Edward Lee, Tom Coghill, Bill Kunz, Jonathan Schwartz
Bourbon World presented by the Louisville Courier-Journal: Angel’s Envy, Basil Hayden’s, Benchmark, Buffalo Trace, Bulleit, Eagle Rare, Evan Williams, Four Roses, Jim Beam, Knob Creek, Maker’s Mark, Michter’s, Old Forester, Town Branch, Willett, Wild Turkey, Woodford Reserve
Whiskey & Other Spirits: Jack Daniel’s, Copper & Kings American Brandy
Gourmet Man Food Village: 502 Café, Art Eatables, Aporkalypse Now, Blackbeard Espresso, Black Rock Grille, Cheese Louise, Chicago Taste Authority, Classic Home Cookin’, The Comfy Cow, Cousins Maine Lobster, Cravin’ Cajun, Louisville Dessert Truck, Dia De Los Tamales, Doc Crow’s, Doc’s Cantina, The Duffy Shuffle, El Luchador, Gelato Gilberto, Hebro’s Kitchen, Hi-Five Doughnuts, Highway 61, Hole Mole, International Spud Station, Iron Barley, Island Noodles, Lexi Lu’s, Lil Cheezers, Longshot Lobsta, Mac’ Attack, Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen, Momma’s BBQ, Mount Olympus, Mr. G’s Kettle Corn, Pie Baby, Pollo: A Gourmet Chicken Joint, Red Top Gourmet Hot Dogs, Spotz Gelato, Spudz Chips, Louisville Sushi Truck, The Traveling Kitchen, Tumbleweed (serving Jack Daniel’s inspired food items), Up In Smoke BBQ, Zoom Zoom Yum
Craft Beer (Regional) & Artist Inspired Beverages: Alltech Lexington, Falls City Beer, Goodwood Brewing Company, Motörhead Shiraz, New Albanian Brewing Company, Trooper Beer, West Sixth
LOUDER THAN LIFE will also feature interactive experiences including: • Artist autograph signings and beverage sampling at the Monster Energy Hospitality Rig •Jack Daniel’s Experience • Zippo Music Experience • The Bourbon Tent presented by the Louisville Courier-Journal • The Music Experience • It’s Miller Time VIP Lounge • Dyin 2 Live / Fxck Cancer • Keep Golf Metal • The Christian Benner Experience • Take Me Home Animal Rescue • and more.
Single day and weekend tickets for LOUDER THAN LIFE will be available starting on Wednesday, June 1 at Noon EDT. Tickets and VIP packages will initially be priced as follows (increasing in the coming weeks):
GA Weekend: $89.50
GA 4-Packs: $340.00
VIP Weekend: $234.50
VIP Zippo 2-Packs: $550.00 (includes VIP amenities + 2 LTL 2016 commemorative Zippos)
Single Day GA: $79.50
VIP passes include: VIP entrance lanes into venue, shaded VIP hang area with seating for dining, seated and standing viewing area of Main Stage South (left), video screens featuring live feed from main stages inside VIP hang area, upgraded Gourmet Man Food and drink selections (for additional purchase), dedicated VIP restrooms, and a commemorative LOUDER THAN LIFE 2016 laminate.
Hotel discounts are available through Curadora at: https://curadora.com/events/louder-than-life-2016-dea7cc2c/. Camping and VIP packages can be purchased at www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com.
All LOUDER THAN LIFE camping passes include campsite space for 3 nights as well as access to campground bathrooms, showers, food and beverage concession stands, and a general store. Campers also have in and out privileges between the campground and festival grounds throughout the event. Car (tent) camping passes are $99.00 and RV camping passes are $175.00.
LOUDER THAN LIFE is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, a producer of some of the biggest rock festivals in America, including Chicago Open Air, Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, Monster Energy Fort Rock, Monster Energy AFTERSHOCK, Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion, Northern Invasion, Monster Energy Rock Allegiance, Rock On The Range, Houston Open Air and more.
Sponsors for LOUDER THAN LIFE include Monster Energy, Jack Daniel’s, Miller Lite, The Music Experience, Zippo Encore, El Jimador Tequila, Take Me Home Animal Rescue, and more to be announced!
Website: www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltlfest
Instagram: http://instagram.com/louderthanlifefest
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Financial Services and Real Estate
RPT-REUTERS SUMMIT-Brexit in Jan 2020 won't lift fog over UK markets, investors say
Elizabeth Howcroft
(Repeats Friday’s story without changes to text)
* Transition period not long enough, LGIM says
* Elections won’t solve Brexit uncertainty
* Fund managers remain cautious around UK assets
* For other news from Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit:
* here
By Elizabeth Howcroft
LONDON, Nov 11 - Never mind Britain’s general election and January 2020 Brexit deadline — there is a fog over UK assets that won’t lift any time soon, some of the world’s biggest money managers said.
Asset managers speaking at the Reuters Investment Summit in London were broadly of the view that whichever party wins Dec. 12’s election, Britain has dodged the worst-case scenario of a no-deal Brexit.
But they fear the new Jan. 31 Brexit deadline only marks the start of a new headache — negotiating a lasting trade relationship with the EU by December 2020, when the transition period agreed with Brussels ends. Following that, trade deals must be also struck with the rest of the world.
If that takes more time than expected, it could lead businesses to hold off on much-needed investment, weakening growth and hurting markets even more, investors told the summit.
The pound has bounced in recent weeks after Prime Minister Boris Johnson clinched a revised exit deal — which has yet to be approved by the British parliament — and hasn’t fallen much even after he called an early election.
But Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management, Britain’s biggest asset manager, said markets did not appear to have thought much about what would happen after January, assuming Brexit happens, and predicted they would do so only after the election.
She sees a directional bet on sterling as “too risky”.
“We don’t have a deal (with the EU), we just have a divorce and let’s face it, a free trade agreement is equally fraught with problems and forks in the road,” Laud said.
“Reality might kick in when we have the first roadblock in terms of real negotiations,” she said, adding it could take as much as 3-4 years to strike a permanent agreement.
But the UK is nowhere near that stage — the process starts only after the withdrawal agreement is ratified by parliament. While Johnson has vowed not to extend Brexit beyond the January deadline, another hung parliament after the election could cause a delay, eating into the negotiation period.
What’s more, Britain will not be able to strike trade deals with non-EU countries during this time.
Pascal Blanque, who oversees 1.5 trillion euros ($1.7 trillion) at Amundi, said the fund had been “moving away from UK assets across the spectrum”.
“It will be a long journey and Brexit itself — the discussion with the EU — will also be a long journey,” he said.
Data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch showed on Friday however that UK equities, which they branded as “extremely unloved”, had enjoyed 15 straight days of investment inflows, the longest winning streak in four years.
Shares in Britain-oriented firms listed on the FTSE 250 index are up 5% in the past two months and some investors, such as Arbuthnot Latham, say they have added exposure at the expense of the internationally focused FTSE 100 benchmark.
British government bonds too may see yields rise if borrowing goes up to fund the spending plans outlined by major parties in election campaigning. That makes gilts unattractive, the world’s biggest bond manager PIMCO told the FT this week.
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Conventional investors tend to see uncertainty as a deal-breaker so it’s unsurprising that British business investment is down 1.1% since the 2016 Brexit referendum. The Confederation of British Industry says investment in other industrialised economies has risen 10% in this period.
Averting an abrupt no-deal Brexit means the economy might dodge recession but the Bank of England’s Thursday statement showed it sees risks for longer-term growth.
Trade negotiations could yield anything between punitive World Trade Organisation tariffs on UK exports to a close replica of the current UK-EU relationship — the best case scenario for markets.
Talks are also opaque, with plenty of public posturing that is often not linked to the actual outcome, noted Didier Saint-Georges, who helps manage 35 billion euros at Carmignac.
“I’m not going to wake up on Feb. 1 thinking ‘that’s it, now we have visibility’,” he said.
Not all summit participants were gloomy. Peter Fitzgerald, multi-asset CIO at Aviva Investors, sees more than a 20% chance Britain will opt to Remain. Having broadly been short sterling for five years, he has now gone long. Follow Reuters Summits on Twitter @Reuters_Summits ($1 = 0.9063 euros)
Reporting by Elizabeth Howcroft, Editing by Sujata Rao and Catherine Evans
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Prince Creek parking lot - your input needed by January 31!
We encourage equestrians to weigh in on these two options, with truck and trailer parking, which we would like to be added for equestrian use. Let Pitkin County know that horsewomen and horsewomen desire a parking lot for the Prince Creek Trail system.
Please go to this link:
https://www.pitkinostprojects.com/prince-creek-road-trail-and-parking.html
Please read letter below for more information:
Snowmass, CO 81654
www.rfvhorsecouncil.org
To the Pitkin BOCC and Pitkin OST Board and Staff:
The Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council (RFVHC) would like to thank the Pitkin BOCC and Pitkin OST Board for supporting the historic precedent of including equestrians on public open space trails, most specifically on the new Prince Creek Trail, as stipulated in the adopted Prince Creek Management Plan. Thank you for defending the historic rights of equestrians and future generations for continued use on the many trails that were established by horses/owners/riders, and which equestrians continue to use now, and wish to use into the future.
The Bull Pen Parking area has historically been used as a holding area for livestock, including horses for generations. Historically Prince Creek Road had many pull outs, where equestrians parked and accessed the Crown’s many trails.
Pitkin County has indicated that all pull outs on Prince Creek County Road will be closed and all parking on Prince Creek Road will be illegal. Without the proposed Bull Pen parking area, or a comparable parking alternative near the Prince Creek Trail head, historical horseback rider’s access is threatened.
The following data supports our position:
History about horses on trails
In the state of Colorado, if you have carried out the same work with access on the land for 18 years or more, you then have the legal right to continue use. (Colorado Rev. Stat. § 38-41-10). Horses and ranchers made most of the trails in the Roaring Fork Valley starting with the Homestead Act of 1862. The fact is that horse/owners/riders established and used these public trails for 156 years.
Many ranchers made trails on public lands and within the wilderness to access high country pastures for their livestock. Most of our local trails were created by men and women on horseback. The following is an example of historical evidence.
Snowmass history: The ‘Cattle Queen of Snow Mass’
In newspaper articles from 1905, Miss Catherine, better known as Kate Lindvig, was referred to as the "Cattle Queen of Snow Mass." In the late 1890s, she moved to Colorado from Denmark and ran a boardinghouse in Aspen.
Around 1898, she relocated to a ranch at the base of Snowmass Divide and registered her stock brand, a backward L with a 2 on its front side, with the county clerk. She made many of the trails within the wilderness boundary in Snowmass Creek for her cattle’s summer grazing.
By 1906, Kate made her final proof that she was working her land to satisfy the 1862 Homestead Act, making the land officially hers.
She worked the land, which was referred to as Snowmass Falls Ranch, and raised cattle along with hay and oats as a lone woman. She never married. She made the papers showing up to classes on ranching as the only woman, but she also took classes on what was traditionally "women's work." In 1943, Kate sold the ranch to the Perry family and moved to California to live with relatives at a lower elevation. She passed away in 1957 at the age of 93.
Also read the link below:
End of Trail - Western Horseman
https://www.westernhorseman.com/slides/30-on-the-trail/681-end-of-trail
“Across the United States, riding trails are at risk. More than ever, backcountry horsemen must compete with hikers, mountain bikers, ATV riders ... the trail, destroying signs and trail markers, erecting gates and fences, and even threatening horseback riders and trail volunteers who try to access the loop.”
We appreciate that horses are included in the approved Prince Creek Management Plan as recreational trail users, by document statements and by showing equestrian icons on the original, approved map for the Prince Creek Trail.
Page 25 of the approved and adopted Prince Creek Management Plan has two sections.
In section 4.2.1, Recreation, “the trail is intended to be natural surface and accommodate all abilities and users, including mountain bikers, pedestrians, and equestrians.”
However, in section 4.2.3 of the new Prince Creek Trail and Parking document, the needs of hikers and bikers are only addressed, with no mention of equestrians. Pitkin County is assuming no responsibility for providing parking for equestrians to access the approved Prince Creek Trail.
The new Prince Creek Trail and Parking document requesting public comment may have contradicted and confused the public during the public comment period. The Prince Creek/Crown Mountain Parking map, which is included on the comment page, has also removed all equestrian icons from this new, Pitkin County, Open Space, Prince Creek Trail map.
We are aware that the BLM recognizes equestrian use on the Crown. Removing any potential equestrian parking and access through Prince Creek will virtually eliminate horses from using their historic access through Pitkin County Open Space to all the middle trails on the Crown.
By removing both the statement and the icon, it appears that historic equestrian trail use is being jeopardized.
Please restore equestrian use in the trail use statement, and reinstate the icon on the maps for the Prince Creek Trail and Parking document, which is published on the Pitkin OST web site for the Prince Creek Trail and Parking project for public comment. This will make it clear to the public that horses are included as trail users. The RFVHC is concerned that this lack of clarity may have interfered with the public comment process for parking.
The RFVHC holds that horses must have equal recreational access to trails based on historical land use rights. In all instances, public parking gives public access. Horsemen and horsewomen are part of our public recreational fabric.
Thank you for clarifying Pitkin County’s intent to preserve and protect these historic equestrian rights, as stipulated in the Prince Creek Management Plan to use the Prince Creek Trail. Now, please help us park for access to the middle part of the Crown.
We formally request truck and trailer parking for equestrians within the proposed Bull Pen area, or in a comparable parking alternative area near the Prince Creek Trail Head. A site visit to this area, as was done for the Glassier Parking area, would help clarify possibilities for all recreational trail partners.
The Glassier Parking and trail solution was an excellent idea and a resounding success. We look forward to hearing about a future site visit.
RFVHC Board of Directors
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