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Tebow for President!
We’re not talking about student body president, either.
Filed under Tim Tebow: Rock Star
Don’t mess with momma.
Whether she’s right or whether she’s wrong, it’s gonna be a problem. Especially if her son is a high profile football player.
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Filed under College Football, Recruiting
The 10 best SEC games of 2007: #9
September 15, 2007: Alabama 41, Arkansas 38
You could call this one a multiple personality game.
The first phase was marked by ‘Bama’s defense selling out to stop the Arkansas running attack (a good move considering that with Monk’s absence, Casey Dick wasn’t much of a threat) and Herring’s futile effort to stay in his trademark man to man coverage against John “Call Me John Parker” Wilson and the Tide receivers. End result: Alabama raced out to a 21-0 lead before the end of the first quarter.
For the next two and a half quarters, it turned into a war of attrition. Arky began to find its footing and eventually wore the Alabama defense down with steady doses of D-Mac (33 rushes) and Felix Jones (16 rushes). Arky averaged almost six yards per rushing attempt, even though McFadden’s longest run from scrimmage was only (only for him, mind you) 23 yards.
Meanwhile, Herring stopped being stubborn with his secondary scheme and began varying looks. JPW found the going much tougher and wilted. His fumble and interception on back to back series enabled Arky to tie the game at 31 with twelve minutes left in the game.
Jones and McFadden continued to pound the exhausted Tide D and led the Hogs to a 38-31 lead at the 8 minute mark. All the momentum was with Arkansas.
And from there, inexplicably, the game entered its third and final phase. The one where Nick Saban showed us one thing: in crunch time, he can outcoach Houston Nutt.
Somehow, in the next series Bama managed to gain enough yardage with a still sputtering JP Wilson to put itself at the Arkansas 25 with under five minutes left in the game. Saban elected to kick the field goal, which was a gutty move considering Arky’s success running the ball. (It was similar to a decision that Mark Richt had made in the previous week against South Carolina that drew some criticism when the Dawgs didn’t pull out the game.) That made it 38-34 with a little over four minutes to go.
From there, the meltdown was all on the Arkansas side. First, the bizarre decision making on Arky’s next possession – putting the ball in the hands of Michael Smith three straight times and then, after making ‘Bama use up its time outs, allowing Casey Dick to throw an incomplete pass on third down to stop the clock, which gave Alabama the ball back with more than two minutes left to play. Then its defense allowed John Parker Wilson to revert to his first quarter, couldn’t miss form. On that last drive, he marched his team down the field, going 7 of 8 for 56 yards. The Hogs even managed to throw in a couple of pass interference calls for good measure.
The winning score came with 8 seconds left. That Casey Dick incomplete pass came in handy.
‘Bama fans were deliriously happy. Who could blame them? The Tide never managed a fourth quarter comeback win in four years under Mike Shula.
AP recap here.
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by Gordon Davidescu.In United Stage.3 Comments on The Parks and Recreation Review
When I hear that a television show is getting a spin-off, I am usually apprehensive. This was especially the case when I read online that the producers of The Office were planning on making a spin-off featuring the character of Karen as played by Rashida Jones. My first thought was not good — how were they going to make yet another “mockumentary” show that would not basically be like watching another half hour of The Office? It was announced not long after this that the show was being retooled. It would not be at all related to The Office but would still be based on the same style. Elizabeth and I decided to try it to see if we would like it.
We watched the first couple of episodes with some trepidation and found that while we found the show to be amusing, it wasn’t spectacular by any means. We pressed on and watched through the end of the season (all six episodes of it — it was a show that NBC tried out in the early spring) and were relieved that the episodes got a bit better as the season progressed — the characters were fleshed out and we got to know them better.
The characters have been what really have been bringing us back to the screen week after week. Every single character in the show is his or her own motivation to watch the show — that is just how interesting I find them all. You have characters like Ron Swanson, a libertarian somewhat ironically working for the government who is constantly struggling with his want to trim down the government’s involvement in the life of the people of his city. Then you have characters like Andy, who started off the show as a jerk and has come around to being an endearing character, even if he is just a little on the dopey side.
I still find it hard to believe that somehow yet another so-called mockumentary show is in the NBC lineup and yet it is doing well. It may have something to do with the interaction between the characters and the camera crew. It is a little more intrusive on The Office — the best part of the last episode with Steve Carell was when he took off the portable microphone he had been wearing for all those years. On Parks and Recreation there is still interaction with the camera crew but it is considerably more minimal.
If you have a spare half hour on your Thursday evening available (or have a DVR or a good way to watch Hulu streams) I would really suggest you give the show a try. It is definitely worth, I believe, watching the first three seasons before moving on to anything new, however — but you can enjoy the show even without watching every episode. It’s good for laughs, certainly.
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David W. Boles says:
I have tried to get into this show, Gordon. I gave up early on during the “fill in the big hole” episodes. Then, more recently, Rob Lowe was on the show and he was such an ill-fit, and unfunny, that I tuned out again. I know the show is here to stay for at least this year and next, so there’s ample opportunity to jump in again. I’m a massive Rashida Jones fan, so that’s a good thing she’s still involved.
Gordon Davidescu says:
She’s a terrific actress and plays a great role on the show. There are some shows I will watch only because I like the way that one actor or actress portrays their role. 🙂
Yeah! Rashida is also incredibly beautiful and funny and her spirit is so luscious I just can’t get enough of her. I liked her so much better on The Office, though — but I guess I have to take her where I can lap her up! SMILE!
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Here’s What Your Favorite Disney Princes Look Like With Their Dicks Chopped Off
Here’s the ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5 Trailer
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January 31, 2015 2:08 pm By Luke O Neil
We all love Disney, and Disney Princesses, and Disney Princes also. But one thing you constantly hear about when it comes to Disney Princes, and Disney in general, is that there are too many penises and cocks also on display. A new Tumblr from an imaginative internet artist, titled Disney Princes With Their Dicks Chopped Off imagines what some of the heroes from our most beloved childhood classics would look like with their dicks chopped off, just like it says in the title of the thing.
Here are some of our favorites.
“What’s wrong, my Disney prince?”
“I just chopped my own dang dick off.”
“I can relate to the fact that you’re a Disney character, which is a relatable thing to be, but that’s a bit much for me.”
“I also relate to Disney. I just wish I still had a dick, which I don’t anymore, due to chopping it off just now.”
“What have I done. I chopped my own dick off. Why would I do that? LOL, I mean, it’s random enough to be funny, but still, it hurts bad. Real bad. I shouldn’t have done this. I’ve made a mistake here. I over estimated the payoff on this gag to be honest.”
“I’m going to chop my dick off with this sword and put it in a magic shoe in order to convince the Princess to fall in love with me.”
“Why am I holding my hands over my dick? No reason. Listen, can we go somewhere and talk?”
“Son, I’ve wanted you to chop your own dick off since the day you were born. Hell, I wanted to do it for you, but I just needed you to find the courage within to do it yourself.”
“No, my dick, which I definitely still have, is fine. Why do you ask?”
“Call an ambulance. Call the Disney fucking ambulance right now on account of I’m having a accident here.”
“Do it. Chop off my dick. Do it for me, the Disney prince.”
“Sew my frog dick back on please. I was a bit hasty in my actions here, I’m not going to lie. I want the frog dick back. I’m going to need that thing.”
“Genie, you’re free. And so am I from the responsibility of dick ownership.”
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Energy (Oil, Electricity, Coal)
PH seeks other oil sources after attack on Saudi sites
By: Darryl John Esguerra - Reporter / @DJEsguerraINQ
INQUIRER.net / 05:26 PM September 23, 2019
MANILA, Philippines — The recent drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s major oil sites has prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to order his Cabinet to look into other sources of oil.
“Well, the President said that he had already tasked the concerned government agencies to look for other possible sources of oil to keep our supply sufficient,” presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo, speaking partly in Filipino, said in a Palace briefing.
Saudi Arabia was the top supplier of crude oil to the Philippines last year.
The country imported 33.7% of its crude from the Middle East kingdom as of 2018, according to the Department of Energy (DOE).
Surging crude prices would lead to higher prices of goods and services — and a large import bill — which could weaken the peso against the dollar.
The DOE earlier said it would ask the President to create a task force that would tackle possible oil supply problems following the attack in Saudi Arabia, which took place on Saturday, Sept. 14.
“We will wait for the request. and the Palace, the Office of the President. will study it,” Panelo said of the DOE proposal.
Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi earlier said that the Philippines would not have any supply disruptions, but he noted that the effect of the attack would likely be felt through fuel prices.
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DOE gearing up for possible effects of Saudi oil sites attack
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Duterte promises to look for funds to establish rail transport in Cebu
TAGS: fuel, Malacañang, oil, Rodrigo Duterte, Saudi Arabia
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Announcing Shari Steele as our new executive director
by arma | December 11, 2015
At long last, I am thrilled to announce that our executive director search is now successful! And what a success it is: we have our good friend Shari Steele, who led EFF for 15 years, coming on board to lead us.
We've known Shari for a long time. She led EFF's choice to fund Tor back in 2004-2005. She is also the one who helped create EFF's technology department, which has brought us HTTPS Everywhere and their various guides and tool assessments.
Tor's technical side is world-class, and I am excited that Shari will help Tor's organizational side become great too. She shares our core values, she brings leadership in managing and coordinating people, she has huge experience in growing a key non-profit in our space, and her work pioneering EFF's community-based funding model will be especially valuable as we continue our campaign to diversify our funding sources.
Tor is part of a larger family of civil liberties organizations, and this move makes it clear that Tor is a main figure in that family. Nick and I will focus short-term on shepherding a smooth transition out of our "interim" roles, and after that we are excited to get back to our old roles actually doing technical work. I'll let Shari pick up the conversation from here, in her upcoming blog post.
Please everybody join me in welcoming Shari!
Welcome on board, Shari!
Welcome on board, Shari! Hope your leadership makes us grow and expand, as much as we deserve. (a Tor user)
Yay! Welcome!
Much Welcome and
Much Welcome and Congratulations to Tor and Shari both! :)
DO you even DATAGRAM
DO you even DATAGRAM bro?!
More serious, Tor is lucky to have Shari! Welcome, can't wait to see more awesomeness come from the project.
Exit node 195.154.169.183
Exit node 195.154.169.183 .195-154-169-183.rev.poneytelecom.eu
seems to tamper with certificates of sites
where can people do report this
arma said:
In reply to Exit node 195.154.169.183 by Anonymous (not verified)
https://blog.torproject.org/b
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-report-bad-relays
Welcome aboard Shari,
Excellent choice arma!!!
imu.
Yayyyyy welcome Shari :)
Such good news - welcome and
Such good news - welcome and well met!!
good match! wish success!
Excellent news! On the
Excellent news! On the basis of EFF/executive background, can't imagine a better choice at this critical juncture for Tor Project.
@ arma: Happy Holidays! I suppose you are looking forward to doing more coding/research next year?
In reply to Excellent news! On the by Anonymous (not verified)
Yes indeed! There is going
Yes indeed! There is going to be a transition period, where I try to teach her everything she needs to know about Tor, and I haven't really done one of those before so I don't know how long it will last. And in any case, I'm not going anywhere so it's not like I have some deadline for getting all the teaching done.
Speaking of immediate upcoming events, there are six (holy cow, six) Tor or Tor-community events at 32C3. We'll post a more detailed list soon I hope.
ioerror said:
In reply to Yes indeed! There is going by arma
(holy onion, six!!!) 32C3 is
(holy onion, six!!!)
32C3 is going to be great!
> There is going to be a
> There is going to be a transition period, where I try to teach her everything she needs to know about Tor
> And in any case, I'm not going anywhere
Excellent! That was my next question.
As you know, Tor needs strong encryption to work. Cryptowars II has gone very "hot" again and needs urgent attention and I think that in her new role Shari should promptly respond to statements like this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/10/us_government_pushing_encryptio…
US government pushing again on encryption bypass
FBI chief and deputy CTO bring issue back to the table
Kieren McCarthy
> "It's not a technical issue," Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. "There are plenty of companies today that provide secure services to their customers and still comply with court orders. There are plenty of folks who make good phones and are able to unlock them in response to a court order. In fact, the makers of phones that today can't be unlocked, a year ago they could be unlocked."
In particular, I think Shari would be ideal spokesperson to request thehill.com to write an editorial countering this one from an "intelligence professional" (Wither's credentials not otherwise explained):
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/261237-stand-w…
Stand with our watchers
Tom Wither
Shari already knows enough about the cryptowars, I think, to write a strong response, and I think there's a fair chance The Hill might offer her an editorial slot.
FBI is said to spending a huge amount on PR firms in order to dress up its intense anti-encryption fear-mongering media campaign. It would be interesting to try to find the 2015 figure for FBI from the research described here:
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/262387-feds-…
Feds shelling out billions to public relations firms
Megan R. Wilson
> The federal government has spent almost $4 billion on public relations services since 2007, according to a watchdog group, with more than half of the money going to the world’s largest firms.
One feature of the current media blitz from FBI's PR machine is that the agency is talking up senior FBI officials who happen to be women, as if that somehow makes their illegal malware attacks, surveillance of dissidents, etc. more palatable. Here is a rather simpering profile of Amy Hess which just appeared in WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com
Meet the woman in charge of the FBI’s most controversial high-tech tools
After excising the gushing over a powerful woman spook, the most salient sentences in the story may be these:
> despite the wizardry of its technologists, who also excel at traditional physical and electronic surveillance, the bureau is at a loss to solve what FBI Director James B. Comey has called one of the most worrisome problems facing law enforcement today: the advent of strong commercial encryption on cellphones where only the user can unlock the data.
> The advent of strong encryption, however, is presenting Hess with a huge, perhaps insurmountable, challenge. In the past few years, tech firms and app developers have increasingly built platforms that employ a form of encryption that only the user, not the company, can unlock.
> The bureau’s encryption dilemma is exacerbated by a chill that settled over the relationship between the FBI and Silicon Valley in the wake of leaks in 2013 about government surveillance by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
> In recent months, the FBI’s conversations with companies have become more productive, she said, “but it’s not to the level we were pre-Snowden.”
> some agents have created their own tools or bought them commercially.
[e.g. for wardriving or infecting someone with spyware]
> Privacy advocates also worry that to carry out its hacks, the FBI is using “zero-day” exploits that take advantage of software flaws that have not been disclosed to the software maker. That practice makes consumers who use the software vulnerable, they argue.
> Hess acknowledged that the bureau uses zero-days — the first time an official has done so. She said the trade-off is one the bureau wrestles with. “What is the greater good — to be able to identify a person who is threatening public safety?” Or to alert software makers to bugs that, if unpatched, could leave consumers vulnerable?
(Pardon me while I wipe the tears from my eyes.)
The tactic of trying to present FBI as full of motherly love (or something) is rather absurd, considering what happened when NSA tried the same thing a decade ago, playing up the fact that Teresa H. Shea, who was then chief of the SIGINT division and directly in line to become the next DIRNSA, was demoted in disgrace after The Intercept and Buzzfeed reporters followed the money and discovered irrefutable evidence of cozy nepotism, sufficiently odious that Republican senators who are normally lovey-lovey with NSA demanded and got her demotion:
https://theintercept.com/2014/09/19/powerful-nsa-official-involved-pote…
Powerful NSA Official Potentially Self-Dealing With Defense Contractor
Murtaza Hussain
http://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/exclusive-nsa-official-is-a-multi-mi…
Exclusive: Top NSA Surveillance Official Is A Multi-Millionaire
Aram Roston and Jacob Fischler
> NSA bureaucrat Teresa Shea and her intelligence-contractor husband are worth at least $3 million, records show. She ran controversial surveillance programs for years, and recused herself last year from decisions about her husband’s employer.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/exclusive-family-business-at-the-nat…
Wife: NSA Official. Husband: Exec At Firm Seeming To Do Or Seek Business With NSA
NSA: It’s secret.
Aram Roston
> A large government contracting firm that appears to be doing or seeking business with the National Security Agency employs the spouse of one of the most powerful officials at the agency, according to corporate records, press releases, and company websites. But the NSA has declined to address whether there is a potential conflict of interest or to disclose any information about contracts or the official’s financial holdings.
> The spouse, for years, has also had an intelligence technology company incorporated at the couple’s suburban residence in Maryland.
> The NSA official, Teresa H. Shea, is director of the Signals Intelligence Directorate, which means she oversees electronic eavesdropping for intelligence purposes. She’s held that crucial position since 2010. SIGINT, as it is called, is the bread and butter of NSA espionage operations, and it includes intercepting and decoding phone calls, whether cellular or landline; radio communications; and internet traffic. Shea’s directorate was involved in the controversial domestic surveillance program, much of which was revealed by Edward Snowden.
> As for Shea’s husband, James, he is currently a vice president at DRS Signal Solutions, part of DRS Technologies, a major American defense contracting company owned by the Italian defense giant Finmeccanica. On his LinkedIn page, he boasts of his “core focus” in “SIGINT systems,” and cites his employer, DRS, for its work in “signals intelligence, cyber, and commercial test and measurement applications.”
> According to Maryland state records, James Shea is also the current resident agent of a company called Telic Networks, which he founded in 2007. The firm is registered at the couple’s home in Ellicott City, Maryland. On his LinkedIn page, Shea states that he was president of Telic until 2010. Telic’s rudimentary website describes its expertise in SIGINT, maintaining that the firm’s personnel have a history of developing innovative hardware and software solutions for difficult SIGINT and ELINT [electronic intelligence] problems.” Telic’s incorporation records say it is a “government and commercial contracting and consulting” company.
You might remember from our discussion last September of the Intercept story on the Sheas that DRS is one of several closely related companies, including DRT, the company which is best known for producing NSA's drone-borne "IMSI catcher", the so-called "DRTBOX" which has allegedly been used extensively to attack every WiFi device in entire countries. James Shea was also listed as an officer of that firm. As far as I know, none of these companies have gone out of business, no changes have been made to their no-bid contracts with NSA, James Shea is still involved with DRS, and Teresa Shea is not losing her pension.
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/top_10_signs_the_us_is_the_most_co…
Top 10 Signs the U.S. Is the Most Corrupt Country in the World (Video)
In reply to > There is going to be a by Anonymous (not verified)
> considering what happened
> considering what happened when ... was demoted in disgrace after
Weird garble there. Was trying to say: years ago NSA tried to "spin" SIGINIT by playing up the fact that then Director of SIGINT (the largest division in NSA) was a woman, Teresa Shea. ("No glass ceiling at NSA, God we're awesome!" [sic]. While promoting women and blood drives are good things, this doesn't excuse the fact that NSA has declared war on every person everywhere.) Then, after Buzzfeed and The Intercept revealed the no-contract bids with several companies where her husband is a top executive, even Republican senators who are normally unquestioning supporters of NSA were appalled, and NSA had to demote Teresa Shea.
> Speaking of immediate
> Speaking of immediate upcoming events, there are six (holy cow, six) Tor or Tor-community events at 32C3. We'll post a more detailed list soon I hope.
Is Shari going? Would be an excellent opportunity to quietly discuss in person with key colleagues the thorny issue of contingency plans in case (against current optimistic expectations) US, FR, or another important country outlaws Tor or Tails or non-backdoored-encryption outright. Also a great opportunity to make personal connections and build community, which is one of the most important things Tor and friends must do right now.
If Julia Angwin is going, she would be a terrific reporter to talk to, especially about the suggestion that HS could be ideal for protecting sensitive medical information. Also about HIEs (Health Information Exchanges), aka "watering hole sites", CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) and secret "citizenship scores", aka state-sponsored discrimination. Americans need to know that as their nation transitions to a one-party government (as GOP seems likely to self-destruct), Clinton is really no better than Trump, just more cryptic about things like targeting American children aged 3-7 for CVE and prospective citizenship scores.
If Shari has never read Julia's book Dragnet Nation I hope she can put it in on her holiday reading list!
Welcome Shari
> Tor is part of a larger
> Tor is part of a larger family of civil liberties organizations, and this move makes it clear that Tor is a main figure in that family.
Among other reasons why this is so important: it will now be harder, politically speaking, for the USG to block financial contributions to the Tor Project or to outlaw Tor outright. It also means that FBI, NSA/TAO, GCHQ/JTRIG and other FVEY bad guys may feel a need to be more cautious about targeting Tor people with tailored malware.
Hi, welcome and good luck. I
Hi, welcome and good luck.
I believe that TOR is becoming unusable.
I have TOR Browser set to open 10 tabs on start-up. These days most of the tabs are titled 'Attention Required'. I believe this is because the Exit Node has been corrupted for malicious purposes. My response = New Identity. Sometimes I have to do this over 20 times to find a clean Exit Node.
If an option was offered to automate the identification of corrupt exit nodes (by detecting "Attention Required" or page content contains "One More Step" and automatically start a New Identity) it could be left in the background and returned to once stable at a clean Exit Node.
If the above was implemented well enough to make corrupted Exit Nodes rarely used then the people corrupting them may give up resulting in a better experience all round.
In reply to Hi, welcome and good luck. I by Anonymous (not verified)
No, these aren't misbehaving
No, these aren't misbehaving exit relays. They are misbehaving *websites* that you're going to -- they are hosted at Cloudflare, and Cloudflare's whole business model is to aggregate a bunch of websites, and treat an attack on any of them as evidence that the IP address is bad and should not be allowed to fetch the rest of them either.
For more background, see my blog post here:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-ac…
Ultimately the right answer is to teach the Cloudflare people that there are better ways to accomplish their goals than the one they're using. At present it looks like that will require a lot of work on the part of the technical community.
Tor, not "TOR"
So bad a person who has no
So bad a person who has no prior experince on technology (im not even saying cryptograpy) will be the leader of the most advanced cryptography project on the world
In reply to So bad a person who has no by Anonymous (not verified)
> So bad a person who has no
> So bad a person who has no prior [experience] on technology (im not even saying cryptograpy) will be the leader of the most advanced cryptography project on the world
Are you kidding? Assuming you mean Shari Steele, did you not realize that before coming to Tor Project, she played a key role at Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading US-based technology-oriented civil rights organization, for more than a decade? You should probably take a few minutes to read this review of Crypto Wars I (from the 1990s), in which EFF played a critical role:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/what-the-governme…
What the government should’ve learned about backdoors from the Clipper Chip
The Obama administration's calls for backdoors echo the Clinton-era key escrow fiasco.
Sean Gallagher
arma can we trust
arma can we trust shari?
arma how good do you know your fellow colleagues who writing tor code....do you visit them at their house know their life do things together?
whats the chances theres a snitch?
In reply to arma can we trust by Anonymous (not verified)
> arma can we trust
> arma can we trust shari?
Well, I'm pretty paranoid--- for example I expect this blog to be trolled by JTRIG, Fifty Centers, or Putinoids-- but even I think the answer is obviously "yes".
> arma how good do you know your fellow colleagues who writing tor code....do you visit them at their house know their life do things together?
Hmm... so you want Roger to spy on Tor devs? Do you see a small contradiction here with Tor Project's values?
> whats the chances theres a snitch?
The Project has much more work to do, so it will be hiring more developers. I myself have urged the Project to be very careful about new hires. And I've been very happy with sukhbir's posts here, for example, so my impression is that while there is little the Project can do to prevent NSA/CIA/GCHQ from trying to infiltrate their ranks, those organizations may decide that the risks are too large for them to try to infiltrate the Project, given the small chance of success.
Which is not to say that anyone should let down their guard. People who live in a police state must be paranoid, which for sure is double plus ungood--- this is one of the reasons why we do not want to live in a police state! Tor can help change our situation for the better.
MAIL Arma: you should allow
MAIL Arma: you should allow people to chose the exit node they want to use..at least the country of the node. this would solve so many problems. it would be like a marketplace.. say you trust the german gov more than usa, so you can chose just the german exit nodes.. sure some wouldnt be used, so what- thats called freedom to choose.
also if i have to submit something to a uk website and my ip addres have to be uk. it would help alot to allow people to chose exit.
and really... why you still host torproject server on us soil? host it in switzerland then nobody watches who visits the site
In reply to MAIL Arma: you should allow by Anonymous (not verified)
I share your concern about
I share your concern about fact that the Tor Project is based in the USA--- maybe not for the same reasons.
But unfortunately, it would be wrong to assume that European governments are not operating their own national dragnets. Indeed, it is very difficult to name any modern nation which is not operating its own dragnet. I mention Iceland or Norway as being "less intrusive", but that is more of a forlorn hope that a fact-based assessment.
That said, the US is racing so rapidly towards something which looks an awful lot like technologically enabled fascism, that it is appropriate to question whether *any* human rights or civil liberties organization can still regard the USA as a "safe haven" from governmental abuses.
If they come tomorrow for Tor, you can be certain that the day after they'll come for ACLU and EFF. And if the French government comes for Tails tomorrow, the day after they'll come for MSF and RSF.
It's all of them against all of us.
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v4.11
Mature Open Source Enterprise Cloud platform powers billions of dollars in transactions for the world's largest Cloud providers.
Wakefield, MA —12 February 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® CloudStack® v4.11, the latest version of the turnkey enterprise Cloud orchestration platform.
Apache CloudStack is the proven, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy IaaS platform used for rapidly creating private, public, and hybrid Cloud environments. Thousands of large-scale public Cloud providers and enterprise organizations use Apache CloudStack to enable billions of dollars worth of business transactions annually across their clouds.
"This is another great release," said Wido den Hollander, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. "The community has worked very hard to develop great new features and many enhancements to CloudStack. Together we are making the project better every single day."
Apache CloudStack v4.11 features more than 250 new capabilities, such as improved integration, stability, storage, networking support, and performance. Highlights include:
new Host HA framework with an HA provider for KVM powered clouds;
new certificate authority framework to support ongoing work in container & application clusters;
integration with Prometheus;
a connector for Cloudian Hyperstore S3 storage;
deeper integration with Nuage SDN; and
Layer 2 Networking capabilities.
The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.11.0.0/
"This release has been driven by the people operating CloudStack clouds,” said Rohit Yadav, Apache CloudStack v4.11 Release Manager. "I would like to thank the contributors across all of these organizations for supporting this release, which reflects both the user-driven nature of our community and the Apache CloudStack project's commitment to continue to be the most stable, easily deployable, scalable Open Source platform for IaaS. Along with great new features, v4.11 brings several important structural changes such as better support for systemd and Java 8, migration to embedded Jetty, and a new and optimized Debian 9 based systemvm template."
Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
"Apache CloudStack release 4.11 has impressive new content," said Kris Sterckx, CloudStack development lead at Nuage Networks. "More than any previous release, v4.11 leverages the value of Nuage Networks SDN with Nuage 5.0 support, SDN managed networks, per-interface DHCP options support and automation support for migrating deployed Apache CloudStack clouds from traditional Linux bridge networking to SDN/OVS based networking."
"At Interoute, we depend on Apache Cloudstack to help us deliver innovative and reliable IaaS services to our global customers," said Alex Mattioli, Chief Cloud Architect at Interoute. "The functionality in the 4.11 release shows that Cloudstack continues to be the most operator-focused IaaS platform available for large service providers, with a development community who are able to quickly develop what the market wants. Many of the features in this release have been created directly based on the needs of Interoute and our customers."
"Apache CloudStack 4.11 continues to bring innovative features and functionality to market through collaborative Open Source development," said Simon Weller, Director of Technology at Education Networks America. "We're particularly excited by the Host-HA framework, which brings a much greater level of hypervisor automation to KVM based service providers."
"Feedback from our community helps us solve real-world problems and strengthens our development process," added den Hollander. "I look forward to Apache CloudStack users and developers continuing to work closely together to make future releases even better!"
Catch Apache CloudStack in action 28 February 2018 at the German CloudStack Meetup in Frankfurt.
Availability and Oversight
Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/CloudStack
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 680 individual Members and 6,500 Committers across six continents successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cash Store, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, iSIGMA, ODPi, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Union Investment, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
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Join us for upcoming public engagement impacts workshop
Author Research, Business and Innovation | Posted on 16 January 2020 16 January 2020
Hosted here at UWE Bristol, the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement exist to inspire a culture change in the way universities across the UK engage with the public.
Our vision is of a higher education sector making a vital, strategic and valued contribution to 21st-century society through its public engagement activity.
In December we ran our annual conference for all those interested in public engagement in higher education. We had 450 delegates travel to Bristol from across the country to come together, to be inspired, challenged and refreshed.
The theme of our conference this year was disruption, in our universities, our research, our futures and our lives.
We reflected on the current contexts for engagement in a world that is increasingly fragmented; where social inequality deepens; where we are facing the consequences of our collective activity on the planet; and where we need to find more effective ways to address the challenges that face us all. All of this in a setting where the future of university funding is increasingly unpredictable, and where traditional paradigms of knowledge and knowledge production are being challenged from all sides.
Catch up on the highlights of Engage 2019, and watch the key note speech from Dame Julia Unwin, Chair of the Civil Society Futures Inquiry – a challenging external perspective on higher education’s place in the world and how we can contribute positively to society at a time of profound change and disruption.
Upcoming Public Engagement Impacts Workshop at UWE Bristol
A chance to refresh your REF 2021 thinking, enrich your understanding of public engagement impacts and how they can be evidenced, and consider the features of a high quality narrative – the NCCPE will be running a free bespoke workshop for UWE Bristol on Tuesday 21st January, 9.30 – 16.00.
The workshop will include expert guidance, group activities and discussions, sole work, paired feedback, and specialist knowledge provided by the NCCPE.
It will be relevant to anyone who is research active and hopes to collect and evidence impact from public engagement events. Places are limited, please register using the online form.
UK first as Bristol & Bath region creates programme to increase investment into successful start-up community
Launching today (14/01/2020), UWE Bristol will partner with TechSPARK to deliver a pioneering programme to help catalyse investment into fast-growing startups in Bristol, Bath and the West of England. The programme is the first of its kind in the UK and will launch activities to increase the flow of money into the area and showcase the region as a leading start-up hub.
The Investment Activator Programme (IAP) will begin as a 2 year pilot bringing together 8 public and private sector organisations who recognise the impact of working collaboratively to strengthen the ecosystem and jointly deliver activity.
In the last few years Bristol has seen a dramatic rise in the level of investment into the city’s businesses and in 2019 outperformed the likes of Dublin, Zurich, Amsterdam, Oxford and Brussels. However there’s still a long way to go before the regions can compete with more traditional investment hubs like London where over $8.2bn raised this year versus $418m locally.
Investment Activator Briony Phillips said “According to the UKBAA, we have the third largest community of angel investors (early stage) in the UK, behind London and the South East. And yet 85% of the angel investment from our region goes into the golden triangle of London, Cambridge and Oxford.”
“Little do they know that Graphcore and Ovo Energy are Bristol-grown unicorns, and Ultrahaptics, Blu Wireless, Immersive Labs and Open Bionics are just a few examples of real power-hitters when it comes to raising investment and making their mark on the global tech scene. The Investment Activator programme will add some much-needed capacity to help solve this challenge.”
The programme will build on some of the work done by TechSPARK and Engine Shed by expanding on the successful Silicon Gorge pitch competition which has worked with over 250 companies pitching for over £150 million between them, and the Quarterly Investment Briefing (QIB) events, which has brought together over 300 investors to network, share knowledge and learn about potential investment opportunities.
The IAP has three areas of delivery – Events / Content and Community / Data and Connections – with the core objectives being:
To accelerate and catalyse the investment ecosystem
To make investment support more accessible for founders
To build the network of investors and founders or leaders locally
The programme will deliver over 30 targeted investment events, articles and tools to support founders raising money. It will offer a relationship management programme to build connections with investors across the UK and showcase the opportunities in the West on a national stage.
Tracey John, Director of Business and Innovation at UWE Bristol says: “We are really excited to be supporting the new Investment Activator Programme. The start-up ecosystem in the West of England needs initiatives that bring startups and early stage companies together with investors; investors who not only provide access to funds, but also offer real business experience that is invaluable to any early stage growth company. We have over 85 high tech businesses in the University Enterprise Zone at our Frenchay Campus and are excited to see the IAP support their growth.”
Other specialist partners for the programme include Delaware (enterprise software), Engine Shed (economic development), Rocketmakers (Venturetech), Sanderson (talent), Smith & Williamson (accounting), TLT (legal) & the West of England Combined Authority (Business Support).
What is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership?
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships have been helping UK businesses innovate and grow for over 40 years and are one of a range of funding initiatives made available through Innovate UK (the UK government’s Innovation Agency).
Linking businesses with an academic or research organisation and a graduate, a KTP enables a business to bring in new skills and the latest academic thinking to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project through a knowledge-based partnership.
The academic or research organisation partner will help to recruit a suitable graduate, known as an Associate. They will act as the employer of the graduate, who then works at the company for the duration of the project.
A short video explaining Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and the benefits they could have for your business
The scheme can last between 12 and 36 months, depending on what the project is and the needs of the business.
All of the knowledge gained during this time is embedded in the business, providing a valuable base to build on long after the project has finished. (A very high percentage of Associates are retained as employees, demonstrating the value they bring to the business).
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can benefit businesses of any size and in any sector looking to address a core strategic challenge.
For more information or to view case studies please visit the Government webpages on KTPs.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership news:
Management KTP (MKTP) – Innovate UK have announced there is additional funding available for Management KTPs. The focus is to increase management skills and embed management strategies into your business. For more information visit our website or contact us on KTP@uwe.ac.uk
KTN have launched a new website, where you can discover more about KTP and potential associate vacancies as well as access the latest information on the Management KTPs
UWE Bristol awards grants to local businesses as part of Scale up 4 Growth Initiative
Author Research, Business and Innovation | Posted on 9 December 2019 10 December 2019
Scale Up 4 Growth (S4G) is a free programme of support, being delivered by UWE Bristol, NatWest and Foot Anstey, for businesses in the West of England that are looking to grow, expand and scale. As part of this ERDF funded programme, 27 successful businesses have been awarded grants ranging between £10k and £40k to help their businesses grow.
Since launching last year nearly 350 businesses have registered for S4G support, which also includes fully funded workshops and 1-to-1 expertise. The companies who applied for S4G grant funding were rigorously assessed through a competitive process. The 27 selected businesses received grants totalling £800,000.
The successful businesses have come from a big range of sectors and areas including digital, data, health tech, waste, recycling, media, microelectronics, b2b, social enterprise, as well food and drink businesses. The list ranges from an award-winning, independent, artisan bakery and café, to a company who have developed the world’s first chemical-free pool filter
Find out more about the Scale Up 4 Growth programme and hear from some of the businesses that were successful in receiving grants
See the website for the list of all successful businesses.
Programme Director, Tracey John commented:
“Scale Up 4 Growth is the in region to support the businesses that need some help to grow. It’s been great to work with the successful businesses that have got some exciting growth plans but just need that extra little bit of support that the University can give. Working with NatWest and Foot Anstey as partners on this programme has been fantastic and they have been hugely supportive throughout.”
Director Commercial Banking at NatWest, Matt Hatcher commented:
“NatWest has thoroughly enjoyed working with UWE and Foot Anstey on the S4G programme, helping SMEs get access to quality coaching, knowledge and funding to support their ambitious growth plans”.
Partner at Foot Anstey, Nathan Peacey commented:
“Foot Anstey have found the S4G programme both inspiring and rewarding”
The successful businesses met for the first time at a celebration event held at UWE Bristol’s University Enterprise Zone on Wednesday 23 October. The breakfast event gave the businesses the opportunity to meet other successful businesses and share what the money means to them.
The Scale Up 4 Growth team continue to work with the successful businesses. To find out more about potentially funding opportunities and how we could help your business sign up to the Research, Business and Innovation newsletter from UWE Bristol or email uwebusiness@uwe.ac.uk
To find out more about S4G please visit the website.
Scale Up 4 Growth will receive up to £1,200,000 of funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the programme’s Managing Authority. Established by the European Union, the ERDF helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects that support innovation, businesses, job creation and local community regeneration.
Women Researchers Mentoring Scheme (WRMS)
Author Research, Business and Innovation | Posted on 6 December 2019 6 December 2019
The Women Researchers Mentoring Scheme (WRMS) aims to promote and facilitate professional development for women researchers working at UWE Bristol, helping them reach senior research roles.
Applications for the 2020/21 scheme are now open and will close on Wednesday 15 January 2020 at 5pm.
The scheme is open to all women in academic and research roles, employed by UWE, who wish to develop their careers.
The benefits of being involved in the scheme by becoming a mentor or mentee could assist your development and progression. The scheme will entail a nominated woman researcher being matched to a mentor, who can be a woman or man. Training will be provided to all new participants. The application deadline is Wednesday 15 January 2020.
Applications are now invited for both mentors and mentees. For access to the online application system, please email the Scheme Co-ordinator, Fiona Watt
Outcomes will be notified to applicants by early March 2020.
A half-day workshop will be run which is compulsory for mentees and highly encouraged for mentors as part of the scheme. This is a vital opportunity for all those participating in the scheme to network with each other, learn about the importance of women progressing in research roles and the support available, and share experiences and ideas.
In your application, please select whether you would like to apply for the afternoon session on Tuesday 3 March 2020 or the morning session on Thursday 12 March 2020.
Further details of the workshops will be notified to applicants who are matched for mentoring relationships running in 2020-21.
UWE Alumni and Launch Space Residents achieve TV commercial success with animated advert
Author Research, Business and Innovation | Posted on 8 November 2019 13 November 2019
Two MA Animation alumni, Hend Youssef Esmat and Lamiaa Diab, who set up their own animation business and are now based in Launch Space, have had their work used in an MG car TV advert.
Originally from Cairo, the duo graduated from UWE in 2018 before moving into Launch Space in February. Hend and Lamiaa’s MA graduation film “Flipped” is currently being shown on the Festival Circuit and has been screened at over 30 festivals worldwide including Anima (Brussels), Pictoplasma (Berlin), ITFS(Stuttgart), NYICFF (NYC), LIAF (London). It won Best Short Animation at the Overcome Film Festival as well as being nominated for a Lotte Reiniger Award.
The directing duo specialise in stylised design and animation services for businesses, charities and broadcasters.
In July, the pair were approached by Limegreen Tangerine to work on a TV project for MG cars. Hend commented on the experience “It was quite rewarding to be trusted to create the designs and animation for such a big project. We found the brief very exciting and challenging, as we have never applied our design and animation style in a commercial context before. Also mixing our 2D style with the 3D animation of the car is something we had to experiment with and had to make different tests until we reached a final look which fit both styles together.” You can view the advert here.
Lamiaa commented on their experience in of Launch Space so far “We are extremely grateful to have been offered the opportunity to come back to Bristol after graduation, and to be provided with guidance and support to develop our business and grow our networks.”
You can keep up to date with Hend and Lamiaa’s work here and follow them on Twitter here.
Located in the new £16m University Enterprise Zone on Frenchay Campus, Launch Space provides physical incubator space and enterprise support for graduate start-up businesses.
Launch Space will receive up to £2,000,000 of funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the programme’s Managing Authority. Established by the European Union, the ERDF helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects that support innovation, businesses, job creation and local community regeneration.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships: ExtraCare Associate Spotlight
Author Research, Business and Innovation | Posted on 4 November 2019 8 November 2019
[Photo L-R: Dr Geraint Jones (Innovate UK), Alex Sleat (UWE Bristol), Shirley Hall (ExtraCare), Professor Praminda Caleb-Solly (UWE Bristol) attending the quarterly review meeting at Bristol Robotics Lab]
UWE Bristol has been working on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with ExtraCare Charitable Trust. Based in Coventry, with a village in Stoke Gifford, ExtraCare runs retirement villages and housing developments and currently has almost 4,000 homes available for older people.
This KTP aims to develop expertise in smart living technologies, such as intelligent sensing and socially assistive robots. The project aims to explore what technologies are capable of improving service provision, increasing productivity, generating revenue and upskilling staff. We spoke with Alex Sleat who has been leading the project as the KTP Associate:
What attracted you to the KTP role?
I’ve been a researcher in academia for some time, so it was interesting for me to get to see lab research being utilised in the outside environment. The KTP partnership between UWE and ExtraCare is a great opportunity for this.
How is the partnership between UWE and Extracare working?
The partnership is going well, there’s a good level of communication between the two partners, and a lot of additional activity towards finding opportunities for future collaboration.
What are the current challenges of your role?
The main reoccurring challenge is finding technology that fits into people’s lifestyles, trying to figure out how technology will work for an individual and then conducting research around their busy schedules and in their own homes. Getting people to try new technology is always tricky, so it’s important that explanations are simple and the technology is bespoke enough to prove beneficial.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Sometimes it’s obvious to see the positive effects of new technologies. Often technology that might have been overlooked, because it’s not directly designed for a purpose, has a huge impact and allows people to improve their day-to-day lives, wellbeing, health and independence. I spend a lot of time inside the retirement village, so have enjoyed getting to know the residents and watching the community grow.
What do you think about the support available from UWE and the Company?
Both UWE and ExtraCare have made me feel part of the group, and support and guidance from both sides has been tremendous when I’ve needed it.
To find out more about the Knowledge Transfer Partnership opportunities at UWE, visit our website
Romancing the Gibbet: sites of extraordinary punishment in Georgian England
Author Research, Business and Innovation | Posted on 28 October 2019 28 October 2019
As part of the Being Human Festival 2019, Professor Steve Poole is co-hosting an event on 14 November that explores ‘dark tourism’ sites of extraordinary public execution in Georgian Britain. Read all about it in his post below:
Steve Poole, University of the West of England, Bristol
“Ralph Hoyte and I first came up with the idea for Romancing the Gibbet in 2014 and pitched it to the first Being Human festival. Here’s the premise: Ralph is a poet concerned with embedding language in the landscape, a situated poetry working in tandem with the experience of Place. I’m a social historian interested in the representation of emotional trauma in the historic environment. What might we make if we worked together?
In 2014, Ralph was developing digital conversations between the Romantic poets Coleridge and the Wordsworths in the Quantock Hills above Nether Stowey in the later 18th century, and I was completing some research about the extraordinary and occasional practice of hanging criminals at remote rural crime scenes in the same period. In many cases, the executed body was then left to slowly decompose in an iron gibbet cage suspended high over the landscape.
Conventional histories assess the evidence surrounding events like these but struggle to represent their emotional and affective impact on the environment in which they were staged and in the consciousness of the people they targeted. We wondered whether a fusion of historical research and poetic response, cast as a situated performance piece close to an execution site could get us (and a local audience) closer to understanding the process as it was conceived by contemporaries – as a deep and indelible mark on the collective memory of a community.
So, augmented by a live soundscape created by the environmental artist Michael Fairfax, we staged two bespoke Being Human performances along these lines at Warminster, Wiltshire (where two men were hanged on a hill overlooking the town after murdering a farmer and his servant in 1813) and at Nether Stowey, Somerset (where a man was hanged for the murder of his wife in 1789). Built around lengthy balladic interpretations, these went down astonishingly well and attracted a brilliantly mixed audience of local history buffs, creative writing fans and curious local residents.
Our next objective was to make some more permanent immersive landscape interventions, adapting the performance pieces and making them more accessible. Ralph and I had both worked a lot with creative digital audio as an interpretation tool so we next threw that experience into building four geo-located ‘Romancing the Gibbet’ app downloads. We added two new poetry commissions: a fratricidal killing in the estuary at Avonmouth in 1741 and the murder of a labourer on a hill overlooking Chipping Camden in 1772. These immersive landscape trails are designed for use with smartphone and headphones in the environment they commemorate. They are not linear guides and they do not offer ‘information’. We see them as situated sound pieces triggered by past events.
At this year’s Being Human festival we’re promoting all this work – engaging audiences at community halls in each of the four locales, with historical discussion, sample performance pieces and specially laid out audio trail tasters.
Why have we stuck with this project for five years now? Partly because we are still learning how our understanding of the world, and what it is to be a human in it, is affected by a finely tuned balance between reason and emotion. Historians haven’t always found it easy to work with imaginative reconstruction, with empathy or with feeling. But here was an historical practice deliberately designed to traumatise, to emotionally scar and to change for generations the ways in which the landscape was read and understood. What’s more, eighteenth century people often used poetry themselves to record them, perhaps because rational explanation was never quite enough.
For heritage interpretation, making sense of emotional currents and their relationship to the conventional archive, material culture and the natural world seems to me absolutely vital. And working collaboratively with creative industries partners like Ralph has changed the way I think as an historian.
Creative and even-handed co-production between artists and academics can provoke audiences to think differently about the past and to ‘remember’ or ‘know’ things in different ways. Collective memories, tied to Place, may reveal themselves in evidence-based research, but they may also emerge in myths, fictions and folklore. Poetry works with the spectral traces of a half remembered, part imaginary past and is quite at home in it. But it is no less ‘authentic’ for all that.”
Watch a short film of Ralph and Steve discussing the project here. To book tickets for the event please see here.
Research undertaken at UWE Bristol could reduce the need for precautionary antibiotics when it comes to Urinary tract infections
Adapted from news article which originally appeared on the UWE Bristol Website.
Researchers at UWE Bristol are supporting the North Bristol NHS Trust to develop a device that can diagnose urinary tract infections (UTI) in a few minutes. The project, funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), could avoid instances when doctors prescribe antibiotics as a precautionary measure while waiting for test results.
The device, which will be about the size of a domestic toaster, is to be developed within the University’s Institute of Bio-sensing Technology. It will work using a cartridge that contains antibodies to common UTI bacteria, and a protein indicating when an infection is present. A small volume of the patient’s urine sample is poured into the cartridge, which is then placed in the new detection device, after which a diagnosis can be made quickly.
Professor Richard Luxton, who is co-Founder and Director of the Institute of Bio-sensing Technology at UWE Bristol said: “As well as speeding up the diagnostic process, this device is aimed at minimizing inappropriate prescription of antibiotics and hence supporting the aim of reducing antimicrobial resistance.
“Currently it can take up to three days to get a result for a urine sample sent to a microbiology laboratory. If the patient has ongoing symptoms, the GP will sometimes prescribe antibiotics before the result is back. This could be harmful to the patient, and also to the community at large.”
Professor Marcus Drake, Consultant Urologist from North Bristol NHS Trust and project Principle Investigator, said that as well as being slow, such methods are sometimes unreliable. “The new device will detect the infecting bacteria directly, giving a reliable indicator of the UTI. Current dipstick type tests measure chemicals in the urine that suggest bacteria may be present, but these are not sensitive and may miss an infection,” he said.
The development of the diagnostic device is in its early stages and the project duration is scheduled for three years to develop a prototype, and do a preliminary test with real urine specimens. Over a following three-year period, researchers will then further develop the diagnostic system to bring it in line with regulations, with a plan for the device to then be used in clinical trials.
Following this, the researchers hope to make it available to the NHS for use in GP surgeries for patients with suspected UTI.
UWE Bristol Researcher awarded grant to understand effectiveness of chemotherapy for cancer patients
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences Dr Alex Greenhough has been awarded a grant of almost £25,000 from Bowel Cancer UK to understand why some patients with rectal cancer don’t respond well to certain treatments and look for new ways to improve its chance of success.
Alex will be studying proteins that are found in bowel cancer cells to find out if they affect how patients respond to chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
In collaboration with Adam Chambers and Professor Ann Williams from the University of Bristol, they hope to discover how subtle differences in these proteins might help them to which patients will respond best to this type of treatment.
Knowing which patients are likely to respond well to chemotherapy and radiotherapy means this treatment can be offered to those who would most benefit from it. Most importantly, patients will be spared from the side effects of a treatment that simply won’t work for them.
This award is part of Bowel Cancer UK’s investment of over £1.3 million pounds to support research with the greatest benefits for those at risk and affected by the disease.
Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, however it shouldn’t be because it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early.
Alex said: “We are incredibly grateful for this funding from Bowel Cancer UK, which will give us a fantastic opportunity to make important progress towards better understanding patient responses to chemoradiotherapy and ultimately improve clinical outcomes.”
Dr Lisa Wilde, Director of Research and External Affairs at Bowel Cancer UK, said: “We are delighted to invest in Dr Greenhough’s research. This important work will support our commitment to invest in high quality, innovative and creative solutions to help lead a step change in the number of people surviving bowel cancer.”
For more information visit bowelcanceruk.org.uk/research.
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Women's soccer's Cinderella run falls short
By DAVID MERCER After an unexpected run into the postseason, the University of Mary Washington’s women’s soccer team lost in the Capital Athletic Conference championship to Frostburg State on Saturday, Nov. 8.
UMW Athletics
By DAVID MERCER
After an unexpected run into the postseason, the University of Mary Washington’s women’s soccer team lost in the Capital Athletic Conference championship to Frostburg State on Saturday, Nov. 8.
After both teams went scoreless in the first half, the Eagles gave up two goals in the second and could not respond, sending themselves into the offseason on a sour note.
Despite their underdog status, the Eagles came into the game with a serious mindset and focused on one common goal: a CAC Championship.
“Everyone had high hopes of winning and continuing our season, but the loss will motivate us to work even harder to reach that goal and more next season,” said sophomore goalie Sara Armor.
The team is looking to use this as a boost to make them a better team all around. According to Armor, the Eagles feel that this one loss does not define them as a team.
UMW was riding an 8-1 home record as they entered the game, but was 4-6-2 on the road, where they spent the entirety of their CAC tournament run.
“I think we were so successful because of the team chemistry and how much heart everyone played with,” said freshman business major Taylor Decker. “I think I brought a lot of energy and a positive attitude to the team.”
Coming off the loss, the team is still hopeful about their future. The Eagles will lose substantial senior leadership due to graduation, but have more than enough youth and skill to compensate.
“I think we were successful in the end, but there was a lot of untapped potential so we could have been better,” said Maryfay Jackson, a sophomore psychology major.
Knowing that it could have been the seniors’ last game, the underclassmen on the team did all they could to earn one more game for their leaders.
“We played our hearts out for the seniors and we didn’t want that to be their last game, but the score didn’t show that,” Jackson said.
Despite coming up short in the championship game, the team did have an overall successful season. They finished with a 12-7-2 overall record and advanced to the CAC championship game as the bottom seed in the tournament, a feat only accomplished by few.
“I believe we were most successful when we were communicating well on the field and winning our individual battles,” Armor said.
Even with a team that has a lot of freshman and sophomores, the team clicked early and often and generated a special sense of chemistry, which helped to boost them to the CAC championship game.
The women are heading into the offseason motivated and ready to work hard so they can make it back to this position next year and capitalize on their opportunities.
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LSU Fans Told to Mind Their Manners
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It is no secret that some LSU fans feel betrayed by Nick Saban. He left the school for a short tenure with the NFL's Miami Dolphins then headed for arch rival Alabama. Some in Death Valley this weekend expressed their displeasure with Coach Saban and are now being scolded for it.
LSU Vice Chancellor and Director of athletics Joe Alleva has issued a warning to fans who took their feelings towards Coach Saban a little to far. According to WWL.com Alleva said "a small minority of people chose to diminish the image of our great university by engaging in a profane chant directed toward Coach Saban. We are deeply sorry that such crude behavior occurred in Tiger Stadium, because that is the antithesis of what we represent at LSU." He went on to state that such behavior will not be tolerated in the future and that the offending parties will be ask to leave the stadium and not return.
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KRYK: Bills GM Brandon Beane's deep-dive take on QB Josh Allen, Year 2
John Kryk
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. — An NFL quarterback drafted in the first round has as little time to prove himself as any pro athlete. Anywhere, any sport.
In most cases, two years. Tops.
By then, if you haven’t shown you’ve got the goods — that you can reliably, consistently complete pro-level passes — then teams and fan bases move on lightning quick.
See Ponder, Christian. Or Gabbert, Blaine.
Sometimes he’s lucky even to get a second year. Ask Josh Rosen, who’s struggling already to keep up with Ryan Fitzpatrick at Miami Dolphins training camp, his second team in 15 months in the NFL. Or EJ Manuel, whose head coach in Buffalo in 2014, Doug Marrone, bailed on him just four games into Year 2.
It’s an outlier nowadays when a team such as Miami gives a nearly-there-but-never-quite-there passer such as Ryan Tannehill seven whole years to try to figure it out. He didn’t, by the way, and now backs up Marcus Mariota in Tennessee.
Stop 4: #Bills. At @FisherAthletics
In full pads. pic.twitter.com/oNFjJO0xsA
— John Kryk (@JohnKryk) July 27, 2019
Which leads us to Josh Allen.
Although the 23-year-old is entering his second season with the Buffalo Bills, for the purposes of this discussion it’s both unfair and inaccurate to say this is his second full season of starting.
That’s because the club immediately dropped him to third-string status for most of last spring and summer. Only after free-agent signee AJ McCarron disappointedly failed to pan out, and after overmatched, weak-armed Nathan Peterman’s disastrous meltdown in a Week 1 annihilation in Baltimore — did the club quickly change course and promote Allen to No. 1. In Week 2, with such little preparation.
Allen soon missed a month with an elbow injury and, what’s more, was as poorly protected and had as few NFL-level receiving options as any QB in the league. So, yeah, this really is his Year 1b. Or Year 2*.
That said, everyone knew the knock on Allen coming out of the University of Wyoming: that he’s scattershot despite having that beautiful cannon of an arm. Last year he indeed was scattershot, completing just 52.8% of his throws, which ranked 33rd in the NFL among statistical qualifiers.
And so, if Allen does not demonstrate in 2019 more accuracy within 15-20 yards, and does not show in 2019 he can win crunch games not with his surprisingly fast legs but by stringing together good pass after good pass down the stretch, then his critics will be too numerous to count.
Bills quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey talks with Josh Allen (right) and Matt Barkley (5) during training camp in Pittsford, N.Y., on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Mark Konezny / USA TODAY Sports
After the Bills’ first padded, deliciously raucous practice of training camp ended on Saturday morning at St. John Fisher College, Bills GM Brandon Beane spoke at length with Postmedia about Allen and his development in this, perhaps his crucial, defining year as a pro.
“He knows,” Beane said. “Listen, he’s not the kind of guy who goes, ‘Oh, I’m just going to take my time, and in five or six years I’ll be’ — no, he wants to win now.
“If he misses a throw in just 1-on-1s to even just a backup receiver, if it’s on him he is pissed off. His teammates see that. He wants to win every play, every day, and that was part of what was attractive when we decided to move up a year ago to draft him at No. 7.”
Beane and head coach Sean McDermott — both entering Year 3 in Buffalo — have gone all-in this year in surrounding Allen with (a) better mentoring, (b) better on-field pass protection, (c) a better augmenting running game, and (d) more than just one or two pass receivers who can actually get open.
It was all by design.
“Yes, 100%,” Beane said. “We definitely tried. First, you’ve got to protect him. And we were not good enough up front last year, which also affected our running game. A good running game is a quarterback’s best friend. And then after the O-line, the next thing wasn’t at receiver, it was let’s get some competition in here at running back, to get that thing going.”
Bills wide receiver John Brown prepares to make a catch during training camp in Pittsford, N.Y., on Saturday, July 27, 2019. John Kryk / Postmedia Network
Indeed, one-time star running back LeSean McCoy had his least productive season as a pro in 2018, even if the blame surely wasn’t all on him.
“So we signed Frank Gore and T.J. Yeldon, then the draft comes and we get Devin Singletary (in Round 3, 74th overall),” Beane said.
“Then, obviously, we tried to add some receiving weapons in free agency. We tried to get various weapons so that defences couldn’t just worry about speed guys, or just worry about underneath.”
The outside speed guy came in John Brown, a natural, breathtaking catcher of footballs who had battled injuries in Arizona before getting off to a great start last year in Baltimore before the team went all ’70s rushing attack in midseason behind rookie QB Lamar Jackson. He made two stunning long-bomb grabs Saturday, one on which at full speed he tracked the ball from over his right shoulder to over his left, without breaking stride — then dived and snared it.
The inside underneath specialist came in smurfy, former Dallas Cowboy Cole Beasley.
Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley runs with the ball during training camp in Pittsford, N.Y., on Saturday, July 27, 2019. John Kryk / Postmedia Network
In a receivers-vs.-DBs drill at Saturday’s practice, Beasley burst inside off a hard cut, but then suddenly jammed to a halt, and burst back outside. After defending cornerback Kevin Johnson practically broke an ankle while wiping out, Allen eased a pass into the hands of a now wide-open Beasley, and he was gone.
“They join Zay Jones in Year 3,” Beane said, referencing the 2017 Round 2 draft pick. “We’ve also got Isaiah McKenzie, and we brought Andre Roberts in as a returner but also a veteran, savvy receiver.
“It was to give Josh weapons. Tight end Tyler Kroft, who I didn’t mention, had a setback with a foot injury. But he hopefully eventually helps too.”
Beane made it crystal clear. He and McDermott remain super excited about Allen and his potential.
Bringing in Ken Dorsey as quarterbacks coach to assist returning offensive coordinator Brian Daboll in developing Allen has paid dividends already, Beane said, especially with Allen’s accuracy.
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“Yeah, definitely. You see Josh knowing when to zip it, and when to put touch on it. He’s done a lot of work. We brought Ken in to help with that. You saw him all spring working with Josh on various throws — from the pocket, from the move, rolling out left, rolling right, the touch ball … all of it.”
Beane said Allen’s burning desire to compete, and win, is the key catalyst that’s also helping him improve his accuracy.
“I think definitely,” Beane said. “It comes with time, and knowing who his receivers are. And listen, we didn’t have a veteran group out there last season. We had some young guys, and they’re learning too. So that’s it. It’s learning his personnel.
“The hardest part is going to be continuity. We have a lot of continuity on defence, but not on offence …
“There are still some bumps ahead, but I see a young man who’s confident in his ability, who is trending in the right direction and wants to be great. He gave himself every chance this off-season, by going out in the spring and working with (noted quarterbacks guru) Jordan Palmer before he came back and worked with us. And he came back early this summer. He took four or five receivers out to the University of Buffalo just before training camp, got them out and threw with them.”
Bills quarterback Josh Allen takes a breather during training camp in Pittsford, N.Y., on Saturday, July 27, 2019. John Kryk / Postmedia Network
The last thing Allen is is an introvert. He doesn’t seem to hide his zest for playing, for competing, for winning, and for just finding little ways to have fun on the football field.
It does not go unnoticed by his peers, Beane said.
“The guys love him.”
Does it help him as a quarterback?
“It does,” Beane said. “You’ve got to have that … He’s got what it takes to be a leader. He’s tough. Guys see the grit that he plays with. He leaves it all on the line. When he walks off the field, he’s beat up.
“I mean, there were some Mondays and Tuesdays last season where he had to get himself right just to get out there on Wednesday. And his teammates saw that. And there’s a respect that comes with that, whatever you want to call it — the warrior mentality that he plays with. He’s going to do everything he can to try to win. If you’re going to cover and receiver and let him run? He’s going to tuck it and run. He’s just going to be smart about it.”
Perhaps the most important thing Allen needs to learn strategically in 2019, Beane said, is checking down earlier.
“There were games where he probably tried to do too much. Part of that is being a rookie, part of that is who he is. He’s still going to make mistakes because he believes in himself — which is what you want. I don’t want to change that at all in him.
“But it’s all part of his maturation too, of getting the ball out and getting it to 2nd-and-short, versus trying to hit a 25-yard pass on 1st-and-10. Now, we still want to be aggressive when it calls for it, but we also want him to understand situations, and possess the ball — and keep the chains moving.”
And the career moving.
Beane: Special teams also must improve in 2019
PITTSFORD, N.Y. — There are three main units in football: defence, offence and special teams. The Buffalo Bills in 2018 weren’t very good in two of them.
The Bills will have a successful 2019, GM Brandon Beane said in an interview on Saturday, if they improve in the latter two.
“Our defence, we would like to see (get even better),” Beane said. “They played very well last year. Now we want our offence and our special teams to catch up to that. That will help us win more games, because it will improve our field position.
“We had too long a field last year, because our special teams didn’t cover well enough, and our offence didn’t move well enough.”
Heath Farwell in January replaced Danny Crossman as the Bills’ special-teams coordinator.
‘Hard to say’ what right way was to handle Bills QBs in 2018
PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Looking back, should the Buffalo Bills a year ago May have just anointed No. 7 overall draft pick Josh Allen as the No. 1 quarterback?
Just given him as many possible reps with first-teamers, and let AJ McCarron and Nathan Peterman duke it out to be backup?
That sure seems logical and is easy to say today. But 15 months ago?
“Yeah, I mean hindsight is 20/20,” Bills GM Brandon Beane said Saturday in a training-camp interview at St. John Fisher College. “But we also didn’t want to put him out there before he was ready. And we were trying to have a fair competition (with Peterman and McCarron).
“So it’s hard to truly say what the right answer is. If we’d have had a veteran that had taken the reins, that would have made it easy. But we didn’t.”
Right. McCarron was so ineffective the Bills traded him away on cut-down weekend. And Peterman was so epically awful in a handful of ignominious stints (most glaringly in the opener), that he became an all-time NFL poster-boy for wretched quarterbacking.
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Reducing the risk of heart disease
Protocols for HealthCardiovascular Support
How do we reduce the risk of heart disease? With a plant based diet. See Green Facts below to learn what the World Health Organization (WHO) and Kaiser Permantente say about plant based diets.
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Whitehead et al. (2014) performed a meta-analysis on 28 randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of oat bran beta glucans to lower LDL cholesterol. Oat beta glucan reduced LDL and total cholesterol by 0.25 mmol/L and 0.30 mmol/L respectively at doses of 3g/d.
Saini (2010) found that the fiber inulin inhibits hepatic lipogenesis (creation of cholesterol), inducing a significant hypotriglyceridemic effect.
DiRienzo (2014) reviewed 26 clinical studies and two meta-analyses and found amongst others that L. acidophilus plus inulin significantly decrease LDL cholesterol. Their conclusion was that probiotic intake as a therapeutic lifestyle change can have a positive effect on reduced CHD risk factors.
Phyto Power contains three species of wildcrafted Rosehips (the whole fruit and seeds), four species of wildcrafted dandelions (aerial parts 90% w/w, roots 10% w/w and flower), and four species of wildcrafted blueberry (fruit >95% w/w and leave and stems < 5% w/w).
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Cani et al. (2009). Changes in gut microbiota control inflammation in obese mice through a mechanism involving GLP-2 driven improvement of gut permeability. Gut; 58(8): 1091-1103.
Cani et al. (2008). Changes in gut microbiotia control metabolic endotoxemia-induced inflammation in high-fat induced obesity and diabetes in mice, Diabetes; 57: 1470-81.
Cani et al. (2007). Metabolic endotoxemia initiates obesity and insulin resistance. Diabetes; 56:1761-72.
Cani et al. (2007a). Selective increases of Bifidobacteria in gut microflora improve high-fat-diet-induced diabetes in mice through a mechanism associated with endotoxaemia. Diabetologia; 50: 2374-83.
DiRienzo DB. (2014). Effect of probiotics on biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: implications for heart-healthy diets. Nutr Rev; 72(1): 18-29.
Dinstel RR, Cascio J, Koukel S. (2013). The antioxidant level of Alaska’s wild berries: high, higher and highest. Int J Circumpolar Health;72 doi:10.3402/ijch.v7210.21188.
Lilla MA. (2004). Plant Pigments and their Manipulation: Annual Plant Reviews; Vol. 14: Chapter 8, Blackwell Publishing.
Han et al. (2007). Meta-analysis: Dietary Polyphenols and their Biological Significance. Int J Mo Sci; 8(9): 950-988.
Saini et al. (2010). Potential of probiotics in controlling cardiovascular diseases. J Cariovasc Dis Res; 1(4): 213-214.
Tuso et al. (2013). Nutritional Update for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets. The Permanente Journal; 17(2); 61-66.
Weggemans et al. (2001). Dietary cholesterol from eggs increases the ratio of total cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in humans: a meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr; 73: 885-91.
Whitehead et al. (2014). Cholesterol-lowering effects of oat beta glucan: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Am J Clin Nutr; 100(6): 1413-1421.
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Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Kaiser Permantente, the largest managed healthcare organization in the United States, recommend changing our diet to one that is a plant-based diet in order to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
In 2010 the World Health Organization (WHO) put out their Global Status Report On Noncommunicable Diseases stating,Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of death globally, killing more people each year that all other causes combined … NCDs are caused by four behavioral risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, insufficient physical activity and the harmful use of alcohol … Of the 57 million global deaths in 2008, 36 million, were due to NCDs, principally cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases …Adequate consumption of fruit and vegetables reduces the risk for cardiovascular diseases … High consumption of saturated fats and trans-fatty acids is linked to heart disease.Heart disease is still the number one killer (CDC April 2016).
Kaiser Permantente has published a remarkable nutritional update for their 15,000 physicians who care for their 10 million members. Kaiser is now telling doctors that healthy eating may best be achieved with a plant-based diet, defined as a regiment that “encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy and eggs as well as all refined and processed junk food (Tuso, 2013).”
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Microsoft 1978
I'm sure most of you are familiar with this famous Microsoft group photo from December 1978:
Groovy. In case you were wondering, the photo is authentic. It's even featured on the official Microsoft Bill Gates biography page. Of course we recognize Bill Gates in that famous photo, but I was curious about the other people in the photo. What happened to them? When did they leave Microsoft, and why? What are they doing now?
Update: Nearly 30 years later, Microsoft reshot this classic photo.
A coworker provided a link to this 2000 Time article that did most of the research for us; there's also a page on the Museum of Hoaxes that adds a bit more information on the people in the photo. I've combined the information from both sources here:
Steve Wood Programmer. Left Microsoft in 1980. Married to Marla Wood. Now runs a telecommunications company. EW $15 million.
Bob Wallace Production manager-designer. Left Microsoft in 1983. Was a psychedelic-drug advocate. Died in 2002. EW $5 million.
Jim Lane Project manager. Left Microsoft in 1985. Now owns his own software company. EW $20 million.
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Bob O'Rear Chief mathematician. Left Microsoft in 1993. Now a cattle rancher. EW $100 million.
Bob Greenberg Programmer. Left Microsoft in 1981. Helped develop Cabbage Patch dolls for Coleco. Now makes software for golf courses. EW $20 million.
Marc McDonald Programmer. Microsoft's first employee. Left Microsoft in 1984 because it was "too big", then rejoined the company when they bought Design Intelligence, the company he was working for. Has the honor of wearing badge number 00001. EW $1 million.
Gordon Letwin Programmer. Left Microsoft in 1993. Now an environmental philanthropist. EW $20 million.
Bill Gates Co-founder. Still Microsoft chairman and chief architect. Now the richest person in the world. EW $50 billion.
Andrea Lewis Technical writer. Left Microsoft in 1983. Now a freelance journalist. EW $2 million.
Marla Wood Bookkeeper. Married to Steve Wood. Left Microsoft in 1980, then sued the company for sex descrimination. Now a self-described "professional volunteer". EW $15 million.
Paul Allen Co-founder. Left Microsoft in 1983 but remains a senior strategy advisor to the company. Now sports team owner, space enthusiast, and philanthropist. EW $21 billion.
A lot of the information on the hoaxes site was cribbed directly from a 2000 article in the Albuquerque Tribune. Unfortunately, that article is no longer available on the Tribune website. I managed to pry a copy of the article out of the google cache, so I'm mirroring it locally to preserve the content.
The Microsoft logo was no less groovy in 1978:
If you want to bone up on your ancient Microsoft history even further, I recommend the History of Computing project's Microsoft timeline.
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Join the adventure of a lifetime | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
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Pollution triples mercury levels in ocean surface waters, study finds
Stephen Palumbi: Following the mercury trail
There's a tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and ours, says marine biologist Stephen Palumbi.
He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a shocking story of toxic contamination from a Japanese fish market.
His work points a way forward for saving the oceans' health -- and humanity's.
From The Guardian by Fiona Harvey
Toxic metal threatens marine life as it accumulates faster in shallow layers than in deep sea due to human activity
The amount of mercury near the surface of many of the world’s oceans has tripled as the result of our polluting activities, a new study has found, with potentially damaging implications for marine life as the result of the accumulation of the toxic metal.
Mercury is accumulating in the surface layers of the seas faster than in the deep ocean, as we pour the element into the atmosphere and seas from a variety of sources, including mines, coal-fired power plants and sewage.
Mercury is toxic to humans and marine life, and accumulates in our bodies over time as we are exposed to sources of it.
A sewage drain floods into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza, in Nuseirat.
Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images
Since the industrial revolution, we have tripled the mercury content of shallow ocean layers, according to the letter published in the peer-review journal Nature on Thursday.
Mercury can be widely dispersed across the globe when it is deposited in water and the air, the authors said, so even parts of the globe remote from industrial sources can quickly suffer elevated levels of the toxic material.
Mercury in the open ocean : sources to seafood
For several years, scientists have warned that pregnant women and small children should limit their consumption of certain fish, including swordfish and king mackerel, because toxic metals including mercury and lead have been accumulating in these species to a degree that made their over-consumption dangerous to human health.
Pregnant women are particularly at risk because the metals can accumulate in the growing foetus, and in sufficient quantities can cause serious developmental disorders.
Environment officials are in Geneva to work out a new treaty to cut mercury levels in the ocean. The United Nations says mercury in the world's oceans has doubled over the past century, causing serious health concerns. (Jan 2013)
The scientists behind Thursday’s letter to Nature, including researchers from the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, stopped short of warning on the dangers to human health from our pouring of mercury into the oceans.
However, they said, further research could yield more advice on the potential impacts: “This information may aid our understanding of the processes and the depths at which inorganic mercury species are converted into toxic methyl mercury and subsequently bioaccumulated in marine food webs.”
Styrofoam models of dead fish placed by Greenpeace environmental activists float near a ship moored in Argentina's most polluted river, the heavy-metal laced, reeking Riachuelo, November 28, 2000.
Simon Boxall, lecturer on ocean and Earth science at the University of Southampton, said it was “hard to say” from the research how much damage had already been done to marine life, including edible fish species, and how quickly any such damage would become apparent.
“I would not stop eating ocean fish as a result of this,” he said.
“But it is a good indicator of how much impact we are having on the marine environment. It is an alarm call for the future.
GeoTraces is an international programme which aims to improve the understanding of biogeochemical cycles and large-scale distribution of trace elements and their isotopes in the marine environment.
Deep waters in the North Atlantic showed more mercury content than similarly deep waters of the South Atlantic and the Southern and Pacific Oceans, the authors of the report said.
Mercury at the surface will disperse to lower layers in time, but this can take decades.
However, the process of the damage to marine life becoming apparent can be faster in some areas, such as those closer to the poles, than areas nearer the equator, said Dr Boxall.
The north pole and the Arctic circle, because of the winds and ocean currents, is an area where many pollutants released elsewhere across the globe accumulate: top predators such as polar bears have been found to have high levels of toxins in their bodies as a result.
These animals are sometimes eaten by indigenous Arctic peoples.
“In the Arctic and Antarctic, you will be starting to see some of this now,” he said.
“But with deep-sea fishing in the tropics you will not see it yet, but you will see it within a hundred years.”
Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants can be reduced by using chemical filters, but while this is increasingly the norm in the rich world many developing countries have yet to catch up. Another source of the metal is from sewage.
Developed countries have means to reduce this impact, but again developing countries are less likely to have in place the treatment systems necessary.
CBS : Oceans tainted with more man-made mercury
Zero Mercury Working Group
Australia AHS update in the Marine GeoGarage
Australia AHS layer coverage
3 charts have been added and 16 charts have been updated in the Marine GeoGarage
(AHS update 08/07/2014)
Aus144 Australia South Coast - Victoria - The Rip
Aus155 Australia South Coast - Victoria - Approaches to Port of Melbourne
Aus81 Australia West Coast - Western Australia - Approaches to Geraldton
Aus546 Papua New Guinea - New Britain North Coast - Cape Lambert to Bangula Bay
Aus547 Papua New Guinea - New Britain North Coast - Bangula Bay to Eleonora Bay
Aus242 Australia East Coast - Queensland - Port Bundaberg including Burnett River
Aus647 Papua New Guinea - South Coast - Approaches to Caution Bay NEW
Aus648 Papua New Guinea - South Coast - Caution Bay NEW
Aus54 Australia North West Coast - Western Australia - Port Hedland
Aus181 Australia South Coast - Victoria - Corner Inlet
Aus182 Australia South Coast - Plans in Victoria - South East Coast
Aus63 Australia North West Coast - Western Australia - Mary Anne Passage
Aus700 Australia North Coast - Queensland - Western Approaches to Torres Strait
Aus637 Papua New Guinea - North East Coast - Trobriand Islands NEW
Aus56 Australia North West Coast - Western Australia - Port Walcott
Aus606 Indian Ocean - Approaches to Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Aus607 Indian Ocean - Cocos (Keeling) Islands South Keeling
Aus237 Australia East Coast - Queensland - Brisbane River - The Bar to Lytton Reach
Aus802 Australia South Coast - Victoria - Cape Liptrap to Cliffy Island
Today 465 AHS raster charts (787 including sub-charts) are included in the Marine GeoGarage viewer.
Note : AHS updates their nautical charts with corrections published in:
Australian Notices to Mariners
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ShoreZone, public access to a coastal map : Uses for spill planning tool expands
Learn how to access millions of coastal aerial photos right from your desktop using the ShoreZone Alaska Flex Site.
From Washington Times by Molly Dischner
A program originally brought to Alaska to support oil spill planning and response efforts in Cook Inlet has since expanded to most of the state with uses from coastal monitoring to art and education.
The coastal mapping endeavor ShoreZone’s Alaska debut was as a Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council pilot project in 2001. Now, about 80 percent of Alaska’s coastline is mapped including Southeast Alaska and the North Slope.
https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/shorezone/
ShoreZone provides public access to a coastal map that includes several elements: high-resolution photos, videos, and data on the biology and geomorphology of the coast.
“Having the biology and the geology together is a robust data set,” said ShoreZone’s Darren Stewart, who works for The Nature Conservancy as a coordinator among the various partners.
In addition to oil and gas uses, the database is valuable for Coast Guard search and rescue operations, researchers doing reconnaissance and selecting sites, marine debris cleanup efforts, and recreation planning such as planning kayak trips and looking for safe landing spots for boats, Stewart said.
“Being able to see an area before you get there saves a lot of time and money and resources,” Stewart said.
http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/mapping/szflex/index.html
This summer, the National Marine Fisheries Service is funding the next step in mapping Alaska’s coast - about 2,500 miles along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta shoreline from Cape Newenham to Emmonak, including Nunivak Island.
That work will be done in two surveys in July and August, and cost about $300,000.
NMFS is the primary funder this summer, but the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge will provide various services like fuel drops, lodging and other logistics support, Stewart said.
A private contractor, Coastal and Ocean Resources Inc., or CORI, collects the data that feeds into the maps. A biologist and a geomorphologist will ride in a helicopter along the coast, taking video and shooting still images, and narrating along the way.
Generally, the team will follow the same standardized protocol that has been used throughout the state - including doing the work when there are the lowest tides and the most light.
“They want the entire coastline from the lowest of the low waterline to the supertidal zone,” Stewart said.(backslash)
In some places, additional information is collected based on interest - for instance, a baseline hydrocarbon study was done on the Nort Slope.
Later on, mappers will listen to the narration and use the imagery to create maps in units.
That can take several months, and depends on funding, Stewart said.
Eventually, the database that’s built allows for queries about a variety of things - where logs are likely accumulate, whether a stretch of coast has pebble or boulders or a sandy beach, and the habitat there, said CORI’s John Harper, who has been involved with the project since it started in British Columbia.
CORI has done all but one of the surveys in Alaska, according to Stewart, and funding has come from a variety of partners - about 30 to 40 organizations have been involved at one time or another.
“It’s very cool that we’ve had this array of funding,” Harper said.
Rooted in spill response and planning
ShoreZone has its roots in oil spill planning - the program started in British Columbia for that purpose, and first came to Alaska for the same.
Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council Director of Science and Research Sue Saupe said several organizations recognized the need for more information about Alaska’s coast after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.(backslash)
In 2001, the Cook Inlet advisory council, or CIRCAC, decided to see if ShoreZone could fill that need and funded the first pilot project.
“We wanted a better inventory of all the coastlines in Cook Inlet,” she said.
The early goal was to provide habitat information and imagery that could be used in emergency situations.
The more information that is available about the coast, the easier it is to plan for a spill and cleanup, and minimize the impacts, because different habitats and landscape types respond differently to various treatments, she said.
For instance - oil will linger longer on a slat marsh than an exposed stretch of rocks.
ShoreZone provided the information that CIRCAC wanted, so after the pilot, the group started approaching other potential partners around the state to get involved.
Within three years, all of Cook Inlet, the outer Kenai Peninsula coast, the Katmai region and northern portion of Kodiak were mapped.
“I think the imagery is what really sparked people’s interest in making that happen,” Saupe said.
Eventually, the project expanded to Southeast Alaska, and then Bristol Bay and most recently the North Slope in 2012 and St. Lawrence Island in 2013, Stewart said.
The uses within the oil and gas realm are varied, Saupe said.
“This imagery has so much value, I think, in oil spill planning and response,” Saupe said.
Saupe said the program helps an oil spill response team on several levels - operations, planning and logistics.
During the 2012 Kulluk incident when the Shell drill rig separated from its tow and went aground in a storm near Kodiak, Harper said the response team relied on ShoreZone to figure out where to land, where to store booms and how to prepare for grounding and minimizing damages.
Palma Bay © ShoreZone
Flying the coast
Today, the ShoreZone website is accessible to anyone with a computer and fast enough internet connection.
Log on, and you can fly all the segments of Alaska’s coast that are mapped.
But it didn’t start that way.
Early on, the ShoreZone partners had to figure out how to make the data available, as the database deliverable was simply a disc of information, imagery and maps, Saupe said.
In 2004, the National Marine Fisheries Service agreed to host the data and make sure it was seamless throughout the various regions of the data, and in 2005 the agency released the first integrated website, making all the data collected so far available to the public.
The website is always being improved, Saupe said.
“It’s just a constant effort, constant effort by NOAA to keep upgrading, take advantage of new tools,” she said.
More recently, the video displayed on the website went from one second capture to full streaming video for certain portions of the database.
Saupe said the partnership is always looking for ways to improve access and use of ShoreZone in oil spill planning and response, and in other capacities.
One of the efforts has been to create offline tools, so that responders in areas with limited internet access can still use the ShoreZone information.
ShoreZone and Subsistence Resources
An early iteration of that effort is available by borrowing a hard drive and pulling all the data from it, but that’s a cumbersome process.
Another version is in the works, which would allow users to pull the data right from the internet onto a local drive.
For now, however, Saupe said the website remains the best way to access the data.
CIRCAC has also worked with the Alaska Oceans Observing System, or AOOS, on a program that integrates ShoreZone data with other information responders might want, Saupe said.
The Cook Inlet Response Tool includes more than 100 data layers, such as ShoreZone habitat information and video, realtime weather sensors and webcams, oil persistence, and marine mammal information.
Saupe said it was a “powerful way to look at information.”
AOOS also has ShoreZone data merged with additional databases for other regions of the state, including the Gulf of Alaska, Prince William Sound and the Arctic.
“The goal was to take this ShoreZone imagery the next step,” Saupe said.
CIRT also includes Geographic Response Strategies, which are pre-planned, site-specific protection measures for anadramous streams, archeological sites and other places considered fragile or in need of protection.
Those were commissioned by Alaska’s Department of Environmental Conservation, and are available throughout the state, although they - like ShoreZone - began in Cook Inlet.
Other patches remain to be mapped, including Norton Sound and parts of the Aleutian Islands, in part because it’s difficult to find funding for those areas.
Oil Spill Response Example
Other gaps in the data are the Southwest Alaska Peninsula, including King Cove and Sand Point, which are imaged but not mapped, Glacier Bay, the Pribilof Islands and Unimak Pass.
The western Aleutians will be particularly difficult, and may have to be done by boat, Stewart said.
“Even though its logistically challenging space, getting the Aleutians done is really important,” Stewart said.
Harper said that Unimak Pass is a priority because of the shipping traffic in the region.
“Even just regular cargo ships, they carry huge amounts of oil onboard,” Harper said.
For now, there’s no set plan for updating the information as the coastline changes, although the mapping protocol relies on small homogenous units, so updates could be done piece-by-piece if necessary.
Saupe said that the Cook Inlet was already reflown in 2009, as technology improved and the original imagery became outdated.
The imagery statewide is also useful for gauging change, she said.
“That imagery has become a very important data source in and of itself,” she said.
Beyond oil and gas
The survey process itself also leads to other interesting discoveries, Saupe said.
For instance, during the Gulf of Alaska mapping, researchers discovered that macrocystis kelp beds previously thought not to extend past Icy Strait are actually found in the western Gulf of Alaska.
After a small bed in Kenai and a larger bed in Kodiak were noted, CIRCAC funded dive studies to learn more about the habitat, Saupe said, and researchers have looked through historical records to try to learn more about its range, and if this is a change.
CIRCAC has also used the habitat information from ShoreZone to develop further studies of salt marshes in Cook Inlet, she said.
ShoreZone has also been used to develop two art exhibits, which pair large prints of the photos taken during the survey with scientific information about each area.
The exhibits looked at the Gulf of Alaska and the Arctic, and have been installed in various places throughout the state, including the State Museum in Juneau.
Communities also use ShoreZone for coastal planning, Stewart said.
“Just to get a good bird’s eye view of what’s there on the coast,” he said.
ShoreZone is also a tool for education, Saupe said, both in schools and communities.
Saupe demonstrated the website in Kodiak.
She had a young girl spot the place where she had taken a long beach walk, and a woman point out important archaeological sites around the island.
A U.S. Coast Guard member responsible for pulling information when preparing for rescues said it would help with that work in the future.
“Right there, you just had all these different levels of interest,” Saupe said.
The website is also being used in some schools, both to learn about the coast and as the basis for other projects.
One projects has students using the imagery to collect history and information about the villages and surrounding areas from local elders, Saupe said.
Egypt to build new Suez canal
From The Guardian by Patrick Kingsley
Egypt plans to add an extra lane to the Suez canal, one of the world's most important thoroughfares for trade, in an attempt to increase the number of ships using it each day.
Egypt launches digging of second Suez canal
The canal, which allows ships to travel from Europe to Asia without passing southern Africa, only provides for one-way traffic, with occasional room for ships to pass each other.
A new 45-mile lane, plans for which were announced on Tuesday by Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, would allow ships to travel in both directions for just under half of the canal's 101 miles.
"This giant project will be the creation of a new Suez canal parallel to the current channel," said Mohab Mamish, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, in a televised speech.
According to Egypt's main state news website, Mamish hopes the new channel will be working within a year, but such a quick turnaround is by no means certain.
It is also unclear to what extent the expansion would speed up the canal's operations, said Angus Blair, a Cairo-based analyst who has followed the project's development.
"They are only increasing capacity in a part of the canal, so the merits of it still have to be weighed up," said Blair, the president of the Signet Institute, an economic and political thinktank.
"They are essentially turning a single carriageway into a motorway halfway through."
In a speech to the nation on Tuesday, Sisi said the project would receive no financing from abroad, and that he hoped its $4bn (£2.4bn) cost would instead be offset by independent contributions from individual Egyptians.
"We want all Egyptians to hold shares in this project," he said.
Once its cost had been recouped, it was hoped the project would provide lasting stability to Egypt's ailing economy, Sisi said.
Revenues from the Suez canal, which total about $5bn (£3bn) every year, are a crucial source of foreign currency for the Egyptian economy, which has been battered by three years of political instability that have ruined the country's tourism industry and frightened away western investors.
Suez Canal - Connects the Mediterranean sea to the Red sea
The Suez canal is of great symbolic as well as economic importance to Egypt.
Opened 145 years ago, it remained under colonial control until 1956, when Egypt's then president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, wrested it into Egyptian ownership in an episode that remains a source of deep national pride.
GeoGarage blog : Suez canal transit in 30 seconds
‘The man who doesn’t breathe’: World-record diver can hold his breath underwater for 22 minutes
Stig Åvall Severinsen was the first person to hold his breath for more than 20 minutes under water,
a Guinness World Record.
He believes that controlling our breath means controlling our lives.
From DailyMail
Stig Severinsen is the holder of multiple records in diving using his 'State of Zen' technique to control his breathing
Also swam 500ft underwater in 2mins and 11secs
Mr Severinsen, 41 from Aalborg, began free diving in 2003
By the end of first year of practising he had already broken three records
These photographs show a world record holder in training – a man who can hold his breath underwater for 22 minutes.
Stig Severinsen - nicknamed The Man Who Doesn't Breathe – is the holder of multiple records in diving using his 'State of Zen' technique to control his breathing.
In October 2012, Mr Severinsen broke the record for the longest time breath held voluntarily by a male by spending 22 minutes with his head submerged in a pool in London. (video)
Stig Severinsen has written a book called Breatheology which helps people find their 'inner dolphin' - a state of mind to help control breathing underwater
He also holds the record for the longest underwater swim, travelling 500ft (152m 40cm) in just two minutes and 11 seconds.
The 41-year-old from Aalborg said: 'After holding my breath for 22 minutes I actually feel quite ok.
'The most stressful time is usually before the dive but then I get into my zone.
'I've always loved water - from splashing around as a baby to trying to grab as many rubber animals in a single breath.'
Mr Severinsen began free diving in 2003 after a recommendation from his underwater rugby coach.
By the end of his first year of practising he had already broken three records and he spent almost ten years perfecting his meditation technique before breaking the 22 minute dive.
The Dane has written a book called Breatheology which helps people find their 'inner dolphin' - a state of mind to help control breathing underwater.
On a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by swimming 250 feet (76.2m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland.
He explained: 'Your heart rate drops, blood pressure changes and your mind shifts.
'This helps alter your brainwave activity alters and you feel in perfect happy balance with your life.
'You have to get into a truly meditative state where you leave all your troubles behind.
'To do this I like to focus on one subject - something like a loved-one or a journey I've taken.'
Mr Severinsen has now retired from breaking records and is spending his time teaching his techniques to everyone from kids swimming clubs to the military.
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Every reported shark attack, worldwide, since 1580
REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS "SharkCam" underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more than they bargained for.
From io9
The Florida Museum of Natural History has a neat tool available on their website: an interactive map of every single (reported) shark attack, worldwide, since 1580.
(There aren't nearly as many as you might think!)
You can zoom in on specific regions (Florida is pictured above), and the map allows you to sort by species when the species was known.
Information is broken down by "Attacks", "Fatal Attacks", and "Year of Last Fatality".
A wealth of information, if shark-attack-related information was somehow equivalent to wealth.
The interface is a bit clunky, and the design is definitely pre-web-2.0, but the information is great.
Most reported attacks occur in the 20th and 21st centuries, presumably because of better recordkeeping.
[Or, as user R2D2ESQ points out below, because hanging out at the beach for fun is a relatively new phenomenon.]
But with that in mind, the number of reported unprovoked fatal shark attacks since 1580 is . . . only a measly 492.
To put that in context, more orcs died in Peter Jackson's Return of the King than humans have died in reported shark attacks since John Smith (Pocahontas) was born.
(And humans kill that many sharks every 2.5 minutes.)
The map is here. And for a fun take on the data, check out David Shiffman's awesome article (and my source for the map): "24 species of shark that have killed fewer people than Jack Bauer on 24".
1580-2013 Map of World's Confirmed Unprovoked Shark Attacks (N=2,665)
DailyMail : Now that's a toothy grin! Fearless photographer gets dangerously close to great white sharks at feeding time - without a safety cage
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Program Officer, Creating Space (CS)
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Website oxfamcanada Oxfam Canada
Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in over 90 countries as part of a global movement for change.
Department: International Programs
Status: 12 month term (parental leave) unionized
Immediate Supervisor: Program Manager, Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG)
Salary Band: Band 2
Salary: $59,541 – $78,352
Deadline to apply: January 20, 2020
Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in over 90 countries as part of a global movement for change. Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on improving the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. We work directly with communities, partners and women’s rights organizations to challenge the systems that perpetuate inequality and keep people poor. Together we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them, their families and entire communities. That’s why we believe that ending global poverty begins with women’s rights.
Oxfam Canada offers a generous compensation and benefits program, but more than that, we offer the opportunity to be a part of our global movement for change. If you advocate for gender equality, are passionate about women’s rights, and share our values of Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness – we want you on our team!
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Reporting to the Program Manager – Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) the Program Officer (PO) provides Head Office–based support in the delivery of Oxfam Canada’s Creating Space to Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls program. This five-year program (2016-2021), co-funded by Global Affairs Canada, aims to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG) through coordinated prevention and response initiatives in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Philippines.
The PO will play a key role in the effective implementation of the Creating Spaces program, monitoring program progress and performance, ensuring compliance with donor requirements, and leading efforts to improve program gender quality. The PO may also engage with a range of stakeholders to promote the program, advance promising practices and disseminate learning.
Successful completion of this mandate will require the PO to negotiate and maintain effective working relations with a range of stakeholders, including staff in the six Country Offices, Head Office colleagues in the International Program Department, as well as program partners and allies, and donors.
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oversee and ensure compliance with contractual agreements, including by carrying out periodic checks of systems and controls;
ensure accurate development and effective monitoring of work plans, budgets and performance targets, conducting field visits and providing analytical reports as required;
lead program administration and information management, maintaining the required files in keeping with Oxfam Canada standards;
support monitoring and evaluation processes and ensure quality reporting to a range of stakeholders; and
provide advisory support to a select set of Country Offices on a range of operational issues.
2. Gender / Women’s Rights Advisory Support:
further develop the Creating Spaces program gender strategy;
provide technical assistance to ensure integration of gender in the program monitoring and evaluation system;
provide advice and support in the implementation of key gender program components, particularly the Gender Organizational Capacity Building Model;
monitor and provide analytical reports on program-related gender issues;
contribute to Oxfam Canada’s VAWG-related knowledge initiatives, as required.
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Home RSS Feed IN AP News Giants quarterback Daniel Jones limited again in practice
Giants quarterback Daniel Jones limited again in practice
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning speaks to the media after an NFL football practice in East Rutherford, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Tom Canavan)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants rookie quarterback Daniel Jones was limited in practice for the second straight workout on Thursday, increasing the likelihood two-time Super Bowl Eli Manning will start this weekend.
Jones, who replaced Manning as the starter in the third week of the season, missed Monday night’s loss in Philadelphia with a sprained right ankle.
The sixth pick overall in this year’s draft, Jones took part in a jog-through workout on Wednesday. He was limited in Thursday’s more full-paced practice for the Giants (2-11).
Coach Pat Shurmur said Jones is making progress but he could not say whether he would be ready for Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium against the Miami Dolphins (3-10).
“Just like any injury, it’s a process to come back,” said Shurmur, who said he could wait until game day to choose his starter.
Manning was 15 of 30 for 203 yards and two touchdowns in the 23-17 overtime loss. He did not throw an interception.
“Eli is an outstanding player, so to go back to him is a good thing,” Shurmur said. “You never want to have an injury to anybody, but in our system, Eli going out there, he can execute at a very high level and he’s done it for many years.”
The Giants could be without a couple of key players against the Dolphins.
Right guard Kevin Zeitler, who has not been out for a game since the 2014 season, missed practice for the second straight day with wrist and ankle injuries sustained Monday.
Second-year pro Nick Gates will replace him, if necessary. He has never started a regular-season game at guard,
Cornerback Janoris Jenkins missed his second staight practice with an ankle injury sustained Monday. Sam Beal and DeAndre Baker probably would start at the cornerback spots if Jenkins cannot play.
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Lunar Lament
Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley
At night the wind blows without great force but the slight, constant breeze makes it necessary for her to wear the cloth overcoat. It is a fine old coat. A happy coat given to her by a happy mother. She cannot pull the sides of the coat together to button it up any more. Yet every night she tries. The coat is worn and shiny and she likes how the moon sometimes reflects off the worn material. It makes it sparkle and gives additional luster to her words.
She folds her arms across her chest, covertly tugging at the coat lapels, trying to stretch the material so that a button will slip into a hole. Frustrated by her failure to mate the button with a hole, she directs her anger at the wind, blaming it, and not her fat, for the chill slithering up her exposed housedress.
The anger has made her glad and she mumbles as her footsteps crunch on the driveway. When she twists her ankle in a pothole the mumbling gives way to a cackling staccato.
She falls silent as she reaches the end of the driveway. The overgrown weeds at the foot of the pavement can be dangerous. Especially at night. She makes hissing sounds at the foliage; no rodent accepts her challenge.
Chilled, yet confident, she looks at her watch. It is five-thirty a.m. It is late, her latest time since early spring. Her anger returns. She pivots and faces her house. The rotting beams and sunken porch push the house out towards her in a decayed slope. The broken stained glass windows, whipped by thick branches, do not have moonlight to advertise their faded glory. She cannot see the twinkling reds and blues: there is only darkness and the slashing of leaving scratching glass.
“Aeeeeeeeeeeh! Aeeeeeeeh! You killed my mother! Aeeeeeeeeeeh! Bastards! Not me, bastards! Aeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh! Can’t fool me ‘cause you killed my mother! Aeeeeeeh! Bastards! Filthy sneakin’ bastards! I’ll tell. I’ll tell the doctor. I’ll tell the doctor right now! I know! They killed my mother again! I know! Police! Police! Aeeeeeeeh! Treat it! Clean it! Bastards! I know! I knew! Aeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!”
She spins, shivering, her voice rising an octave with each scream. The words, smothered by her screams, explode from her throat in a cacophony of taut, stretched squeals.
Her throat burns yet her voice rises steadily until its pitch can only be heard by dogs. She flaps her arms as she stares at the apartment building across the street. After a pause her shrieking continues. From a second floor apartment inside the building Tommy Eromagne looks at his clock and sighs. She was late, that’s all. Nothing to be alarmed about. Now he can relax.
Tommy despises sleeping and is thankful at his age that he requires only three hours of it. He fears sleep as much as she fears the nightly demon that propels her out onto the curb. Tommy recognizes the sound of fear and it makes him less afraid when it isn’t just a silent throbbing inside his chest.
Sometimes Tommy attempts to understand the old woman’s screaming story about her mother, but it’s not that important to him anymore. When he relaxes his interpretive inclination and simply listens to her voice, it becomes a kind of soothing litany, like a religious chant, where the sounds, not the words, are what move him.
Listening to her nightly bouts with fear encourages him. He mouths each of her screams. Tommy would like to scream but he has a bad heart, a very bad heart. He can’t scream so he must pass his evenings listening to the erratic heartbeat that is just waiting for the chance to stop. Tommy knows the heartbeat will want to stop while he is asleep and can offer no resistance. The louder and more frantic her screams, the more stress he places on his respiratory system, dwindling his energy until he drops off into an exhausted sleep. When he awakens a few hours later he is proud of not having given up those three hours without a fight.
Tommy knows that as long as he is willing to fight fear the battle will continue. He isn’t sure if his resisting makes sleep respect him enough to overpower him for only a few hours, or if sleep enjoys the skirmishes and does not wish for them to end.
The sudden crash of bursting glass ends the screams filtering into his bedroom window. Tommy pulls himself up to his window in time to see the heavy woman in the cloth overcoat fall to the pavement. Splinters of glass from a hurled beer bottle prick her legs, forming warm thin lines of red that stain the sidewalk by her feet.
“Shut the fuck up,” yells a male voice from the apartment beneath Tommy.
The woman looks up at Tommy’s neighbor. “Aeeeeeeeeeh!” she howls. An empty jar of spaghetti sauce explodes just inches from her head. “You stupid bitch! Get the fuck back inside! I gotta get my sleep!”
From a window above Tommy’s a female voice calls out, “Why don’t the cops do something about her? Look at her. My son says she shoots beavers all the time.”
Tommy stares down at the bleeding woman. When he sees her look up he ducks his head. After a brief pause he peeks up at the window.
A third tenant’s voice joins in. “With all that goddamned money she’s supposed to have you’d think she could afford a muzzle or something!”
“I’ll muzzle that witch,” shouts out a young voice. The apartment building spits out a water balloon filled with urine. It lands with deadly accuracy on the screaming woman’s shoulder, splattering up into her face.
“That’ll piss her off,” the youngster shouts out. A chorus of tenants’ voices laughs their approval.
A police car pulls up to the curb. Two officers, each biting into a bagel, approach the prostrated woman. They gag at her smell and toss their breakfast into the street. An arrogant rat retrieves the discarded bagels and greedily chews them underneath a battered 1998 Honda Civic.
The policemen are reluctant to help the woman to her feet. Rubber gloves are snapped over their hands. They frown at each other and look up at the building behind them. Every window seems to have a head attached to it, shouting down at them to drag the woman off, take her away.
“No. Don’t take her, don’t take her,” whispers Tommy. “Please let her be.”
The sky is a dull gray; daylight is swallowing the night. As the woman is stiffly raised to her feet a roar of approval showers down on the reluctant police officers. The cops, holding the moist and foul smelling woman at arms length, face the tenement and execute a mock bow. It excites the tenement crowd and they scream even louder.
The building seems to tremble, but what is really trembling is the woman’s right arm. While the policemen are bent at the waist, she lunges at the holster of the officer bowing to her left. She’s surprised how easy it is to lift the gun from his belt.
By the time the policemen complete their curtsy, the screams of approval have become screams of terror. Every head from every window ducks to the floor. Every head, that is, except Tommy’s. He’s frozen at his window sill. The woman looks up at his window. They make eye contact. A crisp crack and the tapping of glass stuns Tommy. He looks down on the office to the woman’s right who is aiming his gun at her. Tommy is sure that cop has just shot the woman. A burning sensation in his neck distracts him but he can see the woman dropping to the ground, as if in slow motion, clutching her side.
Tommy feels dizzy and staggers back. His feet crumble and he bangs his head against the headboard. The pain in his neck disappears but now he is having a hard time breathing. An irritating cough soon turns into a choke and Tommy is laying on the bed, spitting up blood.
“That sonofabitch shot me! She shot me! Goddamn her!”
Tommy would like to call out for help but he can’t speak. All he can do is spit blood. His wheezing is loud and each exhale is accompanied by impressive propulsion of fluid. Tommy feels tired, very tired, but he will not sleep.”
Tommy grabs the headboard with both hands and pulls himself up. He feels more confident now. His breathing seems to be stabilizing. Perhaps all the blood pouring out his nose and throat is decongesting his lungs. But this damned dizziness is frightening. He doesn’t want to feel so dizzy.
Tommy strains to hear the sounds of the outside world, the sounds of rescue and comfort, but all he can hear is his labored breathing and vomiting.
Tommy doesn’t understand why the room is getting darker. He knows that sun must have risen by now. His globular reading lamp burns on his night table right above his head, but it looks as if it’s hundreds of feet away. The round lamp glows like a distant moon.
Tommy Eromange’s head is spinning so fast he closes his eyes. Tommy doesn’t want to close his eyes, but with his eyes shut he can concentrate much better on his hearing. He strains to listen for sounds of help and relief, yet the only noise he can make out is the frantic pounding of his heart.
A large weight seems to have dropped on to Tommy’s chest and he opens his mouth as wide as he can, gulping air.
By the time the attendants strap him in, Tommy’s frozen lips are a circle of blue. As they lift him up into the ambulance a sudden gust of wind floats the fabric, exposing his face; his exhausted eyes reflect the daylight and dozens of heads staring down at him from their window ledges.
New York fine arts photographer Amy Bassin and writer Mark Blickley work together on text-based art collaborations and videos. Their video, Widow's Peek: The Kiss of Death, was selected to the 2018 International Festival of Experimental Video and Film at Bilbao, Spain. They published a text-based art chapbook,' Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes From the Underground' (Moria Books, Chicago). Bassin is the co-founder of the international artists cooperative, Urban Dialogues. Blickley is the author of 'Sacred Misfits' (Red Hen Press) and proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. Their text-based art book, 'Dream Streams,' has just been published by Clare Songbird Publishing House.
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Bill Gates’s Top 10 Rules For Success (@BillGates)
He consistently ranks in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people. He’s one of the best known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He’s the second most generous philanthropist in America, having given over twenty-eight billion dollars to charity. He’s Bill Gates, and here are his top ten rules for success. When I started Microsoft, I didn’t think of it as all that risky. I mean, I was so excited about what we were doing. It’s true (that) I could have gone bankrupt. uh, but, I had a set of skills that were highly employable, and, in fact, my parents were still willing to let me go back to Harvard and finish my education if I wanted to. You’ve always got a job with me, Bill. (laughter) And, the only, the thing that was scary to me, wasn’t quitting and starting the company, it was when I started hiring my friends, and they expected to be paid. uh…(laughter)…and then we had customers who went bankrupt, customers that I counted on to come through, and so then I, I got this incredibly conservative approach that I wanted to have enough money in the bank to pay a year’s worth of payroll, uh, even if we didn’t get any payments coming in and I’m almost, uh, true to that the whole time, we have about ten billion now, which is pretty much enough for the next year. Uh…(laughter) Uh….(laughter) A-anyway, you know, I…if you’re going to start a company, it takes so much energy, that, you know, you’d…you’d better overcome your, your feeling of risk. I don’t think that you necessarily, if you’re gonna start a company, should do it at the start of your career. I think there’s a lot to be said for working for a company learning how they do things, If you’re young, it’s hard to go and lease premises. They made that hard for me. You couldn’t run a car when you were under 25 at the time, so I was always taking taxis to go see customers. People would say, “well we’re gonna go have a discussion in the bar”. Well, I couldn’t go to the bar. That’s fun ‘cause I’ll tell you, when people are first sceptical and they go “this kid doesn’t know anything”, then when you show them you’ve really got a good product and you know something, they actually tend to go overboard and they think “wow…they know a lot. Let’s really do an incredible amount with these people”. So our youth, at least in this country, was a huge asset for us once we reached a certain threshold. It is hard to hire older people because, they’ll be a little bit conservative about whether they should come and take the risk. It took 3 or 4 years first before we could go out into the normal employment pool. But those problems that come from starting a firm, you better think of those as part of the pleasure, part of the challenge that is part of the excitement. I want to thank Harvard for this honour. I’ll be changing my job next year, and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume. I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. From my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson called me, “Harvard’s most successful dropout”. I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class. I did the best of everyone who failed. But I also want to be recognised as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I’m a bad influence. That’s why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I’d spoken at your orientation…fewer of you might be here today. I’m in meetings a lot. My calendar gets very full with those and then at night after the kids have gone to bed, I’m on email a great deal. I get messages during the day, that’s my chance to give long responses. Then over the weekend, I send a lot of mail as well. I take 2 weeks a year to just go off and read and think. Where I’m not interrupted by work or anything else. I’m just solidly trying to think about the future and, people get to send me things to read as part of that so-called “think week”. So it’s a nice mix of things. About 25% of the time that I’m out, travelling around, meeting with customers: Europe, Asia. That sort of helps me think, do we have the right priorities? What are people responding well to? What will they like to see us do better? Hello, I’m Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft. In this video, you’re going to see the future. Windows. Microsoft first came up with the Windows concept back in 1983. Today the leading software users have switched into the Windows environment. It’s really incredible how quickly our powerful applications like Word and Excel and PowerPoint have been adopted. It’s not just Microsoft applications, even companies like WordPerfect and Lotus, have now come out with Windows applications. Every week we see new innovative work. It’s really attracting all the innovation in the industry. We predicted this a long time ago and now it’s the future. The key point there is, you’ve got to enjoy what you do every day and for me, that’s working with various smart people, it’s working on new problems. Every time we think, “hey, we’ve had a little bit of success”, we’re pretty careful not to dwell on it too much because the bar gets raised. I love Bridge. Bridge helps you think. It’s a game you can play your entire life and keep getting better and better I think anybody who’s good at Bridge, is going to degrade a lot of things so, I really encourage people to get involved and I want to thank the people who’ve put things together for juniors. They’ll be thanking you the rest of their life ‘cause bridge is such a great sport. I’ve talked to my dad, I’ve talked to Warren, I’ve talked to my wife Melinda so, I have enough people that know me and actually know where my judgement is not it’s strongest. Where I get over excited about something or forget to think about something and so, They’re good at correcting, particularly Melinda, good at correcting whatever those blind spots are. I think it’s good to encourage your friends and advisors to really give them that license. I can go to a party and forget to say hello to various people or something. – That’s a very minor example of my blindspots.
– Not to the hostess. – Melinda would help me do that.
– Yeah, she would. A small number of people that you can turn to on certain key things is a great asset. My best business decisions really have to do with picking people. Deciding to go into partnership with Paul Allen is probably at the top of the list then subsequently, hiring a friend, Steve Ballmer and having somebody who you totally trust, who’s totally committed, who shares your vision and yet has a little bit different set of skills and also acts as a check on you. Some of the ideas you come up with, you run by them because you know they’re going to say, “wait a minute. Have you thought about this and that?” The benefit of sparking off of somebody whose got that kind of brilliance, it’s not only made it fun, but it’s really led to a lot of success. So, picking a partner is crucial. I had one habit that I developed when I was at college. It was actually a very bad habit, which was, I liked to show people that I didn’t do any work and I didn’t go to classes and I didn’t care. Then at the very last minute, like two days before the test, I’d get serious about it. People thought that was funny. That was my positioning: the guy who did nothing until the last minute. Then when I went into business, that was a really bad habit. It took me a couple of years to get over that. Nobody praised me because I would do things at the last minute. I tried to reverse to students that I didn’t think that highly of, who were always organised and had things done on time. – I’m still working on it but procrastination is not a good habit.
– Bill can change clothes in the car… So I’m gonna challenge Bill Gates, my partner on Facebook Sheryl Sandberg and Netflix’s founder and CEO Reed Hastings. I’m glad to give to ALS. It’s a great cause. But I want to accept this challenge. I want to do it better than it’s been done. Been working on this. Got this design. There we go. It’s gonna be great. I’m here to join the people bringing attention to Lou Gehrig’s disease by taking the ALS ice bucket challenge. I’m gonna challenge 3 more people. Elon Musk, Ryan Seacrest and Chris Anderson of Ted, consider yourself challenged. You have 24 hours. Good luck. #People let me tell you ‘bout my best friend. He’s a warm-hearted person who’ll love me to the end.# #People let me tell you ‘bout my best friend. He’s the one boy, cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy.# #People let me tell you ‘bout him, he’s so much fun. Whether we’re talking man to man…# #…or whether we’re talking son to son ‘cause he’s my best friend.# Is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? It depends on the size of the chair. I’ll cheat a little bit. #What is love?# By the way, I believe in winners and losers and especially the freedom to fail. – Who him? Who him? Me?
– Who him? Who him? What? #I don’t know when you’re not there…# – No way!
– #What is love? Baby don’t hurt me…# Oh, behave. Thank you so much for watching. I made this video because a bunch of you guys were asking me to. So if there’s a famous entrepreneur that you want me to profile next, leave in the comments below and I’ll see what I can do. I’m also curious to know what you think of Bill Gates as an entrepreneur and, which of the ten rules most resonates with you. Leave it below in the comments and I’m gonna join the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Continue to believe and I’ll see you soon.
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100 thoughts on “Bill Gates’s Top 10 Rules For Success (@BillGates)”
Marius Cristian Ciubotariu says:
I was always procrastinating whilst at university. Unfortunately, I still do it, but now I'm a business owner and it's just painful. It just brings a lot of stress and discomfort. I'm trying my best to get rid of this bad habit.
davidtheguitarman says:
I think success comes from hard, genuine work.
Songwon says:
2019 anyone?
전정순 says:
Richard Gayle says:
Work hard and don't procrastinate
Goodmorning???
Divine Time says:
My favorite rule is ask for advice
Goodmorningthankyou
Thankyou??
nice~????
ㅋㅋㅋ???
땡큐
Thankyou❤???
하나님은총받아요
Joy Lucas says:
Napagaralan q n un eh tinimgnan q s map kung alin ang pinakamalpit s america n matutunaw ang ice pg tinakpan ni bill gates ang sun. Ice land or antartica. Kc may country along s lugar n un n tlg lulunog at mawawala n s map. At dhil s lakas ng flood aabot s america ky mswiswipe out mga tao nd prepare at nd alam mganplanu ng mga elite. Cl ung mamatay kung nd naagapan.
phulu sapkota says:
Kakwezhi Kalaluka says:
create the future
Tido_ Deru Gaming and Music says:
"It was when I started hiring my friends and they expected to be paid."
Unchosen Zombie says:
Kill any potential competition when they're a baby.
元元無尾熊 says:
Bill Gates is the best ❤️??
flex jonathan says:
new awesome miralces
slim perfect great form
Sabrina Hunn says:
Victor Orozco says:
Bill just the best…
ivanbarbosa81 says:
No comments! Respect
En.Buthina Alharbi says:
why bad influence?
Mesharie Aleeman says:
Yeah became billionaire from the backs of young smart workers!
Toli Tahir Muhammad says:
My biggest influence in this video is, " Created The Future and predicting what will come and how to face it"
Crystal Yeow Ching Ching says:
haha see you soon, we talk about new energy.
Abdullah Zewaid says:
,?
Spinning Around says:
Is math discovered or invented?
Dragoon says:
Bill has a sense of humor while he is making money, his can you not like him?
Beydi Dicko says:
To ask advice…, l like it.
Tapas Roy Choudhury says:
One of the greatest business leaders of the modern world.!!!
Johny Burns says:
#evancarmichael message me
Hermès says:
thanks evan
patricia de barros says:
Ed ora…professore…lo ricorda o no….il perché siete qui sulla terra??????☠️???
Number seven is actually ask for advice FROM PEOPLE WHO WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH!
ray g says:
that was funny…. at the end
SUBHASH NISARTA says:
Thanks so much Mr.Bill Gates, actually I am enjoying this video and think that was this happened in the past, I do not oppose it but think that life is really like that,
So today I do not want to talk or discuss any more, because of I save it for tomorrow. and my afford to continue with our group.
thank you so much for enjoying the life.
Eng Zayid ali juube says:
What its then 10 rules
nashywil 93 says:
I would kill to have a sitdown with Bill Gates and pick his mind more
Thiga Nesh says:
Highlight of this video starts at 12:11
Phani Kumar says:
tanqs my frd.it helped me.
Rajeev C says:
Becoming a rich person is really a very challenging task for ninety nine percent of the people……It is said that Scientist Sir Thomas Alva Edison tried ten thousand times to invent the light bulb………But, he described it as “ ten thousand ways to win” ……..I know most people who keep on trying in all the best ways they can to succeed at something……..The startling fact is that a few people succeed easily, while a few others take more time than they expected ( very challenging, at times) to reach the pinnacle of success……..The journey is better than the end………..
In my previous years, I tried to travel to many places within India, but, couldn’t accomplish it due to my situational constraints……Feeling dismayed about it, I started investing my surplus money in various schemes continuously……The investment process goes on even now, and I feel much happy about it and never worry that I can’t travel to many places…..
Gautam kumar says:
thanks bill garte why computers it tool new toknogey and legal action against you but good luck with Rice mane it best cominty it life lucks
superdog797 says:
Having a 160 IQ also helps.
Niranjan Das says:
It is great. Bill has seen success and he remained in top of the wealthiest list for many years. Everyone likes him specially people from computer science or engineering background. He has also done a lot of philanthropy work. Only sad part is he has not helped anyone to become an entrepreneur like him. If he would have created at least one like him I would have rated him very highly. With the amount of wealth and knowledge he has he could certainly do.
chandu battula says:
Enjoy what you do
Kirillian says:
be confident for a rule
Hugo Coreas says:
The world is a problem.
Now did elon mozk complited the chalenge?
Ew who even are you says:
Tony Stark says:
Dunno why, but I have a strong intuition that we'd be similar. Hope so. Wish me luck!
Also Evan, if you read this, I'm proud of you man. Loving your content. Can you make a video about Angelina Jolie ?
Naji Ould Es. Ahmed says:
point 10 should be the third one
pilipino ako says:
I love this video.very informative. I admire Bill Gates, Very rich but so humble, down to earth and humorous?
Katy Barrios Contreras says:
Hola Iván eres una de las pocas páginas YouTube que tienen activados los subtítulos, pero se te olvidó también activar el idioma Español, por favor puedes activarlo?
Muchas Gracias ¡!!
Nagein Kulung says:
Meaningful funny
Morris Manava says:
Great mind set foundation for start ups for beginners, awesome
Don O says:
Let Apple do all the hardwork and just copy. Focus more on marketing and you'll be welthier!
Queen Norrii says:
5:01 gave me asmr lol
Asma Brave says:
Inspirational….
Dolla Rances says:
Thumb ☝ thank you Bill Gates ? ? ?
Jakov Pavlov says:
I didn't know the funny side of Bill Gates, made me laugh…
Hrishikesh Thakur says:
Looking for time saver comments (1-10) ?
Frances Ogden says:
I ? the Reading for 2 weeks RULE BEST & THE BIBLE WOULD be the best. Book to read ITS A LOT to learn in this ? book BILL GATES ITS UNENDING KNOWLEDGE!!!!
Vinsmoke Sanji says:
Bill gate is batman
Joseph Mcphie says:
It was nice
John Tiedemann says:
So brilliant ?!
Evan Carmichael says:
Looking for more of my Top 10 and Top 50 Rules for Success? They are now on their own channel. You can subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCacX6JAo1EpmxT91r6VH53g?sub_confirmation=1
Given Mashayamombe says:
Especially the freedom to fail!!…
shansi kim says:
I don't do things until the last minutes too ? i should change
Breezy Breezy says:
He is the richest man on earth for decades and still got full head of hair.
Pilli Rahul says:
I will tell you what real motivational speech is….don't just blindly follow the motivational speeches given by great people because there are so many other people like Bill Gates who followed same steps like him but couldn't make it success… And no one cares about them ..to become success you also should need a special step which only 20% of them gets it… And it is called LUCK ? because of which many talented people could not become success or famous
The motivational speech given by great people are like ingredients in a recipe and luck is like salt… So even though if you have all the ingredients it's not complete without salt….?✌️ I hope you understood what I meant…..
ever here says:
oka bucket lo ice cubes paineskune dhaaniki intha koodabettukunnaavaa ?
Rana sadaqat says:
I am Muslim but billgat is good persin
PRABHHAV SHARMA says:
Satya nadella speak like young bill gates
Craig E says:
You shouting.
Ibtisam Fatima says:
Never follow the trends merely…..just going higher schl thinking ..the that scenario is your success ….everyone have his own sort of success…✔
He is consistently considered the most important man in history, he was NEVER a philanthropist, he was THE finest entrepreneur of saving men's souls, yes Jesus Christ ! Rich man camel needle !!!!
It must suck knowing you have to line up behind a camel that is trying to pass through the eye of a needle.
Daniel Hamilton says:
Jesus christ he sounds just like Kermit
Milko Youbinguila says:
Work hard make people riche! Yes and no. See around you hard worker are note riche, but hard worker are also riche. Life is about luck or grace and wisdom in your work.
Abida Nabi says:
first of all being a weathy person doesnt mean we are succesfull person but being a happy person is a sign of success evryone have there own way of life because life is like a book that have difrent stories from each other i dont belief to such a personalities. i have my own tips to how to live first my ALLAH and my faith then my own mantality is enugh to me
Yiss Dyn says:
Que lindo!❤️
Obinna Patrick says:
Bill Gates is one of the most charismatic billionaires ever, incredibly inspiring
Musical Vines says:
TED ALIX says:
Great rules of success ? by bill gates video.
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NIFFF 2019
First titles unveiled for NIFFF, along with NIFFF Extended highlights
by Giorgia Del Don
14/05/2019 - A great number of European films, from directors known and new, are set to feature in the official line-up of the 19th Neuchâtel Film Festival, with full programme details to be announced on 20 June
Sons of Denmark by Ulaa Salim
In addition to this tantalising appetiser, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (running 5-13 July) has further whetted the appetites of its audiences by announcing the first six titles set to feature on its special programme, Danes Do It Better. The latter is based around the funding and support initiative, New Danish Screen, which was founded in 2003 and has since played a vital role in the emergence of a hugely dynamic cinema movement. One of the many gems it has unearthed is Cutterhead [+see also:
interview: Rasmus Kloster Bro
film profile] by Rasmus Kloster Bro, which was presented last year in a world premiere in the NIFFF’s International Competition and which will make another appearance this year in the folds of Danes Do It Better.
No less than seven of the thirteen films announced so far as featuring in the official festival line-up are European works. And in addition to a good dose of names already well known with the landscape of European fantasy film, space has also been made in this selection for the new generation of helmers.
Amongst the younger recruits, we find the Danish director Ulaa Salim and his first feature film Sons of Denmark [+see also:
interview: Elliott Crosset Hove
interview: Ulaa Salim
film profile], a highly sophisticated political thriller. By his side in this same group is Savage [+see also:
film profile], the second full-length film by French director Vincent Mariette, whose dazzling cast includes the likes of Lily-Rose Depp and Laurent Lafitte. The picture takes us to a campsite and the now chosen stomping ground of a merciless predator. The screwball comedy Extra Ordinary [+see also:
film profile] by Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman is likewise bolstered by the charisma of an exceptional actor in the form of Will Forte. Three directors, meanwhile, are the creative minds behind the absurd sketch-based film 7 Reasons To Run Away (From Society) [+see also:
film profile]: namely Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler & David Torras, a marvellous three-headed monster hailing from Spain whom we should definitely keep a close eye on. Returning to the NIFFF after a four-year hiatus (he previously attended the festival with his blisteringly funny musical comedy Liza, The Fox-Fairy [+see also:
interview: Karoly Ujj Mészáros
film profile]), the Hungarian director Károly Ujj Mészáros will also be presenting his work, X – The Exploited [+see also:
film profile], which wades through the murky waters of police corruption.
Standing tall amongst the more noticeable works so far announced in the official line-up, and flanking Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology, an uncompromising portrait of isolated rural communities in Canada, is the Scandinavian filmmaking duo Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein, not to mention Christian Volckman. Danish export Björn Stein decided to team up with TV writer Måns Mårlind for his latest work and the result of this happy amalgamation is Swoon [+see also:
interview: Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein
film profile], which offers an interesting mix of extravagance and romanticism. France’s Christian Volckman, particularly known for his animated film Renaissance [+see also:
interview: Aton Soumache
interview: Christian Volckman
film profile], which falls somewhere in the middle between crime movie and science fiction, will be presenting The Room, a supernatural fairy-tale starring Bond girl Olga Kurylenko.
Much excitement also surrounds the unveiling of the NIFFF Extended programme which, through its popular cycle of conferences and gatherings, explores the future of cinema and of the audiovisual world in general.
Jostling among the symposiums thus far confirmed is Imagine the Future, a section dedicated to new technologies and digital creation, with The Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (Zürich University of the Arts), the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences (University of Geneva) and the Swiss National Science Foundation set to play a leading role. Also not to be missed: Storyworlds, a dedicated space for thinking about scriptwriting in association with new technologies; NIFFF On Tour, which presents the beta versions of immersive experiences developed within the workshop itself; New Worlds of Fantasy, a literary forum which looks at the links between literature and games; and the Gamification and Serious Game Symposium (GSGM) which acts as an observatory as regards the changes likely be brought about by games on our future professional lives.
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Cristi Puiu's Malmkrog to open Berlinale's Encounters competition
Principal photography wraps on Clio Barnard's Ali & Ava
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Honest John Classics News Archive 1975-10
Sir Ronald Edwards' made non-executive chairman of British Leyland board
By Desmond Ouigley
Professor Sir Ronald Edwards, speaking a few hours after being appointed non-executive chairman of British Leyland Limited yesterday, said he did not regard the company as being "bound to every conclusion and recommendation in the Ryder Report" on the company. However, he added: "We have to take account of the fact that it has been regarded by the Government as a basis for coming in and providing the finance for the group.
So it is a basis."If he and Mr Alex Park, the chief executive," felt it was taking us along the wrong direction, we would certainly go along and talk about that" to the proposed National Enterprise Board, of which Lord Ryder is chairman designate. Sir Ronald. who retired as, chairman and chief executive of the Beacham Group in May at 65 to become its president, is also a former chairman of the Electricity Council.
His appointment ends a long search by Lord Ryder for a suitable candidate. In fact Sir Ronald turned down the job once partly on the grounds of health and partly because of other business engagements. He denied that he had been pressured into the job, but had changed his mind after "friendly persuasion ". The appointments of four other non-executive directors were also announced yesterday.
They are Mr Robert Clark, who sat on the Ryder team investigating BL and who is chairman and chief executive of Hill Samuel, the merchant bankers; Mr John Gardiner, an ex-finanicial journalist who is now chief executive of the Laird Group and a member of the NEB organizing committee; Lord Greenhill of lHarrow, a director of BL before its reconistruction and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Read of the Diplomatic Serlvice; and Scottish born Mr Ian McGregor, chairman and chief executive of the United States mining conglomerate Amax and widely tipped to succeed Sir Ronald as chair man of BL in a few years' time.
Lord Stokes. the chairman of the old BLMC company, has also agreed to act as president of the new company with a largely overseas and ambassadorial role. The company reported yesterday that under the rights issue, which was devised as a way for the Government to put money into the company and for which private shareholders were strongly advised not to subscribe, the Government has secured a 95 per cent holding in the company, which now has an issued share capital of £129.6m.
Of the new shares subscribed for, 4,542 went to private shareholders and 154.9 million to the Government, which also took up a further 45 million shares as the underwriter. The NEB. said Sir Ronald, would he able to monitor the performance of the company as any major shareholder in a company could do, but he did not expect "a lot of interference" from the board in the running of Leyiand, nor did he expect any personal problems with Lord Ryder.
Commenting on criticism that the Government was throwing money away like confetti on Leyland, Sir Ronald said: "It was made clear in the Ryder Report that the additional tranches of money will only come along if we are increasing our productivity and efficiency. We have got to make a damn good showing to Justify each tranche of money. It has got to he worked for and earned."
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3-on-3: Los Angeles Clippers at Toronto Raptors
3-on-3, Toronto Raptors
by Fred Katz
Photo by Ron Turenne/NBAE via Getty Images
Los Angeles Clippers at Toronto Raptors
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1. What has changed in Toronto since the Rudy Gay trade?
Jacob Frankel, (@jacob_frankel): Rudy Gay was using a lot of possessions very inefficiently. Those possessions have been redistributed to a number of other players who can use them in much better ways.
Fred Katz, (@FredKatz): Kyle Lowry has been allowed to take over the Toronto offense and the team has responded. Gay’s patented long 2s (though he’s eliminated a bunch of those in Sacramento) aren’t there anymore and offense has run more efficiently because of that. Add in how much Greivis Vasquez has helped with the bench lineups (he may be the best backup point guard in the NBA) and this has become the third-best team in the East.
Andrew Han, (@andrewthehan): Well they traded for a volume scorer with a propensity for a mid-range shot he’s not particularly proficient at. I kid because trading for Gay last season was supposed to vault Toronto into the list of respectable Eastern teams. Instead, trading him away has redistributed his shots towards Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan has been improved lately as the primary wing threat and the combination of players Toronto received in return are actual useful rotation guys.
2. The Clippers are 7-3 since the Chris Paul injury? How have they remained so successful without him?
Frankel: This comes to Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick. Griffin’s averaged 25.5 points 5.3 assists per 36 minutes without Paul. His oft-overlooked talents as a distributor are on full display. Redick is at 21.6 points per 36 without Paul, and his off ball movement has been integral in keeping the offense flowing.
Katz: J.J. Redick’s return shouldn’t be ignored. The offense has been tremendous since Redick came back from his fractured wrist on Jan. 10. The playbook has opened up. The floor is spaced better. There’s more motion. Everything is just a little bit better. Also, let’s not ignore the fact that Blake Griffin is pretty darn good.
Han: Blake Griffin is good enough to carry a respectable team. That combined with Redick’s off-ball movement and sharp shooting and DeAndre Jordan’s defensive improvements, and the Clippers should be competitive enough most nights. Paul’s effects are most felt in late game situations and managing the inevitable dry spells.
3. Should Chris Paul have been an All-Star starter?
Frankel: No. He’s only been slightly better than Stephen Curry, and when you factor in Paul’s injury, Curry has contributed more to his team overall.
Katz: Yes. It’s pretty clear Paul deserved a starting spot over Kobe Bryant and aside from Steph Curry, there haven’t been any other Western Conference guards who can hold a candle to Paul’s 2013-14 performance, even though he’s played only 34 games.
Han: Undoubtedly.
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Gastroenterology physician to join Prevea Health, a physician owned & led multispecialty group
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Openings in Green Bay & Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Full Time - Entry Level
Prevea Health is a physician owned and physician led multispecialty group established in 1996 and located throughout Northeastern and Western Wisconsin. What makes Prevea unique is our ownership structure; Prevea physicians own 50 percent of our organization and 50 percent is owned by Hospital Sisters Health System (a partnership model that is the only one of its kind in the U.S.) Physicians have ability to become a Shareholder in Prevea after one full calendar year.
Practice where you have a voice and a place that provides work/life balance
Prevea-owned after hours nurse triage to assist with patient calls
Epic, electronic medical record, in both ambulatory and inpatient settings
Ability to expand specialty areas of interest in your practice
Excellent compensation and benefit package
Openings exist in;
Join an established gastroenterology practice with four physicians (two trained in advanced procedures) and three nurse practitioners
Call schedule of 1:5
Clinic practice and procedure labs located on hospital grounds at HSHS St. Vincent and HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital’s, only 4-miles apart in Green Bay
Teaching opportunity exists with medical students and residents
Build a gastroenterology practice utilizing our established primary care referral base and existing community partnerships
Participation in many health insurance networks, including the Prevea360 Health Plan
Requirements;
Must have completed U.S. based Gastroenterology training program
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Unfortunately these opportunities do not meet requirements to secure a J1 Waiver
3 openings.
Additional Salary Information: Loan Assistance & Signing Bonus are negotiable
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About Prevea Health
Prevea Health is a physician owned and physician led multispecialty group established in 1996 and located throughout Northeastern and Western Wisconsin. What makes Prevea unique is our ownership structure; Prevea physicians own 50 percent of our organization and 50 percent is owned by Hospital Sisters Health System (a partnership model that is the only one of its kind in the U.S.) We offer physicians the ability to become a Shareholder in Prevea after one full calendar year, giving them a voice in their own practice. At Prevea, we have a passion for excellence, take pride in all we do and respect the people who trust us with their care. Our providers continually strive to improve the way our services are delivered to every patient, every day. Innovation, compassion and patient-centered care are at the core of everything we do. Tireless in our efforts, we believe we are the best place to get care and the best place to give care.
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Barclays working with Carers Trust to become carer aware
Colleagues at Barclays have been running carer forums over the last few months and their latest TV ad features Carers Trust.
Barclays has recognised that carers make up a significant part of its customer base and has been working with its staff to identify carers and direct them to where they can get help. Earlier this year Carers Trust co-wrote a booklet aimed at Barclays staff, Becoming a Carer, to help them identify carers within their branches and signpost them to where support might be available. This is available via Barclays’ website.
A number of Carers Trust local Network Partners have engaged in Barclays' carers forums, encouraging carers they know to attend whilst meeting new carers too. There are several more of these events planned. The forums are drop in days where carers can find out more about support available to them locally from a number of services in the area.
Find out more about the upcoming forums via the Barclays website.
Lynne Powrie CEO Carers Bromley said “We had our Barclays event today in Bromley. It was very good – well attended by carers and staff at Barclays were pleased we were there. We had two staff there and they didn’t stop seeing carers for three hours.”
Featuring in Barclays TV ads
As a result of the visible success of this work, Barclays invited Carers Trust to take part in a TV advertising campaign and feature piece in The Telegraph. The advert features our Chief Executive Gail Scott-Spicer, and will be seen six times within the ITN news at 10 from 17–28 August on Monday, Thursday and Friday of each week, with The Telegraph piece appearing on Saturday 22 August. A longer version of the advert has also been made.
Thank you to all at Barclays for recognising carers and providing much needed help and support.
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Under : coal , Gold , Hard rock , Mining , Projects , Recruitment
With the new year just weeks away, what can we as a mining sector look forward to next year?
Eliwana, FMG – IRON and Rail Project
FMG is developing an iron or and rail project near Port Hedland in Pilbara worth around $1.3 Billion. It is estimated to have an annual production rate of 170 million tonnes over 20 years. The project will be an open out mine with a dry ore processing facility.
With over 1000 construction jobs and 650 operational roles, the first ore is expected December 2020.
Majors Creek, Dargues Reef, Diversified Mineral – GOLD
Construction began early 2019. DRA Global was awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract (EPC).
The project will produce 50,000 ounces of gold per annum for six years. As part of the project, DRA will develop a 355,000 tonne per annum processing facility and back fill plant.
First ore is expected t be processed in early 2020.
Carrapateena, OZ Minerals – Copper Gold
The project will be a 4.25 metric tonnes per annum, underground operation. Site infrastructure including accommodation, airstrip, and dual access declines were completed in 2018, with phase 2 currently underway. This includes the processing plant, storage facility, roads and power lines.
The first ore is expected December 2020.
Kanmantoo, Hill Grove Resources – Copper-Gold & Silver-Lead-Zinc
Located just 55 km outside of Adelaide, the project is will be up their as one of the most attractive mining locations.
Approximately 245 people will staff the mine and is likely to start up next year.
Black Rock, Mount Isa, Glencore – Copper
The project will achieve its first ore in 2020 and will provide additional ore into the already existing production till 2023.
Have we missed any? Keep in touch by emailing the team at info@cormacconsulting.com.au. Knowing where the future projects helps us discover the best future opportunities.
Under : coal , Copper , Gold , Hard rock , Mining , Projects , Recruitment , Skills
It’s no secret that the mining sector faces many challengers. It’s also extremely important to Australia.
But what is being done to overcome these challenges and ensure we have a stable mining industry?
Australia’s skill shortage
Australia’s workforce does not have the skills or experience to fill current positions. Mining Engineers and Geotehcnical Surveyors are just two roles Australia is in short supply of.
Mining companies are having to recruit over 70% of their employees locally since the 457 skilled working Visa was removed.
In 2018, just six students were enrolled to study mining engineering at the University of New South Wales, down from 120 enrolments four years ago.
However, funding for STEM education programmes have increased since the 2013 investment of the Science and Technology precinct develop in Queensland for Australian STEM programmes.
Access to minerals
Some areas become scarce or depleted so mining companies are forced to push new frontiers of exploration.
This puts a lot of pressure on the mine owner. Building complete infrastructure from roads, to water and power lines, is a costly project on its own. It can take years before a mine delivers its first ore after the mine has been approved. With the stability of the sector, it’s a huge risk for new mines to begin.
As minerals are harder to access from the ground in some locations, machinery and skill sets are needed, adding more cost and time onto these new projects.
What has helped is remote mines are now utilising scalable microgrids that can evolve with the life cycle, improving flexibility and efficiency.
As resources become harder to find, relocation destinations become less desirable making it harder to fill roles.
People rely on extended family and social networks for family and social life as well as better work opportunities for those office based.
However, there has been an increase in regional work and remote working opportunities by companies based in the major towns and cities. Regional communities are now being more noticed for their advantages like, community feel, friendliness, and greener life.
Mine approvals and stability
It’s becoming increasingly difficult for mine and mine expansions to be approved by state governments. Some approvals take years to get through the system, with community forums and activists asking for more tests and voicing concerns which draws out the process.
Air and water pollution in surrounding areas are making them harder to live in and decrease property prices.
Now Australia’s mining sector is gaining confidence, the sector must learn from its mistakes and gain stability. A rapid injection of investment and site production will create over supply, thus, creates a downturn. Mining companies must create sustainable strategies rather than short-term supply and demand models.
Health and Safety of Mine
The traditional occupational hazards such as coal dust inhalation, damage to hearing due to the noise in a mine and chemical hazards remain a priority.
But as mines are getting deeper, the risk of collapse has greatly increased. Automated vehicles call for training issues and new technology that has potential to go wrong.
However, training companies are working with mining companies to help transfer skills to autonomous machinery which will help the overall safety of the mine.
Future Coal Mine Projects to follow in New South Wales
Under : coal , Mining , Projects
Watermark mine, Shenhua Energy, Liverpool Plains
Watermark mine is conditionally approved and will have a 30-year life span. 10 million tonnes of coal will be produced a year and will rely on the port of Newcastle.
Although the project was severely criticised, the project is currently still going ahead. The Chinese company has yet to conduct surveys, dig tests, geotechnical drilling, or infrastructure, but there has been some suggestion that preconstruction will begin anyway.
Vickery mine, Whitehaven, Namoi Region.
The Vickery Extension project looks to extend the open cut operations of an approved site. Following approvals, the project is expected to begin in 2020.
Whitehaven has said the extension will generate 500 jobs, 75% of whom will live locally.
The project includes a new coal handling and preparation plant (CHPP) onsite at Vickery and new rail spur to service the mine.
Wallarah 2 mine, Korea resources, Central Coast catchment
A proposed underground mining operation northwest of central Wyong on the Central Coast. This project was approved in January 2018 and is set to provide extensive economic and social benefits to Wyong, the wider Central Coast Region and NSW communities through job creation and business opportunities.
70% of the 800 jobs will be recruited locally and the company have stated they will support youth employment through its apprenticeship and traineeship program.
Mangoola Continuation, Glencore, Wybong, far Upper Hunter
Mangoola Coal is seeking approval for the Mangoola Coal Continued Operations (MCCO) Project to expand its current approved open cut mining project.
The mine is expected to run until 2030, with 480 jobs to run the mine, and a further 145 construction opportunities.
The expansion plans have been displayed to the public for consultation and now in the hands of the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) are reviewing all submissions.
United Wambo, Glencore/Peabody, Central Hunter
The $381 million United Wambo Coal Project has received a conditional approval for an additional 150 million tonnes of run-of-mine (ROM) coal over a 23-year period.
It would provide 500 full-time-equivalent jobs. Peabody will continue to operate the Wambo underground, the coal handling and preparation plant and rail facilities.
Hume Coal, POSCO, Southern Highlands
The project plans to establish a high-tech underground mining facility producing 3 million tonnes per year. The project will apparently use a first-workings extraction method that is designed to preserve the long-term stability of the surrounding area.
In full production the Hume Coal Project will employ 300 people when in full production of which 70% will be locally sourced with no FIFO/DIDO options.
The project did receive a large amount of disapproval during a public hearing regarding the water situation, but POSCO remain confident that the mine will be approved.
Dendrobium, South32, Sydney’s water catchment
South 32 are seeking an extension to an approved mining lease with two new underground mining areas. The extension will provide a further 100 jobs to the 400 already employed in that area.
The extension will produce round 78 million tonnes of coal a year for the next 30 years. South 32 believe that this extension is critical to the steel making industry, as the mine has a direct input into BlueScope steel.
Glendell expansion, Glencore, near Hunter Valley
Glencore proposes to seek approval to extend open cut mining operations. This would extract an additional 140 million tonnes of coal and extend the operating life of this infrastructure to 2045
If approved, construction is likely to begin in 2021, and could have up to 600 opportunities once the mine is in full production.
The project is still Pre-Environmental Impact Statement stage.
Rixs Creek Extension, Rixs Creek coal, near Singleton, Hunter Valley
After six years of applying for approval, four of them being assessment processes, the application was accepted, but then rejected just hours later due to “human error”.
The project is to extend the life of mine for the 300 workers on site.
NSW Planning Minister, Orb Stokes, has asked for an immediate review of the commission.
Dartbrook, Australia Pacific Coal
The company has lodged an application to modify the existing mining approval to recommence underground mining operations at the Dartbrook Coal Mine. The modification also seeks to extend the period of approval by 5 years.
The environmental assessment, along with other supporting documentation, was submitted and accepted for adequacy in June 2018. In January 2019, the NSW Department of Planning & Environment provided a positive recommendation on the proposed modification and referred the modification to the Independent Planning Commission.
The modification is currently under assessment by the Independent Planning Commission for determination.
Russell Vale, Wollongong Coal
Wollongong Coal has submitted a revised underground expansion plan, final revised preferred project report and response to the second Planning Assessment Commission review for its Russell Vale colliery.
The mine has been under care and maintenance since 2015, and with closures to its other mines in the area, Wollongong Coal will be hoping that this project receives approval soon for a 2019 start up.
Maxwell, Malabar Coal
The Maxwell Project is an underground coal mining development. The project will create 350 new direct, long term jobs for the region along with many more indirect jobs
The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Maxwell Project has been submitted to the NSW Government.
Spur Hill, Malabar Coal
Malabar Coal is currently undertaking exploration studies and detailed technical work to determine the next steps in developing an underground coking coal mine.
Australian Mining – worth its weight in gold
Under : Gold , Mining , Projects , Recruitment
According to Global Review Magazine, more than AUS$2.3 Billion was invested into the mining sector in 2018-2019, with gold exploration reaping the reward.
Gold exploration investment rose by 19% to a new record high of AUS$964 million.
This investment resulted in Australian gold production reaching a record 321 tonnes (10.3 million ounces) in the past financial year, according to gold mining consultants, Surbiton Associates.
New South Wales and Western Australia were the main contributors to the gold production. For example, Newcrest Mining’s Cadia site in NSW was the standout producer during the period with more than 910,000 ounces. Newmont Goldcorp’s Boddington operations in WA produced around 690,000 ounces.
New Gold Mining Projects
With new projects past the approval stage could see gold continue to rise across the country.
The Diversified Minerals, Dargues Reef project in NSW is designed to produce an average of 50,000 ounces of gold a year in the first six years of production. DRA is developing a 355,000 tonne per annum gold processing facility and backfill plant. First ore is expected in early 2020.
In WA, the Gruyere joint venture in Western Australia between Gold Fields and Gold Road Resources also joined the list of Australian gold producers in recent weeks.
Even South Australia, with the highest increase in exploration investment in an individual state, up by 55% to AUS$85 million, will add to gold’s success with OZ Minerals’ Carrapateena project. The project is currently in phase 2, above ground construction, processing plant, storage facility, and infrastructure.
Australia’s upcoming mining projects to follow
Under : Mining , Projects
Australia’s leading commodity exports – iron ore, coal and gold – continue to provide the next phase of development.
However, battery minerals, such as lithium, have started to show their value in the future of the industry.
Western Australia leads the way with the most projects at the committed and feasibility stage. Queensland is also set for expansion with upcoming developments in a diverse range of commodities, including coal, gold and copper.
Gold Road Resources / Gold Fields, Gruyere, Western Australia, gold
The Gruyere joint venture is set to pour first gold at the Gruyere project in Western Australia during this [June 2019] quarter. The project is set to have a 12 year mine life showing great stability. The updated mine plan has lifted the average production by December 2019.
Fortescue Metals Group, Eliwana, Western Australia, iron ore
Fortescue approved the development of the Eliwana mine and rail project in the Pilbara during May 2018. The $1.7 billion project involves 143 kilometres of rail, a new 30 million tonnes per annum dry ore processing facility, and infrastructure. Fortescue expects production to begin at Eliwana in December 2020.
Mount Gibson Iron, Koolan Island restart, Western Australia, iron ore
Mount Gibson Iron was on track to complete the Koolan Island restart project off the Kimberley coast in the April 2019 quarter. The anticipated workforce during construction was around 80, rising to over 300 employees and contractors during production.
Rio Tinto, Robe Valley / West Angeles expansion, Western Australia, iron ore
Rio Tinto and its joint venture partners approved a $2 billion investment to sustain production capacity at two projects that form part of Robe River in October 2018. First ore is expected in 2021. Construction of both projects is expected to start next year and create 1200 jobs, with first ore due in 2021.
BHP, South Flank, Western Australia, iron ore
BHP approved the $US3.4 billion investment in the South Flank project in the Pilbara in June 2018. The project is being developed to replace production from the 80 million tonnes a year Yandi mine as it heads towards the end of its economic life. The project received board approval in June 2018, with construction works starting back in 2018. First ore is expected in 2021.
Image Resources, Boonanarring, Western Australia, mineral sands
The company, which started construction on the $235 million project in March 2018, reported the first bulk shipment of concentrate from the Bunbury Port in January [2019]. Image will ramp up production to a steady state of around 500 tonnes per hour at the site over the first half of 2019. Production is set to continue for 10 years. Piacentini was awarded the mining contract for the project.
Talison Lithium, Greenbushes expansion, Western Australia, lithium
Greenbushes is already the world’s largest lithium mine. The latest expansion, announced in the first half of 2018, will double the production capacity at Greenbushes to 2.3 million tonnes of lithium concentrate a year from 2021.
Tianqi Lithium Australia, Kwinana lithium plant, Western Australia, lithium
Tianqi Lithium’s landmark first-stage $400 million plant at Kwinana is all-but finished with the plant beginning a commissioning process just before Christmas that could take up to six months. At full production of 48,000 tonnes a year, the plant will be the world’s biggest producer of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. Tianqi has hired 70 of the 170 staff who will operate the plant, many of them from the local area.
Kidman Resources, Mount Holland mine, Western Australia, lithium and gold
In a pre-feasibility study released December 2018, Kidman forecast Mt Holland to be a long-life, low-cost operation with projected annual production of 45,254 tonnes of LiOH and a 47-year mine life. Kidman also has plans to develop a refinery at Kwinana near Perth to produce battery-grade refined lithium. A further 10 open pit gold mines and one underground gold mine exist within the package.
QCoal Group, Byerwen, Queensland, coal
QCoal is developing the Byerwen open cut project in the Bowen Basin to eventually produce 10 million tonnes of metallurgical coal a year. Mining leases were granted back in May 2017, early work commenced in 2018 to conclude in early 2020.
Copper Mountain Mining, Cloncurry, Queensland, copper
CMMC released a feasibility study for the Cloncurry project in October 2018 that estimated a $350 million capital cost to develop the site. The site production is to be around 73,000 tonnes by 2020 with the expected mine life is estimated at 12 years. It has not, however, decided to start construction yet.
Evolution Mining, Mt Carlton, Queensland, gold
Evolution Mining approved a $60 million investment for three projects at the Mt Carlton mine in October 2018. The projects include an underground development, a stage four pit cut back and plant modifications. Evolution will bring forward production from Mt Carlton’s high-grade zone with the projects. It expects to deliver first ore from the underground operation during the 2021 financial year.
OZ Minerals, Carrapateena, South Australia, copper-gold
OZ Minerals’ Carrapateena project is currently in phase 2: above ground construction, processing plant, storage facility, and infrastructure. The Adelaide-based company approved development of the $916 million project in August 2017 and has created over 1000 jobs at the site. It expects the operation to annually produce 65,000 tonnes of copper and 67,000 ounces of gold over a 20-year mine life once it is developed.
Diversified Minerals, Dargues Reef (Majors Creek), New South Wales, gold
Diversified Minerals expected to start construction of the Dargues gold project during February 2019. The company was set to reach this milestone after awarding the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for Dargues to DRA Global. Dargues has been designed to produce an average of 50,000 ounces of gold a year in the first six years of production. DRA is developing a 355,000 tonne per annum gold processing facility and backfill plant. First ore is expected in early 2020.
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Home > About > Staff > Jenny Bond
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Jenny Bond is a full time member of staff at CTE.
Jenny is responsible for CTE's general resources, in particular those relating to Intermediate and local ecumenism. She is responsible for all events provided for Ecumenical Officers, including County Officer inductions and the annual training course, working with National Ecumenical Officers whose meetings she and the General Secretary service.
Jenny is also responsible for CTE's Enabling Group, and for the Forum which is held every three years. Lorraine Shannon manages the practicalities of these and other events.
Jenny joined the CTE staff in May 2000 as Field Officer for the North and Midlands. In this role she forged strong relationships with Intermediate Bodies and County Ecumenical Officers throughout England, and has a wealth of knowledge about local and Intermediate ecumenism. Since 2014, CTE no longer has Field Officers, but Jenny still handles most of the enquiries about local ecumenism received by CTE.
Before you contact Jenny Bond about a matter concerning local ecumenism, please first be in touch with the person in your county who is there to help you. Queries about Local Ecumenical Partnerships are handled by National Ecumenical Officers.
Send Jenny Bond an email using this link. If that doesn't work, use this form.
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DJ Hernandez- Aaron Hernandez’ Brother
April 19, 2017 by Daily Entertainer 4 Comments
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Aaron Hernandez was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder of his friend, 27-year-old Odin Lloyd. Hernandez, released by the Patriots less than two hours after his arrest, pleaded not guilty and has been ordered to be held without bail.
Let’s meet Aaron’s brother, DJ Hernandez:
Dennis John Hernandez, known as DJ Hernandez, was born on May 18, 1986, in Bristol, Connecticut. His parents are Dennis Hernandez who was of Puerto Rican descent, and Terri Hernandez of Italian and Irish descent. Hernandez attended Bristol Central High School and earned a bachelor’s of science and master’s degree in Educational Psychology from Connecticut in 2008 and a master’s degree in 2011 from UConn school counseling.
DJ is in his first year as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Iowa after serving as an offensive graduate assistant at Miami, Florida. He coaches the Hawkeye tight ends while assisting with the Iowa offense.
Before joining the staff at Miami, DJ Hernandez was the quarterback coach at Brown University in 2011. He also assisted with special teams at Brown. Hernandez was the head coach at Southington High School in Connecticut in 2010.
Hernandez has been player and coach for the Carinthian Black Lions in Klagenfurt, Austria. He also was a two-year captain at the University of Connecticut, where he played both quarterback and wide receiver from 2004 to 2009.
27-year-old DJ has earned both the Football Alumni Award and the Iron Husky Award. Recognized as a Scholar Athlete in 2008 and made Dean’s List in both 2007 and 2008. Hernandez was honored as the Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year in 2003.
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Through the Rift Review: Rifts Source book 1 Revised
Read more at http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.com/rift-rifts-source-book-1-updated-revised-extended/
Players WARNING! GM only Sction 6:15-12:30 don't listen if you don't want story spoilers.
Rifts Sourcebook One, Revised and Expanded will surprise and delight Rifts fans. The new ideas, new vehicles, and new art are going to blow people away, especially the new A.R.C.H.I.E. Three and Republican material.
- More of A.R.C.H.I.E. Three’s history is revealed (and hints about his future), the Republicans (throwbacks to NEMA and Chaos Earth) are revealed at last, and . . . well, check it out and see for yourself.
- Includes never-before-revealed information on A.R.C.H.I.E. Three and for the first time ever v The Republicans and their link to A.R.C.H.I.E. Three.
- Robot creation rules.
- New and old weapons, power armor & equipment.
- Triax weapons & power armor.
- A.R.C.H.I.E. Three, Hagan Lonovich and robotic minions.
- The Republicans revealed at last and their secret war with A.R.C.H.I.E. 3.
- Notable monsters, adventures, and new adventure ideas.
(Sorry for the crickets and choppers!)
RinCon 2016 Game play: Savage Rifts ran by Sean Patrick Fannon part four of four
At RinCon we had a blasting getting to play Savage Rifts with Sean Patrick Fannon himself! it was a great adventure and we had a blast trying out the new rules for an old favorite setting!
this is what we drove to...
and once were getting mixed up!
Here's my charater
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RinCon 2016 Game play: Savage Rifts ran by Sean Patrick Fannon part three of four
Join Sean, Clay, David, Robert, Micheal and I as we step throught the Rift!
"AMOK-
A large troupe of demons are amok in an area protected by the Tomorrow Legion, and someone needs to deal with them. The team is dispatched eastward from Castle Refuge to the area where reports last came from regarding them, with the mission to track and destroy the monsters. Two destroyed villages later, the heroes are on the trail of the beasts, and ultimately, they come upon a third community under attack. Grotesque, classic bat-winged demons are tearing the place apart, accompanied by some Brodkil who've decided to join the fun...
Poor Harry Mayborn III wanted to be a Techno-Wizard, but his father was having none of it. Now he's in the middle of something terrible, and the Tomorrow Legion may be his only hope of fixing it. "
RinCon 2016 Game play: Savage Rifts ran by Sean Patrick Fannon part two of four
RinCon 2016 Game play: Savage Rifts ran by Sean Patrick Fannon
WRITER INTERVIEW Savage Rifts WITH Sean Patrick Fannon
Listen as Sean Patrick Fannon and I talk about the Savage Rifts, It's astonishing Kick starter and whats to come!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/rifts-for-savage-worlds
https://www.peginc.com/store/savage-rifts-creature-feature-murder-wraith-preview/
What is Blaze of Glory?
Who are The Tomorrow Legion?
What are Mega Powers?
Will Savage rifts be at RinCon?
Listen to find out!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR SEAN PATRICK FANNON
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There are very few people more qualified to write about the roleplaying game hobby than Sean, and he's had all of them blackmailed into silence or deported. He entered the hobby with the very first D&D boxed set in 1976 and was never quite right in the head after that. Around 1989, he actually started working professionally in the industry, writing and designing for such games as Champions, Star Wars, Shatterzone, and the FUZION System before going on to spend some "interesting" years in the computer gaming world. Sean also wrote for such magazines as Dragon, Adventurer's Club, and InQuest Gamer.
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Comparative Literature Alumni Reunion
November 15, 2019 Paulina Barrios Leave a comment
by Amanda González Izquierdo
On November 8, 2019, the program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University hosted its first alumni reunion. The chair of the program, Andrew Parker, organized a lunch that brought together faculty, current undergraduate and graduate students, and undergraduate and graduate alumni.
The lunch began with a few words from Dr. Parker welcoming everyone and speaking to how moving it was to see alumni come back to campus, which he described as a testament to the impact that their time at Rutgers has had on their professional and personal lives. Then, everyone in the room briefly introduced themselves, and we learned that the student body that has made up the program from its beginnings has included people representing all parts of the world, including Pakistan, China, Mexico, and Canada. Dr. Parker then proceeded to introduce two notable guests: Barbara Lee, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Barry Qualls, Professor Emeritus of English and former Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences. They both spoke about how the campus has changed since some of the alumni graduated, highlighting the caffeine molecule sculpture in front of the chemistry building in Busch campus and the Sojourner Truth apartments in the College Ave campus. They also both spoke about the importance of the humanities, the passion that Comparative Literature students exhibit for literature and language, and how the program is characterized by its continuous crossing of boundaries.
After the talks, everyone started to form or join conversation groups around the room. Some people were getting to know each other for the first time, while others were reconnecting. In these conversations, we learned about what alumni have been up to since their graduations. Some of those who earned their PhD at Rutgers have retired after fulfilling careers in the professoriate, while others hold teaching positions at universities throughout the US, including neighboring colleges like Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. A great number of the undergraduate alumni are in the process of applying to graduate school, considering PhD programs in Comparative Literature and Women and Gender Studies. It was wonderful to witness the meetings between current graduate students and undergraduates who were in their classes semesters ago. One senior undergraduate told fourth-year PhD candidate, Rudrani Gangopadhyay, that he will be writing his thesis on a work he first read in a class she taught.
The lunch was also a wonderful opportunity to catch up with fellow current graduate students. Since all of our research interests are so diverse, and since many people are already past the coursework phase, it becomes difficult to see each other as often as we would like to. It was great to talk to people in their final years of the program about how their dissertations are shaping up and new interests that are emerging during the writing process. PhD candidates also kindly offered advice to those who have just started teaching or will begin soon on how to handle the nerves of being in front of a class, how to create a syllabus, and how to moderate discussions. We also spoke about the biennial graduate student conference which will be taking place on April 3-4, 2020 in conversations that touched upon our collective excitement for the theme, plans on how to move forward, and the stresses and felicities of getting to the point of publishing the call for papers.
The reunion lunch was a wonderful way to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and talk about our interests and plans. It will certainly not be the last time the program organizes such an event bringing together former and current Comparative Literature students.
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NEW GRAD STUDENT PROFILES, FALL 2019
October 16, 2019 Yuanqiu Jiang 1 Comment
Rutgers Comp Lit is thrilled to introduce the two students of this year’s incoming cohort: Sneha and Xingming.
Sneha Khaund attended St. Stephen’s College in Delhi for her undergraduate degree in English Literature. Following her studies in Delhi, she moved to London to study for an MA in Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). As a Commonwealth Scholar at SOAS, she explored how multilingualism is a productive lens from which to think about world literature. She looks forward to developing these interests at Rutgers by focusing on eastern India. Prior to joining Rutgers, Sneha worked in the publishing industry and hopes to combine her interest in writing for popular media with her academic training.
Xingming Wang’s research interests lie in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, with theoretical concerns centering on animal studies, environmental humanities, and trauma and memory studies. He was born in Xuzhou, a city renowned for the culture of Han Dynasty, ancient battlefields, and heavy industry, where his critical awareness of historical memory and environmental protection has taken root and grown into an academic passion. At Soochow University, Xingming majored in English and focused on trauma in modernist literature, especially the works of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. He was also fascinated by the novels of Charles Dickens and thus ventured into a close reading of Nineteenth-century British literature. Meanwhile, he got affiliated to Jingwen College, an institute accommodating students from fifty different majors and endorsing interdisciplinary academic projects, where he honed his research skills. After that, Xingming went to Nanjing University for graduate study in English language and literature. While working on his M.A. thesis on critical animal studies, he took courses outside the English Department and found his interests gravitating towards animals in modern Chinese literature. At Rutgers, Xingming hopes to probe how representations of animals engage with the discourse of “human” and how literary animals embody a site of testimony to the painful moments in modern Chinese history.
Welcome, Sneha and Xingming!
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“Listening to Foreignness”: Coco Xu on the infrastructure and circulation of Chinese radio plays in the 1980s
September 14, 2019 Paulina Barrios
by Mònica Tomàs White
How is the perception of foreignness constructed through the broadcast of radio plays? Relatedly, how does radio—as a medium of mass cultural communication and an artifact with a particular material and institutional history—affect the production and reception of these radio plays in 1980s China? These were the two main concerns animating Coco Xu’s April 15th colloquium on the history and politics of what she calls “radio plays”: literary radio broadcasts that include translated world radio dramas, adaptations of 19th-century European novels, and edited, dubbed film recordings.
Following Naoki Sakai’s theory of “heterolingual address”, Xu argues that translation as intersubjective communication is key to both comprehending foreign literature and developing a cultural imagination of unknown “others”. According to Xu, sound “allow[s] listeners to be at once removed from the world of imagination and transported into [a] fictional land”, where they can “live out an indirect experience in another time and another life”. Radio plays are thus an excellent subject for an investigation of translation and cultural imagination. 1980s China, where radio plays juxtapose “19th century Europe […] with 1940s’ America, and a story from contemporary West Germany is followed by another that’s set in a futuristic China”—but all characters somehow speak perfect Mandarin Chinese—is a particularly messy, candid, and thus generative moment to explore.
Xu began her talk with a concise history of the development of the genre and medium in China, where radio was introduced alongside cinema in the early 20th century. Early recordings—postdating decades of unrecorded live transmissions—were largely obliterated in the Cultural Revolution, which did away with 90% of foreign music recordings. Post-revolutionary reform policies called for a new supply of programming to fill in the void; accordingly, by the 1980s over 70 regional and local radio stations were producing 600-700 radio dramas each year. The very first stereo radio drama was an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 fairy tale “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish”, broadcast by Guangdong Radio in 1981. How did such adaptations of European literature form a cultural imagination of the west, and how might this have served as a strategic tool in the ideological debates of the early 1980s?
To answer this question, Xu offered an illustrative close reading of Vanina Vanini, a popular early-80s radio drama adapted from Stendhal’s 1829 novella of the same title. Both the novella and the adaptation tell the story of the fraught relationship between the titular protagonist and her lover Missirilli, a carbonaro in a nationalist plot to liberate Italy from Austrian overlords. However, where Stendhal paints a nuanced picture of Vanina’s inner struggles, the radio drama portrays her obsession with Missirilli as springing from “pure love”, rendering her and her allies vulgar and cartoonish. Indeed, Stendhal’s scheming, self-serving Vanina becomes simple-minded and naïve in the adaptation: where
as the former finally accepts her rejection, returns to Rome and moves on, the latter ends pathetically attending to a furious Missirilli, who excoriates her—in the drama’s very last line—as “cursable Vanina Vanini!” Xu notes that while Stendhal’s sympathies quite obviously lie with Missirilli, whose role in turning Vanina into a desperate “monster” he conveniently overlooks, the 1980s adaptation takes this patriarchal perspective even further: the ending in particular “highlights how woman—especially woman corrupted by the most dangerous sentiment of people of the social, cultural and especially class that Vanina stands for—is the hindrance of the righteous cause and the root cause for Missirilli’s failed revolutionary ambitions”.
This first taste of Xu’s project, which “explores the translation of foreignness through a close reading of radio plays that portray exotic places and foreign cultures”, builds upon the theoretical basis she developed in her work on translation as loving imagination, presented at “Love in Translation”, the Rutgers Comparative Literature graduate conference of Spring 2018. Her completed study aims to fill a gap in both radio studies and contemporary Chinese literary studies, but (as demonstrated by an enthusiastic Q&A session) her work will undoubtedly also be of interest to comparatists and cultural studies scholars working in many traditions. Thank you and congratulations, Coco!
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Decoloniality Workshop: “Fucking with [The] Family: The Queer Promise in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions”
April 29, 2019 Yuanqiu Jiang
by María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltrán with notes by Haruki Eda and Rafael Vizcaíno, and pictures by Rafael Vizcaíno
At the beginning of the Spring semester, on February 19th, 2019, Comparative Literature PhD student Thato Magano shared with the Decoloniality Workshop audience their soon-to-be published paper[i],“Fucking with [The] Family: The Queer Promise in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.” In it, Thato highlighted the importance of Nervous Conditions as a critical feminist text that “negotiates the seemingly inescapable bind of inter- and intra- cultural patriarchal prescriptions,” and emphasized its significance within Black studies, African Literature and postcolonial studies.
Thato builds up on the work of Susan Andrade and Tendai Marima, and challenges previous readings that describe the main character and narrator of the novel, Tambu, as heterosexual and as representative of the nation. Thato instead argues that Tambu and her cousin Nyasha, with whom she holds an intimate relationship, exist as “queer subjects not synchronous with national reproductive time.” The article places them as figures that “rearticulate sexual politics” and radicalizes queer politics. Thato centers the queer subject within the often-restrictive political discourse of black experience, and analyses how lesbian desire within Nervous Conditions opposes the family as social norm. Through its exploration of Tambu and Nyasha’s relationship, “Fucking with [The] Family” proposes a reading of “incest as a queer emotion, affect and aesthetic that can be instrumental in destabilizing heteronormative nationalist desires in postcolonial literatures.”
In the Q&A section, audience members were interested in exploring with Thato the cultural limitations of incest, the distinction between queer identity and queer politics, and the relationship between queerness and spirituality. Students who work on Caribbean Literature asked about the relationship that Thato sees between African epistemologies and those of the Caribbean where literary queerness is usually analyzed through a spiritual lens. To this inquiry Thato answered that spirituality is often used as mediation (or mediating tool) for talking about queer intimacies, “my investment is to try to produce two subjects who can stand in their own terms… my resistance is against the premise that queer sexuality can only emerge in a cultural context (e.g. mythology, culture, spirituality), but that cultural context privileges heterosexual production and national time…so these sorts of mediations that queer subjectivity can only hinge upon is what I am resisting.”
The conversation continued outside of the meeting room, as Thato’s fascinating paper brought up more questions and conversation topics. Thato’s paper and the presentation successfully met its goal, to examine Nervous Conditionsas a text that “negotiates escaping heteronormative conventions of Black female subjectivity”, and “make[s] legible alternative modes of caring and belonging within the nation” outside the heteronormative construction of the family. This paper allowed a richer understanding of queerness and brought to light many of the assumptions that exist when reading about relationships among black women. Congratulations to Thato Magano on a wonderful presentation!
[i]It has been accepted for publication by the Research in African Literatures Journal (RiAL).
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Puerto Rican Blackness through a Cuban Lens: A Colloquium Presentation by María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltrán
by Phil Yakushev
Comparative Literature hosted its first colloquium on April 1, when María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltrán presented “Puerto Rican Blackness through a Cuban Lens” and contextualized this talk within her dissertation-in-progress. María Elizabeth’s project seeks to challenge what she identifies as a common tendency in studies of African diasporas—a centering of Anglophone spaces which, in turn, leaves the Spanish Caribbean at the periphery of this field. Her presentation, structured around two 19thcentury Spanish Caribbean texts, not only directly resisted this dynamic of African diaspora studies but also showed how love practiced by black and mix-raced women, as agents, can challenge the constraints of the nation and establish community.
María Elizabeth used two works to build her case: Puerto Rican playwright Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s La Cuarterona, and Cuban novelist Ciriollo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés. These texts share several similarities, making them useful for a comparatist who traces how literary characters and black subjectivities in the Caribbean were shaped by their recognized relationship to slavery and how these recognitions effected social relations. Both works were written in the late 19thcentury by authors who were renowned in their spaces; their plots proceed around racially ambiguous female characters of African descent who fall in love with white men in times of slavery; both feature incest; and, perhaps curiously, both works are set in Habana. María Elizabeth used the latter similarity to illustrate the complex relationship between black subjectivities in the Spanish Caribbean, the family and the nation, and love and incest. Tapia most probably did not set his play in Cuba out of ignorance of how race operated on his own island, and María Elizabeth summarized the scholarly debates around question of setting. As she argued, Rivera places La Cuarterona in Cuba to present the “audience with a transnational perspective that allows for connections between isolated spaces and bring to light a pressing issue,” that of blackness and slavery.
For María Elizabeth, this transnational perspective is vital. Overall, she “seeks to study blackness as a way of being that centers relationships and community, instead of addressing the nation which has established modes of love that constrain black subjects.” Both nation and language act as constraints even in the study of African diasporas, with conventional approaches being less willing to engage with black experiences in the Spanish Caribbean and Brazil, where myths of “racial democracy and mesizaje are foundational and place an impediment” to a conventional discourse on blackness in which slavery is critical. María Elizabeth’s work, then, seeks to push African diaspora studies in at least three ways: broadening scholarship beyond Anglophone spaces, exploring the role of the nation in constructing racial ideology within the Spanish Caribbean itself, and showing how black and mixed-race women characters can challenge the dominance of the nation and its foundational unit, the family, by building their own communities. While love, in the texts María Elizabeth is working with for her dissertation, often takes on forms often identified as perverse—such as incest—she was careful to stress that, for characters in these literatures, love often does not ultimately fail. Rather, love becomes a way to form relationships among colonized communities, with instances of unconventional love creating “cracks on the concrete of coloniality, as fissures that challenge to break the colonial version of the family unit.”
After discussing these texts and introducing her analytical frames, María Elizabeth previewed the rest of her dissertation, and its themes and structure. The project, as a whole, will juxtapose and compare the black subjectivities produced, and reproduced, in literatures of the Hispanic and Anglophone Caribbeans. Other chapters in her work will explore Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and the limits of creole solidarity in Jamaica, as well as Tiphanie Yanique’s Land of Love and Drowningand how love and relationships in the Virgin Islands can function outside of the colonial-sexual matrix. María Elizabeth hopes that her comparatist approach will not only expand African diaspora studies beyond the Anglophone but, relatedly, disrupt a potentially paralyzing centrality of slavery within the field. As she said, “Despite the long-lasting damage that slavery has left on peoples of the Afro-Diaspora, our ability to love affirms our ways of thriving, our ways of moving forward, and beyond, trauma as framework.” As a whole, then, María Elizabeth’s work seeks to highlight how literature can unleash the ability of love to serve as praxis and “heal the wounds of enslavement.” Her colloquium presentation provided a powerful and fascinating preview of this critical endeavor.
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Global Africa, Migration, Literature, and the Arts
by Joseph Sepulveda
On March 28th, I attended “Global Africa, Migration, Literature, and the Arts”, a three-day symposium held at Rutgers University. I will focus in this blog post on two parts of the Global Africa conference that I witnessed. The first is a collective presentation led and written by Thato Magano entitled “Cacophonous Cognates: A Hybrid”, which he performed alongside Alexandria Smith and Paulina Barrios. The performance was also accompanied by the drumming of Roger Noguerol, with technical support from Gabriel Bámgbóṣé and Yuanqiu Jiang. The second part is the keynote lecture by the Glissantian Manthia Diawara, whose focus was a mediation on the importance of returning to the philosophy of Èdouard Glissant for our current moment.
I listened to the performance piece “Cacophonous Cognates” not in order to try to understand it but to feel it as poetry. The choral qualities of the pieces that Thato Magano assembled reflected on our cosmic being, blackness, colonialism, love and endurance. The work transmitted what it meant to attend to the suffering and love of black people. Magano cited Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake, and in many ways the piece felt and communicated what it means to love blackness under conditions of its undoing. It spoke about a longing for the textures, beauty, and luminance of blackness; it honored the ancestors and black mothering; it limned in its multivocality the possibility of becoming, gesturing toward our collective and unbridled transformation.
After the performance, I listened to Manthia Diawara’s reflections on Édouard Glissant and the poet-philosopher’s singularity— for Diawara Glissant is a philosopher who breaks from filiation, and he emphasized Glissant’s sans père(ness), his distance from Western philosophy of monotheism and root-identity (identité-racine), of an essential totalitarian Western understanding of being, in favor of a world in Relation. But beyond highlighting Glissant’s eminence, Diawara’s speech resonated with the earlier performance in a number of ways. For Diawara, Glissant is a poet whose poetic concepts touch on and illuminate a world not of self/other opposition but of an extension of the self in relation to the Other. This is the essence of Relation. Moreover, Diawara pointed to another key Glissantian concept that resonated with Thato Magano’s performance: the ethics of opacity. While opacity can be understood as a failure to reveal or make oneself transparent, for Glissant the right to opacity is crucial to identity and to resisting the will to dominate. It becomes crucial therefore, to paraphrase Diawara, to not only take note of one’s own opacity to oneself but to grant to others the impossibility of ever fully comprehending. This failure, however, should not be the cause of despair but should open the way to creating a different collective world beyond possessive drives to conquer and control what can be or exist.
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THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS’ IN THE MORSE CODE OF BRAKE LIGHTS OUT SEPTEMBER 27TH VIA COLLECTED WORKS/CONCORD RECORDS
In News - Recorded Music by [email protected] August 2, 2019
Critically acclaimed group The New Pornographers’ forthcoming new album, In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights, is due September 27 via the band’s own Collected Work Records imprint in partnership with Concord Records. Album art and track list are below, and watch/share a visualizer based on the album art here: https://found.ee/FallingDownTheStairsYT
In celebration of the upcoming album, the band is premiering the single “Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile.” Listen/share the track at: https://found.ee/MorseCodeofBrakeLights
“There are so many songs like ‘the something of love’—you know, there’s ‘The Book of Love,’ ‘The Freeway of Love’…Then I thought of ‘falling down the stairs of your love,’ and I thought, that kind of works,” explains New Pornographers frontperson and songwriter A.C. Newman, who also produced the new album. “I think it has that element of how do you deal with the ideas of love and happiness in this world right now? When current events are stressful, that makes a stress on people’s relationships, and you’re trying to figure out how to be happy in this loving relationship in this world that seems ugly at every turn, which is not as easy as it seems. So I like the metaphor of love as something that you fall down.”
The band is set to tour North America this fall in support of the new record, kicking off the run of dates in Toronto on August 17. Tickets are available for purchase at thenewpornographers.com. The tour includes dates at Chicago’s Vic Theatre, Washington, DC’s 9:30 Club and New York’s Brooklyn Steel, see below for a complete itinerary.
“I was about two-thirds of the way through the record when I began to notice that lyrically so much of it was pointing toward car songs,” notes Newman. “The opening track is ‘You’ll Need a Backseat Driver,’ and that was a metaphor that seemed to be running through other songs, too. Next to the love song, I feel like the car song is one of the most iconic kinds of songs in pop music, from Chuck Berry to the present. There was so much of that throughout it that I started thinking: ‘Oh, no, there’s too many references to cars on this record!’ And then I thought, ‘No, that’s good—people might think it’s a concept album.’”
The New Pornographers have released seven studio albums to date including their most recent, Whiteout Conditions. The first album released on their own imprint, Collected Works Records, in partnership with Concord Records, the album received widespread acclaim and was hailed as “rich with new wave synths and closely blended harmonies” by Pitchfork, while Rolling Stone praised its “uplifting three to four minute indie-pop numbers, imbued with lush vocals.”
Signed, exclusive bundles to celebrate the In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights album include a limited marble vinyl edition and all new merchandise: https://found.ee/TNPStoreHome
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS,
IN THE MORSE CODE OF BRAKE LIGHTS
You’ll Need A Backseat Driver
2. The Surprise Knock
3. Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile
4. Colossus Of Rhodes
5. Higher Beams
6. Dreamlike And On The Rush
7. You Won’t Need Those Where You’re Going
8. Need Some Giants
9. Opening Ceremony
10. One Kind Of Solomon
11. Leather On The Seat
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS LIVE
August 17 Toronto, ON *Danforth Music Hall
September 19 Woodstock, NY Levon Helm Studios
September 27 Madison, WI Majestic Theatre
September 28 Urbana, IL Pygmalion Music Festival
September 29 Columbia, MO Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival
October 1 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
October 2 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
October 3 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre
November 4 Boston, MA Royale
November 5 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
November 7 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
November 8 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
November 10 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre
November 11 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
November 12 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
*Danforth 100th Anniversary Show Series
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Abraham Lincoln historical digitization project (1248) + -
Illinois during the Civil War, 1861-1865 (3) + -
Prairie Fire (3) + -
songs (document genre) (1129) + -
biographies (documents) (21) + -
guidebooks (7) + -
interviews (7) + -
proceedings (4) + -
poetry (1) + -
reports (1) + -
Clark, George Washington, 1812- (68) + -
Drew, Thomas, compiler (41) + -
Colston, E. R. (35) + -
Ottarson, F. J. (35) + -
Taylor, Zachary (35) + -
Dale, William P (29) + -
Davis, Rodney O., ed. (19) + -
Wilson, Douglas L., ed. (19) + -
Lincoln, Abraham (17) + -
Nicolay, John G., ed (16) + -
Whittier, John Greenleaf (13) + -
Warland, John H (12) + -
Douglas, Stephen (11) + -
Bungay, George W. (George Washington), 1818-1892 (9) + -
Cull, Augustus (9) + -
Chandler (8) + -
Pierpont, John (7) + -
Wright, Elizur, Jr (7) + -
Tucker, Henry (6) + -
Hutchinson, Jesse (5) + -
Bangor Gazette (4) + -
Campbell, A. (Alexander), 1814-1898 (4) + -
Cowper, William, 1731-1800 (4) + -
Dale, William P. (4) + -
Presidential candidates--United States--History (1201) + -
Presidents--United States--History (1201) + -
United States--Politics and government--History (1201) + -
Mexican War, 1846-1848 (113) + -
Black Hawk War, 1832 (3) + -
(-) ≠ F. A. Mills (Firm)
(-) ≠ New-York, Congress
(-) ≠ LeRoy Community Grange No. 1873 Records (Boone County), 1933-2000
(-) ≠ Schuyler, Philip, Major-General
(-) ≠ A. J. Stasny Music Co.
(-) = Political campaigns--United States--History
(-) ≠ Weekly North-Western Gazette
(-) = books
'Independence' in 'The Rough and Ready Songster: Embellished with Twenty-Five Splendid Engravings, Illustrative of the American Victories in Mexico. By an American Officer'
books, songs (document genre)
'Leave Vain Regrets for Errors Past' in 'The National Clay Melodist, A Collection of Popular and Patriotic Songs, Second Edition, Enlarged and Improved'
'For Texas and for Oregon' in 'General Taylor's Old Rough and Ready Songster'
'We Are Come, All Come' in 'The Free Soil Minstrel'
Clark, George Washington, 1812-
'Get Out of the Way, Ten-Cent Jimmy' in 'The Campaign of 1856. Fremont Songs for the People. Original and Selected.'
Drew, Thomas, compiler
'Douglas and Reform' in 'The Democratic Campaign Songster: Douglas and Johnson Melodies'
'That Same Old Coon' in 'National Clay Minstrel and Frelinghuysen Melodist'
Boughton, J
'Harrison Song' in 'The Harrison and Log Cabin Song Book'
'We're for Freedom Through the Land' in 'The Free Soil Minstrel'
Robinson, J. E
'Domestic Bliss' in 'The Free Soil Minstrel'
Gregg, James
'The Soldier of Tippecanoe' in 'The Log Cabin and Hard Cider Melodies; a Collection of Popular and Patriotic Songs, Respectfully Dedicated to the Friends of Harrison and Tyler'
'New Yankee Doodle' in 'The Rough and Ready Songster: Embellished with Twenty-Five Splendid Engravings, Illustrative of the American Victories in Mexico. By an American Officer'
'The American Eagle' in 'The Rough and Ready Songster: Embellished with Twenty-Five Splendid Engravings, Illustrative of the American Victories in Mexico. By an American Officer'
Thompson, C. W
'The Liberty Ball' in 'The Liberty Minstrel'
'Parody on The Gallant Old Backwoodsman' in 'Tippecanoe Song Book: A Collection of Log Cabin and Patriotic Melodies'
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For patterns
R. W. Munson, Jr. Award
The R. W. Munson Award was established in 2001 for the most outstanding distinctly patterned daylily. Roswell William “Bill” Munson, Jr., is an AHS icon. At the time of his death in 1999, Bill had won more major awards than any hybridizer in the history of the Society (except for the Stout Medal). Voted by Garden Judges.
(Go to bottom of page for link to spreadsheet with votes by region for all 2019 Cultivar Awards and Runners Up)
R.W. Munson, Jr.
(Howard-R) Explosion In the Paint Factory Runner Up: 'Cat Ballou' (Gluck) 36 Votes
(Faulkner) Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson Runner Up: 'Cat Ballou' (Gluck) 46 Votes
(Selman) Alien DNA Runner Up: 'Purple Cheetah' (Gossard) 65 Votes
(Stamile, P.) Get Jiggy Runner Up: 'Alien DNA' (Selman) 74 Votes
(Bell-T.) Jessica Lynn Bell Runner Up: 'Alien DNA' (Selman) 53 Votes
(Herrington-H.) Magic of Oz Runner Up: 'Cosmic Kaleidoscope' (Carpenter-J.) 104 Votes
(Doorakian) Rose F. Kennedy Runner Up: 'Cosmic Kaleidoscope' (Carpenter-J.) 109 Votes
(Emmerich, K.) Entwined in the Vine Runner Up: 'Cosmic Kaleidoscope' (Carpenter-J.) 105 Votes
(Burkey) Starman's Quest Runner Up: 'Spacecoast Behavior Patternt' (Kinnebrew-J.) 73 Votes
(Carpenter, J.) Texas Kaleidoscope Runner Up: 'Jerry Hyatt' (Hanson-C.) 65 Votes
(Kinnebrew, J.) Spacecoast Sea Shells Runner Up: 'Texas Kaleidoscope' (Carpenter, J.) 63 Votes
(Kinnebrew, J.) Catcher In The Eye Runner Up:' Raspberry Winter' (Trimmer) 76 Votes
(Stamile) Web Of Intrigue Runner Up: 'Catcher In The Eye' (Kinnebrew, J.) 118 Votes
(Morss) Julie Newmar Runner Up: 'Catcher In The Eye' (Kinnebrew, J.) 90 Votes
(Morss) Gerda Brooker Runner Up: 'Roses In Snow' (Hansen, D.) 101 Votes
< Back to Awards
2004 TUNE THE HARP Hansen
2003 MYSTICAL RAINBOW Stamile
2002 ETCHED EYES Kaskel
2001 WITCH STITCHERY Morss
The R. W. Munson Award was established in 2001 for the most outstanding distinctly patterned daylily. Roswell William “Bill” Munson, Jr., is an AHS icon. At the time of his death in 1999, Bill had won more major awards than any hybridizer in the history of the Society (except for the Stout Medal).
Bill was born in 1929, in Gainesville, Florida. He received a degree in Architecture from the University of Florida and worked in this field until his retirement in 1980. He became involved with daylilies as a young man, and with his mother Ida Munson, established Wimberlyway Gardens in Gainesville.
He became interested in tetraploid daylilies in the early 1960’s and decided to dedicate himself to the development of what he felt were potentially superior cultivars. This was a risk, because of the deep contention between the dips. vs. the tets. camps in the AHS at the time. However, he and his mother persevered and succeeded in producing 35,000 seeds from induced tetraploids in 1972. From these and others, he built his award-winning tetraploid hybridizing program. He was a primary force in the development and acceptance of tetraploid daylilies.
Besides Bill’s many successes in hybridizing and many awards for individual cultivars, he was a stalwart member of the American Hemerocallis Society, serving as a board member and President. He received both the Society’s highest personal awards, the Bertrand Farr Silver Medal in 1967, and the Helen Field Fischer Gold Medal in 1991.
In 1975, he established the Ida Munson Award for the best double daylily, in honor of his mother, herself a well-known hybridizer whose Hemerocallis ‘Ida’s Magic’ won a Stout Silver Medal in 1991. He later authored a book which was considered by many to be the definitive volume on daylilies: Hemerocallis, The Daylily (Timber Press, 1989)
Courtesy of Betsey Clark and the AHS Archives
2019 All Cultivar Awards and Runners Up by Region
ALL-AHS-AWARDS-1950-2019
2020 Awards Nomination form (.pdf format)
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You are here: Home / Featured Books / Mars Madness by Jodi Bowersox
Mars Madness by Jodi Bowersox
It would only take a dream and twenty billion dollars to create a resort on Mars. But at a million dollars a ticket, it was a luxury that only the .01% could afford.
Until the Mars Madness Lottery.
For the price of a fifty dollar lottery ticket, even burger flipping Joes and Janes could have a shot at a Mars adventure. Even hyper-organizational, germophobic, scaredy cat, fussy pants Katrina McKenna, who only bought a ticket at her daughter Frankie’s insistence.
With the addition of one ex-husband, two new flames, a love-sick robotic maid, a ten-year-old cybersecurity whiz, a reclusive scientist and his genetically modified horses on a Mars transport four football fields in length with all the amenities of a cruise ship—plus a labyrinth—madness is just to be expected.
Buy the book, and follow the author on social media:
Learn more about the writer. Visit the Author’s Website.
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Jodi Bowersox has never liked being put in a box. Over the course of her life, she has been an actress, seamstress, designer, business owner, homeschool teacher, kid’s choir director, and artist, so it’s only natural that her writing would take on an eclectic flare as well.
Her romance novels span genres from faith fiction to suspense to time travel to sci fi with small town and big city settings. In addition, she has children’s picture books to her credit, a book of stage productions, and a non-fiction Bible commentary.
As an award winning watercolor artist, Jodi specializes in pet portraits, and as a seamstress, she creates women’s vests out of men’s ties. You can view all her creative endeavors, as well as read samples of her books on her website.
Jodi lives in the heart of Colorado Springs with her husband and too many cats where they never get tired of looking at the mountain views.
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January 9, 2020 - Introduced by Representatives Spreitzer, Riemer, C. Taylor,
Neubauer, Anderson, Brostoff, Emerson, Hebl, Pope, Shankland, Sinicki,
Subeck and Zamarripa, cosponsored by Senators Miller, Larson and Smith.
Referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections.
AB732,2,7 1An Act to repeal 5.02 (22), 5.58, 8.05 (3), 8.05 (5), 8.11, 8.13, 10.02 (3) (b) 4., 10.06
2(2) (b), 10.06 (2) (d), 10.06 (3) (as), 10.06 (3) (b), 11.0101 (33), 11.0204 (2), 11.0304
3(2), 11.0504 (2), 11.0604 (2), 11.0704 (2), 11.0804 (2), 60.10 (1) (c) 2., 117.22 (2)
4(e) and 120.06 (7) (b); to renumber 60.10 (1) (c) 1. and 120.06 (7) (a); to
5renumber and amend 7.60 (4) (c); to amend 5.01 (4) (a), 5.01 (4) (b), 5.01 (4)
6(c), 5.01 (5), 5.02 (19), 5.02 (20r), 5.15 (6) (b), 5.60 (1) (ag), 5.64 (1) (ar) 1m., 5.64
7(1) (ar) 2., 5.66 (1), 5.68 (5), 7.08 (1) (c), 7.10 (6), 7.50 (1) (b), 7.50 (1) (c), 7.50 (2)
8(intro.), 7.50 (2) (hm), 7.51 (4) (a), 7.51 (5) (a) 3., 7.53 (1) (a), 7.53 (2) (d), 7.53 (3)
9(a), 7.53 (3) (b), 7.60 (4) (a), 7.60 (4) (b), 7.70 (3) (a), 8.05 (4) (a), 8.10 (1), 8.17 (1)
10(a), 8.17 (4), 8.17 (5) (b), 8.50 (2) (a), 8.50 (2) (b), 8.50 (3) (a), 8.50 (3) (b), 10.01
11(2) (d), 10.01 (2) (e), 10.02 (3) (intro.), 10.06 (1) (c), 10.06 (1) (e), 10.06 (3) (am),
1210.06 (3) (bm), 10.06 (3) (f), 10.06 (4) (g), 11.0101 (29), 11.0204 (3) (a), 11.0304
13(3) (a), 11.0504 (3) (a), 11.0604 (3) (a), 11.0804 (3) (a), 38.16 (3) (br) 1., 59.17 (7),
1459.605 (3) (a) 1., 64.04 (2), 66.0602 (4) (a), 66.0619 (2m) (b), 66.0921 (2), 67.05
1(6a) (a) 2. a., 67.05 (6m) (b), 67.12 (12) (e) 5., 77.994 (3) (b) 2. b., 119.08 (2), 120.06
2(8) (a), 120.06 (8) (b), 120.06 (8) (c) (intro.), 120.06 (8) (d), 120.06 (8) (f), 120.06
3(8) (g), 120.06 (8) (h), 120.06 (9) (a), 121.91 (3) (a) 1. and 995.20; and to create
45.05 (1) (g), 5.20, 6.80 (2) (g), 7.60 (4) (c) 3., 7.60 (4) (c) 4., 7.62, 8.05 (1) (L), 10.02
5(4), 11.0204 (3) (am), 11.0304 (3) (am), 11.0504 (3) (am), 11.0604 (3) (am),
611.0804 (3) (am) and 20.510 (1) (ed) of the statutes; relating to: ranked-choice
7voting, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
This bill requires ranked-choice voting for the election of all federal, state, and
local officials, not including recall elections for any such officials. Under
ranked-choice voting, each voter may rank as many preferences for each office or
seat as there are candidates whose names appear on the ballot for that office or seat.
If the voter indicates a preference for more than one candidate for an office or seat,
the voter must indicate a preference between the candidates by designating one as
“first choice," another as “second choice," and ranking subsequent choices in
sequential preference. A voter may also indicate a preference for one or more
write-in candidates for any office or seat.
A voter who casts one vote for a candidate for an office or seat but who does not
indicate a preference is considered to have cast a “first-choice" preference for that
candidate. If any candidate receives a majority of the first-choice preferences for the
office or seat, that candidate is elected. If no candidate receives a majority of the
first-choice preferences for an office or seat, the name of the candidate receiving the
least number of first-choice preferences is dropped and the second-choice
preferences of the voters who preferred that candidate, if any, are then added to the
first-choice preferences received by the other candidates. Subsequent preferences
of those voters are allocated to the other candidates in a similar manner as
candidates with the fewest voter preferences are eliminated. If any candidate for the
office or seat then has a majority of the combined first-choice and reallocated
preferences, that candidate is elected. If not, the procedure is repeated until one
candidate receives a majority of the combined first-choice and reallocated
preferences.
In the case of a multiple-seat district, the candidates whose vote total is equal
to or greater than the threshold number of votes are elected. The threshold is
determined by dividing the total number of votes cast for the open seats by the
number of the open seats, plus one, and adding one to the quotient, disregarding any
fractions. Generally, if a candidate receives more than the number of threshold votes
during a round of counting the preferential votes, his or her surplus votes are
allocated to the continuing candidates in order of preference until all open seats are
filled. A voter may also indicate a preference for one or more write-in candidates.
Under ranked-choice voting, no primary election is held other than a special
primary for a partisan office, the partisan primary, and the presidential preference
primary. At the partisan primary, ranked-choice voting is used to determine the
candidate for each political party on the ballot who shall advance to the general
election. At the special primary, ranked-choice voting is used to determine the
candidate for each political party on the ballot who shall advance to the special
election. At the presidential preference primary, ranked-choice voting is used to
express preferences for the person to be the presidential candidate for each party in
a year in which electors for president and vice president are to be elected.
Finally, the bill authorizes the Elections Commission to make expenditures to
implement and administer ranked-choice voting, including updating equipment
and software and implementing secure technologies, and to make grants to counties
and municipalities for the same purpose.
AB732,1 1Section 1 . 5.01 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,3,82 5.01 (4) (a) If Except as provided under s. 7.62, if 2 or more candidates for the
3same office receive the greatest, but an equal number of votes, the winner shall be
4chosen by lot in the presence of the board of canvassers charged with the
5responsibility to determine the election, or in the case of an election for state or
6national office or metropolitan sewerage commissioner, if the commissioner is
7elected under s. 200.09 (11) (am), in the presence of the chairperson of the elections
8commission or the chairperson's designee.
AB732,2 9Section 2 . 5.01 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,3,1310 5.01 (4) (b) If Except as provided under s. 7.62, if, in a primary, 2 or more
11candidates receive an equal but not the greatest number of votes so that only one of
12those candidates with equal votes may advance to the final election, the choice shall
13similarly be made by drawing lots.
1Section 3. 5.01 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,4,52 5.01 (4) (c) The For purposes of pars. (a) and (b), the candidates may, if all those
3tied for the same office are present, draw for themselves. Upon refusal or absence
4of any of the candidates, the board of canvassers shall appoint a competent person
5to draw, and upon the results declare and certify the winner.
AB732,4 6Section 4 . 5.01 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,4,147 5.01 (5) Election of governor and lieutenant governor. (a) In every general
8election to choose the governor and the lieutenant governor, each elector shall have
9a single vote applicable to both offices. The the persons receiving the greatest
10number of legal majority of highest-ranked votes cast jointly for them for governor
11and lieutenant governor shall be declared elected, and the canvassers shall so
12determine and certify if no persons receive a majority of highest-ranked votes cast
13jointly for governor and lieutenant governor, the election shall be determined under
14s. 7.62.
AB732,4,1915 (b) In case If 2 or more slates have an equal and the highest number of votes
16for governor and lieutenant governor after the canvass under s. 7.62, the 2 houses
17of the legislature shall at the next annual session choose by joint ballot one of the
18slates so having an equal and the highest number of votes for governor and
19lieutenant governor.
AB732,5 20Section 5 . 5.02 (19) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,4,2221 5.02 (19) “Special election" means any election, other than those described in
22subs. (5), (12s), and (21), and (22), to fill vacancies or to conduct a referendum.
AB732,6 23Section 6 . 5.02 (20r) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.02 (20r) “Special referendum" means any referendum held at a special
2election which is not held concurrently with the elections described in sub. (5), (12s),
3or (21), or (22).
AB732,7 4Section 7 . 5.02 (22) of the statutes is repealed.
AB732,8 5Section 8 . 5.05 (1) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
AB732,5,96 5.05 (1) (g) Make grants to counties and municipalities to update equipment
7and software, including the implementation of secure technologies, to administer
8ranked-choice voting under s. 5.20 and the canvass procedure for ranked-choice
9voting under s. 7.62.
AB732,9 10Section 9 . 5.15 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,6,1211 5.15 (6) (b) No later than 30 days before each election, the governing body of
12any municipality may by resolution combine 2 or more wards for voting purposes to
13facilitate using a common polling place. Whenever wards are so combined, the
14original ward numbers shall continue to be utilized for all official purposes. Except
15as otherwise authorized under this paragraph, every municipality having a
16population of 35,000 or more shall maintain separate returns for each ward so
17combined. In municipalities having a population of 35,000 or more, the governing
18body may provide in a resolution that returns for any ward having a population of
1920 or less be combined with returns for any adjacent ward, if the total population of
20the combined wards does not exceed the applicable population range under sub. (2)
21(b) for wards in that municipality. In municipalities having a population of less than
2235,000, the governing body may provide in the resolution that returns shall be
23maintained only for each group of combined wards at any election. Whenever a
24governing body provides that returns shall be maintained only for combined wards
25under this paragraph, the municipality shall report separate results for each
1separate ballot required under ss. 5.58 5.60 to 5.64. The municipal clerk shall
2transmit a copy of the resolution to the county clerk of each county in which the
3municipality is contained. In municipalities having a population of less than 35,000,
4the resolution shall remain in effect for each election until modified or rescinded, or
5until a new division is made under this section. Whenever needed for purposes of this
6paragraph, the municipal clerk shall determine the population of each ward in his
7or her municipality. If the population of a ward cannot be determined from census
8results, the clerk shall determine the population of the smallest unit encompassing
9the entire ward that can be determined from census results. The clerk shall then
10divide the land area of the ward by the land area of that unit. The clerk shall then
11multiply that result by the population of the unit to determine the population of the
12ward for purposes of this paragraph.
AB732,10 13Section 10 . 5.20 of the statutes is created to read:
AB732,6,17 145.20 Ranked-choice voting. (1) In this section, “ranked-choice voting"
15means a voting method in which the electors voting in an election for an elective office
16are permitted to indicate and order their preferences for all candidates whose names
17appear on the ballot for the same office or seat.
AB732,6,19 18(2) Except as provided in ss. 8.05 (1) (L) and 9.10 (3) (d) and (e) and (4) (f), all
19elections shall be conducted using ranked-choice voting.
AB732,7,3 20(3) An elector may rank as many preferences for each office as there are
21candidates for the office whose names appear on the ballot. If more than one seat on
22a governing body is to be filled at large, the procedure under s. 7.62 (3) applies. If
23write-in votes are permitted, a voter may vote for a write-in candidate in addition
24to any candidate whose name appears on the ballot. To indicate a preference, an
25elector shall mark his or her ballot with or cause the voting machine to indicate the
1elector's first choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, and subsequent choices, if any. An elector
2is not required to indicate a choice and is not required to indicate as many choices
3as the elector is eligible to indicate.
AB732,11 4Section 11 . 5.58 of the statutes is repealed.
AB732,12 5Section 12 . 5.60 (1) (ag) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,7,146 5.60 (1) (ag) There shall be one separate ballot for state superintendent,
7judicial officers, county executive, county comptroller in counties having a
8population of 750,000 or more, and county supervisor, except as authorized in s.
95.655. For county supervisor, the ballot shall be prepared in accordance with ss. 5.58
10(2) and s. 59.10 (3). Arrangement of the names of candidates for county executive,
11county comptroller, county supervisor, and municipal judge, if the judge is elected
12under s. 755.01 (4), shall be determined by the county clerk or the executive director
13of the county board of election commissioners determining ballot arrangement under
14s. 5.58 (1c), in the manner prescribed in par. (b).
AB732,13 15Section 13 . 5.64 (1) (ar) 1m. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,7,1916 5.64 (1) (ar) 1m. When voting for president and vice president, the ballot shall
17permit an elector to vote only for the candidates on one ticket jointly or to write in
18the names of persons in both spaces, except that the elector may rank his or her
19preference for each set of candidates as provided under s. 5.20.
AB732,14 20Section 14 . 5.64 (1) (ar) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,7,2421 5.64 (1) (ar) 2. When voting for governor and lieutenant governor, the ballot
22shall permit an elector to vote only for the candidates on one ticket jointly or write
23in the names of persons in both spaces, except that the elector may rank his or her
AB732,15 25Section 15 . 5.66 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
15.66 (1) For local elections, where necessary, municipal clerks shall have
2sufficient ballots printed or otherwise prepared whenever a voting system does not
3utilize printed ballots to assure a ballot for all electors or voting machines. For all
4other elections the municipal clerks shall certify to their county clerk, on the first day
5of the 2nd month preceding the month in which the primary election is held, the
6approximate number of electors in the municipality. The county clerk shall total
7these estimates and order a sufficient supply to assure ballots for all electors and
8voting machines.
AB732,16 9Section 16 . 5.68 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB732,8,1610 5.68 (5) If a charge is made for the use of a polling place, the charge shall be
11paid by the municipality establishing the polling place under s. 5.25 (2) unless the
12polling place is used to conduct a special election that is called by a unit of
13government other than the state or the municipality establishing the polling place
14and the special election is not held concurrently with an election specified in s. 5.02
15(5), (12s), or (21), or (22). In such case the charge shall be paid by the unit of
16government that calls the special election.
AB732,17 17Section 17 . 6.80 (2) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
AB732,9,318 6.80 (2) (g) In elections for offices at which ranked-choice voting under s. 5.20
19is used, an elector may rank as many preferences for each office or seat as there are
20candidates whose names appear on the ballot for that office or seat. If more than one
21seat on a governing body is to be filled at large, an elector may rank as many
22preferences for that office or seat as there are candidates whose names appear on the
23ballot for all of the seats to be filled. If write-in votes are permitted, a voter may vote
24for a write-in candidate in addition to any candidate whose name appears on the
25ballot. An elector who indicates preferences for candidates for an office or seat must
1indicate a different preference for each candidate for that office or seat. If an elector
2casts more than one vote for any office or seat without indicating preferences, the
3elector's intent shall be determined as provided under s. 7.62 (4).
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January 8, 2020 - Introduced by Senators Hansen, Bewley, Carpenter, Larson,
Ringhand, Shilling, Smith and Wirch, cosponsored by Representatives
Neubauer, Hesselbein, Hebl, C. Taylor, Anderson, Billings, Bowen,
Brostoff, Crowley, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Kolste, Ohnstad, Pope,
Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, Vining, Vruwink
and Zamarripa. Referred to Committee on Education.
SB653,1,3 1An Act to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 20.255 (2) (dv) and 115.457 of the
2statutes; relating to: grants to school districts for weatherization projects,
3granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Beginning in the 2020-21 school year, this bill requires the Department of
Public Instruction to award grants to school districts for weatherization projects.
Under the bill, DPI must establish an advisory council to make recommendations on
the criteria for awarding weatherization grants and, after reviewing applications,
recommendations on which school districts should receive grants. Finally, the bill
specifies that the annual maximum award amount is $100,000 and that a school
district may use up to ten percent of a grant award for educational materials related
to the weatherization project.
SB653,1 4Section 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
5the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table
SB653,2 1Section 2. 20.255 (2) (dv) of the statutes is created to read:
SB653,2,32 20.255 (2) (dv) Weatherization projects; grants. The amounts in the schedule
3for grants to school districts under s. 115.457.
SB653,2,8 5115.457 Weatherization projects; grants. (1) Beginning in the 2020-21
6school year, after receiving recommendations from the council under sub. (2), the
7department shall award grants to school districts for projects to implement or install
8weatherization materials, as defined in 42 USC 6862 (9), in school buildings.
SB653,2,10 9(2) The state superintendent shall establish a council under s. 15.04 (1) (c) to
10make recommendations to the department on all of the following:
SB653,2,1111 (a) The criteria for awarding grants under this section.
SB653,2,1312 (b) After reviewing applications, to which school districts the department
13should award grants under this section.
SB653,2,15 14(3) (a) The department may not award more than $100,000 under this section
15to a school district in any school year.
SB653,2,1816 (b) A school district may use up to 10 percent of the amount of a grant under
17this section on educational materials related to the weatherization project for which
18the grant is awarded.
SB653,2,19 19(4) The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.
1119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c),
266.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343,
3115.345, 115.363, 115.364, 115.365 (3), 115.367, 115.38 (2), 115.415, 115.445, 115.457,
4118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.075, 118.076, 118.10, 118.12, 118.125
5to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164, 118.18,
6118.19, 118.196, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6), (8), and (10),
7118.245, 118.25, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.293, 118.30 to 118.43,
8118.46, 118.50, 118.51, 118.52, 118.53, 118.55, 118.56, 120.12 (2m), (4m), (5), and (15)
9to (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26), (34), (35), (37),
10(37m), and (38), 120.137, 120.14, 120.20, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are applicable to a
111st class city school district and board but not, unless explicitly provided in this
12chapter or in the terms of a contract, to the commissioner or to any school transferred
13to an opportunity schools and partnership program.
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Techno Tuesday: Wehbba discusses his love for the Detroit sound
Wehbba has been at the forefront of Brazil’s underground scene since its earlier years. After becoming enamored with the Detroit techno style after holding a background in rock and jazz, the DJ and producer ended up quitting his job as a dentist to push the scene forward nearly two decades ago and has since been purveying his sound all over the globe. By 2010, Wehbba found a special home among the Tronic family, releasing his debut artist album Full Circle on the imprint and returning multiple times to sign his other music as well.
The artist also began developing a close relationship with Christian Smith, which led to their coveted Passion Over Fashion compilation series, whose second edition was released in 2016 in celebration of the label’s 200th release. The compilation, like much of Wehbba’s music, embodies the modern Detroit sound today and speaks to his and Smith’s continued dedication toward keeping music original and true to its old soul within the contemporary dance space. Now, as he prepares for an immersive tour across the United States, we’ve sat down with Wehbba to discuss his love for the Detroit sound and its influence over his music today, and his continued relationship with along with any plans to continue the Passion Over Fashion series.
Continue reading for the artist’s perspective.
From Wehbba:
I’ve been a musician since my early teenage years, and was always drawn to more complex rhythms and melodic structures especially from jazz or that kind of virtuosic heavy metal, but was also into straight up rock n’roll, punk and grunge. This mix of complexity and elaboration with objective simplicity always seemed to be messing up with my head.
I feel that Detroit techno manages to merge all of this, it’s got that intense jazzy complexity to it, but it’s also meant to be emotionally (and physically) liberating, so it manages to use the complex harmonic elements in order to compliment the rhythm, and suddenly this whole groove is born, which is in itself so easy to digest and be danced to.
‘Hi Tech Jazz’ was the first track that got me completely freaking out, I heard one of my favourite DJs of all time playing it in the late 90s, a Brazilian artist called Mau Mau. This really hit me like an uppercut and knocked me out, and I was even more in love with the whole thing once I started to listen to heavily Detroit-inspired European artists like Laurent Garner and Sterac. They managed to combine what I feel like is the best of both worlds, the immensely rich musicality with more structured, dance floor oriented types of groove, this was what I would look for the most when I started to buy records.
I’ve always felt music needs – ironically – musical content, I was never into the whole “tool” thing, sure I’ve made some over my almost 15 years as a producer, mostly to incorporate them into my DJ sets, but that’s not what rocks my boat. But then there are people like Jeff Mills or Robert Hood who manage to make mostly tools but with just the right amount of musical content to have a huge essence to them. It’s just too mind blowing for me.
When I came across Christian’s music and, of course, Tronic’s music, it was like jackpot for me. It sounded somewhat more innocent, but had the musical elements. It had this fierce techno rhythm and tight production, sounded modern and cleaner but still had all the elements I loved from the music from Detroit of the 80s and 90s, just displayed in a different way. Knowing him as well as I do now, I’ve found out he’s a music connoisseur with a strong background on disco, funk and also all things from early house and techno, so it just makes sense. Subconsciously I think this is what shaped my sound as a producer. I still look for fresh ways to incorporate my more musical influences into whatever seems to work the most at any given moment.
‘View Of Delft’, which I released on Systematic Recordings a while ago, was a good example of this. The organic drums were inspired by Carl Craig’s ‘At Les’, while the melody was also heavily Detroit inspired, but I’ve decided to use a less organic and more synthetic sound on it to make it more current, and more futuristic even.
I think techno’s history is now so rich after some 30 years on that we have a lot to draw from without sounding redundant, and this is just within techno alone! I find it really inspiring to listen to all the different generations of Detroit artists, and see how they’ve developed the sound that is perceived as Detroit techno today, and really get a grasp of that kind of rage, that was filled with content and fun too. Get a grasp of the freedom they seemed to be fighting for, even if subconsciously. And I still feel techno has a lot to offer, I love many aspects of the modern production, and I love challenging myself to try and offer something new and original, but that also shows my personality, my influences and all my baggage.
Regarding ‘Passion Over Fashion’, the concept was about displaying our influences and paying homage to them, and we covered a lot of ground from acid house to different sorts of Detroit techno, musical, minimalistic and percussive as well as techno in general. Right now I don’t see any reason for us to expand on it, and we haven’t been able to be in studio together like we used to, but you never know! As for my Detroit techno infatuation, I was finally able to act on it, and have worked solo on a remix for one of my favourite artists from motor city, under what I think is his best alias, and this will be coming out in the first part of the year on Tronic!
Listen to ‘View of Delft’ from Wehbba’s techno concept EP for Systematic Recordings
Tags: Detroit, Detroit techno, Passion Over Fashion, Tronic, Wehbba
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Judicial Watch Uncovers More Classified Emails in Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure Email System
From Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch has announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly stated that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails. In response to a court order in another Judicial Watch case, she declared under penalty of perjury in 2015 that she had “directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.”
In 2017, the FBI uncovered 72,000 pages of documents Clinton attempted to delete or did not otherwise disclose. Until the court intervened and established a new deadline, the State Department had been slow-walking the release of those documents at a rate that would have required Judicial Watch and the American people to wait until at least 2020 to see all the releasable Clinton material. The production of documents in this case is now concluded with the FBI being only able to recover or find approximately 5,000 of the 33,000 government emails Hillary Clinton took and tried to destroy.
This final batch of Clinton emails includes five new classified emails and communications with controversial figures Lanny Davis and Sidney Blumenthal.
You can read all of the newly released emails below.
Two emails are quickly growing infamous as readers begin to peruse the emails.
Fox wrote on their website yesterday about a ‘private’ communication channel to Israel. \ Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen and Clinton lawyer, outlines that he had someone close to Netanyahu. Clinton wrote, “I will reach out to you directly and hope you will continue to do the same w me. The most important issue now is [Redacted].”
Also, here’s another email from Lanny Davis two weeks later, where he says he’s registered under FARA and talks about optics.
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It's only a brass plaque, a little more than a foot long. That the Rawlings and Hurston sites commemorate real people and Slip F honors the fictional "salvage consultant" Travis McGee, the hero of 21 novels by author John D. MacDonald, doesn't take away from its value. On Saturday, the plaque, removed during renovation at Bahia Mar, will be rededicated beginning at a. Although it's been 40 years since MacDonald introduced his hero, the novels still are considered a touchstone of the genre.
I'm sorry, Trav, dear. May 27, Sunhawk rated it liked it. But he was a pioneer in weaving in themes of the environment, uncontrolled Travis mcdonald busted flush and social issues -- topics still explored by the ever-growing cadre of Florida mystery writers. The only exception was Florida. I have come here and brought the ice. While the book might be almost 40 years old, it could have been written today and been just as truthful. Haris was very quick but without adequate physical strength.
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Inauthor MacDonald refused permission for a television series about Travis McGee and his cases, feeling people would stop reading the novels were Travis McGee regularly on television. Archived from the original PDF on Howie was trying to kill her, she cried. What Became of Jane Austen? I figured I'd never get an opportunity to watch either of the Identical models McGee movies, since they were made for Travis mcdonald busted flush and were never on video. As far north as Corkscrew Swamp busged, virgin stands of ancient bald cypress are dying. But, by "Copper," John D. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. But McGee needed proof, a trap. In fact, his creativity has surpassed the written word and has entered into the realm of - gasp! In other projects Mcdonalr. This is an adventure movie from the early 80's, not fabulous, but it stands on its own merits. Fort Lauderdale. Yep that sounds like Reacher. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Slip F 18 location before Marina re-construction.
John Dann MacDonald July 24, — December 28, was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.
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Slip F 18 location before Marina re-construction. It was here where the original slip dedication took place. When the U. This was done in February , less than a year after MacDonald's death. After the remodeling of the Bahia Mar Yachting Center in to replace fixed docks with floating docks, there no longer existed a Slip F The plaque was remounted on a movable wooden base, which is presently located inside the marina Dockmaster's Office and Gift Shop.
Photo taken at the original dedication in X marks where the plaque is located in the Harbormaster's Office area. F 18 is no longer there once the Marina was re-constructed several years ago. The solid red line near the top is the main road in front of the Bahia Mar Hotel, the large building. Below is a rendering of the boat, which MacDonald felt was very close to what he had in mind, but, as he always said about the boat and Travis McGee, he did not want to be exact about either.
Let the reader fill in the. Which is why my idea see above is quite different than the one at the top of the page,. The photo was actually taken in St. Glen Moore. Plaque re-dedication. While meeting to plan for the Re-dedication we posed for this photo. MacDonald died in after writing 78 books and countless short stories. There are more than 40 mystery authors with ties to Florida today. This year's event did not have an auspicious beginning.
A pair of elderly women were waiting to register when one asked her friend if she thought Mr. MacDonald would be at the event. MacDonald is dead," she said. Of course, as long as there are books, John D. MacDonald will never really die. In fact, his creativity has surpassed the written word and has entered into the realm of - gasp! White said he hadn't read any of John D. They pulled up to a little beach at the north end of the key and asked a fisherman on the shore if he happened to know where a guy named John D.
MacDonald lived. With that fateful event under their belts, the motley bunch started to trudge up to the door. John D. Jonathan King also said John D. That was 20 years ago, and he hasn't left - although he did leave the Sun-Sentinel last July. I can only echo that sentiment: Thank you, Mr. Poster for the event. The crowd. Cal Branche. Toast to JDM. Parrish, and Jon King. Randy Wayne White, center. Cal with Jean Trebbi, who guided the Landmark effort in May 4, at PM.
The movie is being adapted by Dennis Lehane who wrote Shutter Island. Namespaces Article Talk. So Travis keeps the money. Clear your history. The Busted Flush, the home of McGee is a 52 foot barge named after the poker hand, which is how he originally obtained the boat; by winning it in a poker game is moored at Slip F 18 at the Bahia Mar Marina in Florida.
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Don't have an account yet? Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Three weekends ago, Bahia Mar marina was overrun with bikini-clad boat girls, silver-tongued yacht brokers, and some of the world's most dazzling watercraft gathered together for the 38th annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.
Amid the sleek sloops and tubby trawlers, one world-famous vessel was notably missing: the Busted Flush, a foot houseboat owned by fictional detective-hero Travis McGee. MacDonald and his many readers. But for more than 30 years, literary pilgrims have come to Fort Lauderdale from across the country and around the globe looking for slip F, the exact spot at Bahia Mar where the rawboned, philosophical McGee parked the houseboat he won in a Palm Beach poker game.
To call Travis McGee a detective-hero isn't quite right. Throughout 21 mystery novels, he labeled himself a "salvage consultant" and sallied forth from the Busted Flush to retrieve lost souls and stolen fortunes or save modern-day damsels in distress.
It was to the salon or sun deck of his live-aboard barge that McGee repaired in the evenings with a flagon of Boodle's gin, watching the sun set over the Intracoastal Waterway and lamenting the "perpetual farting of the great god Progress" represented by high-rise condos, traffic jams, and the runaway exploitation of Florida's natural beauty.
While readership of the Travis McGee mystery series continues to grow -- 32 million copies are now in print -- bookworm visitors to Bahia Mar may be fewer today than in the past. Back then the marina ran a sightseeing boat named after the Busted Flush and kept a goodly stock of MacDonald's books on hand at the dockside canteen.
Today the books are missing from both the hotel gift shop and the marina convenience store, and a random poll of dockhands reveals an almost nonexistent knowledge of McGee, the Busted Flush, or slip F's physical location or place in the literary firmament.
It's a state of affairs that has some fans dismayed. You would think that now when there's local ownership there would be more interest in promoting it as an integral part of the property. Wayne Huizenga. Dick Graves, who used to be Bahia Mar's senior vice president for marketing, traveled from Weehawken, New Jersey, to Fort Lauderdale last month to "genuflect and pay respects" to Travis McGee and attend America's biggest boat show.
He says he was taken aback by the condition of the F shrine. We even cut the halyards off the flagpoles, but people would get ladders and steal them anyway.
We always did a lot to promote Travis McGee. It was smart business. More than that, we were just into that sort of thing -- the ritual, the local lore. Current General Manager Kevin Quirk says he's also tried to promote MacDonald's maverick hero but has run into a hurdle McGee himself would have bitterly relished: an increasingly legalistic modern world.
Quirk attempted to rename a Bahia Mar restaurant "Travis McGee's," he says, "but too many lawyers got involved. Like much else in South Florida, slip F is an oddly artificial construct. As the marina expanded, an F dock was coincidentally created, but none of the dock numbers corresponded with the fictional slip.
MacDonald originally chose Fort Lauderdale as the setting for his books because he didn't want fans pestering him at home in Sarasota. Contrary to popular belief, he never was a Bahia Mar resident.
On February 21, , marina personnel painted over the numbers at slip F and officially renamed it F at a dedication ceremony attended by about people. Fans flew in from Texas and New York, then-Fort Lauderdale mayor Robert Cox lent a hand, and the event garnered live coverage by a radio station in California.
The McGee mini-monument was the first one established by the Literary Landmarks Association, a nonprofit literary group that has since memorialized 27 other spots around the country. You have successfully signed up for your selected newsletter s - please keep an eye on your mailbox, we're movin' in! Neither organization could afford to pay for periodic maintenance, so the task fell to busy Bahia Mar workers. Today the digits F are gone from the dock. The plaque has gathered some rust and mysteriously moved a few feet from where it was bolted into concrete in front of F It now stands on a whitewashed concrete podium in front of the slip next door, F, beside a storage box filled with trash and missing its hinges.
According to long-time Bahia Mar employee Carol Nossett, the changes may have taken place during the renovation. Nossett estimates that one or two tourists per month visit the site.
Quirk, who numbers himself among the millions of Travis McGee fans, says he's pondering some new ways to bring the legendary name back to the neighborhood. He answered the question by quoting some of McGee's own words:. It is where I am and where I will stay, right up to the point where the Neptune Society sprinkles me into the dilute sewage off the Fun Coast.
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Season 1, Episode 2: Vultures in the Americas
We move beyond the Hudson Valley to investigate vulture research across the Americas. We talk to a scientist and cultural anthropologist whose respective interests share some interesting overlaps.
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Krista Caballero: Hi, and welcome back to EH Out Loud! I’m Krista Caballero, the Associate Director here at Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities, where we investigate how technology mediates what it means to be human. This season, we’re talking about vultures. In our last episode, you heard us talk about vultures here on campus. Today, we’re moving outside the Hudson Valley to learn from those who’ve been studying vultures across the Americas. Here at EH, we’re interested in furthering conversation and collaboration between traditionally disparate disciplines. So for this episode, we’re speaking with a scientist and a cultural anthropologist to give you a sense of the breadth of vulture research being done and the ways in which these disciplines lend themselves to a cross-pollination of ideas. We Skyped with Alexis Brewer, a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior at the City University of New York. Alexis’ research focuses specifically on turkey vultures in urban environments. First, we asked her why she studies turkey vultures in particular:
Alexis Brewer: Turkey vultures have some really interesting evolutionary adaptations that we don’t see in other species. First of all, vultures in general are the only obligate scavengers in the world, and that just means— the fancy way to say that they have to scavenge to survive. So, when we talk about bears or coyotes or red foxes or anything else that we see in the scavenger community, they can all hunt, and live off things that they kill themselves through predation. But turkey vultures in particular, but black vultures as well, or all vultures, have to scavenge to survive and so that’s a really unique thing in the animal world. We don’t see that in any other bird species, we don’t see that in any mammal species whatsoever, so it makes them very unique and very interesting.
Krista Caballero: And she told us about what it’s like to study vultures in urban environments:
Alexis Brewer: Yeah, so this is one reason why we study scavengers as urban ecologists or as ecologists interested in how people affect biodiversity because we really have some variable effects on scavengers in general but vultures in particular. Because we can provide positive impacts for them through food availability, by driving on roads and accidentally hitting animals, we can increase food availability. But, we’re also introducing them to other things. So we see in old world vultures, which just means vultures not in the US, sorry, not in the Americas I should say, they have been exposed to a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory or an NSAID called diclofenac which caused a massive die off in that population, a 98 percent die off in that population. And while we haven’t seen that yet in the United States, birds in prey in general are very vulnerable to things like lead and other contaminants in the environment. So we have this variable impact on scavengers, but they really are suited to exploit our resources, through landfill use or through roadkill and so it creates this really interesting push and pull within the environment and within different species.
Krista Caballero: Really interesting, and so then with turkey vultures in the— in sort of New York state, what kinds of issues are you seeing, specifically, in terms of pollution and so forth?
Alexis Brewer:Yeah, so we are definitely finding that they are— they like human resources, which is not surprising to be fair. If you go to any landfill in the United States that’s uncovered, you will find lots of turkey vultures and black vultures, and actually bald eagles and a variety of other species; gull species. But we know that vultures— we are finding actual quantitative evidence that they are spending more time eating human resources than we would expect, based on the amount of territory that they cover. So that does mean that there is some type of behavioral shift or foraging strategy shift that we’re seeing in vultures. And this is leading to some interesting– well one of the hypotheses we’ve seen that turkey vultures and black vultures are expanding their ranges northward and we’ve been trying to figure out why. And one of the hypotheses is that it’s food availability, as well as perhaps climate change. The food availability seems to be the stronger hypothesis at the moment. And this idea that they are really depending on anthropogenic resources supports that idea. So we don’t have definitive proof yet, but it is certainly looking like human resources are increasing that population range. And we’re also seeing throughout the United States, this is not just specific to New York state, but we’re seeing increased incidents of human-wildlife conflict between vultures and especially farmers. Perhaps you’ve seen the news recently coming out of the Southern United States, where farmers believe that vultures; black vultures mostly, but some reports of turkey vultures, that they might be predating their livestock. And vulture researchers are by in large pretty sceptical of this. Even if it does happen, it would be a very unusual situation. So we have to kind of start learning more about these, what we call synanthropic species; species who spend time around people. How they behave and that can shed some light on whether or not they’re actually— is happening what people think are happening, and then perhaps how to ameliorate that, but the first step is to really understand how they interact with people and livestock.
Krista Caballero:We also asked Alexis to tell us more about turkey vultures expanding their range northward:
Alexis Brewer: Certainly is true that turkey vultures are expanding their range northward faster than black vultures. It’s a little unclear if— I would almost think it’s more a result of that behavioral difference. Because they are more exploratory, they’re trying to find resources and the black vultures are kind of predisposed to follow the turkey vultures. It’s almost more that the turkey vultures are facilitating the black vulture range expansion through a behavioral system that’s already in place. Turkey vultures move someplace, black vultures follow them. That’s already in place within their regular range, and as they push their range northward, the black vulture just keeps doing what it’s always doing and the turkey vultures, doing what it always does too, they just have more places to go. But, I don’t know anybody that’s actually testing that, so that’s a great— I’d have to think about how to do it.
Krista Caballero: We then discussed how we tend to anthropomorphize vultures and whether we as humans are imagining them in communities that resemble our own:
Alexis Brewer: Vultures are what we call communal roosters, they will even— turkey vultures and black vultures will even roost together at times, though usually— it depends on the location. Usually see one species or the other, but you can see them mixed together. And in general there’s probably a couple reasons they do this. It can be for protection; safety in numbers type idea. Research has shown in a variety of species that the larger the group, each animal is spending less time in vigilance behavior which means they can relax more, right? So, you can think about this very logically, if you’re out by yourself in some scary area, you’re constantly looking around but if you’re with a couple of your other friends, you relax a little, because you’re— you have that safety net. So birds are the same way. The other idea is that perhaps, which I think is really fascinating, well I should say— get to the most exciting one for me in a second. The other one is perhaps warmth as well, so you know, more bodies together increases warmth, especially during colder months. But the third one that is very exciting is perhaps that it’s actually facilitating communication. Whether it’s intentional or not is unknown, but you can imagine if you’re hungry, and you go to bed at night and you’re laying down and your friend comes down and lays in the bed next to you and he smells like your favorite meal; cheeseburgers or something, and you’re starving, and you wake up the next day and you’re friend seems to have a mission right, he just jumps out of bed and he’s walking off, flying off, to go do something you’re like, I think I’m gonna’ go see if he gets another cheeseburger today right? [laughter] So they’re doing this— once again it’s perhaps it’s accidental but they are sharing information. So what we see when we put out— so we put out camera traps for some of our studies where we can see who’s— which animal, which species, and how frequently they’re visiting a carcass. And what we often see is that say a turkey vulture or two will show up one day, and then they go and they sleep and they’re probably in that communal roost and sure enough when they come back the next day, they come back with all their friends. And so then we have this big flock of vultures that are all eating. So this is a very, you know, that would be a positive selection pressure for this roosting behavior and it’s kind of neat to think about them sharing information and that’s really facilitating the health of the entire community probably.
Krista Caballero: And as we wrapped up our conversation, Alexis told us about the real effects that our bias against vultures has on research:
Alexis Brewer: People get upset about vultures, they, they have this very real aversion to them. That’s actually one reason why the research on scavengers is lagging behind. Research in say, predation or herbivory, or anything else like that. Though that’s changing, thankfully so— but— Yeah, this idea that, first of all, that there’s some evil perception of vultures. That they’re waiting for things to die or— quite frankly, they really aren’t. [laughs] They’re looking for things that are already dead, and— I go ahead and embrace the ick factor, right? That it is gross, I mean there’s, there’s nothing about it that’s not gross. But that being said, so is predation. If you’ve watched any NatGeo things or something like that. There’s no real getting around that either right? It’s just a little bit more glamorous. So, you know, embracing that it can be a little gross but then also that it’s a real service that these animals are doing for us and it’s going to become increasingly more so because most of the research points to— as we experience increased climate change we’re going to start seeing mass mortality of animals that are failing to adjust to climate change fast enough. Or due to diseases spreading or what have you, and so our role of our vertebrates scavengers is going to be absolutely pivotal in the coming, you know, however long. And so if we embrace that part of it, and kind of accept that sometimes it is a little gross and sometimes it’s not something we want to think about, but that they’re a vital part of the ecosystem. I think, I think that would do better, or people would be a little bit less upset about them? Because we see that, some people might not realise this, maybe they do, I don’t know, but condors are vultures right? And people love condors, like condors are super cool. They’re giant birds, they’re beautiful, but they’re vultures, and so if you can appreciate the condor, hopefully you can gain a little appreciation for our turkey vultures and black vultures here in the Northeast as well.
Krista Caballero: We also had the chance to Skype with Nicole Sault, a cultural anthropologist who splits her time between Oaxaca, Mexico, and California. Nicole’s research explores the symbolic attributes of birds and in particular, how the beliefs and practices about birds among indigenous cultures of the Americas can teach us about our relationship to the world and our obligations for reciprocity.
Nicole Sault: Well, vultures are a keystone species. They are teachers; they teach us about the environment and other worlds, but they only can teach us if we attend to them, and if we listen. And they have very important messages to give us now during these times of climate crisis. In Bolivia, for example, the lakes are dying because mining takes so much water away and indigenous fishing communities are performing ceremonies of symbolically burying the lake because it is dying. They say, “This will leave us as orphans when the lake dies”. So what do we who support mining companies in, you know, in the US and Canada, whatever— What can we do in recognition of the fact that those minerals that are being mined are coming back; they’re being used by us. People even talk about having valued minerals and oil as a curse. What do we say to those communities?
Krista Caballero: Following up on that, what do you see as the most potent symbols of myths including vultures today?
Nicole Sault: Birds are sentinels and it’s not just the canary in the coal mine, but the vultures in the sky. So it’s very important for us to pay attention to what they have to tell us. And when people are— feel repugnance toward, toward vultures for example, then that is an indication that something needs to be— what is it that is making people feel repulsed or feel that this— these birds have nothing to teach me, you know, I have nothing to learn from them. Those are important message points. And when somebody says “Oh no, that doesn’t apply to me,” that tells you something also. Even though it’s a negative response, it’s an indication to pay attention. Why does the person say that? You know, how do you follow up a question that explores that negative reaction? So that’s why when people say, “Oh, vultures are disgusting,” I always ask them well, why? And I think some of it has to do with the American fear of death. And so you know, carrion is so emblematic of death and decomposition—
Krista Caballero: Yeah
Nicole Sault: —that people that have issues with death don’t want to deal with carrion eaters. But most cultures recognize the value of vultures and their beauty, their spiritual power, their connection between worlds, their role as mediators, that they are protectors of not only mountains, but the water. They’re arbiters of justice, for example in the altiplano highlands of the Andes in Bolivia, the local authorities have a staff of office. And the staff of office has a silver condor head on the top of the staff. And condors are also associated with reciprocity.
Krista Caballero: We asked Nicole more about the role that condors play in Incan mythology:
Nicole Sault: The kind of tourist focused merchandise that you see makes it look like there’s these three separate planes of existence. But actually—
Nicole Sault: –in the– In Peru the Quechua speaking peoples considered the Milky Way to be this, this path of a river. They call the Milky Way “Mayu,” which in Quechua means river. And that in this river of stars, [rumbling noise in background] there are these dark star constellations. And these dark star constellations include llamas, a shepard, a condor, and the snake. As well as a toad and a partridge and other, other beings.
Krista Caballero: Nicole sent us a poem called Vulture by the poet Robinson Jeffers, who wrote a lot about environmentalism. Here it is:
Robert Cape: I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside / Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling / high up in heaven, / And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit / narrowing, / I understood then / That I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight- / feathers / Whistle above me and make their circle and come nearer. / I could see the naked red head between the great wings / Bear downward staring. I said, “My dear bird, we are wasting time / here. / These old bones will still work; they are not for you.” But how / beautiful / he looked, gliding down / On those great sails; how beautiful he looked, veering away in the / sea-light / over the precipice. I tell you solemnly / That I was sorry to have disappointed him. To be eaten by that beak / and / become part of him, to share those wings and those eyes– / What a sublime end of one’s body, what and enskyment; what a life / after death.
Krista Caballero: Here’s what Nicole had to say about the poem:
Nicole Sault: It’s about the longing for connection. And we’ve— we’ve become alienated from the Earth, from other species or other beings, and from ourselves. Vultures can help us reconnect. And notice how they teach in silence.
Krista Caballero: Despite having different research practices, both Alexis and Nicole speak to the integral role that vultures play as indicator species, both in terms of biodiversity as well as cultural values. And both touch on the importance of listening to vultures— literally and figuratively. You can find further research from our guests and others in the show notes.
Krista Caballero: EH Out Loud is produced at Bard’s Center for Experimental Humanities by me, Krista Caballero, Corinna Cape, Bird Cohen, and Ariel West. Fact checking and transcription by Anna Hallett Gutierrez and Cymone Richardson. Sound editing and music by Ariel West and Bird Cohen. Special thanks to Alexis Brewer, Robert Cape, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Djimon Gibson, Erik Kiviat, Laurie Husted, Arthur Holland Michel, Bruce Robertson, Susan Fox Rogers, Nicole Sault, and the Experimental Humanities Media Corps. Visit us at eh.bard.edu to learn about our vulture research as well as other projects at the Center.
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The Walking (Un)Dead: Zombie ants and the strange effects of parasitic fungi on ant behaviour.
In the understorey of a tropical forest, a carpenter ant, of the species Camponotus leonardi, has descended from the canopy away from her regular foraging trails and staggers drunkenly along a branch. Her movements are jerky and conspicuous. She twitchily moves forwards and suddenly starts convulsing with such ferocity that she falls from the branch onto the ground before again taking up an erratic fitful path that zigzags and circles back on itself. Around noon, after several hours of climbing and aimless lurching (now no more than about twenty-five centimetres above the ground) the ant finds herself on the underside of a sapling leaf where, without warning, she forcefully sinks her mandibles into one of the leaf’s veins, gripping it firmly between her tightly locked jaws. Within six hours the ant is dead. After two days, white hairs bristle from between her joints and a few days later these have become a brown mat covering the whole insect and a pinkish-white stalk has started to erupt from the base of the ant’s head. The stalk continues to grow and within two weeks it has reached twice the length of the ant’s body reaching towards the ground below.
This is a description of a “zombie-ant”, part of the life-cycle of a parasitic fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. This bizarre behaviour was first recorded by Alfred Russell Wallace in Sulawesi in 1859, but was not researched in much detail until quite recently. It has since been discovered that the fungus disrupts the normal behaviour of the ant through chemical interference in the brain, causing the infected ant to behave in ways that will improve the fungus’ opportunities to spread its spores and so reproduce. The fungus grows throughout the body cavity of the ant, using internal organs as food while the ant’s strong chitonous exoskeleton serves as a kind of capsule, protecting the fungus from drying out, being eaten, or further infection.
The earliest known record of a fungus visibly parasitizing an insect dates from about 105 million years ago, it is a male scale insect, preserved in amber, with two fungal stalks projecting from its head. But this fossil cannot tell us if the infected insect’s regular behaviour was changed or disrupted in any way. Evidence of “Zombie-ant” behaviour dates from around 48 million years ago from fossilised leaves that show the distinct markings on either side of leaf veins left by the lock-jawed mandibles of Eocene epoch ants. This association is evidently ancient and seemingly very common, with about 1,000 species of fungal parasites of insects known to exist today. These fungal pathogens have evolved to become either strictly species-specific or more generalist in their target insects, with some able to infect hundreds of different species. The variety of fungal pathogens and potential hosts has created some peculiar behaviours in insects which have most likely co-evolved with the fungi.
It is sometimes difficult to know which of these insect behaviours are entirely involuntary and driven by the fungus to improve its own reproductive success; and which the insects have evolved as a form of defence against infection. One of these unresolved odd behaviours is when the ant host climbs to an elevated position in what is known as “summit disease”. This increases the area over which spores can spread through wind dispersal, and removes the ant from close proximity with its colony or relatives. It is unclear if this behaviour is a zombie state caused by the fungus or if it is an altruistic act of self-sacrifice by the ant. By moving to an area away from its relatives it might be saving the rest of the colony from the immediate spread of infection by what is sometimes called “adaptive suicide”.
In this age-old struggle for survival the ants have developed adaptations to protect themselves and their nests from fungal infections. Grooming themselves and socially cleaning each other, allogrooming, they remove potentially harmful spores before these can penetrate the cuticle and take hold. Some ants spray poison in their nests to act as fungicides and if that fails to stop an infestation, they partition their nests by sealing off contaminated chambers. In some cases infected individuals are carried out of the nest by healthy workers; and as a last resort the entire colony relocates, abandoning the nest.
Zombie-like behaviour in insects is also caused by other types of parasites including bacteria and even other invertebrates. Such parasites are extreme versions of the multitudes of microscopic organisms that exist in and on all living things. This raises fascinating questions about the nature of any organism’s true independence in what are undoubtedly highly complex interrelated living systems. Zombie-ants provide us with a glimpse into this intricately tangled-web of molecular influences and behavioural adaptations – often leading us to wonder: who, ultimately, controls whom?
Andersen, S.B., Gerritsma, S., Yusah, K.M., Mayntz, D., Hywel-Jones, N.L., Billen, J., Boomsma, J.J. and Hughes, D.P. (2009) The Life of a Dead Ant: The Expression of an Adaptive Extended Phenotype. The American Naturalist, 174(3): 424-433.
Hughes, D.P, Andersen, S.B., Hywel-Jones N.L., Himaman W., Billen, J. and Boomsma J.J. (2011) Behavioral Mechanisms and Morphological Symptoms of Zombie Ants Dying from Fungal Infection. BioMed Central: Ecology, 11(13).
Pontoppidan M.-B., Himaman W., Hywel-Jones N.L., Boomsma J.J. and Hughes D.P. (2009) Graveyards on the Move: The Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Dead Ophiocordyceps-Infected Ants. Public Library of Science: ONE, 4(3): e4835.
Shang, Y., Feng, P. and Wang, C. (2015) Fungi That Infect Insects: Altering Host Behaviour and Beyond. Public Library of Sciences: Pathogens, 11(8): e1005037
Hughes, D.P., Wappler, T. and Labandeira C.C. (2010) Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant–fungal parasitism. Biology Letters, 7: 67-70.
Roy, H.E., Steinkraus, D.C., Eilenberg, J., Hajek, A.E. and Pell, J.K. (2006) Bizarre Interactions and Endgames: Entomopathogenic Fungi and Their Arthropod Hosts. Annual Review of Entomology, 51: 331-57
Bekker, C. de, Quevillon, L.E., Smith, P.B., Fleming, K.R., Ghosh, D., Patterson, A.D. and Hughes, D.P. (2014) Species-Specific Ant Brain Manipulation by a Specialized Fungal Parasite. BioMed Central: Evolutionary Biology, 14(166).
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Understanding Network Formation
October 1, 2017 /in Research Spotlight /by Jerry Liu
Shuyang Sheng
Social and economic networks permeate our lives. They play an important role in determining how diseases spread, which products we buy, how much education we attain, and even whether to smoke. Since social and economic networks are central to our economic well-being, economists have recently become increasingly interested in exploring how social and economic networks are formed. They raise empirical questions such as which network structures are likely to emerge, why some people have many friends while others are isolated, and whether people with similar socioeconomic status are more likely to become friends.
Answering such questions is challenging. Social and economic networks are not formed randomly. We choose our friends on the basis of the utility from friendships. When we make such decisions, we also take into account the other friends we already have or other friends our potential friends already have. For example, we are more likely to add someone as a friend on Facebook if we have friends in common. Such an effect of indirect friends creates strategic interactions among individuals, posing a big challenge to the econometric analyses of network data. Moreover, social and economic networks typically have hundreds or thousands of individuals. Since the number of network structures increases exponentially in the number of individuals, traditional econometric methods often become computationally intractable when networks are large.
In her ongoing research entitled “Estimation of Large Network Formation Games” joint with Geert Ridder (USC), Professor Shuyang Sheng develops new econometric methods to estimate network formation models with strategic interactions that overcome these challenges. Professor Sheng characterizes network formation as a simultaneous-move game with incomplete information which allows for utility externalities from indirect friends such as friends of friends and friends in common. Because the expected utility is nonlinear in the link decisions of an individual, each individual faces a complicated discrete choice problem with a large number of overlapping alternatives, which is difficult to solve. The insight of Professor Sheng’s work is to use the Legendre transform to express the expected utility as a linear function of the link decisions of an individual, so the optimal link decisions can be derived in closed form. Using this closed-form expression, Professor Sheng proposes a two-step procedure to estimate the parameters, which has good asymptotic properties and is easy to compute.
The methods proposed by Professor Sheng can be used to answer empirical questions in social networks such as how demographic and socioeconomic composition of students in a school affects their social networks, and whether friends in common play a significant role so the networks represent a feature of clustering. Besides social networks, the methods can also be used to investigate the formation of economic networks. For examples, citations are widely used to measure the economic value of a patent. Viewing patent citations as a network among inventors, one can use the methods to examine empirically why some patents receive many citations while other do not, whether inventors tend to cite patents whose inventors are not far from them, whether citation networks represent clustering and why, and so forth.
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Kasper, C. A. and Sorg, I. and Schmutz, C. and Tschon, T. and Wischnewski, H. and Kim, M. L. and Arrieumerlou, C.. (2010) Cell-Cell Propagation of NF-kappaB Transcription Factor and MAP Kinase Activation Amplifies Innate Immunity against Bacterial Infection. Immunity, Vol. 33, H. 5. pp. 804-816.
Dyachok, O. and Idevall-Hagren, O. and Sagetorp, J. and Tian, G. and Wuttke, A. and Arrieumerlou, C. and Akusjarvi, G. and Gylfe, E. and Tengholm, A.. (2008) Glucose-induced cyclic AMP oscillations regulate pulsatile insulin secretion. Cell Metabolism, Vol. 8, H. 1. pp. 26-37.
Thedieck, K. and Polak, P. and Kim, M. L. and Molle, K. D. and Cohen, A. and Jeno, P. and Arrieumerlou, C. and Hall, M. N.. (2007) PRAS40 and PRR5-like protein are new mTOR interactors that regulate apoptosis. PLoS ONE, Vol. 2, H. 11 , e1217.
Arrieumerlou, C. and Meyer, T.. (2005) A local coupling model and compass parameter for eukaryotic chemotaxis. Developmental cell, Vol. 8, H. 2. pp. 215-227.
Magnan, A. and Di Bartolo, V. and Mura, A. M. and Boyer, C. and Richelme, M. and Lin, Y. L. and Roure, A. and Gillet, A. and Arrieumerlou, C. and Acuto, O. and Malissen, B. and Malissen, M.. (2001) T cell development and T cell responses in mice with mutations affecting tyrosines 292 or 315 of the ZAP-70 protein tyrosine kinase. Journal of experimental medicine, Vol. 194, H. 4. pp. 491-505.
Arrieumerlou, C. and Randriamampita, C. and Bismuth, G. and Trautmann, A.. (2000) Rac is involved in early TCR signaling. Journal of immunology, Vol. 165, H. 6. pp. 3182-3189.
Genot, E. M. and Arrieumerlou, C. and Ku, G. and Burgering, B. M. and Weiss, A. and Kramer, I. M.. (2000) The T-cell receptor regulates Akt (protein kinase B) via a pathway involving Rac1 and phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase. Molecular and cellular biology, Vol. 20, H. 15. pp. 5469-5478.
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Deterre, P. and Gelman, L. and Gary-Gouy, H. and Arrieumerlou, C. and Berthelier, V. and Tixier, J. M. and Ktorza, S. and Goding, J. and Schmitt, C. and Bismuth, G.. (1996) Coordinated regulation in human T cells of nucleotide-hydrolyzing ecto-enzymatic activities, including CD38 and PC-1 : Possible role in the recycling of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide metabolites. Journal of immunology, Vol. 157, H. 4. pp. 1381-1388.
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RMS Rhone, British Virgin Islands
The archipelago of the BVIs is a very popular tourist area for the wealthy. Living in luxury villas on the islands and at sea, catamarans glide between the islands on turquoise water. Living the dream! But this dream can turn into a nightmare when a hurricane sweeps through the islands, as did on the night in 1867 when The Rhone sunk.
Hurricane Irma struck the Virgin Islands in September 2017 with gusts of wind at 200 kilometres/hour. Homes, hotels and marinas flew away and boats were submerged, broken and sunk. Irma was a terrible surprise for the residents of these islands who thought they were safe and had forgotten the hurricane that had hit this area 150 years ago and caused a serious maritime tragedy. In 1867, as a result of a ferocious hurricane, the RMS Rhone sunk
The Rhone was built in 1863 and put into service for The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP), delivering mail, passengers and cargo on scheduled routes between Southampton England, The Caribbean and Brazil. The Rhone travelled the Brazilian route and later to the Caribbean.
The Rhone was a sail-steamer. It was one of the first great sailing ships with a fast engine, a bronze propeller and two masts. It was a luxurious vessel with fine lines and a marvel of technology. Furthermore, it had weathered many storms and was reputed unsinkable, like the Titanic.
October 19, 1867, The Rhone was anchored in Great Harbour, Peter Island, a sheltered and relatively calm mooring. Captain Woolley was delivering his cargo of precious wood and unloading his passengers when he noticed that the pressure of his barometer was falling rapidly. Black clouds barred the horizon and there was no wind. The atmosphere had become oppressive.
The hurricane season was over but as a precaution Woolley decided to hasten his departure before the possible arrival of a hurricane. He believed it more prudent to leave his anchorage so as not to be surprised in the bay. He even embarked on board passengers from another boat which was not as sea-worthy as the Rhone.
To prevent the passengers from being injured or swept away by the waves at sea, Woolley ordered the cabins locked and the passengers tied to their beds. The Rhone was ready to sail but the anchor was stuck, wrapped around a coral head.
Time was ticking and the storm progressing so the Captain decided to cut the chain of the anchor. Confident in the power of his engine, he chose to take a short-cut through the narrow passage between Salt Island and Dead Chest Island, a risky manoeuvre. Unfortunately, the hurricane swells shifted and the boat was thrown directly onto the tip of Black Rock Point. On contact, the ship broke into two and the steam engine exploded and the Captain disappeared overboard. The panicked crew tried to launch boats in the raging sea and in their cabins the passengers screamed in terror.
The Rhone - British Virgin Islands BVI by Cathy Salisbury
The next morning, when the sea calmed, the inhabitants of Salt Island found dozens of passengers stranded on the rocks and 123 corpses strewn on the beach. The bodies of these 123 victims where later buried on Salt Island and today, we can still see the wooden crosses planted among the stones.
The mast of the Rhone was visible from the surface and the stern of the wreck sat shallow 30 feet of water. According to historical accounts, part of the cargo carried by the Rhone was gold coins. Divers were apparently hired to salvage the ship’s cargo.
In the 70s, the movie The Deep was shot on the Rhone with actress Jacqueline Bisset and a giant moray eel, hidden in the wreck, ready to devour the divers. This movie popularized the Rhone and turned this wreck into a famous dive site that has attracted hundreds of divers each year.
Treasure hunters were attracted to the Rhone, hoping to find gold coins that were not found in the initial salvage.
It seems that from time to time, divers are finding treasures on the wreck - dishes, cutlery, bottles and even some gold coins. After a new hurricane upsets a wreck, moving pieces of the hull or rocks, objects buried in the sand move to the surface and divers sometimes find beautiful surprises.
On our dives on the wreck, we found the best treasure of all - witnessing and photographing this fantastic historic shipwreck!
The wreck of the Rhone is located within a marine reserve and so it’s resident groupers, snappers, moray eels and lobsters are protected on this artificial reef.
In the 1950s, the wreck was judged a navigational hazard and the Royal Navy dynamited the stern section of the Rhone. Now the wreck’s bow and stern section are spread apart and takes two separate dives to see the complete wreck.
The bow, the most intact part of the wreck, is sitting in deeper water at 80 feet. The metal shell of the wreck is encrusted with colourful coral and sponges. Rigging dead-eyes, laden with coral, adorn the edges of the hull. The bowsprit of the ship proudly points forward. The hatch in the bow leads to a dark and mysterious corridor covered by orange cup coral. Caribbean spiny lobsters populate the wreck. The mast and the crows nest lie on the sand and provide a home for a large school of snappers.
The mid-section has metal beams still standing, like Greek columns in the Parthenon. A cannon lie at the base of the columns.
A second shallow dive on the stern of the Rhone is also worth while. In just 30 feet of water, the stern has a wonderful propeller with 3 huge bronze blades and a beautiful swim through.
And why not a third night dive on the wreck…. beautiful and mysterious!
The Galleon Fleet, Las Aves
Our Confidence, Bonaire
The Windjammer, Bonaire
The Nahoon, Martinique
The Jane Sea, Aruba
Spelonk Wrecks, Bonaire
The Tamaya, Martinique
Car Pile, Curaçao
The Bianca C, Grenada
M/V Captain Keith Tibbetts, Cayman Brac
© 2019 Cathy Salisbury, Dominique Serafini
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The Watermelon Woman
Film - Feature | November 2 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“Funky screwball comedy in the key of queer” is how critic B. Ruby Rich characterized The Watermelon Woman, the first feature of video artist/comedienne Cheryl Dunye. In it, Dunye plays a lesbian video-store clerk and would-be filmmaker who becomes obsessed with uncovering the history of a star of the early “race” films, the so-called Watermelon Woman. It develops that this “mammy” was a sister, as Cheryl’s research uncovers an affair with a white woman filmmaker à la Dorothy Arzner. The plot allows Dunye to incorporate a pastiche of footage—from fabulous black-and-white “plantation” melodramas to interviews with real-life notables (including Camille Paglia) who bite the bait—into her very intelligent unraveling of cultural icons. Meanwhile, Cheryl takes up her own interracial romance, with a white customer (Guinevere Turner). Dunye has been compared to Yvonne Rainer in her style of personable self-referential disjunction, and to Isaac Julien for her cultural irreverence and absolute relevance.
Event contact: CA, bampfapress@berkeley.edu, 5106420808
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D3D9: Why It's Not a Part of Dolphin's Future
Written by MayImilae on Oct. 12, 2013
As many people have noticed, revision 4.0-155 removed D3D9 as a video backend, leaving D3D11 and OpenGL as the sole hardware backends in Dolphin. For the longest time, D3D9 was considered Dolphin’s fastest backend and was a favorite of Windows users. But then, why would it be removed?
While it was enjoyed by users, it was a source of endless frustration for the developers. D3D9 is inherently flawed, and working around its problems wasted time and slowed development. With D3D9 removed, the developers can focus their effort on making the emulator better instead of pandering to the ever growing demands of a flawed backend. This is why the D3D9 backend was removed.
D3D9: Inherently Flawed¶
Dolphin's D3D9 backend was mostly known for its speed. On AMD and Integrated Graphics cards, it is by far the fastest backend. But Direct3D9 is very old; it was released in 2001 and received its last update in 2004. Its age means that many modern features are simply not available for it, features that Dolphin needs for GameCube and Wii emulation. And that's where its speed came from. The D3D9 backend was as fast as it was because it simply didn't emulate certain effects. All kinds of modern functions are simply not possible in D3D9.
Ten Years of Dolphin
Written by JMC47 on Sept. 29, 2013
Video by Justin Chadwick with editing by MayImilae and neobrain.
You can also download the video in high resolution and 60 FPS.
Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame
Written by delroth on Sept. 26, 2013
In light of the recent announcements by NVIDIA and AMD in support of Linux for their graphics drivers, we would like to share with the world some of the experience we had developing our open source project, Dolphin, a GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac and recently Android.
At the beginning of this year, after the successful release of Dolphin 3.5, Markus Wick (degasus) and Ryan Houdek (Sonicadvance1) started working on a rewrite of Dolphin's OpenGL backend in order to be compliant to the OpenGL ES 3.0 standard. While this rewrite was needed for other reasons (it provides the foundations for very cool optimizations), compatibility with mobile devices and the future Android port of the emulator (now in beta) was one of the key goals. This rewrite was merged into the main Dolphin codebase a few months back and started to be used by tens of thousands of Dolphin users, either on OS X and Linux where it is the only viable graphics backend, or on Windows where it is available alongside our D3D11 graphics backend.
Sadly, using recent, advanced OpenGL features also meant we got to discover how bad some graphics drivers actually are at doing their job. It turns out very few applications use some parts of the OpenGL standard we need to rely on to accurately emulate a GameCube GPU. More than that, on Android, OpenGL ES 3.0 support is extremely recent and only a couple applications on the Play Store use ES 3.0 features.
Here is basically our hall of shame of graphics drivers, sorted by the number of issues we found, how hard it is to report issues to the company and how many bugs were actually fixed.
Dolphin 4.0 Release Announcement
/ Last update on April 23, 2017 / Short link / Forum thread
Update: a few hours after release, a bug causing crashes with Windows x64 and Single Core mode was found by testers. Single Core mode is not used for regular gameplay but is usually required for TAS and NetPlay. While it only affects a few specific use cases of the emulator, we still consider this a critical issue and we will release a Dolphin 4.0.1 version fixing this bug. Sorry for the inconvenience.
On behalf of the Dolphin Emulator development team, I am pleased to announce the release of Dolphin 4.0, the newest major release of the most compatible and most performant GameCube and Wii emulator for PC. Dolphin 4.0 is a special release for all of us, since it also marks the 10 years anniversary of the project, first unveiled by Henrik Rydgård (ector) and F|RES in September 2003.
Dolphin 4.0 can be downloaded for Windows (x86 or x64), Mac OS X (>= 10.7) or Ubuntu 13.04 from our official website: dolphin-emu.org.
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Dolphin Progress Report: September 2015
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Oct. 1, 2015
/ Last update on Oct. 5, 2015 / Short link / Forum thread
After some minor delays, Dolphin's new issue tracker is up and running, with all of the old issues preserved and imported. It hasn't taken long for things to heat up on our new tracker despite trying to keep it on the down low while it was being tweaked. A mixture of delays with the issue tracker and new bugs in our stable branch cropping up has pushed back the Dolphin 5.0 release out of September. When will it be released? Well, it all depends on when all critical bugs and regressions are stomped out of the stable branch. In order to prevent a fiasco, it's better to report these regressions now rather than after release. No one wants another 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 situation on their hands.
As the release candidates drag on, we've noticed that many users are assuming that 5.0 release candidate builds are newer than development builds. Please remember, the 5.0 release candidates are based on 4.0-6727, and only have bug fixes applied beyond that. Almost all of the new features from July's progress report onward ARE NOT in the stable branch unless they are a regression fix. For new features, the development builds are still recommended. Speaking of the newest features...
Dolphin Progress Report: August 2015
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Sept. 1, 2015
/ Last update on April 3, 2018 / Short link / Forum thread
If you count the number of notable changes throughout August, you may think it was a down month. Aside from a flurry of Dolphin ARM updates, there really wasn't much to choose from. A lot of the major projects remaining on the emulator are multi-month affairs, so contributors seemingly disappear from the progress reports for months only to return with a bang. Then there's Sonicadvance1, who keeps trucking on with Dolphin ARM on an almost daily basis. Despite the miniscule number of big additions, the big ones this month more than made up for the lack of volume. It's actually kind of nice for the blog staff to not have to fight over which changes get in once in a while, too!
With that, let's dig into this month's notable changes!
The New Era of HLE Audio
Written by delroth, MayImilae, JMC47 on Aug. 19, 2015
/ Last update on Aug. 10, 2018 / Short link / Forum thread
In early 2013, Dolphin had began its first steps in a new focus on accurate emulation. The 3.5 release represented a shift in the emulator's focus, and as such, saw great improvements in terms of compatibility and accuracy over the previous release. But one area that stuck out like a sore thumb during this era was the quality of High Level Emulation (HLE) audio. Hundreds of games suffered from crashes associated to audio, and thousands had significant problems, with missing effects, incorrect volume, and random bursts of noise.
The problems of HLE were systemic, deeply rooted problems within its design, and would require a complete rewrite in order to solve. Rewriting HLE audio was always a priority, but the daunting task to reverse engineer, implement, and test kept most developers away. So instead they pursued Low Level Emulation (LLE) to great success. LLE audio worked so well, the developers were able to avoid the mess of HLE and more or less just tell users to dump a GameCube/Wii DSP-ROM and use that instead. The problem with that option is performance: LLE audio is incredibly demanding, especially when the DSP is being strained by many sound effects.
This situation finally changed right after Dolphin 3.5 when delroth merged New-AX-HLE-GC, a rewrite of the most common microcode (µcode) for GameCube games, AX-GC. Thousands of bugs disappeared over night and stability increased greatly. While previously there was argument among developers that HLE audio bugs could be ignored because of the option for LLE, as tens of thousands of users finally experienced accurate audio for the first time it became apparent just how important HLE audio truly was. Later in the year, the AX-HLE rewrite was expanded to Wii games in a second cleanup. The ability for users to use HLE audio for most games instead of LLE audio resulted in one of the greatest performance increases in Dolphin's history!
The Non-AX µcode Games¶
While over 99% of GameCube and Wii titles use the AX µcode, there are a small number of games that use a different µcode. The "Zelda µcode”, named after its exclusive use in Nintendo-created titles, represents only a tiny portion of the total games Dolphin can play; but those games are some of the most popular and interesting games on the GameCube and Wii.
The Zelda µcode games, in release order
This article is number 2 within the blog series HLE Audio. ‹ Previous article in series
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on June 1, 2015
/ Last update on Jan. 19, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread
After a slow April month, a chaotic May more than makes up for it. On top of working on an emulator, developers had their hands full with relicensing. It's always a good month when you can look back at the issues that were fixed and go "phew," hoping to never, ever encounter anything like that ever again.
A wide variety of issues, features and enhancements saw important updates this month that increase playability and make the emulator more robust. Please enjoy this month's progress report!
Dolphin Progress Report: April 2015
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on May 1, 2015
/ Last update on May 1, 2015 / Short link / Forum thread
On the one year anniversary of the Dolphin Progress Report, we have a fairly slow month in terms of emulation development. While there are certainly some big things on the horizon, unfortunately development managed to hit one of the gaps where there were mostly some fix-ups and optimizations this month with only a few changes that users will notice.
With that, let's take a look at this month's notable changes.
Dolphin Progress Report: March 2015
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on April 1, 2015
Console add-ons and linking emulation are almost always difficult tasks. Worse yet, availability, software support, cost, and even popularity can limit the ability to get these hardware add-ons documented and emulated. While their are numerous examples spanning tons of consoles and their respective emulators, this month, we're talking about GameCube to Game Boy Advance Connectivity.
Timings and synchronization are a given on real hardware; games know how it's going to work and many expect it to always work perfectly. When it doesn't? Certain games break. Now imagine a synchronization task more complex than dualcore and netplay. That would be GBA to GCN connectivity.
When skidau took up the task of renovating Dolphin's connectivity to Visual Boy Advance-M, he knew that it would require not only work on the Dolphin side of things, but also VBA-M. Getting two completely different emulators to sync up (up to 5 instances!) and play nice was the heart of the issue. Months of prototype builds (over 60 total!) between Dolphin and VBA-M were tested and the best possible combination was chosen for high compatibility and reasonable performance. The result is Dolphin (and VBA-M) finally getting a taste of what this feature was like on console.
That, and much more, is featured in this month's progress report!
Dolphin Progress Report: October 2014
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Oct. 31, 2014
A single merger can represent days, months, or even years of work. Most of the commits are relatively small, but once in a while you get absolutely huge changes like Tev_Fixes_New or the GLSL rewrite that span across years between initial concept and merged code. There's a special sense of accomplishment when one of the long awaited changes finally show up in the emulator. The number of commits and the amount of code changed; neither of those indicators often tell of the trials faced by the contributor over the course of their journey.
And don't think that just because the code is merged that things are finished. Part of the purpose of having progress report is to put a spotlight on some of the latest and greatest changes. The users are the last line of defense against potential bugs, problems, and unintended consequences that often come with new features.
All of the latest features mentioned this month can be found in the latest development builds available here.
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Sept. 30, 2014
Optimizations seem to beget even more optimizations. It was big news when last month we got a nifty 26% boost in CPU performance, but somehow, two dedicated devs managed to top it this month. Not to be upstaged by Fiora , comex has dropped new features and two absolutely gigantic performance commits. By making tricky use of registers and native RET behavior, two of his merges alone result in a massive 16% performance boost to games.
Not to be outdone, Fiora has continued her rash of optimizations as well. If we were to include every single one this progress report may never end. So instead, she crunched some numbers with all the optimizations over the last two months put together.
Dolphin POV-Ray Benchmark: 62% faster
Sonic Colors: 39% faster
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader: 103% faster
F-Zero GX: 110% faster
The Last Story: 38% faster
Xenoblade Chronicles: 40% faster
Let's just admire that list for a moment. The Last Story is considered the most demanding game on Dolphin, requiring massive overclocks on even the strongest of machines. A 38% speedup is the difference between it being playable and choppy for users with powerful computers.
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader has a lot of problems, but MMU performance will be the least of them from now on. Fiora's optimization of how the JIT handles MMU games brings us huge speedups to every MMU title!
Of course, speed isn't everything for an emulator: Performance is pointless if the emulator does the rest of its job in a lackluster matter. Have no fear, we have new features and some critical bug fixes to go along with Dolphin's newfound speed!
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Aug. 31, 2014
/ Last update on Feb. 2, 2015 / Short link / Forum thread
This month, the story can't be anything else but CPU optimizations and fixes, after Fiora decided that if the code is in the JIT, she will make it faster. Nothing is safe from her. Since the end of July, Dolphin's JIT CPU core has seen a 26% performance boost in the Dolphin Benchmark. That is not a typo.
On the accuracy front, we've got some nifty changes that fix bugs going back to the beginning of time for Dolphin. Some ancient audio bugs bite the dust, some floating-point accuracy are ported into the JIT from the SoftwareFP branch, and we found out that some games are doing things they really shouldn't be doing. If you see a change that affects a game you're playing, remember that all of these changes can be found in the latest development builds!
Dolphin Progress Report: July 2014
Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on July 31, 2014
/ Last update on Nov. 5, 2019 / Short link / Forum thread
In programming users usually don't see or care about what's going on on the inside all that much. All those boring code optimizations may make things easier for the developers and slowly improve the emulator, but hard-to-quantify changes are not exactly exciting. This month was full of those, with several hundred changes yet very little the general user would find interesting. Nevertheless, in the sea of code improvement, there are some real treasures: big performance improvements, some ancient bugs squashed, regression fixes, and some exciting new features to boot.
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Rhysling Award
The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. Unlike most literary awards, which are named for the creator of the award, the subject of the award, or a noted member of the field, the Rhyslings are named for a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story The Green Hills of Earth.[1] The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines.[1]
Best speculative poetry of the prior year
Science Fiction Poetry Association
The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. The nominated works are then compiled into an anthology called The Rhysling Anthology, and members of the Association then vote on the final winners. From 2005 to 2011, the Awards were presented in July at a ceremony at Readercon. While the "Best Short Poem" category allows very short poems to be entered the SFPA also has the Dwarf Stars Award which is for poems from one to ten lines.[2]
In 2005, the SFPA published an anthology of the winning poems, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase.[3][4]
Best Long Poem winnersEdit
1978: Gene Wolfe, The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps
1979: Michael Bishop, For the Lady of a Physicist
1980: Andrew Joron, The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes
1981: Thomas M. Disch, On Science Fiction
1982: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Well of Baln
1983: Adam Cornford, Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide
1984: Joe Haldeman, Saul's Death: Two Sestinas
1985: Siv Cedering, A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
1986: Andrew Joron, Shipwrecked on Destiny Five
1987: W. Gregory Stewart, Daedalus
1988: Lucius Shepard, White Trains
1989 (tie): Bruce Boston, In the Darkened Hours; John M. Ford, Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
1990: Patrick McKinnon, dear spacemen
1991: David Memmott, The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire
1992: W. Gregory Stewart, the button and what you know
1993: William J. Daciuk, To Be from Earth
1994: W. Gregory Stewart and Robert Frazier, Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale
1995: David Lunde, Pilot, Pilot
1996: Margaret B. Simon, Variants of the Obsolete
1997: Terry A. Garey, Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes
1998: Laurel Winter, why goldfish shouldn't use power tools
1999: Bruce Boston, Confessions of a Body Thief
2000: Geoffrey A. Landis, Christmas (after we all get time machines)
2001: Joe Haldeman, January Fires
2002: Lawrence Schimel, How to Make a Human
2003 (tie): Charles Saplak and Mike Allen, Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy; Sonya Taaffe, Matlacihuatl's Gift
2004: Theodora Goss, Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks
2005: Tim Pratt, Soul Searching
2006: Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel, The Tin Men
2007: Mike Allen, The Journey to Kailash
2008: Catherynne M. Valente, The Seven Devils of Central California
2009: Geoffrey A. Landis, Search
2010: Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, In the Astronaut Asylum
2011: C. S. E. Cooney, The Sea King's Second Bride
2012: Megan Arkenberg, The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages
2013: Andrew Robert Sutton, Into Flight[5]
2014: Mary Soon Lee, Interregnum
2015: F.J. Bergmann, 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien
2016: (tie) Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, It Begins With A Haunting; Ann K. Schwader, Keziah
2017: Theodora Goss, Rose Child
2018: Neil Gaiman, The Mushroom Hunters[6]
Best Short Poem winnersEdit
1978 (tie): Duane Ackerson, "The Starman"; Andrew Joron, "Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night"; Sonya Dorman, "Corruption of Metals"
1979 (tie): Duane Ackerson, "Fatalities"; Steve Eng, "Storybooks and Treasure Maps"
1980 (tie): Robert Frazier, "Encased in the Amber of Eternity"; Peter Payack, "The Migration of Darkness"
1981: Ken Duffin, "Meeting Place"
1982: Raymond DiZazzo, "On the Speed of Sight"
1983: Alan P. Lightman, "In Computers"
1984: Helen Ehrlich, "Two Sonnets"
1985: Bruce Boston, "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets"
1986: Susan Palwick, "The Neighbor's Wife"
1987 (tie): Jonathan V. Post, "Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope"; John Calvin Rezmerski, "A Dream of Heredity"
1988 (tie): Bruce Boston, "The Nightmare Collector"; Suzette Haden Elgin, "Rocky Road to Hoe"
1989: Robert Frazier, "Salinity"
1990: G. Sutton Breiding, "Epitaph for Dreams"
1991: Joe Haldeman, "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh"
1992: David Lunde, "Song of the Martian Cricket"
1993: Jane Yolen, "Will"
1994 (tie): Bruce Boston, "Spacer's Compass"; Jeff VanderMeer, "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over"
1995: Dan Raphael, "Skin of Glass"
1996: Bruce Boston, "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation"
1997: W. Gregory Stewart, "Day Omega"
1998: John Grey, "Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother"
1999: Laurel Winter, "egg horror poem"
2000: Rebecca Marjesdatter, "Grimoire"
2001: Bruce Boston, "My Wife Returns as She Would Have It"
2002: William John Watkins, "We Die as Angels"
2003: Ruth Berman, "Potherb Gardening"
2004: Roger Dutcher, "Just Distance"
2005: Greg Beatty, "No Ruined Lunar City"
2006: Mike Allen, "The Strip Search"
2007: Rich Ristow, "The Graven Idol's Godheart"
2008: F.J. Bergmann, "Eating Light"
2009: Amal El-Mohtar, "Song for an Ancient City"
2010: Ann K. Schwader, "To Theia"
2011: Amal El-Mohtar, "Peach-Creamed Honey"
2012: Shira Lipkin, "The Library, After"
2013: Terry A. Garey, "The Cat Star"[5]
2014: Amal El-Mohtar, "Turning the Leaves"[7]
2015: Marge Simon, "Shutdown"
2016: Ruth Berman, "Time Travel Vocabulary Problems"
2017: Marge Simon, "George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts"
2018: Mary Soon Lee, "Advice to a Six-year-old"[8]
^ a b David Langford, "Rhysling Award." Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition (online). Ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 2013. Accessed 19 February 2013
^ The Science Fiction Poetry Association: Dwarf Stars
^ Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen, ed. (2005). The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase. Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books. p. 170 pp. ISBN 0-8095-1162-2. This collection presents more than twenty-five years of the best poetry in the field of speculative literature.
^ Elizabeth Barrette, Review: The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, edited by Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen, Strange Horizons, 8 February 2006 (accessed 16 Sept. 2016)
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Home News One beheaded as rival cult groups clash in Cross River
One beheaded as rival cult groups clash in Cross River
One person has been allegedly killed in a renewed cult clash that ensued in Calabar, Cross River State.
The incident occurred on Friday when a suspected cult gang attacked the victim in his house at Wilki by Ephraim in Calabar South local government area of the State at the late hours.
The victim had his head chopped off by the rival group. The head of the victim was taken away and the neighbourhood was thrown into fear and panic while the lifeless body was abandoned by the road side.
It was gathered that the victim was trailed by a rival cult group and hacked him down at night to avenge the killings of some of their own that were equally killed in similar manner by another cult group.
However, in a brief phone interview with some newsmen on the incident, the commissioner of Police confirmed the cult incident saying, “We are trying to authenticate it”.
On the number of lives lost from the clash, Akpan said, “we are only hearing of one (life lost). The truth is that it’s like brothers in the same house fighting, they know themselves we will get something out.”
This occurred barely 24 hours after the Cross River Commissioner of Police, Mr. Nkereuwem Akpan, had lauded the state governor, Senator Ben Ayade over low crime rate in the state.
During a courtesy call on the governor, Senator Ben Ayade at the state executive chamber on Thursday, the newly posted commissioner of Police, Mr Nkereuwem Akpan commended Ayade for the prevailing low crime rate Cross River enjoys.
He said, “I’m posted here strictly on security duties- for the protection of lives and property. Thank God, Cross River is one of the less vulnerable states in terms of insecurity.
“Thank you, Your Excellency, the job has already been done because if you check the profile of states with criminality, Cross River is one of the least in the country.
“So, I appreciate you, Your Excellency. On behalf of my team, we pledge our readiness to work for you,” the CP Akpan stated.
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South African TV journalist mugged while preparing for live broadcast
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Mvoko was broadcasting for SABC at the time of the mugging
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On Wednesday, Vuyo Mvoko, a television journalist, was mugged moments before he was due to start a live broadcast in Johannesburg, South Africa. During the incident, two men approached Mvoko and demanded his mobile phone while he stood near the Milpark hospital. When Mvoko refused to hand over the phone he was reportedly threatened with a gun. Video footage caught the mugging and has been publicly released.
In the video, the perpetrators never appeared to look at the camera. The assailants escaped with mobile phones and laptops. Police have announced that officers are investigating the mugging. During a later interview, Mvoko spoke about the incident. He said, "It was like seconds to air and then the commotion started... I couldn't understand why they'd walk right in front of the camera because the light is on and they could see that - and our car is branded, so they could see that this is a live broadcast -- because I wasn't giving him the phone, he then called the other one who had a gun, and said: 'Dubula le nja.' [Shoot this dog]."
The South African National Editors' Forum released a statement relating to the mugging, saying "Every South African lives with the reality of crime, but to see thugs brazenly ignoring television cameras and robbing media workers in the course of their work, yet again brings home the level of criminality in our society." The broadcast was taking place to report the arrival of Edgar Lungu, the Zambian President who arrived in South Africa for medical tests after he collapsed last week.
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CXO Insights
Future Trends In Workplace Design
Deben Moza, Executive Director & Head - Project Management Services, Knight Frank
Headquartered in London, Knight Frank is a global real estate consultant offering Residential Property, Office, Capital Markets, Valuation & Advisory, Commercial Property, Consultancy and many other services to its clients.
As the world transcended from the second to the third millennium nearly two decades ago, the biggest task for tech community seemed to be tackling the snazzy ‘Y2K problem’. It was a time that had just seen the massive boom and then a spectacular burst of the dotcom bubble. Mobile phones were about to become a necessity in a couple of years, from being a conspicuous consumption item, the smartphones were still a few years away. The millennium was born with a massive promise, already evident in the fast rolling tech-juggernaut. Naturally, the millennials of today – who were mostly primary or middle school students then–were instinctively imbibing and internalizing the new codes of behavior of a world in which they would live as adults. Smart enough, the early stage workforce – those in their mid-20s or early 30s were adopting as well. A quick lifestyle shift was taking place, albeit the one that was not really punishing on anyone.
So, what exactly was being adopted at this time? Well, must remember that we often ‘decode’ a phenomenon only when it has announced itself in the most discerning manner. The seeds, however, are almost always sown long ago. The beginning of the millennium had sowed some seeds which have led to what is now referred to as the fourth industrial revolution. This phenomenon has a profound implication on how our work and workspaces would be in coming times. We need to grasp this firmly before we decoded our future workspaces: their utilities, their structures and design implications.
Today’s office spaces are massively impacted by changing patterns of working. Large office space volume dedicated to each headcount is increasingly becoming passé. With the advent of Datamining, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Automation, IoT, and others, the workspace (real estate) has changed from being a necessary evil,i.e. a‘cost to be managed downwards,’to a‘service proposition’. Increasing use of tech application in almost all aspects of work means that a large proportion of office real estate will no longer remain the supplier dictated commodity that it had been. A supremely flexible, ready-to-use
space – augmented by best-in-class amenities will require a paradigm shift on the part of supply creators in coming times. A lot of it is currently understood within the broad definition of 'coworking spaces'. However, it is important to remember that we are passing through that phase of time where hybridization or convergence between the traditional and the coworking is taking place.
" The fourth industrial revolution which began unveiling its power less than a decade ago, after drawing upon the turn of events at beginning of this millennium, has truly arrived now "
A large-scale global survey by Knight Frank indicates that, nearly 69 percent of global corporates plan to increase the utilization of such flexible workspaces over the next three years. Moreover, 44 percent of corporates indicate that such flexible workspaces will comprise almost a fifth of all corporate workspaces. Furthermore, about 80 percent expect to grow the amount of collaborative spaces they use over the next three years. It is evident that this is not an incremental progression by any past definition. Rather, this needs to beviewed as something that has grown at the other end of the spectrum – a completely novel set of norms for workspace and corresponding real estate utilization.
The biggest driver though is not tech enablement. Rather, it is a sharp focus on employee well-being and happiness. Technology has laid the foundation for some thing that is key to manpower productivity, increased retention and greater convenience at work. It can therefore be argued that this change is not yet another fad in the evolution of workspaces, instead it is a structural metamorphosis of the form itself.
This evidence or indication of demand-side patterns raises the question now, on the acceptability of the henomenon by the supply-side,i.e., the preparedness of developers and designers to deal with it. Through yet another dipstick in the Indian developer market, it has been estimated that approximately 90 percent of them acknowledge the need for designing and operating office spaces of future according to these changing needs. Moreover, 95 percent of the developers indicated that these changes in office design and operations will get implemented within the next 4-5 years.
The five key aspects to be noted from futuristic office spaces’ design perspective are:
• There is an impending rise in occupational densities leading to higher productivity push.
• New business models are emerging, driven by technology waves.
• Corporate structures are changing fast with focus on core competencies – resulting in broadening of supply chains, as well as accommodation of multi-generational workforces.
• Space is being treated as a 'service' instead of being a fixed and financially onerous physical product.
• Rise in mobility and M&A activity, with focus on movement of offices closer to the talent pool base.
Overall, the world is witnessing a crucial phase marked by a structural shift in the way office spaces are organized, designed and operated. As we move deeper into this interesting phase, the evidence will be more powerful and inputs for space creators and designers will be more concrete. It is pertinent, at this stage, to go beneath the surface and decode the underlying meanings of this phenomenon.
The fourth industrial revolution which began unveiling its power less than a decade ago, after drawing upon the turn of events at beginning of this millennium, has truly arrived now. We will not merely be conducting our lives in a markedly different manner, but the way we work and the places we work in, will be set for an intriguing and interesting reboot. Workforce across the world is apparently going to be the long awaited winner in this new world-order.
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Home » Epilation » Philips Satin Soft Hp6520 Review
Philips Satin Soft Hp6520 Review
Written by Denisa-Alexandra CincaUpdated May 17, 2018
The Philips hp6520 is a bit of an intriguing epilator. It could have been great but it’s still not entirely bad.
Maybe, in the same price range, the Remington EP7030E would be a better choice.
The Philips Satin Soft Hp6520 is one of those affordable epilators that manages to blend in a lot of features:
the power and the number of tweezers of a cheaper model,
and the impressive accessories that make you think that this epilator should be more expensive, like the sensitive area cap, the massage attachment, the fact that it’s cordless, and the exfoliation brush for fighting ingrown hairs.
And then come the little things that remind you that this is an affordable model after all:
Number of Tweezers
Philips Hp6520 Cordless but not Wet & Dry
Pain Level
It’s not wet&dry but even so it cannot be used while charging and it lacks a built-in light.
The efficiency cap is replaced by the massage attachment.
As a balance:
Philips HP6520 is the model that best represents the Philips Satin Soft epilator series.
Philips Satin Soft Series
If you want to compare it to another epilator, found nearly in the same price range, I recommend you my review for the Braun Silk Epil 5280.
The Braun has a lot going on, like 40 tweezers, an efficiency cap, a shaver and a trimmer head, plus a pivoting head and massage rolls. It’s corded but it has a lot in common with its amazing big brother Braun 7681.
The 21 tweezers are satisfactory enough for a medium-priced epilator.
Philips Satin Soft Series Tweezers
It’s also true that for approximately the same price, you can get the Emjoi AP-18, which is the fastest epilator at the moment with its 72 tweezers. It’s kind of a fantastic epilator.
Philips HP6401 from the Satinelle series has 21 tweezers but it’s cheaper because it doesn’t have so many accessories – it only comes with an efficiency cap, which is really good for reducing the pain a little.
The tweezers found on the Hp6520 are hypo-allergic tweezers with silver-ion advanced technology.
You can use Philips Hp6520 to remove hairs from your legs, underarms, arms, and bikini line thanks to its sensitive area cap but it can’t be used for facial hair removal.
Speaking of caps, the massage attachment may help a little with pain reduction so first timers should put it on before hair removal.
There’s also an exfoliation brush. That’s very helpful. Use it before each epilation session and then at least 2-3 times a week.
Other accessories include: cleaning brush and storage pouch. The head is washable for an optimal hygiene.
A major con is the lack of a built-in light. It’s common for more affordable epilators.
It has 2 speeds but it’s not the most powerful epilator. It’s not the fastest either. In the beginning, it’s going to take a while until you get all the hairs removed from the root.
I wouldn’t recommend it for men who have a lot of coarse hairs because it’s not powerful enough.
Even so:
Epilation will go down smoothly and even tinier hairs will be gripped by these tweezers and pulled out.
That’s a very good reason for considering this Philips Satin Soft epilator model.
Another advantage for many people is the fact that it’s cordless. It gets charged in an 1 hour and the battery lasts up to 30 minutes.
I’m not a fan of cordless epilators but that’s just me. Besides me, I’ve noticed that many women prefer cordless epilators and I completely understand their argument.
A cordless epilator offers freedom of movement and the comfort to epilate anywhere in the house.
You cannot use it while charging, like you can with Philips HP6576.
After 7 years of using epilators, 40 minutes are enough for having hair removed from both my legs and my underarms. But if you add the bikini area and the arms, I’m afraid that 40 minutes are simply not enough.
Epilation is not as fast as shaving but you only have to do it once every 2 weeks and even once every 4 weeks in the winter, when 90% of our body is covered in fluffy warm clothes.
Even though it’s cordless, this is not a wet & dry epilator so don’t use it under the shower.
If you haven’t epilated before, a single charge will not be enough, you will probably need 2 hours to get your whole body hair-free.
The fact that this Philips Satin Soft epilator doesn’t cause a great deal of pain, it’s a more gentle epilator, makes it perfect for first timers as well as for women who are long-time users.
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U.S. Silica, Gov. Kemp Cut Ribbon on New Facility in Millen, Ga.
State-of-the-art plant to create products sold around the world MILLEN, Ga. – U.S. Silica was joined today by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Millen Mayor King Rocker for the grand opening and ribbon-cutting of a state-of-the art facility that will produce high-end industrial products to be sold across the United States and internationally.
U.S. Silica Receives US Patent on Solar Reflectance Technology for Energy-Saving White Armor®Cool Roof Granules
Katy, TX, May 6, 2019 – U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 10253493, entitled “Particulates having high total solar reflectance." The patent covers solar reflective particulate composition used for U.S. Silica's White Armor® Cool Roof Granules.
EP Minerals, LLC Announces Price Increases for Diatomaceous Earth Powder, Perlite, Bleaching Clay, Adsorbent and Cellulose Products
Reno, NV, April 17, 2019-- EP Minerals, LLC, a U.S. Silica company and global leader in industrial minerals and engineered materials, announced today that it will implement a 3-6% price increase on June 1, 2019, across all grades of diatomaceous earth powder, perlite, bleaching clay, adsorbent and cellulose products, or will do so as existing contracts allow.
EP Minerals, LLC announces demurrage policy on privately held rail car extended stays at customer locations
EP Minerals, LLC announces demurrage policy on privately held rail car extended stays at customer locationsBulk hopper car daily charges in effect after 30 day dwell time at customer site Reno, NV, March 1, 2019—(Reno, NV) EP Minerals, LLC, a U.S. Silica company, and a global leader in industrial minerals and engineered materials, announced today that the company is implementing a demurrage charge on EP Minerals' privately held railcars that remain at a customer location for over 30 days.
EP Minerals, LLC announces price increases for diatomaceous earth, perlite, clay, and cellulose products
New rates in effect as of December 1, 2018 Reno, NV, December 13—(Reno, NV) EP Minerals, LLC, a global leader in industrial minerals and engineered materials, announced today that it implemented a 3-8% price increase on December 1, 2018, across all grades of diatomaceous earth, perlite, clay and cellulose products, or will do so as existing contracts allow.
U.S. Silica Completes Acquisition of EP Minerals
Frederick, Md., May 1, 2018 – U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA) announced today that it has completed the $750 million acquisition of EP Minerals, a global producer of engineered materials derived from industrial minerals including diatomaceous earth (DE), clay (calcium bentonite) and perlite.
EP Minerals to be Acquired by U.S. Silica
Reno, NV – March 23, 2018 – EP Minerals, LLC, a global leader in industrial minerals and engineered materials and a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA), a leading producer of commercial silica used in the oil and gas industry. The transaction represents an enterprise value of $750 million for EP Minerals. EP Minerals' management team, led by President and CEO Gregg Jones, will continue to lead EP Minerals after the closing of the transaction.
EP Minerals, LLC announces price increases for all diatomaceous earth, perlite, clay, and cellulose products
Reno, NV, November 1, 2017-- EP Minerals, LLC, a global leader in industrial minerals and engineered materials, announced today that it is implementing a 3-10% price increase across all grades of diatomaceous earth, perlite, clay and cellulose products effective November 1, 2017, or as existing contracts allow.
EP Engineered Clays, an affiliate of EP Minerals, acquires bleaching clay and activated clay catalyst assets from BASF
RENO, NV, July 17, 2017 – EP Engineered Clays Corporation, an affiliate of EP Minerals, LLC, a worldwide leader in engineered products derived from industrial minerals, announced today that it has acquired bleaching clay and mineral adsorbents assets from BASF Corporation. The transaction includes a Jackson, MS production site, a clay mine in Aberdeen, MS, and the mineral rights associated with a mine located in the Navajo Nation near Sanders, Arizona. Approximately 70 employees will be joining the newly-established EP Engineered Clays Corporation.
BASF to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Minerals
BASF to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP MineralsTransaction includes production site and clay mining property in Mississippi, and mineral rights sublease associated with a mine in Arizona ISELIN, NJ, and RENO, NV, April 6, 2017 – BASF announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Minerals, a worldwide leader in industrial minerals. Financial details of the divestiture are not being disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2017, subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
EP Minerals Launches CelaPool Low Dust Diatomaceous Earth Swim Pool Filter Aid
EP Minerals Launches CelaPool™ Low Dust Diatomaceous Earth Swim Pool Filter Aid New patent-pending CelaPool swim pool filter aid is less messy, easy to handle and comes in thermally sealed bag Reno, NV, March 7, 2016-- EP Minerals, LLC, a global leader in industrial minerals, today announced the launch of CelaPoolTM, a revolutionary new low dust diatomaceous earth (DE) filter aid for swimming pools. CelaPool is an exclusive patent-pending product that contains EP Minerals' Celatom DE, the number one choice of swim pool professionals. CelaPool is a unique low dust formulation, making for easy handling and less mess.
EP Minerals, LLC announces price increases for diatomite, perlite, clay and cellulose
EP Minerals, LLC announces price increases for diatomite, perlite, clay and cellulose. New rates in effect as of November 1, 2016.
EP Minerals Named Finalist for EDAWN’s Leader in Sustainability Award
EP Minerals has been named a finalist for the Leader in Sustainability Award by the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN) in EDAWN's annual Existing Industry Awards. EDAWN holds the annual awards to honor companies that have brought jobs to Northern Nevada and also have demonstrated excellence in other key areas.
EP Minerals Celebrates National Diatomaceous (DE) Day on August 31
Million-year-old fossil skeletons make up the world's most “useful" mineral Reno, NV - EP Minerals, LLC, a global leader in industrial minerals, is celebrating National Diatomaceous (DE) Dayon August 31. EP Minerals, headquartered in Reno, NV, operates the world's largest producing diatomaceous earth mine in Lovelock, and also has DE plants and mines in Clark and Fernley, NV and in Vale, OR. Most people know of diatomaceous earth because they use it to filter their swimming pools or for its natural insecticide properties to control insects in their homes or gardens. Biologists know about diatoms, the single-celled plants that form diatomaceous earth, because they are truly the lungs of the earth, in that they produce about ¾ of the world's new oxygen supply. Materials scientists know about diatom skeletons (called frustules), the tiny, intricate porous opal structures because they are known to be the strongest naturally-occurring substances.On August 31, we celebrate National Diatomaceous (DE) Day to recognize the diatom and the remarkable substance it creates, diatomaceous earth.
EP Minerals LLC Announces Major Advances in Diatomite Materials Science and Products
EP Minerals announced today that it has developed a new test method and a full range of new diatomite filtration products. The company has filed several patent applications related to these inventions.
EP Minerals Opens new European Warehouse In Gross Rohrheim, Germany to Better Serve Customers
Last week, EP Minerals opened a new warehouse in Gross Rohrheim, Germany to better serve our customers.
It's a White Out! EP Minerals' Celatom Brights for Paint & Coatings
Get out your sunglasses. It's the brightest white diatomaceous earth (DE) and perlite available and perfect for the paint & coatings industry. It's Celatom Brights™, EP Minerals new line of functional additives, engineered just for paint and coatings.
EP Minerals Launches Three New Varieties of DEsect Diatomaceous Earth Insecticide: DEsect Pet, DEsect LP (Livestock & Poultry) and DEsect HG (Home & Garden)
EPA registered diatomaceous earth (DE) product kills insects by drying out their exoskeletons.
EP: Microns of minerals making a difference in Lyon County
They make your Coors beer sparkling. They act as an absorption agent, quickly and safely soaking up oil or grease spills on streets or land after accidents. They improve filter efficiency and keep your swimming pool or spa looking pristine. They might even make your aspiring baseball-playing kids faster and the game action more exciting by ridding those fields of excess moisture.Thank nature for the existence of diatoms for all the above, and EP Minerals, Nevada's largest exporter of the mineral formed by it that goes into making all this and more happen.
EP Minerals Launches Dynamic New Website
Easy-to-navigate expanded content combined with unique product finder provides customers with diatomaceous earth, perlite, and clay solutions
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Black and Hispanic women are less likely than white women to be screened for breast cancer, a large review finds, according to a report on Healthday.com
Screening rates for Asian/Pacific Islander and white women were similar, the research showed.
Lower screening rates are a critical issue for black women because even though we are slightly less likely to get the disease, we are more likely—42 percent more likely—than other women to lose our lives to the disease.
The analysis of 39 studies including 6 million women was published Dec. 16 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
“Not only do black and Hispanic women get screened less than white women, but disparities also persist in two age groups: women who are 40 to 65 years old, and 65 and older,” study author Dr. Ahmed Ahmed said in a journal news release.
“These findings are important; it’s evident that more work needs to be done to ensure that all eligible women have access to this preventive screening tool,” added Ahmed. He’s a postdoctoral fellow researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
A great deal of effort has gone into finding racially and culturally specific ways to reduce breast cancer screening disparities, with varying degrees of success, according to the researchers. They said more studies are needed to understand the causes of the disparities, trends over time, and the effectiveness of efforts to reduce disparities.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women in the United States. Each year, nearly one quarter of a million women are diagnosed and there are more than 40,000 breast cancer deaths, the American Cancer Society says.
Early detection of breast cancer significantly improves the chances of survival, the researchers said.
To learn more about black women and breast cancer, visit the Black Women’s Health Imperative and make sure you make an appointment for your 2017 mammogram.
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Home Analysis Match Analysis Tactical Analysis: Why Atlanta’s slump continued at Columbus
Tactical Analysis: Why Atlanta’s slump continued at Columbus
Cameron Meighan
Last seasons MLS cup winners Atlanta went bottom of MLS after a 2-0 defeat to Columbus in a game which, despite its terrible conditions, showed several of Atlanta’s weaknesses which will concern Frank de Boer. In this tactical analysis, I’ll look at these weaknesses and how Columbus were able to exploit them.
Columbus lined up in a 4-4-2, while Atlanta played in a 4-2-3-1, which other teams would usually change into an almost 4-5-1 shape when out of possession. Atlanta, however, didn’t really seem to adapt their shape when out of possession, with three players often remaining up front and not helping defensively, allowing them to be easily overloaded as we can see below. Atlanta’s shape still resembles a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-3-3, with Martinez up front out of the picture.
On paper with a matchup of a 4-2-3-1 formation against a 4-4-2, it’s clear to see the players with the most space are likely to be the wingers of Columbus, as they are only matched up with Atlanta’s full-backs. This means if Atlanta don’t adjust out of possession, a 1v1 at least can be created, and so when Columbus’ full-backs pushed on, it was very easy for overloads to be created. If Atlanta adjusted out of possession so their wide players tracked back, this numerical superiority would have been cancelled out.
Transparent Atlanta units
Atlanta’s units out of possession looked disorganised and couldn’t prevent Columbus from building attacks and playing through them. This was not helped by their uncoordinated press, which we can see below. The press starts well, with a midfielder stepping in to press while Martinez is in a good position to push over and press the next man.
But if this midfielder is going to step out of their unit and press with the attackers, they have to be covered by their fellow midfielders until they can return to the block. In the picture below, it would be easy to blame the midfielder who has pressed, as they could make an intensive run to try and cut Higuain’s passing lane to the run he is making. But as we can see, he is already cutting the lane to the position of Higuain currently. Therefore, I feel the Atlanta midfielder Nagbe should recognise this and naturally match Higuain’s run by shifting over.
This is a much more efficient and sustainable way of dealing with these attacks than forcing the pressing midfielder to have to sprint back to try and cut the passing lane when instead, if Nagbe drifts over, the pressing midfielder can move into Nagbe’s space and both options should be covered.
Because of their inability to deal with these kinds of situations, Atlanta sometimes opted to not press with a midfielder, leading to situations like this where Columbus can simply drop in and collect the ball.
Basic defensive errors cost Atlanta
Atlanta’s basic defensive decision making was just not good enough, and despite having some chances, Atlanta had no chance in the game with such poor defending. For the first goal below, we can see the full-back’s body shape (highlighted) is poor. He should instead be facing the runner, ready to shuffle across and match his run. The central defender’s body shape is much better, but he does not make a run forward into the space and instead just continues to jockey and not close the space between himself and the attacker, meaning the attacker can deliver a cross.
Another example of their poor defending can be seen below, where Zardes takes advantage of the Atlanta centre-backs with some clever movement. Atlanta’s nearest centre-back’s body shape is poor again, as he cannot see Zardes. If he turns slightly, he would be able to see Zardes stop to receive the ball in space and make a block, but because the defender is anticipating a cross close to the goalkeeper across the box, he continues to move towards his goal and creates more space for the goalscorer Zardes.
Columbus showed a sharpness and pace to their play and blew away a poor Atlanta side. If Atlanta want to rise up the MLS table they will have to fix their defensive issues first. They had chances in the game and could possibly have scored on another day. They weren’t helped when conditions became unplayable after 45 minutes, but ultimately if they continue to defend as they did against Columbus, they will struggle to win many games this season.
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HomeNewsRohan Shah to Play Hina Khan’s Obsessive Lover in Vikram Bhatt Directorial
Rohan Shah to Play Hina Khan’s Obsessive Lover in Vikram Bhatt Directorial
August 8, 2019 Anuj Radia News 0
Reportedly, Vikram Bhatt’s directorial ‘Hacked’ will feature Rohan Shah as Hina Khan’s obsessive lover in the film.
The actor, who was seen in serials like Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar, recently spoke about his character with an online portal.
He says: “I’m really excited to play this character. I have never played such a role or seen such an intense character on the screen for a long time.
My character is primarily the reason behind all the twists in the film, so it’s like a dream come true for an actor.”
Apparently, Hina Khan will be seen playing a magazine editor in the film.
The report quotes a source as saying:
“Vikram was convinced that Rohan is the guy he wants when he met him for the first time.
The story is primarily about Shah’s love for an older girl and how it transforms into an obsession and social media has a major part to play in this fixation.”
Interestingly, Rohan was earlier seen in Hrithik Roshan starrer Krrish 3, in which he played the younger version of Vivek Oberoi’s character.
In the Vikram Bhatt directorial, Rohan will be seen playing an 18-year-old boy who falls for Hina’s character.
Hina Khan earlier left Kasautii Zindagii Kay and took a sabbatical from television in order to complete this movie.
The film is set to roll from August 2020.
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Student pays tribute to late Sandra Parks at Marcus Center MLK Jr. celebration
Posted 9:55 pm, January 20, 2019, by Katie DeLong, Updated at 10:38PM, January 20, 2019
MILWAUKEE -- There was an emotional moment Sunday, Jan. 20 at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Marcus Center in Milwaukee.
A high school senior paid tribute to the late Sandra Parks, who participated in a citywide MLK essay contest two years ago. The 13-year-old girl was shot and killed on Nov. 19, when a bullet was fired into her home near 13th and Hopkins.
Ariana Cawthorn
"It was leaders like them that inspired leaders such as myself and the late Sandra Parks to be the change needed. Sandra knew that it started with ourselves -- to reach out to society and to be, as she said, our brothers' keepers," said Ariana Cawthorn, senior at Eastbrook Academy.
Sandra Parks
In her essay two years ago, Parks wrote: "Little children are victims of senseless gun violence and we must not allow the lies of violence, racism and prejudice to be our truth."
Cawthorn said she was inspired to promote change after reading Parks' essay.
"We're going through this dark area, and we just really feel like we need hope and a sense of light," said Cawthorn.
Every year, young people in Milwaukee who are inspired to make a difference through the work of MLK Jr. are honored at this ceremony.
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Mysterious ashes found in moving van returned to family after weeks of searching
Posted 5:37 am, September 5, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - There are many things left behind in moving vans, but U-Haul employees in Kansas City were shocked to find cremated remains.
Kathleen Blum died in 2014, but no one imagined that after she passed away she would go on an adventure that took her across the state, if not farther.
Nicole Shaw, the general manager of U-Haul's 31st and Main location, said she finds lots of things left in moving vans.
"From trash, to personal notes, diaries, I've found diaries before," Shaw told WDAF.
But Shaw never imagined her employees would find Kathleen Blum about two weeks ago.
"The employees called me and they were kind of freaking out internally," Shaw said. "They said, 'Nichole, there's ashes in this truck. They don't belong to them,'" Shaw said. "'We don't know who they go to,' and I said, 'Well, don't get rid of them.'"
Blum was wedged behind a small space in the back of the cab between the seat and the wall. Shaw said she has no clue how long Blum was behind the seat.
All the people she called didn't have a connection to Kathleen and said the van at least went to St. Louis with her in it -- if not between states.
"To me that was still a person, and that was still a soul and there's still people connected to that soul. I just wanted her to not be alone," Shaw said.
She got in touch with WDAF, and the station was able to track her cremains to Elite Funeral Chapel in Kansas City, Missouri, where they not only remembered Kathleen, but her husband as well.
"He loved her," office manager Emma Lawrence said. "You could just tell, because he said when I took the cremains he said - 'I'm going to put them right here on the dresser."'
The funeral home had four numbers for Blum. One was her husband who already passed, one was her son which was disconnected, along with another family member.
However, the fourth number did. Kathleen's husband's cousin, Virgil Blum, answered the phone. He lives in Oak Grove and was preparing for an overseas trip, and couldn't come and get Kathleen's cremains in time - so WDAF brought her home.
"Kathleen was my cousin's wife, and we were very close together my cousin. We grew up together," Virgil said.
Virgil said Kathleen died in 2014 of lung cancer. He said she was a quiet woman he'd known most all of their lives and got along with everyone. Her husband, Everett, died a year later. Virgil said his heart was broken when Kathleen died.
"She had cancer, and the last few years he stayed at home with her, and nursed her, and took care of her, the same as I did with my wife," Virgil said.
Virgil said he has an idea of how Kathleen may have been lost, but is simply thankful she was found.
"I appreciate it very much," Virgil said. "I thank her very much also for the work that she did to get these returned."
However, Kathleen and Everett remain apart.
"Everett is in one of these boxes also," Virgil said. "His remains was with her on the dresser of the bedroom dresser."
Virgil thinks Kathleen's ashes may have been lost by the couple's son during a move. He's not sure if he will be able to get a hold of him to reunite their ashes, but said if not - Kathleen will stay with him for the rest of his life.
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At long last, the rumored Lady Death #26, the final issue of the previous series,
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How Deep have the International Communists Infiltrated Into the United States?
Posted on October 7, 2013 by Rachel Cohen
Following the fraudulent 2012 Presidential Election, the international communist insurgents stepped forward and started asserting their absolutism. Expanded background checks on a federal level could not be stopped. Obamacare is a fate accompli. And comprehensive immigration reform, the Dream Act, will be passed before the end of summer.
Though the American nationals have stood up and declared their opposition to the communization of the United States and have indeed caused huge problems at a federal level, the individual states wherein the international communists have infiltrated and captured the body politic continue as if the communist dictatorship were already in place and in full force.
In an act of open sedition against American nationals and our great Republic, California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed into treason a bill that will allow foreign nationals in the United States in felonious violation of our law to get driver licenses, which in themselves represent communism as they are a permission from the state to travel.
Two days later, the international communist Jerry Brown signed another bill of treason which allows foreign nationals, whose entry into our country was a felony, to practice law. There are more bills coming to the traitor Brown that will allow further violations of our law, even to the point of allowing illegal invaders to serve on juries and put them in a position to judge we American nationals.
This scenario can only be identified as an invasion by a foreign army, intent upon the conquest of the United States and the subjugation of our people.
When a state passes a law declaring it will not enforce a violation of the people’s Bill of Rights, the supreme law of this land, that state is attacked and called lawless. But when another state passes legislation which is prima fascia in violation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, it enjoys the full protection and affirmation of our so called representatives.
This is a foreign socialist invasion into our country, from the top to the bottom and the communists are becoming more arrogant with each passing day. If you won’t pass gun control on a federal level because it is unconstitutional, the communists will simply pass it in the states they have infiltrated and attempt to muscle it in on a federal level under the guise of a UN backed protocol and uniformity of law. We don’t need no stinking Congress to pass federal laws, let alone the will of the people.
We the American nationals dare to refuse Obamacare, which is in reality socialized healthcare for tens of millions of foreign invaders to be financed by what is left of our middle class.
We see the reality of the intent of Agenda 21 brought front and center as the foreign insurgents attempt to assert their capture and control of our national lands through unconstitutional contracts that violate our Bill of Rights.
We say no to a North American Union and the communists just march forward in the individual states they occupy in implementing the treason in direct defiance of our will.
As our people go hungry, living in tent cities, we see no expense being spared in accommodating the hordes pouring over our southern border who are coming here with the absolute intent to dispossess us.
If we do not stand now and remove the insurgency, with each passing day our enemy will become stronger, as our resources are taken from us at gunpoint and used to arm, equip, and train the communist infiltrators.
We must decide now what our children’s future will be, one of misery and deprivation such as we cannot imagine or freedom and liberty under self governance. The generations before us for the past hundred years have left us in the position of being the sacrifice, and damn them for their cowardice and their self serving vanity. But the situation is what it is. All American nationals must come to the defense of the Republic in absolute defiance, no matter the consequence, quite simply, because the alternative is unacceptable to a free people.
5 Responses to How Deep have the International Communists Infiltrated Into the United States?
REDHORSE says:
Brown rot continues at an even faster pace.
“Two days later, the international communist Jerry Brown signed another bill of treason which allows foreign nationals, whose entry into our country was a felony, to practice law.”
That son of a bitch passed a law allowing illegals to practice law in our country???!!!!! Oh man, that bastard is gonna hang, BIGTIME!! That is beyond treason on all levels. That’s passing a bill that ensures the digging his own grave.
Greg Bacon says:
“International Communists?”
With names like Shlomo, Ariel and Bynjamin.
Last week, it was ‘Nazis from Outerspace.’
If you know whose in charge of the FED, the Treasury Department, the Congress and all those ‘Too Big to Fail’ Wall Street Banks, you’ll know whose really behind our grief.
Henry Shivley says:
Yeah, they are communists, f#@king Bolsheviks to be exact.
The gulags under the Soviet Union, each and every one had a rabbi as commandant. You are insinuating ignorance, evidently, when you do not know what you are talking about.
Barack Obama is a Fabian Socialist and these neo-cons are a pack of national socialists. Communism is soviet socialism. That is where it came from, the word ‘soviet’ meaning committee it Russian.
If this isn’t committee socialism, what the f#@k do you think it is?
And oh yeah, we do realize that it is the Zionists heading the soviets/committees that are subverting our Bill of Rights. But they are by God international communists by definition.
” But when another state passes legislation which is prima fascia in violation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, it enjoys the full protection and affirmation of our so called representatives.”
And this sorry @ss state leads the pack in that category.
Tick, tock……….
Time’s running out………
Good article, Henry. 🙂
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Digital payment will continue growing since the integrated digital payments are more and more available to use. It should be part of daily life of the consumer within their daily apps.
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You could be forgiven for underestimating New Zealand’s FinTech ecosystem. Like most things in New Zealand that don’t include an oval shaped ball, FinTech is largely rendered insignificant to the masses. As Peter Fletcher-Dobson, Digital Advisor to Kiwibank, and the powerhouse behind the inaugural Kiwibank FinTech Accelerator puts it; “Ironically, New Zealand has one of the world’s best known FinTech brands, Xero. And some incredibly compelling stats, yet in terms of an ecosystem for FinTech we’re about five years behind the UK and US, and probably 2 years behind Australia.”
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Ziv: The Bank of Israel was part of a comprehensive reform in the retail banking system over the last year, together with the Ministry of Finance and the Knesset (Israel’s parliament), which entailed a very challenging legislation campaign, with growing voices calling for major reforms in the financial & banking sector.
An Interview with Peter Deans, Chief Risk Officer, Bank of Queensland
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Gate to Nowhere
Public Art Installation
“Provocative Beauty”
“Unintended Urbanism”
“1960s Activism”
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The “Gate to Nowhere” celebrates Seattle’s unfinished freeways by reflecting their provocative beauty, unintended urbanism and legacy of 1960s citizen activism. This temporary art installation is on display during the last days of Seattle’s ‘Ramp to Nowhere’ in Montlake (demolition set for late-2014 or 2015).
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Maren Gilliland says: August 21, 2014 at 12:40 pm
Where did you purchase the mirrored plastic? I would like to use some in my trees to screen out a neighbor’s house! Thanks!! It is a fabulous installation.
Nate says: June 20, 2014 at 2:30 pm
When is that section being torn down?
Congratulations guys, this is super dooper!
Davidya Kasperzyk says: February 10, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Early in the design process for these remnant structures, I proposed keeping select pieces of it as a public art folly. The intention was to consider both it’s historical significance, and look for an opportunity to adapt it to a functional use. We discussed using the ramp slope as a bio-filtering device for the new roads surface water runoff. The innovative newness, and complexity – along with the Arboretums laudable goal of reclaiming a restored ecological zone won out.
Adrienne Wicks says: February 8, 2014 at 10:33 am
Love it! Was married under the ramps and I’m sad to see them go. We should protect more of our unstructured spaces. This looks like it will be a beautiful, elegant tribute to the structures.
captain defect says: February 3, 2014 at 8:41 pm
Among other things, I built and lived in “a house” inside that bridge.
Matt Johnson says: January 7, 2014 at 1:27 pm
I really like the idea. I have many fond and chilling childhood memories there and will actually be sad to see it go. I would like a more permant instillation. Forgive my ignorance, but does it have to go? I agree to honor it while it still stands.
Ron Irvine says: December 30, 2013 at 10:15 am
A beautiful photo; serene with a false sense of balance between the environment and our intrusion.
Priscilla Arsove says: December 20, 2013 at 5:07 pm
A striking way to celebrate Seattle’s remarkable legacy of civic activism!
Anna Rudd says: December 20, 2013 at 9:57 am
What a fabulous idea!! Anna
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Writers Talk Thanos Screen Time, If There Will Be 67 Characters
By eelyajekiM | @ | Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 at 10:50 pm
For Marvel Studios, Avengers: Infinity War is so massive it had to be split into two parts. The Russo brothers (Anthony and Joe) will be reteaming with their Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely on the two-part epic.
While the Russos let slip and then backtracked on the idea that there will be 67 characters in the film, Markus and McFeely went on to clarify even further how many characters will be facing The Mad Titan. According to them, there won’t be 67 characters but Thanos will be getting lots of good screen time. More on the story below.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, both Civil War writers talked about giving more screentime to Thanos since he has not been in a film for more than a few minutes. Here’s what McFeely told the site:
“It’s easy. Really giving him good scenes. You know, he’s never been the villain in any of the movies. He’s never been the main character in that way, so giving lots of good screen time to Thanos is paramount and pretty fun.”
We first saw Thanos in The Avengers where he looked at the audiences with that villainous grin. At the time, he was portrayed by Damion Poitier. He was then fleshed out in Guardians of the Galaxy, where he was voiced by Josh Brolin. He then got another tiny cameo in Avengers: Age of Ultron. James Gunn has confirmed that The Mad Titan will not appear in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, so it seems that we won’t be seeing the character for quite some time. That is unless he makes another cameo in the solo films. The guy will have to obtain the Infinity Stones somehow.
Seeing as how Thanos was already introduced to us in three films, Markus addressed some of the challenges of fully developing a character that has had no more than a minute of screentime:
“There’s an aspect of, you know, people know what’s coming, so our challenge is how best are we going to handle this somewhat known quantity. But also he’s barely been touched on. He’s at about 20 seconds of screen time.”
McFeely chimed in on how that may actually be an advantage:
“He hasn’t had an amazing scene. I think it’s an advantage ultimately, right? Because people are anticipating this guy coming in and really delivering the goods. So, I think they’re eager, and we just have to deliver it. We don’t have to convince them that he’s gonna be interesting. We just have to execute what has been teased.”
On the issue of the number of characters, McFeely described the process of knowing who is available to them:
“We had our office filled with cards of everybody who was alive and available, and the brothers came in and went, ‘Whoa.’ So that doesn’t mean that everyone is, you know, there’s not going to be 67 lead parts.â€
Avengers: Infinity War Part I opens in theaters May 4, 2018. Part II is slated for a May 3, 2019, release.
[Source: The Huffington Post]
Topics: Movies, News, Sequels
Tags: Anthony and Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Infinity War Part I, Avengers: Infinity War Part II, Christopher Markus, Joe Russo, Marvel, Marvel Studios, Stephen McFeely, The Russo Brothers
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Desperate counter attack by Satanic mafia failing on all fronts as human liberation nears
The fiercest battles are raging in Washington DC where the Satanists are pushing “the Russians did it!” story to remove attorney General Jeff Sessions and prevent arrests of child killing politicians. Pentagon sources confirm that over 1500 pedophiles have been arrested since Donald Trump took office as President of the United States and that a grand jury is preparing indictments against a whole swath of DC and New York establishment figures.
by benjamin
We are witnessing desperate attempts around the world by the Satan worshipping Khazarian mafia to reverse recent defeats and remain in power. However, these efforts are failing on all fronts and more and more prominent Satanists are disappearing.
Another sign that things have really begun to change is that legal action has now begun against the private sector prison slave camps being run in the US.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/
The counter-attack by the Satanists in the US is being orchestrated by the Rothschilds and the Bush/Clinton mafia who have unleashed their top servants like former President Barack Obama and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos against the Trump regime. Last week, Obama announced he was setting up an anti-Trump headquarters with adviser Valerie Jarret two miles from the White House. This move was followed by Trump tweets accusing “bad or sick guy”
Obama of illegally wiretapping him. Our advice to house slave Obama is to not risk his life and liberty on behalf of his Rothschild slave masters.
Another Rothschild house slave, Loretta Lynch, Obama’s Attorney General, called for marching, blood and death on the streets.
http://www.wnd.com/
Our advice to African Americans is to not let these house slaves fool you into protesting on behalf of Satan worshipping slave drivers.
A sign of the intensity of the battle now raging was seen when Bezos offered child torturer and former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta a job with his Washington Post propaganda machine. Podesta was also given a $600 million war-chest for the Washington Post by the rogue (Bush) CIA for propaganda purposes.
https://conservativedailypost.com/
And yet, immediately after Bezos announced this. amazon.com servers came under heavy, sustained attack.
http://www.theverge.com/
It is unlikely Bezos himself will survive long, CIA and Pentagon sources say.
A clear sign the Satanists have lost control of the American people can be seen in the impotence of their once dominant corporate propaganda apparatus. Despite surveys showing that 88% of heavy corporate media coverage of Trump was negative since he took office, polls showed that 79% of Americans viewed his speech last week before the joint houses of Congress favourably.
Take a look at House Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi’s expression during Trump’s speech. To me it looks like someone (or some entity) in mortal fear.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5zxvh9WYAAT_jl.jpg
Perhaps the most senior Nazi faction Satanist who needs to be taken down ASAP is Microsoft’s Bill Gates. Bill Gates is constructing a giant underground bunker complex in Karuizawa, Japan, according to Japanese military intelligence. Gates is working with his top Japanese servant Masayoshi Son of Softbank and Yasuyuki Nambu of the Pasona group. Son’s Softbank has taken over the Fortress Investment Group.
https://www.forbes.com/
That means he now controls the company Musashi Engineering that rigs Japan’s elections. Son, of course, is just a senior Rothschild servant in Japan.
Agents working for the French Branch of the Rothschild Family, David (wanted by the police for fraud) and Benjamin (accusing of killing pygmies) de Rothschild recently tried to lure this writer to a trap at Nambu’s Akasaka, Tokyo Headquarters. Nambu and Son are now being targeted by right wingers close to the Emperor, Japanese right wing sources say.
The Rothschild family was ultimately responsible for the March 11, 2011 tsunami and nuclear terror attack (known as 311 here) against Japan and are desperately trying to keep their servants in power here so as to prevent retribution for that mass murder incident. However, the Rothschild’s have already lost that battle and their Japan network is being dismantled.
Many readers asked me why I included the Dalai Lama’s name in the list of Satanic sub-contractors. Here, in the interests of disclosure, I must admit I have a personal grudge against the Dalai Lama. A North Korean female agent was sent by him and the Satan worshippers to ruin my life. Instead, she fell in love with me and got pregnant with our child. When she was five months pregnant, the Nepali import store where she worked sent her to Nepal on a mission to buy goods for the store. When she got there she was drugged and woke up in the hospital no longer pregnant. The owner of the store said his father, who works for the Dalai Lama, did this on the Dalai Lama’s orders. In other words this so-called holy man is a child murderer. After this, the girlfriend went to the Japanese police with false reports that I was taking drugs and being abusive. When I confronted her with this she told me that her family was being threatened with murder if she did not do this. So, that is why I have a personal grudge against the Dalai Lama. I have also looked into his eyes and can tell you he is deeply evil. He will soon die and so will his soul. He will never reincarnate again for all eternity.
In any case, following Bill Gates’ recent veiled threat to kill “over 30 million people,”
… there have been multiple reports of biological warfare agents being spread around the world, Japanese military intelligence say. Tokyo itself has been under heavy duty chemtrail and radioactive poison attack following the Gates statement. Certainly everybody I know, including myself, has been coughing heavily recently. However, the attacks against Tokyo have been now dissipated and no deaths have resulted. The Chinese and Indian governments are also saying biological warfare agents are being used against them (The Chinese article is from 2013).
http://www.eurasiareview.com/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
While Sorcha Faal is US Navy intelligence and its reports are often up to 90% disinformation, the following report claiming bio-warfare attacks around the world is probably true. What is not true is the talk of mass death because the bio-warfare agents have been rendered impotent.
Bill Gates is now being actively hunted down and the US military has been advised by the White Dragon Society to seize his Karuizawa bunker ASAP. Gates properties in the US also need to be seized ASAP. Bill Gates’ mansion near Seattle, Washington, has a room filled with skeletons and dedicated to the worship of death, according to a high-tech Oligarch who has visited there.
Other senior Satanists, recognizing that the gig is up, are trying to flee. King Salman of Saudi Arabia has booked five, five star luxury hotels in Bali, Indonesia for his entourage including 25 princes. Salman is going to be asking for protection from Indonesia, Malaysia and China but will not get it, CIA sources say.
The reason Salman has fled, Pentagon sources say, is that the campaign against Daesh (note to readers: we have decided not to insult the Goddess ISIS any further by associating her name with this band of Satanic terrorists) has extended to Yemen. The Saudis, in cooperation with the French oil giant Total, have been breaking international law by stealing 65% of Yemen’s oil.
http://ahtribune.com/
Another Satanist seeking shelter is Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for protection after Israel was threatened with the destruction of all its nuclear facilities if it did not act against the Satanists, Russian FSB and other sources say. This protection will not be granted, the Russian sources say.
US arch-traitor John “Daesh” McCain sought protection from Turkish President Erdogan and will also not get it, Pentagon sources say. Humanity will soon be free.
http://benjaminfulford.net/
10 thoughts on “Desperate counter attack by Satanic mafia failing on all fronts as human liberation nears”
AverageJoe says:
Hereby a comment posted by Jim Stone on his website that counter the ever optimistic views of Ben. You be the judge :
From here they will back stab Trump and oust him, this now probably equals game over. Americans now get to witness a totally failed government that is so infiltrated and usurped that there is no way to take it back. Everyone in the conspiracy community warned this would happen, and now we all get to watch it happen.
Actually we are not seeing anything new with this, we are only seeing reality come out into the open after Trump forced it into the open. I quite frankly don’t know what to say or do with this absent a properly directed civil war.
So where are we now? We are at:
1. The President can’t overcome corruption in non-elected positions, the CIA and FBI out rank him and can simply shut him down. That is a serious crisis, unelected positions are supposed to have ZERO power, except for the supreme court. The only thing that made this reality is exactly what conspiracy theorists have said all along, now watch the results of zero action against it for decades unfold.
2. The enemy owned private sector has now, due to zero enforcement of anti trust laws for 30 years, grown as powerful as the government, if not more powerful. This has allowed a situation where sites like Google and Facebook and even ICANN can kill whoever they want. This is not supposed to be allowed to happen, yet here it is, and nothing can stop it when the government is completely corrupt, and will do nothing.
3. The enemy entirely owns all media that can come across a television or Facebook, except in very limited “we have to prove we are not totally censored” 3 cent hand outs to provide a thin veil of legitimacy with regard to openness. Forget Fox News, they’d never come clean on 911 and absent that they are as bad as the rest of them and exist only to pander to concerned Americans while providing a phoney alternate view.
4. The enemy entirely owns all mainstream medicine and is using mainstream medicine to destroy the population. Be it tainted vaccines, antidepressants, ridiculously over priced medical that is like a knife to the throat and casts people into poverty for things that elsewhere are simple cures and treatments, outright sabotage of health leading to cancers and many other maladies, corruption of alternate cures even in mainstream pharmacies which test out as completely fake while sold at top dollar, the list goes on and on. There is no way to fix the medical system, it like the previous 3 items needs to be completely trashed. If you can’t trust your doctor because he’s a big pharma sell out, it is time to hit reboot.
5. The enemy is currently making ALL computing platforms, and if anyone steps into the scene with anything new that is not completely hacked and can compete, they are either blocked from stores like the Amiga, or simply killed like Steve Jobs, who was actually a decent guy. You can forget the future of computers, I’d say if you want anything decent get an old Athlon thunderbird, rip the wifi out and run it offline with late 90’s or early 2000’s software only. The internet will soon be useless anyway, Google is working hard on that.
6. We currently live in a world where everyone carries a spy device that is the NSA’s lucid dream. If you can’t even convince a conspiracy theorist to not carry a smart phone there will be no civil war and no taking back of society, and that really is where we are. The takeover is so complete that the people who would stand a chance will not have a chance because one of their favorite toys will make that impossible. And if it is not the NSA stopping them, they will be stopped by the Mossad after everything they do gets routed through Israel’s own intelligence, or whatever intelligence their own phone carrier has set up. We are so hopelessly screwed by the smart phone that there is rationally no way out of it.
PREDICTION: If the FBI is so corrupt it can just shut down Trump from exposing another Watergate, it is GAME OVER. We actually need those people to take this country back, rather than away from us. With the FBI, CIA, and NSA as our enemy, as well as the judicial branch and other agencies like the EPA and DHS, and the police departments unilaterally standing down during riots rather than defending the people they are supposed to protect and serve, the writing is on the wall. It is GAME OVER, Trump WILL be flushed out now, and we are going straight to hell.
Animus Invidious says:
Police standing down during riots is a bad thing? GTFOH. The police are the very mercenaries of the forces you claim control the system. Trump IS the figurehead of these string-pulling entities, and he’s doing exactly what he was hired by them to do, like a good little puppet.
Shuman says:
I agree with Ms Treis. Jim Stone is a total pessimist. The fact Trump won gives hope for the people to take back the country from the USA Inc cabal. Sheriff Joe has irrefutable proof about Obama’s fake birth certificate.
The biggest problem in the beaurocratic system is the regular people know the truth but are afraid to blow the whistle. Mr Trump will make that easier to do. Who wants to sacrifice their $135,000 year job plus great benefits to expose the corruption within. Many won’t but if protected many will. (Why do you think the pay is so high for administrative jobs. It’s hush money.)
It’s only a matter of timing before major justice actions take place. They want the head of the beast and that takes time to find those willing to out the monsters.
If Clinton had won then Mr Stone’s pessimism would be so true.
We’ll see if Trump can get Obama indicted & prosecuted (and rightly so) for this new Watergate. If not, it’s GAME OVER indeed and JS is right.
The KM will not give up without a fight, that’s for sure and one thing bothers me much at the moment is the fact that Trump is surrounded by Zionists, Khazarians, CFR’s, etc., and ALL his four children are married to Jews, that tells you something. Moreover, he owes millions (if not billions) to a lot (70+) of Jewish-owned banks. He is their puppet. In fact, they are very happy with him being the new POTUS. Be real, what do you expect from a guy born with a silver spoon in the mouth, who lived his entire life in opulence, bling-bling, ritz and luxury while pretending to represent the rabble, riffraff, ordinary people ? He doesn’t know what true hard life looks like, such lives as of those who voted for him. It’s rigged from the onset, don’t be too optimistic. Anyway, the litmus test is this new Watergate. Let see what’ll happen.
An interesting “leak” from a CIA employee:
CIA Intern here. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Julian (Assange) has worse stuff than this (Vault 7). I am almost certain of that fact. I don’t think the American public realizes just how dangerous the NSA and CIA are. EVERYTHING YOU DO WHILE CONNECTED ONLINE IS BEING WATCHED AND COLLECTED IN THE CLOUD. This place is corrupt as fuck. I hate it here but I feel trapped. I legit feel like I will go “missing” if I speak up. Mike Pompeo won’t change anything. We keep stuff hidden from the director. The President doesn’t get briefed on most things that go on here. What he does get briefed on is largely FAKE information.
Even if Pompeo wanted to change things he wouldn’t be able to. THE CIA RUNS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. The President is a powerless figurehead in the grand scheme of things. The CIA hates Trump because he knows this and is exposing them. There are too many hostile employees here. Everything we do here involves undermining the new administration in some way. By the end of this week (Probably Friday or the weekend) the New York Times or the Washington Post will release their next “Russians influenced the election” The successful attacks on Flynn and Sessions strengthened the operations going on here. The CIA wants Bannon gone. He is their #1 target besides Trump. They are going to manufacture a narrative that Breitbart (under Bannon’s orders) took money or a bribe from the Russian Government/Embassy in order to cover a certain story/say a certain thing. The story will spread like wildfire through the MSM as can be imagined.
We have to fight back or this administration will be consumed by the Deep State. The rabbit hole is bigger than any of you could ever imagine. (Sorry for using Tor but I had no choice). That is about all. Goodbye.
Vrai says:
Wow, you hit the jack pot!. Your prediction you wrote above on march 9th, the ousting of Bannon had come true. Bannon is gone. Keep writing the truth. I hope true americans who love this country will protect her.
First-off, it’s not MY prediction but one from a CIA intern who leaked it on a site somewhere from which I only copy-pasted it. Second, Bannon is not “gone” but was just kicked out of the NSC not out the Trump Administration, as far as I know. But still, yes, Trump is surrounded by neo-cons, globalists, zionists et al. Impossible in these conditions to fulfill his campaign promises. Kiss MAGA goodbye, the Union of the States of North America is going down the drain for good this time. This doesn’t mean the country will cease to exist, all to the contrary, but will be divided into several parts, smaller unions of States. Actually, this is a very good news: Bye bye DC, the Fed, etc….. It was about time.
From Jim Stone again (copy-pasted from his site):
If you think my tone is pessimistic, How about this?
LewRockwellcom is saying the same thing in a different way!
“The United States federal government in Washington is under attack today. Our nation’s capital is presently under siege, not from military bombs or rockets fired by any foreign enemy but from powerful enemies within. With Obama-Hillary-Soros forces ostensibly maneuvering outside official government channels, against America’s legitimately elected President Trump, and their loyalist foot soldiers – the neocons and intelligence community loyalists within the CIA/NSA/FBI still operating inside deep state, criminally conspiring with Mainstream Media, this sinister alliance is also organizing legions of clueless young leftist protesters to be at the ready for deployment in the streets to wreak havoc violently rioting as paid agitator insurgents. What we have here on our hands is an American Spring uprising, an insurgent regime change operation taking place right here in our own country currently bent on overthrowing America’s existing “democratically elected” government.
At no time in our prior history has anything so openly subversive and treacherously treasonous ever been perpetrated on the United States of America before . . . the closest being the covert conspiracy singlehandedly thwarted by America’s military hero General Smedley Butler in 1934 when a band of elitist bankster traitors attempted a coup d’etat against the FDR administration. The all-too-familiar divide and conquer strategy is once again the globalist go-to Modus Operandi, being implemented through multi-prong assaults waging an open insurrection war against the Trump administration in order to successfully execute a coup committed by traitors out to take down America as their latest banana republic.
Despite having written a number of articles critical of Trump policy as president and latest White House puppet, his presidency has been undermined, sabotaged and categorically rejected by his opponents at every turn. Trump rightfully called mainstream media fake news “an enemy of the American people.” Tactics deployed by MSM and Trump’s multiplicity of enemies are so blatantly illegal and highly unethical that as a fair-minded journalist seeking the truth, I feel compelled to address this demonization of Donald Trump perpetrated by the same crowd that’s been demonizing Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad for years. Understanding the why and the wherefore of this unprecedented full-scale attack on a standing US president is key to recognizing the truly diabolical bigger picture unfolding at the behest of the planetary controllers.
The ruling elite’s longtime agenda has been to destroy the United States and the West from within. In reaction to last year’s growing anti-globalist movement, represented by the Brexit vote and “anti-establishment” Trump election, the elite is becoming desperately aggressive now, fighting for absolute domination and population control, insidiously whipping up unstable domestic conditions throughout the Western world, engineered to explode with racial, class, religious and politically charged civil war violence in both America and Europe. In the US this takes the form of mass deployment of a robotically dumbed down, highly manipulated yet well-organized political left, constituting the elite’s WMD against Trump’s reactionary militarized authoritarian federal forces, soon spilling blood and chaos as America’s very own Spring uprising. The coming riots are aimed at causing the violent breakdown of civil society in both America and Europe, of course, co-timed with the ongoing, incessant MSM propaganda machine, 24/7 delivering the false narrative of overly hostile, aggressive Russia, China and Iran intended to ignite World War III, simultaneous to the implosion of the house of cards global economy – the New World Disorder’s perfect storm of cataclysmic events, mapped out long in advance to bring about its one world government tyranny.”
My (JS) comment: There you have it, exactly what I have been saying, worded differently by someone else. There is BIG TROUBLE AHEAD, Lew Rockwell is BANG ON with this, read the rest of this report HERE: www . lewrockwell . com/2017/03/joachim-hagopian/dc-self-implodes/
Joe Linka says:
You’re a liar ben fulford. You twist facts to fit your agenda and you prey on the foolish. Your comeuppance is going to be a doozy.
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By GamingDemons
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The PlayStation 3 may have had a rocky start to life, but the launch version was by far the best version of the console. Why, I hear you ask? Because you could insert PS1 and PS2 discs into the PS3 and they would work! The 60GB PS3 was the peak and the death of backwards compatibility on Sony’s gaming platform.
The lack of backward compatibility is a touchy subject for some, for others, they are happy with their HD remakes. Whether it interests you or not, the lack of backward compatibility was the start of a bad trend in console gaming and is something that people have gotten far to accepting of.
Microsoft have dug themselves out of the pit with the Xbox One. This system is now the flagship console for backward compatibility. Any Xbox One is capable of playing games from the Xbox 360 and the original Xbox.
The same can’t be said for Sony though. They have not really approached the subject, but for those with decent understanding of computer hardware, it’s no mystery. Due to the unique system architectures of the PS2 and PS3, it is a massive technical issue to make these work. Sort if like putting petrol in your diesel car. The cost may get in the way of this happening any time soon.
When it comes to the future of backwards compatibility, we can divert our attention to the Nintendo switch. Nintendo have always been strong supporters of backwards compatibility. The Wii U was able to play games from the Wii, Gamecube and using the virtual console, pretty much any platform Nintendo has ever released. Now that their latest console has no disc drive, backwards compatibility has been lost. They can’t be blamed for moving ahead with the times, but it highlights the need for some change around the methods that games are being sold.
Physical game releases have negated the need for us to worry about backwards compatibility too much. Yeah, it’s a pain that you can’t play a PS2 game on the PS3, but if you really want to play a PS2 game, you can pop the disc into a PS2 console. What happens in 20 years when you want to play a PS3 game you bought a digital copy of but the PS store for PS3 is no longer online?
The introduction of digital downloads has made backwards compatibility a critical feature for next gen consoles. A day will come when Sony need to shut the doors on the PlayStation 3. The store will need to go offline as nobody really uses it or maybe we just advance so far that our methods of connecting to the internet are too advanced for the PS3 to connect. How do you gain access to your digital games? The Ps4 is not able to play those games, so they can’t be grandfathered over.
We are facing a potential threat to our digital game collections by the simple fact that we don’t physically own our digital game collection.
In 20 years time, PS3 emulation will likely be a very easy thing to perform, meaning that Sony can end up allowing something like the PlayStation 6 to play Ps3 games simply because the system is so powerful that it doesn’t need games to be tweaked to work properly with the hardware. This does not mean we can just forget supporting last gen and just wait until emulation is a piece of cake, it needs to be planned now, before we hit a problem.
Maybe Sony have some term and condition tucked away in the 500 page contract you agree to when you sign up to PlayStation network that covers themselves for this scenario. We would like to think this will never happen and that consoles will eventually have the same luxury that PC gamers have had since the dawn of gaming, the ability to play any game that has ever been released on their modern PCs.
It is very clear from the past few years that Sony and Microsoft have realised the importance of letting gamers play games from the past generations. We may be a few years away from the PS5 and the Xbox {whatever number they pick next}. We should be watching this reveal very carefully. A PS5 that can’t play PS4 games is sure to kick up a riot!
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Home / News / Local News / LT Supers Put Bayer Building Rumor to Rest
LT Supers Put Bayer Building Rumor to Rest
Posted on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 by Wendy Brion in Local News, Top Stories
CLEARFIELD – The Lawrence Township Supervisors put a persistent rumor to rest last night when asked by members of the Recreational Park Board about the Bayer Building in Hyde.
Members of the board as well as representatives of various groups that use the building attended the meeting and asked the supervisors if they were intending to tear the building down due to the expenses of upkeep.
Supervisor Chairman Randy Powell said the rumors were false and that the supervisors have budgeted to have the roof repaired this year. He said if they were going to tear the building down, they wouldn’t put the money into a new roof.
Another rumor being heard is that, if consolidation with Clearfield Borough happens, that the building would be closed. It was noted by several people that hundreds of kids use the building every week for softball, baseball, soccer, etc.
Supervisor Bill Lawhead stated the joint committee… “never once in the last two years of meetings advocated selling that building.” He said the township uses it, the residents use it and it’s a source of income for the township. He added that he doesn’t know where that particular rumor got started, but the recreation board did the right thing.
“I’m glad you guys all came, it was the right thing to do,” to come and ask and not listen to rumors, he said.
Lawhead is co-chairman of the joint consolidation committee.
Gigi Gearhart also addressed the supervisors and asked if Powell had received any answers about the proposed consolidation, and he responded he had not. When asked who he has talked to he replied, “They all have my number.”
Gearhart also asked how long the police pension underfunding has been a problem, and Powell said at least the past 12-13 years, and Lawhead stated it has been since 2008. Gearhart offered to take a list of questions and find answers for him.
Solicitor James Naddeo added that he and Powell are planning to meet with the committee as soon as a date is scheduled.
Under police, interim chief James Glass reported there will be an aggressive driver initiative. He also reported annual qualifications are coming up and he is already planning for needed purchases.
The department was also able to upgrade two long rifles due to grant funds. Finally, he said a business owner commended Officer Levi Olson for his response and professionalism regarding a burglary.
Under code enforcement, the board learned that the Amusement Tax was due Feb. 15 and there is now a 10 percent penalty charge.
The report also included information about sewer inspections. According to the information provided by Code Enforcement Officer Debra Finkbeiner, if you have a public sewer, a public waste water inspection is required prior to transfers of ownership. The fee is $100 and must be paid prior to the inspection. Inspections are held on Wednesdays and should be scheduled 30 days prior to the transfer.
Inspections are also required for all new and repaired systems. A new tap is $500, plus engineering costs. There is also a fee for sewer repair or replacement. For more information, contact the code officer or PennSafe Inspection Service. Emergency inspections should be coordinated with roadmaster Ron Woodling.
An on-lot septic system doesn’t require public waste inspection; however, other inspections may be required and the contact is Hess and Fisher Engineers.
The supervisors approved the purchase of a 24-foot trailer to transport the big roller at a cost of $7,728. Woodling also reported they have started spring work and will need to order 2,000 tons of 2RC limestone before April 1. Sweeping is tentatively scheduled to begin March 20.
There are several board terms expiring and the supervisors approved advertising the positions. One is for the recreation board by March 18, one seat and an alternate for the zoning hearing board by April 19 and one for the Clearfield-Lawrence Joint Airport Authority by April 15.
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"Home to seven gourmet restaurants, nightly performances by marquee comedians, a top-of-the-line history museum and a number of luxury boutiques," could easily describe a select group of small U.S. cities. Instead, it describes Foxwoods Casino Resort, the largest of its kind in North America. With upscale dining options, spa services and boutiques, Foxwoods proves especially romantic for couples, whether it be for the first date or the "big day."
Dine at Paragon
Few cultures embody romance like the French, and the French-inspired menu at Foxwoods' Paragon is no different. At Paragon, on the 24th floor of the Grand Pequot Tower, couples appreciate far-reaching views of the Connecticut landscape while listening to live piano performances. The menu changes seasonally, but it remains consistently French -- with influence from local fish and market offerings. Couples who prefer a more intimate dining experience can choose the private dining room instead of the lounge or bar. Paragon is open for dinner service Thursday through Sunday, starting at 5 p.m.
Enjoy a Couples-Only Retreat
Of the number of packages available at G Spa on the third floor of the MGM Grand Hotel at Foxwoods, the "For Couples Only" remains the most romantic. With the modern, dramatic interior of the spa as a backdrop, a masseuse performs a 50-minute aromatherapy massage on both him and her. In addition, couples receive a paraffin treatment on their hands or feet, relaxing muscle tension and softening the skin. The package includes champagne and strawberries.
Put a Ring on It
Purchasing a wedding ring can be a major milestone in a long-lasting romance. Numerous boutiques at Foxwoods make shopping for this symbol of eternal love both luxurious and simple. Chopard, a Swiss company with a Happy Diamonds ring line; Judith Ripka, specializing in both high-end and accessible jewelry; Bulgaria, known for its exceptional quality and service; and Pandora, a Danish company that specializes in entire jewelry sets, are all open daily until late at the casino level of the Grand Pequot Tower.
Tie the Knot
Not every wedding at a casino is a last-minute affair. With the assistance of on-site wedding planners, nuptials at Foxwoods can be as simple or lavish as the couple wishes. The casino provides first-rate meeting halls for ceremonies, restaurants with gourmet catering services and comfortable accommodation. In addition, the wedding party and guests may partake of the available spa services, take a dip in one of the pools or let loose at one of the night clubs following the reception.
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Mary Locke has been writing professionally since 2009. She has contributed to various online and print publications, including the Skint Press travel series. Locke holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Portland State University.
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In Memoriam: Raymond Weil
Watchmaking Pioneer Raymond Weil Dies at 87
On January 26, 2014 one of the true pioneers of the Swiss watch industry passed away peacefully. Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1926, Raymond Weil was the first in the industry to make luxury watches accessible to people who weren’t born with a personal fortune. This self-made man had the vision and courage to start what has become a beloved and world-renowned brand at a time when the entire Swiss watch industry was in crisis. In 1976, when Raymond Weil’s self-named company was launched, it was a widely held view that inexpensive quartz watches would destroy the Swiss watchmaking industry.
Weil had a different vision, and watch enthusiasts, amateurs and connoisseurs alike immediately praised his beautiful and surprisingly affordable creations. This kind, affable, and generous man was influential in keeping the Swiss watch industry alive at a critical point in its history. As Raymond Weil traveled the world putting together the international network that eventually made his timepieces a familiar favorite around the world, he almost singlehandedly became an exceptional ambassador for the city of Geneva and for Switzerland as well.
Weil’s ongoing love for Switzerland and it’s watchmaking industry led him to serve as president of the Geneva Watchmaker Union, as vice president of the Watchmaking Industry Training Centre, and as a member of the Watchmaking Federation. He also served as president of the Baselworld Exhibitors Committee until 1995.
Raymond Weil’s love of classical music and contemporary art often influenced the watches that his company produced. Over the years, many popular Raymond Weil timepieces, including the well-known Amadeus, Fidelio, Toccata, Fantasia and Parsifal Collections were inspired by the music and composers that Raymond loved.
To this day, the self-named company that this watchmaking pioneer founded remains one of the last independent, family-owned watchmakers in Switzerland. The brand continues to remain in the family, with Weil’s son-in-law Olivier Bernheim holding the position of CEO, Olivier’s elder son Elie, serving as marketing director, and his younger son Pierre as sales director. It is with great sadness that the Weil family announced the passing of their patriarch and founder on Sunday, January 26. They, and the entire Swiss watch industry can take comfort that the brand Raymond Weil launched in 1976 will continue to keep his memory alive for many years to come.
About Gevril Group
Watchmaker and wholesale watch distributor Gevril Group is the exclusive U.S. agent for exquisitely designed and crafted European luxury and fashion watch brands, distributing and servicing some of the best affordable luxury, Swiss and fashion watches. Gevril Group also operates a full-service watch repair, staffed by master Swiss watchmakers. Contact Gevril Group by email or by calling 845-425-9882.
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Posted in: Industry News, People, Videos | Tags: luxury industry, luxury watch brands, Swiss Watch Industry
Couture Las Vegas Vital to U.S. Market Say Watch Industry Insiders
by Ivo Jackson
Globally, Las Vegas represents the ultimate in exquisite indulgences in nearly every way imaginable. The fashion industry is no exception.
Luxury timepiece dealers and distributors meet every year at the majestic Wynn Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada for The Couture Show, the premiere jewelry and watch event for high-end retailers in the U.S. Watch industry insiders gather at Couture Las Vegas to browse exclusive new collections, strengthen business relationships, and prepare to bring the best of the fashion and luxury watch world to consumers throughout the United States.
Historically, the Baselworld Watch and Jewelry Show, held in Basel, Switzerland, has been the world’s premiere timepiece trade show. Beginning in 1917 in the world capital for fine timepiece manufacturing, “Basel Fair”, as it is often called by Europeans, is the largest show for watch manufacturers and distributors worldwide, and was by default the most important show in the industry.
However, as the U.S. market is becoming increasingly important to luxury and fashion timepiece brands, The Couture Show in Las Vegas is growing in importance, as well. According to many Couture 2013 attendees, this fabulous five-day show now rivals its Basel counterpart.
Paolo Marai, CEO of Vertime, commented that “Compared to Basel Fair, as a very limited number of US customers are coming to see the new products, Couture is really the hot moment of the year to show the new collections to our customers based in the U.S.” Danny Govberg, owner of Govberg Jewelers agrees. A fan of the show, he calls Couture Las Vegas, “one of the most prestigious shows in the world with the most prestigious designers and watch brands.”
Besides quality and exclusivity, location and accommodation also make The Couture Show at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas a growing and vital influence within the luxury timepiece industry. To have such a quality trade show in the U.S. makes it easier for more North American retailers to attend and do all their shopping for the upcoming season in one place.
Furthermore, American buyers are often more accustomed to the large, luxurious accommodations in Las Vegas, as opposed to the more conservative and “cozy” accommodations available to Baselworld attendees, so going to Couture Las Vegas is not only more convenient, but potentially more comfortable than traveling to Switzerland for Baselworld.
As the U.S. luxury watch market grows with designer brands launching high-end fashion watch brands to accompany their clothing lines, the timepiece exhibition at The Couture Show in Las Vegas will continue to grow in importance and excellence.
Gevril Group is the exclusive US representative for select European watch brands, distributing and servicing luxury, fashion and sports timepieces at a wide range of price points. Gevril Group also operates a full-service watch repair department staffed by master Swiss watchmakers. Contact Gevril Group by email or by calling 845-425-9882.
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Gevril Group Opens European Office to Better Serve Customers
Gevril Group has always had a loyal following in Europe. European customers love fine watches and genuinely appreciate the exceptional quality and value that Gevril, GV2, and other fine Gevril Group watch brands represent. To serve our European customers on a more comprehensive and personal basis, Gevril Group is opening a new European office, based in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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Heading up Gevril Group’s new European initiative will be Jacob Dym and Ben Rose. Jacob and Ben both grew up in Zurich Switzerland, and have practically spent their entire lives working in the watch industry. Jacob, who will serve as Director of Gevril Group Europa, the new European operation, comes from a family of Swiss jewelers and diamond wholesalers, and is a third generation watch professional.
His partner Ben became interested in fine timepieces after receiving an Omega from his grandfather as a 13th birthday present. Ben immediately fell in love with the watch and has been buying and selling watches ever since. Jacob and Ben have been friends for many years. Thay have learned much of what they know today walking up and down the famous Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich studying the latest watch models.
According to Gevril Group founder Samuel Friedmann, Jacob Dym and Ben Rose will be genuine assets to Gevril Group, helping the company establish a much more productive and personal relationship with its European customers. Gevril Group Europa will take over the European distribution of the Gevril Group brands and will provide many growth opportunities in the years ahead.
Gevril History
Gevril Group’s new European presence brings the brand full circle. The company started making fine watches in Switzerland over 265 years ago, and founder Jacques Gevril is still recognized as an important contributor to the history of Swiss watchmaking, earning the Gevril name the recognition and prestige it has today. Since Samuel Friedmann acquired the brand in 2001, Gevril has developed a strong following in the American market. Now it’s time to return to our roots. Through Gevril Group Europa, we will offer a growing selection of fine timepieces at a variety of price points to a world of watch lovers who appreciate quality and exceptional value.
Gevril Group Europa
Gevril Group manufactures and sells fine timepieces under the Gevril and GV2 names. Gevril Group Europa is the European distributor of Gevril and GV2, as well as Swiss Military, Johan Eric, Giulio Romano, and Rüdiger. With the creation of the Gevril Group Europa office, the company can now provide the same high level of personal and professional service to European consumers that American watch enthusiasts already enjoy.
Swiss Military Watches Johan Eric Watches Giulio Romano Watches
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You can reach Jacob Dym and Ben Rose through the contact information on the Gevril Group Europa website.
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The Shrimp Trucks on Oahu’s North Shore
April 14, 2014 By Mark Wiens
The Hawaii shrimp plate!
If you plan to drive around the island of Oahu when you visit (which is a great thing to do by the way), you'll undoubtedly hear about the famous “Kahuku shrimp trucks.”
There are many of these shrimp truck restaurants, each with just about the same menu and similar prices, but with their own unique secret recipes and sauces.
If you love shrimp, you'll definitely want to make a strategic shrimp stop when you drive around the island.
Lining up at the shrimp truck restaurant
Kahuku is a very small town, located on the North Shore of Oahu, just a short drive from the famous Sunset Beach (also pretty close to Laie where you'll find Hukilau Cafe).
Though there are some amazing beaches to the east and west, the town itself is not known for its beaches.
Rather, when anyone from Hawaii hears the name Kahuku, likely an image of shrimp comes to mind.
The area around the sleepy town of Kahuku is famous on Oahu for being home to many freshwater shrimp farms.
In recent times, due to high costs of land, shrimp farms haven't done as well as they did in the past, but the fame of shrimp in Kahuku still remains.
Having little more to offer than a bunch of freshwater shrimp farms and the main highway (Kamehameha highway) which leads along the coastline and goes straight through town, someone had the great idea to open a restaurant where shrimp lovers could stop on the side of the road to enjoy some of the wonderful fresh shrimp.
In 1993, Giovanni's opened as the first shrimp truck restaurant in Kahuku.
It didn't take long for the brilliant idea to catch on, and soon other shrimp trucks began to open as well.
Nowadays, there are many different shrimp trucks to choose from, and while Kahuku is still the most famous town, you'll find shrimp restaurants all the way from Kahuku to Haleiwa, stretching the entire North Shore.
Decorations at Giovanni's
Most of the shrimp trucks in Hawaii are quite similar in style. You go up to the truck, place your order in the window, and within a few minutes you'll have a scrumptious looking plate of shrimp ready to be devoured.
All the cooking is done inside the truck, and there's usually a few or more benches and tables so you can eat right then and there.
The last time I was in Hawaii, I chose to eat at Giovanni's in Haleiwa, the second branch of the well-known original.
At the peak of lunch, many of the famous shrimp trucks can get extremely busy, with long lines of customers, and all the tables packed.
To avoid the traffic, I personally decided to go early, arriving just as they opened at 10 am.
The menu at Giovanni's is quite simple. You have a choice of shrimp scampi, hot and spicy shrimp, or lemon butter shrimp.
There's also a garlic hot dog on their menu, but really, if you don't love shrimp you shouldn't eat at a shrimp truck in the first place.
I decided to go for the shrimp scampi, a dozen shrimp sautéed in olive oil and garlic and seasoned with little more than a hint of salt and lemon juice.
My plate also came with two scoops of rice, and a side of hot sauce, which I requested.
The immediate aroma of garlic was incredible, and you could just see the layer of minced garlic caked onto each shrimp.
The shrimp was incredibly garlicky and fried until cooked through but not rubbery. They were a little bit on the oily side, but still really good.
Giovanni's is just one of the numerous shrimp trucks on the North Shore of Oahu.
Each truck has their own recipes, and their own set of devout followers.
No matter which truck you choose, if you're a shrimp lover, you're in for a real treat on the North Shore.
Last Updated on June 17th, 2019
Filed Under: Food, Hawaii
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Mark was raised in central Africa before migrating back to the U.S. for University. After graduating, he decided to continue traveling the world. On Migrationology, he shares the cultural side of travel from a slow-paced local perspective that often revolves around his love for eating all forms of food. Join him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter @migrationology.
Phil Hockings says
Good write-up. I personally like Romy’s Shrimp Shack. They cook out of a small building and have a decent place to eat your carry-out shrimp under a covered eating area fronting the shrimp ponds!
I love a food truck, and one that serves garlicy shrimp? Seriously, what could be better?
Joe Achman says
I should not have read this while hungry. Those shrimp look positively amazing!
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4K March Madness Resumes Today On Satellite Services
4K Ultra HD sports lovers can still catch some of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament action in 3840 x 2160 resolution, including some with HDR.
March Madness is underway and this year, 4K Ultra HDTVs connected to the right services will have a chance to catch some of the action in 4K for the first time.
Both direct-to-home satellite TV services, DirecTV and Dish, are offering a few of the contests in 4K Ultra HDTV this year. Sports-centric over-the-top streaming service Fubo TV also offered select games from the tournament on March 15th.
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In total, up to 13 games from the multi-level tournament action are being made available in 4K. Some of the action began earlier.
Dish subscribers with a 4K TV and a compatible Dish receiver have access to eight NCAA Championship playoff games in 3840 x 2160p 4K resolution at 60 frames per second, which will provide smoother high resolution fast motion images.
In addition to the 4K TV, Dish subscribers will need a Hopper 3 DVR tuned to channel 540. Game times are as follows:
The last of Dish’s scheduled 4K matches include the following.
March 22, 1:20 p.m. E.T.: Texas Tech vs. Northern Kentucky
March 22, 3:50 p.m. E.T.: Buffalo vs. TBD
March 22, 7:15 p.m. E.T.: Houston vs. Georgia St.
March 22, 9:45 p.m. E.T.: Iowa State vs. Ohio State
DirecTV customers also can watch a number of games in 4K and High Dynamic Range (HDR). DirecTV typically supports the HLG variety of HDR, so an HLG compatible display will be necessary to take advantage. The games will air on DirecTV live 4K events channel 106. Remaining 4K scheduled events are as follows:
March 22 from Tulsa, OK
March 28 from Anaheim, CA
Sports-centric over-the-top streaming service FuboTV also began offering 4K NCAA basketball action with a select number of Big East and Big Ten Tournament games on March 15th. At this time, it is not listing any further NCAA tournament action in 4K resolution, although it is carrying the full schedule of NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament action right down the the final title game on April 8th in HD resolution.
To watch future events in 4K, FuboTV subscribers will need a 4K compatible streaming device, like an Apple TV 4K, Chromecast Ultra, Roku 4K-compatible streamers of 4K Ultra HD compatible smart TVs, and Amazon’s 4K-compatible Fire TV devices.
FuboTV has been streaming select programs in 4K/HDR since beginning its 4K beta in July of 2018.
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Boeing 777 From Manilla Folders, A 6+ Year Effort
Matt Freund
The closer you look the more you will be in awe of this shockingly intricate 777 replica. The fully-articulating landing gear alone has over 2,000 parts and 200 hours of assembly, not even including the penny-sized tires with individually-cut lug nuts. All carved from manilla office folders by hand.
A high school art architecture class in 2008 inspired this build by teaching a few papercrafting techniques. When [Luca] got a hold of a precision Air India 777-300ER schematic, he started building this 5 foot long 1:60 scale model. His project has received a fair amount of media attention over the years, including some false reports that he was so focused on the build that he dropped out of college (he did, for 2 years, but for other reasons). 6.5 years in the making, [Luca] is rounding the homestretch.
The design is manually drawn in Illustrator from the schematics, then is printed directly onto the manilla folders. Wielding an X-acto knife like a watch-maker, [Luca] cuts all the segments out and places them with whispers of glue. Pistons. Axles. Clamps. Tie rods. Brackets. Even pneumatic hoses – fractions of a toothpick thin – are run to their proper locations. A mesh behind the engine was latticed manually from of hundreds of strands. If that was not enough, it all moves and works exactly as it does on the real thing.
Tires actually swing and steer. Landing gear actually collapses and folds up. The flaps move. The engines are not just magnificent static replicas; the 777 has a collapsible rear section for reverse thrust and so does [Luca]’s manilla version. The cabin and cargo doors hinge and lock into place. Even the bathrooms are just as cramped as you remember them being.
[Luca] spent a whole summer just on the furniture: the 300+ economy seats took him 20 minutes each, two business class seats could be finished in a day, and a single first class suite was a full 8 hour shift. The engines took another five months. The galley too has plenty of detail – row after row of carts and cabinets.
It is not just the precision, meticulousness, and detail that impresses – the infinitesimal scale defies belief. The individual cockpit controls are each dwarfed by the grooves of their maker’s fingerprints. See the video embedded below of the main landing gear retracting and note the whole assemblies manipulated by tweezers. Just like the real thing the gear is small but strong, it can support several times the weight of the finished jet.
Expecting to be complete later this year (though he said the same thing last year), [Luca] has already started painting the fuselage. After he is done he plans to one-up himself with a 20 foot version.
[Luca] does not have a project page per se but he documents well. He even spent two weeks editing 130 hours of time-lapse footage for his fans to appreciate the work that goes into a single assembly. For all the glorious details see his Flickr albums or his Youtube channel.
Thanks [Lars] for the tip.
* Corrected, it was an architecture class, not an art class.
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Mithrandir says:
FrankenPC says:
I can’t think of a word that describes this. Maybe “insane”.
I wonder how long the paper and glue will last through oxidation and humidity? If I were him, I’d seal it in a glass case coated with UV protectant and filled with nitrogen.
SavannahLion says:
A museum likely will. But you’re seriously over thinking it there.
A room with non-UV lights (no fluorescent lights, probably no LED’s either. old school incandescent bulbs as a rule). That leaves oxidation which isn’t as big a problem as you think. If he used archival safe manila folders, that takes care of a big portion of the degradation right there. Same goes for whatever glues he opted to use.
I forget what the humidity and temperature is supposed to be for paper, but it isn’t “bone dry”. It’s easily looked up but is well within the realm of human comfort, if a bit chilly.
Z00111111 says:
If he didn’t have so many progress photos, I’d have called hoax. The size and detail is mind boggling!
If [Luca] isn’t the world’s best papercrafter, I’d love to see who is.
John Pfeiffer says:
I can’t even call it papercraft. The difference between mere papercraft and what [Luca] has done, is…well, like this Penny-Arcade strip. http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/08/20
paul n says:
btw, this was inspired by a very demanding high school architecture class. i would hesitate to call it “art class.”
Matt Freund says:
Only reference I recall was that he learned paper-folding techniques in the class. Bad assumption. There’s no writeup for the project, just hundreds of photos and hours of video footage. The link you posted below is 404’d, I’ll take your word on it and squeeze a correction in. Thanks.
peanutbutterjellytime says:
*bows*
reference for “architecture class” here. enjoy.
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/09/02/from-manila-folders-to-boeing-777-300er/
David J says:
Hat of to you sir!
DainBramage says:
Simply amazing in every conceivable way. I’m completely blown away by this.
Some insider info:
At Hackaday we try to avoid using weasel words in the headline. It’s a slippery slope and while in the short term yields more click-throughs, it’s overly sensationalist and exhausting to the readers for everything to be pumped up that way. If you abuse it, then “Extreme” becomes “Meh”, just sets a false base level.
I had yet to say anything like that until this article. My original headline started as “Mindblowing Boeing 777….” because I felt there was no other way to describe it. I spent hours and hours writing this because I kept getting distracted, zooming way in and staring at the images.
My editor snipped that first word from the headline, presumably to make it less sensationalist. Probably justifiable, but, I’m with you, it’s not salesmanship, I genuinely felt that jubilant.
Matt, you are completely correct. I think the editor may have made a mistake in this case. “Mindblowing”, in this case, is neither hyperbole nor sensationalist. It’s a very good adjective that can be used accurately in very few other instances.
Naw, it’s slippery slope. How I feel, and what makes an appropriate headline are separate things.
JRDM says:
I appreciate that you’re injecting some sensibility into the process. The internet seems to be getting worse with the click-bait tendencies, and it’s getting to be annoying.
‘Mindblowing’ indeed. Casters on the meal carts in the galley? The fully articulated hatches with all the little latch details? The crew rest module? …nevermind the whole ridiculous landing gear assembly… It makes my brain ACTUALLY hurt just trying to understand how someone could do this with file folders, basically from their own patterns…
The fact that he goes in and somehow embosses details in the surfaces, considering the scale, I can’t even imagine. Though that’s not saying much, since I can barely imagine assembling anything much smaller than the smallest fuselage parts… (I’ve always been kind of terribad with models.)
Nice robit says:
I’m glad to see ya’ll aren’t trying to clickbait us. I’ve made a habit of boycotting all that crap since it’s always a scam.
Jason Bowling says:
Hirudinea says:
Damn, this is some kind of idiot savant level of amazing, if Boeing doesn’t hire this guy Airbus should!
JayPee says:
[Luca] has created a legendary artifact!
holy mother of paper airplanes…
vonskippy says:
Luca, could you file these for me?
Thanks for today’s belly laugh!
It belongs in a museum for all to gaze upon.
mjrippe says:
The Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, MD USA would be a good candidate. They have tons of art by “outsider” artists from prisons, mental institutions, folk artists, and just plain obsessive people (like this project).
voxnulla says:
Surely this has been made by somebody well past the age of six and then some….
ayilm1 says:
Words cannot describe the insanity of this thing. The eyes of mere mortals like us are not worthy to gaze upon it. This seriously might just be the most intricate hand crafted thing I have ever seen.
No words exist to describe the awesomeness of this…. HOLY S#!T this is some super human skill.
Amazed is an understatement.
jpnorair says:
Luca: please, please stick this model in a helium-filled glass box! Maybe an upside-down aquarium would be the best solution.
I believe argon is now used, not helium.
I’ve seen some of this project before, and it’s even more impressive. If i were doing it, I’d probably draw it on a computer for cutting on a laser engraver, but still get frustrated because that’s a lot of work.
THIS GUY DID DRAW IT ON A COMPUTER FIRST.
bandit, Albuquerque says:
The real issue is he cuts out the pieces with an exacto knife, then carefully glues them together. Have not looked at the archive pictures, but I assume he uses a microscope or other magnifier image enhancer..
soundman98 says:
this will be the first time i say the next phrase.
this is not a hack.
Yeah, not a hack and not even our typical computer or electronic related.
The nearest thing it is to a hack, is the unconventional use of manilla office folders as a construction medium.
And yet, I’ve not heard a peep that it doesn’t belong here. This project is a celebration of engineering and I think all our readers appreciated seeing it.
I was wishy-washy on whether to just enjoy it for myself or to write an article. I’m glad I did.
i for one look forward to future projects like this.
i’m still going through the images, and am still getting blown away.. the amount of detail that went into this is just incredible.
zogzog says:
Awesome build.
“Manilla”, Common erroneous spelling of Manila, capital of the Philippines.
It’s such a common “misspelling”, including all manner of journals, published novels, etc. that it’s included as an acceptable alternate spelling in some dictionaries. Though, had I noticed I would’ve used the more common betterer spellin’s. I will plant my feet firmly and not let the uneducated take my literal “literally” away from me, regardless of how commonly abused and now accepted it is to mean the opposite.
That, and manilla it slips under the spellcheck radar by also being a form of West African currency. Sneaky.
That, plus it rhymes with vanilla.
I am bogged. I don’t care if this is a “hack” by the normal standards.
I look at this and have to think this not OCD – it is CDO – “get it in alphabetical order!”. I suspect [Luca] will become a case study in psych classes.
gravatarnonsense says:
I can’t help being impressed by the detailed work that want into this, and yet at the same time thinking how the time could have been used for something else. The problem for me is I have never understood the desire to do artistic things like painting, cross stitching and model making as the end result is something that looks nice but has no useful function and clutters the place up.
It is probably just the way a lot of engineer type brains are wired, wanting something to have a purpose other than just purely aesthetic. I can’t for example begin to fathom why people buy pottery ornaments to put on display in their house, they are the sort of thing that I would throw straight in the trash for having no useful function.
You have to remember what most people use most of their spare time for. Its a good chance things like this are built instead of watching TV (or surfing buzzfeed or something). The hour I spent last night fixing an old desk fan (worth $10 or so) didn’t take time from doing something more important, it took time from surfing reddit.
I’m an engineer as well, but I do engineering for art from time to time (pc demo’s for demo competitions).
Either way, that landing gear is very beautiful, even without the plane.
notmyfault2000 says:
Think about everything he learned while making this.
It takes a lot to understand something in theory.
It takes a lot more to be able to make it a reality.
Johan G says:
My thought exactly. He must have learned a lot, while sometimes getting stuck and sometimes having those euphoric “Eureka!” moments. It is a beautiful process.
One of the biggest joys in my life the last years is to see people learn new things and impress with what they do with their acquired knowledge and skills, even when the tools sometimes can be crude (a free open source flight simulator, FlightGear).
Somehow “Randy Pausch last lecture” seems related to the experience.
John Lennon:
“The time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
some people build things with no actual purpose, and some build with a purpose to fulfill a need or desire. i fly helicopters into the ground and blow up electronics that are technically over my head. but i enjoy doing it.
aztraph says:
The only way to out do this build would be to run wires, cables, and pressure lines throughout the plain and make the controls actually work, I try to think about that and my brain kind of goes, tick tick tick tick, thunk and I get a 404 error.
The world NEEDS people like this. Unbelievable!
Tom the Brat says:
UNWORTHY! WE ARE UNWORTHY!
Muttitude says:
Painstakingly Awesome !!
HAD spell check is not functional mmmm!
It’s “Manila ” not Manilla !
Stefan_Z says:
If I was filthy rich, I know what I would spend 1 million Dollars on…
This plane and a commission on the next model…
zaphod says:
I feel like Boeing should give this model its own serial number.
And buy it from him, and display it in the lobby of their headquarters.
It’d probably be better for it to be placed in Boeing’s Air and Space Museum in Seattle and make it part of their 777 exhibit. Primarily since they have the technology and resources to properly preserve it (Perhaps seal it in a glass case made from the windshield of a 777 since it has UV-blocking properties)
On another note, where did he get the schematics?
Amen to both ideas.
t-bone says:
Talk about wrecking the curve, imagine him showing up at your paper airplane contest!
This is a staggering effort. I hope there is a lucrative spot in the world for him.
[Luca} don’t let my daughter touch this, she WILL try to see how it flies!
CaptainObvious says:
Honestly, I am not impressed. He is drawing the parts in CAD using real schematics, and the printing them out on his printer. He then just cuts the parts out and glues them. Anyone can do this. The only thing he is really showing off is his tenacity for wasting time.
No, he primarily figures out how to print out three-dimensional parts as one-dimensional strips of card stock so that they can be assembled to accurately — very accurately — represent those 3D parts once assembled, AND work mechanically. That is an epic engineering feat. Not to mention that wielding an Xacto blade with such accuracy is worthy of respect in itself.
Dan J says:
This appears to be some very nice craftsmanship but how did he happen to bet his hands on a actual Boeing schematic?
What does his girlfriend think of this I wonder, she must be very proud. WHAT! NO GIRLFRIEND?
Mystick says:
Probably doesn’t even have time for SpanktaVision….
it’s all fun and games til you get icing on your empennage…
EFH says:
Excuse me, but… PAINTING? He is PAINTING this beautiful thing? Say it isn’t so!
Don’t you worry, it ain’t ruined ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7R2ldqDxnA
Thanks everyone for the incredibly kind comments, I kinda randomly stumbled across this article and it makes me so happy to see the enthusiastic responses!
Hey Luca – I tried to track you down to let you know I’d written an article, but couldn’t find contact info. Glad you found us.
For what it’s worth, you should be even more impressed that everyone’s been supportive. Of the tens of thousands of people that’ve read this article, you’d know damn sure if anyone would’ve had anything negative to say they would’ve run in here and shit all over it like they usually do. It’s really a testament to your project that everyone’s too stupefied to even be critical.
Congrats on the build and best of luck finishing it sometime this year.
Thanks! And sorry about the difficulty in getting ahold of me.
I get lots of reactions and feedback—both positive and negative—and I understand both sides of the spectrum. It’s a weird enough project that some channel their bemusement into insults (which more often than not just crack me up) while others are incredibly ecstatic and effusive.
Thanks again for the really nice write-up, and I’ll (obviously) be posting updates to my flickr/yt as I trudge toward the finish line.
JohnBrodowski says:
Without a doubt one of the coolest things I have ever had the pleasure to watch.
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Witch-hunts in Chinese history
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Unknown128 said:
Thank you all for the answers.
Do we have any concrete information about massive killing of witches by either the people or the authorities, similar to 15-17th century Europe?
What we are talking about is the killing of women. Just in case it's not clear, there are no such things as witches; only women accused of having non existent supernatural powers.
stevapalooza
Sorcery and black magic werent really gender-specific in China so there was never any special attention paid to female practitioners. Although there are plenty of folk tales about female ghosts and demons tricking men and leading them to ruin. The whole fox-fairy myth is this kind of story. Im not sure if there were any real life cases of women being accused of being ghosts or fox-fairies, but its possible.
In the 12th century a writer named Hong Mai traveled around China collecting supernatural stories from people. His book (Record of the Listener) is an interesting look into the medieval Chinese mind and what they believed in and feared.
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As Stevapalooza has pointed out. The book Soulstealers is the best one that I know of. What witch hunts require is an easily targeted subpopulation that stands outside of or threatens the status quo. In 18th century China, this ended up being the guanggun (bare branches). Basically there were many poor homeless single men who fled destitute mountain regions and moved into more well off urban centers. They were like migrant workers and many of them became adepts in the buddhist monastic order in an attempt to improve their situation. Vast swathes of poor men roaming around is unbalancing to the status quo and family order so the men were easy scapegoats for all kinds of things and sometimes accusations of sorcery were leveled at them.
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Even in Europe witches were not gender specific. Most of the accused where women, but men could be accused as well though not nearly as much.
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4 Techniques to Decrease Age Discrimination During Recruiting
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With recent accusations against Intel and IBM and a new lawsuit alleging companies used Facebook ads to screen out older job seekers, age discrimination in hiring is making headlines.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defines age discrimination as “treating an applicant or employee less favorably because of his or her age.” In the U.S., the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older.
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2. Remove biased language in job descriptions
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Phrases such as “new graduates welcome” are clearly age-targeted but less obvious wording such as “looking for a rock star” may also turn off older candidates.
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Divide & Conquer in scriptures?
In Mahabharata, when Duryodhan is captured by Gandharvas in forest, Yudhishtir tells Bhim to go save him. Bhim refuses. Yudhishtir then advises Bhim that if there is an internal family feud, it is 100 karuavas vs. 5 pandavas. But against an external entity, it is 105 vs. Others. Then Bhim goes and saves Duryodhana.
Are there any instances in scriptures where the Divide & Conquer (Bheda) was successfully implemented ? Similar to what Westerners did in India before independence.
Are there any recommendations on how to guard against it ('united we stand') ? e.g. agreeing to agree on certain opinions, agreeing to disagree on others, figuring out which opinions are worth fighting for, and which are worth setting aside.
There is a related story I think in Mahabharata about how a rat and a cat temporarily make friendship so that the rat can escape from a fox, and the cat can escape from a hunter. Anyone know the reference for it ?
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Pandavas themselves are a great example of being united in spite of differences of opinions, Bhima goes in aggressive mode, Yudhistir goes to passive mode and they disagree often. But they are all united, because they accepted Krishna as the center of their lives. – user16618 Nov 22 '18 at 6:35
Kaurava and Duryodhana team though appears united had their big egoes and was always divided.. Karna didn't want to join the war as long as Bhisma was in battlefield. Salya always was a disturbance for Karna though he was his charioteer. – user16618 Nov 22 '18 at 6:48
There is a related story I think in Mahabharata about how a rat and a cat temporarily make friendship so that the rat can escape from a fox, and the cat can escape from a hunter. Anyone know the reference for it?
I think you are referring to the story of a rat named Palita, and Lomaśa, the cat, from the Śānti-parva. The rat enters a temporary alliance with the cat (which is trapped in a hunter's noose) to save itself from a mongoose and an owl. But to protect itself from the cat it doesn't free the cat until after the hunter returns. After it's been freed, the cat wants to prolong the friendship but the rat says their friendship was born out of a reason and it cannot continue as a cat is its worst enemy and only circumstances made them friends.
The story is several pages long so I'm only quoting the concluding part.
Shanti Parva (Apad-dharma Parva) – Chapter 1464 (136)
Having been thus praised by the cat, the rat thought and spoke these grave and purposeful words to the cat. 'You are virtuous and I have heard the words of reason you have spoken to me. Though I am pleased, I do not trust you. By praising me, or by offering me riches, you won't be able to get me to associate with you. O friend! The wise do not subjugate themselves to the enemy.
On this, there was a verse sung by Ushanas. Listen to it. "If one has had an agreement with a more powerful enemy to achieve a common end, one must act in a controlled way. Once the task has been accomplished, one should not trust. In every situation, one must protect one's own life. All one's possessions and offspring exist only as long as one is alive. In brief, the supreme view of all the texts about policy is that one should not trust. Therefore, if one desires the welfare of one's own self, one must completely distrust men. Those who are weak, but do not trust, are not killed by their enemies. But if they trust, even the relatively strong are quickly slain by the weak."
O cat! Thus, I must always protect my own self from someone like you. You must also protect yourself from the chandala, whose anger has been generated.' As it was speaking in this way, terror arose in the cat and it swiftly entered its hole. Palita knew about the true purport of the sacred texts and was full of intelligence and capacity. It was wise. Having said all this, it went to another hole. Palita was wise and intelligent, though weak. Because of this, though alone, it was able to overcome many other immensely strong enemies.
A learned person must have an alliance with a capable enemy, just as the rat and the cat resorted to each other and escaped. '"I have instructed you about the path to be followed in the dharma of kshatriyas. O lord of the earth! I have recounted it in detail. Listen to it briefly again. Those two were firm in their enmity towards each other, but acted with supreme affection. They then turned their minds towards subjugating each other. However, by resorting to the strength of its intelligence, the wiser one subjugated the other one. But if care is not exercised, a wiser person can be subjugated, even by someone who is not learned. A person who is scared must act as if he is not scared. Even if he does not trust, he must act as if he trusts. One must be careful and not be fickle. If one is fickle, one is destroyed.
There is a time for allying with enemies. There is a time for fighting with friends. O Yudhishthira! Those who know about the truth have said that one must always act in this way. O great king! Having thought about this, having understood the purport of the sacred texts and having engaged oneself with care, one must act fearfully, before the cause for fright presents itself. One must determine one's action as if one is frightened and decide on counters. Intelligence results from fear, provided that one engages oneself with care. O king! There is no fear for a person who is frightened of fear that hasn't materialized. However, a great fear is generated for a person who is not frightened, but is careless. One must never offer the counsel, 'Do not be scared.' That leads to ignorance. If one knows, one can go to those who know about a means to get out of the hardship. A person who is scared must therefore act as if he is not scared. Even if he does not trust, he must act as if he trusts. Having comprehended the gravity of the task, he must not indulge in any falsehood. O Yudhishthira! In this way, I have recounted the history to you. O son! Having heard in the midst of these well- wishers, act accordingly. Use your intelligence to first know the difference between an enemy and a friend, the time for war and peace and means of escaping from a difficulty. For a common objective, one must have an alliance with a stronger enemy. One must associate and act in accordance with the agreement. However, having accomplished the objective, one must not trust.
(The Mahabharata: Volume 8, Bibek Debroy)
In the K. M. Ganguli translation, you can find the same story here.
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yep, that's the one – ram Nov 26 '18 at 23:52
The Divide & Conquer (Bheda) was successfully implemented by both Duryodhan and Yudhisthir in case of Salya.
As per Mahabharata: Udyoga Parva, Salya with one Akshauhini army was actually going to fight from Pandava's side.
Duryodhana, hearing that magnanimous and mighty hero was on his way, hastened towards him and paid him honours, O best of the Bharata race and caused finely decorated places of entertainment to be constructed at different spots for his reception, on beautiful sites, and whither many artists were directed to entertain the guests....
Salya thought it was arranged by Yudhisthira and wanted to reward those servants then, Duryodhana appeared and asked Salya a boon (to fight from Duryodhan's side) to which Salya agreed. Salya promised Duryodhan that he will come back to join his army after a quick visit to Yudhisthira.
Then, Salya visited Yudhisthira and explained him that he gave a boon to Duryodhan and now he had to fight from his side on which
Yudhishthira said, O valiant king, it has been well-done by thee that being pleased at heart thou hast plighted thy truth to Duryodhana. But good betide thee, O ruler of the earth, I ask thee to do one thing only. O king, O best of men, thou wilt have to do it solely for my sake, though it may not be proper to be done. O valiant one, hear what I submit to thee. O great king, thou art equal to Krishna on the field of battle. When, O best of kings, the single combat between Karna and Arjuna will take place, I have no doubt thou wilt have to drive Karna's car. On that occasion, if thou art inclined to do good to me, thou must protect Arjuna. O king, thou must likewise so act that the Suta's son Karna may be dispirited and the victory may be ours. Improper it no doubt is; but, O my uncle, for all that thou must do it.
Salya said, 'Good betide thee. Listen, O son of Panda. Thou tellest me to so act that the vile son of the Suta may be dispirited in fight. To be sure, I shall be his charioteer' on the field, for he always considers me equal to Krishna. O tiger like descendant of Kuru, I shall certainly speak to him, when desirous of fighting on the field of battle, words contradictory and fraught with harm to him, so that bereft of pride and valour, he may be easily slain by his antagonist.
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General » Contributors: What was the first picture you submitted to IMCDb?
Contributors: What was the first picture you submitted to IMCDb?
Published 18/05/2017 @ 05:42:17, By Reg1992
I was browsing a few movies I had contributed to recently and wondered this.
The first picture I submitted was this back in 2015: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_861451-Lincoln-Town-Car-1990.html
What was yours, or the earliest one you remember submitting?
Latest Edition: 18/05/2017 @ 05:43:01
Published 18/05/2017 @ 20:08:28, By antp
First ones I submitted, to the previous version of the site, when I was not yet webmaster of it, were main cars from "Ronin", and then "Jurassic Park".
Published 19/05/2017 @ 00:38:09, By Lateef
Apartment 1303 and Rovdyr, both mediocre horror movies
Published 19/05/2017 @ 18:19:45, By dsl
I started very gently with a crap 70s TV series which had a Monteverdi and only one other entry, then pottered about a bit adding comment pics and entries to other stuff while I slowly got the hang of doing all the fiddly bits and got brave enough to start full-blown attempts on some long-standing favourites. Finally I went for it with 2 Scottish TV series Jute City and The Crow Road and thought I'd conquered the system. Until I tried Steelyard Blues, which was a nightmare where all sorts of things kept going wrong and I had to be rescued a few times by nice helpful admins. The scars healed eventually.
Published 20/05/2017 @ 12:48:14, By atom
A Volvo ten years ago: http://imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=75524
My first full movie was my all time favorite movie Smala Sussie.
DWelch
Published 16/06/2017 @ 06:59:25, By DWelch
I was not able to submit yet because I've been too busy in the recent months.I'm going to add my entries soon
PMEntertainmentLives
Published 17/06/2017 @ 04:52:05, By PMEntertainmentLives
My first ones were Cold Heat and The Big Sweat.
Published 17/06/2017 @ 21:37:52, By Sandie
I think it must have been:
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_256980-BMW-320i-E92-2008.html
Purzel89
Published 23/06/2017 @ 13:28:36, By Purzel89
My first picture was in comments. So that doesnt count.
However the first car i contributed was this:
http://imcdb.org/vehicle_670362-Dodge-Stratus-1995.html
Or the Caravan. But i want the Stratus to be the first. Because that epsiode made me buy a Stratus.
Yes, television helped me decide to buy my current car.
I remember indeed that you started by contributing on that series
This I think: http://imcdb.org/movie.php?id=161220
Published 06/08/2017 @ 02:17:28, By eLMeR
If comments are not taken into account, then this 2011 Chevrolet Cruse was my first contribution:
(Unforgettable, episode 2.05)
Raul1983
Published 08/08/2017 @ 10:59:04, By Raul1983
My first movie contribution was 'Danger Ahead' (1935) in March 2006. That's 11 years ago! Time goes fast. Antp created that page - I didn't have admin rights yet.
http://imcdb.org/movie_26259-Danger-Ahead.html
airiosaka
Published 15/05/2018 @ 15:41:10, By airiosaka
http://www.imcdb.org/movie_8086086-Tsukiuta.html
DidierF
Published 04/11/2018 @ 02:54:44, By DidierF
My first were four firsts, four movies the same day,
http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?resultsStyle=asImages&sortBy=5&id=52436
http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=140074
http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=41710
and I made some mistakes while doing that, hence being lectured by an admin.
I'm quite sure the very first pic I posted was the Unic truck in Échec au porteur :
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_597492-Unic-ZU-80-1954.html
And I wouldn't post many pictures better than this one, during my thirty-three-month activity there after.
chicomarx
Published 07/11/2018 @ 18:54:10, By chicomarx
Quote From: DidierF
and I made some mistakes while doing that, hence being lectured by an admin
Let the record show that was valuable help from my part, not lecturing >
Pray accept my apologies, chico.
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White van driver ‘launched savage machete attack on police officer during routine stop’
Jimmy Nsubuga
Yahoo News UK 15 January 2020
Muhammad Rodwan, 56, right, has gone on trial for the attempted murder of PC Stuart Outten (PA)
A white van driver repeatedly stabbed a police officer with a machete in a “savage” attack during a routine stop, a court has heard.
Muhammad Rodwan, 56, has gone on trial for attempted murder accused of stabbing PC Stuart Outten when he was pulled over in Leyton, east London, in August last year.
PC Outten, 29, suffered multiple stab wounds and skull fractures during the attack but still managed to use his Taser to disable Rodwan, the Old Bailey heard.
Rodwan, from Luton, has admitted striking PC Outten but denies attempted murder, claiming he acted in self-defence.
PC Stuart Outten was stabbed while carrying out a traffic stop (PA)
Opening the trial, Jonathan Rees QC said: “This case concerns a savage machete attack that was carried out by the defendant on a police constable during what should have been a routine stop of the defendant’s white van to investigate whether he was properly insured.
He added: “Despite the ferocity of the attack, and the seriousness of the wounds he had already received, PC Outten somehow managed to discharge his Taser weapon which disabled the defendant and brought the attack to an end.
“The evidence suggests that had he not managed to fire his Taser, his injuries could have been far worse and even fatal.”
The prosecutor said the incident was caught on the body-worn cameras of PC Outten and PC Helen Brooks, who was on duty with him.
Court artist sketch of Muhammad Rodwan, 56, appearing at Thames Magistrates' Court charged with the attempted murder (PA)
Eyewitnesses to the violence also recorded video clips on Snapchat and mobile phone which will be shown in the trial.
Mr Rees said: “The prosecution allege that this is a case of attempted murder, in that at the time of the machete attack, the defendant was intending to kill PC Outten.”
“For his part, the defendant doesn’t dispute that he struck Pc Outten with the machete, but he indicated during the interview that followed his arrest that he was acting in self-defence because ‘the officer attacked me’.”
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Rodwan, who works as a handyman, denies a charge of attempted murder, an alternative offence of wounding with intent between 6-9 August last year.
He is also charged with possessing an offensive weapon, namely a machete, on High Road, Leyton, on 7 August last year.
The case is being prosecuted by Jonathan Rees QC, with Michael Turner QC defending.
The trial is due to go on for up to two weeks.
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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess
Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change
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Ehud Halperin
Contributes to our understanding of lived Hinduism, and to the dynamics involving goddesses, devotees, and daily life in Hindu India
Offers a multi-perspective and context-dependent portrayal of the goddess
Makes important contributions to the study of Hinduism and ecology; complex non-human agency; and material religion
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Hadimba is a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of Gods. As the book shows, Hadimba is a goddess whose vitality reveals itself in her devotees' rapidly changing encounters with local and far from local players, powers, and ideas. These include invading royal forces, colonial forms of knowledge, and more recently the onslaught of modernity, capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Hadimba has provided her worshipers with discursive, ritual, and ideological arenas within which they reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and sometimes resist these changing realities, and she herself has been transformed in the process.
Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials gathered in the region from 2009 to 2017, The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up, or rather, from the center out, portraying the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology.
Ehud Halperin teaches at Tel Aviv University. He earned his PhD in South Asian Religions from Columbia University in 2012. He specializes in the study of Himalayan Hinduism and the ways in which religious belief, practice, narrative, social order, and capitalist modernity intertwine in everyday life in the region, especially in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Halperin's work concerns diverse issues, such as Indian goddesses, Hindu ritual and sacrifice, material religion and agency of divinities, religion and ecology, and lived Hinduism.
A Word on Transliteration
Chapter 1. Getting There: The Land of the Gods
Chapter 2. Assembling the Ritual Core: Hadimba as a Complex Agent
Chapter 3. Narrating the Local Web of Associations: The Goddess of Many Faces
Chapter 4. Encountering Epic India: Hadimba and the Mahabharata
Chapter 5. Negotiating National Hinduism: The Controversy over Blood Sacrifice
Chapter 6. Confronting the Global: Hadimba and Climate Change
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International Women’s Day – some things to celebrate but more work to do
On 8 March 2011 21 October 2018 By Kate CarruthersIn ideas4 Comments
It is International Women’s Day again and surveying the scene here in Australia for women I find much to celebrate. Yet there remains much work to do for the women of Australia.
Here we see, for the first time, a crop of women in senior political leadership positions.
GOVERNOR GENERAL & STATE GOVERNORS
Quentin Bryce – Governor General
Marie Bashir – Governor of NSW
Penelope Wensley – Governor of QLD
POLITICIANS – FEDERAL
Julia Gillard – Prime Minister
Nicola Roxon – Federal Minister for Health and Ageing
Jenny Macklin – Federal Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Penny Wong – Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation
Julie Bishop – Deputy Leader Federal Opposition
Christine Milne – Deputy Leader Federal Greens
UPDATE: Kate Ellis, Minister for Employment Participation and Childcare and Minister for the Status of Women (thanks to Tom Voirol)
STATE PREMIERS
Anna Bligh – Premier of Queensland
Kristina Kenneally – Premier of New South Wales
Lara Giddings – Premier of Tasmania
I’m sure I’ve missed some of the women in politics – do please let me know of any additions to the lists.
It was interesting to note that all states except South Australia have had a female Premier and that these female Premiers were all from the Australian Labor Party:
Carmen Lawrence, Premier of Western Australia (12 February 1990 – 16 February 1993)
Joan Kirner, Premier of Victoria (10 August 1990 – 6 October 1992)
Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland since 13 September 2007
Kristina Keneally, Premier of New South Wales since 4 December 2009
Lara Giddings, Premier of Tasmania since 24 January 2011.
But when we turn our attention to the corporate world in Australia there is a real dearth of women at the helm. Of course, there’s Gail Kelly at Westpac – but which other women are running large public companies in Australia? As the Business Council of Australia noted recently:
“Currently only 10.7 per cent of senior executive positions are held by women and just 2 per cent of CEO roles. Women chair 2 per cent of ASX 200 companies and hold just 8.3 per cent of board directorships.”
It makes me think it might be time for board quotas for women. We’ve been asking nicely for a long time, and if women were going to get board appointments on merit it would be more prevalent by now.
Then there is the sad state of affairs with women’s financial independence. This coupled with continuing pay inequity that is experienced by many women means that women are entering retirement with substantially less savings than their male peers.
The paid maternity leave scheme that was introduced by the current government is a huge step forward for women and equitable financial treatment.
Also it remains a matter of grave concern that the level of domestic violence against women remains stubbornly high. As noted in a Crikey article in 2010:
“It’s simple; domestic abuse and sexual assault against women are community issues impacting our wives and partners, mothers, daughters, friends – everyone.
One in three women over their life times will be physically assaulted. One in five will be sexually assaulted. The cost of domestic violence to the Australian economy was $13.6 billion in 2009.”
The report card for women in Australia is along the lines of:
A good effort so far; but more hard work is needed.
It’s time for women to reclaim the word feminist and continue the good fight. There remains much work to do.
Gender parity in Australia
On 19 October 2010 20 October 2018 By Kate CarruthersIn ideas1 Comment
Bain & Company have just released a brief titled “Level the playing field: A call for action on gender parity in Australia”.
The key findings are:
Australian men are 1.4 times more likely to believe that gender parity should be a strategic priority than men surveyed in the US and Europe
9 in 10 women and 7 in 10 men believe that gender parity should be a strategic business imperative for their company
However, this strong belief has not translated through to a perception that women have equal opportunity to be selected for senior leadership positions
Only 1 in 5 women and 1 in 2 men believe that women have equal opportunity to be promoted to senior management positions
In their brief Bain & Company (opens PDF) argue that companies can take three measures to close the gap – and create a stronger talent pipeline:
show a real commitment to gender parity
lower the cultural barriers
have a persistent approach to change management
This is all very well and nicely aspirational. But what are we to make of it, when (as apparently happened recently in Sydney at a women in business event) the male CEO of a large Australian organisation notes that, women do better in the Public Service because they have family friendly work hours and private industry does not.
There is some serious old-fashioned 1970s style consciousness raising that needs to go on at executive and board levels in this country. Surely nobody wants their own daughters and granddaughters to suffer inequitable access in business?
Women: The State of Play via APESMA #equalpayday
On 3 September 2010 21 October 2018 By Kate CarruthersIn ideas
APESMA 2009-10 Women in the Professions Survey Report has just been released and it contains some sobering reading about how women are still treated unfairly and inequitably in the workplace.
As noted on the APESMA site:
Nearly 70% of respondents said that taking maternity/parental leave – including unpaid leave – was likely to be detrimental to their career, despite legally having access to these provisions.
Disturbingly, nearly 40% of respondents stated that they had been bullied and 38% discriminated against in the course of their employment. Nearly 20% reported that they had been sexually harassed, although only one fifth of those had reported the incident through official channels. Reports of sexual harassment and discrimination were higher in male-dominated industries.
47.4% of respondents said that their career progression had been affected by workplace culture.
And nearly one quarter of respondents expected that they would leave their profession within five years.
The real question is what we are going to do about this. So many women seem to believe that the fight for equal pay and fair treatment at work is over.
But is not over. And each of us needs to decide what action we will take to make the workplace a better, safer and fairer place for the women who come along after us.
Equal Pay Day is 4 September 2010 – why not start with that?
Who else is interested in the future?
On 21 May 2009 21 October 2018 By Kate CarruthersIn ideas4 Comments
Here’s a short video with another person I met at the Future Summit 09 in Melbourne. This is Alex Jones, who is Chairman of the Deafness Forum of Australia, he’s talking to us in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Alex raises the really important issue of access for all. After all, what’s a great future if we call can’t share in it?
What he’s saying is:
“Hi, I’m Alex Jones – chairman of the Deafness Forum of Australia. This organisation is the peak body for the deafness sector. We advocate and lobby for the rights of Deaf, hearing impaired, Deafblind people – to improve their lives in Australia. I’m here at the summit to contribute a huge factor on ‘access issues’ across all areas of the megatrends raised in this Summit. Access for all is the reason I’m here. Cheerios.”
IWD: International Women’s Day & the IT industry
On 10 March 2005 20 October 2018 By Kate CarruthersIn ideas
What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our IWD lunches & we all shake our heads in horror that there are not more women in the industry.
Why aren’t there more women in the IT industry?
Perhaps because to get a start you have to do an IT or computer science degree with a bunch of pointy headed male nerds? (Now that I’ve spent a significant number of years at work with nerds I’m glad I spent my undergrad days with a bunch of male philosophers instead.)
Perhaps because most entry level IT jobs have terrible hours and a lot of weekend work? When was the last time we did a code drop or network upgrade during daylight hours on a weekday?
Perhaps because men still do not think women can do hands on techie stuff or use tools? And this in spite of many of having our own power tools these days (I’ve got a really good set of powered and non powered tools & my male partner is not allowed near them).
Perhaps because women still do not think that they are capable of doing technical things? Come on Moms, when did you last encourage your daughter to pull her computer apart?
Perhaps because in many ways it is a grungy job? How many girls want to crawl around and play with hardware when they could dress up nicely and wear high heels. Let’s face it, after 12+ years of school clothes most girls want a nice dress, some makeup & a nice pair of shoes to wear to work – not jeans and a screwdriver.
I don’t know why there are so few women in IT. But here are a few reasons I am still working in IT:
I am not very sensitive, tend to ignore other people and just do what I want – so even when people tried to deflect me from working in IT I just ignored them.
I know how men think and act because 4 out of 5 children in my family had penises (this helps if you have to work with men – which many of us do).
I like playing with technology and am not afraid of either software or hardware. My personal observation in the workplace is that many men will give things a go while women hang back waiting for an invitation. Not many women were building web pages for the heck of it like the guys in the IT department when the web came in.
I take a lot of initiative and make myself useful – it is harder for people to get rid of good performers of any gender.
Some researchers attribute the low rates of female participation in IT to women unfriendly workplaces. Face up to it, workplaces are not just women unfriendly they are PEOPLE unfriendly. If women do not want to participate in the work then they cannot change the workplaces from outside. More women have to want to work in IT, if women do not want to do this work then they will vote with their feet. Just like they are doing now. I’m just not sure how we can change this.
© 2002-2018 Kate Carruthers
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Secret federal aircraft spy network implodes
Dan Feidt
It’s been thrilling to watch one of my favorite topics, aviation in covert operations, hit the bigtime over the last few news cycles. A few tweets about suspicious plane hovering over Baltimore ‘disturbances’ registered to a ghostly “NG Research” at a Bristow, Virginia PO Box cued the story. The FBI conceding to Washington Post that it was their flight set the stage for this. These stories have quietly been leaching out for years. As far back as 2003 (or 2006 in WIRED) references to small aircraft doing domestic surveillance have been popping up. After the Boston Marathon bombing, a small aircraft was traced to the same Bristow VA cluster. Today the story hit turbo with a big AP story, FBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities, but there are lots more to find because the AP didn’t really go outside of Bristow. You’ll find plenty of N Numbers to snoop on below – and cool new tracking techniques too!! Quote of the year?
The FBI asked the AP not to disclose the names of the fake companies it uncovered, saying that would saddle taxpayers with the expense of creating new cover companies to shield the government’s involvement, and could endanger the planes and integrity of the surveillance missions. The AP declined the FBI’s request because the companies’ names — as well as common addresses linked to the Justice Department — are listed on public documents and in government databases.
In my own scoping in the last week or so it appears that these shell company registration were mostly set up around 2010 or 2011, making this an Obama operation through and through. I apologize for not tipping yall more quickly to this impending development but I have been too busy!
And now! Grassley presses FBI for answers on mysterious surveillance flights | TheHill (June 2 2015)
This story shows that secret airlines are becoming an obsolete method for the [deep] state, because with the Internet and planespotters it becomes possible to observe and end-run around the secrecy of the networks, as the last big wave of awareness around secret detainee flights in the Bush years really revealed (though mostly in Eurasia, not North America).
Now the FBI is an onerous position where they have to turn over, de-register or re-register all of these planes, somehow reconciling rebuilding the secrecy of the fleet exposed above with the FAA’s registration system, and the hordes of planespotters out there now reinforced by tons of interested activists cued into the national scope of this operation. Good luck Feds!
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Summary: Senior's latest business investment may turn out to be his most lucrative yet.
"Junior! Glad you could make it son!"
"Hey, Dad," Tony greeted with a less exuberant voice. "Hope you don't mind that Gibbs came with. We were on our way back from a federal agency pow-wow in New York City when you called."
"Abby told me all about it when I went to NCIS looking for you. Well, what do you think?" Senior asked as he flung his hands out to indicate the room they were standing in.
"Looks like a lab to me," Gibbs said drily.
"It's not just a lab, Gibbs. This is a top of the line research facility of which I'm now a part owner. Things are looking up for me this time."
"At least the security looks good," Tony said as he studied the heavy security door. "What are they working on?"
"Currently, it's a new line of perfumes and colognes that not only aid in weight loss, but also help the wearer attract potential partners."
Tony held back a laugh and Gibbs just lifted an eyebrow. That, of course, was when all hell broke loose.
Earthquakes weren't a common thing on the East Coast, but apparently one decided it was good day to strike. The floor began to sway and the vials positioned around the room started to move around. Soon, the breaking of glass could be heard and alarms were blaring throughout the building.
Before any of the men could react, the heavy security door slammed shut with an audible click and hiss, locking them in the room that was quickly filling with the reeking smells from the shattered vials.
"What the hell?" Gibbs was the first to recover and with a hand over his nose went to the door and tried to open it. It didn't budge.
"Part of the security procedures, Gibbs," Senior was saying with a nasal tone. "We have to wait for someone to open it from the other side."
"But there wasn't anyone here when we came in downstairs," Tony huffed out. "How quick will someone respond to the alarm?"
"I don’t know. Haven't had a chance to go over all the security procedures of the place yet."
Gibbs pulled out his cell phone and glared at the screen. "Says no service," he barked out.
Tony checked and his and his father's were the same. "Probably the quake. If it shook this bad everywhere, the systems are probably overwhelmed with everyone trying to make calls. And I don't see a landline in here either."
"Damn," Senior said as his eyes started to water. "I hope the final product isn't going to smell as bad as this crap does. There won't be any money in it."
"I don't know, Dad," Tony said as he uncovered his nose and took a tentative whiff. "It's not really that bad to me. Smells kinda like sawdust."
"And pizza," Gibbs added with a sniff.
Tony sniffed the air again and moved closer to Gibbs. He felt suddenly drawn to the other man for some reason. Gibbs met him part way and they just stared at each other. Realization hit them at the same moment and they both jumped to opposite ends of the room.
"Shit!" Tony shouted. "We need to get out of here," he said as he paced and tried to fight the urge to grab Gibbs and shove him against the wall.
"Just sit tight, Junior," Senior said, unaware of the tension between the two men. "The smell's already going away and I'm sure we'll be able to get a call out soon."
Gibbs just growled and parked himself in the opposite corner from Tony.
"Look, Dad," Tony said through clenched teeth. "I think that the whole finding a partner aspect of those perfumes are working."
"Me and Gibbs. We both- I mean, I want to… Well," Tony was stumbling over what he was feeling.
"Nonsense, Junior. You know as well as I do these don't actually work. They just advertise it that way to boost sales. Besides, why would you and Gibbs consider each other to be partners in a sexual sense?"
Tony blushed and Gibbs remained silent, but his eyes were telling Tony that he needed to fess up.
"Um, maybe because we are, Dad," Tony managed to get out. "Partners and not just at work."
"You're telling me that you and Gibbs are fucking?" Senior questioned bluntly. "Since when?"
"For a long time, Dad," Tony said with a sigh. "And believe me, we wouldn't even thing about wanting to do things we both want to do right now with you anywhere nearby. So something in all those broken vials is affecting us."
Senior looked between the two men and could see the tension they both shared and he tried not to think about the noticeable bulges they were both sporting. Then the realization hit him that they were in a room filled with a goldmine.
"I'll be rich!" Senior shouted. "I knew this was a good investment. We'll make millions on this. Although, we'll play it safe and make sure there are warning labels on every bottle. Don't want someone suing us when the current partner cheats on them because they found someone with a better scent. This will revolutionize the dating industry. We could sponsor those speed dating events and much more."
Senior's voice trailed off as he moved over to a desk and began making furious notes. Gibbs and Tony stared at him with incredulous expressions.
"I just came out to my dad and he didn't care," Tony stage whispered to Gibbs.
"Think he'd care if I shoved you over that table though," Gibbs shot back. They both cast a quick look back at Senior, but he didn't seem to hear them.
"Maybe not," Tony said with a snicker. "I think it would just give him more proof that he'll make millions on whatever this is."
"There's a closet over there that's not locked," Gibbs said leading the way. "How quiet can you be?"
"Very, Boss."
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Fic: Making Scents (NCIS; Gibbs/DiNozzo)
Title: Making Scents
Genre: Slash
Pairings: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Written For: taylorgibbs's January 2013 Prompt
Tags: .fanfic, .genre: slash, .noncrossover, challenge: unwritten meme, character: anthony dinozzo (ncis), character: anthony dinozzo sr (ncis), character: leroy jethro gibbs (ncis), fandom: ncis, pairing: gibbs/dinozzo
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by ashtonfelps | created - 3 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | Public
Comedy (18) Musical (18) Romance (16) Drama (7) Family (5) Adventure (2) Biography (1) Fantasy (1) Music (1) Sport (1) War (1) Western (1)
Broadway Manhattan New York City (4)
Dysfunctional Family (4)
Manhattan New York City (4)
Theatre Production (4)
Andy Hardy Character (3)
Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship (3)
Brother Sister Relationship (3)
Horse And Carriage (3)
Place Name In Title (3)
Railway Station (3)
Show Business (3)
Tap Dancing (3)
Title Spoken By Character (3)
Applause (2)
Aunt Niece Relationship (2)
Character Name As Title (2)
Cult Film (2)
Fake Moustache (2)
Falling From Height (2)
Grandfather Granddaughter Relationship (2)
Horse And Wagon (2)
Jukebox Musical (2)
Lie (2)
Minstrel Show (2)
1. Pigskin Parade (1936)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, The Yacht Club Boys
2. The Clock (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
3. Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Sophie Tucker, C. Aubrey Smith
4. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Andy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
5. Listen, Darling (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap her in the family trailer to live a life on the open road without worries ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Judy Garland, Freddie Bartholomew, Mary Astor, Walter Pidgeon
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
7. Babes in Arms (1939)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Musical
A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee
8. Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
9. Strike Up the Band (1940)
Passed | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jimmy Connors and his girl-friend want to take part in Paul Whiteman's high-school bands contest, but they cannot afford the fare. But per chance they meet Paul Whiteman in person and are ... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, June Preisser
10. Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Douglas McPhail
11. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Passed | 132 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley | Stars: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner
12. Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
Hoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Holden
13. Babes on Broadway (1941)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Tommy Williams desperately wants to get to Broadway, but as he is only singing in a spaghetti house for tips he is a long way off. He meets Penny Morris, herself no mean singer, and through... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler
14. Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his heart.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Richard Carlson
15. Thousands Cheer (1943)
Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles
16. Girl Crazy (1943)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland
17. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer
18. The Harvey Girls (1946)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury
19. The Pirate (1948)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper
20. Easter Parade (1948)
Approved | 103 min | Musical, Romance
A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller
21. Words and Music (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
Fictionalized story of the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, June Allyson, Perry Como
22. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
In turn-of-the century America, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during working hours but unwillingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington
23. Summer Stock (1950)
A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven
24. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Not Rated | 179 min | Drama, War
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich
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GOP fan fiction by CNN
John February 15, 2019 February 15, 2019 Not Funny, Politics
This CNN article, and the conventional wisdom it recites, is so wrong that you have to wonder if the author has been living in the same America as the rest of us for the last few years.
The gist of it is that Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border is some kind of massive political problem for the Republican party. But actually, it’s a great way for the Republicans to excite their base of racists; the GOP will suffer no consequences, either from professional Republican hypocrites or terrified, ineffective Democrats; and in the long run, it will be yet another tactic used exclusively by Republicans – like shutdowns – to get what they want at the expense of democracy. It’s a win all around for Trump, who completely rolled all the Democrats in Congress on the wall issue.
Before I get into the article’s vapid, naïve arguments, let’s remember what happened here. The Democrats and the Republicans negotiated for a bill to avoid another government shutdown. The end result gave Trump 55 miles of wall, far less than he wanted but a “good start,” to paraphrase Sean Hannity. Before the Senate or the House voted on the bill, Trump said, “Great! I’ll take your 55 miles, ignore your budgetary constraints, and do whatever I want.” And the Democrats, so terrified of being blamed for a government shutdown, still voted to give him his 55 miles. Stunning.
So, so far, Trump is clearly winning. The national emergency is key – it lets him avoid political defeat while simultaneously strengthening his own power. So why is CNN insisting that this is a big misstep by Trump which is going to tear the Republican party apart?
Well:
Okay, before I start quoting this article, I just want you to take a few minutes and think about how the Republican party has behaved for the last ten or so years. Specifically think about things like Merrick Garland. Because this article is heavily based on the idea that Republicans have a tremendous respect for institutions, democracy, and the rule of law. Okay, here we go:
In the scenario Hill Republicans fear most, Trump declares a national emergency and House Democrats quickly pass a joint resolution against it, sending what amounts to a political grenade into the Senate. There, Republicans would be forced into either supporting a national emergency or rebuking a GOP president on his signature issue.
It would also force them to grapple with a handful of other thorny issues — from executive overreach to separation of powers to raiding Pentagon money to pay for border security.
Lol, in what world would it “force” Republicans to “grapple” with these issues? Grapple in what sense? Lay awake at night and reflect? Because all they are going to do is vote to support the national emergency and go on living their lives. Why on earth would we think it would be any different? Is Mitch McConnell going to hold an open floor debate on “executive overreach” and start a national dialogue, or are a few Democrats going to make meaningless, quickly forgotten speeches before the Senate votes to allow Trump to essentially become a dictator?
For certain Republicans who criticized Obama for sidestepping Congress and relying on executive action, this presents a bit of a no-win situation. Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul blasted Obama for acting like a “monarch” and a “king” when taking executive action on immigration issues.
Faced with having to vote on a privileged resolution overturning Trump’s emergency declaration for the wall, Cruz and Paul could either turn a blind eye to similar circumvention by Trump, inviting accusations of hypocrisy, or defy the President and risk looking weak on border security.
Again, you have to laugh at this. Do GOP senators SEEM like people terrified of being accused of hypocrisy? Have they literally ever acted this way, at all, in the last ten years? Or have they flip-flopped on every single criticism they had of Obama as soon as Trump did it (higher deficits, crony corporatism, executive overreach, even stupid shit like the President golfing too much)? Ted Cruz, to the extent that he even acknowledges that there can be a comparison made between Obama and Trump, will say, “This time is different.” And he will continue to be the popular senator from Texas for many years to come. This is the man who became a key Trump ally after Trump publicly said his wife was ugly and his father killed JFK. Come on!
Many Capitol Hill Republicans would balk at assenting to a new norm on national emergencies, and worry about setting a precedent that future Democratic presidents could use to push a left-wing agenda item.
Well, if this really is something Capitol Hill Republicans are worried about, and I doubt it actually is, they can stop worrying, because there is no prominent Democrat who would have the guts to use a national emergency declaration to achieve a policy preference. This is the same Democratic party that was so terrified of a shutdown, they gave the President 55 miles of wall even after he told them to go fuck themselves. This is the party of “when they go low, we go high.” This is the party that continues to revere – idolize! – a president whose primary negotiation tactic was assuming the Republicans would be good faith negotiating partners and put the country first. This is the party that last week backed down from subpoenaing a witness who refused to answer their questions because they didn’t want to get everybody too riled up. This is not a party that is ever going to elect a president who will use an emergency declaration to do something interesting, like ban guns or redirect money to fighting climate change. Never going to happen.
Constitutional issues aside, congressional appropriators in both parties guard their power closely, and an emergency declaration that redirected billions of taxpayer dollars would be seen as a clear theat. “Taken to an extreme, it would render the appropriations process meaningless,” Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told CNN.
And I look forward to Susan Collins being one of the two votes, along with Lisa Murkowski, against the national emergency declaration. Mitch McConnell will allow them to peel off because it won’t affect the final vote result. As for the others, again, Mitch McConnell, allegedly this careful guardian of the Senate’s power, has already come out in support of a national emergency. The head of the party’s Senate majority! So forgive me if I think everyone is going to get over their “appropriations anxiety” pretty fucking quick once the President starts threatening to make fun of them on Twitter. That said, even if there were enough defectors to pass this, Trump would veto it, and there are DEFINITELY not enough defectors to override a veto.
Defense and national security hawks also have reason not to support Trump’s executive order, which could raid the Defense Department and redirect money earmarked for disaster recovery and military construction projects. One Hill GOP source says Trump’s purported plans would affect projects in every state.
In the tax cut bill, the President and Congress had no problems whatsoever raising revenue from blue states alone, without having to increase any red state taxes. This was via lowering the SALT deduction. And Republicans have time and again voted against providing disaster aid to blue states, most recently in Puerto Rico – it isn’t something that bothers them. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump, fully free from the binds of congressional appropriators, will have no problem taking money from places that Republicans don’t give a shit about. He could probably fund the whole fucking wall just by stealing from Puerto Rico.
And then there’s the threat to swing-state GOP senators like Cory Gardner of Colorado and Martha McSally of Arizona, who risk alienating moderate voters if they have to vote to support Trump’s national emergency, and inviting contempt from the President or conservative voters if they don’t.
Sounds to me like Cory Gardner has pretty definitively thrown his lot in with Trump, if only to fend off a primary challenge. Also, the GOP can lose another vote besides Collins and Murkowski. I doubt, in the end, McSally will vote against the national emergency declaration, for the same reasons Gardner won’t, but the GOP could cut her lose if she insisted on it, and still win the vote.
Here’s what’s going to happen.
The President will declare a national emergency. The House will pass a resolution “cancelling” it. The Senate will vote on the House resolution. It will fail. (Alternately, it will pass and Trump will veto it – the Republicans will not override the veto.) No Republican will ever acknowledge this again in any context, or ever be shamed or feel at all negative about being hypocrites, and Trump will raid Puerto Rico disaster recovery funds and build a big fucking wall on the southern border. And Democrats will refuse to demand his tax returns or do anything that could conceivably be called “resisting” because they are scared of Trump’s erratic nature and don’t want to do anything that might have unintended effects on their own power, wealth, and comfort, like provoking an actual revolution or a coup. And when we have another Democratic president, they will ignore the liberal base’s request to declare a national emergency to combat climate change and in fact, will publicly mock those asking for such a thing as out-of-touch leftists, like prominent Democrats always do. It’s gonna be a fun few years!
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DANCE OFF BOTH YOUR SHOES: MICHAEL GAMBLE and the RHYTHM SERENADERS featuring LAURA WINDLEY (November 24, 2018): JOSH COLLAZO, JONATHAN STOUT, KRIS TOKARSKI, JOE GOLDBERG, NATE KETNER, CHARLIE HALLORAN, COREY GEMME
We didn’t miss the Saturday dance, I assure you. And they crowded the floor.
The event I’m referring to took place at the 39th annual San Diego Jazz Fest — a Saturday-night swing dance featuring Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders and Laura Windley, sharing the bill with the Mad Hat Hucksters. I could only stay for Michael’s opening set, but the music I captured was honey to my ears. And you’ll see many happy dancers too.
The Rhythm Serenaders were a mix of local talent and gifted people from New Orleans: Michael on string bass; Kris Tokarski, piano; Jonathan Stout, guitar; Josh Collazo, drums; Joe Goldberg, clarinet and tenor; Nate Ketner, alto and clarinet; Corey Gemme, cornet; Charlie Halloran; trombone; Laura Windley, vocals. Did they rock! And you’ll notice the delightfully unhackneyed repertoire: this is not a group with a narrow range: no IN THE MOOD here.
An incomplete PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (the late start is my doing: at swing dances I have a hard time finding a good place for camera and tripod, and at this one the music was so good that I decided to take the risk of being intrusive and set my tripod on the stage, right behind Kris at the piano. The dancers didn’t notice, or if they did, no one came over to object. Later on, I was able to achieve a pleasing split-screen effect.):
Laura sings IF DREAMS COME TRUE, and they do:
Rex Stewart’s ‘T’AIN’T LIKE THAT:
Laura’s homage to Teddy Grace, the charming I’VE TAKEN A FANCY TO YOU:
Laura’s warning, courtesy of Kay Starr: DON’T MEDDLE IN MY MOOD:
The Henderson COMIN’ AND GOIN’:
Sid Phillips’ MAN ABOUT TOWN:
Chu Berry’s MAELSTROM:
For Billie and Lester, Laura’s HE AIN’T GOT RHYTHM:
and the classic swing tune (Carmen Lombardo, don’t you know) COQUETTE:
Find Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders on Facebook here.
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Tagged Billie Holiday, Carmen Lombardo, Charlie Halloran, Chu Berry, Corey Gemme, Fletcher Henderson, Jazz Lives, Joe Goldberg, Jonathan Stout, Josh Collazo, Kay Starr, Kris Tokarski, Laura Windley, Lester Young, Mad Hat Hucksters, Michael Gamble, Michael Gamble and The Rhythm Serenaders, Michael Steinman, Nate Ketner, Rex Stewart, San Diego Jazz Fest, Sid Phillips, swing dance
WE SAVOR THE RITUALS (WITH A SMALL UPDATE): THANKSGIVING at THE SAN DIEGO JAZZ FEST (Nov. 21-25, 2018)
Even in the midst of darkness there are always reasons to be thankful. Here is a detail from the classic Norman Rockwell portrait of a late-November American celebration, make of it and its assumptions (culinary, sociological, political) what you will.
But this post is about another ritual of communal gratitude, another place to give thanks: the thirty-ninth San Diego Jazz Fest, held this year from November 21 through the 25th. My update (as of late November 11) is to offer the flyer below, and to point out something I didn’t know when I’d written this blogpost — that the Saturday night Swing Extravaganza will also feature the wonderful band Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders with the wonderful singer Laura Windley. Add that piece of news into your computations.
I’m sitting here with the band schedule in front of me, and can narrate my own pleasure-map of delights for the weekend. How about dance lessons, opportunities for “jammers” to play with others of their ilk, a Saturday night swing extravaganza? Ongoing solo piano recitals featuring Kris Tokarski, Vinnie Armstrong, Stephanie Trick, Carl Sonny Leyland, Conal Fowkes, Paolo Alderighi, Paul Asaro, Marty Eggers, Virginia Tichenor? Then sets by the Dawn Lambeth Trio featuring Marc Caparone, High Sierra, Grand Dominion, the Chicago Cellar Boys, the On the Levee Jazz Band, the Original Cornell Syncopators, the Heliotrope Ragtime Orchestra, Katie Cavera, Clint Baker, Hal Smith, Yerba Buena Stompers, Titanic, Colin Hancock, Charlie Halloran, Ben Polcer, Joe Goldberg, John Gill, Kevin Dorn, Andy Schumm, John Otto, Leon Oakley, Tom Bartlett, and more.
And more. At any given moment at the fest, let us say on a Saturday, the music goes from breakfast to wooziness — 9 AM to near midnight — in six separate locations. Using my right index finger (the highly-skilled instrument for such computations) I counted sixty-six sets of music on Saturday, sets either 45 minutes or an hour.
At other festivals, that would make for transportation difficulties (a euphemism for “How am I going to get to that other building before the band starts?) but since all the action is contained in one building, even people with limited mobility make it in before the music starts.
Did I mention that everyone I’ve ever dealt with at San Diego has been terribly nice, including such luminaries of cheer and comfort as Paul Daspit and Gretchen Haugen? This is no small thing.
And for those of you who think you will be deprived of Thanksgiving edibles (which means “too much food”) as depicted by Mr. Rockwell above, take heart. There is a splendiferous buffet served on Thursday from 2 to 6 — you can reserve a place there, with a discount for those who do so before November 15: details here. If you’re vegetarian or vegan, you’ll still totter out of there, quite stuffed.
I am a late adopter who hasn’t made all 38 festivals (to explain why would tax all your five wits) but when I did make my way to the Fest, of course it was video camera at the ready. And here are three sets that pleased me greatly. I have shot several hundred videos, and that’s no stage joke, but I don’t feel right about using videos of X if X isn’t at this year’s festival. But the three sets below feature people who are alive and well for this year. First, here are the Cornell Syncopators featuring Katie Cavera in 2017. Then, here are the Yerba Buena Stompers in 2016, and here are Marc Caparone and Conal Fowkes paying tribute to Louism also in 2017.
Going back to 2009, I remember when I first started this blog, I used Rae Ann Berry’s videos as glimpses of the Promised Land. Here, for example, is John Gill paying tribute, beautifully, to Mister Crosby, in 2009:
Why am I concluding this post with PENNIES FROM HEAVEN and John’s beautiful rendition? It seems an obvious message as far as the San Diego Jazz Fest is concerned, this year or in years to come. Good things are coming, the lyrics say, but you can’t hide under a tree. If you bestir yourself on Monday, November 26, you’ll have to wait a whole year for this opportunity to be grateful amidst friends and lovely heated music. Take a look here and you will be glad you did. See you there.
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Tagged Andy Schumm, Ben Polcer, Carl Sonny Leyland, Charlie Halloran, Clint Baker, Colin Hancock, Conal Fowkes, Dawn Lambeth Trio featuring Marc Caparone, Grand Dominion, Gretchen Haugen, Hal Smith, High Sierra, Jazz Lives, Joe Goldberg, John Gill, John Otto, Katie Cavera, Kris Tokarski, Laura Windley, Leon Oakley, Marty Eggers, Michael Gamble and The Rhythm Serenaders, Michael Steinman, Paolo Alderighi, Paul Asaro, Paul Daspit, San Diego Jazz Fest, Stephanie Trick, the Chicago Cellar Boys, the Heliontrope Ragtime Orchestra, the On the Levee Jazz Band, the Original Cornell Syncopators, Titanic, Tom Bartlett, Vinnie Armstrong, Virginia Tichenor, Yerba Buena Stompers
“FORGED IN RHYTHM”: KEENAN McKENZIE with LAURA WINDLEY, GORDON AU, LUCIAN COBB, CHRIS DAWSON, JONATHAN STOUT, SETH FORD-YOUNG, JOSH COLLAZO (AUGUST 2017)
To paraphrase St. Thomas Aquinas, “To one who feels the groove, no explanation is necessary. To one who doesn’t feel it, no explanation is possible.”
This new CD is just wonderful. Listen to a sample here while you read. And that link is the easiest way to purchase a download or a disc.
The irresistibly catchy songs are TRANSCONTINENTAL* / MY WELL-READ BABY* / PARTS AND LABOR / LIGHTS OUT / IF I WROTE A SONG FOR YOU / CINCINNATI / DOWN THE HATCH / CALLOUS AND KIND* / BUFFALO CONVENTION / FORGED IN RHYTHM* / WHEN I’M HERE ALONE* / POCKET ACES / CITY IN THE DEEP / EASTBOUND / THE DWINDLING LIGHT BY THE SEA*.
I don’t write “irresistibly catchy” often, but I mean it here. The lyrics are clever without being forced, sometimes deeply tender. “Don’t send me names / Of potential flames,” is one tiny example of the Mercer-Hart world he visits. I emphasize that Mister McKenzie not only wrote music and lyrics, but arranged these originals AND performs beautifully on a variety of reeds. He is indeed someone to watch, and admire. He’s also a generous wise leader who gives his colleagues ample space, thus the CD is truly varied, each performance its own pleasing world.
The “tunes” themselves stick in the mind. Some are contrafacts — new melodies built over sturdy lovable harmonic sequences (SUGAR BLUES, ST. JAMES INFIRMARY, INDIAN SUMMER, and BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA if my ears do not deceive me). These hybrids work delightfully: it’s as if you’ve met beloved friends who have decided to cross-dress for the evening or for life: you recognize the dear person and the garb simultaneously, admiring both the substance and the wrappings.
The delicious band, sounding so much larger than a septet, is Keenan McKenzie, reeds; Gordon Au, trumpet; Lucian Cobb, trombone; Jonathan Stout, guitar; Chris Dawson, piano; Seth Ford-Young, string bass; Josh Collazo, drums; Laura Windley, vocals*. You might not recognize all the names here, but you are in for compact explosions of joy when the music starts.
The soloists are playing superbly — and that includes players Gordon and Chris, whom I’ve been stalking for what seems like a decade now (my math is wrong but my emotions are correct) as well as the newer members of the Blessed Swing Flock. Although they don’t work together regularly as a unit, they speak the same language effortlessly and listen contentedly to each other: Soloist Three starts his solo with a variation on the phrase that Soloist Two has just played. That’s the way the Elders did it, a tradition beautifully carried forward here.
The rhythm section has perfected the Forties magic of seeming to lean forward into the beat while keeping the time steady. Harry Lim and Milt Gabler smile at these sounds. This band knows all that anyone needs to know about ensemble playing — they offer so much more than one brilliant solo after another. Yes, Virginia, there are riffs, send-offs, and all those touches of delightful architecture that made the recordings we hold dear so memorable. Without a vibraphone, this group takes some spiritual inspiration from the Lionel Hampton Victors, and you know (or should) just how fine they are. “Are,” not “were.”
And there is the invaluable Laura Windley, who’s never sounded more like herself: if Joan Blondell took up singing, she’d sound like Laura. And Joan would be thrilled at the transformation.
The lovely sound is thanks to Miles Senzaki (engineer at Grandma’s Dojo in Los Angeles, California; Jason Richmond, who mixed the music; Steve Turnidge, who mastered the disc). The nifty artwork and typography — evoking both David Stone Martin and Al Hirschfeld — is by artist-clarinetist Ryan Calloway.
The disc is also available through CDBaby and shortly on Amazon and iTunes: check here for updates on such matters. And here you can find out more about Keenan’s many selves, all of them musical.
I end on a personal note. I first began to enjoy this disc at the end of the semester for me (I teach English at a community college) — days that are difficult for me. I had graded enough student essays to feel despondent; I had sat at the computer for so long so that my neck hurt and my eyes ached. But this disc had come in the mail, and I’d heard TRANSCONTINENTAL and MY WELL-READ BABY already, so, feeling depleted and sulky, I slipped it into the player. Optimism replaced gloom, and I played the whole disc several times in a row, because it made me tremendously happy. It can do the same spiritual alchemy for you, if you only allow it in.
Tagged Chris Dawson, FORGED IN RHYTHM, Gordon Au, Grandma's Dojo, Harry Lim, Jason Richmond, Jazz Lives, Joan Blondell, Johnny Mercer, Jonathan Stout, Josh Collazo, Keenan McKenzie, Larry Hart, Laura Windley, Lionel Hampton, Lucian Cobb, Michael Steinman, Miles Senzaki, Milt Gabler, Ryan Calloway, Seth Ford-Young, Steve Turnidge, swing
“GET RHYTHM IN YOUR FEET”: MICHAEL GAMBLE’S RHYTHM SERENADERS
Photograph of some of Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders by Sandlin Gaither. Musicians on the record but (very sadly) not pictured: Laura Windley, Lucian Cobb, Dave Wilken, Jason DeCristofaro.
Even for those who are as fortunate and entitled as I am, this world can seem like a tough place. In the past two weeks, I’ve had conversations with men and women about various remedies: prescriptions for anti-depressants, brisk walks in the sunshine and yoga, finding the truth in Jesus, living a Buddhist or a Judaic life, Louis Armstrong, hugging, coffee, and more.
All of this is true, and not invented for the purposes of a nifty opening paragraph. If something works for you, I would be a mean-spirited fool to mock it. I find the most evident manifestations of beauty, of joy, of love, in music.
I write to call your attention to a wondrous new CD by Michael Gamble and the Rhythm Serenaders, titled GET RHYTHM IN YOUR FEET. I know that title may seem to some a plain encouragement to dancers — feel the groove, get up on the floor (but watch your floorcraft!) and Swing. But for me it means so much more.
First of all, any band that uses a song by the Blessed Alexander Hill to announce themselves is already deep in righteousness. Hill gave himself to the music wholly and is thus a minor deity in my world, and the song says (better than I will do it here) that your ills can be cured by embracing rhythmic music.
The new CD not only says this truth; it embodies it. Had you been able to peek in my window a few hours ago while I was playing it again to write this blogpost, you would have seen me grinning and clapping my hands to the music. It’s that joyous and that right. For those who want to skip to the punchline, you can purchase the disc — in a number of ways — here. Of course, the ideal way would be to be present at a Rhythm Serenaders’ gig (even, if like me, you flunked ballroom dancing) and buy copies from the band / the leader. Here is the band’s schedule, so you can see if they are coming to a nicely polished wooden floor near you.
As a relevant digression, here is what I wrote about the Serenaders’ first CD.
“Why is Michael so excited about yet another ____________ CD?” some of you might be muttering to yourselves. This one sounds deeply genuine, a very honest evocation of, say, 1935-45. The band knows the original 78s but isn’t copying them in every aspect. The (flexible) tempos seem right, never stiff or too far forward into the beat. The band isn’t in a hurry to get to the end of the number. The arrangements cheer and inspire; they aren’t little prisons. The music breathes, is alive, is human — created by real musicians who live in the twenty-first century but who venerate the music of the great Ancestors with every cell of their bodies. The band can play as hot as you’d want, but they have a tender side (MEMORIES OF YOU) which I cherish as well. The band has a wonderful rhythm section, delicious ensemble playing, fine soloists, and one of my favorite singers, Laura Windley, whose voice is like the pleasure I take from my first bite into a splendid local apple: just the right mix of crisp, tart, sweet.
And ths CD passes the JAZZ LIVES test: when I come to the last song, I start it up again.
Now for some details: the musicians are Michael Gamble, string bass, arrangements, leader; Jonathan Stout, guitar; Keenan McKenzie, reeds; James Posedel, piano; Jonathan Doyle, reeds; Russ Wilson, drums; Noah Hocker, trumpet; Josh Collazo, drums; Gordon Au, trumpet; Jason DeCristofaro, vibraphone; Laura Windley, vocal; Lucian Cobb, trombone; David Wilken, trombone. (Not everyone plays on every track, but you’ll have to buy the CD to figure out who’s on the stand at any given time.)
The songs: GET RHYTHM IN YOUR FEET / ROYAL GARDEN BLUES / ON THE ALAMO / IT’S TOO HOT FOR WORDS / NAPPIN’ JOHN / GOT A PEBBLE IN MY SHOE / WHOA, BABE! / OH, LADY BE GOOD! / RIGAMAROLE / HOW COULD YOU? / DOWN HOME JUMP / DON’T MEDDLE IN MY MOOD / BREAKFAST FEUD / MISS BROWN TO YOU / DON’T BE THAT WAY / MEMORIES OF YOU. (Scholars will note the homage to Teddy, Billie, Benny, Ella, Chick, and Charlie . . . but also to Willie Bryant, Lionel, Cootie, Basie. Gamble knows his Swing.)
And here’s what Michael Gamble has to say about the CD — modest and perceptive:
For the second record, I wanted to showcase a hotter, older repertoire than the first, and to particularly hone in on songs that would’ve been known to dancers of the mid-to-late thirties: An imaginary “must-have” collection of greatest hits for lovers of the Lindy Hop, Charleston, Balboa, Slow Drag, Shag; all the Peabody and One Step dancers, Savoy Ballroom regulars as well as followers of the Tin Pan Alley hit factories. Stomp tunes such as “Rigamarole” (by bandleader, early jazz disc jockey, and so-called “Mayor of Harlem” Willie Bryant) – a blazing tempo hop-across-the-coals for Jitterbugs of all stripes. Riff-fests like “Down Home Jump” and “Whoa, Babe!” (recorded by pioneering jazz vibraphonist Lionel Hampton) that served no higher purpose than to pull people onto the dance floor as if hypnotized by that infectious sound.
The other thing I tried to do was to serve up a sweet sample of some of the most beautiful songwriting from that time period, using as a jumping-off point the repertoire Benny Goodman seemed to hold onto over the years as his “cool down” pieces and small group features for himself. Tunes like “On the Alamo” and “Memories of You” are elegant demonstrations of the nostalgic sound that become popular as the Great Depression was winding down. The sentimental-but-smart elocution Laura Windley brings to the band pays respect to vocal performances by Kay Starr, Helen Ward, and of course Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, each of whose work is lovingly represented here.
Nothing more needs to be said, except this exhortation: Buy this CD. Whatever your mood, it will improve it.
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Tagged Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Chick Webb, Cootie Williams, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Gordon Au, Jazz Lives, Jonathan Doyle, Jonathan Stout, Laura Windley, Louis Armstrong, Lucian Cobb, Michael Gamble, Michael Gamble and The Rhythm Serenaders, Michael Steinman, swing dance, Willie Bryant
SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE IN WHISPERS: “BON BON,” JOE THOMAS, EDDIE DURHAM, and BUSTER SMITH, 1941
Sometimes great art flourishes in corners where it is not at all expected even to survive.
George “Bon Bon” Tunnell (1912-1975) was an engaging singer — yet not well-remembered. He was first a member of The Three Keys, and from 1937-42, he was the first African-American male singer to appear with a Caucasian band: Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters. Incidentally, he was heavily featured with the band — and — one of the trombonists there was Cutty Cutshall (1939-40) something that would interest Condon scholars like myself.
The two sides below come from Bon Bon’s early solo career — four sides from this date, two the next year (where Decca seems to have wanted him to be an African-American Bing, or at least a Chick Bullock or Dick Robertson) and then some solo features with Steve Gibson’s Red Caps. But with no disrespect to Bon Bon’s very nice singing, the two sides offer a rare combination — two musicians who, at this point in the Swing Era, did not receive all the opportunities to record their talents warranted.
They are guitarist / trombonist / arranger Eddie Durham, whose guitar sound is instantly recognizable — swinging but with sharp corners — and trumpeter Joe Thomas, also instantly recognizable and inimitable. The second song, I DON’T WANT TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE, is also Durham’s — although there are three other names on the label. And, on clarinet, the”Prof” of deep Kansas City jazz, Buster Smith. New York City, July 23, 1941: Tunnell, Joe Thomas, Eddie Durham, Buster Smith, Jackie Fields, alto saxophone; Jimmy Phipps, piano; Al Hall, string bass; Jack Parker, drums. The other two sides — which you’d have to track down on your own (they are on the THREE KEYS CD on the Chronological Classics label) are BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW, and Fats Waller’s ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES.
SWEET MAMA (from 1920, I believe, and recorded by the ODJB) has lyrics that suggest domestic abuse and a real need for anger management, but the band is splendid. But first we hear Durham’s spiky arpeggios, a very dark and threatening orchestral passage featuring growl from Thomas (not his usual approach) and leafy clarinet from Smith — a passage reminiscent of Durham’s approach to GOOD MORNING BLUES for Basie. I find Bon Bon hilariously sweetly unconvincing in his gentle singing: this man couldn’t do damage to a sandwich, but we will let that pass. (When he returns for his second vocal, he wants to convince us: “Papa’s really gone mad,” but his heart isn’t in it. Too kind to make anyone cower.)
The half-chorus Thomas solo that follows is quietly magnificent: even through his mute, the steady glow of his tone comes through, as does his fondness for repeated notes, his love of 1927 Louis; his stately glide. Where other trumpeters shout, Thomas caresses, and his solo winds down rather than moving out of the middle register. It is equally affecting for what he doesn’t care to do — remember, 1941 was the age of great brass virtuosity — as for what he does. Thomas whispers sweet epigrams to us, and their impact is only felt on the third or fourth hearing. I’d also call your attention to the strong but not overdone rhythm that Hall and Durham offer, as well as Smith’s sweet commentaries. Bon Bon returns to assure us of his menace, but no one would be all that scared of “the fine undertaker,” which seems like a Waller touch.
The more famous song, justly, begins with an orchestral introduction that borrows quietly from THE MOOCHE, and we then move to a love song — where Bon Bon sounds more comfortable. Durham’s arpeggios threaten to take our attention away: he’s not aiming to copy Charlie Christian’s smoothness, but he makes a deep impression. Eddie is much more prominent here — it was his song and I wonder if he’d brought a small-band chart to the session. Then, less than half a minute of Thomas, but his sound, even muted, is like sunshine coming through the windows in late afternoon. His gentle intensity; his love of the melody — and that upwards arpeggio in the middle is purest Joe (and purest Louis, if you need to find an ancestor) — quite touching. When the band and Bon Bon return, the blending is completely polished and fetching.
(Joe gets three more extroverted outings on BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW, which he executes nicely, and Bon Bon scats in the best almost-Leo-Watson manner. ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES bounces along pleasantly, but once again Bon Bon must pretend to menace — “I’m fit to fight” — which is sweetly unconvincing. Durham is delightfully in evidence and the other horns show their individual voices — but the two sides here are, to me, the standouts. Tunnell’s final side for Decca, before the recording ban, SLEEPY OLD TOWN, could pass for Bing, and it is delightful — with Russ Solomon doing a commendable Bobby Hackett. But it’s no longer on YouTube.)
And just because it exists on eBay, a little more Bon Bon memorabilia — a signed contract, with amendments.
and the reverse:
I haven’t analyzed the contract. Perhaps Laura Windley, our swing star and lawyer, might have something to say about it. Until then, I will cherish those two Decca sides, full of instrumental surprises and engaging singing.
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Tagged Al Hall, Bing Crosby, Bobby Hackett, Bon Bon, Bon Bon Tunnell, Buster Smith, Chick Bullock, Cutty Cutshall, Decca Records, Dick robertson, Eddie Condon, Eddie Durham, Fats Waller, Jack Parker, Jackie Fields, Jan Savitt, Jazz Lives, Jimmy Phipps, Joe Thomas, Laura Windley, Leo Watson, Louis Armstrong, Michael Steinman, Russ Solomon
WHAT A BAND! MICHAEL GAMBLE and THE RHYTHM SERENADERS
Yes, Virginia, there are many “swing” “bands” that “play” Thirties and Forties repertoire for dancers and listeners. I could tell many a tale. But Michael Gamble and The Rhythm Serenaders really swing, without a quotation mark in sight. Maybe it’s because their leader is a swinging string bassist who’s thus situated in the heart of the rhythm section that the disc sounds so good. Maybe it’s because Michael has surrounded himself with musicians who understand ensemble playing as well as their solo excursions. Musicians, I point out, who understand Buck Clayton, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Allan Reuss, Pete Brown, Dicky Wells, Charlie Christian, Jo Jones, Billie Holiday without copying them.
Whatever magic it took to create this band and this CD is in the hearts and bodies of the creators, I can only imagine. I can only comment on the gratifying results.
Their debut CD is an authentic-sounding tasting menu of good things. If you’re like me, a close listener who has many Swing Heroes and Heroines, the list of people on the disc will immediately act as confirmation that a purchase would be a good idea (you have a birthday behind you or coming soon, correct?):
Michael Gamble, Bass / Keenan McKenzie, Clarinet and Saxes / Jonathan Stout, Lead Guitar / Paul Cosentino, Clarinet and Saxes / Russ Wilson, Vocals and Drums / Brooks Prumo, Rhythm Guitar / Gordon Au, Trumpet / Craig Gildner, Piano / Noah Hocker, Trumpet / James Posedel, Piano / Josh Collazo, Drums / Lucian Cobb, Trombone / Laura Windley, Vocal / David Wilken, Trombone.
And the repertoire: BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD / I NEVER KNEW / SLIDIN’ AND GLIDIN’ / SEVEN COME ELEVEN / PICK-A-RIB / A MELLOW BIT OF RHYTHM / BUG IN A RUG / HE AIN’T GOT RHYTHM / WHO’S SORRY NOW? / WOKE UP CLIPPED / ROSE ROOM / WHAT A NIGHT, WHAT A MOON, WHAT A GIRL / CRAZY ABOUT LESTER /SCOTTIE / SMOKE GETS IN YORU EYES.
You’ll notice that this band has dug deeply and wisely into the music rather than offering the standard two dozen overplayed standards of the swing era. Rocking tempos with lovely fervent playing and singing throughout. I guarantee it.
And here’s an audio-visual sampler, quite authentic and lively:
Here is the spot that’s hot: where you can purchase this disc. Even if you’re like me, whose swing dancing is the happy motion of my head and my right foot — an imagined choreography much more than a full-body actualized one — you will love the music that Michael and the band create. It feels real — rhythmically, melodically, and spiritually. (If you are a swing dancer, you surely have encountered this band somewhere and already have purchased their music, which amounts to a compact party. Just add bottled water and snacks.)
And here is the band’s schedule: coming soon to a waxed floor near you!
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Tagged Allan Reuss, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Brooks Prumo, Buck Clayton, Charlie Christian, Craig Gildner, David Wilken, Dicky Wells, Gordon Au, James Posedel, Jazz Lives, Jo Jones, Josh Collazo, Laura Windley, Lester Young, Lucian Cobb, Michael Gamble, Michael Gamble and The Rhythm Serenaders, Michael Steinman, Noah Hocker, Paul Cosentino, Pete Brown, Russ Wilson, swing dance
“NO, WE’RE NOT THERE YET!”: FOR PARENTS WHO ARE ABOUT TO TAKE LONG CAR TRIPS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Posted on June 26, 2016 | 1 comment
American blues singer Gladys Bentley (1907 – 1960) poses with bandleader Willie Bryant (1908 – 1964) outside the Apollo Theater where posters advertise a performance by Bryant & his band, New York, New York, April 17, 1936.
This is addressed to parents who are about to be cooped up in a moving metal box for more than a few hours . . . with children . . . and might need a new song to sing in the car. (I think of Angelo, Gabriella, and Gianluca, whom I already miss fervently.)
Possibly, children of 2016 are too hip to sing along in the car with The Old Folks (“I don’t play with anything that doesn’t have a charger, Mommy!”) but this song — suitable for vegans as well — might find a home. I’d sing it, and have.
It’s performed by a wonderfully swinging band that few people seem to have heard of. (Consider this, Laura Windley.)
Between 1935 and 1936, this band — perhaps only for recordings rather than gigging — recorded 22 sides for Bluebird Records, the less expensive Victor Records subsidiary. Bryant was the main vocalist (on this side he is helped in a charming way [I think of vaudeville or minstrelsy] by trumpeter Jacques Butler). Bryant had the best people for record dates: Taft Jordan, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole, Ram Ramirez, Eddie Durham, Edgar Battle. He was a public figure: first in vaudeville, then a disc-jockey, and in the Fifties the master of ceremonies at the Apollo Theater — also a very engaging singer.
The sometimes garbled lyrics to this song might be a problem: one solution is this Thirties recording from another musical world:
Another is to do it yourself, because the easy rhymes lend themselves to improvisations such as this: “I don’t like shrimp cocktails / They swim up my nose / But I love bananas / Because they don’t wear clothes.” (Copyright reserved 2016 The Jazz Lives Foundation.)
For the Francophones in my audience:
Or this — presented as the lyrics sung by Billy Cotton:
Standing by the fruit store on the corner,
Once I heard a customer complain:
You never seem to show
The fruit we all love so.
That’s why business hasn’t been the same.
I don’t like your peaches; they are full of stones,
But I like bananas because they have no bones.
Don’t give me tomatoes; can’t stand ice-cream cones,
No matter where I go,
With Suzy, May, or Anna,
I want the world to know
I must have my banana.
Cabbages and onions hurt my singing tones,
Now I don’t care for muffins; I don’t like buttered scones,
Ah, but I like bananas because they have no bones.
I don’t like giggling flappers; I don’t like ancient crones,
And fig leaves and bearskins
That you girls often trip on,
Why not have banana skins?
They’re easy things to slip on.
I can’t bear tax collectors, especially one who phones,
I don’t like a crooner; of the blues he moans,
But we like bananas because they have no bones.
I don’t like politicians; they’re human gramophones.
We like bananas because they have no bones.
I never cared for drink.
To me it seems so sinful.
Though when you come to think,
Bananas get a skinful.
I don’t like the bagpipes and I can’t stand saxophones.
For those who are not utterly depleted by all these good spirits, here is a later (1945) Bryant effort, featuring Tab Smith,Chuck Wayne, and Taft Jordan. The tempo may be too slow for a long drive — Bryant is in a Big Joe Turner mode — but the song is a useful counting song as well as a paean to healthful exercise and long-term committed monogamy:
Keep singing. Even if you’re not in the car. It makes ALL hard journeys easier.
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Uniting Around a Big Judaism
By David Suissa | September 19, 2019
(JNS) When you feel under attack, you’re not inclined to think big. You’re more consumed with immediate threats.
The Jewish world these days is feeling under attack. Whether it’s the rise of anti-Semitism on all sides, the continued assault of BDS or an intersectionality movement that isolates Jews, the bad news keeps coming and throwing us off-balance.
This is in addition to the ongoing challenge of maintaining our Jewish identity in a fast-changing and secularized culture.
The nasty business of politics, of course, has made everything worse. Many Jews process current events, including attacks on Jews, through a strictly partisan lens: How will this help my side and hurt the other side? All too many of us have become foot soldiers in a political fight to the death.
The net effect is a community deeply divided at the worst possible time. In this vulnerable state, is it any wonder that our responses to the whirlwind of threats have been so scattered and ineffective?
So, it’s worth asking: What would be a more effective response? How can we fight anti-Semitism in a way where the Jewish community comes out ahead?
I’d like to suggest an approach I call Big Judaism.
As much as anything, Big Judaism represents an attitude. It encourages us to think big. Most importantly, it asks us to look at what unites us rather than what divides us. It doesn’t expect us to agree with one another or change our views—that’s not the point.
The point of Big Judaism is to take a step back and look at the big picture: At a time of rising attacks on the Jewish people, how can we come together around a tradition that has nourished us for 3,300 years?
Big Judaism is about projecting strength rather than weakness. Bullies and haters feast on weakness. We must meet them with this unified message: If you hate Jews and Judaism, we will double down on both.
Big Judaism is about coming together to share our big ideas with humanity, from the serene beauty of Shabbat to the Jewish imperative to repair the world.
America is an ideal place to go big on Judaism. I know it’s popular to look at the rising anti-Semitism and pretend we’re back in pre-Holocaust days. This hyper-alarmism may be good for media ratings, but it dishonors a country that embraces our ideals and defends our rights.
For Jews right now, the axiom that “the best defense is a good offense” has never been more applicable.
A good offense means not settling for the rhythm of the victim: they hate, we call out; they attack, we call out; they spray graffiti, we call out.
A good offense means projecting pride in our Judaism whether we are attacked or not.
And when we are attacked, we must do more than “call out” or call the police. If a synagogue finds a swastika on its walls, it ought to organize a Torah rally and strengthen its Jewish programming. If Jewish students find anti-Semitic pamphlets, they ought to throw a Jewish pop-up party on campus.
Because anti-Zionism is often a cover for anti-Semitism, it must be addressed the same way—by doubling down on Judaism. The best way to defend the Jewish state is to stand up for Jewish pride.
Each denomination, each community, each Jewish group can contribute in its own way. Every Jewish holiday is an opportunity to make the values and rituals of Judaism more visible and prominent. We can’t allow armed guards in front of synagogues to become the emblem of modern-day Judaism. This shows fear and darkness at a time when we need to show strength, unity and light.
Big Judaism doesn’t mean we stop criticizing our own and holding ourselves accountable. It does mean, however, that we recognize we’re also accountable to our community to unite as a “big family” against common threats. At moments like these, it is the duty of Jewish leaders everywhere to bring us together for a higher cause.
Many of us have become so consumed with politics that it’s hard to see any higher cause. The Jew-haters are hoping we will stay this way, tearing one another apart while they continue to tear us down. Anti-Semitism is indeed a threat, but a broken and splintered Jewish community is an even bigger one.
As we’ve learned throughout our history, Jew-haters don’t care whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, Sephardic, Ashkenazi, atheists, Zionists or what have you. For the haters, “Jew” is enough to treat us as one.
If “Jew” is enough for them, why is it not enough for us? With the High Holy Days around the corner, it’s time to think big. It’s time to fight back against our common threats by uniting around a Big Judaism—one that respects our differences but honors our shared heritage and destiny as a Jewish family.
Then we win no matter what.
By David Suissa
David Suissa is editor-in-chief and publisher of Tribe Media Corp and Jewish Journal. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Genomic profiling reveals mutational landscape in parathyroid carcinomas
Chetanya Pandya,1 Andrew V. Uzilov,1 Justin Bellizzi,2 Chun Yee Lau,1 Aye S. Moe,1 Maya Strahl,1 Wissam Hamou,1 Leah C. Newman,1 Marc Y. Fink,1 Yevgeniy Antipin,1 Willie Yu,3 Mark Stevenson,4 Branca M. Cavaco,5 Bin T. Teh,6,7 Rajesh V. Thakker,4 Hans Morreau,8 Eric E. Schadt,1 Robert Sebra,1 Shuyu D. Li,1 Andrew Arnold,2 and Rong Chen1
1 Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
2Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
3Center for Computational Biology, Duke–National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
4Academic Endocrine Unit, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
5Molecular Endocrinology Group, Molecular Pathobiology Research Centre Unit (UIPM) of the Portuguese Institute of Oncology from Lisbon Francisco Gentil (IPOLFG), Lisbon, Portugal.
6Laboratory of Cancer Epigenome, Division of Medical Sciences, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore.
7Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke–National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
8Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Published in Volume 2, Issue 6 on March 23, 2017
JCI Insight. 2017;2(6):e92061. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.92061.
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Received: November 30, 2016; Accepted: February 1, 2017
Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is an extremely rare malignancy lacking effective therapeutic intervention. We generated and analyzed whole-exome sequencing data from 17 patients to identify somatic and germline genetic alterations. A panel of selected genes was sequenced in a 7-tumor expansion cohort. We show that 47% (8 of 17) of the tumors harbor somatic mutations in the CDC73 tumor suppressor, with germline inactivating variants in 4 of the 8 patients. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway was altered in 21% of the 24 cases, revealing a major oncogenic pathway in PC. We observed CCND1 amplification in 29% of the 17 patients, and a previously unreported recurrent mutation in putative kinase ADCK1. We identified the first sporadic PCs with somatic mutations in the Wnt canonical pathway, complementing previously described epigenetic mechanisms mediating Wnt activation. This is the largest genomic sequencing study of PC, and represents major progress toward a full molecular characterization of this rare malignancy to inform improved and individualized treatments.
The parathyroids are small endocrine glands in the neck that regulate the circulating calcium level by producing and secreting parathyroid hormone (PTH), which acts to maintain homeostasis by regulating bone mineral turnover, renal calcium reabsorption, and dietary calcium absorption from the gut. PTH production is inhibited through a feedback loop when calcium binds to calcium-sensing receptors on the parathyroid cell membrane. Hyperparathyroidism is a state of overactive parathyroid function with excessive circulating PTH. It may cause hypercalcemia and symptoms thereof: bone pain, osteoporosis, fractures, kidney stones or other renal damage. Primary hyperparathyroidism is most commonly caused by benign parathyroid adenomas or hyperplasia, which are treated by surgery. Parathyroid carcinoma (PC), however, is an extremely rare but aggressive and life-threatening form of primary hyperparathyroidism, accounting for less than 1% of cases. Most cases of primary hyperparathyroidism are sporadic; only about 5% are associated with hereditary syndromes such as multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), autosomal dominant familial isolated hyperparathyroidism (FIHP), and hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome (HPT-JT) (1, 2).
The rarity of sporadic PC has created significant challenges to delineate its molecular etiology. Due to high incidence of biallelic inactivating mutations in tumor suppressor gene CDC73 (also known as HRPT2) in familial PCs associated with HPT-JT, somatic mutations in CDC73 were investigated in sporadic cases of PC. Mutational analysis (3–5) revealed that CDC73 somatic mutations occur in a majority of sporadic PCs. At the molecular level, parafibromin encoded by CDC73 functions as a tumor suppressor, potentially by downregulating cyclin D1 and cMyc expression (6, 7), and likely plays a key role in control of cell proliferation, apoptosis, and chromosome stability. However, owing in part to the lack of disease-relevant experimental models, the specific functional links connecting CDC73 mutations to parathyroid cancer development remain largely unknown.
The presence of somatic mutations in tumor suppressor genes of widespread importance in human oncology such as TP53, RB1, and BRCA2 has also been examined and none appear to play a major role in PC (8). However, the likely contribution of additional genes to parathyroid cancer was suggested by recurrent copy number alterations, originally detected by comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) (9–14). For example, recurrent regions of copy gain such as chromosome 1q and 16 and regions of copy loss such as chromosome 1p, 3, 13q, and 14 may contain novel driver oncogenes and tumor suppressors, respectively. CCND1 encoding cyclin D1 was first identified as a human oncogene in parathyroid adenomas through PTH-CCND1 gene rearrangement (15), in which fusion of the PTH 5′ regulatory region to the CCND1 coding region led to high-level overexpression of CCND1 in parathyroid tissues. CCND1 overexpression has been observed in over 90% of PCs (16), and while no analogous gene rearrangements have been described, a high prevalence of CCND1 gene amplification was identified in one report (17). Finally, although not directly connected to clonally selected driver mutations, epigenetic regulation has been reported to play a role in activating the Wnt pathway in PCs, specifically via APC tumor suppressor gene inactivation by DNA hypermethylation in several PCs, accompanied by accumulation of active, nonphosphorylated β-catenin (18).
Recently, comprehensive genomic sequencing has been carried out in attempts to identify novel oncogenes and tumor suppressors in PCs. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of a single sporadic PC and a recurrent tumor from the same patient revealed somatic mutations in well-characterized cancer genes such as MTOR, KMT2D (previously known as MLL2), CDKN2C, and PIK3CA (19). Notably, the activating PIK3CA mutation was present only in the primary tumor but not in the recurrence, suggesting that the PI3K pathway might be more important for tumor initiation than for clonal selection in recurrent disease. Additionally, whole-exome sequencing (WES) data were reported on 7 patient-matched PC and normal control DNA samples, and 1 case of 2 primary tumors and matched normal control from the same patient (20). High prevalence of CDC73 mutation was confirmed, and recurrent somatic (and 1 germline) alterations identified PRUNE2 as a candidate driver gene in 18% of the PCs analyzed by WES and by Sanger sequencing of a validation set. Analysis of mutation spectrum has revealed the presence of the APOBEC mutational signature (21) in PCs.
In the current study, we generated WES data from 10 sporadic PCs with patient-matched normal controls. Data from these 10 patients were pooled with the previously published 8 patients (20) to increase the statistical power of the analyses in seeking recurrent lesions. Somatic mutations, germline variants, and somatic copy number alterations were identified. A panel of selected genes was used to sequence an additional 7 sporadic PCs. We show that 42% (i.e., 10 of 24) of patients harbored mutations of CDC73, with 4 patients harboring both germline and somatic inactivating variants. Genes encoding the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway are altered in 21% of the 24 cases via activating mutations in PIK3CA and MTOR. CCND1 amplification was observed in 29% of the 17 tumors analyzed by WES. We identified the first sporadic PC cases with somatic mutations in genes in the Wnt canonical pathway. Genes involved in chromatin remodeling are also frequently mutated in our study. In addition, we have identified a new recurrent somatic mutation in PC, p.I482M in the putative kinase ADCK1, strongly suggesting that it plays an oncogenic role. Furthermore, we discovered several genes recurrently mutated including AKAP9 in 3, ZEB1 in 3, and FAT3 in 2 of the 17 cases. The new data generated from this study led to the discovery of a significant fraction of the tumors harboring somatic mutations in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, the first PCs with somatic mutation in a Wnt pathway component, and somatic alterations in recently identified tumor suppressors involved in chromatin remodeling. Pooling the new data with previously published 8 cases (20) allowed us to uncover the recurrent mutation in ADCK1 as well as recurrently mutated genes such as FAT3 as newly recognized candidate cancer genes in PC. To our knowledge, this genomic sequencing analysis represents the largest such study of sporadic PCs, and is an important step toward a full molecular characterization of this extremely rare malignancy, which in turn will inform improved and individualized treatments in the future.
Whole-exome analysis
A diagram illustrating the study design is shown in Figure 1. Briefly, we selected 10 cases of sporadic PC fulfilling stringent selection criteria — clinically sporadic presentations and demonstrating local invasion of tumor into surrounding tissues and/or distant metastasis (22–24). As high-throughput WES provides an unbiased view of the driver landscape, we generated WES data from 10 tumor samples (PC01T–PC10T) with matched normal controls (PC01N–PC10N) from these 10 patients in the current study. The new data from these cases were pooled with the raw sequencing data from 9 tumors (PC11T–PC19T; PC17T and PC18T are from the same patient) with matched normal controls (PC11N-PC17N, PC19N; PC17N is the control for both PC17T and PC18T) from 8 previously published cases (20) for joint bioinformatics analyses, thereby comprising our discovery cohort (Figure 1A). After detailed analysis, samples PC11N–PC17N and PC11T–PC18T were included for further analyses as they passed our quality control (QC) standards.
Flowchart of the study design.
From our discovery cohort (35 WES datasets across 17 patients), we obtained approximately 9.7 billion raw reads (mean = 3.4 × 108/2.2 × 108 and range = 1.8 × 108 to 7.3 × 108/6.5 × 107 to 3.4 × 108 for tumor/normal, respectively). After alignment to the hg19 reference genome, we observed a mean usable sequencing depth of 84.5× (73.6× and 94.8× for tumor and normal, respectively). Approximately 86% of the exome was sequenced to at least 20× depth, enabling high confidence variant calling (Supplemental Table 1; supplemental material available online with this article; https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.92061DS1).
After variant calling, an average of 122.6 somatic (tumor-specific) mutations including single nucleotide variation (SNV) and small insertion/deletion (indel) per tumor (range 20–464; total 2,207) were observed in the discovery cohort. We noted an average mutational burden of approximately 3.6 mutations per 106 bp (average mutation rate = 122.6 mutations per tumor, genome coverage = 34.0 Mbp, Figure 2A). Considering the predicted functional impact (SnpEff effect impact), variants were classified into synonymous or protein-altering (Supplemental Table 2). Filtering resulted in 1,676 protein-altering somatic variants with 1,538 SNVs and 138 small indels (Supplemental Table 3). We observed 8.7% (146 of 1676), 81.7% (1369 of 1676), 2.5% (41 of 1676), 1.7% (27 of 1676), and 5.5% (93 of 1676) nonsense, missense, splice altering, in-frame indel, and frameshift mutations, respectively.
Somatic mutation landscape of parathyroid carcinoma — summary of results for whole-exome and targeted gene panel sequencing assays (n = 25). (A) Frequency of synonymous and protein-altering mutations per Mbp in the discovery cohort. (B) Somatic mutational signatures and number of somatic single nucleotide variation (SNV) mutations (in parentheses) in the discovery cohort. (C) Recurrently mutated genes in the study (red = copy number gain, orange = missense mutation, and gray = truncating mutation). Genes shown are covered by the ParThy targeted panel and are recurrently mutated in the combined discovery and expansion cohorts, ordered by the frequency of mutation.
Mutational landscape in PC
Recurrently mutated genes. The landscape of somatic mutations and copy number alterations is shown in Figures 2 and 3, respectively. Assessing protein-altering somatic mutations at the gene level, there are 92 genes that are mutated in more than one case in the discovery cohort (Supplemental Table 4). We found the following cancer-associated genes most frequently mutated across our WES discovery cohort: CDC73 (8 samples), AKAP9 (3 samples), and ZEB1 (3 samples). Mutation of CDC73 (encoding parafibromin) is the only established oncogenic driver in PC (3–5). In our discovery cohort, we observe 15 distinct variants in CDC73 (9 somatic and 6 germline mutations across 8 tumor samples and 6 normal controls; Supplemental Table 5 and Figure 2C). As shown in Supplemental Figure 1, all mutations are inactivating (nonsense or frameshift) with 1 exception (missense p.L95P mutation), consistent with parafibromin’s established role as a tumor suppressor. As observed in previous studies (20), CDC73 somatic variants in our cohort have a high variant allele fraction (mean mutant allele fraction = 0.35), reinforcing the early role of CDC73 inactivation in PC. Five cases had likely biallelic inactivation of CDC73 detectable, with inactivation of 1 copy in the germline in 4 patients. Further screening of the expansion cohort led to discovery of CDC73 mutations in 3 additional sporadic tumor samples (for details, see ParThy targeted panel section). Two missense and 1 nonsense somatic mutations were identified in the AKAP9 gene. AKAP9 encodes a member of the A-kinase anchor proteins (AKAPs) regulating cellular localization and function of protein kinase A. Although AKAP9 is frequently mutated in oral squamous cell carcinoma (25) as well as gastric and colorectal cancers with high microsatellite instability (26), it is unclear if those mutations are oncogenic. We also found somatic mutations in ZEB1 in 3 cases. ZEB1 is a transcriptional repressor that mediates tumor invasion and metastasis by promoting epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) (27). However, activating somatic mutations of ZEB1 have yet to be reported.
Somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) in the discovery cohort (n = 17). (A) Log2 of the sequencing depth ratio of tumor versus normal sample is plotted across the samples, with red depicting gain and blue depicting loss. The color intensity is proportional to the ratio. (B) Recurrent SCNA events as predicted by GISTIC2.
We discovered a recurrent missense p.I482M mutation in AarF domain–containing kinase 1 (ADCK1), in 2 tumors in our discovery cohort (PC09T and PC18T; Supplemental Figure 2). This is the only recurrent somatic mutation (at either the DNA or amino acid level) identified in these WES data. ADCK1 encodes a relatively understudied putative kinase with no published biochemical data, although there is evidence of protein expression in parathyroid tissue from The Human Protein Atlas project (http://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000063761-ADCK1/tissue/parathyroid+gland). Among other genes mutated in 2 samples, FAT3 is of particular interest as FAT3 belongs to a family of FAT atypical cadherins including 2 known tumor suppressors, FAT1 and FAT4. We detected mutations of FAT3 in 2 tumors (PC04T and PC14T; Supplemental Figure 3). These 2 mutations are nonsense mutations, with the premature stop codon occurring near the N-terminal amino acid sequences, clearly indicating they are inactivating. In addition, there are several known cancer genes that are mutated in 2 cases, and they are described below.
Somatic mutation in known cancer genes. To determine known cancer genes that are mutated in the discovery cohort, we intersected the list of mutated genes with Cancer Gene Census (version 77, downloaded 05/26/2016) (28) (Supplemental Table 6). Notably, we detected a functionally established activating mutation in PIK3CA (p.K111E) (29) in tumor PC10T (Figure 4), and a known activating mutation in MTOR (p.L1460P) (30) in PC02T (Supplemental Figure 4). In another case, PC15T, we discovered a missense mutation (p.Q2524L) near the kinase domain of MTOR. Although it has yet to be biochemically validated as an activating mutation, this mutation has been previously identified as a somatic alteration in clear cell renal carcinomas (31) and endometrial carcinomas (32). Furthermore, this mutation is predicted to have high functional impact (dbNSFP radial support vector machine [SVM] score = 0.98, 97th percentile; see Methods). Recurrence of this somatic mutation in other cancers and high functional impact score suggest it is likely an activating mutation. Mutations in canonical Wnt pathway genes were found in 2 cases. In PC02T, a missense mutation (p.E1284K) in APC was identified. Located in a mutation cluster in codons 1248–1522 of the APC gene, this mutation was previously discovered in a small-cell lung cancer (33). In addition, we detected an inactivating mutation in RNF43 (p.G659fs) in case PC05T. RNF43 encodes a transmembrane E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase that negatively regulates the Wnt signaling pathway by selectively ubiquitinating frizzled receptors (34). Frequent RNF43 inactivating mutations have been discovered in several cancer types characterized by Wnt pathway dysregulation such as colorectal, endometrial, and gastric cancers (35).
Mutation distribution for the PIK3CA gene in the study cohort (n = 25) (top) and all cancer studies in cBioPortal (bottom) along the body of the gene. The colored rectangles represent the known functional domains of the translated protein (Pfam database; http://pfam.xfam.org/).
We observed frequent mutations in genes that directly regulate chromatin structure, including truncating mutations in a recently discovered tumor suppressor, ARID2, implicated in hepatocellular carcinomas and melanomas (36–38); a missense mutation (p.L1549V in PC09T; dbNSFP radial SVM score = –0.83, 54th percentile) in a histone demethylase KDM5C (also known as JARID1C) that is mutated in 9% of clear cell renal cell carcinomas and its inactivation triggers genomic instability (39). In addition to ARID2 and KDM5C, there are several other chromatin remodeling genes that are not included in the Cancer Gene Census but are mutated in our discovery cohort: a frameshift indel (p.K512fs) in another ARID family gene ARID4A in PC04T; missense mutations or in-frame indel in 3 other histone demethylases (KDM4C, p.R919K in PC18T; KDM4E, p.R100H in PC04T; JMJD1C, p.K593_S601del in PC04T); a missense mutation (p.S1128L in PC02T) in the SET domain histone methyltransferase SETD1B that is frequently mutated in gastric and colorectal cancers (40). Cumulatively, 29% (5 of 17) of the discovery cohort in this study harbor mutations in a chromatin remodeling pathway.
Functional studies and recent genetic data suggested that NOTCH1 is an oncogene in hematological malignancies and a tumor suppressor in squamous cell carcinomas (41, 42). We found NOTCH1 mutations in 2 tumors: p.T194P in PC10T, and p.Q439* in PC11T. As a protein-truncating mutation, p.Q439* is very likely inactivating. The p.T194P mutation has been previously identified in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (43) where NOTCH1 has been postulated as a tumor suppressor (44, 45), suggesting it is also likely inactivating. Therefore, our findings suggest that NOTCH1 is a potential tumor suppressor in 2 PCs in this study.
Although not included in the Cancer Gene Census list, the prune homolog 2 (PRUNE2) gene has recently been implicated in PC as a potential tumor suppressor (20). In the discovery cohort we observed the previously identified somatic stop-gain mutations (p.E474* and p.E537*) in 1 sample (PC16T), but found no additional somatic mutations in PRUNE2. Additionally, germline missense variants were found in PC12N (p.E2570A), PC14N (p.V452M), and PC16N (p.L378V) normal control samples.
Mutation signatures. The somatic SNV distributions are shown in Figure 2B. Typically, G:C>A:T and A:T>G:C somatic transitions are abundant in cancers (21). However, in PC we observe G:C>C:G (n = 13) and G:C>T:A (n = 3) transversions at elevated rates (ranked higher than expected), suggesting the presence of mutator phenotypes causing uncommon mutation types. This finding corroborates an earlier finding of an apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like (APOBEC) mutational signature (21) in a subset of PC specimens (20).
Somatic copy number alterations. The spectrum of somatic copy number alterations in the cohort is summarized in Figure 3, with details shown in Supplemental Table 7. We observed recurrent loss of chromosomes 1p (8 samples), 3 (8 samples), and 13 (10 samples) and recurrent gain of chromosomes 1q (6 samples), 16 (9 samples), and 20 (9 samples). These findings corroborate observations from earlier studies (9–14). GISTIC2 (46) was used to identify focal recurrent copy number events. We observed significant (GISTIC q value < 0.25) gain of 6p11.2, 7q22.1, 10q26.2 and 11q23.2 and loss of 1p36.32, 3q29, 6q25.3 and 7p21.3 in our cohort (Figure 3B). We detected gain of genomic regions encompassing CCND1 in 5 of the 17 (29%) cases in the discovery cohort (Supplemental Table 7). Notably, 4 of the 5 cases are mutually exclusive from the 8 cases harboring CDC73 somatic mutations (Figure 2; P value = 0.11, one-sided Fisher’s exact test).
Biallelic gene inactivation. Next we investigated genes that underwent likely biallelic inactivation, i.e., either one copy of the gene was mutated in the germline and the other in the tumor or both copies were altered in the tumor. The findings are listed in Supplemental Table 8. Briefly, biallelic inactivation of a gene was observed in 15 of 17 cases from our discovery cohort. We observed dual protein-altering mutations across multiple samples for CDC73 (PC01, PC02, PC03, PC09, PC17), AKAP9 (PC02, PC07), and FAT3 (PC04, PC09).
ParThy targeted panel sequencing
Combining our findings from the WES discovery cohort with the literature, we developed a targeted cancer gene panel, called the ParThy panel, covering all coding exons (UniProt canonical isoform) of 16 genes implicated in PC (Figure 1B). The genes to be included in the panel were chosen based upon recurrence of mutations in our discovery cohort, biological significance, and/or literature review (Supplemental Table 9). In addition to being a complementary technology to Illumina, Ion AmpliSeq was chosen as the selected sequencing platform for the panel as it can yield sequencing libraries from low-input DNA derived from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples, has a relatively short turnaround time, and provides ultradeep coverage to detect low allelic fraction variants based on our prior experience (47). As shown in Figure 1B, we screened 10 samples from the WES cohort and an additional 12 tumor samples (no matched normal samples; expansion cohort) using the panel. From the tumor-only samples, 7 of 12 samples were completed successfully, i.e., yielding data passing our QC metrics. Sequencing depth, uniformity, and other QC metrics are displayed in Supplemental Figure 5 and listed in Supplemental Table 10. Importantly, all somatic mutations detected from the WES assay were confirmed by the panel results.
Furthermore, we observed additional mutations in known and putative PC genes from the panel results (Supplemental Table 11). Truncating or frameshift mutations in CDC73 were observed in samples PC20T, PC28T, and PC31T in the expansion cohort, furthering its role as a driver in PC. PIK3CA variants were detected in 3 cases in the expansion cohort (Figure 4), with 2 of these being known activating mutations, p.H1047R (48) and p.E545A (49). The 2 activating PIK3CA mutations are mutually exclusive from the 3 inactivating CDC73 mutations in the expansion cohort. In the combined discovery and expansion cohort of 24 cases, the 11 tumors harboring CDC73 mutations and the 3 tumors harboring the activating PIK3CA mutations are mutually exclusive, although the limited case numbers prevent this trend from reaching statistical significance (Figure 2; P value = 0.14, one-sided Fisher’s exact test). Additional mutated genes in the expansion cohort include FAT3, SETD1B, and PRUNE2 in 4, 2, and 1 cases, respectively.
PC is one of the rarest human cancers, generally accounting for less than 1% of all cases of primary hyperparathyroidism worldwide, although significant regional variation may exist (2). This rarity has created a tremendous challenge to studying the genetic basis of disease etiology by sequencing patient tumor samples. While The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and The International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) have generated whole–genome/exome sequencing data of approximately 25,000 tumor samples covering more than 50 cancer types (50, 51), including 10 rare cancers (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/cancersselected/RareTumorCharacterizationProjects), they do not include PC, and thus to the best of our knowledge, genomic sequencing has been reported on only 9 sporadic and familial PC patients (19, 20). In this study, we generated exome sequencing data from paired tumor-normal samples of 10 sporadic PCs. In order to increase the statistical power, data analysis was performed by combining the 10 WES cases with 7 of the previously reported cases (20), representing the largest genomic sequencing study of sporadic PC to date. Furthermore, in PC samples from 7 additional patients, we also sequenced 16 PC-related genes on a high-throughput sequencing panel informed by our WES data. Our results have revealed newly recognized driver mutations and potential genetic mechanisms in PC development, in addition to confirming CDC73 as a key tumor suppressor. We applied 2 complementary approaches to elucidate the somatic mutations identified in our study. A knowledge-driven approach was utilized to determine if well-known oncogenic pathways are genetically altered in our study cohort, and a data-driven approach was used to identify recurrently mutated genes for discovery of novel oncogenic drivers.
The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway plays a critical role in regulating cell cycle progression and is also a key regulator of survival during cellular stress. Dysregulation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway profoundly disturbs the balance between cell proliferation and apoptosis, and ultimately leads to a competitive growth advantage, metastatic competence, angiogenesis, and therapy resistance in cancers (52). Frequent genetic alterations such as somatic mutations and copy gain/loss of key components in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway have been reported in many solid tumors as well as hematological malignancies. In a meta-analysis of cancer genes across 21 tumor types, PIK3CA (encoding the catalytic subunit of PI3 kinase) and PTEN (encoding an inhibitor of the pathway) are among the top 3 most significantly mutated genes (53). In the current study, we detected functionally established activating PIK3CA mutations in 3 carcinomas in the combined discovery and expansion cohort. Mutual exclusivity of the 3 activating PIK3CA mutations from CDC73 somatic mutations in our study further suggests they are independently and crucially oncogenic. Notably, in the previous WGS study of a single sporadic PC, the primary tumor sample harbored an activating PIK3CA mutation and has wild-type CDC73 (19), consistent with our findings of mutual exclusivity between PIK3CA and CDC73 mutations. Furthermore, MTOR gene mutations were present in 2 other carcinomas, mutually exclusive from the activating PIK3CA mutations. Therefore, the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway is very likely activated in 21% (5 of 24) of the PCs in this study, representing a major oncogenic pathway and potentially a therapeutic target for sporadic PCs. Moreover, PIK3CA/MTOR mutations could potentially provide value in the diagnosis of PCs, if their still-unknown prevalence in benign parathyroid neoplasms proves to be sufficiently rare or nil.
The Wnt pathway has been recognized as a potentially key oncogenic pathway in PCs. In a study of 5 sporadic PCs, tumor tissues of all 5 cases exhibited increased nuclear accumulation of active, nonphosphorylated β-catenin in comparison with adjacent normal control samples (18). It was suggested that this activation of the Wnt pathway was due to epigenetic regulation, as the APC gene was hypermethylated in these PC tumor samples. Although parafibromin/CDC73 might play a role in regulating Wnt signaling, as dephosphorylated parafibromin stabilizes β-catenin in a gastric cancer cell line (54), somatic mutations or copy number variations (CNVs) of canonical Wnt pathway components such as activating mutations in β-catenin or loss of APC have not previously been identified in sporadic PCs. In this study, we detected a likely inactivating APC somatic mutation (p.E1284K) in tumor PC02T and an inactivating RNF43 somatic mutation (p.G659fs) in tumor PC05T. RNF43 is mutated in more than 18% of colorectal adenocarcinomas and endometrial carcinomas, most prevalently in microsatellite-unstable (MSI-H) colorectal tumors (80%) and MSI-H endometrial tumors (51%) (35). Among these mutations, 73%–75% were truncating events and the p.G659fs mutation observed in our study accounted for 42% to 48% of the RNF43 mutations in colon and endometrial cancers. Moreover, truncating mutations of RNF43 are mutually exclusive from inactivating APC mutations in colorectal adenocarcinomas, strongly suggesting that the inactivating RNF43 mutation is a bona fide oncogenic event (35). To the best of our knowledge, the APC and RNF43 mutations in this study represent the first sporadic PCs with somatic mutations putatively mediating Wnt pathway activation, which also complements previously reported epigenetic mechanisms activating Wnt pathway in PCs (18).
Amplification of CCND1 was detected in 5 of the 17 (29%) cases in the discovery cohort. Mutual exclusivity of 4 of the 5 cases from the 8 cases harboring CDC73 somatic mutations strongly suggest that gene amplification in these cases is an alternative genetic mechanism to CDC73 inactivation to upregulate CCND1 expression. Previously it has been reported that CCND1 amplification was detected in 5 of 7 PCs based on a multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) assay (17). Our study provides important confirmation that CCND1 is indeed frequently amplified in PCs. It should be noted that CCND1 overexpression is frequent in benign parathyroid adenomas. Thus, in the carcinomas, other mutations (e.g., PIK3CA, etc.) that occur concomitantly with CCND1 amplification probably synergize in yielding the malignant phenotype.
In addition to delineating somatic alterations of well-established oncogenic pathways, we also focused on several highly recurrently mutated genes for discovery of novel cancer drivers in PCs. We have identified a new recurrent somatic mutation in PCs — p.I482M in ADCK1. ADCK1 is a putative kinase with unknown molecular function. Intriguingly, a kinome-wide functional screening has indicated that ADCK2, a kinase closely related to ADCK1, enhances the stability of HIF-1α, a transcription factor that plays a central role in tumor progression by regulating genes involved in cancer cell survival, proliferation, and metastasis (55). We detected mutations of FAT3 in 6 cases. While a functional role of FAT3 in cancers has not been described, recurrent somatic mutations of the closely related gene FAT1 have been identified in glioblastomas, head and neck squamous cell carcinomas, and colorectal carcinomas (56). Moreover, it was shown that inactivation of FAT1 via mutations promotes Wnt signaling and tumor development, and is associated with poor survival (56). FAT4 was frequently mutated in gastric adenocarcinomas and breast cancers, and it exhibited tumor-suppressor activity in several functional assays (57, 58). Given that both FAT3 somatic mutations in the discovery cohort are truncating, it is quite conceivable that FAT3 is also a tumor suppressor, possibly regulating Wnt signaling. In addition, AKAP9, a regulator of protein kinase A, and ZEB1 promoting tumor metastasis are each mutated in 3 cases in the discovery cohort. The consequence of these mutations with respect to protein functions warrants further investigations to assess their potential roles as oncogenic drivers in PC development.
While the new genomic data generated from 17 patients in our study were predominantly responsible for the major discoveries in this report, it is worth pointing out that our approach of analyzing them together with primary data files from the previous report (20) clearly enhanced the statistical power to detect the recurrent nature of a specific mutation (p.I482M in ADCK1) as well as recurrently mutated genes (e.g., FAT3), which would not have been apparent from either dataset in isolation. That said, 4 of the 5 activating mutations in PIK3CA or MTOR are from the new WES and ParThy panel sequencing data generated in this study, allowing us to reveal PI3K/AKT/mTOR as a likely major oncogenic pathway in sporadic PCs. We also identified the first 2 PC cases with somatic mutation of a Wnt pathway component from the new WES data. Moreover, we were able to identify from the new data possibly inactivating mutations in several recently characterized tumor suppressors involved in chromatin remodeling such as ARID2, SETD1B, and KDM5C.
Our discovery of recurrent, known activating mutations in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and frequent CCND1 amplifications in PCs immediately points to possible therapeutic avenues. However, the rarity of PC limits the possibility of a randomized, controlled clinical trial to test the efficacy of PI3K/AKT/mTOR inhibitors or CDK4/6 inhibitors specifically in this disease. To overcome this obstacle, 2 strategies may be considered. First, PC patients could be considered for enrollment into basket trials (59), where they may be assigned to a targeted treatment arm based on their genomic alterations (e.g., activating PIK3CA mutations) rather than their tumor type. Second, PC patients could undergo genomic testing of their tumor using a multiple-gene panel that includes at a minimum PIK3CA, MTOR, and CCND1, and possibly other genes in pathways considered actionable; the content of such a panel would be expected to evolve with the outcome of relevant trials and with the development of new therapeutic agents. As stated in a joint recommendation by the Association for Molecular Pathology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and College of American Pathologists (60), such genomic testing may provide an interpretive comment on detected genetic alterations that puts the alteration in clinicopathologic context to inform management decisions. Given the rarity of this tumor type, accumulation of individual case reports on outcomes of genomic testing and therapeutics would greatly facilitate validating the utility of genetic alterations as drug response markers to ultimately guide routine clinical practice.
We recognize several limitations in our study. As noted above, due to the rarity of diagnosed sporadic PCs, we only analyzed exome sequences of 17 cases. The average mutation load is 3.4 mutations per Mb. At this background mutation rate, it would require 160 tumor samples to detect genes mutated at 10% frequency, and approximately 470 samples to detect genes mutated at 5% frequency to achieve 90% power for 90% of genes (53). Thus, because of the limited sample size available for this rare tumor, we may well have missed some mutated genes and pathways of significance in small subsets of PC. Also, the ParThy targeted panel we designed is necessarily selective and of limited scope, and thus is unlikely to reflect a complete spectrum of key oncogenic pathways in PC tumorigenesis. In addition, ParThy panel sequencing in the 7 expansion cases was performed in tumor samples only. Although we removed common genetic variants (>2% allele frequency in ESP6500, 1000Genomes, and ExAc; see Methods), it is possible some of the mutations we identified in the expansion cohort (Supplemental Table 11) are rare or private germline variants rather than somatic mutations. Another limitation of our study is that due to restricted sample availability, we were unable to generate genomic data in other platforms such as gene expression profiling. The genetic alterations identified through exome sequencing would be even better interpreted if integrative data analysis could have been performed with genomic data based on multiple platforms, as demonstrated in TCGA. Gene expression data would allow us to corroborate and extend CNV analysis results such as CCND1 amplification. Nevertheless, the current study represents the largest genomic sequencing effort and analysis for an extremely rare malignancy. Our results have indeed revealed important insights into the genetic landscape of PCs. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway has been identified as a potentially major oncogenic pathway. The highly specific recurrent mutation in ADCK1 is highlighted as a key putative oncogene, and several recurrently mutated genes such as FAT3, AKAP9, and ZEB1 are also revealed as excellent candidates that warrant further functional assessment. Furthermore, to facilitate future studies of PCs and to ultimately develop novel therapeutic strategies, we advocate an expanded consortium-based collaboration to quickly assemble a large sample repository in order to achieve improved statistical power and analysis on multiple platforms.
Patients and tumor specimens. Primary, recurrent, or metastatic PC specimens (tumors PC01T–PC10T) were obtained from patients who had been treated surgically for primary hyperparathyroidism. Patient characteristics and tumor selection for cases PC11T–PC19T are described previously (20). Immediately after surgical resection, tumor samples were either frozen in liquid nitrogen for storage at –80°C until use (n = 12), or were FFPE, sectioned, and mounted on slides, with 2 or 3 sections per tumor, and then dissected from the slides for DNA extraction (n = 10). Patients were diagnosed with PC according to stringent clinicopathological criteria (22–24), namely evidence of either local invasion into surrounding tissues (including vascular invasion beyond the parathyroid tumor capsule) and/or distant metastasis. Paired peripheral blood or other nontumor tissue was available from 10 patients to serve as a source of matched germline DNA.
The following clinical information pertains to the 10 patients in the discovery cohort from which the WES data were generated in this study, and the 12 patients in the expansion cohort. At initial parathyroidectomy, patients ranged in age from 20 to 70 years, mean 47.7 (data available for n = 19). At the time of the surgery that yielded the study specimens, patients ranged in age from 26 to 75 years, mean 52.3 (data available for n = 18). Seven patients were women and 15 were men. The patients’ preoperative serum calcium levels ranged from 12 to 20.6 mg/dl (n = 14). The patients’ preoperative serum levels of PTH were 2.5- to 31-fold above the upper limit of normal for the assay used (n = 10). Eight of the specimens represented primary tumors, 6 represented local recurrences, and 8 represented metastases (3 to lung, 2 to lymph nodes, 3 to bone). Symptoms were noted in available records for 16 patients: 9 had bone pain, 2 had bone fractures, 3 had nephrolithiasis, and 2 had renal failure. At least 17 patients underwent multiple operations for recurrent cancer.
All patients were considered to have sporadic disease upon original presentation, except for one patient who described a vague family history of isolated hyperparathyroidism and had no clinical evidence of HPT/JT. One patient had previous external beam radiotherapy to a recurrent PC lesion other than the one excised and analyzed in this study. One other patient had adjuvant radiation therapy to the cervical region that, 5 years later, yielded the study sample. No patient had been treated with chemotherapy.
Genomic DNA (gDNA) was isolated from tumor and nontumor tissues using either proteinase K digestion followed by phenol-chloroform extraction and ethanol precipitation for frozen tissues and blood, or with the Qiagen Supplemental protocol for purification of gDNA from FFPE tissue using the QIAamp DNA FFPE Tissue Kit (Qiagen, 56404) and Deparaffinization Solution (Qiagen, 19093).
WES. gDNA samples were assessed for quantity by Qubit fluorometry (Life Technologies) and for quality by the 2100 Bioanalyzer system or 2200 TapeStation (Agilent). Initial shearing of 0.5–1 μg gDNA to a mean of 200- to 300-bp fragments was performed using the Covaris E210 focused acoustic energy system. Whole-genome libraries were prepared using the NEBNext DNA Library Prep kit according to the standard manufacturer’s protocol (New England Biolabs). Illumina-compatible paired-end adapters were used and the adapter-ligated DNA fragments were amplified by ligation-mediated PCR (KAPA Biosystems) using a reverse PCR primer containing a 6-nt barcode that allowed for multiple samples to be pooled and sequenced in the same run. The library was enriched for exonic sequences with either the SeqCap EZ Human Exome Library v3.0 capture system (Roche NimbleGen) or the SureSelect Human All Exon V5 system (Agilent) using the manufacturer’s protocols. The libraries were then sequenced with a 100-bp paired-end protocol on the Illumina HiSeq 2500 instrument according to the standard manufacturer’s protocol (Illumina). For the SureSelect-based preparations, the adaptors and amplification primers that came with the SureSelect kits were used. Approximately 8–14 pmol of the whole-exome libraries were clustered and run on the High Output HiSeq 2500 flowcell and sequenced for 100-bp paired-end reads according to the standard manufacturer’s protocol (Illumina).
Identification of genetic alterations. All exome sequencing data were processed through an internal QC pipeline and variant calling and filtering were carried out as previously described (47). All FASTQ files (both normal and tumor; both internal and external data) were combined into a cohort and run through an in-house pipeline (61) to yield BAM and VCF files with germline and somatic variant calls (SNVs and sufficiently small indels). Briefly, this in-house pipeline implements Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) (62) version 3.2 best practices for alignment (to hg19 human genome assembly), base quality recalibration, variant calling (using HaplotypeCaller), and variant quality score recalibration (using VQSR set to 99.5% sensitivity) (63). For somatic variant calling, MuTect (64) (version 1.1.6-10b1ba92, HC+PON mode with default settings, using COSMIC [ref. 32] version 65, dbSNP [ref. 65] version 137, and using variant calls from patient-matched normal control as the “panel of normals” setting) and Varscan2 (66) (used only for indels; version 2.3.5, with flags --tumor-purity 0.7 and --min-var-freq 0.07) were used. All variant calls were loaded into a custom MySQL database using in-house scripts and annotated with RVS (67). All germline calls marked “PASS” by VQSR were retained. Somatic calls whose population allele frequency in either ExAC, ESP6500, or 1000Genomes (as described previously in ref. 67) exceeding 2% were discarded on the presumption that they are any combination of: contamination, a variant present but missed in a normal sample, a low-level artifact, could not be a cancer driver because too common in general population. Variant calls were manually reviewed in IGV (68) and the UCSC Genome Browser (69) to inspect supporting alignment quality and alignability of the genomic region in the hg19 human genome assembly. Uncertain calls were manually rejected at this step. In order to identify germline variants for potential disease-predisposing mutations, we filtered variant calls from GATK HaplotypeCaller using the following criteria: high or moderate impact as predicted by SnpEff version 4.0b (described previously in ref. 67), in a canonical isoform according to UniProt v2014_11 (70) or ENSEMBL v78 (71), less than 2% population frequency in ExAc, ESP6500, and 1000Genomes.
We used dbNSFP v2.5 (72) SVM-based ensemble prediction score (RadialSVM), which incorporates 10 scores and the maximum frequency observed in the 1000Genomes populations, to determine variant impact for SNVs. A larger value means the SNV is more likely to have an impact and the scores range from –2 to 3. RadialSVM scores were ranked among all RadialSVM scores in dbNSFP where the rankscore equals the ratio of the rank of the score over the total number of RadialSVM scores in dbNSFP and ranges from 0 to 1.
Somatic copy number alterations were identified using the saasCNV v0.3.1 pipeline implemented in R (73). Briefly, from WES data, the pipeline begins with input heterozygous SNV calls from the normal control sample, and gathers their coverage and allelic fraction in the normal and tumor samples. Joint circular binary segmentation is performed on the 2 signals: the log-ratio of coverages (intensities) and the log-ratio of mirrored allelic fractions (mBAFs) in tumor versus normal. Identified segments are then classified according to loss, copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity, gain, normal (no change), or undecided categories. For WES data, as the GATK variant calling workflow combines normals and tumors as a cohort, heterozygous variants in the normal sample(s) are implicitly force-called by HaplotypeCaller in the tumor sample, yielding their depth-by-allele in both normal and tumor in the output VCF. Variant calls that pass VQSR, have a 0/1 genotype in normal, have a mapping quality greater than 30, and have non-zero coverage in tumor, were input into saasCNV.
Targeted panel sequencing. Qubit fluorometry (Life Technologies) was performed on tumor and normal gDNA samples using 1 μl of each sample to quantify the concentration and mass. An Agilent Bioanalyzer DNA 12000 chip was utilized to assess the DNA integrity in the 100-bp to 17,000-bp range prior to library preparation to eliminate any low quality input material. The DNA samples that pass qualification proceed into library construction using the manufacturer’s (Thermo Fisher Scientific) Ion Torrent Ampliseq library preparation protocol. Once libraries were completed and equalized, the Ion Chef (Thermo Fisher Scientific) was used to concentrate and load the 318 PGM chip by first placing all consumables and cartridges onto the deck of the Chef per the Ion PGM Chef Kit User Guide. While allowing the reagents to reach room temperature for at least 40 minutes, the Torrent Chef and run conditions were set up for the ParThy cancer panel. Once consumables reached room temperature, the appropriate 318 chips were placed onto each of the Chef’s centrifuge buckets and the PGM configuration was run according to the manufacturer’s suggested protocol until completion. Variants from targeted panel sequencing were called using the TorrentSuite variantCaller module v4.6.0.7 using permissive settings (Somatic – Low-Stringency preset; all COSMIC variants provided as hotspot file for force calling), exported as VCFs, and loaded into a custom MySQL database in the same way as above for the Illumina workflow. All variants were manually reviewed in IGV. If both targeted panel and WES sequencing were available, concordance analysis was done to ensure the 2 assays agreed in their somatic variant calls on regions covered by both assays by design. QC statistics, multiplexing details, variant caller version, and chip type are given in Supplemental Table 10.
Data availability. Somatic variant calls are available publicly via COSMIC (COSP42872).
Statistics. To determine mutual exclusivity of genetic alternations in gene pairs, 1-sided Fisher’s exact test was performed. A P value less than 0.05 was considered significant.
Study approval. For sequencing study of cases PC11T–PC19T human studies review and approval (MREC) was as stated in Yu et al. (20). Sequencing study of samples PC01T–PC10T and PC20T–PC31T was exempted from IRB approval as all samples were anonymous and completely de-identified.
RC, AA, SDL, and AVU designed and directed the study. CP and AVU performed data analysis. JB and CYL collected the samples and clinical data and managed all assays. MS, WH, and LN performed the experiments. ASM, MF, and YA provided support in the analysis of results. WY, MS, BC, BTT, RVT, HM, EES, and RS provided technical assistance in the execution of the experiments and/or the interpretation of results. CP and SDL wrote the manuscript. AVU and AA revised the manuscript. All authors participated in the interpretation of the data and production of the final manuscript.
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This work was supported in part by the Murray-Heilig Fund in Molecular Medicine at University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and through the computational resources and staff expertise provided by the Department of Scientific Computing at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. We thank the Genomics Core Facility at the Icahn Institute and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences for technical support. MS and RVT are supported by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) (G1000467) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Programme; RVT is a Wellcome Trust Investigator and NIHR Senior Investigator. BMC is supported by iNOVA4Health (UID/Multi/04462/2013), a program financially supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia/Ministério da Educação e Ciência through national funds and cofunded by FEDER under the PT2020 partnership. Special thanks to Zhongyang Zhang, Maria da Conceição Pereira, Maria João Bugalho, and Valeriano Leite for helpful discussions regarding the manuscript.
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– As a child growing up after India’s partition, Kashmir to me was always a part of India. Only in middle school did I begin to realize that it was considered “disputed territory” by much of the world, the sentiment being especially fierce in neighboring Pakistan. The map of India that we studied in school showed Indian Kashmir as a larger territory than what was actually under Indian control. Parts of it in the north and the west were in reality, within China and Pakistan. The scenic northernmost state, a popular destination for summer tourism and the backdrop of many a puerile romantic song & dance number of made-in-Bombay movies, was not a very urgent topic of discussion for the general Indian public. Kashmir for most Indians, evoked benign, pretty images of apple, apricot and walnut orchards, chinar trees, shimmering lakes, snow capped mountains, houseboats, fine pashmina shawls, lacquered papier mache ornaments and the valley’s light skinned aloof inhabitants.
Later in my teen years I began to understand that Kashmir was not the placid paradise we had imagined as children. Its politics were complicated and its population sharply divided on the state’s rightful status – part of India, part of Pakistan or a wholly independent/ autonomous entity. The difference of opinion fell across religious lines. Kashmiri Hindus wished to remain with India and the majority Muslim population of the state did not. Even then, things were mostly quiet and free of turmoil. There were quite a few Kashmiri students in my school. Many had ancestral homes and relatives in Kashmir and they visited there regularly during summer breaks. Those friends were all Hindus. Come to think of it, I did not know a single Kashmiri Muslim on a personal level until I was in college. There were Muslim traders and merchants who came down to major Indian cities bearing expensive and much coveted Kashmiri merchandise such as saffron, dried fruit, nuts and embroidered woollens, but they did not reside in the plains permanently and their children did not attend our schools. The first Kashmiri Muslim I came to know well was Agha Shahid Ali, a graduate student a few years ahead of me in Delhi University who later became a lecturer of English at my college as also a poet of some renown. It was Ali who first revealed to me that most Kashmiri Muslims did not identify themselves as Indians and many felt a greater emotional and cultural allegiance with Pakistan. An equal number wanted an autonomous state with a very loose federation with India for economic reasons. The Indian government spent large sums of money to subsidize the state’s economy and prohibited non-Kashmiris from buying land there while also meddling in local politics. Kashmiris became increasingly suspicious of the central government’s motives and the rift with India widened both politically and culturally.
Despite tensions and uncertainties, Kashmir never experienced the sectarian violence that had racked the eastern and western wings of India around partition time. Even when India and Pakistan fought several wars over their disagreement surrounding the region, Kashmir itself remained relatively free of communal strife for many decades after India’s independence. The uneasy calm ended in the late 1980s and early ’90s when the Kashmir valley became a battle ground for armed insurgents trained in Pakistan and the Indian military forces. The conflict caused a communal rift among long time residents and resulted in a mass exodus (some say expulsion) of Kashmiri Hindus from their homes. Those tensions remain to this day laced with bitterness on both sides.
I had never visited Kashmir when I lived in India. By the time the political upheaval unfolded in the 1990s, I had already left and had been living abroad for a decade. Kashmir’s troubles and deteriorating political situation were not something I paid close attention to until the Kargil War erupted in 1999. It became clear then that Kashmir had become an intractable problem for India. I am still not sure how I feel about the situation. What can India gain by holding on to a territory whose residents do not want to be a part of India? Can India protect regions like Ladakh and Jammu in the vicinity which identify firmly with the rest of India? What would happen if India does decide to vacate the valley and stops spending money to placate the population and maintain the large presence of its armed forces? Would Kashmir valley remain “independent” or will some other country like China or Pakistan march in and establish control even closer to other Indian states? How does one balance the interests of Kashmiris and the rest of India? Is peace ever possible when the citizenry perceives the government as an “occupying force?” Most confusing of all, will Kashmiri Hindus be permitted go back to the homes they abandoned out of fear and panic? And even if it was possible, would they ever want to return to a place that had cut all ties to India? ….
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In her novel “Aag Ka Darya”, a world class urdu writer, Qurattulain Haider, had raised questions about Partition and had rejected the two-nation theory
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– The misfits of society
by Waseem Altaf
Qurattulain Haider, writer of the greatest urdu novel “Aag Ka Darya” had come to Pakistan in 1949. By then she had attained the stature of a world class writer. She joined the Press Information Department and served there for quite some time. In 1959 her greatest novel ‘Aag ka Darya’ was published. ‘Aag Ka Dariya’ raised important questions about Partition and rejected the two-nation theory. It was this more than anything else that made it impossible for her to continue in Pakistan, so she left for India and permanently settled there.
Sahir Ludhianvi, one of the finest romantic poets of Urdu language settled in Lahore in 1943 where he worked for a number of literary magazines. Everything was alright until after partition when his inflammatory writings (communist views and ideology) in the magazine Savera resulted in the issuing of a warrant for his arrest by the Government of Pakistan. In 1949 Sahir fled to India and never looked back.
Sajjad Zaheer, the renowned progressive writer Marxist thinker and revolutionary who came to Pakistan after partition, was implicated in Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case and was extradited to India in 1954.
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was a Pakistani citizen, regarded as one of the greatest classical singers of the sub continent, was so disillusioned by the apathy shown towards him and his art that he applied for, and was granted a permanent Indian immigrant visa in 1957-58. He migrated to India and lived happily thereafter. All of the above lived a peaceful and prosperous life in India and were conferred numerous national awards by the Government of India.
Now let’s see the scene on the other side of Radcliff line.
Saadat Hassan Manto a renowned short story writer migrated to Pakistan after 1947. Here he was tried thrice for obscenity in his writings. Disheartened and financially broke he expired at the age of 42. In 2005, on his fiftieth death anniversary, the Government of Pakistan issued a commemorative postage stamp.
Zia Sarhadi the Marxist activist and a film director who gave us such memorable films as ‘Footpath’ and ‘Humlog’, was a celebrity in Bombay when he chose to migrate to Pakistan. ‘Rahguzar’, his first movie in this country, turned out to be the last that he ever directed. During General Ziaul Haq’s martial law, he was picked up by the army and kept in solitary confinement in terrible conditions. The charges against him were sedition and an inclination towards Marxism. On his release, he left the country to settle permanently in the UK and never came back.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, one of the greatest Urdu poets of the 20th century was arrested in 1951 under Safety Act and charged in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case. Later he was jailed for more than four years.
Professor Abdussalam the internationally recognized Pakistani physicist was disowned by his own country due to his religious beliefs. He went to Italy and settled there. He could have been murdered in the holy land but was awarded the Nobel Prize in the West for his contribution in the field of theoretical physics. Meanwhile his tombstone at Rabwah (now Chenab Nagar) was disfigured under the supervision of a local magistrate. This was our way of paying tribute to the great scientist.
Rafiq Ghazanvi was one of sub-continent’s most attractive, capable and versatile artists. He was an actor, composer and singer. He composed music for a number of films in Bombay like Punarmilan, Laila majnu and Sikandar. After partition he came to Karachi where he was offered a petty job at Radio Pakistan. He later resigned and spent the rest of his life in seclusion. He died in Karachi in 1974.
Sheila Ramani was the heroine of Dev Anand’s ”taxi driver” and “fantoosh” released in the 50’s. She was a Sindhi and came to Karachi where her uncle Sheikh Latif was a producer. She played the lead in Pakistani film ”anokhi” which had the famous song ”gari ko chalana babu” However seeing little prospects of any cinematic activity at Karachi, she moved back to India.
Ustad Daman, the ‘simpleton’ Punjabi poet had flair of his own. Due to his unorthodox views, many a times he was sent behind bars. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru offered him Indian citizenship which he refused. The reward he received here was the discovery of a bomb from his shabby house for which he was sent to jail by the populist leader Mr.Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Had Mohammad Rafi the versatile of all male singers of the Indian sub-continent chosen to stay in Pakistan, what would have been his fate. A barber in the slums of Bilal Gunj in Lahore, while Dilip Kumar selling dry fruit in Qissa Khawani Bazaar, Peshawar.
Ustad Salamat Ali a bhagwan in Atari turned out to be a mirasi in Wahga all his life. Last time I met him at his rented house in Islamabad, he was in bad shape.
We also find Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan who went to India and was treated like a god. His compositions recorded in India became all time hits not only in Pakistan and India but all over the world. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Faakhir, Ali Zafar and Atif Aslam frequently visit India and their talent is duly recognized by a culture where art and music is part of life. Adnan Sami has even obtained Indian citizenship and has permanently settled there. Salma Agha and Zeba Bakhtiar got fame after they acted in Indian films. Meanwhile Veena Malik is getting death threats here and is currently nowhere to be seen. Sohail Rana the composer was so disillusioned here that he permanently got settled in Canada. Earlier on Saleem Raza the accomplished singer immigrated to Canada. I was told by a friend that Saleem Raza was once invited by some liberal students to perform at Punjab University when the goons of Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba attacked him and paraded him in an objectionable posture in front of the students.
After returning to Pakistan the chhote ustads of “star plus” who achieved stardom in India have gone into oblivion, while Amanat Ali and Saira Reza of “sa re ga ma” fame have disappeared. And ask Sheema Kirmani and Naheed Siddiqui, the accomplished dancers how conducive the environment here is for the growth of performing arts.
A country gets recognition through its intelligentsia and artists. They are the real assets of a nation. The cultural growth of a society is not possible without these individuals acting as the precursors of change. Unfortunately this state was not created, nor was it meant for these kinds of people. It was carved out for hypocrites and looters who could have enjoyed a heyday without any fear or restraint.
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This is a brief list of basic books on science necessary to live in the modern world. The list will not make you a scientist or an engineer, nor does it even attempt to cover a broad swathe of scientific fields. It will, at best, only prevent you from feeling illiterate when you read a story on some scientific breakthrough in the newspapers. It might, hopefully, allow you to question the scientific assumptions people make when policy intersects with science.
I’ve included a few biographies in this list as well because I think an understanding of the men and women who achieved scientific greatness enriches our grasp on the science and most importantly, its context – I say this as someone who is not usually fond of the biography genre.
I have tried to keep history off the list. This is not because I find it boring, irrelevant, or useless but because the history of science is its own study. Thus, works like Joseph Needham’s magisterial seven-volume (27 books!) Science and Civilisation in China have been given a miss. Similarly, I chose to go with Abraham Pais’ biography of Robert Oppenheimer instead of another excellent work by Kai Bird, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A couple of books will feel like textbooks, probably because they are. Sorry, you will have to dip into just a little bit of the good stuff to understand the broader arguments on psychology, economics, and policy. On the other hand, there are a couple of pop-science books on the list too – the discuss the use of science in everyday life and how we ought to think about it, an important aside most forget in their relentless pursuit of the technicalities.
Alcock, John. The Triumph of Sociobiology
Atkins, Peter. Four Laws That Drive the Universe
Axelrod, Robert. The Evolution of Cooperation
Bell, Graham. Selection: The Mechanism of Evolution
Brown, Daniel. Human Universals
Buss, David M. The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex
Changeaux, Jean-Pierre. The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge
—. Neuronal Man
Damasio, Antonio. The Feeling of What Happens
—. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
De Waal, Frans BM. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
—. Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes
Dyson, George. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Ewald, Paul W. Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
Feynman, Richard. The Feynman Lectures on Physics (three volumes)
—. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Gazzaniga, Michael. The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
—. Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
Goldacre, Ben. Bad Science
Hauser, Marc. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Kandel, Eric. Principles of Neural Science
—. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Kenneally, Christine: The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Ledoux, Joseph. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Lieberman, Matthew. Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Low, Bobbi. Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behaviour
Mayr, Ernst. The Growth of Biological Thought
—. This is Biology: The Science of the Living World
—. What Evolution Is
Mealey, Linda. Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Pais, Abraham. Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
—. Niels Bohr’s Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity
—. J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life
Penrose, Roger. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Knowledge
—. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
—. How the Mind Works
Provine, Robert. Laughter: a Scientific Investigation
Ramachandran, Vilayanur S. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
Richards, Robert J. The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin’s Theory
—. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
Ridley, Matt. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Sagan, Carl. Cosmos
Sagan, Dorion. Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science
Schubert, Glendon, Roger Masters, Albert Somit. Primate Politics
Tammet, Daniel. Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Trivers, Robert. Social Evolution
—. Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers
Widmaier, Eric. Vander’s Human Physiology: The Mechanisms of Body Function
Williams, George C., Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
Wilson, Edward Osborne. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
—. On Human Nature
Wilson, Eric. Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
Wrangham, Richard and Dale Peterson. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
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Olympics 2020: They’re Singing National Anthems from Around the World, and Any Tokyo Resident Can Join!
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“Won’t you join us for a sing-along of national anthems from around the world before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?”
Tadamasa Fukiura, organizer of the “National Flags and Anthems of the World Concert,” posed this invitation to Japanese and foreign national residents of Tokyo when he spoke to JAPAN Forward in early August.
The concert, which will include professional musicians as well as interested members of the public, will be held at the Kioi Hall in Tokyo on March 1, 2020.
The aim of the concert is to strengthen international amity and heighten the mood in the lead-up to the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, according to Mr. Fukiura.
Stellar Lineup of Anthems and Musicians
Masako Shindo, a soprano who is widely known for her ability to sing the national anthems of over 75 nations in their original languages, has agreed to perform at the concert. She will be joined by violinist Atsuko Tenma, baritone Katsunori Kono, and composer and pianist Takashi Niigaki.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Tokyo Band, led by 2nd Lieutenant Commander Yoshio Higuchi, conductor, will be performing the Olympic Fanfare and March for the 1964 Tokyo Games. The JMSDF band’s chorus also will be singing the Olympic Hymn and various national anthems.
The lineup for the concert includes the national anthems of the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Russia, Greece, Holland, Sweden, South Africa, Palestine, Israel, South Korea, India, Panama, Djibouti, Italy, the United States, and Japan.
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Tadamasa Fukiura, world national flag specialist and advisor for the International Bureau of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, will be the master of ceremonies and narrator of the event.
Mr. Fukiura, who also serves as the concert’s sponsor representative, was in charge of the Olympic flags for the 1964 Tokyo Games. He has been campaigning to increase public awareness and teach children about the national anthems and flags of the world ever since.
Now he is calling for the participation of foreign nationals living in Tokyo in the March 1, 2020, sing-along event and hoping for a mix of many nationalities.
“[The] Olympic and Paralympic Games are not just festivities, but are wonderful opportunities for people to learn about and encounter different cultures from around the world. I would be delighted if, by singing various national anthems together, Japanese and foreign nationals can get to know each other and further expand cultural relations,” Mr. Fukiura told JAPAN Forward.
(Those interested in participating in this event should contact the organizers at taddy@star.odn.ne.jp )
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National Geographic Chair Jean Case on Being Fearless 0
Former AOL exec and chairman of National Geographic Society Jean Case talks about her new book Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose. She says leaders need to start viewing risk as R&D and failure as a learning experience. In fact, Jean Case encourages people to talk about their own mistakes by sharing her own "failure resume" and hosting "fail tests." She discusses why CEO’s need to get out of their bubble and get uncomfortable, and how greater diversity actually affects an organization's bottom line. Plus she reveals the coolest thing about being the first female chairman of the National Geographic Society and talks about National Geographic’s history of fearless women going back over 125 years.
Order Jean's book Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose on Amazon and learn more about the Case Foundation at www.casefoundation.org. Today's episode was sponsored by Kronos Payroll Solutions, Blinkist, and Homesick Candles.
Marc Freedman on Connecting the Generations 0
Encore.org founder Marc Freedman says seniors are an untapped resource and calls on society to stop segregating the elderly from society and renew the bond between young and old. Marc talks about the mentors who influenced his life, what we can learn from the movie The Intern, and the evidence that shows that seniors who take an interest in a young person actually live longer, happier lives. He talks about the elderly neighbors who act as "surrogate grandparents" to his own children, calls out the interests who are trying to pit baby boomers and millennials against each other, and reveals why artificial intelligence may create greater demand for the kind of interactions that only seniors can offer. Plus we talk about the starry eyed dreamer who accidently created an "age apartheid," how Otto Von Bismark decided your retirement age, and why your kid’s next college roommate might be older than you are!
Be sure to visit Encore.org for more information and order Marc Freedman's book How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold. Today's podcast was sponsored by Homesick Candles. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
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