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CMAJ removes paywall, expands public access to evidence-based health information
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In a bid to democratize access to credible health information, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) is removing its paywall.
“Up until now, if we published an insightful commentary about national pharmacare, for example, it was publicly available for one week, and then behind a paywall for a year. And that markedly decreased the influence that piece could have and the vigour of the debate it might engender,” explains editor-in-chief Dr. Andreas Laupacis.
“As Canada’s leading medical journal, we want CMAJ to be a place for open dialogue and debate about issues that are important to improving our health care systems in Canada.” - Dr. Andreas Laupacis, CMAJ editor-in-chief
In the past decade, only new stories, research articles, editorials and guidelines published in CMAJ have been available for free. Starting in January, all new CMAJ content will be publicly available, at no cost. Past issues will be available starting March 1, while physician members of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) will continue to receive a monthly print version, as a member benefit.
The decision to remove the paywall comes at a time when there is increased need for easily accessible, evidence-based health information.
“One of the things that makes CMAJ unique, within the media landscape, is that we’re heavily driven by research and evidence,” says Dr. Laupacis. “It’s important that the public be able to access this evidence, because they’re the ones paying for and using the health care system, and they can benefit from having as much knowledge as possible.”
“The pressures facing the health care system are complex, and there is real value in making peer-reviewed health research available to all, especially those holding the policy levers of our health care system.” - Dr. Sandy Buchman, CMA president
As a new editor, Dr. Laupacis says the removal of the paywall will also support his vision of making the one-hundred-year-old journal a go-to space for debate and dialogue and expanding the commentary section to tackle important issues in health care.
“It’s going to make it much easier for me (as editor-in-chief) to approach people with expertise to write commentaries for us because I know they’ll be freely available to everybody, not just in Canada, but around the world.”
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How investors should play the cybersecurity war
Published Thu, Feb 20 20148:49 AM EST
As companies and governments battle to protect their systems from the threat of online attacks and malware, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has published a list of stocks that could gain from the global drive to improve cybersecurity.
(CNBC explains: Malware)
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Cybercrime costs the global economy up to $500 billion a year, according to computer security software firm McAfee, and Cisco estimates that cyber threat alerts grew 14 percent year-on-year in 2013.
Recently, U.S. retail giant Target suffered a massive data breach with the theft of personal information on up to 70 million customers, including names, addresses and phone numbers. Upscale retailer Neiman Marcus also announced a cyber attack in January.
(Read more: Companies fear 'cyber fatality' after Target attack)
"Cybersecurity has become a homeland security issue, with a worst-case 'Cybergeddon' scenario now on the table," said BofA strategists Sarbjit Nahal and Valery Lucas-Leclin in a report called "Safer world primer – global safety and security".
"Positively, IT is also enabling new safety & security solutions and opportunities across sectors."
The global cyber security market will reach $120.1 billion by 2017, up from $63.7 billion in 2011, according to forecasts from consulting company MarketsandMarkets.
Nahal and Lucas-Leclin listed several potential investment targets in the cybersecurity industry. These included Barracuda Networks, which supplies email and web security appliances to the likes of CitiBank, Coca-Cola, Harvard University, IBM and Oreal, and Santa Clara-based Palo Alto Networks, which specializes in firewalls.
(Read more: Cybercrime hits US companies harder: Report)
Other companies for which cybersecurity is a growth-driver or sole business include FireEye, Fortinet, Symantec, VMware Inc and Trend Micro, according to Bank of America.
Nahal and Lucas-Leclin wrote that the cybersecurity industry was part of a global "megatrend" in safety and security, which also covered the auto, energy, real estate and life sciences sectors, among others.
"Although it is difficult to accurately gauge the link between such exposure (to companies working in safety and security) and share price performance (as many factors outside the scope of this analysis are likely to play a role in short- and long-term price development), we still consider that safety and security exposure is an important and positive point to track, given that it is a megatrend with a 25-50-year lifespan," they added.
—By CNBC's Katy Barnato. Follow her on Twitter: @KatyBarnato
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Inside the Museum of Brands’ Personalised Packaging exhibit
Colourful bottles from Israel’s ‘Coca-Cola Extraordinary’ campaign
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The Museum of Brands in London is exploring the phenomenon of customised packaging, starring one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Coca-Cola history. Discover how our very own ‘Share A Coke’ campaign came to form a major part of their display.
Put together in collaboration with ThePackHub, the Personalised Packaging exhibit is the first in a series of displays at the Museum of Brands which explore various aspects of current and future packaging innovation.
The exhibit – which is open until 18th February 2018 – showcases brands who’ve incorporated customisation into what have become some of their best-known campaigns, as well as exploring the powerful impact of personalisation on today’s consumers.
At the forefront of the colourful display case stands our ‘Share A Coke’ campaign. The iconic personalised name design – which replaced the Coca-Cola logo on our bottles and cans – is widely seen as the catalyst which sparked a global packaging customisation trend.
Coca-Cola’s ‘Share A Coke’ campaign sits centre stage in the Personalised Packaging exhibit
Why Coca-Cola?
The ‘Share a Coke’ campaign marks one of our most successful campaigns to date with over 150 million personalised bottles sold in over 80 markets around the world.
It boosted consumer engagement by challenging people to find their own names and the names of friends or loved ones, and revolutionised promotional marketing by producing millions of labels using customised data.
The campaign was such a success in the UK it ran in both 2013 and 2014, having originally been launched in Australia in 2011.
“The ‘names on pack’ campaign ran in over 80 countries worldwide and encouraged other consumer goods brands to subsequently follow their lead.” Paul Jenkins, ThePackHub
By the time of its second launch, the names printed on our bottles covered an incredible 80% of the UK population.
“It is fitting that Coca Cola bottles sit centre stage in the Museum of Brands’ Personalised Packaging exhibit,” says ThePackHub’s Paul Jenkins. “The display features the very successful Share a Coke campaign, which was the first example of a major brand taking personalised packaging seriously and doing it well. The ‘names on pack’ campaign ran in over 80 countries worldwide and encouraged other consumer goods brands to subsequently follow their lead.”
Watch the ‘Share A Coke’ ad
The display also features the eye-catching ‘Coca-Cola Extraordinary’ campaign which ran in Israel in 2014.
The campaign used HP Indigo's innovative printing technology and a special algorithm that enabled Coca-Cola Israel to print a huge number of bottles, each with its own unique design. The algorithm auto-generated millions of different labels, with no need for human intervention.
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1) Points - GIS map "points" have no length or area but simply define the coordinate location of the feature (survey monuments, wells, mountain peaks, building permits, and traffic incidents are represented as points in a GIS database).
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H.R.1234 - Fair Practices and Procedures in Automotive Products Act of 198398th Congress (1983-1984)
Rep. Ottinger, Richard L. [D-NY-20] (Introduced 02/02/1983)
House - Energy and Commerce; Ways and Means | Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Committee Reports:
H.Rept 98-287 Part 1; H.Rept 98-287 Part 2
Senate - 11/07/1983 Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce. (All Actions)
There have been 3 roll call votes
This bill has the status Failed House
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Summary: H.R.1234 — 98th Congress (1983-1984)All Information (Except Text)
There are 3 summaries for H.R.1234. Passed House amended (11/03/1983)Reported to House amended, Part I (06/30/1983)Introduced in House (02/02/1983)
Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
Passed House amended (11/03/1983)
(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #448 (219-199))
Fair Practices and Procedures in Automotive Products Act of 1983 - Establishes within the Department of Transportation the United States Automobile Industry Advisory Council. Requires the Council to assist in formulating a strategy to increase the domestic production of automotive products for sale and distribution in interstate commerce. Provides for a membership of five consumer representatives on such council.
Sets forth for all motor vehicle manufacturers which produce over 100,000 motor vehicles for ultimate retail sale in the United States "minimum domestic content ratios" (the domestic value, including labor and parts, of the manufacturer's production costs of all automotive products sold in the United States). Requires all such vehicle manufacturers to provide information to the Secretary of Transportation for the purpose of administering this requirement.
Establishes penalties for a vehicle manufacturer who fails to meet the minimum domestic content ratio beginning with the first model year following January 1, 1984.
Requires the Secretary and the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a continuing study of the effectiveness and impact of this legislation.
Directs the Secretary and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and prepare a written report regarding policies and practices of vehicle manufacturers used to persuade U.S. motor vehicle dealers to favor foreign made parts rather than domestically produced parts.
Requires the Secretary to make a continuing study of the impact of this Act on employment at retail motor vehicle dealerships in the United States, especially franchises that deal partly or exclusively in imports.
Allows the Secretary to terminate the domestic content requirements of this Act, if at any time after the sixth model year following enactment of this Act, the Secretary finds that specified injuries to domestic industries have been prevented or remedied.
Requires the Secretary to appoint a task force consisting of the chief officers of the appropriate Federal agencies to study the impact of unbalanced and fluctuating rates of currency exchange on vehicle manufacturers and on the extent to which such rates affect domestic production of automotive products for sale and distribution in interstate commerce.
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The Last of Us Part II preview: Brutal violence, smarter enemies and everything else we learned going hands on with 2020's most anticipated game
Steve Tilley, Special to Postmedia Network
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Published on: September 26, 2019 | Last Updated: September 26, 2019 12:08 PM EDT
Ellie in a scene from The Last of Us Part II. (Sony PlayStation)
LOS ANGELES — It’s beautiful. It’s violent. It’s tense and terrifying and wonderful.
And that’s just the beginning.
The Last of Us Part II, coming exclusively to Sony’s PlayStation 4 console on Feb. 21, is one of the most anticipated video games of 2020. It’s the sequel to 2013’s The Last of Us, which told the story of a pair of survivors — the grizzled, gruff Joel and his 14-year-old surrogate daughter, Ellie — and their harrowing adventure across a post-apocalyptic United States.
The Last of Us sold more than 17 million copies and went on to become one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time, lauded for its gritty action and mature storyline. Can Part II possibly live up to this pedigree?
Earlier this week, we went hands-on with The Last of Us Part II during an invitation-only event in Los Angeles, playing through two chapters of the game. Here are nine things we learned about one of next year’s biggest games.
* This is Ellie’s story
Five years after the events of The Last of Us — and 25 years after the outbreak of a parasitic brain infection that nearly wiped out humankind — Ellie is now a 19-year-old seasoned survivor, living in a walled town that’s a rare safe haven in an otherwise dangerous world. But something terrible happens that sets Ellie on a quest for revenge against the people responsible.
“This story, for us, was really exciting,” The Last of Us Part II co-game director Kurt Margenau tells us. “How far would someone go to seek justice? Which in this kind of setting is really interesting, because there isn’t the kind of societal pressure in place to limit your darkest urges.”
* Ellie has found love. But for how long?
In the first of the two demo chapters we played, dubbed Jackson Patrol, Ellie and her friend Dina are riding horseback reconnaissance near their walled town in Jackson County, Wyoming. It’s the day after the dance seen in the E3 2018 trailer for the game, in which Ellie and Dina shared a kiss.
At the end of the chapter — which includes a lot of chatty exploration, a bit of puzzle-solving, and some encounters with horrifying, infected humans — Ellie and Dina take shelter in an abandoned library to wait out a fierce snowstorm. The topic of the kiss comes up, and after some awkward flirtation, the two passionately make out, tumbling into each other’s arms on a couch.
The new trailer for the game that was released this week implies that Dina is later captured and murdered, which could be what sparks Ellie’s desire for vengeance. But we know the folks at The Last of Us development studio Naughty Dog are fond of misdirection — it could be something else entirely.
* Joel is alive — for now
During their patrol, Ellie mentions she has plans to hang out with Joel later that night, but her tone suggests their relationship may be strained. In the second demo chapter, set much later in the game, Joel shows up to help Ellie while she’s in the midst of fleeing from heavily armed soldiers. She seems shocked to see him, but why?
“Their relationship will be explored, and in terms of where it is and where it’s been, we’ll learn a little more about that,” says Margenau.
* Ellie has new skills and tools at her disposal
Unlike the middle-aged Joel, who players controlled for most of the first game, Ellie is more agile and athletic. She can squeeze into tight spaces, jump across gaps, dodge melee attacks, and drop to the ground to crawl under objects or hide in tall grass. This makes encounters with enemies — whether they’re humans or the monstrous, mindless infected — more varied and fluid than the first game.
Ellie can upgrade her skills across three main categories — survival, crafting and stealth — and can assemble new weapons and items, like makeshift bombs that go off when someone walks by, or silencers for her pistol.
* There are dogs, and they are terrifying
In the second demo chapter, titled Seattle Suburbs, Ellie must contend with members of the Washington Liberation Front — or Wolves, as they’re known — as she searches Seattle for Joel’s brother, Tommy. Not only are the Wolves armed and well-organized, but they also have dogs that can track Ellie’s scent trail, which is visible when the player activates Ellie’s revamped listen mode.
The only way to shake off a pooch once it’s found Ellie’s scent is to hightail it as far away as possible, toss an object in another direction to distract it or kill it. (Killing dogs in video games almost always feels worse than killing humans. The dog didn’t ask to be part of this!)
* The violence is even more brutal
In addition to pistols, rifles, a bow and a variety of handheld melee weapons, Ellie always has her trusty switchblade to fall back on in a pinch. We blasted enemies point-blank with a shotgun, buried hatchets in foes’ faces, and slashed the throats of attackers with Ellie’s switchblade.
Violence in the game always has context and consequence. But what do the developers say to critics who believe the game is gratuitous in its depiction of murder – especially in an age of heightened sensitivity to video game violence?
“I guess I would ask them to try to play it, to try to understand the characters and their motivations and their world,” says Margenau. “I’ve not talked to someone who’s played the game and thought it was too violent.”
* Enemies are smarter and behave more realistically
In the combat-heavy Seattle Suburbs chapter, we tried to isolate and pick off Wolves one by one, making great use of Ellie’s ability to go prone in tall grass. (Nearly anything she can do while standing — including shooting guns and tossing Molotov cocktails — she can do while prone, even if it means rolling onto her back to do so.)
But when the poop hit the fan — as it often did — enemies would react intelligently, calling out to each other by name, searching and flanking strategically, and chasing Ellie down through abandoned, crumbling houses. Ellie also reacts more realistically to being shot or struck, sometimes staggering from the force of the impact.
* They aren’t thinking about a PlayStation 5 version — yet
The Last of Us was a great-looking game on the PlayStation 3, and the remastered version, which came out in 2014 for the PlayStation 4, was simply gorgeous. The developers are squeezing even more power out of the PS4 with Part II, and the detail in the world — from individual bikes hanging on the wall of an abandoned Seattle cycle shop to snow tumbling off a tree when a horse brushes against it — is amazing.
But with a new PlayStation console expected to be coming later next year, is Naughty Dog planning a PlayStation 5 remaster? “The graphics could always be better. Things could always be bigger,” says Margenau. “But we’re not thinking about that at all. We’re so heads down on this. Anything beyond that is so far in the future.”
* You’re going to feel all the feels
If you didn’t get teary-eyed during the tragic opening sequence of 2013’s The Last of Us, you’ve got a heart of stone. But there will be just as much emotion in Part II, from rage to grief to maybe occasional flashes of joy.
“There’s this magical thing that video games do that no other medium can do, and that’s literally embody the character,” says Margenau. “We go to incredible lengths to try to get the player to feel the same emotion the character is meant to be feeling.”
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MPs warn of 'brain drain' without guarantee on university workers' rights
By Angeli Mehta2017-04-27T13:51:00+01:00
Education committee recommends unilateral action if no deal can be struck by the end of 2017
Any delay in guaranteeing the rights of EU higher education staff to live and work in the UK is likely to lead to a significant ‘brain drain’ in talented staff, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. They recommend that the government prepare to ‘unilaterally’ agree their rights by the end of the year, if no reciprocal deal is reached with the EU before then. Over 31,000 – almost one in six – of higher education staff are EU nationals.
Voicing its concerns for the future of higher education after Brexit, the House of Commons education select committee also wants to see a new, less bureaucratic visa for highly skilled academics that features a lower salary threshold.
The MPs are urging the government to end uncertainty over fees and access to tuition fee loans for EU students for the 2018–19 academic year too. EU undergraduate applications were down 7.4% on the previous year, and universities are concerned they’ll lose out to other member states. More broadly, the committee says international students should be removed from the net migration target, and that this would ‘offset some of the risks from leaving the EU’. ‘We recommend the government takes this open approach with all international students if it is serious in its desire for the UK to remain a global leader in higher education.’
In a statement, Alistair Jarvis, UK Universities’ deputy chief executive, said: ‘As large and complex organisations, universities plan for years down the line, so it important that we receive clarity of the government’s positions on these crucial issues as soon as possible.’
Continued access to Horizon 2020 and other EU research programmes should be prioritised in negotiations but the select committee recommends the government be prepared to invest the same level of funding it receives from the EU, if it fails to get access post-Brexit. But in evidence from Imperial College, the committee heard that ‘a simple pound-for-pound replacement of lost income would still be a net loss for science and research’ owing to a predicted decline in collaboration.
To address that concern, and to increase higher education exports, MPs want to see ‘bold new collaborations’ with major research nations like the US. They recommend the government invests more into the Global Challenges Research Fund and the Newton Fund, which build science and innovation capacity and tackle problems in developing countries as part of its overseas development remit.
Universities should also be represented in upcoming trade agreements with countries around the world, and a cross-government strategy for international research and higher education should be developed. As part of its own policy research, Universities UK suggests research should be included as an ‘explicit area of cooperation’ in any free trade agreements.
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This is a link to an external site for: ChesK: Risk and Chess Combination
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ChesK: Risk and Chess Combination: http://www.etabi-it.com
A combination of the classic chess and Risk. This new concept will revolutionize the classic chess, giving it a new dimension, mobility, and an new feeling to the game.
This 'link page' is meant to provide a link to another website. Note that we have no connection to, nor bear responsibility for the linked sites.
Author: David Howe. Inventor: Khalid Waheed.
Web page created: 2002-01-16. Web page last updated: 2002-05-27
ChesK: Risk and Chess Combination . A combination of the classic chess and Risk.
khalid waheed. wrote on 2004-04-25 UTC
hi, i'm khalid waheed the inventor of CHESK, i'd like to provide a new link to download the chesk demo from, it's a new group for chesk in yahoo: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/chesk/ Best regards.
Alex wrote on 2004-03-20 UTCPoor ★
Just to inform you, etabi-it.com showed me an advertisement for spyware that I could not get rid of, and I could not get to the homepage.
MikeSmolowitz wrote on 2002-05-31 UTCGood ★★★★
I played the trial version of Chesk 1.0. The artwork, audio, and user interface are very good. I also like the basic premise of the game, since combining games like this is a hobby of mine. The main drawback for me is that the program's AI isn't very good. I'm not an expert chess player by any means, but I defeated 5 computer opponents fairly easily. The game mentions that this is version 1.0 of the AI, so I presume they're going to work on improving it. I imagine that's no simple task, since AI is very complex for standard chess, let alone 6-player chess. But if they can pull it off, that would make the overall game very impressive. One other curiosity about the game: there are no bishops. I'm not sure why they were excluded. The board's irregular shape would make them less powerful than on a standard square board, but that doesn't mean they should be left out altogether. Does anyone know why this is? I haven't yet tried the on-line version of the game against other people. Can anyone comment on that? Overall, I think this is a good game. I look forward to version 2.0 someday. Mike Smolowitz
Number of ratings: 2, Average rating: Average, Number of comments: 3
https://www.chessvariants.com/link/ChesK
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Entering a New Season
By Brent Fulton ⋅ Sep 26, 2018 ⋅ Topic: ChinaSource
As I write this, the blistering heat of summer has begun giving way to cooler temperatures. A dry wind rustles through the trees. Their leaves are showing the first signs of turning. Change is in the air.
At ChinaSource we are also experiencing a time of change.
ChinaSource is entering its third decade with a renewed mission and vision. The opportunities we face and the times in which find ourselves call for new leadership to take ChinaSource into the future.
For 20 years it has been a privilege to steward ChinaSource as God has raised up this organization to serve many who are engaged in China in various ways.
Over the past year it has become clear that the time has come for me to move out of my current role. Thus, as Board Chair Victor Hou explained in the latest issue of The Lantern, we are currently engaged in a search process to identify who will lead ChinaSource into its next chapter.
In preparing for a season of personal transition, Jasmine and I are grateful for the opportunity to begin a sabbatical in mid October. We look forward to a time of reflection—a chance to unpack the treasures from our journey of walking with Chinese believers and those who serve with them over the past two decades. Throughout these years we have had the joy of seeing the church emerge from the shadows to assume a new place of prominence in China’s rapidly urbanizing society.
Observing this evolution, the thought has crossed our minds more than a few times, “But you can’t do that in China . . .”
Yet there they were, doing the impossible, which over time became the norm for a new generation of Chinese Christians. Their courage, faith and resourcefulness continue to amaze. Their example has been a source of constant inspiration. It gives hope for the future as the church faces uncertain days ahead.
We also look forward in the coming months to shifting from our normal routine, which has been focused very much on doing, to concentrate more intentionally on our being. We know that God’s purpose in life transitions often has more to do with the work he is doing internally than with our external roles or circumstances. We are grateful for his leading us into a place where this “heartwork” can happen.
During this season our ChinaSource team remains committed to providing the same high quality resources that many in the ministry community and beyond have come to expect from ChinaSource. New initiatives are being planned to broaden our reach within China and globally. Our board has been working diligently and we have an interim leader in place to ensure continuity in my absence and ensure a smooth transition.
Throughout the past two decades it has been you—our readers, contributors, ministry partners and supporters—who have made the ChinaSource vision a reality. Thank you for your continued partnership as we prepare to enter an exciting new season.
Brent Fulton
Brent Fulton is the founder of ChinaSource. Prior to assuming his current position, he served from 1995 to 2000 as the managing director of the Institute for Chinese Studies at Wheaton College. From 1987 to 1995 he served as founding US director of China Ministries International, and from 1985 to... View Full Bio
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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Listen to the Revolution: free ebook on 1917, art and culture
Written by Mike Quille
in 1917 Centenary
‘With all your body, all your heart and all your mind, listen to the Revolution.’ said the poet Alexander Blok in 1918. As the centenary year of the Russian Revolution ends and we move into 2018, we have published Listen to the Revolution - The Impact of the Russian Revolution on…
Russian Revolution art and culture
Spotlights and Searchlights: Theatre and the Russian Revolution
Written by Amy Skinner
In a tribute to Russia’s theatrical experimenters, for whom the Revolution promised a new world of artistic possibilities, Amy Skinner presents a brief history of an art that 'without doubt, changed the world'. On 25th February 1917, Revolution hung in the air of Russia’s capital city. The protests at the…
Meyerhold Proletkult
A wave of creativity: music and the Russian Revolution
Written by Sabby Sagall
Sabby Sagall describes the wave of creativity unleashed by the Russian Revolution, altering the course of twentieth century classical music. The carnage and brutality of World War One had punctured the balloon of late nineteeth-century optimism and established that the industrial and scientific progress of capitalism had not led to…
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The Bolsheviks and alcohol: policy and practice
Written by Keith Flett
Keith Flett offers a brief survey of Bolshevik policy and practice towards alcohol consumption. Drink and the left has been an issue since the labour movement was born or made in the 1820s and 1830s. The left, trade unions and political groups often met in pubs for want of other venues,…
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What’s Left? A Century in Revolution
Written by Andy Byford et al
What’s Left? A Century in Revolution By Andy Byford, Anoush Ehteshami, Abir Hamdar, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián & Dušan Radunović Between 29 September and 8 October 2017, Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle and Durham University staged a special programme of screenings and talks to mark the centenary of the 1917 October Revolution.…
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Books Please! The Russian Revolution, Arts and Culture
Mike Quille outlines some of the ways the Russian Revolution has influenced art and culture across the world in the last 100 years. The Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 was the world’s first attempt to create a socialist society. It was based on the active support of the majority of the…
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The Art of Revolution
Written by Jenny Farrell
Jenny Farrell celebrates the democratising power of Revolutionary art. With the Russian Revolution of 1917, the dispossessed took control over their destiny, for the first time in history. How did artists respond to this liberation? Artists from all artistic movements worked with Soviet power. The revolution offered the state and…
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Framing the Russian Revolution
Written by Dennis Broe
Dennis Broe takes Western cultural institutions and critics to task for their failure to properly convey the revolutionary energy of Soviet art and politics after 1917. This month marks the 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October 25th on the Russian Calendar at that time which was November 7th in…
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Flight and Fall
Written by David Betteridge
David Betteridge has written a commemorative work of prose and poetry especially for this Russian Revolution section of Culture Matters. An extract from the poetry is given in ebook format here, along with some illustrations by Bob Starrett. Flight and Fall looks back at the events of 1917 from the standpoint of Glasgow in 2017.
Every revolution needs some smashing plates
Written by Mark Perryman
Mark Perryman went to the 1985 Exhibition of Soviet Design in London, and learned the real meaning of revolution. In 1985, Thatcherism reigned triumphant. The Miners' Strike was coming to a sorry end. With Reagan in the White House the second Cold War dominated what remained of international relations. It…
Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution
Written by Megan Behrent
Megan Behrent considers what we can learn from the great strides made in education in revolutionary Russia. "All Russia was learning to read, and reading - politics, economics, history - because the people wanted to know. . . . In every city, in most towns, along the Front, each political…
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Sport and the Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution and Avant-Garde Architecture
Witness to the Revolution
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DML 1/35 Sherman Mk.III Mid Production Sicily Kit First Look
By Cookie Sewell
Sherman Mk.III Mid Production Sicily
479 parts (386 parts in grey stryene, 67 etched brass, 23 clear styrene, 2 DS plastic track runs, 1 length of twisted steel wire)
More accurate hull for mid-production M4A2/Sherman III tank; very nicely done WE210 pattern tracks
May be later than period claimed; no commander’s machine gun
Following on the heels of their Early Sherman III kit (no. 6313) DML have now released a new mid-production M4A2 Sherman III kit with a complete welded hull. There were some complaints with the previous kit as to whether or not DML was trying to “fudge” the kit as the armored hoods for the driver and co-driver were not “soft” enough or narrow enough to replicate the proper cast models correctly, but with this kit it states all over the box blurbs that it is a welded hull variant.
The kit does provide that, and as with most of the recent DML Shermans now has beautifully done weld beads and welding marks on the hull proper as well as many of the details. This kit now also sports a more accurate set of engine access doors (the grilled ones on the engine deck) with 24 grille bars in each one; I had not fully counted the ones in previous kits but someone had and dinged DML for not getting it right. (There is a limit to the resolution of the human eye when one gets older, and I too have had to yield to the Optivisor to see things better these days.)
There are minor or major tweaks to several of the kit sprues for this model from past efforts, so once again DML is continuing to make corrections to their kits as they evolve. While this is now becoming maddening to a number of modelers (buy a kit and two issues later you feel you are “stuck” with a bad kit, and then refuse to buy the new one out of spite) it shows that unlike at least two major manufacturers DML will listen and take criticism from valid points of view to heart. Just recall the old Irish maximum “be careful what you wish for.”
Most of the bits here are familiar to Sherman fans over the last three or four years, such as the low bustle turret with a choice of M34 mount without “ears”, M34 mount with “
ears”, add-on armor protection for the coaxial machine gun with the M34 mount, or the M34A1 mount. From the box art the correct choice for this particular variant is the M34 with “ears” and supplemental armor. But once again, even though the box art shows an M2HB machine gun on the commander’s cupola mounting none is included in the kit.
The directions are pretty much status quo and cover assembling the suspension with the use of the “spoke” road wheels provided (parts D-6) and “spoke” idlers (parts D-8) for the M4A2 suspension. This version uses the one-piece “blunt” transmission cover and no three-piece one is provided as an alternative. Note that in Step 6 there are a number of mounting holes inside the hull which need to be drilled out for mounting the tools and OVM on the rear of the tank. The bolt pattern, as with previous M4A2 hulls, is pre-painted on the stern plate for easy location and attachment of the chosen parts (either etched brass or countersunk via drilling holes.) _
As with the previous kit the etched brass supplied covers mostly larger details this time, such as a partial complete sand shield and fender installation which is apparently specific to the kit prototype. New design headlight guards (e.g. easier to fold and install) and fender components as well as the commander’s “blade” sight are provided but not tie-downs or tool straps. The ten bolt heads for the stern of the hull are provided as etched pieces as well.
Most useful from a Commonwealth standpoint will be the one-piece DS plastic WE210 “Double I” pattern tracks, which appear to be very nicely done. They are packed flat and not protected, but the ones in the review sample suffered no ill effects to the guide teeth.
Finishing directions and markings are included for but ONE tanks: CLIVE from the 3rd County of London Yeomanry, British Army, Sicily 1943, and a targeted Cartograf decal sheet is included. This is really unfortunate, for many of the British units in Italy in 1944 appear to be equipped with this specific type of tank, and Steve Zaloga has done some work showing Polish units in Italy manning this model. Perhaps Woody Vondracek or other after market specialists will provide a wider range of markings for those vehicles.
The choice of this one vehicle is also somewhat limiting as all of the bits in the kit in the of etched brass are only for this tank or a few others, and ergo the rear sections of the sand shields are missing. CLIVE also has “catch-alls” welded to the sides of the rear decking which photos show were not universally applied to other Sherman III tanks. My final question is also one of timing: the kit claims Sicily 1943 but the all-welded version of the M4A2/Sherman III did not reach final approval until August 1943 and only entered production after that whereas the Sicilian campaign ran from 10 July to 17 August 1943, so how did a tank which did not even get into production until the fall of 1943 wind up serving in Sicily?
Overall, while this specific example may not have been the best choice the kit itself offers a broad range of options for Commonwealth modelers and should be popular with anyone who wishes to do up a Polish tank in Italy or similar tanks in Normandy.
Thanks to DML for the review sample.
Sprue Breakout:
A 96 hull details (A2/A3)
B 63 Low bustle turret with M34 and M34A1 gun mounts
C 23 Clear styrene
D 14 56 degree welded hull
D 16x2 M4 suspension
E 2 British turret bustle bin
F 2 DS plastic track runs
S 1 twisted steel wire
V 89x2 VVSS flat top/pillow block suspension with pressed/welded wheels
X 1 Lower hull pan - M4A2
MA 67 etched brass
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Boxer who died after winning his fight told father his head was 'killing him' moments before he was rushed to hospital, inquest hears
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Just a shame he is not a Don... But Clark will salute Celtic's Forster if stopper surpasses his landmark against Hearts
By Brian Marjoribanks
Published: 18:53 EST, 17 February 2014 | Updated: 10:55 EST, 18 February 2014
Bobby Clark will spend this Saturday in his adopted home near South Bend, Indiana, watching the college ice hockey showdown between Notre Dame and Boston University.
But whether the 68-year-old’s status as a record-breaking goalkeeper remains intact by the time he takes his seat in the Compton Family Ice Arena will depend on another keenly-anticipated face-off thousands of miles away in Scotland.
Celtic’s Fraser Forster will take to the Tynecastle pitch against Hearts having already matched Aberdeen legend Clark’s Scottish record of 12 consecutive league shut-outs in the 3-0 victory over St Johnstone.
Mutual respect: Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster shakes hands with St Johnstone's Alan Mannus after recording his 12th consecutive league shut-out
Under threat: Former Aberdeen and Scotland keeper Bobby Clark's minutes record of not conceding a goal will be surpassed by Forster if Hearts fail to score past him in the opening 31 minutes
If the 25-year-old England international can keep a young Gorgie side at bay for the opening 31 minutes, he will have surpassed Clark’s landmark of 1,155 minutes without conceding a goal back in the 1970-71 season.
Briefly a world record, until bettered four months later by Bulgaria’s Stoyan Yordanov (1,202 minutes), it remained a British high until Edwin van der Sar managed 1,311 minutes for Manchester United in 2009.
Asked to take a walk down memory lane by Sportsmail on Monday, Clark revealed he only became aware of his place in the record books five years ago.
Dutch class: Edwin van der Sar did not concede a goal for 1,311 minutes while in goal for Manchester United to set a new British record
Now head coach of Notre Dame University’s successful men’s football team, he will offer Forster his congratulations should the record tumble in the very city where his own magnificent run ended 43 years ago, in a 2-1 defeat at Hibs.
‘They don’t screen Scottish league games out in Indiana but I’ll be keeping an eye out to see if Fraser beats my record,’ said Clark, who was on a basic wage of just £44 per week when he created history.
‘Records are there to be broken and I know from watching the Champions League games that Fraser’s an excellent keeper.
Ideal world: Clark wishes Aberdeen keeper Jamie Langfield, left, was breaking his record
‘I must admit I wish it was Jamie Langfield taking my record. But, if Fraser does it on Saturday, I’ll offer my hearty congratulations – to him and Celtic because it’s a team effort.
‘But I didn’t even know I held the record until five years ago. People didn’t pay much attention to statistics back then. I just knew I had gone a long time without conceding a goal. I remember going nine games the following year without losing a goal as well.
‘It only came to light when Van der Sar went on his great run. I thought that was it gone and now it’s resurfaced again. But it’s nice to be remembered.’
Clark recalls with crystal clarity the shot that ended his run of clean sheets.
‘Pat Stanton was just inside the box and he cracked the ball over my right hand and into the postage-stamp corner. It went right over Martin Buchan who was on the goal-line.
‘It was a terrific goal. If I was going to lose my record it was good to lose it to Pat because he was a great player and it was a great shot.’
However, Clark also recalls in perfect detail how Aberdeen’s league title bid that season – in the midst of Celtic’s nine-in-a-row years - went literally up in smoke a month after his fine run ended.
‘That team in 1970-71 was as good as the Alex Ferguson team I played in that won the league in 1980,’ he said.
‘We had a terrific manager in Eddie Turnbull, and great players like Buchan, Tommy McMillan, Henning Boel, Jim Hermiston, Stevie Murray.
‘We lost the league that year on the final day, by two points, to a very good Celtic, team, the season after they reached the 1970 European Cup Final. What killed us, though, was our stand burning down in February 1971 while we were top of the table.
Former manager: Clark played under Aberdeen manager Eddie Turnbull in the 1970-71 season
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‘There was a huge gap and the wind howled through it and dried out the pitch. I remember Eddie getting the fire brigade in to flood it to try and counter the effects of the fire. But we couldn’t win at home in the home straight and that’s what hurt us.’
Clark, who declared himself ‘thrilled’ by the Dons resurgence under Derek McInnes, played over 400 games in 17 years for the club, winning every major domestic honour.
He played 17 times for Scotland, his last appearance being the SFA Centenary match at Hampden on February 14, 1973, when a 5-0 victory for the Auld Enemy became known as the St Valentine’s Day Massacre.
His life after Pittodrie has been just as colourful after he was placed on the road to management by Sir Alex Ferguson, who put him in charge of Aberdeen’s youth set up towards the end of his playing days.
An adventurous coaching career saw him work for Bulawayo Highlanders in Zimbabwe, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Stanford University in California and even a spell managing the New Zealand national team.
While he may lose his place in the history books to Forster, Clark has been busy rewriting records in his current post at Notre Dame, which he took up in 2001.
Getting down at the near post: Clark pushes the ball away while playing for Aberdeen
In December, The Fighting Irish were crowned NCAA national champions for the first time since the university was founded in 1842.
But he only arrowly avoided facing son Jamie, who is head coach at the University of Washington, in the NCAA semi finals.
‘Washington lost to New Mexico, otherwise it could have been a fraught final-four meeting on Jamie’s birthday. I wasn’t too sure about that one. I’d have found out who his mum really loves,’ laughed Clark.
For Clark, the NCAA Final in December in Philadelphia pitched him against University of Maryland coach Sasho Cirovski, a Canadian he remembered having a trial at Pittodrie in 1980.
Friendly advice: Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson text Clark some words for his team-talk before the NCAA Final
But the Scot’s pre-match teamtalk also had its roots in the Granite City.
‘On the morning of the game, I got a text from Sir Alex Ferguson,’ he recalled.
‘It said: “Good luck today, tell the boys to play the game, not the occasion. Tell them to remember the three Cs – Consistency, Concentration and Confidence.”
‘I told the boys: “An old coach of mine has sent you guys this advice.”
‘You can imagine their faces when I told them it was Sir Alex. It was really funny. But it was great advice. It did the trick. We won the NCAA for the first time in Notre Dame’s history. Sir Alex texted back again that night to say congratulations. He forgets nothing.’
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Newport News police investigating after man shot, dead in home
By Jessica Nolte
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A man is dead Saturday, March 9, 2019, after a shooting in the 300 block of 55th Street in Newport News. (Jessica Nolte/Staff)
Newport News police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead Saturday afternoon, according to a news release from the police department.
Police arrived at the home in the 300 block of 55th Street just after 2 p.m., the news release said.
The man was found inside the home and medics pronounced him dead at the scene, police spokesman Brandon Maynard said.
Police said they detained one woman, but they have not released any information about charges.
”We’re not looking for anyone else at this point,” Chief Steve Drew said. “The community is safe.”
For now, the shooting is being classified as a death investigation, Drew said.
Newport News has not had any homicides this year, and it’s been 48 days since the last homicide on the Peninsula, which happened in Hampton.
“On the preliminary side of things, we may still be looking at no homicides for the year,” Drew said.
Police had not identified the victim Saturday afternoon, and said they will not release his name until they’ve positively identified him and notified his family.
There was at least one other person inside the home, according to Maynard. The home has multiple residents who share common areas like the kitchen, Maynard said. But not all of the residents are from the same family.
Detectives were knocking on doors and talking with neighbors. A few people started gathering on porches and driveways around 4 p.m.
Wanda Voyles said she was outside in the backyard with her dogs when she heard two shots.
She initially thought the shots were hammers because one of her neighbors has been working on a ramp. She said she heard a pause between the shots.
“It wasn’t a bang-bang,” Voyles said. “It was bang and a couple seconds and then another bang.”
She and her grandson were planning to go to the Virginia Living Museum but changed their minds when their driveway was blocked by police cars.
Her grandson was inside and she said he didn’t hear the shots. She spoke with a neighbor who encouraged her to report what she’d heard to police — he told her he hadn’t heard anything.
“This is a bit unnerving,” Voyles said. “We’ve never really had a shooting on this street — I’ve been here 30-some years.”
She said in the summer she and her grandson sit together on the front porch and play “I Spy.” She said the street is generally quiet with the exception of a few cars that pass by.
But Voyles does have a security system for her home and said over the past year she’s noticed several of her neighbors have started adding security systems as well.
Voyles said the house where the shooting occurred was occasionally “rowdy” at night with loud voices and laughter, but she never felt she had anything to fear.
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The last time Newport News went this long without a homicide was 2016, Maynard said.
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”What’s happening here is citizens are taking their neighborhoods back,” Drew said.
He said the responsibility starts with him, but officers and citizens have their roles to play.
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”We have to be guardians of this community, but we also have to be warriors,” Drew said. “We have to have that balance of community and enforcement with citizen engagement.”
Drew said so far this year he feels “very good” with the direction things are headed.
Matt Jones contributed to this report.
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Regional Environmental Poll Finds Vast Majority Wants Stepped Up Action
by Cool Davis Staff May 17, 2019
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A website dedicated to the second round of the Regional Attitudes Poll published May 2019 proclaims that in the Capital Region, the “residents have spoken: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the natural places we treasure are some of the things we value most … and [residents] are calling for stepped up action from public institutions, companies, and all of us. These are consistent viewpoints no matter political party, age, relative wealth, or where you live.”
The poll of nearly 1000 residents from eight counties, 6% from Yolo County, found that a “super majority of residents are deeply committed to their natural environment yet overwhelmingly feel that government, business, and individuals must do more” according to the report’s executive summary, which was produced by the Institute for Social Research at Sacramento State and partner Valley Vision, a local research organization focusing on public opinion. Meg Arnold, chair of the Davis Downtown Plan Advisory Committee, contributed to the report in her professional role as Project Leader / Consultant with Valley Vision.
Motivations and making a change
Questions specifically related to taking action show 32% “make an effort to live in ways that help protect the environment” all of the time, while 61% make the effort only some of the time. The top three motivators were to provide environmental benefits for the community, social and health benefits for the community, and for household cost savings. For those who reported not taking action to protect the environment, the most commonly cited reason was that they could not afford it.
Of actions taken in the past year, conserving water or energy was reported by 81% of respondents while installing solar panels was reported by 12% and buying an EV by 14%. Conversely, 55%, and 44% reported they were very or extremely interested in installing solar panels and purchasing an electric vehicle in the future, respectively.
While 53% of respondents reported walking, biking, or using public transit in the past year, only 3% percent more were very or extremely interested in these same actions for the future.
Cool Davis and Partners working to solve environmental challenges
Cool Davis is listed among 26 organizations working to solve environmental challenges in the region (see page 19). Also listed are Cool Davis partners Tree Davis, Tuleyome, Yolo Basin Foundation, UC Davis Arboretum, and Putah Creek Council, as well as 350 Sacramento, Solar Cookers International, and the Environmental Council of Sacramento.
A page titled Taking Action lists GHG emission reduction policies and goals at the state level and specific initiatives in the Capital region. The report highlights the California Air Resources Board 2018 adoption of “the most ambitious target to date for the Sacramento region—a 19% per capita GHGs reduction target, based on a 2005 baseline and a 2035 target date.”
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Fifty Shades of Grey increases sex toy sales
The Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon continues as Ann Summers report an increase in sales of their sex toys following the bonk buster's release
By Zoe Briggs
Fifty Shades of Grey is popping up everywhere we look. From discussing whether it's 'mummy porn' or if it 'degrades women' and whether a Fifty Shades of Grey movie could be too much to handle - whatever your opinion, one thing we can't deny is how it's upped women's sexual appetitie - and Ann Summers has the sales to prove it.
EROTIC FICTION VS YOUR SEX LIFE
If you've indulged in the Fifty Shades trilogy you will have been enlightened to a whole new world of dominating sex - and some rather interesting toys. While some of us may have squirmed at the scenes that Ana Steele and Christian Grey get up to, others have built up a sense of curiosity and hit the shops!
Ann Summers have reported an increase in sales of the sex toys which appeared in the books including blindfolds (up 60%), rope ties (35%) and paddles (up more the 30%). The big sellers, however, include Ana's favourite sex toy: the jiggle balls, which are up a staggering 200% (in fact Ann Summers are struggling to keep up with demand!) as it appears women want their very own Christian Grey effect.
FIFTY SHADES OF BACKLASH?
Another, shall we say more 'interesting' rise in sales are of butt plugs which have seen sales shoot up to 170%. Blimey! The books show Ana experimenting with all sorts of new toys but it seems these have caused quite the curiosity for shoppers!
"It comes as no surprise to me that 50 Shades of Grey has become such a phenomenon. The appetite for fantasy literature has never been more in demand. Women want to escape and curl up with a book that thrills them in more ways than one," says Jacqueline Gold Chief Executive of Ann Summers.
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"If this book helps women talk to each other about their relationships and spices up their sex lives, then let's have more of it."
So it seems the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is spicing up our sex lives as opposed to suppressing it. But do you agree? Is erotic fiction good for sexspiration or would you just rather read about it instead?
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The company bend over backwards: cellar, museum, tours and hospitality
Since 150 years we are located between Barolo and Monforte d’Alba, on the famous Bussia hill, surrounded by vineyards which curved this Unesco’s World Heritage landscape: the Langhe.
The winery was in fact founded in 1874 by Luigi Arnulfo, considered the pioneer of Barolo wine for his innovative ideas in the enological world and international wine market. His story is told in the Museum dedicated to him, the heart of the tour that we have created to show the estate and its 11 hectares of vineyards, the winery and the different stages of vinification and wine production.
The tasting of our wines, rigorously produced only with grapes of property, is the moment when we relive every day work and dedication, with great respect for the terroir from which everything begins.
And for those who want to discover the Langhe life-style, our Agriturismo, built in what was the Luigi Arnulfo’s apartment, it could welcome you and promise you an unforgettable stay.
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Almost 150 years of history summarized within the walls of this structure: objects and letters collected to describe its important past and the territory, which has so much to tell.
Guided tours allow you to discover Costa di Bussia completely: past, present and future. We start with 11 hectares of vineyards of the Arnulfo’s estate, where thanks to the daily works, the vine fruits grow and become tasty and colored, waiting for manual harvesting.
The newly arranged museum tells the story of the founder of the cellar. The curiosities of that time are intertwined with the lives of those who in late 1800 knew Luigi Arnulfo, his work in the vineyard and in the winery, its wines and the “avant-garde” of his ideas, from this corner in the Langhe.
Now it’s also possible to overnight in what once was the Cascina Bertoroni and also the ancient Luigi Arnulfo apartments, to discover completely the Langhe life-style.
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Cheryl Cepelak to Carry the Flame of Hope for Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 Final Leg
By Community Contributor debbieh4
Deputy Commissioner Cheryl Cepelak, of Old Saybrook, an employee of the Department of Correction in Wethersfield, will represent Special Olympics Connecticut by running the final leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run at the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles.
The Final Leg tradition is for law enforcement officers, representing their country, state, and Torch Run program, acting as "Guardians of the Flame" and carrying the Special Olympics Torch and "Flame of Hope" to the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics 2015 World Games in Los Angeles, California. This Torch Run event is called the Final Leg because it represents the culmination of Torch Run events that have occurred previously throughout the world. The Torch Run Final Leg is not only a salute to the athletes from around the world who will compete in the Special Olympics World Games, but also an honor for the participating law enforcement officers who comprise the Torch Run Final Leg Team. The Special Olympics "Flame of Hope", in the entrusted care of the law enforcement community, symbolizes the courage and celebration of diversity that the Special Olympics movement represents.
The Flame Arrival Ceremony is scheduled to be held at the state capitol in Sacramento, California on Monday, July 13th. The Flame will then travel throughout the state before reaching the Opening Ceremony in Los Angeles on July 25th. The mission of the Final Leg is to create awareness and excitement for Special Olympics, support the attendance of World Games and involve, inspire and motivate runners to increase their level of commitment to Special Olympics when they return to their local programs. The Final Leg Team is comprised of law enforcement runners, Special Olympics athletes and Logistics Team members from 48 states and 23 countries around the world, representing 79 Torch Run programs.
Cepelak has been selected to be one of the 126 Final Leg Team members, based on her dedication and commitment to Special Olympics Connecticut. She has been volunteering and participating in Special Olympics Connecticut and Law Enforcement Torch Run events for the past three years. She has fundraised and participated in three Penguin Plunges at Hammonassett State Park; two Over the Edge events at Mohegan Sun, and waited tables at multiple Tip-A-Cop events all to benefit Special Olympics Connecticut athletes. Cepelak attended her first Special Olympics Connecticut/Law Enforcement Torch Run conference in Orlando in 2013, where she had the honor of presenting medals to athletes at the Summer Games in Florida.
About the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015
With 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches representing 177 countries along with 30,000 volunteers and an anticipated 500,000 spectators, the 2015 Special Olympics World Games, hosted in Los Angeles, California, July 25-August 2, will be the largest sports and humanitarian event anywhere in the world in 2015 and the single biggest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympic Games. The Games will feature 25 Olympic-style sports in venues throughout the Los Angeles region. Special Olympics Connecticut will be sending 3 athletes and 1 Unified Partner to compete in the World Games.
About the Special Olympics Connecticut Law Enforcement Torch Run®
The Law Enforcement Torch Run® for Special Olympics Connecticut is one of the movement's largest grass-roots fundraiser and public awareness vehicles. This year-round program involves law enforcement officers from across the state who volunteer their time to raise awareness and funds through events including Tip-a-Cops, Cop-on-Tops, and Jail N' Bail fundraisers.
In addition, each year in June, over 1,500 officers and athletes carry the Special Olympics "Flame of Hope" through hundreds of cities and towns across the state, covering over 530 miles over three days. The runners run the "Final Leg" and light the ceremonial cauldron during Opening Ceremonies for the Special Olympics Connecticut Summer Games.
Law Enforcement Torch Run Sponsors:
Platinum Sponsors: Dream Ride, Whelen Engineering, WWE; The Bearingstar Insurance Charitable Fund; JN Phillips Auto Glass; Gold Sponsors: Adams Hometown Markets / IGA Hometown Supermarkets, Papa's Dodge.
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Special Olympics Connecticut provides year-round sports training and competitions for over 13,000 athletes of all ages with intellectual disabilities and Unified Sports® partners - their teammates without disabilities.
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Through the joy of sport, the Special Olympics movement transforms lives and communities throughout the state and in 170 countries around the world by promoting good health and fitness and inspiring inclusion and respect for all people, on and off the playing field. (www.soct.org)
Partner Sponsors: Adams Hometown Markets/IGA Hometown Supermarkets, ESPN, Eversource Energy, The Hubbell Foundation, Law Enforcement Torch Run, NBC Connecticut, TD Bank, United Technologies and WWE.
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6 Video Games That Came Bundled With Filthy, Filthy Lies
Jeff Silvers ·
From the badass cover art on old-school Atari games to basically all major review sites, video games have always relied on lies to get you to buy them. And the same way the graphics advance every year, so too does the level of deception. We're reasonably sure that the most ingenious "video game plot" these days is the one designed to scam you. Here are six outrageous examples.
EA Promises They'll Give You A Free Game If You Buy Battlefield 3, Then Just ... Doesn't
One of the toughest moments in every gamer's life is when they have to decide which of the near-identical versions of the near-identical sequels to the near-identical video game franchises they'll buy. Well, in 2011, Electronic Arts made that decision a lot easier for fans of first-person shooters: They announced that everyone who bought the PlayStation 3 version of Battlefield 3 would get another game, Battlefield 1943, completely for free on the same disc.
Electronic ArtsIf our math is correct, this game is 1,940 times better than Battlefield 3, so that's quite the deal.
It was a clutch maneuver. Sony got an exclusive deal to brag about, and EA got pre-orders out the wazoo. Everyone wins!
Except for gamers.
When Battlefield 3 was finally released, fans noticed that the promised extra game wasn't included. No notice, no apology, not even a crude IOU note -- it simply wasn't there. The angry masses took to Twitter to ask what exactly the fuck was going on (because Twitter is the modern equivalent of torches and pitchforks), until EA finally addressed their concerns. Their response: Instead of Battlefield 1943, PS3 owners now had the exclusive right to buy all the downloadable content a week earlier than on other platforms!
A right they already had.
Twitter.com/Battlefield Five people were apparently fine with this.
To recap: Electronic Arts advertised a full, free game as an incentive for buying Battlefield 3, and didn't bother telling anybody that they had changed their minds until millions of copies had been sold. And to make up for that, they generously invited players to spend even more money buying extra content for the game, at full price. In unrelated news, EA won the "Worst Company in America" award the next two years after this.
Unfortunately for EA, it turns out that PS3 owners are the kinds of ungrateful bastards who would look a gift horse (or rather, an opportunity-to-buy horse?) in the mouth. It took the threat of a class-action lawsuit for the company to finally fulfill their promise and make Battlefield 1943 available for free download on the PlayStation Network. To this day, EA executives patiently await the flood of "thank you" letters that are surely incoming.
Gaming Ads Shamelessly Take Quotes Out Of Context
When Ubisoft was launching Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's The Division earlier this year, they had tough competition in the form of Bungie's already established Destiny. Luckily, the critics were on their side:
Ubisoft "A ... game." - KOTAKU
Too bad those quotes were bullshit. For starters, the full headline of the GameZone article was "The Division blows Destiny out of the water with 6.4 million beta users." They were talking about Ubisoft's game having more beta players (probably because it was also on PC, not just consoles), and not referring to quality. As for the IGN quote, they did declare this the "Best New Franchise" ... to be shown at E3 2013, three years earlier. Back when the game looked much slicker than it ended up being, because that's how Ubisoft rolls.
Speaking of IGN, check out what they had to say about Dead Island: Riptide, according to the game's launch trailer:
Again, IGN did technically say those words, but the full quote was: "If you're committed to Dead Island already, you're in for a treat." They also warned that, while fans of the original would probably like this sequel, "the plot is still paper thin, the cutscenes are still wooden, and the game doesn't look great or run all that well." The review was essentially saying, "Riptide is more of the same shit, but if you like how shit tastes, go for it!"
But it's more than ads. It's been several paragraphs since we've given you a reason to hate EA, so let's look at the cover of NHL 09 next:
Electronic Arts Spoilers: That year is not the one on the cover.
Wow, that had to be the greatest fucking hockey game ever, to win seven awards before even being released. Of course, it didn't. The previous game in the franchise did, and it seems even EA thinks they're all pretty much the same.
But perhaps the most egregious example comes from the official website for Edios' Kane & Lynch, which boasted five-star reviews ...
Eidos Kotaku was so excited that they forgot how to speak English.
... which weren't five-star reviews. Eidos stuck a five-star graphic on each quote, when in reality, GameSpy gave it a 3/5, Game Informer gave it 7/10, and Kotaku didn't even give it a score, because Kotaku doesn't score games. The last time we let somebody invent five stars out of thin air, we ended up with One Direction. Did we learn nothing?!
YouTubers Got Paid Up To $30,000 To Not Hate The Xbox One
When Microsoft announced the Xbox One console in 2013, they ran into a tiny little problem: Everyone somehow hated it already. Reports that it required you to be online 24/7, blocked used games, and took photos of your junk and sent them to your own mother angered gamers everywhere. Microsoft dialed back the creepiness, but as launch day approached, there was still an air of negativity around the console.
But then the tide suddenly changed. Hundreds of YouTube users posted videos mentioning how hyped they were for the Xbox One and how dope all three of its launch games looked. One thing they didn't mention (because they legally couldn't) was that they were getting paid for saying this.
Machinima "5. Blatantly mislead your audience."
It turns out Microsoft had hired game-centric YouTube network Machinima to promote its console. Machinima, in turn, paid five popular YouTube personalities up to $30,000 to say they were "looking forward" to the Xbox One and "[showcase] Microsoft products in positive light" -- which seems like a lot of money, until you find out that said products included the critically ambivalent Ryse: Son Of Rome. Phase two of this plan involved paying lesser YouTubers to produce similar videos, promising $1 for every 1,000 views (at a $25,000 cap). As part of their contracts, the YouTubers were prohibited from discussing the agreement, including the part about getting paid. In other words, their videos made it look like everyone really loved the Xbox One and whatever it crapped out on launch day.
There's a reason even those shady TitleMax commercials on TV disclose that their testimonials are "actor portrayals" -- in the United States, presenting a paid endorsement as though it were somebody's real, uncompensated opinion will incur the wrath of the Federal Trade Commission. In this case, the FTC investigated the campaign and determined that Machinima had engaged in deceptive advertising.
Yay! The system works!
Xbox And as punishment, they got an Xbox-exclusive app.
They reached a settlement that involved the avoidance of a fine and Machinima's promise to totally never do this again, while never admitting to any wrongdoing. Yay! The system works ... for the corporations!
Active Enterprises: "Beat Our (Literally Unbeatable) Game, Win $104,000!"
Active Enterprises
Action 52 is an infamous NES cartridge which offered 52 crappy games for the price of ... 52 crappy games. Despite playing like a disgruntled programmer's resignation letter, the game retailed for $199.99. You could buy a Super Nintendo for that much, or like 50 copies of Ninja Turtles. Why the hell would anyone willingly spend their money on this thing? Well, to make more money, mostly.
Active EnterprisesAnd then spend it buying hundreds of extra copies of Action 52.
Active Enterprises, the company responsible for this turd, announced that anybody who could beat Level 5 of Ooze, one of the games in the collection, would be entered into a drawing to win $104,000 ($52,000 in cash, and $52,000 in the form of the most embarrassing scholarship ever). Ooze was as clumsy and plodding as every other game in the set, but the possibility of winning more than a hundred grand merely for suffering through five levels made it all worth it, right?
Nope! Not even a little bit. Because those who managed to master the game's frustrating controls and clear the first two levels were treated to this:
Active Enterprises Ever wondered what crushed dreams look like in eight bits?
Clearing the second level causes the game to crash to a black screen. Every time. There's nothing you can do to avoid it, and there's no way to proceed past it. Action 52 actually did it: They managed to make a more frustrating Nintendo game than Ghouls 'N Ghosts.
Aliens: Colonial Marines' Developers Make Garbage Look Like Gold, Get Sued
When publisher Sega and developer Gearbox began showing their upcoming title Aliens: Colonial Marines at gaming shows and expos, it gave gamers a bizarrely misshapen, Giger-esque fang-boner. Featuring beautiful graphics, dynamic lighting effects, realistic AI, and intense gameplay, it promised the ability to live out an Aliens movie without having James Cameron cover you in rancid milk and yogurt.
And then it was released.
SegaWe've seriously been watching this GIF non-stop for three years.
The graphics were now pedestrian at best, the lighting made your office fluorescents look appealing, and the only two actions the AI characters knew were "RUN" or "EXIST QUIETLY." Sega and Gearbox hadn't just stretched the truth -- they had tied its limbs to four separate horses and smacked each horse on the ass.
Sega If you look closely, you can see that the demo is completely fucking different.
Through review embargoes, Sega effectively blocked media outlets from warning gamers about the incoming disaster. You don't ban reviews of your game because you want everybody to be surprised by how great it is; you do it because you know it's a shit typhoon and don't want anybody to take cover before it makes landfall.
A few months later, two pissed-off gamers filed a class-action lawsuit seeking damages for anybody who bought the game on or before release day (if you were dumb enough to buy it after that, you were on your own). Sega settled for $1.25 million, but Gearbox refused to budge. A judge eventually had to deny the lawsuit class-action status -- not because it was without merit, but because there was no way of knowing how many people bought the game because of the trailers. Let this serve as a lesson for all shady corporations: If you're going to fuck people over, make to sure to fuck over all of them, so that even judges can't sort through the massive flood of fuckees.
Fable's Creator Just Makes Shit Up To Keep The Media Interested
Critically-acclaimed game developer Peter Molyneux can't stop lying, and even he admits it. In his long and storied career, he's never been part of a project he couldn't overhype.
If this exact same article had been written by Peter Molyneux.
Now, we expect a little slip and shuffle from the guy whose current gig is ripping off crowdsourcers to fund human experiments in boredom, but Molyneux goes above and beyond. Even back when he was designing good games, he would still over-promise so much that it amounted to self-sabotage. For example, there was the time he wowed reporters by telling them the billboards in Syndicate Wars could play back DVD movies -- even though it was 1996, and computers didn't have DVD drives. He might as well have promised it would interface with your holographic party chamber. In a 1994 interview, he promised that customers who were injured on a ride in Theme Park would become patients in Theme Hospital. Cross-title play, years before we realized we didn't actually care about that!
But Molyneux saved his biggest, most ambitious lies for Fable. He claimed, for instance, that the game would cover your character's entire lifespan and that you would be able to have children (and presumably spend most of your gold paying child support). It was so expansive that you could knock an acorn from a tree and, over the course of many in-game years, watch it grow into a new oak. Finally! Finally, our acorn-planting dreams would be granted ...
Microsoft Studios "The chicken you kick as a child will come back to try to murder your children when you're an adult!"
Alas, it was all lies. Again.
Molyneux himself has openly admitted to having "slightly over-promised on things" to "stop journalists [from] going to sleep." Rather optimistically, some team members speculate that he makes these features up during interviews in the hopes that his team will follow through on his promises. For a fun little experiment, try that the next time you're put in charge of anything. See how long it takes for your employees to eat you alive.
Jeff Silvers is a freelance writer who had to endure hours of "Action 52" to research this article. He has a blog at jeffsilvers.com.
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Detroit-based startup StockX sales soar as it grows beyond sneakerheads
StockX is doing $2 million in sales daily after fewer than 29 months in business
Gilbert-owned stock market of things expanding from sneakers to other luxury goods
Detroit company moved into new authentication center in Corktown last week
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Ali Ammaweri works in StockX’s authentication operations, which makes sure collectible shoes and other items traded on the platform are genuine.
When Detroit-based StockX partnered with Nike last year to exclusively sell the remake of the sneakers NBA superstar LeBron James wore his rookie year, the 46 pairs of retro shoes sold for an average $6,000 each.
For the first time, StockX went from being a secondary market for highly collectible sneakers to a front-line retailer, blurring the e-commerce lines of demarcation that separate Amazon from eBay in what the company dubbed the "LeBron IPO."
Seven buyers then turned around and immediately resold the sneakers on StockX's secondary market for an average $7,500, pocketing the profits above the initial public offering on the stock market of things co-founded by Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert.
"We literally created day-trading in consumer goods," StockX CEO Josh Luber said in an interview. "This is like oil futures and frozen orange juice — true commodity trading. People made thousands of dollars and never touched the product."
At less than 29 months old, StockX is one of Detroit's fastest growing startups. The company launched with a few dozen employees inside Gilbert's family of companies in February 2016 and is employing about 300 in Detroit and about 50 in Tempe, Ariz.
The e-commerce website is a resale market for buying and selling highly coveted sneakers, handbags, watches and street wear after they sell out in retail stores. In standardizing the sale of unused merchandise, StockX sorts out authentic luxury goods from the counterfeit merchandise that has been known to flood eBay and other online marketplaces.
But it's the LeBron shoe experiment bypassing retailers like Footlocker, Finish Line and even Amazon where Luber sees the future in creating investment indexes for sneakers and other luxury consumer goods similar to those in raw material commodities on the stock exchanges in New York, Chicago and Tokyo.
"We don't do that at scale yet, but we will. That's the evolution of the business," Luber told Crain's. "At some point, you'll be able to invest in the Jordan Index or the Nike Index and then be able to day-trade sneakers without ever taking possession."
Data integration jumpstarts business
StockX is the brainchild of Luber and Gilbert, whose entrepreneurial ventures have strayed far away from the business, selling mortgages via the internet, that made him a billionaire.
Three years ago, Gilbert approached an employee in one of his companies about how he could develop a better way for selling and buying luxury goods online.
The unusual late Friday afternoon request came after Gilbert's children bought sneakers on eBay.
"My first thought was, you might have the wrong guy, as I was wearing loafers at the time," said Greg Schwartz, now the chief operating officer of StockX.
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StockX CEO Josh Luber holds a Cleveland Cavaliers replica 2016 NBA championship ring that was paired with a special release of Cavs superstar LeBron James’ rookie season Nike sneakers and a hardwood box made from the Cavs’ home court. The 46 pairs of highly collectible sneakers sold on StockX’s website for an average of $6,000.
At the time, Luber was working for IBM and running Campless, a small startup data business listing the historical value of collectible sneakers with information largely based on sales data from eBay transactions.
"I had this idea that, well, if you understood sneaker pricing, if you understood the asset price, you could very easily look at someone's sneaker collection the way you look at a stock portfolio," said Luber, a native of Philadelphia who counts 350 pairs of sneakers among his personal collection.
Campless was to sneakerheads what Beckett magazine is to baseball card collectors and Kelly Blue Book is to vintage car aficionados.
Before Campless, which morphed into StockX's price guide, the sneaker resale market "was the Wild Wild West," said Jordan Geller, a Portland, Ore., sneaker collector and reseller.
"There was no telling what people would pay for a pair of shoes," Geller said. "Now there's actually a gauge, a place where you can go and see what price the shoes are going for. That has really revolutionized the sneaker resale business."
In exploring Gilbert's concept, Schwartz found Luber, who had become one of the foremost experts on sneakers and the subculture that encompasses collectible kicks.
They flew him to Cleveland to attend a Cavaliers game with Gilbert, owner of the basketball franchise.
During that meeting, Luber and Gilbert found commonalities in their concepts and decided to combine Luber's sneaker data with the technical-know-how of Gilbert's data-curating business.
"We were basically trying to build the exact same thing," Luber said. "That's really the crazy part about this."
Boxes of shoes at StockX.
Expanding the market
StockX is not alone in trying to disrupt the retail and secondary markets for luxury sneakers and consumer goods.
They have several online competitors, such as Stadium Goods and GOAT. The latter merged earlier this year with Flight Club, a hybrid online and retail after-market seller of sneakers that's been around for 12 years.
All of these online marketplaces are still operating at the whims of the shoemakers, which dictate when collectible shoes are released and at what quantities, said Kemar Newell, founder and CEO of JustFlip.com, another online StockX competitor.
"This went from being a shadow economy to now in some gray area being validated publicly — and that's not with the support of Nike or Adidas, the guys who have true control of the market," Newell said. "We're all realizing the consumer is the same across the retail and secondary channel. The problem is there is not enough inventory … on the primary channel, which causes these items to be highly valued on the secondary channel."
For StockX, what started as a stock market for sneakers has morphed into a broader, and widening, platform of creating a standardized secondary market for luxury goods.
"We see a lot of opportunities to take these core verticals and expand horizontally to any category that isn't a complete one-of-a-kind — like a house or a unique piece of art or anything that's not totally commoditized, like a plastic cup," Schwartz said.
Company leaders have compiled a list of "literally hundreds" of consumers goods with limited availability that could be commoditized and sold on StockX, such as wine and prints of artwork, Schwartz said.
StockX has begun selling the high-end Japanese clothing brand Bape as well as Supreme, a coveted fashion line that has a variety of branded accessories.
There limitations to what StockX can sell. The company recently turned away a request from a seller to sell a Supreme-branded pinball machine.
"You can't sell a pinball machine on StockX," said Joe Boehm, StockX's senior vice president of operations who came to the company with a background in manufacturing and logistics.
Sadelle Moore, a sneaker authenticator, examines two different shoes under a black light to look for signs that one of the shoes is a fake. StockX checks for variations in stitching and trim of every pair of shoes sold on its secondary market e-commerce website.
With each additional brand though, the company has to strengthen its knowledge base of the product and train authenticators in Detroit and Tempe to spot the fakes, Luber said.
"For every single product, we have to find the expert for that product," he said.
The rate of fake items sent to StockX's authentication centers is about 2 percent. When they started in early 2016, the fake rate was upwards of 15 percent, Luber said.
"Everybody was testing us," he said. "And now, if you have a fake pair of shoes you want to sell, go sell 'em on eBay."
Scott Newman, StockX's new head of authenticating Bape clothes, moved to Detroit from Los Angeles, where was running a consignment shop and website for Bape and Supreme brand clothes.
"I would buy Bape stuff from his website," Luber said of Newman.
Newman sold his stake in his small business and brought two of his employees to Detroit.
Growing quickly
EBay has stepped up its efforts to root out fake merchandise. Last fall, the online marketplace giant launched an authentication service for luxury handbags for certain brands, such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Prada.
"In regard to counterfeits, they are not welcome on eBay, and we're committed to aggressively combating the sale of counterfeit goods," a spokeswoman for eBay said in an email.
EBay touts having 1.2 million sneaker listings on its website daily, selling a pair of shoes every 1.5 seconds.
StockX's quick rise to $2 million in daily sales has turned into logistical challenge for the company.
In the past 12 months, the company tripled its workforce in Detroit and Tempe and has more than 100 jobs posted, Schwartz said.
StockX has been working out of a cramped space inside One Campus Martius, putting employees on Gilbert's mock Cavs basketball court and converting a loading dock into an authentication center for processing hundreds of shoes, handbags and hoodies each day.
Kevin Irwin II (right), star of “MKT Watch,” and Kent Nichols, director, film the weekly web show on the sneaker market and StockX on the 10th floor of the Compuware building in Detroit.
On the 10th floor, a conference room for the company doubles as the production studio for the company's YouTube show, MKT Watch. Employee Kevin Irwin II hosts the show and talks about the rise and fall of the value of sneakers the way a CNBC analyst talks about the ups and downs of a Detroit automaker's stock.
Last week, StockX moved its larger authentication center from a rented warehouse on Fort Street to 20,000-square-feet of space inside Quicken Loans' data center building on Rosa Parks Boulevard in Corktown.
In the older space, the company was authenticating 8,000 pairs of sneakers each day, Luber said.
"It's amazing to me that StockX is able to move as many pairs of shoes in and out of the door without having to inventory them in a warehouse," reseller Geller said.
Company execs believe StockX's new space will tide them over for 18 to 24 months. Luber wants to build a consolidated headquarters and authentication center in Detroit, somewhere outside of the tight quarters of Gilbert's Campus Martius office buildings.
To expedite and simplify shipping, StockX is planning to add an authentication center on the East Coast later this year and then look to Europe and Asia, Schwartz said.
"We see a massive opportunity when you start to look at Europe and Asia," said Schwartz, noting StockX sold merchandise organically in 140 countries last year.
But where exactly this business will be in five years is anyone's guess.
"We're startup guys," Luber said. "We look at where StockX is going to be in five days around here. Whether we get to be a true competitor with the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ within five years is TBD.
"We're just five days at a time at StockX."
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The spectacled caiman, also known as the common caiman, is found throughout much of Central and South America. Males grow to around 2 metres (6.5 feet), while females are smaller, usually around 1.4 metres (4.5 feet). The species’ name comes from a bony ridge between the eyes, which give the appearance of a pair of spectacles. It lives in a range of habitat types and can tolerate salt water as well as fresh; due in part to this adaptability it is the most common of all crocodilian species.
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The spectacled caiman occurs mainly in the Amazon Basin, although its range does also extend further north. If the environmental conditions become too harsh, they will burrow into mud and aestivate (a state of animal dormancy, similar to hibernation).
Spectacled caiman eat a variety of invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans, and molluscs. Adults eat fish, other reptiles, and water birds. Older individuals are capable of taking large mammals like wild pigs and tapir. Cannibalism also occurs, especially during dry periods when prey is scarce.
The spectacled caiman is very much an opportunistic and adaptive predator; to which it may owe its ecological success.
This species benefits from overhunting of competitive species (particularly black caiman), which occupy the same range. This allows them access to resources normally lost to these other species.
There are more than 1,000,000 spectacled caimans in the wild making them the most densely populated of all crocodilians.
The major threat to the spectacled caiman is now illegal hunting, while habitat destruction and environmental pollution, such as contamination with heavy metals, may also pose a threat. Most under threat is the subspecies Caiman crocodilus apaporiensis, which has a highly restricted range in Colombia, and is also severely depleted in El Salvador. However, in areas where the spectacled caiman has been introduced, often through the release of unwanted pets, the species may be responsible for declines in native wildlife, and is thought to have contributed to the disappearance of the Cuban crocodile from the Isle of Pines, Cuba.
The continued success of the spectacled caiman may rely on appropriate management and on the long-term viability of sustainable use programs.
Est. wild population: More than 1,000,000
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Fight over snack in China lights up blogosphere
Controversy over how police handled a fight between ethnic minority snack vendors and a Han Chinese costumer went viral in China, highlighting discontent with 'leniency' for minorities.
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Covers of Chinese magazines are displayed in a street in Beijing, Nov. 12. A fight over the price of a snack on an anonymous street in central China has triggered a fireball of angry comment in the Chinese blogosphere.
By Peter Ford Staff Writer
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A banal dispute over the price of a snack on an anonymous street in central China has triggered a fireball of angry comment in the Chinese blogosphere, revealing deep and widespread resentment at the way Beijing treats ethnic minorities under its rule.
But not because the authorities are too harsh on Tibetans and Uighurs, as an outsider might think: The overwhelming majority of comments blame government policy for being too sympathetic to them.
The incident highlights a vast gulf between foreign and Chinese views of official ethnic policy in a country where Tibetans and Uighurs complain about gross mistreatment, but many members of the majority Han ethnic group claim that it is they who suffer reverse discrimination.
Most foreign observers, and many ethnic minority members in China, say that the policies Beijing claims are designed to promote minority rights and living standards are merely a façade, and that officials pay only lip service to autonomy.
Nothing illustrated that argument better than the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, when the government proudly presented representatives of China’s 56 ethnic groups, all in folk costumes – and who all turned out to be Han actors and actresses.
But some prominent Han intellectuals are arguing that government policies benefiting minorities are misguided and should be scrapped.
The fight over nutcake
The current storm of commentary, which has generated more than 2.5 million blog posts on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like social networking platform, began when the police in Yueyang, a city in Hunan Province, announced on Weibo that a fight had got out of hand on Monday.
A minor riot had ensued after an altercation between Uighur venders of nutcake (a sticky nougat-like confection) and a Han customer, it seemed. The police said they had compensated the Uighurs for the loss of their nutcake, sent them back to Xinjiang, their majority-Muslim home province in the far west of China, (see map) and arrested one of their (Han) assailants.
This apparently unequal treatment drew resentful attention to a 30-year-old official government policy – unevenly applied – to treat minority lawbreakers with more leniency than their Han counterparts.
“The police have to act in a more gingerly fashion with regard to minorities, especially Uighurs,” says Barry Sautman, an expert on China’s ethnic policies at Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology.
The goal of that policy, Professor Sautman says, is “better relations between ethnic minorities and the state, and it probably has lessened the antagonism among some members of minority groups toward the state.”
But the policy has provoked almost universal criticism from the bloggers who made the Yueyang incident the top trending issue on Weibo on Tuesday.
'Minority ethnic protection should be curbed’
“Some law enforcement bureaus indulge Uyghur criminals and such behavior damages the interests of the majority,” wrote a blogger called Cao Junniu, whose post was typical of thousands of others. “Minority ethnic protection should be curbed.”
“The country should have a citizen policy, not an ethnic policy that divides people into different ranks,” argued another blogger, Wang Kuangzheng. “It is sad that those who do not benefit are angry, while those who do benefit are not grateful.”
The policy on legal treatment is part of a wider set of affirmative action privileges reserved for members of China’s ethnic minorities; they are not subject to the restrictions of the “one child policy,” they have extra points added to their school leaving exams to help them gain entrance to university, and they are entitled to priority access to small business loans, for example.
That such positive discrimination should spark resentment among some Han citizens, who make up 95 percent of China’s population, “is normal,” says Ma Dazheng, an ethnic policy analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government-linked think tank.
Some prominent Chinese intellectuals close to the government, such as Professor Hu Angang, also argue that the policy encourages minorities to build their ethnic identities at the expense of their national, Chinese identity, which could pose security risks for the Chinese state. Tibetans and Uighurs both live in border areas.
Even leading spokespeople for minority groups, such as Tibetan blogger Woeser, believe that the privileges policy should be scrapped.
“Most of the benefits are meaningless in reality,” argues Woeser, and pale into insignificance against the background of political and ethnic discrimination to which Tibetans and Uighurs are subjected, she says.
“The authorities indulge petty criminals but they crack down on ethnic minorities’ political rights,” Woeser claims. “Canceling the privileges would at least reduce Han resentment.”
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The David Livingstone Birthplace Project, home to the history of Scotland’s famous explorer David Livingstone, has revealed a new brand this month.
The project, which is currently undergoing a £6.1 million transformation at the heart of Blantyre, worked with Scottish marketing agency, Volpa, to develop the fresh branding which was unveiled online last week.
The funding will see David Livingstone’s birthplace redeveloped to provide a vibrant new museum, setting Scotland in a global context and celebrating the inspirational story of how a poor millworker became one of the most popular British heroes of the Victorian era and a hero of some Sub Saharan African countries today.
The project will include the renewal of the historic buildings, a newly interpreted exhibition which will showcase artefacts from the Trust’s collection of 3000 objects and an upgrade of visitor facilities such as the café and shop.
Tricia Fox, Director of Volpa, who worked with the Trust on the development of the new branding said:
“The David Livingstone Birthplace Project is a truly pioneering and inspiring organisation, and we're thrilled to have been working with their team to create a fresh new brand that fits its position as the heritage home to one of Scotland’s most celebrated explorers.”
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DC Ranch is widely known as one of the country’s premiere places to live. How did it achieve this status? With a vision: to build the finest master-planned community of its time.
Today DC Ranch has a real estate value of $3.8 billion and holds a premium value over nearby properties. The economic value of homes typically reflects the underlying quality of life those properties enable.
The DC Ranch Strategic Plan was developed based on the collective input received from numerous focus groups, a Ranch-wide resident survey, the designated task force, and both the Community Council and Ranch Association Board of Directors. The outcome from this process was the development of six STRATEGIC INITIATIVES and eight STANDING PRINCIPLES.
DC Ranch’s focus areas for the next three years. The six initiatives were developed through significant resident input during the strategic planning process. The initiatives align with the community’s vision, values, and standing principles. Each Strategic Initiative is supported by strategies, tactics, and measures. Strategic Initiatives are listed in no particular order.
Strategic Initiative 1: Further Develop an Amenity-Rich Community
DC Ranch provides a wide range of physical amenities (parks, trails, community centers, golf, recreation, community gardens, etc.) and extensive programming (events, clubs, celebrations, education, speakers, etc.) that appeal to a broad set of resident interests. This is an important attribute of DC Ranch that attracts, welcomes and connects residents.
Strategy 1.1
Continue to evaluate amenities and programs to foster a high level of participation, sustainability and value.
Structure and align programming and amenities to best serve community needs.
Expand educational programs that engage, inform and enrich residents of all ages and consider additional community-wide programs that connect all generations of DC Ranch residents. Examples include Speaker Series, DC Ranch Day, Concerts in the Park and the 20 for 20 Hiking Challenge.
Consider new physical amenities for DC Ranch residents.
Strategic Initiative 2: Continue to Invest in Health, Wellness and Active Lifestyle
DC Ranch delivers a variety of health/fitness amenities and programs that support a wide range of health, wellness and active lifestyle interests. DC Ranch is viewed as a very active community with residents that value a high level of fitness and emphasis on maintaining their health and wellness.
Analyze the space available for DC Ranch fitness activities and consider projects to enhance and/or expand available space in the best interest of the community.
Provide quality fitness classes, wellness seminars and related events for all age groups and interests, that meet community needs and wants.
Enhance and promote use of the path and trail system within the community and increase awareness of its connectivity with other public trail systems including the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.
Strategic Initiative 3: Identify and Position DC Ranch for the Target Buyers of the Future
DC Ranch is attractive for the next era of buyers as well as the ongoing discretionary buyer. DC Ranch knows and understands who the target buyers of the future are and aligns the brand and current/future strategic initiatives to address their interests and needs.
Identify the features that will be highly attractive to future buyers.
Launch a clear and compelling education campaign that highlights what differentiates DC Ranch from other communities.
Characterize internal and external buyer segments to identify relevant buying trends within DC Ranch and comparable neighborhoods.
Foster strong collaboration and maintain a feedback loop with Scottsdale real estate agents.
Increase word of mouth advertising and referrals to DC Ranch.
Strategic Initiative 4: Invest in Infrastructure and Technology for DC Ranch Advancement
DC Ranch infrastructure (roads, communications, utilities, structures, technology, etc.) is well planned and maintained at a high level. Investing in new technologies is a primary focus, not only to enhance community operations, but to also support resident needs. DC Ranch is committed to upholding a safe and well-maintained infrastructure.
Continue long-term maintenance of DC Ranch Association owned roadways and other DC Ranch owned and/or maintained infrastructure including bridges, culverts, pathways, and buildings.
Advocate for community wide, third-party resident services, such as enhanced cellular coverage.
Ensure all DC Ranch technologies and systems are up-to-date, highly functioning, and effective in meeting the needs of the organizations and residents.
Strategic Initiative 5: Assist with the Success of the Commercial Properties
The commercial areas represent important assets for DC Ranch and integrate residential community with lifestyle, entertainment, business and gathering venues. DC Ranch assists in developing the full potential for each of the commercial areas: Market Street, Canyon Village, DC Ranch Crossing and the Corporate Center at DC Ranch; helps to align them with the interests of current and future residents; and works to ensure a long term and successful partnership with them.
Help align future businesses with trends/interests of current and future residents.
Continue to introduce the commercial center businesses to residents and non-residents.
Assist commercial centers with better awareness and visibility.
Strategic Initiative 6: Position DC Ranch as Environmentally Sustainable for the Future
DC Ranch is situated adjacent to the beautiful McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Residents today, and homebuyers in the future, see environmental sustainability as an important value and responsibility. DC Ranch identifies its community and brand with environmental sustainability--demands placed on the environment are met without reducing its capacity to allow all people to live well, now and in the future.
Routinely review, update and monitor adherence to the DC Ranch Community Standards that were designed to aid in the protection of the natural desert and surrounding landscape settings.
Encourage use of alternative energy sources and best practices throughout DC Ranch.
Support and encourage community-wide recycling opportunities for DC Ranch residents.
Implement and maintain water conservation practices and programs throughout the DC Ranch community.
Foster a strong partnership with the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy to preserve the natural desert environment.
Standing Principles
DC Ranch’s guide of how business is conducted in all circumstances, at all times. Aligned with values, they are DC Ranch’s approach to core foundational and operational activities. Each of the eight principles is supported by strategies, tactics, and measures. Standing Principles are listed in no particular order.
Standing Principle 1: Fully Support the DC Ranch Brand
The DC Ranch Brand, Brand Promise and Brand Dimensions are important initiatives in defining the community’s values and points of differentiation. The Brand is a highly visible part of all communications guiding how we interact with the community today and how we attract future residents.
Ensure that all DC Ranch Board Members and Team Members fully embrace the Brand Promise and can articulate its key components to the audiences with whom they engage.
Explore new ways to share the Brand Promise with Stakeholders and Community Partners and continue to solicit their feedback on the Promise and how it can best be communicated in all interactions.
Ensure that the Brand Promise is a prominent component of the DC Ranch website, augmented by powerful visuals that validate the Promise.
Incorporate the Brand Promise into the decision-making process for the three DC Ranch boards and all team members. Always ask: Is this decision aligned consistent with our Brand Promise?
In the resident survey process, include questions about the awareness of the Brand Promise.
Standing Principle 2: Sustain Financial Stewardship
Current and future investments are supported by a long-range strategy/set of practices for financial stewardship.
Align capital projects funding with community-based interests, needs and feedback.
Maintain the highest standards of accepted accounting and risk assessment practices for fiscal management.
Follow and update the plan for reserve accumulation to support reserve projects in accordance with Reserve Studies.
Maintain transparency with financial matters.
Standing Principle 3: Maintain the Highest Level of Landscape and Appearance
The overall beauty and appearance of DC Ranch is a source of pride for the community, as well as a natural marketing tool. DC Ranch provides the finest care to this unique desert landscape environment consistent with the emphasis placed on services, safety and quality of life for our residents.
Routinely review all landscape practices, schedules, maintenance services and quality control measures to ensure the community’s appearance is always well maintained and meets the DC Ranch standard for excellence.
Create a communication program utilizing Neighborhood Voting Members that encourages feedback and input on landscape and maintenance practices, and standards in the neighborhoods.
Form and maintain alliances with relevant community member-stakeholders (e.g. the two golf courses, three commercial centers, one corporate center and the two apartment communities) to establish clear lines of communication and to promote and protect DC Ranch landscape and appearance standards.
Educate residents on best practices for landscape and maintenance standards in adherence with DC Ranch standards.
Uphold Community Wide Standards for existing built environment and assure future construction adheres to the Covenants and Design Guidelines.
Standing Principle 4: Attract, Train and Retain the Highest Quality Staff and Leadership
The service that the DC Ranch staff, management and leadership provide to the residents is part of the fabric and culture of the community. From the security person at the gate to the top leaders of the community’s three entities, the quality of service and appreciation for the community is a true differentiator. Through nurturing individual talent and cultivating team excellence, DC Ranch has a reputation as a great place to pursue a career.
Cultivate an exceptional work environment that attracts the best talent and retains top performers.
Provide a work environment conducive to high job satisfaction among employees.
Maintain a workplace culture that has shared team values that are known and practiced.
Maintain an environment that supports education, job knowledge, and professional development.
Promote and foster opportunities for reward and recognition of top performers.
Standing Principle 5: Preserve a Safe Environment
DC Ranch provides a safe environment for residents and guests through appropriate security measures and infrastructure.
Educate DC Ranch stakeholders on Safety & Security Services inside DC Ranch.
Provide training to DC Ranch employees on safety & security within DC Ranch.
Plan and implement an annual review of current laws and procedures that includes various risk or threat assessments throughout all of DC Ranch.
Maintain the safety and security of the community amenities and assets such that they meet and exceed the DC Ranch standards, and that they remain current & ahead of the curve.
Annually collect and evaluate input from DC Ranch stakeholders on the safety and security of the DC Ranch community.
Standing Principle 6: Be an Active and Engaged Voice in Regional Scottsdale Matters
DC Ranch, due to its geographic location and size, can be positively or negatively affected by regional Scottsdale matters. DC Ranch positions itself as an important player in the planning and direction of key projects and initiatives that may fall outside of DC Ranch’s governance jurisdiction and is viewed as a positive, productive, valuable, proactive partner with the City of Scottsdale and other governing/community agencies.
Actively monitor Scottsdale regional matters and engage on behalf of the DC Ranch community-at-large when deemed necessary by the Community Council Board of Directors.
Communicate DC Ranch’s public advocacy Engagement Plans in an open and timely manner and provide updates as available.
Establish strong working relationships between the Community Council and political, community and business leaders that enable DC Ranch to be recognized as a positive, engaged and leadership-oriented community.
Standing Principle 7: Foster Open and Transparent Communication
DC Ranch keeps residents and stakeholders fully aware of what's happening at DC Ranch and how to be involved through (1) transparent communication and (2) an engaged resident base that is involved in its neighborhoods, community programming, strategic planning and committees. This level of involvement is a strategic advantage for DC Ranch and is nurtured and supported.
Support resident engagement in the development of the DCR2020 strategic plan and all standing principles and strategic initiatives
Formally publish the DCR2020 strategic plan and routinely communicate updates/progress as evidence of transparency and to reinforce the value of resident impact
Review the role of communications for DC Ranch and ensure that DC Ranch is taking full advantage of communication channels for ongoing updates pertaining to the community
Review the DC Ranch website for opportunities for ongoing interaction/input from residents on general DC Ranch events, amenities and operations
Create avenues, and educate on existing opportunities, that allow residents to identify key neighborhood or community-wide matters and provide input on possible solutions.
Standing Principle 8: Optimize Governance Structure
DC Ranch, with its three-entity governance structure and expertise in community management, presents a unique governance structure for large-scale residential communities in terms of leadership, transparency, effective board structure, resident participation and overall operational excellence.
Honor and carry out with integrity the mission, objectives, and directives of the documents established to govern the DC Ranch community and adhere to all applicable laws.
Foster openness, communication, and accountability with DC Ranch governance related operations.
Support the Three Entities – One Vision approach to governance in DC Ranch by defining and communicating the role, purpose, and value of each entity; evaluate the approach regularly and make improvements to enhance the effectiveness of the model.
Support the sub-associations with their efforts to achieve best practices for operational excellence, consistent with DC Ranch standards.
Attract qualified volunteers for governance, committees, and to serve in leadership positions on the boards.
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by Marthe Rana | Jul 12, 2018 | Developer Community, Developer Marketing, Developer Outreach, Developer Relations, DevRelate, Social Media, Uncategorized, Women in Computing |
On first look, software developers appear to be a more distinct and well-defined market segment than most others, which should make it easier to market to them. It’s always simpler to create messaging and positioning for a target market that is uniform and cohesive than it is for a very diverse market. And so developers give the appearance of being easy to market to.
After all, there are important primary characteristics that set developers apart from the general population. They write programs professionally, and as a result a very particular type of mental acuity and skill set is more likely to be found among this group than the general population. The very act of programming requires certain characteristics. The successful developer is logical, has a keen eye for detail, and responds to mental challenges with a kind of inquisitiveness that can be associated with analytical and creative mindsets. Developers are usually more cerebral, curious and way more literal than others.
However, while there is a measure of homogeneity amongst developers that can aid marketing professionals who are trying to reach and persuade them, there is also a level of divergence from the general population that makes developer focused marketing unique. Developers frequent and place confidence in different media than the general public; they appreciate different forms of touch, and different elements in messages are more likely to resonate with them. In addition, there is not just one form of development and the types of development this group of people engage in can be so diverse that reaching out to them requires a special understanding of what they do, in addition to an understanding of who they are and what media they trust.
You can do research to find out the specifics of today’s developer and we do. We can tell you lots of data that can aid in your development of a marketing campaign and strategy. For example, developers answer to a variety of titles in their jobs, the most common being programmer, development manager, or project lead, though titles vary considerably by company size. They are overwhelmingly male. Although the female contingent is growing, males still comprise at least three out of every four developers – the ratio varies according to geography, but both mean and women developers think there should be more women involved.
Their median age is 36 in most places in the world. They tend to be married, and to have one or two children. The typical developer has between three and 10 years of experience, and has a high-level academic degree — a bachelor’s degree or higher — though there many developers who continue to learn on the job in order to keep up with the ever changing technology.
These are valuable fundamentals on which to build a strategy, but you still need the insights that only experience in marketing to developers can bring.
Providing that insight and understanding for marketing success is what motivates us at Evans Data to host our annual Developer Marketing Summit. This year it’s on September 17 and 18 in San Jose. We’ve got two full days filled with insights, networking and knowledge headed by the top developer marketing professionals from virtually all of the major players in the industry. Intel, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Salesforce, and many more will provide powerful insights into how to successfully reach and motivate software developers. Don’t miss this very important event. https://devmarketing.evansdata.com/
DRC 2017 recap: “Our Journey to a Growing Developer Program”, Susie Wee – Cisco
by David I | Apr 14, 2017 | APIs, Developer Community, Developer Community Interactions, Developer Outreach, Developer Relations, DevRelate, Evans Data, Internet of Things, Programming, Women in Computing |
Susie Wee, VP and CTO of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems, gave a presentation at our recent 13th Annual Evans Data Developer Relations Conference. The following is a recap of her session, “Our Journey to a Growing Developer Program”. [David I note: the graphics used in this blog post were not part of the presentation slide deck]
Susie started her session by asking the audience a few questions to understand who was attending and what they wanted to get out of her talk. A great way to start any presentation in order to make any “course corrections” to help the audience.
Susie mentioned that the Cisco DevNet developer network started about 3 years ago. Before that time Cisco had a series of APIs and SDKs for developers but no real developer program and community. What Cisco had was more of a partner community to resell Cisco products. Certifications were offered for the partners. You could ask a couple of questions about the early outreach to developers: why does Cisco have a developer program and isn’t Cisco a networking hardware company?
She explained that Cisco DevNet is a developer community and an innovation ecosystem. Technologies that are available to developers include: Internet of Things, Software Defined Networking, Cloud computing, Collaboration technologies (many developers will recognize Cisco Jabber), Security solutions, Data Center offerings, DevOps solutions, Services and Open Source.
As part of Susie’s talk and also the main focus on the upcoming DevNet Create Conference (May 23-24, 2017 in San Francisco, CA), one of the main themes follows the sentence template of “Where Applications Meet xxx”. Developers who build applications should be able to easily fill in the “xxx” with some of the following: Infrastructure, Things (IoT), Places, People, Design, Architecture, Microservices, Deployment, Security, Analytics, etc. Between the apps that are developed there are interfaces to connect those apps to, well, everything! That is part of what Cisco provides beyond their traditional networking solutions.
Susie explained how Cisco DevNet focuses on helping developers:
Learn – Learn the latest Cisco API & technologies with guided Learning Tracks
Code – Use Sandbox Remote Labs: free 24×7 hosted labs for integrating and working with Cisco Technologies and explore sample Code on Github
Inspire – explore DevNet Creations to see the latest creations from developer community members and contribute your own
Connect – Connect with Cisco engineers and developer community members in multiple ways: using the DevNet Communities of Interest, at upcoming Cisco and DevNet Events, take part in the Cisco Innovation Challenge (2017 TBA), visit Cisco Innovation Centers to accelerate your opportunities, read the Latest DevNet Blog posts, and enhance your skills and meet developers at the DevNetZone at Cisco Live global events.
She mentioned that DevNet has more than 415,000 members, who work in more than 24,000 companies, provides 252 learning labs, provides 80 active APIs and more than 170 yearly developer outreach events.
Key to the success of Cisco DevNet are a laser focus on solving three key challenges: how to operate as a developer program, provide a clear value proposition for developers, and continue to grow a fiercely loyal developer community.
One of the stories that Susie mentioned was how DevNet attached itself onto the popular Cisco Live conferences that are help throughout the world. They put together all of their developer learning materials and created a DevNet zone on the side of the main conference. Attendees walked past the area and started telling their friends that there are cool learning labs over in this corner of the conference area. The buzz started to spread among attendees that there was a lab where you could develop software to integrate with Cisco technologies. John Chambers and his Cisco management team stopped by and saw what was happening in the DevNet theater and hands on lab. Now, at Cisco Live, the DevNet zone is the busiest section – Cool!
DevNet – 5 Lessons Learned
Susie shared the 5 lessons that they’ve learned during DevNet’s journey:
5) Operate like a startup and build up your developer credibility
4) Play to your strengths and build a technically talented “extended” team
3) Make your developer members heroes inside their companies and also in their communities
2) Help your team be wildly successful and ensure that your community has a heart
1) Innovate, Innovate, Innovate.
Innovate or Be Left Behind
Developers have to solve big problems. A developer program’s mission is to help developers build innovative solutions for their companies and their customers. Your developer program has to continue to provide innovative features, content and tools that will help your developer members create innovative applications. Our industry moves forward, fast. Developers move forward, fast. If your developer program does not innovate to keep up with developer needs, your company and your developer program will be left in the dust.
Thank you, Susie Wee and Cisco, for being a part of our 13th Annual Evans Data Developer Relations Conference.
Cisco DevNet – https://developer.cisco.com/
DevNet Create Conference (May 23-24, 2017 in San Francisco, CA)
Susie Wee’s session live stream replay is available on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ciscodevnet/videos/1962907540605184/
Session Title: DevNet: Fostering innovation where applications meet infrastructure
Session Description: How did a networking company start behaving like a software company and build a thriving developer community? How is DevNet achieving scale by engaging a broader internal and external community? The mission of Cisco DevNet is to provide developers with the tools, resources and code they need to create innovative, network-enabled solutions. But it’s more than just the technologies – DevNet is fostering innovation to help developers create seriously cool stuff. Join Susie Wee as she shares the successes, challenges and lessons learned in building a successful joint developer and innovation program, as well as what’s next for the DevNet community.
Susie Wee – VP and CTO of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems
https://twitter.com/SusieWee
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Susie is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of DevNet Innovations at Cisco Systems. She is the founder of DevNet, Cisco’s developer program for infrastructure and application developers, which catalyzes innovation by the developer ecosystem. DevNet covers the breadth of Cisco’s portfolio including networking, cloud, data center, security, collaboration and IoT. The innovations from DevNet improve end user experience, the operational experience and developer experience with the network. Under her leadership, the DevNet community has grown to over 400,000 developers in less than three years.
Prior to her current role, Susie was the Vice President and Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group where she was responsible for driving innovation and experience design in Cisco’s collaboration products and software services, including unified communications, telepresence, web and video conferencing, and cloud collaboration. Before joining Cisco, Susie was the founding Vice President of Experience Software Business and CTO at Hewlett Packard, and Lab Director at HP Labs. Susie was the co-editor of the JPSEC standard for the security of JPEG-2000 images. She was formerly an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits, Systems and Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. While at HP Labs, Susie was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University where she co-taught a graduate-level course on digital video processing.
Susie received Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award, ComputerWorld’s Top 40 Innovators under 40 award, the Red Dot Design Concept award for augmented collaboration, the INCITs Technical Excellence award, the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame award, and was on the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. She is an IEEE Fellow for her contributions in multimedia technology and has over 50 international publications and 57 granted patents. Susie received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Top 10 Developer Relations Outreach Tips for Women in Computing
by David I | Nov 10, 2016 | Developer Community, Developer Outreach, Developer Relations, Women in Computing |
When I started my computer science major back in September 1969, there was a higher percentage of women in my computer classes than you see today. With the advent of PCs, computer gaming and hacking, the percentage of women in computer science, software engineering and computer engineering has declined steadily until a few years ago. Our industry needs more women in software and hardware. Universities (Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd College, Stanford, Cal Poly SLO and others) and companies are working overtime to encourage more women to get involved in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) studies earlier in life. Once in college, computer science and software engineering departments are working overtime to keep women in their programs. The rise of coding boot camps has also focused efforts to train women for the many unfilled programming jobs (if you’re a tech company in the New York area, check out the Grace Hopper Program at Full Stack Academy). These efforts are helping to prepare young women for entry into our industry. The results are showing positive signs with an increase in Women in Computing.
A 2015 McKinsey & Company report, “Why Diversity Matters“, states “Our latest research finds that companies in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians. Companies in the bottom quartile in these dimensions are statistically less likely to achieve above-average returns. And diversity is probably a competitive differentiator that shifts market share toward more diverse companies over time.”
A National Center for Women & Information Technology report, “What is the Impact of Gender Diversity on Technology Business Performance?“, says “Gender diversity benefits businesses in several ways. Gender-balanced companies: 1) Perform better financially, particularly when women occupy a significant proportion of top management positions. 2) Demonstrate superior team dynamics and productivity.” The report also reports that “gender-diverse technology organizations and departments: 1) Produce work teams that stay on schedule and under budget. 2) Demonstrate improved employee performance.”
Payscale has an interesting report with an interactive graphic that lets you see which tech companies have the highest percentage of female employees. The graphic compares 18 tech companies with 9 data points. Check it out at http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/top-tech-companies-compared. The graphs show that the top 3 companies are eBay (43%), LinkedIn (42%) and Samsung (37%).
Evans Data’s Developer Research shows a growth trend of women in programming
The Evans Data Global Development Survey 2016 volume 1 survey shows that close to one quarter of developers identified themselves as female. Looking at the trend lines over the past dozen years you can also see an upward trend for women in programming. Some of the increased growth is being driven specifically in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region but is also increasing in other regions.
A good portion of this growth, I believe, can be tied directly to the increased outreach by universities, government organizations and industry. Universities are going out to the local elementary and high schools to evangelize the value of a technology focused college degree and the need for more women in computing. Government organizations are investing to get more young women interested in STEM. Technology companies are ramping up their efforts to recruit more women to join their teams.
Yet, there is still more to do according to a 2015 Huffington Post article which shows that while women are entering other STEM fields, there is still more work to be done in Computer Science and Mathematics. The following is a trend line chart that was included in the article.
Top 10 Tips for Developer Relations Outreach to Women in Computing
What does this mean for Developer Relations Programs? What more can your developer outreach efforts do to reach female developers? Here are 10 ideas that will help your developer evangelism reach women involved in software, hardware and technology.
When you post pictures of your program members and you company’s teams, make sure you show a diverse mix of developers. If the pictures from your developer conferences, hackathons, meetups and teams only show a bunch of guys, you may miss attracting women to your developer program.
Post articles highlighting successful female members of your developer community. Everyone needs mentors and role models in their careers. Seeing women having success with your products and services, will help you attract more female members.
Encourage your female members to take active roles in developer evangelism, blogging, video tutorials and other content that you provide. Adding a women’s voice to your content will help attract more female developers to take an active role.
Send some of your company’s female software and hardware engineers and evangelists to local women in computing and technology meetups. Using the meetup.com search you can search globally and locally for meetings of women involved in computing, technology, data science, programming, startups and more.
When you are marketing your developer relations programs to developers try using a mix of gender neutral and gender specific messages and see which bring in additional new members.
Coordinate your developer evangelism outreach with university and industry efforts to recruit more women into computing fields. Look for schools in your local area and partner with them to help each other increase the participation by young women. Look for female professors who teach computer, technology, data science, hardware and related subjects. These faculty members will appreciate your help and possibly invite you to present to their classes and women in software and hardware on campus organizations.
Think about the sample programs and template projects that you deliver to your program members. Look for opportunities to have sample code topic areas that will appeal to women in computing and technology.
Take part in the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. This is world’s largest conference/meeting of women in computing that attracts the top technologists, industry leaders and a strong student attendance. Keynote speakers at GHC 2016 included Ginny Rometty (President and CEO, IBM
Chairman, IBM Board of Directors) and Megan Smith (Chief Technology Officer, United States of America).
Highlight your company’s diversity program and web page. If your company doesn’t have a diversity page, make sure to create one.
Look for partnerships between your developer relations program and other technology companies that are run by female executives. Partner with code camps that focus on educating women about programming and technology. I’m sure you’ll find mutual business opportunities for both of your companies in reaching out to developers.
Which Companies are doing a great job in reaching out to Women in Computing?
Before you read what some technology companies are doing to recruit more women to join their teams, I should note that some of the links below point to company diversity programs. For those web sites, you’ll can read through the page contents and you’ll find gender specific information and statistics.
IBM – Advancing Women at IBM: 2012-2013 Executive Research Study (PDF) and Grace Hopper 2016 – Women and the future of technology – “IBMers arrived early to gather at the front of the Toyota arena to support our CEO, who delivered a personal keynote that looked at the history of computing alongside her personal history as a woman in technology. She described her mother’s determination as a single mother to not let anyone else define you. She also shared a moment when she hesitated to take on more leadership, learning that growth and comfort never co-exist. Finally, she challenged us to work on something bigger than ourselves, such as Watson’s Health’s potential to aid in cancer treatment.”
Intel – Intel Celebrates Women in Technology at Grace Hopper Conference – “Reversing the gender imbalance in the technology industry is a crucial component of Intel’s Diversity in Technology initiative, announced in January 2015. In February 2016, Intel announced 100 percent gender pay parity in its workforce which was maintained as of the 2016 mid-year report. The mid-year 2016 report, released in August, also revealed that an increase of female representation to 25.4 percent in the U.S. workforce (one of the highest figures in recent years), increase of technical female representation to 21.2 percent, and that women represented 42.9 percent of new leadership (VP-level and above) hires in first half 2016. In August, Intel signed the Equal Pay Pledge to commit to take action to advance equal pay.”
Apple – The Most Innovative Company must also be the Most Diverse. – “Representation among new hires.
We strive to better represent the communities we’re part of. We believe this will help to break down historical barriers in tech. Global Female: 37% new hires, 32% current employees.”
Google – Women at Google – “Technology is changing the world. Women and girls are changing technology. Creating the right environments, programs and policies can support women in pursuing their dreams and building tools that change the world.”
Facebook – Facebook Diversity Update: Positive Hiring Trends Show Progress – “Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. In order to achieve that mission, we need an employee base that reflects a broad range of experiences, backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and many other characteristics. A year ago we launched our Computer Science and Engineering (CS&E) Lean In Circles program in partnership with LeanIn.Org, LinkedIn and the Anita Borg Institute. This program aims to support women already in college who show an interest in computer science. Our hope is that with additional support, they will stay the course through graduation and we will experience an improvement in the number of women graduating with these critical skills.”
Microsoft – Women at Microsoft – “We believe that more diverse teams create greater innovations with more diverse approaches, questions and ideas. With this belief in mind, we strive to be a leader in attracting women to careers in high tech. Inside the company, and in partnership with others, Microsoft is involved in a wide range of programs aimed at trying to attract, recruit, retain, and develop women from around the world in the field of computer technology.”
Amazon – Diversity at Amazon – “Affinity groups at Amazon provide mentorship, opportunity for education and also help identify great talent at external events. For example, Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE) organizes cross-company participation at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. They host career development and social events such as our annual AmazeCon Conference, which provides education as well as an opportunity to expand their networks.”
Twitter – Women in Engineering at Twitter – “The official page for Women in Engineering @Twitter. Our goal is to share content and resources to inspire girls & women to pursue technical studies & careers.” Also: Twitter Inclusion & Diversity careers page.
LinkedIn – Diversity and Inclusion – “We believe magic can happen when we create diverse teams in an inclusive work environment, where every person feels that they truly belong.”
eBay – Damien Hooper-Campbell (eBay Chief Diversity Officer) On Why Tech Has a Shot at Moving the Needle On Diversity – “To be clear, diversity and inclusion for us goes well beyond gender and race. It obviously includes those two things, but it also focuses on how people think, on introverts vs. extroverts, on generational differences, on the fact that we are a Silicon Valley- and US-based organization but have offices all over the world – how do we ensure those offices feel represented at HQ. Inclusion for us is not just focused on under-represented minorities and women, it’s also about making sure that majority stakeholder feel included and safe in the conversations that are often tough to have.”
Samsung – Empower Tomorrow – Ask any scientist and, chances are, she’ll tell you she is where she is today because another scientist empowered her to follow her childhood dreams. Samsung’s emPOWER tomorrow program is exactly about that: getting young girls excited about STEM. Studies show educators must influence girls at an impressionable age – usually in the fourth and fifth grades – to get them interested in pursuing STEM studies.
Adobe – Diversity and Inclusion – “Much of Adobe’s success can be attributed to a simple belief that our founders instilled in our culture: Great ideas come from everywhere in the company. In today’s ultra-competitive environment, it’s critical to cultivate a strong, diverse workforce who bring their best ideas to work every day. We are committed to making Adobe a great place to work, where everyone can contribute and succeed. Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO, Adobe”
Resource links to Universities, Industry Groups and Organizations focused on Women in Computing
Anita Borg Institute – http://anitaborg.org/
Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn Computer Science & Engineering Community – http://leanincircles.org/cse
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing – http://ghc.anitaborg.org/
Carnegie Mellon University – Women@SCS – https://www.women.cs.cmu.edu/
Harvey Mudd College – https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/2015/03/26/new-report-on-women-in-stem-features-harvey-mudds-cs-program/ and https://higheredtoday.org/2016/03/02/harvey-mudd-college-confronts-lack-of-female-computer-science-majors/
Stanford Women in Computer Science – http://web.stanford.edu/group/wics/
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo – Women Involved in Software and Hardware (Wish) – http://www.calpoly.edu/~wish/. [David I Note: I am a graduate of Cal Poly Computer Science – B.S.Degree 1973.] Cal Poly is committed to sending as many young women as possible to the annual Grace Hopper conference. Read the article about their almost 100 strong attendees at GCH2015.
Women Who Code – “Women Who Code (WWCode) is global non-profit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. We work to support this generation in being and becoming leaders and role models in the tech industry.”
Girls Who Code – “We’re a national non-profit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. When girls learn to code, they become change agents in their communities. Whether it’s a game to illustrate the experience of an undocumented immigrant or a website to provide free college prep, our girls create technology that makes the world a better place.”
Grace Hopper Program at Full Stack Academy – an immersive software engineering course for women with no upfront tuition cost. You only pay tuition once you secure a job after graduating. – https://www.gracehopper.com/. [David I Note: my daughter, Emily is a graduate of and an engineer/instructor at the Grace Hopper Program.]
National Center for Women & Information Technology – https://www.ncwit.org/
Hire More Women in Tech – http://www.hiremorewomenintech.com/ – a great page with “A Few Simple Things You Can Do To Find And Hire More Qualified Women In Tech.”
IEEE Women in Computing – https://www.computer.org/web/communities/women-in-computing/
Women in Tech Twitter Feed – https://twitter.com/WITWomen
Women in Computer Science – http://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-science/
Association for Women in Computing – http://www.awc-hq.org/home.html
Computing Research Association – Women – http://cra.org/cra-w/
ComputerScience.org – Women in CS – “There is a clear disconnect between the computer science industry and the message girls receive about their ability to succeed in tech organizations. This guide examines the history behind this disparity and how educators, parents, employers and computer scientists can reverse the trend.”
News and Articles about Women in Computing
When women stopped programming – NPR – http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
Women in Computer Science trends – http://www.naceweb.org/talent-acquisition/trends-and-predictions/trends-fewer-women-in-computer-sciences/
How one college (Harvey Mudd) went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40% – http://qz.com/192071/how-one-college-went-from-10-female-computer-science-majors-to-40/
To Get Women Into Computer Science, Sheryl Sandberg Launches Lean In Mentorship Network – https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/06/enough-talking-time-to-solve-the-problem/
The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech – NPR – http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/10/06/345799830/the-forgotten-female-programmers-who-created-modern-tech/
Women in IT jobs: it is about education, but also about more than just education TMT Predictions 2016 – Deloitte
Videos About and by Women in Computing
TED Talks by Women in Computer Science – YouTube playlist – “A collection of TED talks by women with computer science degrees – one of the hottest career paths out there!”
A Tale of Two Ladies: On Generating Opportunity for Women in Tech (YouTube video) – “Cornelia Davis (Sr. Director of Technology, Pivotal) talks about how she came to technology, the path many other women face, and how we can be good models and encourage women to pursue computer science. Keynote recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016 in Las Vegas.”
Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (documentary web site) – “CODE documentary exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap. CODE raises the question: what would society gain from having more women and minorities code?” – View the Trailer (YouTube video)
Women in Computing – Computing Heritage YouTube playlist
Helping Bridge the Gender Gap in Computing Careers (YouTube video) – Microsoft Research. “By 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States, yet at the current rate of job growth, only 29 percent of future computer scientists will be women. In order to build the most innovative technology solutions and solve the world’s toughest problems, we need teams that are diverse. “
What is your Developer Relations Program doing to reach out to Women in Computing?
I’d like to hear more about what your developer outreach program is doing to attract women to your technology products and services. Send me an email and I’ll include links to your women in computing and developer outreach programs.
David Intersimone “David I”
Vice President of Developer Communities
Evans Data Corporation
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Watch of the Week: Vacheron Constantin World Time Overseas
Courtesy Vacheron Constantin
Today, the celebrated Swiss manufacturer debuts an all-new timepiece to its Overseas collection—the first addition to the sporty line since it was completely revamped earlier this year.
By Roberta Naas on May 25, 2016
Earlier this year at the SIHH luxury watch exhibition in Geneva (see our favorites), Vacheron Constantin—the world’s oldest continually operating watch brand—unveiled its totally revamped collection of Overseas sport watches. The collection had not been overhauled in more than a decade, and the line’s complete redesign includes a new aesthetic, as well as new movements and functions.
Today, just in time for summer, Vacheron unveils a brand-new member to the collection: the World Time watch. Designed as a modern-day travel companion, the 43.5mm stainless steel design goes above and beyond the typical genre offerings, displaying the time in 37 zones, including those that are offset by 30-minute and 15-minute increments. The timepiece—which holds the Geneva Seal, attesting to its quality craftsmanship—is powered by the caliber 2460 WT, a manufacture-made, self-winding movement consisting of 255 parts. It offers 40 hours of power reserve, is water resistant to 150 meters, is anti-magnetic, and has a sapphire caseback for viewing the movement, complete with a pink gold rotor inspired by the compass rose.
The dial, which comes in a choice of blue, brown, or silver, is made of three separate parts superimposed to offer depth, elegance, and easy reading. The center features a map of the oceans and continents, while the outer ring holds the city names. A third sapphire disk offers day/night indication and is coordinated to work in tandem with the 24-hour disk. An easy-fit interchangeable bracelet system (patent pending) makes the watch, which is sold with a bracelet, a rubber strap, and an alligator strap, extremely versatile.
The official launch takes place tonight in New York alongside a photo exhibit by famed photographer Steve McCurry, who Vacheron Constantin hired to capture important world sites in a dozen locations around the globe. Price: From $37,000; overseas.vacheron-constantin.com.
For more aviation inspired luxury watches for men, see our reviews of the Breitling Transocean Day Date Limited Edition watch and Rolex Oyster Perpetual Air King 2016.
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Lady Raiders fall at home to K-State 76-72
Lady Raider senior Brittany Brewer finished with her eighth double-double of the season
Sunday, January 12th 2020, 8:29 AM CST
Brittany Brewer
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech women's basketball team dropped a tough, 76-72, loss to Kansas State on Saturday afternoon at United Supermarkets Arena.
Texas Tech was led by four double-digit scorers, including a 17-point, 17-rebound double-double from senior Brittany Brewer, who recorded a pair of blocks on the day as well. It marked her eighth double-double of the season and 25th of her career.
Freshman Alexis Tucker scored 16 points to go along with four rebounds. Chrislyn Carr hit four three's en route to a 14 point outing, and Lexi Gordon scored 13—all of which came in the second half.
Junior point guard Jo'Nah Johnson dished out 11 assists for a career high, also scoring eight points, pulling down five rebounds and swiping two steals.
The game was a close one throughout, with the Lady Raiders and Wildcats combining for 14 lead changes and eight ties over the course of the game. After an even, 12-12 first quarter, the two teams traded blows for much of the second, before the Wildcats were able to hit a buzzer beater to take a two-point lead into half.
Kansas State stretched its lead to nine at one point in the fourth quarter, but Tech kept fighting back. An 8-0 run late in the period, spurred by threes from Carr and Johnson, brought Tech back to even before a Savannah Simmons three in the final 20 seconds put the Wildcats back up three heading into the fourth.
The teams went back and forth yet again in the fourth quarter, with Tech even taking the lead midway through the period; however, Kansas State pulled ahead in the final two minutes and the Lady Raiders were unable to regain control of the game before time expired.
- For the fourth time this season, Texas Tech went with the starting five of Chrislyn Carr, Jo'Nah Johnson, Sydney Goodson, Lexi Gordon and Brittany Brewer. The Lady Raiders moved to 3-1 this season when deploying this starting five.
- Lady Raider senior Brittany Brewer finished with her eighth double-double of the season, recording 17 points, a career-high 17 rebounds and two blocks.
- Brewer's double-double was also the 25th of her career.
- Jo'Nah Johnson recorded a career high in assists with 11 on Saturday. Johnson is the second Lady Raider to post double-digit assists in a game this season with Chrislyn Carr's 12 against Northwestern State (11/22/19) being the most. Those marks rank Nos. 1 and 2 in the Big 12 this season.
- Brewer's 17 points pushed her career total to 1,202, surpassing Julie Lake for 18th in program history. She needs eight more points to tie Noel Johnson for 17th.
- Texas Tech has outrebounded two of its three Big 12 opponents.
The Lady Raiders return to action on the road when they travel to take on Texas at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night in Austin.
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Discover Sarasota Tours help residents see the city through new eyes
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Locals can learn a great deal from the tours offered by this company, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary next month.
by: Niki Kottmann, Managing Editor of Arts and Entertainment
Sometimes it’s hard being a Sarasotan. In a city with so many attractions, it can feel like you’ve done and seen it all.
But there’s one entertainment company in town that promises to show even the most seasoned of residents a different side of their home. Tammy Hauser is quickly approaching the one-year anniversary of her latest business venture, Discover Sarasota Tours.
“It totally changed the week after Easter,” she says. “I went from I’d say 80% visitors — snowbirds and tourists — and 20% real locals to exactly the opposite.”
We asked Hauser to go through each of her favorite tours and explain what’s in it for the longtime residents (along with the aloe vera-covered tourists).
When: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on various weekdays and weekends (Check online schedule for availability.)
The aforementioned general city tour is Hauser’s most popular daytime experience, and she thinks that’s because it’s as informative as it is entertaining.
“I think of the trolley as my stage,” she says. “I like to do things that are entertaining, have a music component and promote the wonderful things about Sarasota. … As an outsider, I look at this with more fresh eyes than people who grew up here.”
On the city tour, guests visit everywhere from Gillespie Park and Burns Court to St. Armands Circle and Lido Key. The five rotating guides give insight into the history of every neighborhood and the icons for whom they’re named.
The tour also gives an overview of Sarasota’s performing and visual art scene along with the Sarasota School of Architecture and its various points of interest, a topic Hauser is well versed in as the former executive director of Center for Architecture Sarasota.
“There’s nothing like it,” Hauser says. “We’re the only city tour in town. I absolutely almost start to cry when people who have lived here forever say they’ve never noticed these things or didn’t know these things about Sarasota.”
When: 1 p.m. Thursdays (Some weeks are not available; check schedule.)
Sarasota was built by creative minds, and this tour focuses on those creating art that you don’t have to pay an admission fee or step into a commercial gallery to experience.
“I feel like it brings to light the origin of the city as an arts community and the art programs that makes it popular,” Hauser says. “And then [it] shows interesting takes on sculpture and how it relates to the Florida environment.”
There’s an impressive total of 57 possible stops on this tour, but Hauser says it’s more likely that the trolley gets to 40 of the murals, sculptures and monuments along the route.
Hauser worked with public art expert and Florida Watercolor Society President Jerome Chesley to create this tour, which he is the guide for. Chesley is used to sharing local art history; he’s also a docent for the Fine Arts Society of Sarasota collection tours at the Van Wezel.
Guests on this tour learn about everything from John Henry’s “Complexus” to Seward Johnson’s popular “Unconditional Surrender,” but she ensures locals that they’ll also get a peek at several hidden gems that aren’t officially public art (as per the city’s definition), such as pieces owned by residents who have opened up their home to art-lovers.
When: 1 p.m. Saturdays (with more dates in season)
This tour goes beyond common knowledge about the Ringling brothers to explain how embedded the circus arts are in the fabric of Sarasota history.
Led by a former advance man for Ringling Bros. Circus, Bob Collins, this tour focuses on the places, people and stories of Ringling Circus history and why the circus has left a lasting impact on the city — even after its closure in 2017.
“Did you know that the tallest couple in the world once owned a hotel on Tamiami Trail?” Hauser asks. “Many circus performers did, and Bob shows you where they were and the stories behind the showmen and women who called Sarasota home.”
The Author: Niki Kottmann
I’m the Managing Editor of Arts & Entertainment here, which means I write, edit and share stories about our multifaceted A&E scene in Sarasota. I graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Journalism and a French minor. Reach me at 941-366-3468 ext. 356
Where: All tours leave from the Trolley Cottage, 1826 Fourth St.
Call: 260-9818
Visit: DiscoverSarasotaTours.com
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Life History Correlates of Demographic Stochasticity in Birds
Last Updated on Tue, 18 Jun 2019 | Population Dynamics
Based on individual demographic data, the demographic variance cd can be estimated from data on individual variation among females in their fitness contributions to the following generations. The total contribution of a female i in year t (R ) is the 'number of female offspring born during the year that survive for at least 1 year' plus 1 if the female survives to the next year. The demographic variance can then be estimated as the weighted mean across years of
where R is the mean contribution of the females, a is the number of recorded contributions in year t, and E denotes the expectation. We can further partition a\ into components due to variation in fecundity, survival, and interaction between fecundity and survival. Writing B for the number of offspring produced, I = 1 if the mother survives and I = 0 if she dies, the demographic variance is the mean over years of the within-year variance of R = B +1. This can be split into its components var(R) = var(B) + var(I) + 2cov(B, I) that can be estimated separately by simple sum of squares. In long-lived species,
Figure 2 The elasticity of adult survival rate e(s) and fecundity rate e(B) of birds in relation to adult survival rate s and clutch size, calculated for the actual asymptotic population growth rate A (circles) and when the juvenile survival rate sjuv is chosen to give A = 1 (squares).
stochastic variation in age structure constitutes an important component of demographic stochasticity and for species with a mean age of maturity older than 3 years we must base our estimates on contributions (Bj, j) for the different age classes i in year t. We then calculate the demographic stochasticity from the projection matrix and separate this into components that are generated by demographic stochasticity in each vital rate.
It is obvious that such detailed demographic data are rarely available. However, in birds we can compute demographic variance of several species and relate the estimates to the position of the species along the 'slow-fast' continuum of life-history variation. According to one hypothesis, ad is expected to increase with adult survival rate (and hence to decrease with clutch size) because very few offspring recruit in short-lived species with a high first-year mortality. Alternatively, ad can be expected to decrease with adult survival rate because life-history constraints (small reproductive rates, high life expectancy) generate small variability in fitness among individuals in long-lived species.
In birds, the two components of the demographic variance due to stochastic variation in fecundity and survival were positively correlated. As expected from this relationship, interspecific differences in demographic variance were closely related to the size of both the fecundity component and the survival component. Interspecific differences in demographic stochasticity were well explained by life-history variation. Larger values of ad were found in species at the fast end of the avian life-history continuum, that is, in species with large clutch sizes (Figure 3a), short life expectancy (Figure 3b), early age at maturity, (Figure 3 c) and short generation times (Figure 3d). This supports the hypothesis that the level of demographic stochasticity in avian population dynamics is subject to life-history constraints on the possible range of variation in fecundity or survival, resulting in small values of ad in long-lived species with small reproductive rates.
A General Definition of Density Dependence of Age-Structured Populations
To analyze the effects of density dependence on the population dynamics, let us first consider a simplified life history in which individuals mature at age 1 year with adults having age-independent fecundity and survival. We can then write the dynamics N(t) = A[N(t- 1)]N(t- 1),
Clutch size
Figure 3 The mean value across bird species of the demographic (c) age at maturity, and (d) generation time T.
Age at maturity
where N(t) is the population size in year t and A[N(t- 1)] is the density-dependent finite rate of increase. The strength of density dependence 7 in such a model can be defined as the negative elasticity of the population growth rate A with respect to changes in population size N, evaluated at the carrying capacity K: 7 = - (0lnA/0lnN)K. This approach can be extended to an age-structured density-dependent life history in which the total density dependence in the life history, D, should be defined as the negative elasticity of the population growth rate per generation, AT, with respect to the change in the size of the adult population when fluctuating around the carrying capacity, so that
where T is the generation time. Thus, the annual rate of return to equilibrium then becomes 7 = D/T.
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Dalton Electricity Rates
Commercial Electricity in Dalton
^ The average commercial electricity rate in Dalton, PA is 2.76¢/kWh.[1]
Residential Electricity in Dalton
^ The average residential electricity rate in Dalton, PA is 8.2¢/kWh.[1]
Industrial Electricity in Dalton
^ The average industrial electricity rate in Dalton, PA is 0.64¢/kWh.[1]
Dalton, PA Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in Dalton
The average commercial electricity rate in Dalton is 2.76¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in Dalton is 70.76% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 9.44¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in Dalton is 72.65% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in Dalton
The average residential electricity rate in Dalton is 8.2¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in Dalton is 35.69% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 12.75¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in Dalton is 30.98% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in Dalton
The average industrial electricity rate in Dalton is 0.64¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in Dalton is 91.15% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 7.23¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in Dalton is 90.4% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
Pennsylvania Electricity Rates & Consumption
Commercial electricity in Pennsylvania
Commercial electricity rates in PA [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 9.44¢/kWh, which ranks 24th in the nation and is 6.44% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in PA [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 5,201 kWh/month, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 16.62% less than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $491, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 21.94% less than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Pennsylvania
Residential electricity in Pennsylvania
Residential electricity rates in Pennsylvania [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 12.75¢/kWh, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 7.32% greater than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in PA [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 837 kWh/month, which ranks 32nd in the nation and is 7.31% less than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $107, which ranks 20th in the nation and is exactly equal to the national average of $629 per month.
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Industrial electricity in Pennsylvania
Industrial electricity rates in Pennsylvania [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 7.23¢/kWh, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 8.4% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in PA [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 160,367 kWh/month, which ranks 21st in the nation and is 42.98% greater than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $11,591, which ranks 20th in the nation and is 54.9% greater than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Pennsylvania
Household Income in Dalton, PA
Dalton, PA Income Breakdown [4]
Income Summary for Dalton, PA
Electric bills: The average residential electricity bill in Pennsylvania is about $107/month, ranking 20th in the U.S. and exactly equal to the national average of $629.[5]
Income: Dalton vs. Nation [4]
Additional information about Dalton
About Dalton
Dalton is a borough located in Lackawanna County in the state of Pennsylvania, and has a population of approximately 1,234.[6]
More about Dalton utilities
For more information about Dalton electricity, or for additional resources regarding electricity & utilities in your state, visit the Energy Information Administration.
The U.S. produces nearly half of its electricity from coal. In China, the percenttage is nearly three-fourths.
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‘Girls’ Revealed Hannah’s Biggest Decision Yet In 'Gummies'
By Taylor Ortega
Of all the "Girls," most of us never expected to see Hannah Horvath tackle the role of attentive mother, yet episode five of season six forces her to do it more than once.
After discovering she's pregnant with surf instructor Paul Louis' baby last episode, Hannah is faced with the task of determining whether to follow through with the pregnancy.
This is the same girl who, in season one, helped Marnie plan Jessa's Welcome Home abortion.
Hannah makes a list of pros and cons, as one does when deciding whether to bring a new life into this world unplanned.
She decides to keep it, explaining to her mother, Loreen, that despite the sacrifices she'll have to make, Hannah feels sure, "this is my baby."
Loreen is serene and supportive, perhaps thanks in part to the bag of cannabis gummies she now carries. As a mother, her support makes it seem as though, despite being thrust into the role, Hannah is justified in her choice to raise this child.
Hannah is immediately granted parenting experience, thanks to Loreen's decision to slam her entire bag of gummies and seek comfort from the crushing loneliness she's facing as a result of her failed marriage and escalating age. She abandons Hannah in a laundromat and gets lost in the city, forcing her daughter to ask Elijah for help.
Elijah is fresh off an Adderall binge he spent stalking college a cappella nemesis Ryan Dylan Davidson, but reluctantly aids Hannah in the search for Loreen. They find her tucked away in a Chinese restaurant mid-dumpling binge, where she reveals Hannah's pregnancy to Elijah.
There, in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant, Elijah and his poorly managed emotions lend a dose of reality to Hannah's situation. He barks about how keeping the baby is a "really bad idea" and a "reckless, impulsive, typical Hannah decision, like cutting your own hair or cyber-bullying that girl you met at Barnes & Noble" (though Hannah maintains, "We did that together. That was something we chose to do together for fun").
Elijah is clearly worried about being edged out of Hannah's life with the arrival of a new baby and the bulk of the hurtful comments he makes are born of that fear. Yet, some of his concerns, regardless of their root, are legitimate issues Hannah should probably consider before committing herself to single motherhood.
He ends their fight with a needlessly hurtful barb, insisting Hannah will be "a terrible mother," and leaves her to clean up after Loreen, whose "cannabis poisoning" has led her to puke pot stickers all over the table and declare, "every time I look at your baby, I will see my own death."
Because an episode dealing with life's beginnings would be totally unbalanced without an acknowledgement of life's end, Ray faces the loss of Grumpy's Cafe owner Hermie (Colin Quinn). Shoshanna instantly arrives to lend her condolences and an appropriate amount of humor, insisting, "It's super random, but I'm just not going to die. Like, ever."
Adversely, Marnie is of no comfort to Ray during his time of need. She squirms as he packs up Hermie's apartment, eventually making the excuse she has "Physique57 in an hour in Manhattan."
Since she already attended "Quiet Pilates" the day before, Marnie graciously offers to skip her class, but Ray sees through her false concern and suggests, to the relief of every viewer, the two break up.
Marnie calls him a "cliché" for the way he reacts to the death of his friend and, upon leaving, reminds Ray, "I'm not a bad person, by the way."
Jessa and Adam aren't pregnant or dead, but she's certainly feeling haunted once again by the ghost of his and Hannah's relationship. Adam brings Jessa on as a producer of a film about his and Hannah's relationship (one he calls "too intense to survive"), and her jealousy drives Jessa to criticize everything from the lead actress' talent to Adam's handwriting on the script.
Like Hannah, Adam is realizing he may have to finally grow up without taking the person closest to him along for the ride.
Hannah is also confronted by the ghost of her past — quite literally — when she comes home to find the actress playing her sitting on the front stoop enjoying a cigarette after a shoot in Laird's apartment.
Fortunately, she draws something more valuable from this interaction than Jessa when the actress (a mother of three herself) tells her, "Kids are easy. It's being an adult that's hard."
Hannah waves away a puff of smoke, demonstrating her first steps toward caring for the life inside her.
*~WORD GEMS~*
Elijah: "I stayed up all night. I did a real deep-dive into Ryan Dylan Davidson's Facebook page, and I found some shit... He's replacing the male lead in 'Kinky Boots' on Broadway. And his nieces are hideous."
Elijah: "She's saying something about crispy egg rolls. I mean, how could they be crispier?"
Elijah: "No, sorry, sorry. Not Loreen. Not your mother. That was an ashtray person."
Hannah: "Mom, you cannot run away like that, OK? This is Brooklyn. It's one of the most dangerous places in America. You don't know the terrain. You're not Lil' Kim."
Shoshanna: "Yeah, I literally hate death."
Jessa: "Adam, that's us. We're the intense ones. All you and Hannah ever did was sit around watching those shows about when fat people do up their houses or whatever."
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Top 10 Interesting Facts About Gangotri Dham 2020
December 24, 2019 December 29, 2019 Nisha Singh
Interesting Facts about Gangotri Dham 2020
Situated at a whopping height of 3,100 meters above sea level in the lap of the mighty Himalayas and lush green trees Gangotri Dham is dedicated to holy river Ganga which represents deep spiritualism. Gangotri Dham which is situated in the Uttarkashi district of Uttrakhand is one of the most important Dham among the list of all Chota char Dham yatra. Earlier Gangotri Dham has the most vibrant and colorful history. This temple of goddess Ganga has lots of exciting and interesting facts that add to its amazing personality.
So, Book Chardham Yatra package that will take you to this shrine which radiates positive energy and Spirituality. Here, are some of the lesser-known interesting facts about Gangotri Dham yatra 2020:-
1. Jalmagna Shivling:-
Jalmagna is one of the tourist attractions apart from Gangotri Dham. According to Hindu mythology, lord shiva has held holy river Ganga in his matted locks before flowing onto the earth after the tough penance by king Bhagirath. This deity here is a lord shiva made up of natural rock which is submerged in the holy river Ganga, can be seen only in winter months when the water level comes down.
2. A mysterious oil lamp or anything else:-
When the Gangotri temple is closed during the winter season, for 6 months from November to April, an oil lamp known as Akhand Jyoti is burnt inside the temple. This eternal flame is lit for almost six months in a large oil container which contains a huge amount of oil. The priest believes that it is the same fire created by king Bhagiratha during his penance and the goddess Ganga protects this lamp from burning off. This flame is burning even when there is no one to take care of the temple. This oil is made up of a mixture of Unique oil made by local people using locally available things, that’s what this lamp burns throughout the 6 months. Burning oil lamp is a lesser-known interesting fact about Gangotri Dham.
3. Temple structure:-
The temple is constructed by Amar Singh Thapa, which is a Napolean general. Built-in 250 years ago on the banks of Bhagirathi river, which is one of the sources of river Ganga. The main source of holy river Ganga is gaumukh situated at a distance of 19 km from the temple which is a part of Gangotri glacier. Amar Singh Thapa did with the assistance of different local people here that he wished to mark the point of emergence of Ganga. Before the construction of the Gangotri temple, there is no other temple present there. The temple got destructed by the snowslide and the royal house of Jaipur has reconstructed it. The temple is made up of north India’s traditional architectural style.
4. Transfer of the deity of Gangotri Dham:-
Gangotri Dham with all four Dhams shuts down in winter months which is from November to April. During these months the deity of goddess Ganga is shifted from the Gangotri temple to Mukhba which is located near harsil village. When these temples opened the deity of all the temples are adorned with new jewelry, clothes and seated in palkis known as dolis.
5. Bhagirathi Shilla:-
The word “Shilla” refers to the stone structure which is named after the great ruler Bhagiratha. This is the sample place where king Bhagiratha has meditated here to impress goddess Ganga, asking her to descent from the paradise so as to give him salvation or moksha to the ashes of his ancestors who are cursed by the brilliant Kapil. The Shila is situated right behind to Alaknanda river and behind the temple. Pind daan is also happened here to give moksha to the ancestors which are viewed as consecrated custom. Bhagirathi Shilla is a must-know interesting fact about Gangotri Dham.
6. Pandav Gufa story:-
Located near to Gangotri temple and Suraj Kund this spot is dark carve, which is said to have been the stopover point for the Pandavas and wife Draupadi when they are heading towards the Kailash parvat. The cave looks small from the outside but from inside the temple is very big and has a large space which makes the tale about Pandavas spending time here conceivable. It is said that Baba Ramdev also stayed here during his initial years, who has decorated the cave from the inside with photographs of god and goddesses. This place has untouched mythological significance.
7. Hues of Royal pink:-
When Amar Singh Thapa, maker of Gangotri temple has arrived during the battle with Chand Kotch (Punjabi leader). Even though the temple color is white but if you see it by going closer you will witness the light pink color in a small amount which adds some perplexing marvel to the temple.
8. Goddess Ganga residence:-
The deity of Goddess Ganga resides in the Gangotri temple which is in close proximity to Bhagiratha Shilla which is dedicated to lord shiva.
The statue of goddess Ganga is seated on a crocodile and has a golden face. Apart from the main statue of goddess Ganga, there is another deity too that temples hold and that is Mahalakshmi, Saraswati, Yamuna, and Ganesha.
9. Architecture and aura of Gangotri temple:-
The Gangotri temple is built with white stone that looks surrounded by the lush green trees. The temple building is built utilizing pyramid-like towers appended with each other with a triangular rooftop directly at the middle front. Every tower has a Kalash decorated over it. The carvings on the red sandstone of the sanctuary compliment the temple.
10. Visited after Yamunotri Dham:-
Gangotri Dham is visited by lakhs of devotees every year and is believed that Gangotri Dham is visited after Yamunotri Dham which is the starting point of Chardham Yatra because Chardham yatra is always done clockwise.
So, above are the interesting facts of Gangotri Dham yatra that you must know before visiting Chardham yatra by helicopter. So plan your journey of Chardham Yatra in 2020 and make some fantastic memories.
Nisha Singh
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American Blockbuster
Movies, Technology, and Wonder
Sign, Storage, Transmission
Book Pages: 384 Illustrations: 54 illustrations Published: August 2020
Author: Charles R. Acland
American Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies > Film
Ben Hur (1959), Jaws (1975), Avatar (2009), Wonder Woman (2017): the blockbuster movie has held a dominant position in American popular culture for decades. In American Blockbuster Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of this most visible, entertaining, and disparaged cultural form. Acland narrates how blockbusters emerged from Hollywood's turn to a hit-driven focus during the industry's business crisis in the 1950s. Movies became bigger, louder, and more spectacular. They also became prototypes for ideas and commodities associated with the future of technology and culture, accelerating the prominence of technological innovation in modern American life. Acland shows that blockbusters continue to be more than just movies; they are industrial strategies and complex cultural machines designed to normalize the ideologies of our technological age.
“Charles R. Acland has written an astute, masterful genealogy of the film critic's kryptonite: the blockbuster. Bringing clarity to the massive films that hide from scholars in plain view, Acland shows just how complex and unstable ostensibly self-evident genre and trade terms can be. Beyond a film history, this wide-ranging book offers a prototype for multi-modal historiographic method and incisive film analysis in an era of big data and digital humanities. Far more than an origin story, Acland's reverse engineering lays bare the struggles behind the management of Hollywood's blockbuster category, the fabrication of overdone artlessness. A must-read in film and media studies.” — John Thornton Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
“No other book traces the emergence of the stabilization of Hollywood's blockbuster strategy as deftly as American Blockbuster. Charles R. Acland's powerful synthesis of historical analysis and cultural theory along with his assessment of Hollywood's blockbuster economy—and of the studios’ prevailing blockbuster aesthetic—will have a significant impact.” — Thomas Schatz, author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Charles R. Acland is Distinguished University Research Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence and Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture, and coeditor of Useful Cinema, all also published by Duke University Press.
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New Jersey Dreaming
Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58
Book Pages: 360 Illustrations: 25 tables, 1 map Published: May 2003
Author: Sherry B. Ortner
American Studies, Anthropology > Cultural Anthropology, Sociology
Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School's Class of 1958, of which she was a member. She explores her classmates’ recollected experiences of the neighborhood and the high school, also written about in the novels of Philip Roth, Weequahic High School’s most famous alum. Ortner provides a chronicle of the journey of her classmates from the 1950s into the 1990s, following the movement of a striking number of them from modest working- and middle-class backgrounds into the wealthy upper-middle or professional/managerial class.
Ortner tracked down nearly all 304 of her classmates. She interviewedabout 100 in person and spoke with most of the rest by phone, recording her classmates’ vivid memories of time, place, and identity. Ortner shows how social class affected people’s livesin many hidden and unexamined ways. She also demonstrates that the Class of ‘58’s extreme upward mobility must be understood in relation to the major identity movements of the twentieth century—the campaign against anti-Semitism, the Civil Rights movement, and feminism.
A multisited study combining field research with an interdisciplinary analytical framework, New Jersey Dreaming is a masterly integration of developments at the vanguard of contemporary anthropology. Engaging excerpts from Ortner's field notes are interspersed throughout the book. Whether recording the difficulties and pleasures of studying one's own peer group, the cultures of driving in different parts of the country, or the contrasting experiences of appointment-making in Los Angeles and New York, they provide a rare glimpse into the actual doing of ethnographic research.
"For thirty years [Ortner] has studied gender and social and cultural theory, helping invent the field of feminist anthropology. . . [In New Jersey Dreaming] Ms. Ortner vividly captured those days when girls took home economics and boys took shop. . . ." — Felicia Lee, New York Times
"Ortner is an entertaining writer with a strong personal voice. . . ."
— Elaine Showalter, American Prospect
"[Ortner] convincingly argues that her classmates' success is not only a function of their work ethic and the level of acceptance of the dominant culture's value system, but also a function of how well they are able to benefit from their other group memberships. Recommended."
— G. Rabrenovic, Choice
"New Jersey Dreaming is consistently cogent, thought provoking and just plain fun to read. Because of the accessibility of the subject matter and the lucid descriptions of anthropological method and theory, I highly recommend this book for classroom use."
— Michael Chibnik, American Ethnologist
"Written by one of the most proficient anthropologists today, New Jersey Dreaming is an exemplar of the possibilities and limitations of multi-sited ethnography. It also is a fine contribution to the ethnography of schools and of class and socio-economic mobility in America. . . . Ortner's deft touch with both theory and method makes for a very readable and accessible book." — Marilyn Silverman, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
"Ortner skillfully integrates an analysis of class expectations and social mobility with the fascinating reminiscences of her classmates and her own thoughts about her 'fieldwork.' She successfully moves from the seemingly narrow focus of her own high school to reveal important insights about the impact of high school on the rest of our lives and the nature of class, gender, and race in postwar America."
— Seminary Co-op
"This is a lovely and interesting book. . . . [I]t offers valuable insights into class, race, ethnicity, gender, education, and friendship." — Lynne Pettinger, Ethnic and Racial Studies
"[P]rovocative. . . ." — Paul H. Mattingly, Journal of American History
"Ortner's book is a valuable contribution to the study of the role of class in contemporary America. New Jersey Dreaming is a tour de force exposition of the premise that class is not some natural object lying around in the world but is culturally or discursively constructed." — J. Brian Sheehan, American Studies International
"Intersubjectivity was clearly a tool of research but Ortner's presence in the work is also felt in the excerpts from her field notes that appear throughout the book. They are honest, revealing, and engaging. It is an enlivening and educative practice. The final chapter, 'Late Capitalism' is cohesively powerful. . . ." — Gretchen Poiner, The Australian Journal of Anthropology
"[A] fascinating study. . . ."
— Nicole Neatby, Labour/Le Travail
"New Jersey Dreaming is a distinctive and theoretically rigorous cultural analysis of class mobility that challenges the disciplinary apartheid in which anthropologists have tended to concede the study of U.S. social mobility and society to sociologists and historians. It offers a theoretical and methodological map of this terrain and will be a standout among books devoted to social change and class inequality."
— France Winddance Twine, Current Anthropology
"[E]xceptionally interesting . . . . [A]n important and genuinely innovative book. . . . New Jersey Dreaming is a real achievement in the study of American society. It offers a complex analysis that is a wonderful model for the study of class and culture, and it is a truly pioneering work in the ethnographic study of these critical features of American society."
— Riv-Ellen Prell, Jewish Quarterly Review
"This is a rich and provocative book, with fascinating interview vignettes, candid and suggestive field notes, and myriad quantitative data, all of which illuminate the high school experience and later life histories in novel ways."
— Joyce Antler, American Jewish History
“Ortner’s book is what anthropology is at its best: an exploration of everyday life (whether old or new) and an analysis that uncovers life’s layers of subjective meanings and relations between them. Even more exciting, and perhaps more challenging for Ortner, is that New Jersey Dreaming is a book about an anthropologist’s own ‘culture,’ one’s own ‘nativity,’ so to speak.” — Linwood H. Cousins, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
“Ortner’s engaging ethnography of the class of 1958 lays bare a fascinating slice of recent American life and shows convincingly how it participated in the larger movements of contemporary history.” — William H. Sewell, Jr., American Journal of Sociology
“Ortner is an accomplished and polished writer. The prose is clear and lucid yet vibrant. This is not a dry account of data collected and analyzed. It is a rendition of a time and place in New Jersey without the nostalgia, but with respect and a certain sense of affection. I would recommend this text not only for the professional, but as a teaching volume. This is how good ethnography is done.” — Kathleen Shapiro, H-New Jersey, H-Net Reviews
"New Jersey Dreaming shatters myths about the history, culture, and social relations of our society by placing ethnicity in a class context, by historicizing Jewish upward mobility, and by presenting a new framework for understanding identity and power that is firmly rooted in the practices of everyday life." — George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger
"New Jersey Dreaming is certainly the most impressive of books on the American high school experience. It makes one of the most important sociological arguments in recent years on the dynamics of class in post–World War II American society, and it presents innovations and important strategies for anthropologists conducting research in and on American society." — George Marcus, author of Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering, Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture, and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. She has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
List of Tables and Map ix
Letter to the Class of '58 xv
1. Introduction:
A Genealogy of the Present / The Class of '58 and the Question of Class / The Research / The Native Ethnographer / Project Journal 1: Getting Started 1
The Making of the Class of '58
2. Reading Class:
Families and Class / Behind Closed Doors / Hiding in Plain Sight / Project Journal 2: Florida 27
3. Drawing Boundaries:
To Melt or Not? / The Ethnic Story / The Class Story / Project Journal 3: Los Angeles 51
4. Dealing with Boundaries:
The Others / Overt Racism / Race and Ethnic Relations at Weequabic / Internalizing Limits / Survival Strategies / Project Journal 4: New Jersey 68
5. American High Schools:
Memories and Categories / Deconstructing High School / High School Types across Time and Space / Permutations of the Structure / Project Journal 5: New York 90
6. Weekquahic:
The Top of the Table: High-Capital Kids and Popularity / The Lower Half of the Table: Low-Capital Kids and Resistance / Identities I: The Wildness of the Tame / Identities II: The Tameness of the Wild / Project Journal 6: New Jersey 110
7. Tracks:
Weequabic qua School / College Prep? / Cultural Capital / College as a Cultural System / Gender Tracks / Project Journal 7: New Jersey 141
What the Class of '58 Made
8. Counterlives:
Earlier Causes / The Other Fifities / The Sixties / Project Journa 8: New Jersey 169
9. Money:
Success / Upward Mobility / The Success of Jewish Men / High -Capital Jewish Boys / Downward Mobility / Low-Capital Jewish Boys / Mobility, Agency, and History / Project Journal 9: Children of the Class of '58, New Jersey 187
10. Happiness:
Zero College / Success II: Happiness / Project Journal 10: Children of the Class of '58 (LA and Other Far-flung Places, Including New Jersey) 213
11. Liberation:
Women and Higher Education / Class of '58 Women and the Feminist Movement / Divorce / Careers / Succeeding in Nontraditional Careers / Project Journal 11: Endgame 238
12. Late Capitalism:
The Class of '58 and the Making of Late Capitalism / The Growth of the PMC / Race Again 262
Appendix 1. Finding People / Judy Epstein Rothbard 279
Appendix 2. In Memoriam 282
Appendix 3. Lost Classmates 283
Appendix 4. The Class of '58 Today 284
Works Cited 313
Winner, J. I. Staley Prize
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A Short Revolution: Formal Innovation and Feminist Critique in Lydia Davis
Hansen, Anette Erøy
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This thesis explores the narrative strategies of Lydia Davis’s short fiction. Based on close readings from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis and Can’t and Won’t, I argue that Davis’s textual practice has feminist significance relating to both the form and content of her stories. First, the close readings demonstrate that putting emotions in order, narrative disclosure, failed or reverse epiphanies, and acute attention to language are the trademarks of Davis’s original style. Based on Ellen G. Friedman’s and Miriam Fuchs’s work on the subversive narrative, Davis’s literary innovation conforms to the feminist notion of breaking patriarchal structures in literature. In the attempt to find closure, the story becomes a medium for reconciliation and growth. Davis carves out a fictional landscape where mystery and the inexplicable reigns. Within this landscape, she addresses feminist issues such as the mother’s role, miscommunication and asexuality. Revealing how motherhood is both a source of oppression and fascination, Davis contributes to a more nuanced perception of motherhood in literature. The findings add new dimensions the work of previous researchers, who tend to assume that feminist experimental writers combine radical feminist ideas and formal innovation. Instead, Davis challenges the way we read and write stories, spreading awareness about nonlinear storytelling and inequality for women in everyday life. Based on this observation, there is reason to claim that Lydia Davis innovates the short story as a feminist battleground.
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Dr Ben Alderson-Day
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Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychology
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 48147
Room number: CA121
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Contact Dr Ben Alderson-Day (email at benjamin.alderson-day@durham.ac.uk)
I joined the department as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in November 2012. Prior to this I completed my PhD in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and worked as a Research Co-ordinator for Lime Trees Child & Adolescent Mental Health team in the NHS in York.
Since 2012 I have been a member of Hearing the Voice, an interdisciplinary research project on auditory verbal hallucinations (or voice-hearing) funded by the Wellcome Trust. In 2015 I became a co-investigator for the project, which will finish in 2020.
I am interested in inner speech and the interactions between cognition and language in typical and atypical development. My work has included research on executive function and categorisation in autism spectrum disorders, semantic and problem-solving skills in deafness, and hallucination experiences in clinical and non-clinical populations.
Reviewing & Editing
Ad-Hoc Reviewing: Autism Research, Biological Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Consciousness & Cognition, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders, Journal of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Lancet Psychiatry, Neuroimage: Clinical, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Psychological Medicine, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Research in Developmental Disabilites, Review of Philosophy & Psychology, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Translational Psychiatry
Editing: Guest Editor, Review of Philosophy & Psychology, "Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis" Special Issue.
Voice-hearing and Schizophrenia
Luhrmann, Tanya Marie, Alderson-Day, Ben, Bell, Vaughan, Bless, Josef J, Corlett, Philip, Hugdahl, Kenneth, Jones, Nev, Larøi, Frank, Moseley, Peter, Padmavati, Ramachandran, Peters, Emmanuelle, Powers, Albert R & Waters, Flavie (2019). Beyond Trauma: A Multiple Pathways Approach to Auditory Hallucinations in Clinical and Nonclinical Populations. Schizophrenia Bulletin 45(Supplement_1): S24-S31.
Alderson-Day, B., Smailes, D., Moffatt, J., Mitrenga, K., Moseley, P. & Fernyhough, C. (2019). Intentional inhibition but not source memory is related to hallucination-proneness and intrusive thoughts in a university sample. Cortex 113: 267-278.
Thomas, Neil, Bless, Josef J, Alderson-Day, Ben, Bell, Imogen H, Cella, Matteo, Craig, Tom, Delespaul, Philippe, Hugdahl, Kenneth, Laloyaux, Julien, Larøi, Frank, Lincoln, Tania M, Schlier, Björn, Urwyler, Prabitha, van den Berg, David & Jardri, Renaud (2019). Potential Applications of Digital Technology in Assessment, Treatment, and Self-help for Hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin 45(Supplement_1): S32-S42.
Alderson-Day, B., Mitrenga, K., Wilkinson, S., McCarthy-Jones, S. & Fernyhough, C. (2018). The varieties of inner speech questionnaire – Revised (VISQ-R): Replicating and refining links between inner speech and psychopathology. Consciousness & Cognition 65: 48-58.
Alderson-Day, Ben & Jones, Nev (2018). Understanding AVATAR therapy: who, or what, is changing? The Lancet Psychiatry 5(1): 2.
Alderson-Day, B., Lima, C., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Shanmugalingam, P., Fernyhough, C. & Scott, S. (2017). Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Brain 140(9): 2475-2489.
Garrison, J. R., Moseley, P. Alderson-Day, B., Smailes, D., Fernyhough, C. & Simons, J. S. (2017). Testing continuum models of psychosis: No reduction in source monitoring ability in healthy individuals prone to auditory hallucinations. Cortex 91: 197-207.
Alderson-Day, B., Bernini, M. & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences. Consciousness and Cognition 49: 98-109.
Alderson-Day, Ben, Diederen, Kelly, Fernyhough, Charles, Ford, Judith M., Horga, Guillermo, Margulies, Daniel S., McCarthy-Jones, Simon, Northoff, Georg, Shine, James M., Turner, Jessica, van de Ven, Vincent, van Lutterveld, Remko, Waters, Flavie & Jardri, Renaud (2016). Auditory Hallucinations and the Brain’s Resting-State Networks: Findings and Methodological Observations. Schizophrenia Bulletin 42(5): 1110-1123.
Alderson-Day, B. & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations: Social, but how? Journal of Consciousness Studies 23(7-8): 163-194.
Hurlburt, Russell T., Alderson-Day, Ben, Kühn, Simone & Fernyhough, Charles (2016). Exploring the Ecological Validity of Thinking on Demand: Neural Correlates of Elicited vs. Spontaneously Occurring Inner Speech. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0147932.
Alderson-Day, B., Weis, S., McCarthy-Jones, S., Moseley, P., Smailes, D. & Fernyhough, C. (2016). The brain’s conversation with itself: neural substrates of dialogic inner speech. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience 11(1): 110-120.
Wilkinson, S. & Alderson-Day, B. (2016). Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 7(3): 529-540.
Woods, A., Jones, N., Alderson-Day, B., Callard, F. & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Experiences of hearing voices: analysis of a novel phenomenological survey. The Lancet Psychiatry 2(4): 323-331.
Alderson-Day, B., McCarthy-Jones, S. & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Hearing voices in the resting brain: A review of intrinsic functional connectivity research on auditory verbal hallucinations. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 55: 78-87.
Firth, L., Alderson-Day, B., Woods, N. & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Imaginary companions in childhood: Relations to imagination skills and autobiographical memory in adults. Creativity Research Journal 27(4): 308-313.
Alderson-Day, B. & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Inner speech: Development, cognitive functions, phenomenology, and neurobiology. Psychological Bulletin 141(5): 931-965.
Alderson-Day, B. & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Relations among questionnaire and experience sampling measures of inner speech: a smartphone app study. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 517.
Smailes, D., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S. & Dodgson, G. (2015). Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychopathology 6: 1933.
Johns, L. C., Kompus, K., Connell, M., Humpston, C., Lincoln, T. M., Longden, E., Preti, A., Alderson-Day, B., Badcock, J. C., Cella, M., Fernyhough, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Peters, E., Raballo, A., Scott, J., Siddi, S., Sommer, I. & Larøi, F. (2014). Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care. Schizophrenia Bulletin 40(Suppl 4): S255-S264.
Kühn, S., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B. & Hurlburt, R. T. (2014). Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? Frontiers in Psychology 5: 1393.
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Public Release: 2-Jan-2019
UC Santa Barbara researcher conducts first-ever global-scale evaluation of the role of soil minerals in carbon storage
One answer to our greenhouse gas challenges may be right under our feet: Soil scientists Oliver Chadwick of UC Santa Barbara and Marc Kramer of Washington State University have found that minerals in soil can hold on to a significant amount of carbon pulled from the atmosphere. It's a mechanism that could potentially be exploited as the world tries to shift its carbon economy.
"We've known for quite a long time that the carbon stored on minerals is the carbon that sticks around for a long time," said Chadwick, co-author of the paper, "Climate-driven thresholds in reactive mineral retention of soil carbon at the global scale," published in the journal Nature Climate Change. How much carbon the soil can take and how much it can keep, he said, are dependent on factors including temperature and moisture.
"When plants photosynthesize, they draw carbon out of the atmosphere, then they die and their organic matter is incorporated in the soil," Chadwick explained. "Bacteria decompose that organic matter, releasing carbon that can either go right back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide or it can get held on the surface of soil minerals."
Water plays a significant role in the soil's ability to retain carbon, say the researchers. Chadwick and Kramer consulted soil profiles from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and from a globally representative archived data set for this first-ever global-scale evaluation of the role soil plays in producing dissolved organic matter and storing it on minerals. Wetter climates are more conducive to formation of minerals that are effective at storing carbon, therefore much of the Earth's estimated 600 billion metric tons of soil-bound carbon is found in the wet forests and tropical zones. Arid places, meanwhile, tend to have a "negative water balance" and can thus store far less organic carbon. According to Chadwick, the findings suggest that even a small, strategic change in the water balance could drive greater carbon storage.
"That's not as easy as it sounds, because water is dear," Chadwick said, and in places where a shift in soil moisture could tip the water balance from negative to positive -- like the desert -- there's not enough water to begin with. "So, it doesn't actually make any sense to spread a lot of water out over the landscape because water is hugely valuable," he added.
Climate change is another driver to consider. As the Earth warms, microbial activity increases and, in turn, so does the potential for carbon to be released back into the atmosphere at a greater rate than photosynthesis can draw it out. Increased evaporation due to a warmer climate also decreases the amount of water in the soil available to dissolve and move carbon to minerals deep below the surface.
There is still a lot to investigate and several hurdles to overcome as soil scientists everywhere consider ways to tip the balance of the Earth's soil from carbon source to carbon sink, but according to these researchers, understanding this relatively little-known but highly significant carbon storage pathway is a start.
"We know less about the soils on Earth than we do about the surface of Mars," said Kramer. "Before we can start thinking about storing carbon in the ground, we need to actually understand how it gets there and how likely it is to stick around. This finding highlights a major breakthrough in our understanding."
Among the next steps for the scientists is to date the mineral-stored carbon in the soil to better understand how long these reactive (typically iron and aluminum) minerals can keep carbon out of the air. "Which is really important if we're going to put effort into trying to store carbon in the soil," Chadwick said. "Is it going to stay there long enough to matter? If we put it in and it comes out five years later, it's not solving our problem, and we ought to be barking up a different tree."
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Migrants resist as Greek police move to clear border 'bottleneck'
Greek police have started removing migrants from the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to try to clear a ‘bottleneck’ that is creating increasing tension.
We want to go further. This is all we want.
A new tightening of controls by Macedonian authorities has left thousands stranded in Greece with nowhere to go.
Syrians and Iraqis are still being allowed through, with documentation, but access is being denied to Afghans.
It has sparked desperate scenes of people trying to break down border fences and refugees screaming and crying as they find their path blocked.
Greek police are trying to put those stuck onto buses, to transport them back to Athens.
BREAKING: Afghans are being removed from #Idomeni and returned to #Athens. pic.twitter.com/0MIezwr6Rq
— MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) 23 Février 2016
Despite the locked door, many refugees are resisting attempts to send them back to Athens – determined to keep the hope of a new start alive for them and their families.
“We want to go further,” said Salih, one migrant from Afghanistan.
“This is all we want. If we go back to Athens, what can we do? We have no money to buy, nothing to eat, where should we go? We cannot go back to Afghanistan. If we go back to Afghanistan, we are going to be killed.”
There are, however, concerns at what may happen in Greece, where an influx continues unabated to its islands daily from Turkey.
On Tuesday morning, a further 1,250 migrants arrived in Athens by ferry from three Greek islands.
Significant rise in migrants entering EU from Turkey in 2019
A dozen migrants dead after their boat sinks off Greek island
Israel, Greece and Cyprus sign deal for EastMed gas pipeline
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Amy Schumer Gives Update on IVF Journey: "I'm Really Hoping This Works"
by Corinne Heller | Sat., Jan. 11, 2020 8:11 AM
Amy Schumer Talks Motherhood: "Believe the Hype"
Amy Schumer is so open about her IVF journey to have a second child that she's giving fans an even more intimate look at the long, excruciating process...even in the examination room.
The 38-year-old Trainwreck star and comedienne, known for her candor, revealed earlier this week that she had started taking injectable fertility drugs and posted a photo of the bruises left behind on her abdomen. She said they are freezing her eggs and "figuring out what to do to give Gene a sibling," referring to her and husband Chris Fischer's 8-month-old son, their first child.
On Saturday, she shared on Instagram a photo of herself inside her fertility clinic, lying casually in her clothes on a gynecological examination chair next to an ultrasound machine prepped for someone to carry out a transvaginal scan.
"Thank you ladies and a few gentleman. We are gonna freeze embryos hopefully," she wrote.
Schumer is set to take the drugs for a few more days. They contain hormones and are aimed at stimulating her ovaries to produce extra follicles, in the hopes of producing as many mature eggs as possible that her doctor will then extract in a single retrieval. The success of the process depends mostly on how her body will respond to the medication regimen, as well as the quality of her husband's sperm that will be used to try to fertilize them.
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When women reach a certain age, usually between 31 and 35, they start to produce fewer good-quality eggs that would yield good-quality embryos, which could be why Schumer has decided to undergo this process so quickly after giving birth. In addition, the star has endometriosis, in which tissue that lines the uterus grow on other pelvic organs, such as the ovaries, and has an adverse effect on egg quality and quantity.
Schumer has not disclosed whether Gene was conceived naturally or with assisted reproduction technology.
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After eggs are retrieved and fertilized and embryos are created, which will take between five and six days, Schumer and Fischer will have them frozen for a future transfer to try to create a pregnancy. Frozen, good-quality embryos are more durable and more likely to thaw than frozen eggs.
While the couple may have chosen to wait to actually have another baby and are undergoing this process as a safety net, some fertility doctors maintain they have higher success rates using frozen embryos. Schumer and Fischer may also opt to have their embryos tested for chromosomal and genetic diseases, and they too must be frozen afterwards.
An egg retrieval is carried out within a manner of minutes under intravenous sedation—Schumer will be unconscious for it. She may suffer pain and extreme bloating after the procedure, depending on how many eggs were retrieved.
"I learned to eat salty food after and drink Gatorade," Schumer wrote on Saturday. "Ice the area. Take Arnica and put Arnica on the bruises. To be patient and kind to myself and that there are sooooo many of us willing to be there for each other."
In her previous message, Schumer had said that she was "feeling really run down and emotional" and asked for advice from anyone who has undergone IVF.
"Your stories helped me more than you can imagine," she wrote on Saturday. "I feel incredibly lucky. I'm really hoping this works and staying positive. Much much love!"
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Posted June 21, 2013 at 12:14 pm by Monique Morrissey
Hybrid or Frankenpension?
Rhode Island state treasurer Gina Raimondo is running for governor on the strength of the pension reform she spearheaded in in 2011. The hitch? The new plan—a hybrid between a traditional defined benefit (DB) pension and a 401(k)-style defined contribution (DC) plan—actually increases costs for taxpayers while leaving most state employees and teachers worse off, as Robert Hiltonsmith lays out in a new EPI briefing paper.
Raimondo managed to pull off this sleight of hand because she did save taxpayers money—not through the new hybrid plan, but by slashing pension benefits already earned by workers and retirees, a move that is being challenged in court. These cuts came on top of cuts made in earlier rounds, which in a companion brief I estimate amount to a 34 reduction in benefits for a prototypical career worker, with some workers experiencing cuts of 40 percent or more.
Why introduce a poorly-designed hybrid that costs more without benefiting workers? Good question. Hybrids are hot in policy circles, mostly for good reason. Many private-sector employers aren’t in a position to take on long-term pension obligations, yet 401(k)s have proven to be a disastrous substitute, raising costs and placing inordinate risk onto workers, even the few who manage to play their cards exactly right. EPI (pdf) and others have estimated that DC plans cost roughly twice as much as DB plans to provide a similar level of retirement security.
Though a family-owned diner would be hard pressed to provide its workers with a traditional pension—hence the search for a good hybrid plan—DB pensions work well for government entities and other large, stable employers. The promise of a secure pension is a major reason—probably the major reason, aside from job satisfaction—that school systems and other government employers are able to attract and retain a skilled workforce despite offering lower pay than private-sector employers. So there is much less reason to consider hybrids in the public sector than the private sector, where half of workers have no retirement benefit at all.
Collectively, American families face a retirement income deficit of $7 to $14 trillion (the higher estimate comes from a report released yesterday by the National Institute on Retirement Security). But the real retirement crisis in America is in the private sector, despite misplaced fears about Social Security and public pensions, which face more manageable challenges.
Though the financial crisis has left public pensions with a shortfall equal to one fourth of projected liabilities, many states have implemented cuts that fully offset the impact of the 2008 downturn, and most will be able to gradually build up their funds with a moderate impact on state budgets (pdf). Talk of a “public pension crisis” therefore relies on claims that the hole is much bigger than it appears, using very low discount rates to value future pension obligations and implicitly assuming that the rate of return on pension fund assets will be much lower than the long-run historical average. The public campaign in support of Raimondo’s plan in Rhode Island was largely funded by a Texas hedge fund billionaire and former Enron trader, whose foundation published a hyperbolic report (pdf) claiming public pension costs “are potentially crippling to our nation.” Raimondo echoed many of the same arguments in her report, misleadingly entitled “Truth in Numbers,” (pdf) which similarly raised the specter of state bankruptcy. Nowhere in the report does it acknowledge that the hybrid plan she supports actually increases costs.
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Four times a month in one of Eppli’s three auction houses, auctions with various focal points are held. The whole business began forty years ago in a small shop specialized in buying and selling jewelry. That small shop grew into one of the largest auction houses in southern Germany. Today we offer our services at a total of eight locations. In addition to our regular auctions, our locations also offer an extensive selection of unique jewelry, watches, antiques, art, designer fashion and accessories that are available for immediate purchase.
„We appreciate value” became our business philosophy in two ways: we appreciate and evaluate the current market price of various items on a daily basis, but we also appreciate these valuables in a deeper sense as part of our conviction for what we do. Each year we auction over 25,000 items with the help of our outstanding team of experts. This has enabled us to grow and develop into one of the leading auction houses in southern Germany over the past several years. In 2015 we opened the Eppli Expert Center (www.expertenzentrum.de) centrally located on Stuttgart’s Marktplatz, where we centralized the experts of various divisions to better respond to the growing demand for our services in the areas of appraisals, certificates, consignments and collateral loans. The Eppli Expert Center is currently one of the leading institutions in Germany and is unparalleled in the comprehensive extent of services offered in one location.
After over 40 years of owner-operated management through founders Franz and Gabriele Eppli, the second generation has now stepped up to join the family business. Ferdinand Eppli now supports his parents as part of the company management. His educational background set the stage for him to continue in his parents’ footsteps in running the family business. Ferdinand B. Eppli studied business administration in Germany and the USA, after which he became a certified gemologist through GIA (Gemological Institute of America) in New York. GIA is world-renowned as the leading global institution for grading gemstones, teaching and research in gemology. Like his father, Ferdinand has been named a publicly appointed and sworn auctioneer by the state capital Stuttgart and therefore has the legal authority to conduct auctions for the government including repossessed items. His sister Katharina Eppli recently completed her master’s degree in “Fashion, Luxury and Sales Management” at the International School of Business in Cologne and now works full time for the family business. Both Ferdinand and Katharina hope to continue to expand the company’s reputation as a leading auction house and hope to advance the digitalization of the company.
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Two one-run losses lead to early CWS exit for Razorbacks
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The Arkansas Razorbacks faced a stinging loss Monday that ended their stay at the College World Series after reaching the Mecca of college baseball for back-to-back seasons for the first time in the program’s history.
The Razorbacks just didn’t have enough at the plate or on the mound Monday to overtake the Texas Tech Red Raiders in a 5-4 loss that was nip and tuck until Arkansas’ final out at TD Ameritrade Park.
Ironically, Texas Tech belted three home runs in the game to overpower Arkansas, similar to the way the Razorbacks overpowered opponents last year as they made their way to the championship series before an eventual runner-up finish to Oregon State.
The single-run loss to the Red Raiders compounded the frustration over a 1-0 loss to Florida State in the Razorbacks’ CWS opener last Saturday night.
“Well, obviously it was a tough loss,” said Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn, who has led the Razorbacks to seven of their 10 College World Series appearances. “Pretty well-played game by both teams. For the most part, there really wasn’t too many mistakes. Just kind of who got the big hit and who didn’t. But just some big hits. Texas Tech took advantage of a couple of things, and tough loss, two tough losses here for us. Two one-run losses that really could have gone either way.”
The Razorbacks jumped on top on a first-pitch, second-inning, solo home-run by Heston Kjerstad in the second inning, and tacked on two more runs in the third, but Camren Warren all but whipped away the Hogs’ lead with one swing of the bat for a two-run homer in the fourth. Razorback starter Connor Noland fnished out the inning, but his day was done.
Texas Tech pitcher Caleb Kilian kept the Hogs at bay going seven innings, frustrating the Hogs efforts most of the day.
Arkansas gave up home runs in the fifth and sixth inning to Red Raiders Easton Murrell and Josh Jung to fall behind, 4-3. The Hogs tied the game in the eighth when a sacrifice fly by Jack Kenley sent Dominic Fletcher home, but the Hogs could gain no further traction.
In the bottom of the eighth, Texas Tech’s Cody Masters belted a triple that drove in Warren, who had walked, for the 5-4 victory.
The Razorbacks rallied in the ninth when freshman third baseman Jacob Nesbit reaching after being hit by a pitch, and freshman left fielder Christian Franklin swatted a single to move him in scoring position with no outs. However the Hog’s rally died there.
Despite not having the success Van Horn had hope for this team at the CWS, he came away proud of what the squad had accomplished.
“You know, just really proud of the team,” Van Horn said. “Told them that after the game. Told them to walk out of there with their head high. We were real close to winning two games. We ended up losing two one-run games. Kind of hard to swallow. But overall it was a really good year, getting a part of the Western Division championship and getting back here, just proud of them and appreciated the effort they gave us all year. Those guys showed up every day and worked hard, smiled a lot, and it made it fun to work with them. I just appreciate the effort.”
Emotions were raw for the Razorbacks, dealing with such an abrupt end to their season. However, sophomore shortstop Casey Martin, who went 2 for 5 in the game with a double and a triple, didn’t lose perspective on what the Hogs’ accomplished this season, finishing 46-20 with a share of the SEC Western Division title.
“I thought we had an outstanding year, being counted out from the beginning,” Martin said. “We bring in some new guys. Trevor Ezell did more than outstanding for us, and he’s a competitor. Without bringing guys in like that, true leaders for this team, I guess you just could say such a young team we have, that it shows these younger guys what it takes to get here. So they’ve experienced it now, and they know what it takes. We needed that, and I think we’ll be good if we can build off that.”
Kjerstad, also a sophomore, focused more on the Hogs’ accomplishments this season and what it took for the Hogs to return to the CWS with a team that was expected to be competitive but to finish near the bottom of the SEC West.
“We had a spectacular year getting back here for the second year in a row, but it shows a lot about the incoming guys that came in and replaced a lot of the starters and experience we had from last season,” Kjerstad said. “It took everyone on our whole roster to get us here, and it was just great to be back, and we’ll look back on the season and realize how good we were for the whole season, how good of an experience we had. But for now it’s obviously a little bitter once the season is over.”
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FC 89 In Search of Sacco & Vanzetti with Susan Tejada
Posted on May 8, 2014 by FieldstoneCommon
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This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Susan Tejada, the author of the book In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times and the Massachusetts Murder Case that Shook the World.
Bio – Susan Tejada
Susan Tejada is a former writer and editor at the National Geographic Society, where she was editor-in-chief of National Geographic World magazine and authored and edited geography books for young readers. She was previously the associate editor of EPA Journal, reporting on environmental issues. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, she has taught non-fiction writing for young readers at the Highlights Foundation summer Writers’ Workshops in Chautauqua, New York.
Tejada received a research fellowship from The Lilly Library of Indiana University for In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti. The book is the recipient of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal for true crime.
It was a bold and brutal crime–robbery and murder in broad daylight on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920. Tried for the crime and convicted, two Italian-born laborers, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, went to the electric chair in 1927, professing their innocence. Journalist Susan Tejada has spent years investigating the case, sifting through diaries and police reports and interviewing descendants of major figures. She discovers little-known facts about Sacco, Vanzetti, and their supporters, and develops a tantalizing theory about how a doomed insider may have been coerced into helping professional criminals plan the heist.
Tejada’s close-up view of the case allows readers to see those involved as individual personalities. She also paints a fascinating portrait of a bygone era: Providence gangsters and Boston Brahmins; nighttime raids and midnight bombings; and immigration, unionism, draft dodging, and violent anarchism in the turbulent early years of the twentieth century. In many ways this is as much a cultural history as a true-crime mystery or courtroom drama. Because the case played out against a background of domestic terrorism, in a time that echoes our own, we have a new appreciation of the potential connection between fear and the erosion of civil liberties and miscarriages of justice.
Title: In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times and the Massachusetts Murder Case that Shook the World
Publisher: University Press of New England (2012)
Hard Cover; 386 pages with end notes, selected bibliography, index and some photos.
In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times and the Massachusetts Murder Case that Shook the World is available for purchase from Amazon.com and other booksellers.
In this interview Susan and I discuss the complex case of Sacco & Vanzetti amidst the tumultuous times of the early 20th century complete with the end of WWI, the Red Scare, Anarchism, the rise of the labor movement and an anti-immigrant backlash. Were Sacco & Vanzetti guilty of robbery and murder or were they the unwilling victims of their times? We dig into some surprising evidence!
One copy of In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times and the Massachusetts Murder Case that Shook the World is given out to the Fieldstone Common audience courtesy of the University Press of New England.
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FC 76 Dark Tide with Stephen Puleo
Posted on January 30, 2014 by FieldstoneCommon
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This week on Fieldstone Common our featured guest is Stephen Puleo, author of the book Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.
Bio – Stephen Puleo
Stephen Puleo is an author, historian, university teacher, public speaker, and communications professional. His books include
The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900
The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day
Due to Enemy Action: The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
In 2008, Steve was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award, presented by the Appian Club, an Italian-American organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Italian culture in Massachusetts. In 2007, he received the prestigious i migliori award, presented by the Pirandello Lyceum to Italian-Americans who have excelled in their fields of endeavor and made important contributions to society.
A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor of feature stories and book reviews to American History magazine and the Boston Globe, Puleo holds a master’s degree in history, for which he received the Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement, and was the Graduate Convocation keynote speaker. He teaches at Suffolk University in Boston.
You can learn more about Stephen Puelo at his author website, www.stephenpuleo.com. You can also follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!”
A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.
Title: Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Publisher: Beacon Press (2003)
Trade Paperback; 273 pages with bibliographic essay, an index and some BxW photos.
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 is available for purchase from Amazon.com and other booksellers.
Dark Tide is so much more than just a book about a very unusual molasses flood. The book is set against the backdrop of WWI, the coming of prohibition and prejudice against immigrants. Steve and I talk about the building of the tank and how the political situation allowed it to be built in one of the most densely populated places in the United States. Steve reads a passage from one of the poignant moments at the bedside of a victim after the flood. We talk about the heros and the villains of the story and how the current events impacted their decisions. And lets not forget the anarchists! Sometimes we think that are current events are unique to us but this book proves that history repeats itself and we are none the wiser.
One copy of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 was given out to the Fieldstone Common audience courtesy of Beacon Press.
Victor Jones of North Carolina
Congratulations to our winner and thanks to Beacon Press for their generosity in donating the book!
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Telcos embrace containers at KubeCon 2019: Ambitious end-to-end 5G demo with containers impresses
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Attendance was up 50% year-over-year for this week's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 in San Diego. (CNCF/Linux Foundation)
SAN DIEGO—KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 welcomed 12,000 attendees at the San Diego Convention Center, a 50% growth from the same event a year prior in Seattle. With application developers, infrastructure engineers, technology vendors milling through the cavernous exhibit halls, and filling the multitude of rooms, eager to soak up the latest on the hottest of technologies, the buzz was palpable.
Source: CNCF/Linux Foundation
As might be expected, vendors touted faster multi-cloud deployment, smoother workflows, smarter toolchains, improved security, and more as they rolled out new versions of their solutions aimed at the Kubernetes-orchestrated, container-powered cloud-native platforms. Surprisingly, networking had a significant presence in the second-day keynotes. They included discussions around a dual v4/v6 stack—which still surprises me to this day that not everything is full dual-stack enabled from day one— network service meshes, and perhaps one of the most extensive keynote demonstrations at KubeCon.
Involving a cast of thousands -- well, in reality, a volunteer crew of over 100 technology experts -- a group of collaborating companies came together to demonstrate a "live" 5G call from San Diego to France. Heather Kirksey, vice president of community and ecosystem development at the Linux Foundation, was joined on stage by Azhar Sayeed, chief architect for service providers at Red Hat, and Fu Qiao, project manager at China Mobile. Also, over 100 volunteers from 15 organizations including A10 Networks, Alibaba, Altran, China Mobile, Commscope, Eurecom, Intel, Kaloom, Linux Foundation, Lenovo, Loodse, NetScout, OpenAirInterface, Red Hat, and Turnium, came together behind the scenes to put together the live demonstration. A culmination of the efforts behind the VCO (virtual central office) project, this VCO Demo 3.0 was an extensive effort, as evidenced by the collaborative work leading up to it.
The demonstration team powered the 5G network with a 5G core running in a containerized environment. Utilizing 5G NR radios, with commercial handsets in a custom-built faraday cage (the spectrum was a licensed band owned by a real mobile network operator), this prototype network connected a live call over points-of-presence in San Diego, Montreal and Sophia Antipolis.
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With the number of parties participating, and the complexity of components and locations involved, there were plenty of opportunities for something to go wrong, but the team executed successfully! The demonstration shows that it is possible to deploy a full end-to-end SA (standalone) 5G network that uses cloud-native architectures.
There’s a lot more effort required and a necessary maturation of the technology for scaled production deployments. Many MNOs (beyond the leading ones already investing in the technology) still need to get up to speed with containers and figure out how to manage and deploy 5G core at scale. Nevertheless, this VCO 3.0 demonstration helped establish the shape of things to come as MNOs and telcos attempt to shift into a cloud-native world.
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David Deen from Promo-Cloud spoke to King of Servers about the company’s purchase of Dell server hardware
The products will be used to support the company’s recent purchase of a brand new Dell server
Online music promotion management platform company Promo-Cloud needs to remain ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest in technology in order to remain at the forefront of innovation, and stay ahead of the competition. Therefore, when the company identifies the need for a new product, it needs it quickly.
David Deen, Development Lead at Promo-Cloud, recently spoke to King of Servers about the brand’s recent purchase of a heat sink for a neon processor, and rack rails for its recently-purchased Dell server. Very pleased with the service he received, David was drawn to King of Servers because he was impressed with the range of Dell products available, and the fact that we could guarantee next-day delivery.
The products would be used to support Promo-Cloud’s new database server, which provides services to other programs or computers. For this reason, shipping the items quickly was essential to increasing performance, however, this is something that previous IT companies they have dealt with have failed to do.
David said: “As a fairly small company, when speaking to previous IT companies we have purchased from, we could tell we were not treated as a priority - something I find particularly infuriating when we need products quickly. However, this wasn’t the case with King of Servers.”
He added: “The service we received from King of Servers was great, and we would happily work with them again.”
Albie Attias, MD of King of Servers had this to add “We strive to offer an unbeatable level of customer service irrespective of the size of the customer or the nature of their requirement. It’s obviously very satisfying to hear such positive feedback from another satisfied customer.”
In his role as Development Lead, David is in charge of Promo-Cloud’s software development and operations, providing a crucial role for the company, which has helped hundreds of record labels to promote their music on the web.
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Letter from Paris: Pavyllon
Chef Yannick Alleno of Pavyllon. Credit Pavyllon.
By Alexander Lobrano
With the opening of Pavyllon, chef Yannick Alleno has created a convivial new casual restaurant that aims to make his cooking available to a broader public than the one that can afford his Michelin three-star table upstairs at the lovely Pavillon Ledoyen in the gardens of the Champs Elysees. “Pavyllon is sort of my laboratory,” says Alleno, who seems to inherently understand that French haute cuisine is searching for relevance in a new century. Pavyllon occupies a sunny pretty room overlooking the gardens at the same address.
Pavyllon. Credit Alexander Lobrano.
Why? Haute cuisine dining, the traditional pinnacle of the French food chain, has not only become exorbitantly expensive but seems sidelined in a city where they’re so many brilliant young chefs serving spectacularly good and much more affordable food in relaxed and charming restaurants like Septime or the recently opened Maison pat Sota Atsumi … continue reading
Marinated John Dory with parsley jus at Pavyllon. Credit Alexander Lobrano.
Alexander Lobrano grew up in Connecticut, and lived in Boston, New York and London before moving to Paris, his home today, in 1986. He has written about food and travel for The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Saveur, Travel & Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler. He is the author of Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 109 Best Restaurants (Random House), which was published in a second edition in 2014, and is a Contributing Editor at Saveur Magazine. His latest book, Hungry for France, was published by Rizzoli in April 2014. Visit his website, www.alexanderlobrano.com (Photo by Steven Rothfeld).
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495: Secretary: Part 2
Comic #495 (October 28, 2008)
Secretary: Part 2
Title text: That helmet won't save him.
Explanation[edit]
Whenever something big happens the news media likes to have at least two things: interviews with people that are the news, and on-the-scene reporters. In this case Blondie as a news anchor is shown to begin with talking about Black Hat and she has even been out at his house. Even if those reporters are simply standing in front of a building that something happened in, they have to be on-scene. To thwart the media (and probably everyone else), Black Hat has built a moat around his apartment building. The second reporter is on-the-scene from the Internet, or rather, one of its darkest corners: 4chan. In more detail, 4chan is a collection of image boards, which act somewhat like forums, where users go to share images. The different boards are named by their "folder" structure, for lack of a better term. Therefore, the name /b/ comes from its URL: 4chan.org/b/. Pronounced "slash bee" (because the second forward slash is not necessary), /b/ is the "random" board, where anything goes, where anything is the superset of all sets, as in anything. Absolutely. Anything. As in, going more than two seconds without seeing pornographic content or hateful slurs is almost unheard of. /b/ is also the one that gets the most publicity, because it has started most of the memes [1] on the Internet, as well as the birthplace of Anonymous. The chaotic nature of the forums explains why the title text suggests that the reporter isn't safe, even though he is wearing a helmet. In fact, a goofy helmet like that is liable to get the trolls on him faster than if he didn't have it.
Ron Paul is a man who was a U.S. Representative for Texas at the time. At the time the comic was published, he was running, for the second time, for President of the United States.
A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles of clothing that have been or can be sewed. In modern English a haberdashery (where a haberdasher would work) is a place that sells hats.
Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign did, in fact, use a blimp which was named the Ron Paul Blimp. However, despite their elegant appearance, blimps are not a very fast way to travel.
The images on the board behind the reporter are: The Fonz, /b/, a CD, and Epic Fail Guy, spelling out ABCDEFG.
The title text states that the second reporter (Tom)'s helmet won't help him, though from what, it is unclear as he himself stated he wasn't sure why he was wearing the helmet.
All comics in the Secretary series:
495: Secretary: Part 2 (this one)
This series was released on 5 consecutive days (Monday-Friday) and not over the usual Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule.
It is possible that this series is a continuation of 493: Actuarial, in which Black Hat demonstrates great power over even Internet trolls via his sociopathic ways. This would explain why Black Hat was chosen as Internet secretary.
Transcript[edit]
[Blondie as a news anchor sitting behind a desk is reading from a paper she holds in her hands. There is a picture of Black Hat on a screen behind her. There is a caption below the picture.]
Blondie: Breaking news—the President has made a nomination to the new post of Internet Secretary. We know little about the man, shown here.
Caption: Possibly a haberdasher?
[Blondie keeps talking over a scene showing her standing with a microphone in front of a water filled moat that has been dug between the road and a house. A small stair up to the house is just on the other side of the moat. Behind her is Cueball with a large TV camera on his shoulder pointing towards her and the house.]
Blondie (narrating): Attempts to reach the nominee at home were unsuccessful.
Blondie: What the hell kind of apartment has a moat?
[Back to Blondie behind her desk, the paper is gone and she leans one arm on the desk. There is no screen behind her.]
Blondie: To understand the culture from which he came — and which he may soon administer — we sent a reporter to what we're told is the source of that culture.
Blondie: Tom?
[This panel is much larger than the three previous panels and partly hidden behind the last. Tom, looking like Cueball with a military helmet with camouflage marks strapped under his chin, holds a large microphone in front of him while standing in front of a large screen. The screen shows with a message board with four picture posts. Each picture has a text to the right but those are unreadable scribbles. The top drawing is of a man with wild hair who holds out his hands with thumbs up. The next is text. Then there is a circle with a smaller circle in the middle and at the bottom what appears to be a Cueball-like man with a fencing mask. Blondie still speaks to him from off-panel left.]
Tom: I'm coming to you live from the 4chan /b/ board. Despite the tube cloggage, nascent memes are flying fast and furious.
Blondie (off-panel): Why are you wearing a helmet, Tom?
Tom: I'm not sure.
Image with text only: /b/
[Ponytail is sitting in front of a large control unit using the two levers coming out of it from below two buttons that are again below the lit screen. A voice comes from off-panel left. Above the top of the panels frame there is a frame with a caption:]
Meanwhile in Ron Paul's blimp.
Ron Paul (off-panel): Ahoy! What news of the blogs?
[Zoom out showing Ponytail who has turned around on her office chair away from the controls towards Ron Paul drawn like Cueball but with a cane. She holds up a piece of paper with a small square insert visible at the top. Apart from that it is white.]
Ponytail: Dr. Paul! The President's named his nominee!
Ron Paul: It's not me?
[Ron Paul's blimp is shown from the outside. His voice can be seen coming from the airship. There is text on the blimp, with the four letters after the first written mirrored to spell another word.]
Ron Paul (from inside the blimp): Wait! I remember that guy from the campaign! He's a notorious troll!
Blimp:
RƎVO⅃UTION
[Back inside the blimp Ron Paul points to Ponytail while his other hand is lifted to his chin. His cane leans against his legs. Ponytail looks at him from her chair, the paper now held in her lap.]
Ron Paul: They mustn't put him in charge. Quick, call the capitol!
[Ponytail turns around on her chair towards the controls and takes hold of one of the sticks. Ron Paul has taken the cane in his hand again.]
Ponytail: Can't, sir. The tubes just went down completely.
Ron Paul: Blast!
[Ponytail now holds on to both sticks as Ron Paul lifts his cane up into the air pointing away from her up and right.]
Ron Paul: Then we'll go ourselves. Full speed ahead!
[A full view of the blimp hanging in the air to the left over a broad landscape. There seems to be a small lake just in front of the blimp. The horizon is shown all along this full width panel and after the lake there are five small mountain peaks, two behind the three in front. After the last of these there follows one more peak and a small mound. Features are shown on the ground. In the air in front of the blimp there are a small cloud inside the panel at the end of the lake, and a large cloud breaking the upper frame over the end of the five mountain stretching over the next peak and mound.]
[Same image. The blimp has advanced minutely taking the tip clearly over the lake. Beat panel #1]
[Same image. The blimp has advanced minutely again. Beat panel #2]
[Same image but now the two speak from within the blimp. The blimp has again advanced minutely so the gondola below the blimp is now also almost at the edge of the lake..]
Ron Paul: I said full speed!
Ponytail: It's a blimp, sir!
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Ron Paul wishing to become Secretary of the Internet could be a reference to the vast numbers of Ron Paul supporters that can be found online. 86.158.136.186 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I switched "/b/ers" to "/b/tards" because that's how they most often refer to themselves. I hope that's ok. 173.245.56.157 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Uh, as a former Ron Paul supporter, I'm pretty sure he ran for President for the SECOND time in 2008, unless anyone can tell me if he ran sometime between 1988 and 2008. Changing. 108.162.238.177 01:11, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Are we sure that's a CD, not a boob? This is /b/ we're talking about here.--Troy0 (talk) 14:04, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
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Wireline broadband growth eases as residential connections approach 99 million homes—report
The cable industry led the way for second quarter residential broadband subscriber additions, according to Kagan. (Pixabay)
With 5G still in its infancy stage, wireline broadband service providers added 339,000 new subscribers in the second quarter, but that growth slowed a bit, according to a report.
According to research group Kagan, four out of five homes in the U.S. now subscribe to a wireline connection from cable or telecom service providers. Cable led the way for residential broadband adds in the second quarter, but its growth rate shrank on a sequential and annual basis.
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Paced by Comcast and Charter, which gained 209,000 and 221,000 broadband subscribers, respectively, in the second quarter, the cable industry added close to half a million new residential broadband customers compared to a net loss of 155,000 customers by the telcos. AT&T lost 34,000 residential broadband subscribers in the second quarter while Verizon added 28,000 subscribers.
"We estimate wireline broadband penetration increased slightly to 78.5% of occupied households," said Ian Olgeirson, research director at Kagan in a statement. "Cable's residential gains did not match the levels from the previous or year-ago quarters, but net adds in the trailing 12 months are still higher at 2.8 million when compared to the same period in 2018.
"Telco broadband slumped in the second quarter, returning to a pattern of six-figure losses after holding steady in the first quarter. Growth in telco fiber-to-the-home connections was not sufficient to overcome losses to legacy copper and fiber-to-the-node DSL connections."
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Rembrandt and the Jews features a collection of 22 etchings by the Dutch master that explore the relationship between the artist and the Jewish residents of his Amsterdam neighborhood. As a companion to the exhibition, additional prints by Rembrandt and the work of his peers and predecessors Anthony van Dyck, Albrecht Dürer and other artists will be on view, drawn from the collections of the Figge, the University of Iowa, Augustana College, and Pella Historical Society and Museums.
During the 17th century, The Dutch Republic, also known as the Netherlands, was an economic, scientific and artistic powerhouse that dominated international trade. Amsterdam, its financial and cultural capital, was a center of learning and a haven during a period of religious persecution across Europe. Refugees flocked to the city, including Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal who were forced to deny their religion in their home countries, but were free to reclaim these traditions in the Netherlands. Rembrandt lived in Amsterdam’s prosperous Jewish neighborhood, where he found patrons and models for his work. In his interpretation of Protestant Old Testament narratives, Rembrandt consulted Jewish theologians for a varied perspective of these familiar subjects. He also painted and etched portraits of prominent Jews in the city.
In addition, the exhibition will explore Rembrandt’s printmaking process, and the technical and formal innovations that he brought to the traditional medium of etching.
On view October 8, 2016-January 15, 2017
Rembrandt and the Jews was organized by the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.
Exhibition Sponsors:
Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities • Jeff and Lynda Eirinberg • Dr. Ralph Saintfort of Medical Psychiatry Services, LLC
5:30 pm Opening Reception: Rembrandt and the Jews
7 pm Gallery Talk
Figge Executive Director Tim Schiffer and Judy Larson, R. Anthony Askew Professor of Art History and director of Westmont Museum of Art will celebrate the exhibition’s opening with an introduction and informal gallery tour.
7 pm Curator Talk: Lisa DeBoer, PhD
“Rembrandt’s Jews in Context”
Why was Rembrandt interested in portraying so many Jewish themes and subjects? And why should we care? Answers to these questions have varied widely over the course of the last century. Lisa DeBoer, Ph.D., will explore the ways in which art historians have responded to Rembrandt’s Jews, emphasizing both the historical context of 17th-century Amsterdam, as well as the historiographical context of the practice of art history, in order to consider what these images might have to say to us today
Dr. Lisa DeBoer is a professor of the History of Art at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.
7 pm Gallery Talk: Katie Kiley
Artist and printmaker Katie Kiley will share her research on Rembrandt and experience with printmaking techniques as she leads audience members on a gallery tour of the exhibition.
6 pm Friends of the Figge Event: Print Demonstration
Join artist and printmaker Katie Kiley in Studio 4 for an intaglio print demonstration. Those who wish to participate should wear painting togs. All Friends level members and above are invited to attend. To become a Friends level member ($125 or above) or to RSVP, contact Sara Morby at 563.345.6642 or smorby@figgeartmuseum.org.
Exhibition Tours
October 15th & 16th, November 12th & 13th
Rembrandt van Rijn, Abraham's Sacrifice, 1645, etching and drypoint on laid paper, Gift of Fran and Howard Berger, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art
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San Bernardino Mountain Waters, Feb. 8 Report
FishRap Staff February 8, 2018
SILVERWOOD: The striper bite has been fair to good with a decent number of fish showing off the docks, in Cleghorn, and out near the dam. Most are under three pounds and being caught on nightcrawlers or anchovies, but some are bigger. In fact, a 36-pounder was landed and released on a swimbait by Cameron Payan, Victorville, in Cleghorn. Nathan Raner, Apple Valley, landed a three-pound striper off the dock on an anchovy, while Mark Crase, Barstow, had eight stripers to 1-8 on nightcrawlers off the dock. Slow action on other species with only a few largemouth bass and catfish reported. The DFW has planted brown trout twice in late December and early January, but no plants since. The browns have been tough to catch with a few showing in the Cleghorn area, mostly on inflated nightcrawlers or small lures. A few rainbow trout continue to show on PowerBait and inflated nightcrawlers. No largemouth bluegill or crappie reported. Anglers should be aware of health advisories for the consumption of fish from this lake because of high PCB and mercury levels in the fish flesh and skin. Here’s the direct link to a PDF brochure explaining consumption recommendations. Dock fishing is allowed for $3 for adults, $2 for kids and seniors. Private boats must be inspected for zebra and quagga mussels. Boats with wet lower units will be turned away. Boats inspected and tagged at Diamond Valley and Perris will be allowed at Silverwood. The park is open seven days a week. Information: marina 760-389-2299, state park 760-389-2281, Silverwood Country store 760-389-2423.
BIG BEAR LAKE: The trout bite has remained pretty fair with some nice quality holdover rainbows up to five-plus pounds in the catch. The top areas are along the north shore from Windy Point to the dam, and from Lagonita Point to Fisher Road on the south shoreline. There has also been very consistent action at Juniper Point. The best bite has been on PowerBait in garlic, corn, and salmon egg flavors fished on the bottom with on 12- to 24-inch leader on a slip-sinker rig and light line. The water clarity is excellent, so the light line helps. No reports of other species. For updated fishing information: Big Bear Sporting Goods at 909-866-3222 or visit the store’s Facebook page.
GREGORY LAKE: The lake was planted with 2,000 pounds of rainbows Jan. 26. No reports. Lake, derby, and fishing information at 909-338-2233 or on the website at lakegregoryrecreation.com/fish. Fishing updates are posted infrequently on the park’s Facebook page.
GREEN VALLEY LAKE: The boat rentals and the restrooms are closed. Last trout plant was Oct. 11. No reports on news on opening day yet. The website is www.gvlfishing.com and the Facebook page is Green Valley Lake Fishing.
JENKS LAKE REGION: Jenks Lake has not been planted in over a month, and the parking lot is now closed. The Santa Ana River and the South Fork of the Santa Ana also have not been planted recently. For information, call the Mill Creek Visitor Center Tuesday through Monday (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) at 909-382-2882 or the San Bernardino National Forest main office line at 909-382-2600.
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The Tower Bar
A celebrity hot spot on the iconic Sunset Strip
At The Tower Bar, inside the 14-story Sunset Tower Hotel on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, a star-studded scene isn’t just an awards season occurrence. As popular now as it was when the art deco building opened its doors in 1931, the venue continues to be one of L.A.’s premier gathering spots for industry movers and shakers.
No surprise it’s a favorite among the entertainment elite: with dark rose-colored lighting, crisp white tablecloths, wood paneling decorated in retro celebrity photos and live jazz music floating through the air, The Tower Bar instantly transports you to the golden era of cinema. It’s easy to imagine Ava Gardner or Grace Kelly gliding through the intimate 80-seat dining room on their way to say hello to Frank Sinatra or Clark Gable.
Pair the carefully crafted vibe — interiors by renowned decorator Paul Fortune — with maitre d' Dimitri Dimitrov, almost as famous for his strategic seating as the patrons are for their movies, and a menu graced with elegant executions of intercontinental favorites, and it’s a bankable Tinseltown success.
The waitstaff — dressed in suits and ties — delivers friendly, yet impeccable service.
Much of the menu is a delightful tribute to 1950s supper clubs. Americana-nostalgia-on-a-plate dishes include: turkey chili, chicken pot pie, pigs in a blanket and the ever-popular design-your-own sundae.
If you enjoy being part of the action, dining at The Tower Bar is titillating. There’s a constant flow of dazzling people-watching to enjoy, discreetly, of course.
In the City of Angels, it’s challenging to find an upscale restaurant with live music nightly. But The Tower Bar offers a talented jazz pianist and bass duo.
The weekend brunch on The Tower’s Bar’s terrace is not to be missed. A short but sweet selection of favorites grace the menu while seating under the poolside cabanas helps you relax into a leisurely afternoon.
Make sure to reserve a table at least a week in advance, especially if you’d like to dine during peak hours.
The “see and be seen” table with incredible sweeping city views is in front of the fireplace. It seats a group of four or more.
Crudités and dill dip are served complimentary at the beginning of your meal. But the West Hollywood restaurant does offer a beautiful basket of crusty bread and grissini by request.
Because privacy is part of the allure at Sunset Tower’s signature restaurant, no photos or phone calls are allowed. If you try to snap a picture, a member of the waitstaff will respectfully ask you to delete the photos.
As part of the hotel’s recent renovation, the terrace lounge houses a chic new poolside dining area and an indoor 10-seat bar. There’s no need to stand at the bar inside the Hollywood restaurant while you wait for your table anymore.
The menu is an eclectic mix of classics. For an old-school favorite, try the fried chicken and iceberg wedge salad. For more modern dishes, sample the sliders, roasted Brussels sprouts or lobster tacos.
Dishes highlight in-season local ingredients and are executed flawlessly, both in taste and presentation.
Whether you’re in the mood for an impressive seafood tower and caviar service or just a tomato and mozzarella pizza and the classic Tower burger, the varied menu allows you to be as formal (or casual) as you choose without sacrificing flavor.
The Drinks
The cocktail menu features mostly refreshing drinks made with top-shelf spirits. The offerings range from classics like the Moscow mule to original creations, such as the vodka- and gin-based Dimitri — a tribute to The Tower’s celebrity maitre d’ Dimitri Dimitrov.
Especially in the summertime around the pool, the most-requested drink is the Tower Smash, a refreshing sip made of tequila, basil, lemon and fresh ginger.
A tribute to French, Italian and California vintners, the wine menu offers a healthy selection of pours by the glass and bottles.
Most bottles are moderately priced, with a sprinkle of impressive premium selections, such as the 2009 Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne for those extra-special celebrations.
Vegetarian options
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Celebrating Maker Culture at Museum London
On Thursday, March 20th, Museum London teamed up with DHMakerBus for The MAKE London Wearable Technology and Made Clothing Fashion Show. The purpose of the show was to "showcase fashions that are created from unconventional or upcycled materials, and those that involve technology and wearable computing." The show included booths with items for sale, a bar, DJ and three craft-making stations where participants could get creative with items such as coffee cup lids and Fringe Festival t-shirts.
The first person I saw when I arrived at the event was Linda, who I run into at many arts and culture events and she is always wearing something wonderful. This particular night she was wearing a quilted circle skirt she had purchased in Kensington Market, accessorized by a very cool "clock purse". I didn't get a chance to ask her where she found the purse.
The man on the left is Ryan Consell, who made the masks at his booth, some of which were in the fashion show. You can see more of his work on his Etsy shop .
Two of the masks created by Ryan Consell that appeared the fashion show
Kimberley Martin and Beth Compton, co-founders of the MakerBus, make jewellery from found materials, including LEGO pieces. I love the cufflinks, but as I don't have the appropriate shirts to wear them with, I purchased a necklace made from LEGO pieces.
Kim looked adorable in the balloon dress she made for the event
Usually at events like this, the majority of the guests opt for wearing black, but I was happy to see there were some bright splashes of colour amongst the guests.
The woman in the photo above was wearing one of the coolest accessories of the night. Her boyfriend purchased the "dragon-scale" fingerless glove from a seller on Etsy for her. I didn't know people were making such things, but you can find them in elbow length, and many different colours.
Toronto artist Paula John's Celluloid Dress was one of the most interesting displays at the event. The dress combines the two technologies that John uses in her art practice - sewing and film making. The dress, which is in the style of a 1950's cocktail dress, is made of approximately 250 feet of 16mm celluloid film and nylon mesh. Battery pack operated LEDS are sewn into the dress's underskirt to light up sections of film. In the display, John's film, "Becoming Marilyn" (of which the dress is constructed) follows a large loop through the projector, across the ceiling to feed down into the sewing machine, and then back across to the projector. The film, which depicts the artist making herself up to look like Marilyn Monroe, is projected onto a white wall positioned behind the sewing machine.
Agnes Niewiadomski makes custom order cakes, costumes that she wears to Anime North in Toronto, and makes props, costumes and designs sets for her local community theatre in Ancaster. Little wonder her website is titled agnesmakes. For the MakerBus event she brought her Cupcake Head costume. She also made the cracked eggs headpiece worn by another model in the show (lower right photo).
One of the actresses from Evil Dead: The Musical, which will be presented at the McManus Theatre from April 1 - 12th, participated in the Fashion show wearing a costume piece from the show. There was a table at the event with some of the other props from the show on display.
One of the most elaborate costumes was created and worn by Laura Briscoe, a teacher at Oakridge Secondary School. Her submission was titled "Miss Communication". I spoke with her after the show and asked how long it took to put together the costume. "It took hours and hours. The hardest part was prying the keys off the keyboards and then fusing them together with a blowtorch".
One of Laura Briscoe's students at Oakridge, Jamie Smith (far left in left hand photo above) submitted two outfits for the show, which were worn by fellow students. On the right is a detail shot of the train on the student in the center, which is made of flower shapes cut from magazine pages.
Randi Aiken created, and modelled, the walking chair, which was constructed so that when she sat down on a piece of the wood frame in the back, the upholstered pieces came together to form a completed chair.
LED sculptures created by Kitchener LED tech installation artist Bernie Rohde and K La Luna, modelled by La Luna (left) and friend.
Another artist using LED lights as a medium was Leslie Birch from Philadelphia. Her Bladerunner-inspired FLORAbrella uses 144 LED lights and a colour sensor which enables the umbrella to create light patterns to match the user's clothing. In the photo above left, Birch walks with the model carrying her FLORAbrella in the fashion show, and in the lower right photo, is illuminated by her creation.
Another creative use of LED lighting was demonstrated by Paul Graham, whose kilt was lit from below with LED lighting. He offered to create customized LED lighting I could attach to the crinoline I was wearing, and I was tempted to take him up on his offer; it would give a new meaning to the the word "flashing".
After the fashion show I wandered over to the "Maker" area where tables were set up and people were letting their inner crafter loose. Alison, who works with the London Fringe Festival, modelled one of the bags that were being made from recycled Fringe Festival T-shirts.
It was an excellent night out - was able to see interesting things that people made, talk to some of the people who made them (and discovered that Leslie Birch and I share a love of the 1980's clothing shapes and colours), and was home by 10 pm. That's my idea of good time!
Posted by Forest City Fashionista at 6:22 PM
Labels: FLORAbrella, London MakerBus, Maker Culture, Museum London Third Thursday, Paula John Celluloid dress, wearable LED lighting, Wearable Technology and Made Clothing Fashion show
PinkCheetahVintage March 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM
I would love that lighted umbrella! The dragon scale hand is cool.
pastcaring March 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM
Now that really looks like fun! Oh I do wish you'd get some lights fitted under your petticoat for flashing purposes, Shelley, wouldn't that be wonderful? (He looks a rather interesting chap, I think you need to pursue his offer...!)
The dragon scales glove, the amazing masks, the Marilyn dress, all brilliant. The cupcake and egg hats remind me of the sort of pieces Gertrude Shilling used to wear to Ascot. (I know, I know, a very British reference, but she used to wear her milliner son's amazing creations to the races in the 60s and 70s.)
Glad you had a good night out! xxx
his_girl_friday March 23, 2014 at 7:36 PM
What a strange group of fabulously dressed people! Love the clock purse especially.
Bees Knees March 23, 2014 at 8:10 PM
Wow, our little London.
Penny-Rose March 23, 2014 at 9:01 PM
love the creativity! The LED under the kilt made me snigger :-)
Val S March 24, 2014 at 12:24 AM
Lego, and film, and cupcakes, and floor lighting supplied by whatever's under a man's kilt!!!! Wow, there are some uber creative people in London! I loved all these amazing things you showed us. The outfit of the circle skirt and clock purse is fabulous, and when can I buy an umbrella with LED lights? That would make the rain so much more fun!
Kelly Jackson March 24, 2014 at 4:40 AM
Very cool indeed - what creativity. I want that umbrella!
Bobbi March 24, 2014 at 6:40 AM
What a great event! All of that creativity and awesomenss in one room! I wish we had something like that around here.
señora Allnut March 24, 2014 at 7:26 AM
it really seems you had a great time, enjoying so much creativity and funny people, lovely and inspiring pieces and such amazing ideas!, attach some leds to a crinoline!!, that's my kind of Fashion!!
besos & flashing!
Vix March 24, 2014 at 10:20 AM
I'd love to get inside some of those exhibitor's heads, their imagination and vision is utterly brilliant! I'd love to have been there. xxx
Suzanne Carillo Style Files March 24, 2014 at 11:22 AM
What fun! That "film" dress is incredible.
London looks like it has a very strong Arts community.
Sheila March 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM
That looks like so much fun! I love those kind of exhibitions!
Paul Graham March 24, 2014 at 8:08 PM
Thank you all, It was an absolute riot doing this show.
FYI, http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p3984.m570.l2632.R2.TR4.TRC2.A0.H1.XLED+Umbrella&_nkw=led+umbrella&_sacat=155184&_from=R40 is one source, and we can make umbrellas like that pretty easily. (Or whatever your wearable tech needs like that would be.
and, if you want, I can show you how to do scale maile (or chain maile), but it's just too much work for me to want to do it for somone I wasn't deeply in love with... ;)
And Ryan Consell also made the lovely sporan. (And the sporan is the reason I portrayed such a dark character...)
Helga! March 24, 2014 at 9:49 PM
SO much amazingness here!!! I think I would be cross eyed with joy and inspiration and admiration at such an event! Loving that circle skirt and clock purse, sooo cute, and the film frock is divoon. It all reminds me of The World of Wearable Arts, which is an annual event here in NZ that has gotten quite massive over the years. Read about it here: http://worldofwearableart.com/
Such incredible creativity and imagination!
And yes, supporting local artists, be it clothing, accessories, art, is really important, and is something I don't mind spending a little extra money on! XXX
The Style Crone March 24, 2014 at 11:25 PM
What an event! The creativity leaps from the screen. Love the fingerless glove art and Miss Communication. London looks to be a 'happening' city!
Krista Gassib March 25, 2014 at 11:43 PM
Shelley you go to the coolest events and then you actually appreciate the beauty in everything and everyone and share. I could just kiss you! I'm loving the balloon dress because it's weird and colorful and I wanna touch it. I wonder if portland has something similar.
Xxxoooo
Frenie Agbayani April 1, 2014 at 3:25 AM
This is such an amazing look, black, brown and white Tunics and leggings original and different!
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Paddock Postcard from Russia
As President Vladimir Putin was expected to attend his nation’s Grand Prix again on race day after Formula One’s hugely successful debut in Russia last year, the Sochi Autodrom paddock bristled with activity. Famous faces included former racers Jean Alesi, driver steward Derek Daly, Bertrand Gachot and Vitaly Petrov.
Friday evening saw a plethora of drivers and team bosses gather to celebrate Fernando Alonso’s 250th Grand Prix weekend. “Thanks guys to share so many good moments in racing,” said the two-time world champion. “It's an honour being part of this big family.”
Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren celebrates 250 Grands Prix with Eric Boullier (FRA) McLaren Racing Director, Jenson Button (GBR) McLaren and the team at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Russian Grand Prix, Practice, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, Friday 9 October 2015. © Sutton Motorsport Images
Fans at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Russian Grand Prix, Practice, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, Friday 9 October 2015. © Sutton Motorsport Images
(L to R): Second placed Pierre Gasly (FRA) DAMS, race winner Alexander Rossi (USA) Racing Engineering and third placed Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) ART Grand Prix celebrate on the podium with the trophies at GP2 Series, Rd9, Sochi Autodrom, Russia, 9-11 October 2015. © Sutton Motorsport Images
Carlos Sainz’s nasty accident on Saturday morning was naturally a major talking point and there was huge relief when it was learned that he was unharmed and pushing to race. The damage to the Tecpro barriers in Turn 13 meant that Saturday’s GP3 feature race, for which ART’s Esteban Ocon had qualified on pole, had to be cancelled in order to maintain the schedule. That grid will now form for Sunday’s sprint race.
Britain’s Alex Lynn started Saturday afternoon’s GP2 race on pole for DAMS, and appeared to have it in the bag after making a brilliant start, then handling a restart well after big accidents in the first-corner traffic accounted for Russian Time’s Artem Markelov, Status’s Marlon Stockinger, Lazarus’ Sergio Canamasas and Racing Engineering’s Justin King. None of them was hurt, but barrier repairs meant the race had to red flagged then restarted behind the safety car that had already been deployed.
Lynn sped away in the now-15 lap event, made an early pit stop to switch from soft to medium rubber on lap six, then went round challenger Alex Rossi as the American came back from his stop on the eighth lap. But then the Williams protege got it all wrong in Turn 13 on lap 11 and clobbered the wall on the exit, retiring metres later with suspension damage.
That left Rossi fending off Lynn’s team mate Pierre Gasly as they chased leader Stoffel Vandoorne. When ART’s driver finally made his stop on lap 12, Rossi and Gasly swept by as the Belgian was coming down the pit exit. A mistake by Gasly gave Rossi some breathing room and the Marussia F1 driver duly swept home to win again for Racing Engineering by 3.1s and keep his title hopes alive, with Gasly 1.1 ahead of Vandoorne. Local hero Sergey Sirotkin brought his Rapax car home fourth ahead of Campos’s battling Rio Haryanto and Trident’s Raffaele Marciello, with Status’s Richie Stanaway seventh from Campos’s Arthur Pic, Carlin debutant Dean Stoneman who drove strongly from 18th on the grid, and Russian Time’s Mitch Evans. Pic and Stanaway thus start Sunday’s sprint race from the front row, in which Vandoorne could still clinch the title.
Natalie Imbruglia (AUS) in concert at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Russian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, Saturday 10 October 2015. © Sutton Motorsport Images
Dmitry Kozak (RUS) Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Formula One group CEO Bernie Ecclestone (GBR) in the Safety Car at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Russian Grand Prix, Practice, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, Friday 9 October 2015. © Sutton Motorsport Images
Dmitry Kozak (RUS) Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Bernie Ecclestone (GBR) CEO Formula One Group (FOM) at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Russian Grand Prix, Practice, Sochi Autodrom, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, Friday 9 October 2015. © Sutton Motorsport Images
The other on-track activity on included none other than Formula One group CEO Bernie Ecclestone on Friday, when he was driven for a lap of the circuit in a Mercedes course car by Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who had been instrumental in the creation of the Sochi Olympic Park.
And on the musical front, the headline act for the Grand Prix weekend concerts was none other than Australian multi-million selling songstress, Natalie Imbruglia.
Watch: Fernando Alonso celebrates 250 Grands Prix in Sochi
In pictures - the best of Russia
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Death, Breasts, and Drinking at The Armory Show
Today is the last day to catch The Armory Show, an annual art extravaganza now in its 13th installment at Piers 92 and 94, featuring nearly 300 galleries from around the world. I spent two days and eight hours walking through the overwhelmingly bright fair — LED sculpture is big this year — scouring the dizzying aisles to find common themes that define this year in art. What I came up with among the hundreds of pieces housed in these two sprawling piers was my own low-brow summation of a collective thread: death, breasts, and drinking. These three subjects have served as inspiration for artwork throughout the centuries, and for another year in a row, prove to be favorites among contemporary and modern artists. After the jump, check out the show’s best works about booze, boobs, and burial.
1. Death The skull has been one of the most oft-utilized icons in art history, and true to its legacy, it popped up at the Armory in many different incarnations.
Gregory Forstner, The Date 2, 2010. Oil on canvas, Courtesy of Galerie Zink Berlin
Mona Hatoum, Natura Morta
Ian Tweedy, Arrangements of Forgotten Stories #84, 2011. Oil on old book cover, Courtesy of MONITOR, Roma
2. Breasts While the female figure has also been prevalent throughout art history, breasts made a particularly substantial showing at this year’s fair.
Marina Abramović, Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, 1975 at Lisson Gallery
Marjorie Strider, Green Triptych, 1963. Acrylic paint, laminated pine on Masonite panels, Courtesy of Hollis Taggart Galleries
Mel Ramos, Five Flavor Frieda
3. Drinking
Some artists are as famous for their relationship with alcohol as they are for their art. Therefore, it’s no surprise that booze imagery shows up so frequently and in so many mediums. Some of the most clever examples of this at the Armory were by Brooklyn-based David Kramer, whose suite of witty drawings can be found on the front wall of Galerie Laurent Godin.
David Kramer, Nothing Lasts Forever, 2011. Ink on Paper, Courtesy Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
David Kramer, Making The Rounds, 2011. Ink and pencil on Paper, Courtesy Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
Li Lihong, Absolut China at Hollis Taggart Galleries
Lori Nix, Bar, 2009. Courtesy of Catherine Edelman
Nicole Eisenman, Half King, 2011. Oil and ink on paper, Courtesy of Leo Koenig Inc.
David Austen, Love, Cigarettes & Beer, 2008. Photo-polymer etching at Ingleby Gallery
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Spices by Lior Lev Sercarz
Many of America's best chefs get their spices from one source: Lior Lev Sercarz of La Boîte à Epice. Writer Susan Choi asks him to create a custom blend just for her in a quest to understand where alchemy and craft intersect.
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Lior Lev Sercarz won’t let anyone into his basement.
Well, that’s not entirely true—the 39-year-old chef-turned-spice-blender did admit the city health inspector into the workspace located below his Manhattan store. The inspector walked in and then out again, shaking his head in disbelief. "It was one of the cleanest places he’d ever seen," Sercarz recalls. "I know [Chicago chef] Paul Kahan thinks I’m hiding something down there. It’s really just four grinders, my spices, a cutting board and a knife. But it’s a quiet, thoughtful place. So it’s something I keep for myself. The rest I share with the world."
What Sercarz shares with the world are spice blends—mixtures with lyrical names: Cancale, Isphahan, Apollonia—that he sells to many of the country’s best chefs. "Half my cooking is about sourcing great spices and making great blends, and Lior is just better at it," says Cambridge, Massachusetts’s Ana Sortun, an authority herself, who wrote a cookbook on the subject called Spice. Daniel Boulud, during the years Sercarz worked for him as a chef at New York City’s Daniel, built a spice shelf in his honor and had him author a spice guide for the staff. Eric Ripert simply got rid of every spice Le Bernardin had been using and started fresh with only spices from Sercarz, who remains the Manhattan restaurant’s sole supplier.
The things people were saying about Sercarz’s work seemed slightly incredible, especially considering the people saying them. Could there really be something so much better—so much more evocative, intriguing and just plain delicious—about Sercarz’s creations? As a very so-so home chef for whom the bland phrase "spice blend" evokes a barbecue shortcut of tasteless orange dust, it seemed far-fetched that one of Sercarz’s spice blends could transform my cooking, but I was going to find out. After years of creating spice mixtures for chefs and friends, this year, Sercarz started doing custom blends for private clients. Chef Ignacio Mattos, of Brooklyn, New York’s Isa, promised me, "His spices will elevate whatever you do. It opens up another door." © Thomas Schauer Studio
Pore over the current catalog of Sercarz’s collection of ready-to-buy spice mixtures, and you’ll find a poetry of triads. "Ancho, annatto, mace." "Turmeric, fenugreek, clove." "Sichuan pepper, lime, orchid root." The vast majority of the 40 currently available list three elements. Yet, as Sercarz explained to me, his blends contain anywhere from nine to 23 different ingredients—13 is average. Those triads denote the basic architecture but there’s always a great deal more.
Sercarz’s background also has its principal elements: He was born and raised in Israel, by parents who imparted to their children a Belgian-German-Transylvanian-Tunisian heritage. He trained as a chef in France, where he apprenticed with three-Michelin-starred chef Olivier Roellinger, famed for his deep knowledge of spices, who became a singular mentor and friend. In 2002, Sercarz migrated to New York to cook for Daniel Boulud, but left in 2006 to devote himself to spices. The same year he launched La Boîte á Epice, for spices and blends, and La Boîte á Biscuits, for sweet-savory biscuits incorporating his exotic finds.
In developing a blend, Sercarz does 50 percent of the work before he even touches a spice, first sitting with pen and paper to sketch out what he hopes to achieve in terms of flavor, color, smell and texture. Once he has ground and blended a trial version, Sercarz employs not his taste buds, or the stove, but his eyes. "It’s easy to judge visually," he says, "just like if you overcook a piece of meat you can tell by looking—you don’t need to taste." Only after this period of visual adjustment does Sercarz taste—and he tastes dry. Finally, he’ll put the blend to the test, most often by offering it to a client to cook with.
Inspirations for the blends are as various as the ingredients themselves. Sometimes a chef wants a translation, like the time Michael Solomonov, of Philadelphia’s Zahav, asked him to create a dry spice mimicking the flavor of an Israeli pickle. Sometimes he’s asked to do a cover version of a classic, as when Eric Ripert, looking for a new take on the quatre épices ("four spices," a French mix of pepper, cloves, nutmeg and ginger), asked him for one that toned down the sweetness, and substituted a hint of anise. "It doesn’t literally have four spices," Sercarz says of his version, "but Le Bernardin got what it wanted." © Micaela Walker
Other times, he hopes to achieve something less tangible—evocation of a person or place. Apollonia Poilâne, of the legendary French baking empire, met Sercarz through Roellinger, a mutual friend, and soon after received a surprise in the mail. "I was very impressed, because he nailed a few scents I adore," she recalls. "Especially since I don’t remember mentioning to him that I love chocolate." The mixture (cocoa, orange blossom, pepper) carries her name. PL (mustard and fennel seed and zuta, a wild mint from Israel) was made and named for Sercarz’s friend Paul Liebrandt, the chef at New York City’s Corton. Ana (sumac, rose blossom, sesame) was created for Ana Sortun.
But these are Sercarz’s friends—not to mention world-renowned chefs whose styles and tastes are well known. I wondered how he would be able to conjure a flavor profile perfectly suited for me, a harried working mother whose culinary "style" is trying not to serve fish sticks more than once a week. Arriving to meet Sercarz at his very clean, white, beautiful storefront in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, I’m not sure what to expect. Will he ask me to fill out a questionnaire? Have me sniff a selection of spices?
Instead we simply talk, with such pleasure and ease, about so many topics—his family and mine, the spice trade, what I like to eat—that when we say good-bye I’m startled to realize I’ve been there for more than two hours. "Do you have enough to go on to make me a blend?" I wonder. He reassures me. Less than 72 hours later, FedEx brings a small box to my door. Within are six sample-size jars from his repertoire and one larger jar of something luminously gold, labeled "Indochine."
Speaking to Sercarz’s many chef friends and clients, a fascinating pattern emerged: Not a single one of them knew exactly what was in the packages that he sent them. Now I found myself in the same position. I’d told Sercarz he could not use sesame, as one of my sons has an allergy to it. Other than that, I was completely in the dark—a strangely bright and liberating place to be. Over the next several days, I used the blend with striped bass, lamb and tofu; with eggplant, cauliflower, potatoes and Lebanese flatbread; with eggs, okra and chickpeas. My seven-year-old, a willing but not wildly adventurous eater, devoured my Indochine striped bass and left his own, unspiced portion untouched. My almost-four-year-old complained, "Mommy, stop saying that word, Indochine!" I went through half the sizable jar and cooked nothing that didn’t taste good.
I knew that Sercarz’s other private clients had done "revisions" of their blends, so I tried to think of how I’d revise Indochine. I didn’t want to seem easy. But the more I cooked with it, the more I liked it and craved it, though I still had no idea what it was. It was so complex and satisfying—so me—that I was starting to feel too protective to change it. "How did you do this?" I demanded of Sercarz when we next spoke. I couldn’t even guess which parts of our lengthy, shapeless, thoroughly fun conversation had formed the basis of my blend—I was beginning to share Paul Kahan’s point of view, that there was some sort of alchemy occurring in that basement. © Thomas Schauer Studio
"We talked about how you craved Asian—but you live in Brooklyn," Sercarz explained. "The blend ties those together. And you mentioned going crazy for the taste of asafetida," he went on, reminding me that I’d told him about a Bengali friend’s mother’s addictive spinach dish—which contained only spinach, sugar and asafetida, an esoteric Indian flavoring. "It was funny, " he said, " because I’d wanted to showcase asafetida for a while, but I knew it couldn’t be the major key. " He kept pulling out bits of our conversation that I barely remembered, like the Indonesian long pepper I’d noticed on his desk. "Those elements were warm and exotic, with not too much heat. I knew I wanted to do a coarse texture, so it would come into play as a thing you chew on. So those were the three keys—asafetida, long pepper and coarseness—and from there I started adding."
The golden concoction did turn out to contain turmeric, which I’d easily guessed from the color. It did not contain ginger, which I could have sworn to. And there was plenty I’d never even heard of, like black cardamom, Aleppo pepper and amchoor, a powder made from dried unripe mangoes. But what delighted me as much as Sercarz’s alchemy was his vision of what role the spice blend might play in my life. "I wanted you to be able to travel all over without leaving your apartment in Brooklyn," he said. "If you can take your kids one day to Malaysia, one day to Thailand, one day to Aleppo—if you can evoke curiosity in them through the food that they’re eating, it’s great. If your kids will eat Indochine...I think I might retire!"
I doubted I had to worry about Sercarz’s untimely retirement. He often says cooking is a form of love, quoting his mentor, Roellinger. If so, Sercarz’s custom blends are his form of loving attention—not just to a client’s culinary tastes, but to her cravings and curiosity; her past, present and future; her off-the-cuff associations; her mundane routines and dreams. In the course of our meetings, he had mentioned a brand-new idea: cookie therapy. "People will come for an hour, and we’ll eat cookies and talk about whatever they want." I asked how he’d come up with such a perfect idea. He explained that this was already how, with great pleasure, he spent much of his time at his store. Why not make it official?
As soon as he does, sign me up.
Susan Choi is a writer and novelist in Brooklyn, NY. Her most recent book is A Person of Interest.
Top Spices from La Boite a Epice’s Spice Rack
N.7 Pierre Poivre Named for an 18th-century French horticulturist and spice trader, this floral blend of eight types of peppercorns is good on steak or a log of chèvre. $15 for 2.25 oz.
N.11 Cancale The fennel seed, dried orange peel and fleur de sel in this delicate mix are delicious on baked fish. They’re even better, though, sprinkled on dark chocolate. $15 for 2.75 oz.
N.34 Orchidea The fragrance of this sandy mixture comes in part from orchid root and Sichuan peppercorn. It’s amazing in place of cinnamon sugar on snickerdoodles. $21 for 3 oz.
N.35 Ararat Smoked paprika, fenugreek and urfa biber (an earthy dried Turkish red pepper) can add intense wood-fire flavor to chicken legs and pork ribs. $15 for 2 oz.
N.38 Shabazi Inspired by a Yemeni chile paste, this fiery mix blends green chiles, cilantro and garlic. Try it warmed in olive oil and spooned on roasted potatoes. $15 for 2.5 oz.
N.39 Reims This blend of star anise, crystallized honey, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger can bring an exotic edge to hot cocoa or rice pudding. $15 for 2.5 oz. All available at laboiteny.com.
Recipes to Showcase Spices & More:
How to Cook with Spices Essential Spices for the Minimalist Cook Terrific Spicy Recipes
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DULUTH, Minn.- Looking to get a tattoo touched up, or even get one before the winter season begins? A new shop has opened up in Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park’s revitalization is continuing to grow as a new tattoo shop has opened their doors. Stronghold Tattoo Studio is just another business added to the new look Lincoln Park that has people…
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Body found wrapped in plastic in abandoned U-Haul identified as 29-year-old woman from Anaheim
By Mary Stringini
Published January 10
FULLERTON, Calif. - Authorities Friday identified a body that was discovered wrapped in plastic and cardboard inside a U-Haul truck at a storage facility in Fullerton as a 29-year-old woman from Anaheim.
The body of Ashley Manning was found Wednesday in a U-Haul truck that was reportedly abandoned at a storage facility on E. Orangethorpe Avenue.
Anaheim Police said that the truck was rented in Anaheim but never returned.
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Employees of the U-Haul Moving and Storage Facility discovered the body after they brought the truck to their facility in Fullerton for inventory.
According to a Facebook post by Manning's sister, the 29-year-old flew from Dallas to Los Angeles International Airport Nov. 13, but was never seen again.
“We have confirmation that she made it to LAX and are working with police to pull video footage to see what car she got into (and) run license plates,” Taylor Manning wrote.
Prior to her disappearance, Manning had been staying in the Anaheim area with friends, Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer said.
Details surround Manning's death were not immediately available.
The cause of her death is pending based on toxicology reports.
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Dogs can count, especially when it comes to treats: study
FOX BUSINESS - Dogs may be deeper thinkers than originally thought, with a new study revealing that man’s best friend is capable of counting.
A new study conducted by Emory University and published in Biology Letters revealed that dogs may not have the ability to count numbers in the same way humans do, but canines do have the mental capacity to recognize varying quantities when different amounts of food are put into their bowls, according to the report.
Animals are known to use what’s called the “appropriate number system,” but earlier studies used trained animals in determining their capability in understanding numbers. This called into doubt whether or not animals' numeric abilities were innate -- found in domesticated and undomesticated animals -- or whether those abilities are trained and found in domesticated animals only.
“Our work not only shows that dogs use a similar part of their brain to process numbers of objects as humans do — it shows that they don’t need to be trained to do it,” Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University, said in a press release.
The new, most recent study indicates that a collective and untrained brain function has been passed along through various species throughout animal evolution, especially when it comes to quantities and numbers.
Berns, who participated in overseeing the new study, recruited and examined 11 different breeds of dogs to determine whether one breed’s brain was more perceptive to numbers than others.
Each dog among the 11 different breeds entered a magnetic resonance imaging center scanner, where they were kept motionless. With their heads placed on a block, the dogs were forced to focus on an array of light gray dots illuminated across a black background, with the number dots changing every 300 milliseconds.
Researchers observed the dogs' brain activity as the number of dots changed in a region called the parietotemporal cortex in animals and the parietal cortex in humans.
Eight of the 11 dogs passed the scanning test while demonstrating a nearly identical behavior pattern to humans. Berns attributed the three other dogs' breeds as the reason behind their inability to pass the test.
“Our work not only shows that dogs use a similar part of their brain to process numbers of objects as humans do — it shows that they don’t need to be trained to do it," Berns noted.
Lauren Aulet, a psychologist at Emory who also participated in the study, said understanding how dogs can detect changes in quantity could be a significant breakthrough. It is hoped the research will, down the road, offer scientists deeper insight into things like how to treat brain abnormalities.
“We went right to the source, observing the dogs’ brains, to get a direct understanding of what their neurons were doing when the dogs viewed varying quantities of dots," Aulet said. "That allowed us to bypass the weaknesses of previous behavioral studies of dogs and some other species.”
“Part of the reason that we (humans) are able to do calculus and algebra is because we have this fundamental ability for numerosity that we share with other animals,” Aulet added. “I’m interested in learning how we evolved that higher math ability and how these skills develop over time in individuals, starting with basic numerosity in infancy.”
Michael Beran, a psychologist at Georgia State University, told Science the study offers us unique insight into the numerical understanding of man's best friend.
“It further increases our confidence that (these representations of quantity in the brain) are ancient and widespread among species,” Beran said.
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Tom Sullivan, father of Aurora theater shooting victim, unseats GOP incumbent in state House race
Rod Lamkey
<p>Tom Sullivan, father of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the Aurora, Colorado movie theatre mass shooting in 2012, talks about his son during a gun control rally outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation's annual Congressional Fly-In fundraising dinner April 2, 2014, in Washington, DC. </p>
DENVER, Colorado — Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex died in a mass shooting inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012, unseated Republican incumbent Cole Wist to win the state House seat for District 37.
As of early Wednesday morning, Sullivan had 53 percent of the votes with 95 percent of results reported.
Sullivan, a veteran, is a proponent of gun control. He's visited the Colorado state Capitol more than 20 times to testify in favor of of various gun control measures.
Sullivan's son Alex was killed along with 11 others on his 27th birthday when a gunman opened fired in a movie theater during a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20, 2012.
The murder of his son has been a motivation in Sullivan's political career.
ALL OF THE TEARS RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE COUNTRY: Tom Sullivan, whose beloved son Alex was shot and killed in an Aurora movie theater, is now a Colorado state representative. Thank you fellow Coloradans. Thank you. #coleg #copolitics https://t.co/1De3bh4owH
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 7, 2018
In 2013, he worked with other families whose children had also been killed in shootings, such as Aurora, Newtown and Columbine. The efforts helped state Democrats push for tighter gun-control measures.
District 37 was previously considered a Republican stronghold and covers Aurora, Centennial and parts of Foxfield in Colorado.
Sullivan previously ran for state Senate in 2016 but lost to Republican Sen. Jack Tate.
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Spring allergy season hitting early, hard in South
By Beth Galvin
DECATUR, Ga. - The spring allergy season is hitting early in the South, and experts say it could be a long few months for sufferers.
Max Howard, a professional actor from Sandy Springs, Georgia, used to dread spring, before he started coming in every month for allergy shots.
WATCH: The tradeoff for mild weather is an early allergy season
"(It was) murder," Howard says. "I couldn't breathe. My nose was running, my sinuses were going crazy."
The trees would release their pollen into the air, and Howard's immune system would kick into overdrive, triggering painful swelling and inflammation in his sinuses and lungs.
"It's like having an ongoing explosion in your head, contained within your skull. It's enormous pressure. And it takes your energy, it just saps your energy," he says.
With the tree pollen season hitting at least two weeks early, Max's allergist, Dr. George Gottlieb, says your best bet is to prevent that inflammation before it sets in.
For most of us, Dr. Gottlieb says, an over-the-counter allergy medication will do the trick.
"And starting a little bit earlier is so much better than waiting," Dr. Gottlieb says. "Once a person is really congested, once they're having a lot of problems, it's harder to reverse the symptoms."
For a running nose and itchy eyes, try an antihistamine like Claritan, Zyrtec or Allegra. There are also generic versions of the drugs.
For nasal congestion, try a steroid nasal spray or nasal decongestant.
Gottlieb says it helps to use the medication before you head outdoors.
"So if someone is going to mow the law, you're going to have a much better effect taking the Allegra first, before they go out to mow the lawn," he says. "Once they're already congested from all the pollens stirred up by mowing, they're not going to have as good an effect."
If you're outside, shower and wash off the pollen when you get home.
Then, throw your clothes in the wash.
And, Gottlieb says, resist the urge to open up your windows and let the warmer air in.
"This time of year, everyone wants to open the windows," Gottlieb says. "But really it's better to keep them closed. You don't need any special filters, But, not bringing air in, for instance, with an attic fan, and keeping the windows closed, it really does make a difference."
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Air Scout thermal images show crops in a new light
How agronomists view the land they look after is changing at a rapid rate. Not only have yield maps from combines and soil analysis become staple tools, there’s now a growing trend to view land from above.
Within many fields the variation between areas can be stark, from changes in soil to the impact of shade, with these differences highlighted when extreme weather causes crops to survive outside their natural growing climate. But delving into the reasons why one area yielded 11t/ha at harvest and another only 6t/ha takes more than a few crop walks per year, and more data than is currently in your agronomist’s armoury.
Real-time crop performance data
Brian Sutton, the founder of US company Air Scout, had enough of speculating on the causes of yield fluctuations and wanted to get to the bottom of why it happened year on year. He’s not out to replace his agronomist – far from it. But rather than paying them to walk a small percentage of his farm, he wants to arm these professionals with real-time crop performance data, making them an even more vital part of the farming team.
Getting airborne
Aged 13, Mr Sutton flew his first plane (not solo) and was immediately besotted. He describes his light aircraft as the world’s best off-road vehicle. The bonus now is that he is able to survey his farmland at the same time as getting his flying fix. The 200ha family farm is an hour south of Chicago and when times were tough during the 1980s farm crisis, Mr Sutton went off to study for his pilot’s licence and an aviation mechanic’s qualification.
Brian Sutton with his Piper Super Cub. - Photos: Farmers Weekly
After flying for Trans World Airlines for a number of years, in the mid-1990s he came back to the farm along with his brother when his father suffered ill health, and he was determined to combine his 2 passions in order to benefit the farm. After making some instant changes to the farming practices, such as moving to a no-till system and increasing the size of the farm to its current 600ha, he was sure that imagery gathered from aircraft-mounted cameras would be able to inform agronomic decisions and help boost yields.
His first foray into determining if this concept had legs was with near-infrared (NIR) cameras, which produce a normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) image. This image highlights where in the field there is live green vegetation: healthy plants will soak up the sun and reflect near-infrared light, barren areas will do the opposite.
Once this was downloaded Mr Sutton wanted to see if the image showed anything different to what could be seen with the naked eye. But despite numerous lens, camera and processor changes the NDVI images were telling him little more than the view from the cockpit. In 2010 he bought his first thermal imaging camera, and it was the maps gathered from one of his first flights that highlighted just how accurate these images could be.
After processing the image (see image 1), he showed the outcome to his brother who struggled to identify the reason why a centre section of the field, which had a crop of soybeans growing in it, had a very obvious sign of stress as it was much hotter than adjacent areas. A local agronomist identified the cause to be compaction and the penny dropped: the cows had fed on the corn stalks during a wet spell the previous autumn and the soil was suffering from the weight of the animals.
The marked area shows compaction from cows.
That harvest, Mr Sutton combined the field in 2 sections, with the compacted half coming in a resounding seven bushels/acre (0.48t/ha) less than the rest of the field. This experience has led Mr Sutton to now allow cows on to the corn fields only when the soil is completely dry.
Thermal images could help spot disease outbreaks
Further trials on his home farm confirmed that thermal images from flights could help spot disease outbreaks before the agronomists did, broken drainage channels after heavy rainfall, and worrying levels of plant stress. To make the most of his thermal shots, Mr Sutton had to be able to tell a story of the growing season via these images, which meant multiple flights during the year and images that can be compared with previous years’ shots. With this data providing a deep insight into how the soil in each area of the field was performing, Air Scout was born.
How does Air Scout work?
The first flight takes place around drilling when there is bare soil on show. Then up to 14 different images are taken from separate flights throughout the growing season, on average every 14-21 days in the early season and every 7-10 days in the height of the growing period. Mr Sutton uses the bare soil image as a crucial reference point. Here differences in texture and type will be shown, along with broken drainage channels and soggy spots. This image is constantly referred back to when the crop is growing to relate the growing patterns and colours to the soil underneath.
It’s critical to see the crop at these growth stages, as this is when disease is obvious
“There is no predetermined date for the flights as every year has varying weather and drilling dates, so growth stages can vary by weeks from year to year,” Mr Sutton says. “It’s critical to see the crop at these growth stages, as this is when disease is obvious and application timing decisions can be easily made.”
It usually takes a full year of images to build a picture of the farm, but from the initial images and the combine yield map, Air Scout can break fields into zones. There are usually by crop health, disease pressures or variations in the soil type. Once Mr Sutton or one of his pilots has flown over the farm and captured images of each field, these are processed and uploaded to the web platform. The farmer receives a text to say the new images are available.
Air Scout Processor
The Air Scout processor is a key part of the process. It automatically rotates the images so north is up, groups the new images alongside previous ones of the same field, and finally applies the colour palette by setting a central temperature across the field. This is done by using a 10deg variance in both directions to highlight any hotter or cooler areas. Hotter parts of the field mean the plants are under stress and this can commonly be the onset of a disease, pest attack or signs of drought.
A thermal image alongside the equivalent bare soil image.
Cooler areas are generally the best parts of the field as these highlight good evapotranspiration – the transfer of water to the atmosphere by transpiration from plants and evaporation from soil. The processor is essentially what turns the thermal image data into usable information. Farmers can view these images, usually with 24 hours, download them or produce maps for the agronomist with areas marked that need closer inspection.
Fertiliser should be applied at different rates at each growth stage, rather than using a blanket approach
By grouping areas of the field, it is easy to see where fertiliser and money should be prioritised because yield potential remains. Conversely, underperforming areas could see inputs reduced because there is little chance of significantly improving yields come harvest. “Fertiliser should be applied at different rates at each growth stage, rather than using a blanket approach’” explains Mr Sutton.
“We have proved that feeding the bigger, stronger plants with meals that they can finish is better than giving smaller plants too much food which is inevitably wasted. Not only does this hopefully return stronger yields, but can have huge cost savings if there are fluctuations in crop growth, along with striving to be more environmentally friendly.” The information can also be used for drilling as the maps will highlight higher-yielding areas which can accommodate a higher seed rate.
Variable seed rates
This information forms a generic shape file which can be exported to any drill controller and used to apply variable seed rates automatically across the farm. Once a year’s worth of images has been collected, it’s easy for the farmer to see where the yield was lost on the crop and at what time of year it was affected. It is then up to the farmer to stop it repeating.
Other image sources
While drones are becoming increasingly popular for farmers to survey their land, mounting a quality thermal imaging camera, which weighs around 13kg, to a small UAV is not feasible. One light aircraft can cover 400ha a day, which would require many drones with multiple operators and scaled down equipment providing images that wouldn’t be as accurate.
“Also, it’s best to get the entire field in one shot as then every pixel is relative to its neighbour,” Mr Sutton says. “In the time it takes a drone to cover the field, the entire area’s temperature changes.” That is not to say drones don’t have a role. Mr Sutton uses them for detailed shots of areas that have been highlighted by the thermal cameras.
A thermal image (left) shows striking similarities with the combine yield map (right).
For instance, if there is a hot spot in one area of the field, the drone can be programmed from the web platform to visit this exact area of the field by dropping a pin on the location. Once there it can takes pictures and beam live footage back to the user for instant analysis, this is a great way to catch disease early, without walking to the exact spot.
Another way of sourcing an image would be using satellites, but as thermal images aren’t available and the ability to only see on clear days means the image quality is poor, it can’t provide the detail needed for accurate decision making.
Mr Sutton stresses that Air Scout will not replace paying your agronomist or crop walking, but he says it will make better use of both of them by pinpointing areas that need attention or getting soils in the right shape before the crop is drilled. He reckons that by arming farmers with usable data from across the farm, he can make it easy to spot where disease may break out or if there is particular area that is slow to emerge.
The most cost-efficient way to use Air Scout is by a co-operative of neighbouring farmers working together, so that when the plane is up it can take pictures of everyone’s land, rather than doing separate flights for each farm.
70 cents per acre
By working together, the cost can drop to as low as 70 cents per acre (£1.35/ha), rather than the $ 7 per acre (£13.50/ha) it would cost alone. This covers flights for the entire season’s worth of images. Mr Sutton reckons it would not be too difficult to get an Air Scout setup working in the UK. The critical requirement is a source of self-employed pilots with aircraft, willing to take on the franchise and the varying workload. The raw images could be sent back to America for processing, rather than setting up expensive hardware here, with processed data uploaded to the same web platform.
Air Scout
From its launch in 2010, Mr Sutton has built a business that now employs 11 full-time pilots, either flying their own planes or one of the Piper Arrows owned by Air Scout.
Mr Sutton is still based at the family farm in Lowell, Indiana and still devotes time to both projects, with his brother running the farm full time.
The Air Scout franchise has been taken on by a number of aircraft owners from Colorado to Ohio, through the heart of the American grain belt, who have found farmers wanting to adopt the technology and learn more about how their crops are growing.
Author: Edd Mowbray
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Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason Review
Summary: Bit silly, but all the more fun for being so.
Director: Beeban Kidron
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Whilst some claim the follow up to Bridget Jones’ Diary is over the edge of disaster I say it’s not that easy to dismiss offhand – and those who do so may be missing the point.
Obviously the filmmakers have stuck fast to the original (winning) formula. And ok it’s a bit of a lazy attempt to replicate the sparkle of their early success. But still, it retains the three essential ingredients to secure a good time: Belly laughs? Check. Wimpy ex-public schoolboys’ fight? Check. Big pants? Yep.
Appearances by many of the original cast and a new plunging bottom sequence complete with rewind by sleazy TV boss add to the feeling of déjà vu.
Bridget’s friends get a bit more of a look in this time round, especially Sally Phillips of Channel 4’s Smack the Pony fame, who gets a free holiday in Thailand into the bargain.
London features as a backdrop again with the London Eye making its Bridget Jones debut. And as with the first film in parts it seems like an extended advertisement by English Heritage, in collaboration with the British Tourist Board.
The film veers away from the book with inclusion of another fling with Hugh Grant’s character and a new Rebecca who dotes not on Mark but Bridget – “this didn’t happen in the book” will surely race through many a viewer’s mind! Obviously they couldn’t include the part where Bridget goes to interview Colin Firth because, er, the actor’s already in the film as her boyfriend – doh!
Perhaps this Part 2 doesn’t have the same poignancy as the first, for example the exploration of Bridget’s supportive relationship with her father and her frustrating exchanges with her eccentric mother are absent this time round…but come on now – you aren’t supposed to take Bridget Jones seriously!
So just sit back, relax and enjoy The Edge of Reason for what it is: a bit silly, but all the more fun for being so. Don’t forget the Extra Large popcorn…
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Graham Asylum Bill Passes Out of Committee
By Preston Huennekens | FAIR Take | August 2019
On Thursday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation to address the growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. The Secure and Protect Act (S.1494) passed out of committee on a party-line vote of 12-10.
Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) bill would establish refugee processing centers in Central America and Mexico, modify the Flores settlement agreement to permit the detention of families together for longer than 20 days, appoint 500 new immigration judges, and allow authorities to immediately return unaccompanied alien children (UACs) to their home countries.
Because of Democratic obstruction on the committee, Chairman Graham made a procedural change that allowed the committee to move forward on sending the bill to the Senate floor over the objection of Democratic senators. It is now up to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) whether or not the Senate will vote on the bill when they return from the August recess.
The bill is not perfect, and is missing a number of key provisions. Nonetheless, on its own, it is a step in the right direction. Revising the Flores 20-day standard is key to rapidly adjudicating asylum claims and removing those individuals who do not meet the standard for asylum. Establishing overseas processing centers, and rejecting applications made at the border of nationals from those countries, would reduce the number of people making the treacherous journey to our southern border. Immediately returning unaccompanied minors from all countries, instead of only Canada and Mexico, prevents the government from housing UACs in shelters for long periods of time.
Committee member Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) addresses a salient point with this bill. He noted that “[the bill] should absolutely not be paired with any measures that would make the border crisis worse by extending legal status.” This is in response to reports that Chairman Graham spoke to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about a deal that would trade his asylum bill for a “Dreamer” amnesty in a spending bill.
While the bill is a good effort towards curbing the border crisis, no part of this bill is worth trading for any kind of amnesty. It is alarming that reports indicate it could be wrapped in must-pass spending legislation. That in itself would seem to contradict the nature of the recent spending agreement, which stipulates that members could not include poison pills in appropriations unless both Republican and Democratic leadership and the President agreed to them.
As a stand-alone bill, the Secure and Protect Act is a good step towards further measures to tighten our enforcement efforts and reform our broken asylum process.
Pairing it with any amnesty amendments would completely weaken its efforts, exacerbate the humanitarian and security crisis at the border by encouraging further illegal immigration, and weaken the country’s faith in our immigration system.
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T Lawrence, writer with a connection to Wales (Tremadog)
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T Lawrence
Military action hero and author of 'Seven pillars of wisdom'. Famously routing of the Turks from Arabia.
Connection: Born in Tremadog.
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inspiration for the david lean film 'lawrence of arabia'. in the years following the end of the world war i, there was no stronger legend about any of its participants than that surrounding colonel t. e. lawrence, known as lawrence of arabia. on a special mission for the british, to help the arab revolt against the turks, germany's allies, who then ruled the middle east, he succeeded in establishing an extraordinary rapport with his arab hosts and helped lead the disparate, warring tribes to amazing victories. by lowell thomas with introduction by phillip knightley
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I was born in the house (private nursing home) across the road in Tremadog.
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written between 1919 and 1926, this text tells of the campaign aganist the turks in the middle east, encompassing gross acts of cruelty and revenge, ending in a welter of stink and corpses in a damascus hospital.
a prince of our disorder: life of t. e. lawrence
by john e mack, he explores the relationship between lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. interviews, correspondence, access to war office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for macks's investigation of the psychological dimensions of lawrence's personality. in addition, mack examines the history, politics, and sociology of the time in order to weigh the real forces with which lawrence contended and which impinged upon him.
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the david lean all-time classic film of british army officer t. e. lawrence who united the arab tribes against the turks during world war i, and became a legend in his own time. (restored in 1989). music by maurice jarre.
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'Game of Thrones' scores record TV audience, leaves fans sad, mad
Warning: This story contains spoilers for the final episode of Game of Thrones.
More than 19 million US viewers watched the series finale of television’s Game of Thrones — a record audience for HBO, the cable channel said on Monday.
HBO, a unit of AT&T’s Warner Media, said Sunday’s 19.3 million live television audience and viewers on its HBO GO and HBO NOW apps exceeded the previous high for the fantasy — 18.4 million, for the penultimate episode a week ago.
The finale was also the most-watched single telecast ever on HBO, surpassing the previous record set by crime drama The Sopranos in 2002, HBO said.
Game of Thrones is available in over 150 countries worldwide, but HBO said viewing data is not easily retrieved in many of those markets, making a global figure impossible to calculate.
Mixed reviews, a stray water bottle and pleas for a spinoff for feisty teen assassin Arya Stark marked the end of Game of Thrones, which ended with a final twist over who would rule Westeros.
The finale proved as divisive as Season 8 itself, with the hard-fought Iron Throne melted down and the saga ending in what some called an anti-climax.
But British actor Isaac Hempstead Wright said on Monday he was thrilled at how the show had transformed his character, Bran Stark, from a 10-year-old boy in a wheelchair to the man finally chosen as king.
“Bran becoming king is a victory for the still and considered people of this world, who too often get sidelined by the commotion of those who are louder and more reactionary,” Hempstead Wright, 20, wrote in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter.
USA Today’s Kelly Lawler called the finale “a disaster ending that fans didn’t deserve,” adding that it was “hacky; it was cliched.”
Britain’s Radio Times was kinder, with blogger Huw Fullerton writing there were “some bits I liked, one or two I loved, an awful lot that leaves me scratching my head. But I will say, it ended better than I expected given the last two episodes.”
Over 1.2 million fans worldwide had signed a Change.org petition by Monday, criticizing Season 8 and calling for a remake.
Television series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were silent on Monday. The executive producers had said they planned to go offline when the finale aired.
“We’ll be in an undisclosed location, turning off our phones and opening various bottles,” Weiss told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year.
Many fans were more upset about the series coming to an end after eight seasons.
“I thought it would be more of a dramatic ending,” healthcare worker Christine Lethune told Reuters at a viewing party in New York. “I’m mad, I’m mad that this is the last episode. I wish that there was more after this.”
Fans spotted another modern prop that made its way on camera - a plastic water bottle seen partly hidden behind the boot of character Samwell Tarly. The sighting followed dismay and jokes over the sighting of a stray paper coffee cup glimpsed during episode 4, aired two weeks ago.
HBO last year ordered a prequel, co-written by George R R Martin, the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire book saga on which the series is based. It will be set thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones.
On Monday, many fans wanted a sequel based around Arya Stark (played by Maisie Williams), who is last seen aboard a ship to explore lands unknown.
“Arya was the only good part of Season 8. Give us the spinoff,” tweeted Riley McAtee, an associate editor at sports and pop culture website The Ringer.com.
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WiiWare and Virtual Console Gluttony
Mega Man 9 was finally released today for download from the Wii Shop Channel. It's a purchase I'll be making tonight, though I will likely take the opportunity to fill my shopping cart with other goodies, such as these four SNES games:
Zelda 3: A Link to the Past — one of the greatest 16-bit adventure games ever made. I've played this title over and over, finding its rituals comforting. I've not done so in years, and it'd be fun to go back and compare this experience to the newer ones offered by the likes of Twilight Princess.
Contra III: The Alien Wars — little beats the old-school Contra games for fast action shoot-em-up, and the franchise's only SNES entry is no exception.
Super Metroid — another game I've rehearsed over and over, yet I seem to forget the order of levels and locations of power-ups every time, making each play-through feel like the first time.
Super Mario World — I once mastered this game so thoroughly, I was able to beat every level and find every exit without activating a single Switch Palace. Mario games have always been a balance of action and exploration, and I'd like to revisit the pack-in that once came with every SNES.
Besides the Virtual Console and Mega Man 9, the new WiiWare platform also offers other intriguing titles, including Block Breaker Deluxe and Groovin' Blocks, which appear reminiscent of arcade games Arkanoid and Columns, respectively. Granted, the only other WiiWare game I've purchased, VIP Casino Blackjack, was disappointing, but it hasn't deterred me from the venue's potential.
The cost for all seven of the above games is $58, which may sound like a lot, but consider that the same amount would buy only a single game at retail. And by making this purchase now, it gives me time to save another $20 for two more classic games revisited: Space Invaders Get Even and Bomberman Blast.
Though between this bounty and the undeniable lure of other downloadable games for the Xbox 360, destitution seems inevitable… but who needs food and water when you have games like these?
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4 thoughts on “WiiWare and Virtual Console Gluttony”
Robert Boyd
I'm not the biggest fan of the Contra games (they're pretty good, just not my favorite), but the other 3 games you mentioned are all personal favorites. I really should get around to downloading SMW off the VC.
As for Mega Man 9, I'll be picking up the 360 version sometime. I don't get paid again until the end of October so it might have to wait until then.
Ken Gagne
Rob, your pay schedule may work out well, as the Xbox 360 version of Mega Man 9 doesn't come out until October 1st!
I bought the other games last night (except Zelda 3 — turns out I'd already downloaded it), though I had to clear some space off my Wii to make room for all the purchases, and will probably have to do so again when Space Invaders and Bomberman are released.
Finally! Bomberman Blast came out today. Just 1,000 Wii points!
I'm more interested in the Bit Generation remake that just came out, Art Style: Orbient. $6 for a Nintendo-created gravity based puzzle game and unlike the GBA original, it's in English.
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Tower of the Ancients
Tower of the Ancients is a puzzle game that might be best described as a cross between Tetris and Connect Four. The objective is to line up the blocks that fall from the sky to create horizontal, vertical, or diagonal rows of identical symbols. Get three or more identical symbols in a row, and they disappear. When the blocks stack up too high, you lose.
This isn’t the most polished game I’ve ever played; the graphics aren’t terribly sharp, and trying to improve the resolution somehow changed my system’s color settings as well. The game has also frozen up during play, and once the soundtrack continued to play after I had exited the game. All these bad points lead me to believe that this puzzle game was either rushed, or perhaps just not tested enough before publishing.
It’s too bad about the flaws, because like Tetris and Connect Four, the game has a lot of addictive qualities. The title also reminds me a bit of Mahjong. But unlike Mahjong, the constant pressure of the falling titles puts you in a more active state of mind, so it is a puzzle title with a bit of action thrown into the mix.
In spite of the occasional glitches, this is a decent game for fans of Tetris and solitaire-type card games. The playing area is a three dimensional cylinder, requiring different strategies than similar 2D games. More difficult levels of the game introduce new symbols, or stop providing a certain symbol, leaving obsolete ones in play that can only be removed with special wildcards. Without the wildcards, you are left waiting for matching symbols that will never come. The only option is to plan around these blockers, which is easier said than done.
At other times, rows of symbols have to be formed in a given orientation (diagonally only, for example) if they are to count toward the goal for that level. The online manual is a nice touch as well, clearly written and full of illustrations and examples. Without the instructions, the game would prove nearly impossible, so it is nice that it is included as part of the game, right within the program.
Finally, the price of the game puts it within the realm of impulse purchasing. It’s less than $20 in most stores, and also when buying it online. I don’t really see people rallying around this title as "the next big thing" but at that price, I could see a puzzle fan picking it up as a pleasant diversion and being very satisfied with the results.
In brief, Tower of the Ancients is a good choice for the fan of one-player puzzles who is looking for a new challenge and isn’t put off by the occasional need to reboot. It earns 3 out of 5 GiN Gems as an average puzzle title (a pure puzzle game) with a bit of a bonus caveat because the price is right.
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More evil, more snots and more Dungeons 3
Just when you thought it was safe to return to the daily grind of slapping snots and destroying unicorns, the Absolute Evil decides to go one step further (well three actually) and announce three, yes three, new DLC packs for highly-acclaimed dungeon sim Dungeons 3. Once Upon a Time (the first of the DLC packs to launch) is planned for release on 2nd February and will further expand the Evil One’s fiendish grip on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
After the devastating battle royale at the end of Dungeons 3, the Absolute Evil decides that its time to take a vacation, and travels to Fairyland. This despicable land is home to the Good Fairy, a disgustingly respectable and virtuous creature who has been arming heroes with invigorating potions and is generally the detestable source of all good deeds. With the help of some bewitched heroes (and more than a few exploding sheep) the Absolute Evil sets off to put an end to this story once and for all. The Once Upon a Time DLC packs in three new campaigns, three new Evil hubs, new wall tile set for the dungeon and an all new boss – the Good Fairy (and exploding sheep, don’t forget the exploding sheep).
About Dungeons 3
In Dungeons 3, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established the roots of his dark empire, leading him to the next step in his diabolical quest: expansion! Through enticing the dark elf priestess Thalya from the fluffy clutches of the surface world to become his chief lieutenant, the Dungeon Lord has found a way to direct his campaign of conquest from the confines of his underground lair. With Thalya on the front line, and the united forces of evil to support her, players will have to use every trick in the book to best those do-gooders of the overworld, once and for all!
Unleash your dark side by creating a unique underground dungeon from a huge array of rooms, traps and structures. Raise the most terrifying army the world has ever seen, by choosing from despicable creatures such as orcs, succubae, zombies and much, much more. Then, once you have built your forces, emerge from the darkness and guide your army to the light of the overworld, where you will corrupt the land and dispatch anything even vaguely heroic, cute or unicorn-shaped. And in a first for the Dungeons series, experience randomly generated levels, so that no two sessions are alike – never-ending fun for any evil conqueror!
The dungeon manager you’ve been waiting for: Dungeons 3 is the biggest, best, and evil-est dungeon sim yet, topped off with a fully reworked overworld RTS mode.
Under new management: Command the united forces of evil under the guidance of new character Thalya and lead them to victory.
Size does matter: Extensive single player campaign with 20 missions and more than 20 hours of playtime, randomly generated levels, a brand-new co-op mode for two players, more rooms, and more unique abilities.
Speak no evil: The fan-favourite Dungeons narrator is back with his unmistakable voice, continuing the Dungeons legacy in the best way possible.
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Facts on Pansies
How to Prune Pansies
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How Long Do Pansies Last?
How to Protect Pansies From Hard Freeze
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What Is Eating My Pansies Off?
The small, colorful pansy plant is a delightful addition to the flower garden. This biennial plant is often referred to as a flower for all seasons because of its ability to adapt and bloom under a variety of conditions. In milder climates, this flower blooms outdoors year-round.
Pansies are one of the oldest cultivated flowering plants around. Their exact origin cannot be pinpointed, but the crossbred variety with which we are familiar is identified with Buckinghamshire, England. Pansies gained popularity in North America in the late 1800s.
Pansies have round blooms consisting of five petals that come in three basic color patterns: single, clear color; black lines radiating from the center; and a dark-centered "face." Leaves are oval or heart-shaped.
Uses of the Pansy
The edible flowers of the pansy plant have a minty flavor. These flowers are used to make syrup; to flavor honey; to garnish green salads, punch bowls and sugar bowls; and as candied caked decorations and dye.
Both the leaves and the flowers of the pansy plant are high in vitamins A and C.
The delicate, sweet fragrance of the pansy flower is most evident in the early morning and at dusk, with the yellow or blue pansy flowers emitting the strongest scent.
"Pansy" comes from the French word "pensee," which means "thought." It was thus named because the flower, resembling a human face, seems to nod forward as if in deep thought. This usually happens in August.
Look over each flower stalk for blooms that have faded or are beginning to fade. Look for seed heads that may have already formed.
Using your thumb and forefinger, grasp the stem of the spent flower 1/4 inch above the nearest leaf set. Pinch off the flower head.
Pinch back stems that are longer than the bulk of the plant. Pinch the stems directly above the leaf set nearest to the height to which you wish to prune the pansies.
Prune the entire plant if it has become unkempt. Trim each stem to approximately 4 to 6 inches long using shears. Pinch 1/4 inch above the nearest leaf set to this height.
Cut off spent blooms. Grasp the flower stem below the top set of leaves and snip of the flower and stem ¼ inch above the leaves.
Cut off forming seed pods above the top set of leaves.
Separate long stems from the main pansy mound. Cut off these longer stems ¼ inch above a leaf set closest to your desired height for the plant.
Cut back the entire plant if it has grown out of control and become scraggly. Cut each stem back to approximately 4 inches long, always cutting just above one of the leaf sets on the stem.
The Meaning of "Pansy"
The name "pansy" actually originates from the French word, pensie. Pensie is defined as "meaning thought or remembrance."
Pansies are Edible
Pansies are actually edible blooms. The flowers are high in vitamins A and C. Pansies are used to make syrup, flavored honey and salads.
Pansies' Fragrance
Pansies are known for their fragrance. The yellow and blue blooms have the strongest scent. The fragrance can be most noticed in the mornings and during dusk.
Color Patterns
Pansies have three basic color patterns. One is a single color that is yellow or blue. Another pattern is a flower that has black lines that originate from its center. The third pattern has a dark center, which is known as its face.
Where Do Pansies Grow?
In the South and Southwest, pansies are grown during the winter season. In the North, pansies grow during the summertime.
Pest-Free Flowers
Pansies are easy-to-grow flowers that can be planted as bedding plants or are started from seeds. Most of the time time they are disease and insect free.
Pansies prefer the cool, damp seasons of spring and late fall. However, with sufficient water and regular deadheading, these pretty plants will last through all but the hottest summers.
Keep pansies watered until the first freeze. Damp soil will be less susceptible to buckling that can occur during freezing and thawing.
Make a shelter for the pansies by covering them with some small tree branches, which will protect the them from dry winds.The branches of a Christmas tree are ideal. Don’t use so many branches that no light will get through to the pansies.
Cover the branches with a thin layer of mulch, such as grass clippings or straw. The branches will keep the mulch from crushing the pansies, and both will help to keep the pansies dry. If the pansies are allowed to become waterlogged by rain or snow, it can kill them.
The pansy is available in black, gold, orange, purple, red, white and yellow. Bi-color and tri-color varieties are also common.
Growing between six and 12 inches tall, the pansy has medium-green stems and leaves. It produces flowers with broad, rounded petals that overlap considerably.
Pansies are typically biennials, meaning that they possess a two-year lifespan. Foliage is grown the first year, and flowers are produced during the second.
Despite being derived from native flowers of Europe and western Asia, the pansy is a "man-made" hybrid that does not occur naturally.
Pansy extracts can be used to treat minor skin conditions effectively and, because they are entirely edible, are also used in salads and as culinary garnishments.
"Stop And Smell The Flowers" is Copyrighted by Flickr user: I Shutter (Jane) under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
The name of the pansy comes from a French word meaning "thought", as the flowers tend to look like faces that nod in contemplation in the summer months.
Prevention/Solution
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Discourage aphid invasion by spraying plants with a mixture of 15 parts water to 1 part dish soap and 1 part rubbing alcohol. Discourage slugs by removing mulch, which promotes overly moist conditions. Sparrows may be discouraged by spraying plants with a mixture of water and ashes from cigarettes.
Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Robert S. Donovan
Pansies are known for their five petals and round shape. They typically come in one of three color patterns: solid yellow or blue, a single color with black lines coming from the center, and a solid color with a dark center.
Pansies naturally grow in the South and Southwest during the winter months and in the North during the summer months. Pansies are annuals, which need to be planted every year; they prefer to be planted in full sun.
To encourage healthy soil, do not plant pansies in the same area more than three years in a row.
Pansies are completely edible and are commonly added to foods as a garnish.
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Fascinating Facts About Asia’s Sports
Stress will be good or unhealthy for an individual engaged in a sporting occasion. On the 1968 Olympic Games, he gained three gold medals in the individual all-round, flooring train and workforce competition. Some classical winter sports are undoubtedly, indoor swimming, gymnastic, basketball, ice hockey and indoor tennis. Stated Asaad is likely one of the greatest weightlifters in Qatari sports historical past.
Some younger athletes are merely overwhelmed with pressure from mother and father, coaches, buddies, the media, boosters and teammates. Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Video games in Doha would deliver the Olympic flame to the Arabic-talking world for the primary time, extending the Olympic beliefs to millions of recent hearts and minds”.
A way to reduce the affect of daddy ball is to get your son on a crew coached by a father whose son clearly is the best athlete on the staff. Athletes must be asked to focus on only one or two points of the skill at any one time.
Having raised two sons I can say that there’s not a lot as painful as watching a coach play the sport to advance the abilities of his personal baby. The Qatari delegation competed within the 2007 …
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The sphere of sports is a extremely seen one, where extrinsic sports motivation plays a large role in a single participant’s success and confidence. The coaches talked about above use video tapings of profitable video games to boost feelings of pleasure and talent with their staff members. He also participated in athletics in the 1996 Summer time Olympic Games in Atlanta (USA). If the sport is a form of relaxation or stress reduction then this must be clarified every time anything turns into overwhelming.
Many athletes profit from sports psychology training which teaches them methods to manage the psychological points of their sport, methods to keep away from burn out, easy methods to be resilient and find out how to preserve and wisely make the most of their psychological toughness and their powers of concentration and focus.
The Olympic village was home to 10,500 competitive programme included 39 sport events: archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, bowling, kayak, chess, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, area hockey, judo, kabaddi, karate, rowing, rugby, sailing, sepaktakraw, shooting, softball, squash, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, triathlon, tennis, volleyball, seashore volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wushu and wrestling.
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Asia is a pretty big continent. Part of it is about competitive considering, but it surely begins approach before the teams get to the field. Gymnastics is principally an individual sport, although during huge competitions the athletes also compete in groups. The time of the basketball match is restricted and fixed while the time of the tennis match may be totally different.
Historical video games ultimately expanded to incorporate extra races, boxing, wrestling, and a pentathlon with five running, throwing, and jumping occasions. Japan gained 5 gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games: one from athletics and 4 from judo. If you’re playing basketball, attempt to visualize how one can select the best angle to throw the ball into the web.
In an efficient sports group there must be belief between crew mates, belief between the coach and players and individual athletes have to belief themselves and their very own skills. Many membership and faculty teams exist for this rigorous sport. It is based extra on an excellent management of the ball by the gamers, being a group sport the place critical injuries are very rare.
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Sports are a extremely popular curiosity worldwide as there are various varieties folks can choose from to indulge themselves in. Some individuals are excited about soccer whereas others like basketball. Many athletes profit from sports psychology training which teaches them easy methods to manage the mental elements of their sport, how one can keep away from burn out, the way to be resilient and learn how to preserve and correctly make the most of their psychological toughness and their powers of concentration and focus.
Having raised two sons I can say that there’s not a lot as painful as watching a coach play the game to advance the skills of his own baby. The Qatari delegation competed within the 2007 Arab Video games held in Cairo (Egypt), and gained 14 gold, thirteen silver and 13 bronze medals.
Examples of this might be assaults throughout a recreation to be premeditated to severely harm one other participant like a hockey player utilizing his stick as a weapon, or baseball pitchers deliberately throwing at batters particularly within the head and neck region.
Many high sportspeople use thoughts methods and sports psychologists to give them an edge. Generally, it is strongly recommended that the …
The Sports Business
Asia is a fairly large continent. The Qatari crew won four gold, five silver and eight bronze medals in the course of the Asian Video games held in South Korea in 2002. Andreas Bleicher, Sports director at ASPIRE, mentioned: “We’ve got all the time appeared to place ASPIRE as a world academy whose main focus in sports in Qatar.
Table tennis is played over a desk with a web in the center, with small plastic balls, requiring a huge quantity of focus and coordination from the players. When there is a have to lower arousal level, respiration control strategies might be helpful to attain inspiring sports performances.
The preferred sports in Oman -Arab country- are soccer, volleyball, athletics and handball. For sports coaches, athletes or any sportsman, the should be focused when under training or within the midst of a contest is of utmost importance. The whole goal of the sport is to put the ball inside the opposite’s crew goal.
Saif Saaeef Shaheen wrote history for Qatar turning into the first Qatari to win a world championship within the Olympic sport. Pakistan despatched 32 sportspersons to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (West Germany). Basketball is much more contact …
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Trevor Noah: Trump Is a Genius. No One Has Thought to Just Ask Netanyahu to Stop Settlements
'Trump's plan is to be such a bumbling fool, that Israel and Palestine are going to agree... We’d better sort this problem before he tries to help out,' jokes the 'Daily Show' host.
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“We all know that Donald Trump is going to destroy the world,” joked the "Daily Show's" Trevor Noah while discussing Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's recent press conference. “But we cannot deny that it’s going to be an amusing destruction.”
Noah ripped into Trump's performance during what he described as the president's most important meeting yet with a foreign leader, for Trump's total lack of understanding of the difficulty surrounding Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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"Trump isn't worried at all," quipped Noah, "Just listen to what he said about whether Palestinians and Israelis should live in one state or two states."
Noah then played the clip of Trump saying that he is fine with either a one-state or two-state solution, "I’m very happy with the one that both parties like," Trump said.
“Did this guy just tell us the problem like it’s the solution? Trump would be the best hostage negotiator ever. Whatever makes both the hostage takers and the hostages happy, that works for me," continued Noah.
Noah went on to lampoon the specifics of the press conference, especially focusing on the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
“I’m sorry, Donald Trump is a genius,” Noah stated. “No one has ever thought to just straight-up ask Netanyahu to stop the settlements.”
“You can see Netanyahu is like, ‘Who the fuck is this dude?’” Noah added. “You know, Trump is either a genius or he’s the biggest idiot the world has ever seen. Because I honestly wonder if Trump’s plan is to be such a bumbling fool, that Israel and Palestine are going to get together in a room and go, ‘I think we can both agree, that guy’s a fucking moron. We’d better sort this problem before he tries to help out.'”
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Designed to improve the lives of Guatemala’s most vulnerable families, Healthy Home Kits consist of a smokeless stove, a water filter, and a latrine.
Smokeless Stoves
Guatemalan families that cook over open fires are constantly breathing in smoke and consuming great amounts of firewood. Most affected are Guatemala’s most vulnerable populations. Only the poorest families utilize this cooking method, and it affects women and small children, who spend more time in the home and are the ones suffering most from chronic respiratory problems and burns. Starting in 2011, Habitat Guatemala established the project Small Change, Giant Leap with the goal of installing 17,000 smokeless stoves in five years. The stoves are built from adobe blocks with a pipe to carry out the harmful smoke. The multiple-burner metal stove top allows women to dedicate more time to other tasks and to income generation. These improved stoves have other advantages too, including an easy-to-learn assembly process and faster cooking times that can reduce firewood use by up to 50%.
Over four million Guatemalans living in rural areas do not have access to potable water. And while five of the top twenty causes of death can be related to water contamination, only 3% of the population regularly uses water filters. It’s for this reason that Habitat Guatemala started the Clean Water Project, giving families in extreme poverty access to clean drinking water, and consequently, healthier lives.
Sanitary Latrines
Only 54% of Guatemalans have access to proper sanitation services. The remainder of the population uses poorly constructed latrines or nothing at all. Sanitation is a clear issue considering that an estimated 85% of waste water is left untreated and often just dumped into local water sources. As part of our Clean Water Project, Habitat Guatemala’s sanitary latrines reduce contamination, while our classes educate families on maintaining healthy homes and good hygienic practices.
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In addition to building homes and Healthy Home Kits, Habitat for Humanity Guatemala works with communities to construct family gardens, complete home improvements, develop housing communities, and build two-room, progressive homes.
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Summer time is here, and it can only mean one thing: time for a little bit of rest and relaxation, and plenty of time to finally catch up on some of those books you promised yourself you would read this year. Because you might only have a week or two of that precious time off work to really be able to become hooked to a great novel or two, you definitely don't want me to stuck with a dud! Here are some of our tried and tested favourite summer reads to try in 2019…
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Telling the rise and fall from grace of the fictional band Daisy Jones and the Six, this novel's realistic characters and portrayal of a band slowly falling apart truly makes you feel that the band, iconic in the novel, really does exist in real life (until you Google Daisy Jones, of course). The unique storytelling is done through 'interviews', and along with the nostalgia of the 1970s, it is a lovely read that you might well devour in one sitting. It is also being developed into a TV series by Reese Witherspoon's production company, so get in there first!
Swan Song: A Novel by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Truman Capote was best known for his novel Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the hit true crime nonfiction book In Cold Blood. However, you might not know that the author alienated his closest friends after publishing a damning, thinly veiled expose of their lives in a shocking move that changed all of their lives forever. Genuinely surprised by the immense backlash, Swan Song looks at Truman's rise to the ranks of New York's high society and spectacular fall from grace. With a grounding in history, it is a fascinating read about the deepest secrets of an iconic author.
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Circe by Madeline Miller
Fascinated with Greek myths and legends? Then this is definitely one for you. Rejected by her powerful and cruel family due to her meek nature and mysterious powers as a witch, Circe is banished to an island to live in solitude. She hones her powers and often encounters other Greek gods and legends, before everything changes when she meets Odysseus. It is a brilliant telling of an old story, and if you're anything like us you'll be googling Madeline Miller's name to find out what else you can read from her.
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
After getting into a scuffle with Prince Henry, an English royal, the First Son of the President is forced to undertake damage control and play nice with the prince, despite them being lifelong adversaries. Of course, it doesn't stay that way for too long! As the synopsis reads: "Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we were meant to be?" Described as romantic, sexy and hilarious, this is the ideal beach read.
Into the Darkest Corner Book by Elizabeth Haynes
In 2003, Cathy falls head over heels in love with the beautiful, mysterious Lee. Four years later, she is traumatised, suffering from severe OCD and terrified of her own shadow. So what happened during her seemingly perfect relationship to bring her to the brink of such terror? Why is Lee now in prison? And is her new upstairs neighbour really as trustworthy as he seems? This novel will keep you completely hooked and stealing a page at every chance you get.
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
A book that has been much passed around the in HELLO! office, Behind Closed Doors is a brilliant thriller which follows a perfect married couple who spend every moment together, and seem very much in love to everyone around them, until they are left alone that is. Why are there bars on the windows? And why is their house surrounded by a high fence? This is one that will keep you absolutely hooked until the last page. Go read it and get obsessed!
Normal People by Sally Rooney
You've probably seen this one, since people love posting snaps of it on Instagram, but Sally's second novel is also a genuinely great read. Our social media editor is a big fan, and said: "If you loved One Day, then this is your next modern, tangled, and touching love story (of sorts). Take it on holiday and force your friends to read it so that you can discuss over sundowners, because you will have feelings about the ending."
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
Ariel is a reporter for The New Yorker, and has had a fascinating life filled with love and adventure, which was interjected with one unimaginable heartbreak after another in a very short space of time. Writing about her unique life, her amazing career and how she dealt with terrible grief, Ariel writes with plenty of humour that packs an emotional punch too.
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The School Run by Helen Whitaker
The School Run is based around two old friends who will go to any lengths to get their kids into a good school. Helen weaves wit and candour into her story about competitive parenting and adult friendships, so be prepared if you're reading it on your commute as it's impossible not to nod (and laugh) along with every page. Whether you're a mum or not, we guarantee that you'll be checking OFSTED and putting your (future) child's name down after closing the book so that you can avoid joining forces with 'The Organics'. Trust us.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett
What is it that people say? The book is always better? Sure, Amazon Prime might have just released a new drama adaptation of this popular fantasy novel, and sure it stars David Tennant, Michael Sheen and Jon Hamm, but the book is also most definitely worth your time. The novel focuses on an angel and a demon who have become good pals after living on earth for centuries, and team up to avoid the end of the world taking place – namely by taking down the antichrist, a village boy named Adam.
The Place I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne
From her teen fiction novel Are We All Lemmings or Snowflakes to her breakout novel How Do You Like Me Now, Holly can do no wrong in our eyes, and her next YA fiction might be our favourite yet. The novel follows Amelie, a teenager who moves to a new city and falls head over heels in love with Reese. But is Reese all he is cracked up to be? The novel isn't out until October 2019 but those getting ready for a little winter sun should wait for this one!
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WOMEN’S GOLF TAKES CENTER STAGE IN PRIMETIME WITH THE UL INTERNATIONAL CROWN
By Golf Channel Public Relations
Thirty-Two Players Representing Eight Countries to Determine Best Women’s Golf Nation Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 3-6, Live in Primetime on Golf Channel
ORLANDO, Fla. (Oct. 1, 2018) –Women’s golf will take center stage this week in primetime with the UL International Crown biennial match play competition, featuring 32 players representing eight countries battling to be crowned the best women’s golf nation. Golf Channel will air 25 hours of live coverage in primetime Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 3-6, from Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea, home to the 2015 Presidents Cup.
“This past weekend at the Ryder Cup, the sports world saw the intensity of match-play and what it means to represent your team and country in global golf competition,” said Molly Solomon, Golf Channel executive producer. “This week in South Korea the world’s best female players will get the same chance at the UL International Crown, airing in primetime. We can’t wait to watch match-play again at the highest level.”
EIGHT COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: The UL International Crown, last contested in 2016 at the Merit Club outside of Chicago with the United States claiming the Crown, will feature eight countries competing in four days of head-to-head competition: Australia, Chinese Taipei, England, Japan, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Thailand and the United States. Four players will represent each country in the competition, who qualified based on the Rolex Women’s Rankings at the conclusion of the 2018 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
TEAMS AND PLAYERS:
No. 1 Republic of Korea – Sung Hyun Park, So Yeon Ryu, In-Kyung Kim, In Gee Chun
No. 2 United States – Lexi Thompson, Jessica Korda, Cristie Kerr, Michelle Wie
No. 3 Japan – Nasa Hataoka, Misuzu Narita, Mamiko Higa, Ayako Uehara
No. 4 England – Charley Hull, Georgia Hall, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Bronte Law
No. 5 Australia – Minjee Lee, Katherine Kirk, Sarah Jane Smith, Su Oh
No. 6 Thailand – Ariya Jutanugarn, Moriya Jutanugarn, Pornanong Phatlum, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong
No. 7 Sweden – Anna Nordqvist, Pernilla Lindberg, Madelene Sagstrom, Caroline Hedwall
No. 8 Chinese Taipei – Teresa Lu, Wei-Ling Hsu, Phoebe Yao, Candie Kung
The eight countries are split into two pools and will compete in three days of four-ball matches with the top two countries from each pool and one wild card country advancing to a final day of singles matches.
25 HOURS LIVE IN PRIMETIME: Golf Channel will dedicate 25 hours of live, primetime coverage of the matches, from the first tee-shot to the final putt, Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 3-6. Live television coverage will begin at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, followed by 9 p.m. ET Thursday-Saturday. Tom Abbott and Karen Stupples will rotate with Peter Donegan and Kate Burton in anchoring coverage from the broadcast booth. Alison Whitaker will be a tower announcer, with Kay Cockerill, Jerry Foltz and Dom Boulet reporting from the course. Lisa Cornwell will conduct interviews and report for Golf Central.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL COVERAGE: The UL International Crown will be streamed live on Golf Channel Digital, and the Golf Channel app. Streaming coverage will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday – featuring one hour of bonus coverage Thursday and Friday prior to television coverage – and starting at 9 p.m. ET on Saturday. Golf Channel Digital also will have comprehensive editorial coverage of the UL International Crown with columns and daily blogs, led by GolfChannel.com senior writer Randall Mell.
Golf Channel’s social media platforms – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram– also will provide expanded social media coverage, with social media host Alexandra O’Laughlin contributing on-site throughout the week in South Korea.
UL International Crown Airtimes (all times Eastern)
Wednesday, Oct. 3
Day 1 - Four-ball Matches
8 p.m.-3 a.m.
Thursday, Oct. 4
Day 4 - Singles Matches
-NBC Sports Group-
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Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Lucy Knisley (Goodreads Author)
If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything.
Except get pregnant.
Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything.
Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery.
This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart. ...more
Published February 26th 2019 by First Second Books
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2019)
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Mar 24, 2019 Lola rated it it was amazing
Shelves: memoir, graphic-novel, 2019-publications, pregnancy
Woah. This book feels like a GAME-CHANGER. And maybe it is, who knows, I sure don’t know many graphic novels mainly about pregnancy so this may just be one of the firsts of its kind. And maybe there will be more in the future, only time will tell. Wouldn’t that be amazing, though?
I learned so much from it. I have read stories about pregnancy, like the memoir AND NOW WE HAVE EVERYTHING by Meaghan O’Connell which was fascinating but also a little bit (lot) traumatizing. Still, ever since I read Woah. This book feels like a GAME-CHANGER. And maybe it is, who knows, I sure don’t know many graphic novels mainly about pregnancy so this may just be one of the firsts of its kind. And maybe there will be more in the future, only time will tell. Wouldn’t that be amazing, though?
I learned so much from it. I have read stories about pregnancy, like the memoir AND NOW WE HAVE EVERYTHING by Meaghan O’Connell which was fascinating but also a little bit (lot) traumatizing. Still, ever since I read that book, I became interested in knowing more about pregnancy and motherhood. In this book, Lucy Knisley shares her experience of trying for a baby, having miscarriages, going through depression, being pregnant and having a baby… and more.
She also takes the time to teach the readers. I did not expect to close this book and be so much more informed than I was when I first opened it. Who knew miscarriages were so frequent? Who knew there were so many misconceptions? Who knew you could control so little? So you CAN have babies after the age of 35?! I appreciated how far Lucy pushed. (I don’t know if that was a pun or a really inappropriate sentence.) She could have discussed widely known facts or misconceptions alone, but she went deeper and actually taught some History too. I was in a TRANCE the whole time. Crazy.
But to be truthful, I am once again scared about getting pregnant and delivering a baby. None of the stories I read portray pregnancy as a beautiful, calming experience. No, it’s CHAOS. But I think that if you have someone by your side, someone who supports you and cares about you and helps you through, it can be very fulfilling and like Lucy said, there’s that reward at the end ;)
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Feb 17, 2019 Julie Ehlers rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: galleys, goodreads-giveaways, comics-and-cartoons
LOL. How’d this happen? I’ve had an up-and-down relationship with Lucy Knisley for a few years now, with her most recent book, Something New, representing its absolute nadir. Ugh, Something New. So when I saw a Goodreads giveaway for Knisley’s new book, Kid Gloves, my first instinct was to stay far away. A faint spark of curiosity caused me to enter the giveaway anyway, but I was of course fully expecting that I wouldn’t win. The odds were against it, after all. I guess we can all see what LOL. How’d this happen? I’ve had an up-and-down relationship with Lucy Knisley for a few years now, with her most recent book, Something New, representing its absolute nadir. Ugh, Something New. So when I saw a Goodreads giveaway for Knisley’s new book, Kid Gloves, my first instinct was to stay far away. A faint spark of curiosity caused me to enter the giveaway anyway, but I was of course fully expecting that I wouldn’t win. The odds were against it, after all. I guess we can all see what happened next!
I am therefore thrilled to report to you that Kid Gloves was great! As I’ve mentioned before on Goodreads, I’m not particularly interested in the fertility/pregnancy/childbirth narratives of people I don’t know at all, but Knisley really does her homework here, and this book is an entertaining and highly informative feminist analysis of all of these issues, in addition to being Knisley’s own personal story.
And it’s that personal story that’s the most revelatory here. As a happily childless person, I would never, ever, ever, ever in a million years buy into the idea that childless people are inherently more self-centered than people with kids; anyone who truly believes that is just being a jerk. But as far as Lucy Knisley herself is concerned, her motherhood journey seems to be just the big life event she needed to jolt her into a place of more maturity, insight, and depth in her work. I was excited and appreciative and happy to see this development and to experience its end result in this book.
Honestly, I tried to keep an open mind going into Kid Gloves but in reality it’s hard to think of a more hostile audience for this book than myself. Yet, I really, really enjoyed and admired this. 2019 is starting out as the year of authors subverting my expectations, and no one could be happier about this than me. I am still not sure if I’ll read Knisley’s next book, but I’m grateful I read this one. Thank you, Lucy. Thank you, First Second publishers, for winning back my trust. Thank you everyone! Read this book. ...more
Apr 09, 2019 David Schaafsma rated it really liked it
Shelves: gn-reproduction, gn-women, gn-health, gn-memoir
Lucy Knisley tells us at one point that she does NOT want to suggest that having a baby is “a terrible experience,” after having just told us several terrible things that happened to her, but I can say reading her book was for me at times a stressful experience, since her detailed account of her way difficult pregnancy, in spite of being enhanced by information gleaned by constant research she has done, and broken up by some laughs, reveals that she had the Pregnancy and Childbirth (her first) Lucy Knisley tells us at one point that she does NOT want to suggest that having a baby is “a terrible experience,” after having just told us several terrible things that happened to her, but I can say reading her book was for me at times a stressful experience, since her detailed account of her way difficult pregnancy, in spite of being enhanced by information gleaned by constant research she has done, and broken up by some laughs, reveals that she had the Pregnancy and Childbirth (her first) From Hell. Since Knisley, like Quebec artist Michel Rabagliati, is writing memoirs about all stages of her life (and I am reading all of them!), she is committed to being here--as in her memoir about getting married, Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride --educational, entertaining, and painful honest about what she has experienced with her husband John (whom I love and want to take out for a beer). The marriage memoir was also angsty but very, very light-hearted compared to this one, though, trust me.
Now, consider the source if you decide to continue reading this review; while Knisley makes the occasional nod to “non-breast-feeders” (which of course includes millions of women who have never done so, as well as men), her primary audience here is women who want to have babies and who have had them. And I guess her fans, like me, who have been following her for many years, just to keep up with what is going on, with her most dramatic story yet. She is essentially journaling the process, with an emphasis on the challenges: Miscarriages, depression, pain, anxiety, vomit, more vomit, swelling, embiggening mom body, so much pain at almost every stage, so much stress, and so on. She tells this in part to be helpful about all the possible pitfalls that are there for those wanting to have babies, some of which is not in the usual baby guides, such as What to Expect When You are Expecting (which I have read a couple times myself).
Some of what Knisley shares is also humorously self-deprecating; she admits she eats 6 dates a day because she has learned that it will bring on labor, and so on. She follows advice from a million different sites and people. She’s anxious, she’s worried, and scared, and so this is in part useful to share, as if in solidarity with all other prospective-mom worriers. There is a lot of humor mixed into this anxiety cake, but let’s face it, this is not a typical pregnancy nor childbirth, if there ever was one. Hers was very, very hard and this—in spite of all the inviting fun colors and cute drawing that has made her justifiably famous--is not an advertisement for having a baby. It focuses on all the bad things that can and do happen, because they actually did happen to her. Maybe the colors are a kind of false advertising? Or maybe they just help to lighten things up a bit?
I love it that one section is written from John’s perspective, which happens to be the Actual Birth part, and trust me, when he cries in meeting “Pal” and they both cry in meeting him, you cry, because that’s what you do in relief and happiness when a healthy baby arrives. Maybe it’s more emotional for us knowing what she has been through to get to this point.
I say all this having very actively participated in multiple pregnancies and childbirths, and as a male, I know, it is of course different, but I could relate to a lot of the anxiety and fears and worries. And I think it has a lot of useful information and is interesting, never boring. The actual photographs in this book are cute, to break up all the foreboding and give you hope that pregnancy may indeed lead to joy. It seems to have done so for her, at last.
So she has a baby! Knisley also then writes a picture book, You Are New, to (maybe, I am assuming here) in part celebrate this new baby, though the picture book is the first book I have read from her that is not about her. Anyway, I think this is a very good book, given all it attempts to do. Did I “enjoy” it? Not so much, but I appreciated it and I am thinking about it a lot. Would I recommend it to my friends who are trying to make a baby? I don’t know. I don’t want to scare them away, and I think this just might do it in spite of Knisley’s stated hopes to the contrary.
Here is Kathleen's review in the Chicago Tribune (and you can follow her on Goodreads, too):
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifest...
Another review, "an honest look at pregnancy, barf and all": The "weirdness of pregnancy," yes, but it almost killed her:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Mag... ...more
Jan 25, 2019 destiny ♡⚔♡ [howling libraries] rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: adult, nonfiction, 2019, graphic-novels-manga-comics
Kid Gloves looks like another cutesy book about pregnancy, but it's a lot more than that. It also features myths and facts about pregnancy, some interesting history regarding how far obstetric medicine has come, tidbits about medical struggles, and most notably, a long section on infertility and miscarriages.
There's a point Lucy makes at one point that really resonated with me, as a fellow miscarriage survivor: If 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, why aren't 25% of media portrayals of Kid Gloves looks like another cutesy book about pregnancy, but it's a lot more than that. It also features myths and facts about pregnancy, some interesting history regarding how far obstetric medicine has come, tidbits about medical struggles, and most notably, a long section on infertility and miscarriages.
There's a point Lucy makes at one point that really resonated with me, as a fellow miscarriage survivor: If 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, why aren't 25% of media portrayals of pregnancies acknowledging that? Instead, we live in a world where people are made to feel guilty, ashamed, and/or tragically alone after a miscarriage, and we have to do better. It isn't fair for anyone to suffer these traumas alone.
While it got a bit boring at times, overall, I thought Kid Gloves was an interesting pregnancy memoir. I'm not sure I would give it to an expectant mother, because I think it would have terrified me to read about Lucy's emergency c-section and pre-eclampsia in such vivid details, but it was still fascinating to read about and heart-warming to know that everything turned out okay for Lucy and her little family in the end.
Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review! ...more
Mar 10, 2019 Olive rated it really liked it
This is now one of my favorite Lucy Knisley books.
As she discusses in this book, in each of her previous works, she chronicles a transitional point in her life. In the popular French Milk, she is a markedly less sympathetic character, being in that moody period of her late teenage years. But in her subsequent works, we see her develop into a passionate, empathetic adult who struggles to balance a career, family, and relationships.
In her animated form, we walk with Lucy back into a This is now one of my favorite Lucy Knisley books.
In her animated form, we walk with Lucy back into a "never-quite-over" relationship and then escort her down the aisle to marry her perfect quirky counterpart, John. And now, in Kid Gloves, Lucy gets even more grown up, taking us on the roller coaster ride of getting pregnant and becoming a mother. It was not an easy ride at any point; Lucy struggled through devastating miscarriages only to discover she needed a surgical procedure to be physically capable of carrying a baby to full term. Once this was performed and she successfully conceived, her difficult pregnancy began and eventually concluded with the nearly fatal delivery of her son.
I follow Lucy on social media so I had an inkling of some of the things she was going through at this point in time, but obviously this book gives a much deeper look. The whole experience was very educational for Lucy as she tried to unpack not only what was happening to her body after becoming pregnant, but also all the cultural expectations and misunderstandings there are around the whole affair. So much of the experience of pregnancy is kept behind a veil and cultural conditioning has fed us a lot of baloney that simply isn't based in fact. Lucy draws us an education on issues and beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth while giving us, as always, a highly entertaining inside look into her own journey.
Though it was horrifying at points and reaffirmed my decision to never carry any children of my own, it was touching to see how Lucy's son Pal (a nickname she gave him for social media to protect his identity) came into the world. He is one cute kid. ...more
Mar 23, 2019 Hannah Garden rated it really liked it
Shelves: comics, march-2019, jugs-capes
One of Lucy Knisley's undeniable strengths is that she is hardcore a Capricorn: by the age of thirty-one, as she tells you herself in this very book, she'd published five graphic memoirs, each one as cleanly constructed as if from a kit, gleaming with that I-write-outlines-for-my-to-do-lists singlemindedness goats are known for.
I've read almost all of them. They are each of them lovely, bright and tidy as a paperdollhouse. And I slam through them--as unselfconsciously personal memoirs by a One of Lucy Knisley's undeniable strengths is that she is hardcore a Capricorn: by the age of thirty-one, as she tells you herself in this very book, she'd published five graphic memoirs, each one as cleanly constructed as if from a kit, gleaming with that I-write-outlines-for-my-to-do-lists singlemindedness goats are known for.
I've read almost all of them. They are each of them lovely, bright and tidy as a paperdollhouse. And I slam through them--as unselfconsciously personal memoirs by a woman, they are precisely up my alley, and compulsively readable.
And yet every single time I find myself having the same puzzling experience: Why don't I love them?
The Lucy of these memoirs is brimming with self-assurance, and her experiences are of the largely consequence-less, upper-class variety: cultivating a relationship with gourmet food, going to art school, taking European vacations, DIYing a roomily-budgeted wedding.
They are memoirs without stakes, and therefore without urgency: confession without viscera, self-reporting without introspection; more captain's log (the waves and the clouds) than anything scraped up from diving into the wreck (whether blue or breathing).
Even this latest remains perplexingly landlocked. Kid Gloves is about the most harrowing, primeval experience a human can go through, yet Knisley renders it in the same antiseptic pastels with which she drew her wedding plans.
There's this great quote from Aline Kominsky that I don't have memorized but where she talks about what kind of art she likes and she says she likes to see some of the struggle.
That's what I like, too, and it's the opposite of Knisley's work.
You won't see any struggle here: her line is smooth and her palette soothing, with everything from the sweaters to the sidewalks, the bushes to the vaginas, rendered textureless and benign, comprising an evenly contained but eerily shadowless world. Her panel layout is textbook-worthy craftsmanship, sturdy but flexible, creative but compliant.
All of which make for a highly engaging but never quite electric read; she's always a B for me. A gentleman's 6.
So what am I saying here. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy this book. I enjoy all of her books, and I enjoy them progressively more as she goes, so I enjoyed this one the most of all. I'm not even saying it's not a good book: it is a good book, and thorough.
I guess I'm just saying I've been reading Knisley for some years now and I keep waiting for her to mine a gnarlier vein. Which might never happen, because not everyone needs to skin the whole cat, Hannah. A lot of people don't even like skinned cats, OK? You can snuffle your filthy old nose around in your Dirty Laundries and Plottes all you like and then appreciate this on its own merits, for what it is and excels at being: charmingly executed, carefully researched, and another genuinely impressive contribution from a talented, committed creator. ...more
Mar 08, 2019 Elizabeth A rated it really liked it
Shelves: graphix, non-fiction, 2019, memoir
"I was taught how to condom a banana, and to memorize the dates of amnesties, and the life-cycle stages of a pill bug .... But I was never taught about the intertwined history and science of taking care of my own body."
This graphic memoir covers the next phase of the author's life. We've been through her new adulthood, her marriage, and it's now time for the baby carriage.
Unlike her previous works, this one does more than explore her life and foibles. In addition to covering her personal "I was taught how to condom a banana, and to memorize the dates of amnesties, and the life-cycle stages of a pill bug .... But I was never taught about the intertwined history and science of taking care of my own body."
Unlike her previous works, this one does more than explore her life and foibles. In addition to covering her personal experiences as she transitions to being a mother, there is a fun (if a tad horrific) illustrated history and science of reproductive health, with some of the key figures in the field. The art continues to be cutesy, but her talent for story telling has clearly matured. This is her best work yet. ...more
Jun 19, 2019 Stephanie rated it it was amazing
Shortly after I gave birth, I had the sudden realization that "holy SHIT there are hundreds-thousands-millions of women walking around who have also gone through this wildly intense rollercoaster of an experience." And yet - there's not much in the mainstream that really tells the truth about this, which left me scrambling last year to figure out what was going on and what was normal. I loved this graphic memoir for its honesty, humor, and simple offering of firsthand experience.
I've seen plenty Shortly after I gave birth, I had the sudden realization that "holy SHIT there are hundreds-thousands-millions of women walking around who have also gone through this wildly intense rollercoaster of an experience." And yet - there's not much in the mainstream that really tells the truth about this, which left me scrambling last year to figure out what was going on and what was normal. I loved this graphic memoir for its honesty, humor, and simple offering of firsthand experience.
I've seen plenty of reviews that encouraged women newly pregnant or with new babies to read this - and that's true, it's important to have a place to feel seen. BUT I also think people who are never going to be pregnant should also spend some time here. If you're not going to be pregnant yourself, you are going to know someone who is. Being pregnant myself made me want to be honest about what was happening then, and now. I think you'll find this fascinating, learn a bunch, and understand how to love the new parents in your life.
One thing I adored about this book is the history of pregnancy research she dives into, ranging from historical ("the walking uterus") to misconceptions about miscarriage and infertility. She reminds us that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, brings to light the way a woman's pregnant body is treated as a commodity, gets into the not always pleasant but wholly real process of growing another person inside your own body.
An easy five stars with a side of HELL YES. ...more
Mar 22, 2019 Kate ☀️ Olson rated it it was amazing
Shelves: graphic-format, adult-reads
This book blew me away. Kid Gloves is an (adult) graphic-format memoir of trying to conceive, pregnancy and childbirth, and Knisley doesn't hold back in writing and drawing about struggles, grief and ALL of the ups and downs (and physical detail) of this stage of her life. I highly recommend this to anyone who has any interest in this topic as well as to high school health teachers, since the book touches on things the author wishes had been taught in school about birth control.
Dec 31, 2019 Kelly added it
Shelves: read-in-2019, comics-graphic-novels-and-memoirs, non-fiction
My favorite Knisley comic so far. As I was reading this, I realized -- like she does herself -- how few stories of pregnancy focus on the mother and her experiences and needs. This does it, and it made me feel a wave of things, including a lot of anger.
There's so little education and talk about what bodies do or don't do. Those who can give birth are under the impression it's easy. It's not. I know so few who have had easy, uncomplicated pregnancies (let alone births). I didn't know about the My favorite Knisley comic so far. As I was reading this, I realized -- like she does herself -- how few stories of pregnancy focus on the mother and her experiences and needs. This does it, and it made me feel a wave of things, including a lot of anger.
There's so little education and talk about what bodies do or don't do. Those who can give birth are under the impression it's easy. It's not. I know so few who have had easy, uncomplicated pregnancies (let alone births). I didn't know about the ways a body doesn't create the fetus "like it should" until I experienced that myself not too long ago. Seeing it on the page there, her second miscarriage, really knocked the breath out of me, since that was my experience of a few days of potential only to learn that nothing ever happened.
My only wish was more of what did or did not happen with the reproductive endocrinologist, but the fact is there might not have been anything noteworthy there to write about. The breakdown of how insurance and health care for that was a reminder of how lucky I felt when I learned my state requires insurance to cover RE expenses and requires a certain level of coverage for various IUI/IVF procedures.
Just fantastic. After I'd read Knisley's last graphic memoir, I wanted her to move away from her own stories. She does that here, while also making this wholly her story. And it was exactly what I'd hoped for. ...more
Nov 29, 2019 CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian rated it really liked it
Shelves: american, nonfiction, bisexual, motherhood, memoir-bio, graphic-comics
This book is incredible but also scared the crap out of me? Knisley had a pretty brutal time with both pregnancy and birth: 2 miscarriages, all day nausea that lasted the whole first trimester, pre-eclampsia symptoms (which her doctor ignored), a c-section, and then full on eclampsia. I marvel at how she presents all of this extremely vulnerable material in such a matter-of-fact way. She even has her husband do the parts where she was unconscious!
Mar 02, 2019 vanessa rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2019, agn, graphic-memoirs, graphic-novels-comics
Did I heave a nice loud sob at the end? Oh man, I did. Lucy Knisley has developed so much as an artist and storyteller. I loved my time reading this: I learned new things; I smiled at quirky or silly faces (her puking drawings... lol); I laughed out loud (please tell me more about elephant gestation); I nodded slowly reading about miscarriage stats and the maternal mortality crisis affecting the U.S.; and I cried because of what Knisley went through and the book's ending.
If you like learning Did I heave a nice loud sob at the end? Oh man, I did. Lucy Knisley has developed so much as an artist and storyteller. I loved my time reading this: I learned new things; I smiled at quirky or silly faces (her puking drawings... lol); I laughed out loud (please tell me more about elephant gestation); I nodded slowly reading about miscarriage stats and the maternal mortality crisis affecting the U.S.; and I cried because of what Knisley went through and the book's ending.
If you like learning about pregnancy/women's reproductive health from a cultural, political, and health perspective this ponders history and the current day. If you like an intimate and very honest personal perspective in your graphic memoirs, this will also appeal to you. I'm so happy this book was finally published and I totally recommend following Lucy Knisley on Instagram. ...more
Sep 04, 2018 Carol Tilley rated it it was amazing
Shelves: women, comics, illness, health
An important and moving book that's certain to be an Eisner contender for 2019.
Mar 06, 2019 Ashley rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: addictive, memoir, feminism-and-sexuality, graphic-novels-and-comics, science-and-stuff
I always feel the same way when I finish a new Lucy Knisley book. It’s so weird to have followed her since the very beginning of her career (through a stroke of luck, I’ve followed her blog from the beginning, before she published a book, because a friend also followed her), to essentially watch her life progress without having spoken a single word to her. (This is especially true since I started following her on Instagram after her son was born. She’s been posting lots of comics about her I always feel the same way when I finish a new Lucy Knisley book. It’s so weird to have followed her since the very beginning of her career (through a stroke of luck, I’ve followed her blog from the beginning, before she published a book, because a friend also followed her), to essentially watch her life progress without having spoken a single word to her. (This is especially true since I started following her on Instagram after her son was born. She’s been posting lots of comics about her finicky senior cat, Linney, lately, just as a public service announcement.)
Because I followed her on Instagram, I was aware that she’d had a difficult pregnancy and birth, but until reading this, I wasn’t aware quite how difficult.
I’ve always been fascinated with sexuality and the reproductive system, much more so than my peers seemed to be. I remember reading medical texts for fun in the library and online as much as I could while my fellow fifth graders were playing kickball outside, or whatever. Honestly, if I wasn’t so terrified of actually killing someone, I would have probably tried to become an OBGYN or midwife.
Amusingly, Lucy Knisley seems to share my fascination, and like me, she regrets the lack of general education about pregnancy and women’s health. I knew I was going to like this book before I even read it, but when I got to this panel, I was just like, yep:
“I’ve always wanted to know–how did it go?” Me too!
That’s what this book is about, how it went for Lucy, and she talks openly about every aspect, including her difficulties in her pregnancy with Pal (this is a pseudonym she uses for him, short for Little Palindrome, because he was born on a palindromic day) and her miscarriages. There is actually a lot of talk about openness itself, and how even though miscarriage and other reproductive issues are so, so common, no one talks about them, and so nearly every pregnant person who experiences them feels isolated and alone. She tackles the experience of being in a medical system that dismisses patient concerns (Knisley had pre-eclampsia that escalated into eclampsia during labor, and though she noted all the symptoms to her doctor and was worried about them over the course of her pregnancy, he brushed her fears aside as irrelevant, and then she almost died). It was pretty visceral at times, but it was also funny and happy. Her fears and insecurities get just as much play as her excitement and joy over the impending birth of their son.
That would have been enough for me enjoy the book, but it’s also peppered with pregnancy facts throughout history, and some of them are fascinating, and some of them are terrifying. Modern medicine is not perfect, but it’s a lot better than what they used to have, even 100 years ago!
I know she will probably do a book about marriage or motherhood (or both) next, but I would like to nominate a book entirely about Linney the cat, instead, please (or in addition).
[4.5 stars] ...more
Apr 18, 2019 Rod Brown rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Knisley has become one of my favorite memoirists. She balances out the emotional story of her eventful pregnancy with humor and interesting historical facts about gynecology, pregnancy, and childbirth.
It sounds like she's already at work on a book about motherhood, and I'm looking forward to reading that in the near future.
Oct 09, 2018 Marcela rated it it was amazing
Shelves: gns-or-comics, parenting
This gets a high rating because I'm a pregnant lover of comics and this book came along at the perfect time. Kid Gloves will actually be published right around the time when my baby enters the world, so I was thrilled to get an ARC via NetGalley.
I really appreciate Lucy Knisley's candor and humor and how deeply she shares her own experiences of loss and pain and the incredibly bizarre and heartbreaking and wonderful ride that is pregnancy. There aren't enough graphic memoirs about pregnancy out This gets a high rating because I'm a pregnant lover of comics and this book came along at the perfect time. Kid Gloves will actually be published right around the time when my baby enters the world, so I was thrilled to get an ARC via NetGalley.
I really appreciate Lucy Knisley's candor and humor and how deeply she shares her own experiences of loss and pain and the incredibly bizarre and heartbreaking and wonderful ride that is pregnancy. There aren't enough graphic memoirs about pregnancy out there, so I'm grateful to Knisley for sharing her story right when I needed it. I laughed, I cried, I related. Highly recommended for those who are expecting and need a break from the overwhelming crush of pregnancy fact books. ...more
Mar 02, 2019 Elena rated it really liked it
I really enjoyed how she told this story, and I am still RAGING over her doctor's incompetence.
Apr 09, 2019 b.andherbooks rated it it was amazing
Shelves: graphic-novel, pregnancy
Content warning: miscarriage
I adore Lucy Knisley's work, and this book is no exception. I truly appreciated Knisley's open willingness to discuss her struggles with pregnancy. The way she can depict her emotions through her art is just masterful. I also love how she explores history through her own story, and I even learned some new facts about my body that I should have probably known.
That said, if you want to get pregnant, are trying to get pregnant, or are currently pregnant, be sure you want Content warning: miscarriage
That said, if you want to get pregnant, are trying to get pregnant, or are currently pregnant, be sure you want to read and visualize some pretty horrific stuff. Lucy doesn't have an easy pregnancy or labor, so I'm just telling you that in advance. Otherwise, highly recommend! ...more
Oct 30, 2018 Rachel Watkins rated it it was amazing
Shelves: non-fiction-adult, author-coming-to-avid, arc, graphic-novel, new-baby, avid-bookshop-event-book, autobiography, parenting, pregnancy
With brutal honesty and delightful images, Lucy Knisley documents her journey with birth control, pregnancy, and early parenting in KID GLOVES. Her book explores the history of birthing and fills in the gaps on what was blatantly missing in sex ed classes. Highly recommend.
Oct 07, 2019 Kristen Blackton rated it really liked it
Wow. What an amazing graphic memoir. I think I might read anything that Knisley publishes. This was an intimate look at her personal journey to motherhood, but it included so much more! She effortlessly weaved in historical inaccuracies about women's health care, the history of childbirth, and pregnancy myths (the dangerous and the hilarious) as well as empowering all those who choose the path to parenthood. Some of my favorite parts involved her husband's reaction to her pregnancy and Wow. What an amazing graphic memoir. I think I might read anything that Knisley publishes. This was an intimate look at her personal journey to motherhood, but it included so much more! She effortlessly weaved in historical inaccuracies about women's health care, the history of childbirth, and pregnancy myths (the dangerous and the hilarious) as well as empowering all those who choose the path to parenthood. Some of my favorite parts involved her husband's reaction to her pregnancy and subsequent health scares. It gave me some empathy for what my husband will inevitably feel if we ever decide to expand our family. I loved this memoir, and I would highly recommend to anyone really, but especially to those who plan to be parents or already are parents. ...more
Jul 23, 2019 A. David Lewis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Beautiful honest raw painful funny gross suspenseful wry heartfelt informative historical feminist glorious merciful anguished modern eternal loving new
KID GLOVES may be the reason graphic novels are made.
Apr 13, 2019 Suzanne rated it it was amazing
I’ve followed Lucy Knisley’s work since her debut French Milk in 2007. I’ve always found myself kind of connected to her, being that we’re close in age and life milestones. She wrote a book about her wedding not long after I got married, and now she’s published a book on her pregnancy not long after mine. I couldn’t sleep last night so I stayed up into the wee hours reading this beautiful, powerful story. It’s funny, it’s insightful, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s not always for the faint of I’ve followed Lucy Knisley’s work since her debut French Milk in 2007. I’ve always found myself kind of connected to her, being that we’re close in age and life milestones. She wrote a book about her wedding not long after I got married, and now she’s published a book on her pregnancy not long after mine. I couldn’t sleep last night so I stayed up into the wee hours reading this beautiful, powerful story. It’s funny, it’s insightful, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s not always for the faint of heart, particularly Lucy’s traumatic birth story. But I still loved every moment of it. Highly recommended that you check this graphic memoir out, but if you’re pregnant or a new parent, definitely prepare for some tears. ...more
Dec 14, 2019 Stacey rated it it was amazing
Great book for anyone about to start a family or for anyone who is a fan of Lucy Knisely.
May 12, 2019 Emma rated it it was amazing
All of Lucy’s books are perfect
Nov 14, 2019 Arielle ⭐ Cursebreaker ⭐ rated it it was amazing
Shelves: graphic-novels
Wow, this made me feel a much wider range of emotions that I had originally anticipated. I hadn't read what Knisley's story was or the summary of this graphic novel, I honestly just thought this was going to be a run-of-the-mill pregnancy story. Nope, not even close. Knisley unfortunately suffered through a few miscarriages and went to a pretty deep, dark place before she was able to get pregnant with her baby boy. I'm a pretty big watcher of the family vlogger youtube scene and by now I've seen Wow, this made me feel a much wider range of emotions that I had originally anticipated. I hadn't read what Knisley's story was or the summary of this graphic novel, I honestly just thought this was going to be a run-of-the-mill pregnancy story. Nope, not even close. Knisley unfortunately suffered through a few miscarriages and went to a pretty deep, dark place before she was able to get pregnant with her baby boy. I'm a pretty big watcher of the family vlogger youtube scene and by now I've seen quite a few that have gone through some kind of loss. Even though this kind of thing is EXTREMELY hard to read about/watch (especially while pregnant) I think everyone needs to. 1 in 4 people who get pregnant will have a miscarriage. THAT IS CRAZY. That number is so high and still, I can personally feel this stigma around not talking about it, even though I've never had one myself. Like who cares if it makes people feel uncomfortable? That momma needs to grieve and should never have to keep a journey like that all pent up inside just in the face of keeping other people around them comfortable. Phew...
Anyway, I was able to relate to this story in the sense that I developed pre-eclampsia with my first pregnancy, too. My story was thankfully nothing like hers (I didn't find out I had it until week 39 because I wasn't exhibiting any symptoms other than a slowly rising blood pressure and I was induced that night and was able to have the baby vaginally still) but still.....again, knowing that a lot of other people run into that made me feel less...weird? Like I feel weird telling people I had it for some reason because I don't want to make it seem like a big deal but fuck. I had to be on the same drip of magnesium the next day and could barely told Emma because it makes you feel like you've been hit by a dump truck. They've been monitoring me closer this pregnancy because of all that, just in case. Fun stuff!
Also, fuck her doctor. Seriously. Mine is kinda like hers in the sense that our appointments are short and we keep things simple but I KNOW that she would listen to me if I had concerns like Knisley did. I was like shaking the book when I got to that part. You know that happens to so many other women, too. Like by now don't you think that people should trust the mom gut?!?! It's a real thing. ANYWAYYY, I digress. This turned into a pretty long winded review but it felt good to get some of that out. Basically, this is a really great and important read about pregnancy and even just the history of pregnancy, too (which...could be horrifying to read about lol). Definitely will be going to request ALL of her other graphic novels ASAP.
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Dec 29, 2019 Susie rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 2019-reads
I love Lucy Knisley's art and writing. Despite not being pregnant (or wanting to be), she wrote about her experience in her honest, engaging, and charming Lucy way! I love Lucy Knisley's art and writing. Despite not being pregnant (or wanting to be), she wrote about her experience in her honest, engaging, and charming Lucy way! 💖 ...more
Feb 20, 2019 Hal Schrieve rated it liked it
I have followed Knisley’s work since she was in art school and I was a 12 year old on Livejournal. As i watched her grow as an artist and a person, I appreciated the way her scope grew with her—though as she has recently settled into heterosexual marriage with a software engineer, I have felt a prickle of annoyance at the insights she develops about the world. She seems perfectly nice, but also has become someone less likely to ask important questions. For example, I think Relish and An Age Of I have followed Knisley’s work since she was in art school and I was a 12 year old on Livejournal. As i watched her grow as an artist and a person, I appreciated the way her scope grew with her—though as she has recently settled into heterosexual marriage with a software engineer, I have felt a prickle of annoyance at the insights she develops about the world. She seems perfectly nice, but also has become someone less likely to ask important questions. For example, I think Relish and An Age Of License function far better as memoirs than Something New, as a minutae-by-minutae look at heterosexual monogamy is less than thrilling to me.
This book follows Knisley’s journey toward parenthood, and while the qualms about her art and work I have generally persist, I think there should be more writing about the difficulties of pregnancy, more normalization of discussions of birth control, and a broader conversation about the horrific negligence of many doctors toward pregnant women. So I read it —and I think it does something worthwhile to bring up good conversations.
It should be said that Knisley is still a white woman ill-equipped to tell the story of modern gynecology. She’s a memoirist and not a researcher or historian, and it shows. For example, she references the violence toward enslaved black women in the name of science at the hands of James Marion Sims, but decides on not drawing any of these women—even in dignity , even just faces—or conducting more research about them or what their lives might have been like. Instead the women are a black censor bar that says “nope not drawing this” and Knisley depicts their tormenter looking dowdy but human (albeit with many curses around his head). She doesn’t know or doesn’t write about the 20th century campaigns of genocide against black woman and Latina women in the United States or elsewhere, or the conditions of women giving birth in incarceration, though she explores widespread fears of infertility and general decline in U.S birth rates. While she writes about doulas and midwives, she allows her view of natural birth to be influenced by the excruciating pain she was in during her own experience and doesn’t make an effort to include perspectives or voices by other mothers. She also doesn’t mention trans people, which wouldn’t irk me except for the scene where she shows herself wondering “what if men could get pregnant? Would gender exist?” when men can and do get pregnant —and Knisley should know, since she dated a trans man in high school and outed him and his deadname in her first published book.
In short—it’s a memoir, beholden to the same limits as other memoirs by white well to do artists.
But I think within her scope, Knisley does pretty well. She goes over her own complicated history with birth control, talks about the ways that sex ed and planned parenthood both educated her about her own body and failed her, and talks in depth about her miscarriages and final successful pregnancy. Her clean style makes each page easy to read. She notes the ways that different doctors made her uncomfortable, her devastating first trimester morning sickness, and the ways that her husband was impacted emotionally by what she was going through (I think she is too nice to him—I like John less after reading this book for making Lucy think it was necessary to give so much space to his anxieties about the responsibilities of parenthood for him as a dad when Lucy is enduring enormous physical trauma as a part of becoming a parent). She talks about the ways that her doctor ignored clear signs that she was experiencing pre-eclampsia and how her own research gave her information that was sometimes better , but how she felt as if she was not entitled to ask for a second opinion. I think this book could empower many pregnant people to seek more autonomy in their medical care leading up to birth. It also is just a comfort to have a graphic memoir about pregnancy. Something about illustrations makes a piece of media much more accessible.
I appreciate the scenes centering on Knisley’s experience of birth, as it dives into territory too often made mysterious, spiritual or murky and tries to elucidate its details and precise physicality—not in relation to the exit of her baby, but with regards to her epidural, her surgery, her painkillers, and the structure of her multiple hospital visits. The health care system and its failures loom large, and it is worth taking Knisley’s experiences seriously. ...more
Jun 12, 2019 Stewart Tame rated it liked it
More autobiography from Lucy Knisley. She and her husband had a baby, and this book tells you all about it. In between the chapters are tangents dealing with the history of and general information about childbirth.
As with her previous work, this was a delight to read. Knisley has a wonderfully clean, crisp style and a knack for showing just the right amount of detail to make the panels informative, but not overburdened. The story flows nicely, and the historical chapters were fascinating.
I More autobiography from Lucy Knisley. She and her husband had a baby, and this book tells you all about it. In between the chapters are tangents dealing with the history of and general information about childbirth.
I found myself wishing that this book existed back when my wife's and my child was born. Yes, we figured it all out in the end--all parents do--but it would have been nice to have known about a few things that Knisley talks about in advance.
In the end, there's really not much more to say about this. Know only that, in a field ridiculously stuffed with autobiographical comics, Lucy Knisley’s work stands out from the pack. Recommended! ...more
Apr 10, 2019 Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) rated it liked it
Shelves: graphic-memoirs
As someone who has experienced infertility issues followed by a complicated pregnancy and labour, I actually had a lot in common with the author of this graphic memoir. So I was surprised when I didn’t love this one as much as Knisley’s previous work. The story was honest, but it lacked charm. I really disliked the research chapters where she debunked obvious pregnancy myths and discribed obscure history facts. While I did not love this one, I would still recommend it to mothers and 3.5 Stars
As someone who has experienced infertility issues followed by a complicated pregnancy and labour, I actually had a lot in common with the author of this graphic memoir. So I was surprised when I didn’t love this one as much as Knisley’s previous work. The story was honest, but it lacked charm. I really disliked the research chapters where she debunked obvious pregnancy myths and discribed obscure history facts. While I did not love this one, I would still recommend it to mothers and fans of her previous memoirs. ...more
Mar 21, 2019 Jamie rated it it was amazing
Shelves: own-it, best-and-favorites
First, this 5-star glowing review is coming from a woman who never wants to have kids.
I think this would benefit all people, especially women, yes, but also wouldn't it be nice to mail a copy to all the anti-abortion males who think that a pregnant woman should have to have the baby, no matter what. With the historical horrors covered and the author's eye-popping experiences through conception, pregnancy, and birth, it seems like you would have to come face-to-face with your sadism to deny women First, this 5-star glowing review is coming from a woman who never wants to have kids.
I think this would benefit all people, especially women, yes, but also wouldn't it be nice to mail a copy to all the anti-abortion males who think that a pregnant woman should have to have the baby, no matter what. With the historical horrors covered and the author's eye-popping experiences through conception, pregnancy, and birth, it seems like you would have to come face-to-face with your sadism to deny women their reproductive rights.
I loved her layouts and am a fan of her simple illustration style, honest revelations, and informative content. It was especially poignant since I follow her on Instagram and see frequent videos and photos of adorable Pal, but now have an even deeper appreciation of all she went through to be his mom.
Play Book Tag: Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley, 4 stars 1 14 Apr 09, 2019 07:10AM
Sequential Art > Graphic Novels
Autobiography > Memoir
Sequential Art > Comics
About Lucy Knisley
Lucy Knisley
Beginning with an love for Archie comics and Calvin and Hobbes, Lucy Knisley (pronounced "nigh-zlee") has always thought of cartooning as the only profession she is suited for. A New York City kid raised by a family of foodies, Lucy is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago currently pursuing an MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. While completing her BFA at the School of the Beginning with an love for Archie comics and Calvin and Hobbes, Lucy Knisley (pronounced "nigh-zlee") has always thought of cartooning as the only profession she is suited for. A New York City kid raised by a family of foodies, Lucy is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago currently pursuing an MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. While completing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute, she was comics editor for the award-winning student publication F News Magazine.
Lucy currently resides in New York City where she makes comics. She likes books, sewing, bicycles, food you can eat with a spoon, manatees, nice pens, costumes, baking and Oscar Wilde. She occasionally has been known to wear amazing hats.
She can be reached via e-mail at lucylou@gmail.com.
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Bwindi National National Park is situated in south western Uganda, the national park is positioned along the borders of Rwanda and democratic republic of Congo that is close to the Virunga mountain ranges and on the edge of the Albertine rift valley. The national park covers an area of about 331 square kilometers of both the lowland and the montane forest which can be only accessed on foot. Bwindi impenetrable forest national park was designated as a United Nations Educational, cultural and scientific organization by World Heritage site.
Bwindi national park is sheltered by hillsides and covered by one of the oldest and most naturally different rainforest which are for long time ago over 25000 years and consists of 400 species of plants .the area is mainly common for its population of endangered mountain gorillas about 320 mountain gorillas live in this park, it is roughly half of the population of the gorillas in the entire world. Among 320 gorillas there are a number of habituated gorillas which can be tracked.
The forest also provides inhabitants for over 120 mammals such as the antelopes, elephants and this also consist of a number of primates such as chimpanzee, colobus monkeys, baboons an d so many others. There are over 350 different bird species that includes 23 of Albertine rift endemics .around 220 species of butterfly lives within the forest,27 species of frogs, geckos ,chameleon and many more others. The national park is one of the most diverse forests with over 1,000 flowering plant species, of which comprises of over 163 species of trees and 104 ferns.
The national park was divided into different regions from where habituated gorillas can be found. Among the regions includes Buhoma region that consist of 3 groups of habituated gorillas (Rushegura, Habinyanja and Mubare), Ruhija 3 gorilla group (Bitukura,Kyaguriro and Oruzongo),Rushanga 5groups of gorillas(Nshongi, Busingye, Kahugye ,Bweza and Mishaya), and Nkuringo with Nkuringo gorilla group
BACK GROUND.
Around 1932, Bwindi impenetrable forest was nominated as Crown forest reserve with two different blocks .there was southern block that was nominated as Kasatora crown reserve and the nor then labeled as Kayonza crown reserve. These two crowns were found in one region covering an area of 207 square kilometers, later alone in 1942, the two crowns were joined up together and expanded and they came to be known as impenetrable central crown forest. This became anew preserved region sheltering over 298 square kilometer under the combined management of forest departments and the Government of Uganda.
Around 1964, more extra efforts were added to give an additional protection over the region to protect the mountain gorillas that were living in the forest; the area was therefore nominated as animal sanctuary. Later in 1966, the two forest reserves were added to the main reserve which expanded the area about 321 kilometers, the place was still preserved as forest reserve and animal sanctuary.
The impenetrable central forest reserve together with Rwenzori mountains reserve and Mgahinga gorilla reserve, they were titled as National parks and Bwindi impenetrable central forest reserve become to known as Bwindi Impenetrable National Park which was covering an area of 330.8 kilometers (127.7 sq miles).this national park was acknowledged to protect range of different animal species more so the mountain gorillas.
The declaration of the area as National park created a big impact on the pygmy people the Batwa who had occupied most of the park area and they were no more allowed to enter into the park. The National park became one of the major tourist attractions in Uganda by 1993and it was put on the list of World Heritage Centre. The management team of the park was later changed. Uganda National Parks was baptized as Uganda Wildlife Authority that is now responsible for the management of all national parks in Uganda.
When to travel to Uganda for gorilla tracking.
Uganda is known as a entire round travel destination to any of the visitors who are interested in adventuring Uganda. Because of the strategic location of the country, the favorable climate and the position of the equator in the middle of the country makes it the best country destination to travel too. Other more factors such as Lake Victoria, the unique weather conditions makes Uganda the perfect country throught the year.
Uganda has two seasons throught the year, it has two rainy seasons; the short season beginning from October to November and the long rainy season from Mid-march to the end of May. It also has two dry seasons the first season starting from June to September and the second season from December to February .therefore best time, the best months to travel to Uganda would be from June to September and December to February and from June to September.
The average temperatures of Uganda are at 21.5 C and 71 F, these also fall at night time to about 54 F which disturbs the altitude. Rainfall in Uganda varies from 1000-2000mm annually. Although, throughout the year the skies in Uganda are clear which supports most safari vacations. The variations in climate have caused changes in weather patterns hence making it harder to predict the seasons of the tourism year. Therefore you can travel to Uganda any day any time.
Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi.
Trekking gorillas in Bwindi impenetrable forest is one of the profound activities carried out here, it is the highlight to most of the tourists who come to Uganda and they are interested in tracking gorillas. Uganda the pearl of Africa has got wide range of national parks which have got attractive natural wonders, come adventure Uganda and have a life time safari adventure. Uganda is a very safe country and more security is adhered in these national parks. The park comprises of four regions where 12 families or group of habituated gorillas can be tracked and one group is set aside for research , below are the regions together with different groups of gorillas that can be tracked.
Buhoma region.
This region is located in the north of the national park and it comprises of 3 habituated groups of gorillas as shown below.
Rushegura gorilla family.
This group was established in 2002 after I silver back from Habinyanja group had decided to move away.it comprised of 12 members together with 1 silver back and 5 females.it is a very peaceful group and easy to track although previously it could move to Democratic republic of Congo and later return back to Bwindi.it name was got from tree specie known a “Ebishegura” which was everywhere around Buhoma region.
Habinyanja gorilla family.
This group is comprised of 17 members and I silver back.it was the first group of gorillas to be tracked by tourists. The name was derived from the word “Nyanja “which meant water body in the local language.it is one of the most interesting group to track .the members are so playful and there is a lot of comedy and disorder among the members which is as result of continuous fights among the dominant silvers backs who wants to be the leader of the group.
Mubare gorilla family.
This is composed of 12 members and 1 dominant silver back known as Ruhondeza. The group was habituated in 1993 and inhabits in Mubare hills and deep inside the Bwindi forest.at the beginning the group had around 12 members and later alone the size increased to 18 members, but due continues struggles among the group members and movements, the group lost some of its members and apparently they are like 12 members in the family.
Ruhija region.
The region is the east of Bwindi impenetrable national park. The area consist of 3 group of gorillas as shown below.
Bitukura gorilla family.
The group is made up of 12 members and 1 dominant silver back. The name was derived from river where they were sighted first.it is a very calm group and very simple to be tracked, it has 4 giant silver backs together with other playful youths, they have a close relationship and they normally held meetings or get together.
Oruzongo gorilla family.
This has 15 members together with 2 silver backs.it is one of the newly established gorilla family in Bwindi forest which was permitted to be tracked in 2011.th group is also very attractive to track because of its playful juveniles that are more energetic to defend the group.
Kyaguriro gorilla family.
The group consists of 19 members that include 2 silver backs. This is a group that was habituated and set aside for research purposes in the park.
Rushanga.
The region is found in the south of Bwindi impenetrable national park.it has 5 groups of gorilla that are explained below.
Nshongi gorilla group.
The group has 6 members together with1 silver back. The group consisted of about 25 members but later it was split up hence remaining 6 members.it was one of the biggest habituated group and opened to be tracked in 2009.its name was got from Nshongi river where the first gorilla was seen.it led by a young silver back gorilla known as Nshongi.
Busingye gorilla group.
This is made up of 8 members that includes 1 silver back.it is one of the latest family formed after it had split off from the Kahugye family .it was opened for tracking after its habituation in 2011.
Kahugye gorilla group.
The group is composed of 19 members that include its two dominant silver backs known as Rumansi plus the 2 old gorillas named as Rwigi and Ruhamuka.in 2011 that when the group was announced to be tracked, this was a largest group where Busingye gorilla family came from.
Mishaya group.
The group was formed in 2010 when silver back Mishaya decided to leave Nshongi group with 6 members and Mishaya the dominant silver back. The group has 12 members now with 3 infants and Mishaya a giant great fighter who have managed to defend his group.
Bweza gorilla family.
This is one of the Nshongi gorilla groups which were the largest habituated group in Bwindi. The group break off from Mishaya gorilla group with 6 members and I silver back, the group currently has 11 members with 1 silver back.it was also ready to be tracked by 2014.
Nkuringo region.
It is found in the south western of the park and very close to Rushanga. The region has 1 group of gorillas that can be tracked.
Nkuringo gorilla group.
The Nkuringo group is comprised of 14 members together with 2 silver backs. The group was baptized after the Rukiga word for “round hill” and was propelled in 2004.the group used to destroy crops and other products of the local community and this is the reason why the group was habituated.by habituating the group, the local people also wanted to benefit from the tourists who would come to track the group. The group was led by dominant silver back Nkuringo and later gave birth to twins Muhozi and katungi who suddenly passed away at 1 and half age. The group has the most loving young gorillas who at times reach out to touch and see the tourists.
Getting there.
Bwindi can be easily accessed in two ways either by air from Entebbe Airport or Kajjansi Airstrip or by road from Kampala.
From Entebbe, there are programmed airlifts to Kihihi which is near to the northern area of Bwindi and also airlifts to Kisoro which is nearby the Southern part of Bwindi. Flights to Kisoro only depart in the morning while Kihihi has got both morning and afternoon partings from Entebbe. You can also do contract flights from Kajjansi Airstrip to either Kihihi or kisoro.
By road, there are options that include;
From Kampala to Kabale connect to Kanungu and reach Buhoma which has got a good a tarmac road until Kabale for around 414km spending about 6 to 8 hours and then link to a murram road via Kanungu and Kanyantorogo for roughly 120km to reach Buhoma. For the final itinerary, it is highly suggested to have a 4WD vehicle and this ride can take roughly 4 to5 hours.
Kampala-Kabale-Ruhija-Buhoma which takes the same direction as showed above apart from the Kabale-Ruhija-Buhoma section is about 95km on a murram road which is roughly 3 to 4 hours to reach there; it’s advisable to use a 4 WD which is a bit faster.
Kampala-Kabale-Nkuringo continues with similar direction as mentioned above to reach Kabale and this will take around 105 km about 4-5 hours’ drive on a mountainous murram road from Kabale to reach Nkuringo. Tourists like to have an overnight stay in Kisoro which is about 80km from Kabale and in the morning proceed to Nkuringo for gorilla tracking.
From Kampala through Ntungamo to Rukungiri reach Kihihi and then connect Buhoma is viewed as the fastest and straight of all the roads from Kampala and follows a tarmac road to Rukungiri about 390km shadowed by murram roads to Buhoma for roughly 82 km.
There is also a road that goes via Queen Elizabeth National Park through Kihihi and reaches to Buhoma driving through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park well-known for the tree climbing lions. Most times this road is not preferred because of the bridge which keeps on breaking down.
Other more activities in Bwindi impenetrable forest.
Hiking/Nature Walks in Bwindi.
Bwindi is not only gorilla tracking in the forest there are also nature walks or hikes within the forests where we have got six major hiking/walking trails .this will enable and=venture and explore the forest of Bwindi.
Muyanga Waterfall Walk, this starts from Buhoma near River Ivi connect to Nkuringo trail and concludes in the astonishing views of the falls dropping 33 meters long.
Rushura Hill Walk, this goes through one forest connecting two countries. On a vibrant day you can see Lakes Edward and George and the Rwenzori Mountains together with pointed peaks of the Virunga Volcanoes.
Muzubijiro Loop ,this is just is a 6km walk across a hill, where you will meet a number primates along the trial and different birds species plus enjoying the beautiful views of Virunga mountain ranges.
The Ivi River Walk is .this is also 14km and takes roughly seven hours. The trail goes through a place identified as Mukempunu that means “a place of pigs” where wild pigs can frequently be found.
The Buhoma-Nkuringo Trail this takes roughly 3 to 4 hours, and crosses right through the park, joining the two villages and giving striking views of the hazy hillsides as you climb the hills on the way to Nkuringo. You can leave our luggage with your driver, who will meet you at the other side. This trail can also be accomplished as part of the Ivi River Walk.
The Habinyanja (Railegh) this Trajectory consumes only 3 to 4 hours. After adventuring river Munyaga , it takes in a properly steep climb of the Habigorogoro and Riyovi Ridge overseeing Buhoma River. Found along this trail is the legendry “African Corner” baptized after a rock piece portraying a map of Africa. Succeeding the steep climb, strong climbers can enkoy a more relaxed gentle slope to the enormous Habinyanja wetland. Visitors on this trek should watch out for the Pel’s Fishing Owl, African Black Duck and Black Bee Eaters, among others.
Birding in Bwindi
The diverse habitations of Uganda’s oldest forest mean it is the perfect home for a diversity of birds, with 350 species documented, counting 23 endemics (90% of all Albertine Rift endemics) such as the Blue-headed Sunbird and Short-tailed Warbler as well as seven IUCN red statistics listed species. Calm to find are the African Emerald Cuckoo, White-tailed Blue Flycatchers Bulbul, African Blue and and Red-headed Bluebill.
Birding takes place along the main trail, the Buhoma Waterfall Trail and besides the bamboo zone and Mubwindi Swamp trail in Ruhija
Cultural Encounters in Bwindi
Buhoma Community Tours.
Overseeing the magnificent hillsides of Bwindi Impenetrable forest, with mist spinning over the peaks, Buhoma is really histrionic scenery for your cultural tour!
The three-hour village walk starts with a visit to the handcraft shop marketing handmade artifacts such as fabrics, beeswax candles and wood carvings, all manufactured by gifted local craftsmen and women. The bordering Batwa community achieves songs and dances about their former life in the forest, presenting you to another exclusive local culture. You will also encounter the traditional doctor who gives medication to patients with therapeutic plants, and the teachers and pupils of the local primary school. Lastly, you can learn how bananas are used to manufacture juice, beer and gin – and taste the results!
Continue with a visit to fund the local development schemes such as a secondary school, maize mill and microfinance circle, and the Batwa obtains all earnings from their presentations.
Nkuringo Community Conservation and Development Foundation (NCCDF)
Established in a deluxe hillside neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with theatrical views towards Congo, Nkuringo is a delightful place to stopover for those who want both a cultural experience and attractive setting.
A visit to Nicholas the blacksmith reverses time to the Stone Age with the sound of sheepskin roars disgorging air into a charcoal-fired furnace, from which Nicholas catches out red hot metal and strikes it into tools; from knives to machetes. Sesilia salutes you into her family a series of traditional huts covering a millet-grinding stone, cooking pots and apparatus for cleansing local waragi banana gin. Pena is the village´s traditional healer who uses natural plants to make tea, creams and herbal powders that cure a range of diseases.
Cycling/Mountain Biking in Bwindi.
Mountain biking in Bwindi starts from Buhoma at the park headquarters and follows the trial to River Ivi. Expect to encounter a number of wildlife such as red tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys and bushbucks that normally stands along the trail which is 13 meters long. The morning group will take roughly 6 to 7 hours, mountain biking is normally organized by Buhoma community rest camp under the drive for women community development initiative.
Where to stay.
Accommodation.
Bwindi impenetrable forest national park has got a wide range of accommodation from where one can spend a night, the accommodation are arranged in three different categories that is say luxury, mid -range and budget accommodation. You will select any of your preferred accommodation depending on your financial capability and the location of the region where you will track the gorillas; this will be in according to your organized itinerary with us. Below is a list of accommodation in their different gorilla tracking areas.
Where to Stay in Buhoma Area
Buhoma Community Rest Camp
Lake Kitandara chameleon hill.
Engagi lodge
Lake Kitandara Bwindi Camp
.Bwindi View Bandas
CTPH Gorilla Conservation Camp
Gorilla Resort
Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp
Buhoma Lodge
Silverback Lodge
Gorilla Friends Lodge
Mahogany springs camp
Bwindi Guest House
Volcanoes Safaris Bwindi Lodge.
Eco Marvels Gorilla Resort
Jungle View Lodge
Nshongi Area
Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge
Nkuringo Gorilla Camp
Nshongi Camp
Nyundo Valley Hill Bandas
Ruhinja.
Ruhija Gorilla Safari Lodge
Ruhija Gorilla Mist Camp
Trekkers Tavern cottages
Gift of Nature Lodge
Ruhija Gorilla Resort
Ruhija Gorilla Friends Resort & Campsite
Ruhija Community Rest Camp
RUBUGURI
Wagtail Eco-Safari Camp
RUSHAGA
Gorilla Safari Lodge
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GC School tries to find<br>$215,000 in budget cuts
Originally Published: April 24, 2002 6:15 p.m.
GC VILLAGE — Teachers came up with a detailed proposal of cuts for the Grand Canyon School District. Now the school board would like to see the administration and maintenance departments do the same.
At a special budget work session on Tuesday of last week, 21 teachers and a half-dozen other interested community members squeezed into the school library to debate what cuts should be made to balance the budget and provide needed salary increases. Only one day earlier, teachers were told of a significant oversight from two years ago that increased the deficit.
A figure of $215,000 was announced as the target number to be cut from the budget if proposed raises for teachers and other staff were to materialize.
"It appears the figure that we need, to get to the place we discussed, is $215,000," school board president Chuck Wahler said, after looking over figures that had been crunched minutes earlier by financial officer Bonnie Haven. "At this point, I’ll ask administration to get back into a group and look at recommendations you made and these tonight (by teachers). Either come back with a balanced budget that reflects dropping this number, or if you can’t come to this number, what are the salary implications?"
During a special meeting on April 3, Wahler said he wanted to see ideas from all three areas come up with proposals for a cuts. A committee was formed and officials expressed the desire to work together on the problem. However, only the teachers had a detailed presentation ready for the board last week.
"I don’t like seeing separate things out there," teacher DeAnn Ross told the board. "I would like to see the administration and maintenance come up with some different proposals, also."
The school board appeared to agree with those comments. Board member Bess Foster said Andrew Aldaz knows the maintenance department better than anyone, which is the same for others who head up various departments.
Wahler said Foster’s comments were very applicable, adding that each department needs to sit down and come up with ideas. Then the groups could get together and find out what they can live with in terms of cuts. Wahler added, "I’m not betting that’s going to happen."
Wahler said comments made by Ross made a whole lot of sense.
"Something we all have to ask ourselves is to be open-minded about this," Ross said. "$215,000 is a lot of money. It means we can’t come in with a $5,000 proposal. We have to go out there and come up with the hard stuff."
School superintendent Ray Vernon originally suggested a meeting to go over the teachers’ proposal line by line. But after the teachers basically told him, "that’s our proposal, let’s see yours," he strayed away from that idea and said administration and maintenance would now be working to generate another list.
"I’m not trying to be difficult," he said. "I want to try to shift gears and work in this direction."
The teachers put together a computerized slide presentation to detail their ideas for cuts. The theme for the presentation was "keeping cuts away from kids" while maintaining the goals of increasing the base salary to $23,000, providing a 3.2-percent step increase and removing "101" money from the salary schedule.
"Cuts need to be made on items which do not directly affect the students," said Marcus Fuhrman, who was leading the presentation.
The biggest move proposed was moving $102,000 from unrestricted capital funds into the maintenance and operation budget. Haven told the board that once that money is moved, it can never be moved back into unrestricted capital.
"If we cannot move it back, I can’t see us moving anywhere near $100,000," Wahler said. "That means giving up all of our capital money forever."
Wahler showed deep concern over the questions surrounding that particular issue, adding "I need to be crystal clear on this. This is different information than before."
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o Reduce custodial positions by 45 percent, $31,000. Teachers reported that custodial tasks could be reduced by 50 percent.
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When Bryan BParis Paris crossed the $10million milestone for online MTT cashes almost exactly 2 years ago it was just reward for more than a decade of dedication to online poker.
HighstakesDB caught up with the engaging online poker pro to find out what has made him so successful, how he survived Black Friday and the Full Tilt fallout, which sites he loves to play on and much more besides… enjoy this in-depth exclusive interview!
Q: So Bryan where do we begin! Can you give us a brief sentence on who you are and your poker history for any of our readers who don't yet know you?
I've been playing online MTTs full time since graduating from college in 2007, which makes me one of the few survivors who's been doing it full time for that long. I've seen the highs and lows of the industry, from the boom years to Black Friday to the present era. I started twitch streaming in 2016 to reach a wider audience right before becoming the second player to hit $10 million in online cashes, after Chris Moorman.
Q: I was just about to mention you being the $10Million man for online cashes but just noticed this is a distant memory as you have now hit $11.5M. How good does that feel? What's the end goal?
It's nice to have a big number to point to. Now that I hit that big round $10m mark, I haven't been paying as much attention to it, but it felt great to only be the second person to accomplish that. Since then, a few others have passed me, so I don't think I have a great shot at ever becoming #1, but it's still nice to keep padding that stat.
Q: You have seen it all and witnessed all the ups and downs of the online poker industry. What's been your single worst memory along the way? and what's been your best?
My single worst memory was not actually Black Friday itself, but the day Full Tilt shut down to the rest of the world. I still had a ton of money locked up on the site and planned on relocating my account to a different country after the WSOP.
Having the site shut down completely in the middle of what had been a rocky WSOP for me was definitely the worst single moment of my career, I thought all that money was completely gone. Fortunately I got it back in the end.
My best memory was my first major win, beating Shaun Deeb headsup in the FTP sunday brawl for about $90k in 2009. I knew he didn't respect my game much from reading the 2+2 forums - to be fair, I was pretty bad back then - and he laughed off my offer of an even chop hu when I had a 3.2m to 2.8m lead. About 15 minutes later, I emerged victorious for my biggest score by about a factor of 3x at the time.
Q: What's your biggest score? How did that feel?
My biggest score is $111k in a 1k WCOOP, I've had several scores of right around that size but haven't really broken through that barrier. It felt good, but not as good as the first brawl win. When I do get that true breakthrough score, I imagine it will feel very good indeed.
Q: Was there a win/tournament/time where you knew this was the life for you and you would be such a huge success one day?
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The 2nd edition of the Macao Gaming Show (MGS) 2014 attracted a large international audience of C-Level gaming professionals to the Venetian Macao on 18–20 November and has been declared a major success with all Key Performance Indicators (KPI) showing a positive year-on-year trend. Attendance from both visitors and exhibitors were up from last year, and the number of countries being represented at the show had also increased from the first show.
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MGS 2014 opened in style with an address by Jay Chun, Chairman of Macau Gaming Equipment Manufacturers Association (MGEMA) and the organiser of the show. The opening ceremony was attended by the international gaming community and members of the world’s media. Officiating guests from show, such as co-organisers, supporting organizations, and diamond sponsors, graced the opening ceremony including: Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ); Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM); Macao Foundation; Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO); General Association of Administrators and Promoters for Macau Gaming Industry; Associao de Mediadores de Jogos e Entretenimento de Macau; Macau Jockey Club, Macau Slot; Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Company; and representatives from all six gaming concessionaires of Macao.
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On the Sum Capacity of the Discrete Memoryless Interference Channel with One-Sided Weak Interference and Mixed Interference
\authorblockNFangfang Zhu and Biao Chen \authorblockASyracuse University
Department of EECS
Email: fazhu{bichen}@syr.edu
The sum capacity of a class of discrete memoryless interference channels is determined. This class of channels is defined analogous to the Gaussian Z-interference channel with weak interference; as a result, the sum capacity is achieved by letting the transceiver pair subject to the interference communicates at a rate such that its message can be decoded at the unintended receiver using single user detection. Moreover, this class of discrete memoryless interference channels is equivalent in capacity region to certain discrete degraded interference channels. This allows the construction of a capacity outer-bound using the capacity region of associated degraded broadcast channels. The same technique is then used to determine the sum capacity of the discrete memoryless interference channel with mixed interference. The above results allow one to determine sum capacities or capacity regions of several new discrete memoryless interference channels.
I Introduction
The interference channel (IC) models the situation where the transmitters communicate with their intended receivers while generating interference to unintended receivers. Despite decades of intense research, the capacity region of IC remains unknown except for a few special cases. These include interference channels with strong and very strong interference [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] ; classes of deterministic and semi-deterministic ICs [6, 7] ; and classes of discrete degraded ICs [8, 9] .
Parallel capacity results exist for the discrete memoryless IC (DMIC) and the Gaussian IC (GIC). Carleial first obtained capacity region for GIC with very strong interference [1] . This result was subsequently extended by Sato [2] to that of DMICs with very strong interference. Note that the definition of DMIC with very strong interference can actually be broadened to be more consistent with its Gaussian counterpart [10] . Sato [3] and Han and Kobayashi [4] independently established in 1981 the capacity region of GIC with strong interference, where the capacity is the same as that of a compound multiple access channel. In [3] Sato also conjectured the conditions of DMICs under strong interfernce, which was eventually proved by Costa and El Gamal [5] in 1987.
While the capacity region for the general GIC remains unknown, there have been recent progress in characterizing the sum capacity of certain GICs, including: GICs with one-sided weak interference [11] , noisy interference [12, 13, 14] , and mixed interference [13] . This paper attempts to derive parallel sum capacity results for DMICs with weak one-sided and mixed inference. Our definitions of one-sided, weak, or mixed interference are motivated by properties associated with the corresponding Gaussian channels. Some of those definitions are intimately related to those introduced in [15] which studies the capacity region of the discrete memoryless Z-channel.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section II presents the channel model and relevant previous results. Section III defines DMICs with one-sided weak interference and derives their sum capacities. We refer to those DMICs with one-sided interference as DMZIC (i.e., discrete memoryless Z interference channel) for ease of presentation. The equivalence between the DMZIC with weak interference and the discrete degraded interference channel (DMDIC) is established which allows one to construct a capacity outer-bound for the DMZIC using the capacity region of the associated degraded broadcast channel. Section IV defines DMICs with mixed interference and derives the sum capapcity for this class of channels. Section V concludes this paper.
Ii Preliminaries
Ii-a Discrete Memoryless Interference Channels
A DMIC is specified by its input alphabets X1 and X2, output alphabets Y1 and Y2, and the channel transition matrices:
p(y1|x1x2) = ∑y2∈Y2p(y1y2|x1x2), (1)
p(y2|x1x2) = ∑y1∈Y1p(y1y2|x1x2). (2)
The DMIC is said to be memoryless if
p(yn1yn2|xn1xn2)=n∏i=1p(y1iy2i|x1ix2i). (3)
A (n,2nR1,2nR2,λ1,λ2) code for a DMIC with independent information consists of two message sets M1={1,2,⋯,2nR1} and M2={1,2,⋯,2nR2} for senders 1 and 2 respectively, two encoding functions:
two decoding functions:
and the average probabilities of error:
λ1 = 1|M1||M2|2nR1∑w1=12nR2∑w2=1Pr{φ1(y1)≠w1|W1=w1,W2=w2},
λ2 = 1|M1||M2|2nR1∑w1=12nR2∑w2=1Pr{φ2(y2)≠w2|W1=w1,W2=w2}.
A rate pair (R1,R2) is said to be achievable for the DMZIC if and only if there exist a sequence of (2nR1,2nR2,n,λ1,λ2) codes such that λ1,λ2→0 as n→∞. The capacity region of a DMZIC is defined as the closure of the set of all achievable rate pairs.
Ii-B Existing Results for GICs
The received signals of a GIC in its standard form are
Y1 = X1+√aX2+Z1, (4)
Y2 = √bX1+X2+Z2, (5)
where a and b are the channel coefficients corresponding to the interference links, Xi and Yi are the transmitted and received signals, and the channel input sequence Xi1,Xi2,⋯,Xin is subject to the power constraint n∑j=1X2ij≤nPi, i=1,2, Z1 and Z2 are Gaussian noises with zero mean and unit variance, independent of X1,X2.
Sason in [11] proved that the sum capacity for GICs with one-sided weak interference (a<1 and b=0) is
12log(1+P2)+12log(1+P11+aP2).
Motahari and Khandani in [13] established that the sum capacity for GICs with mixed interference (a≤1 and b≥1) is
min{12log(1+P11+aP2),12log(1+bP11+P2)}+12log(1+P2).
We attempt to extend these results to DMICs with appropriately defined one-sided weak interference and mixed interference.
Ii-C Useful Properties of Markov Chains
The following properties of Markov chains are useful throughout the paper:
Decomposition: X−Y−ZW⟹X−Y−Z;
Weak Union: X−Y−ZW⟹X−YW−Z;
Contraction: (X−Y−Z) and (X−YZ−W)⟹X−Y−ZW.
Iii The DMZIC with Weak Interference
Iii-a Discrete Memoryless Z-Interference Channel
For the DMIC defined in Section II-A, if
p(y2|x2)=p(y2|x1x2), (6)
for all x1, x2, y2, or equivalently,
X1−X2−Y2 (7)
forms a Markov chain, this DMIC is said to have one-sided interference.
We refer to such DMIC as simply DMZIC. The definition is a natural extension of that for Gaussian ZIC where X2 causes interference on Y1. From the definition, it follows that X1 and Y2 are independent for all input distribution p(x1)p(x2).
To define DMZIC with weak interference, we first revisit some properties of Gaussian ZIC with weak interference. Similar to that established in [15] , it is straightforward to show that a Gaussian ZIC with weak interference is equivalent in its capacity region to a degraded Gaussian ZIC satisfying the Markov chain
X2−(X1,Y2)−Y1. (8)
This is referred in [15] as degraded Gaussian Z channel of type-I. This motivates us to define DMZIC with weak interference as follows.
A DMZIC is said to have weak interference if the channel transition probability factorizes as
p(y1y2|x1x2)=p(y2|x2)p′(y1|x1y2), (9)
for some p′(y1|x1y2), or, equivalently, the channel is stochastically degraded.
In the absence of receiver cooperation, a stochastically degraded interference channel is equivalent in its capacity to a physically degraded interference channel. As such, we will assume in the following that the channel is physically degraded, i.e., the DMZIC admits the Markov chain X2−(X1,Y2)−Y1. As a consequence, the following inequality holds
I(U;Y2)≥I(U;Y1|X1), (10)
for all input distributions p(x1)p(u)p(x2|u).
The channel transition probability p(y1y2|x1x2) becomes
p(y1y2|x1x2) = p(y2|x1x2)p(y1|x1x2y2)
= p(y2|x2)p(y1|x1y2).
The above definition of weak interference leads to the following sum capacity result.
The sum capacity of a DMZIC with weak interference as defined above is
Csum=maxp(x1)p(x2){I(X1;Y1)+I(X2;Y2)}. (11)
{proof}
This sum rate is achieved by two receivers decoding their own messages while treating any interference, if present, as noise.
For the converse,
n(R1+R2)−nϵ
\lx@stackrel(a)≤ I(Xn1;Yn1)+I(Xn2;Yn2)
\lx@stackrel(b)= n∑i=1(H(Y1i|Yi−11)−H(Y1i|Yi−11Xn1)+H(Y2i|Yi−12)
−H(Y2i|Yi−12Xn2))
\lx@stackrel(c)≤ n∑i=1(H(Y1i)−H(Y1i|Yi−11Xn1Yi−12)+H(Y2i|Yi−12)
−H(Y2i|Yi−12X2i))
\lx@stackrel(d)= n∑i=1(H(Y1i)−H(Y1i|Xn1Yi−12)+I(X2i;Y2i|Ui))
\lx@stackrel(e)= n∑i=1(H(Y1i)−H(Y1i|X1iYi−12)+I(X2i;Y2i|Ui))
= n∑i=1(I(UiX1i;Y1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|Ui))
= n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(Ui;Y1i|X1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|Ui))
\lx@stackrel(f)≤ n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(Ui;Y2i)+I(X2i;Y2i|Ui))
= n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(UiX2i;Y2i))
\lx@stackrel(g)= n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(X2i;Y2i)),
where Ui≜Yi−12 for all i, (a) follows the Fano’s Inequality, (b) is from the chain rule and the definition of mutual information, (c) is because of the fact that conditioning reduces entropy, and that Y2i is independent of any other random variables given X2i, (d) is due to the memoryless property of the channel and the fact that Y1i is independent of any other random variables given X1i and Y2i, then (Xn1,i,Y1i)−(Xi−11,Yi−12)−Yi−11 forms a Markov chain. By the weak union property, the Markov chain Y1i−(Xn1,Yi−12)−Yi−11 holds; (e) is because of the Markov chain (Xi−11,Xn1,i+1)−(X1i,Yi−12)−Y1i. The easiest way to prove it is using the Independence Graph. Alternatively, we first note that the Markov chain
(Xi−11,Xn1,i+1,Yi−12)−(X1i,Y2i)−Y1i
holds, since given X1i and Y2i, Y1i is independent of Xi−11,Xn1,i+1,Yi−12. By the weak union property, the following Markov chain is obtained:
(Xi−11,Xn1,i+1)−(X1i,Yi2)−Y1i.
Together with the Markov chain
(Xi−11,Xn1,i+1)−X1i−Yi2
because of the independence between Yn2 and Xn1, we get the Markov chain:
(Xi−11,Xn1,i+1)−X1i−(Y1i,Yi2)
by the contraction property. Again, using the weak union property and then the decomposition property, we obtain the Markov chain
(Xi−11,Xn1,i+1)−(X1i,Yi−12)−Y1i
as desired. Since Ui and X1i are independent, then p(x1x2u)=p(x1)p(u,x2), thus (f) comes from (10). Finally, (g) follows from the Markov chain Ui−X2i−Y2i. At last, by introducing a time-sharing random variable Q, one obtains
R1+R2 ≤ I(X1;Y1|Q)+I(X2;Y2|Q)+ϵ
≤ maxp(x1)p(x2){I(X1;Y1)+I(X2;Y2)}+ϵ.
Remark 1: The Markov chain (8) is a sufficient, but not necessary, condition for the mutual information condition
I(X2;Y1|X1)≤I(X2;Y2), (12)
for all product input distribution on X1×X2. One can find examples such that the mutual information condition holds but the Markov chain is not valid. This is different from that of the Gaussian case; it can be shown that the coefficient a≤1 in a Gaussian ZIC is a sufficient and necessary condition for (12) to hold. It is yet unknown if condition (12) is sufficient for the sum capacity result (11) to hold for DMZIC with weak interference.
Iii-B Capacity Outer-bound for DMZIC with Weak Interference
For Gaussian ZICs with weak interference, Sato [2] obtained an outer-bound using the capacity region of a related Gaussian broadcast channel constructed due to the equivalence in capacity between a GZIC with weak interference and a degraded GIC. The same technique can be used to obtain a capacity outer-bound for DMZIC with weak interference, i.e., that satisfies the Markov chain X2−(X1,Y2)−Y1. Specifically, for any such DMZIC with weak interference, one can find an equivalent (in capacity region) DMDIC whose capacity region is bounded by that of an associated degraded broadcast channel.
For a DMZIC that satisfies the Markov chain X2−X1Y2−Y1, the capacity region is outer-bounded by
ROB=¯¯¯¯¯co⎧⎨⎩⋃p(u)p(x1x2|u)(R1,R2)∣∣∣R1≤I(U;Y1),R2≤I(X1X2;Y′2|U)⎫⎬⎭,
where U−X1X2−Y′2−Y1 forms a Markov chain and ∥U∥=min{∥Y1∥,∥Y′2∥,∥X1∥⋅∥X2∥}.
Suppose that the DMZIC with weak interference has inputs and outputs X1, X2 and Y1, Y2 respectively. Let us denote by X′1, X′2 and Y′1, Y′2 the inputs and outputs of another DMIC. Set X′1=X1, X′2=X2, and Y′1=Y1 but define Y′2 to be a bijection of X1 and Y2, denoted as Y′2=f(X1,Y2). As the Markov chain (X′1,X′2)−Y′2−Y′1 holds, the DMIC specified by the input pair (X′1,X′2), and the output pair (Y′1,Y′2) is indeed a DMDIC.
The proof that this DMDIC has the same capacity region as the specified DMZIC, and hence is outer-bounded by the associated broadcast channel follows in exactly the same fashion as Costa’s proof for the Gaussian case [16] , hence is omitted here.
Remark 2: The output Y′2 need not necessarily be a bijection function of X1 and Y2; instead, depending on the transition probability p(y1|x1y2), other Y′2 can be constructed. However, the associated broadcast channels would have the same the capacity region. It will become clear in the following example.
Iii-C Numerical Example
Let ∥X1∥=∥X2∥=∥Y1∥=∥Y2∥=2 and the channel transition probability be given by
p(y1y2|x1x2)=p(y2|x2)p(y1|x1y2),
where p(y2|x2) and p(y1|x1y2) are specified in Table I.
p(y2|x2)
y2=0
p(y1|x1y2)
x2=0
x1y2=00 or 11 .75 .25
x1y2=01 or 10 0 1
TABLE I: Channel Transition Probabilities
By Theorem 1, the sum capacity is
Csum=maxp(x1)p(x2)I(X1;Y1)+I(X2;Y2)≈.531.
Moreover, one can construct Y′2 as follows:
Y′2={0, if x1y2=00 or 11,1, otherwise.
Then p(y′2|x1x2) is given in Table II.
p(y′2|x1x2)
y′2=0
x1x2=00 .1 .9
TABLE II: P(Y′2|X1X2)
Using Theorem 2, the capacity region of the DMZIC is outer-bounded by that of the associated DMDBC:
If one takes the bijection function to construct Y′2, it will lead to the same outer-bound. If we fix R2 to be x, then
maxR2=xR1 = maxH(Y′2|U)=x+h2(.1)H(Y1)−H(Y1|U)
≤ log(|Y1|)−fT(x+h2(.1)),
where fT(⋅) is a function defined by Witsenhausen and Wyner [17] . Fig. 1 depicts the new outer-bound specified by
R′OB={(R1,R2)|R1≤log|Y1|−fT(x+h2(.1)),R2≤x}.
This new outer-bound significantly improves upon the following bound
R1 ≤ I(X1;Y1|X2),
R2 ≤ I(X2;Y2),
R1+R2 ≤ I(X1;Y1)+I(X2;Y2).
Fig. 1: Comparison of the outer-bounds.
Iv The DMIC with Mixed Interference
A DMIC is said to have mixed interference if it satisfies the Markov chain
X2−(X1,Y2)−Y1 (13)
I(X1;Y1|X2)≤I(X1;Y2|X2) (14)
for all possible product distributions on X1×X2.
This definition is motivated by GIC with mixed interference, which can be shown to be equivalent in capacity region to a degraded GIC satisfying (13) by setting p(y1y2|x1x2)=p(y2|x1x2)p′(y1|x1y2), where p′(y1|x1y2) is normal distribution with mean (1−√ab)x1+√ay2 and variance 1−a. The sum capacity for GIC with mixed interference was established in [13] . We obtain a parallel result for the DMIC with mixed interference as defined above.
The sum capacity of the DMIC with mixed interference satisfying the two conditions (13) and (14) is
maxp(x1)p(x2){I(X2;Y2|X1)+min{I(X1;Y1),I(X1;Y2)}}. (15)
In order to achieve this sum rate, user 1 transmits its message at a rate such that both receivers can decode it by treating the signal from user 2 as noise; user 2 transmits at the interference-free rate since receiver 2 is able to subtract the interference from user X1.
For the converse, we prove the following two sum rate bounds separately:
n(R1+R2) ≤ n∑i=1I(X1iX2i;Y2i), (16)
n(R1+R2) ≤ n∑i=1I(X1i;Y1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|X1i). (17)
For (16), the derivation follows the same steps as Costa and El Gamal’s result [5] . For (17), we use similar techniques for establishing the sum capacity of the DMZIC with weak interference in Section III. First, notice that (13) implies
I(U;Y1|X1)≤I(U;Y2|X1) (18)
for any U whose joint distribution with X1,X2,Y1,Y2 is
p(u,x1,x2,y1,y2)=p(u)p(x1x2|u)p(y1y2|x1x2). (19)
\lx@stackrel(a)≤ I(Xn1;Yn1)+I(Xn2;Yn2|Xn1)
= n∑i=1(H(Y1i|Yi−11)−H(Y1i|Yi−11Xn1)+H(Y2i|Yi−12Xn1)
−H(Y2i|Yi−12Xn2Xn1))
\lx@stackrel(b)≤ n∑i=1(H(Y1i)−H(Y1i|Yi−11Xn1Yi−12)+H(Y2i|UiX1i)
−H(Y2i|X2iX1iUi))
= n∑i=1(I(UiX1i;Y1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|UiX1i))
= n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(Ui;Y1i|X1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|UiX1i))
\lx@stackrel(c)≤ n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(Ui;Y2i|X1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|UiX1i))
\lx@stackrel(d)= n∑i=1(I(X1i;Y1i)+I(X2i;Y2i|X1i)),
where (a) is because of the independence between Xn1 and Xn2; (b) is from the fact that conditioning reduces entropy and Ui≜(Xi−11Xn1,i+1,Yi−12); (c) is from (18); and (d) is because the memoryless property of the channel and (19). Finally, from (16) and (17), we have
R1+R2 ≤ maxp(x1)p(x2)I(X1X2;Y2),
R1+R2 ≤ maxp(x1)p(x2)I(X1;Y1)+I(X2;Y2|X1),
We give the following example where the obtained sum capacity helps determine the capacity region of a DMIC.
Consider the following deterministic channel:
Y1 = X1⋅X2,
Y2 = X1⊕X2,
where the input and output alphabets X1, X2, Y1 and Y2={0,1}. Notice that this channel does not satisfy the condition of the deterministic interference channel in [6] . Obviously, the Markov chain (13) holds. Moreover,
I(X1;Y1|X2) = H(Y1|X2)=p(x2=1)H(X1),
I(X1;Y2|X2) = H(Y2|X2)=H(X1).
I(X1;Y1|X2)≤I(X1;Y2|X2),
for all possible input product distributions on X1×X2. Therefore, this is a DMIC with mixed interference. Apply Theorem 3, we compute the sum capacity is
Csum = maxp(x1)p(x2)[min(I(X1X2;Y2),I(X1;Y1)+I(X2;Y2|X1))]
= 1.
Given that (1,0) and (0,1) are both trivially achievable, the above sum capacity leads to the capacity region for this DMIC to be {(R1,R2):R1+R2≤1}.
V Conclusion
In this paper, we derived the sum capacity for the DMZICs with weak interference where weak interference is defined using a Markov condition. Similar techniques are then applied to derive the sum capacity for DMIC with mixed interference. Both results are analogous to the sum capacity results for the corresponding Gaussian channel, both in the expression of the capacity and in the encoding schemes that achieve the capacity.
The weak interference condition is defined using a Markov chain, as opposed to that using the mutual information inequality. While it appears to be somewhat restrictive, it is not known whether the definition using the mutual information condition will lead to the same sum capacity result.
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Natsuya Uesugi coming soon, grydscaen 0 0
What next for grydscaen?
So we are finally working on the last grydscaen book in the main series entitled grydscaen: scout. This book is part of the Techno Thriller series featuring Rom the teenage homeless Level 9 hacktivist for the Packrats. The story features Rom, Jester, Faid, Jazz and Raven the main characters we encountered in grydscaen: dark. grydscaen: scout is the sequel to grydsacen: dark and picks up where that story left off. grydscaen: scout includes a twist that readers will not expect going into the book which is the culmination of the entire grydscaen series. Lino Dejarre the Emperor of the Pacific Territories is also featured.
This month I submitted grydscaen: imperium for publication. We are currently in production. imperium is the 10th book in the main grydscaen series and brings the series to its culmination. Also going on we bring the main grydscaen series to a conclusion with imperium. It has been a long time coming with multiple volumes but imperium marks the culmination of the epic series. After imperium we will be publishing the two backstory books and scout which will finish off the series.
What do you think about bringing the grydscaen series to conclusion?
The grydscaen series has been a labour of love and a lot of work and time was put into it. grydscaen started when I was in junior high school when the first hacker character Rom was created and Lino Dejarre who was in another story called Eton Boy’s Jacket was brought into grydscaen which at the time was called gridscan which the name still means network like its original spelling and can be seen in the series. Though the title changed to grydscaen the meaning of the network of everything and everything connected remained. The gridscaen is the network. That was the original idea behind the series where hackers rule the day.
Why is grydscaen such an epic?
The world of grydscaen is really rich and includes so much history and culture that multiple volumes were required to showcase everything in the world. The world is still larger than the main series and after grydscaen is over there will be publication of the Prophet trilogy which explores the religious aspects of the world and the Prophets and their beliefs. Taking place 10 years after the main grydscaen story ends, the Prophet trilogy explores things that we could not really touch inn the main series. Characters in imperium take front and center, and we get to see Lino in a way we have never really sen him before, as a father and a parent, still the Emperor of the Pacific Territories. I wanted Lino to grow up since the main grydscaen series starts with him at age 10, then 17 in grydscaen: sheer which is the book to be published in May and 19 in grydscaen: utopia which was previously published. The story is epic because the world is so rich and many facets and commentary about today’s society is ripe in the story. I make commentary on everything from mental health, to gay marriage in the mate pair ceremonies, transgender rights, gays in the military, homelessness, the drug industry, climate change, nuclear war and drug addiction. All these things have their place in the grydscaen world.
Who is your favorite grydscaen character?
Well that is hard to say. I like Faid Callen the leader of the Packrat hackers and a host, I like Lino Dejarre the Emperor and I like Jester the insane blackhat hacker but I would have to say my favorite character who is on the cover of grydscaen: dark and the first hacker character I created in the ninth grade would have to be the homeless teenage hacktivist Rom. Why do I like Rom because he has so much going against him but still seems hopeful even in the face of adversity.
What comes next after grydscaen?
Well the Prophet trilogy comes after grydscaen and we will start publishing volumes in that series this summer. The Prophet trilogy explores the esoteric side of religion in the grydscaen world and delves into the mythology around the Prophet Shrine in the Zone and you learn more about the spiritual leader of the Packrats named Aiken who we see near the end of grydscaen: imperium.
Who are the main characters of the Prophet trilogy?
The main character of the Prophet trilogy which takes place over a period of 7 years is Amiael Saren Aiken who is the young ten year old Prophet when we first meet him. Trained in the religious tenets of the Prophets from a young child he grew up at the Prophet Shrine in the Zone. He was raised by his mother the Jannai shapeshifter Ciel and his spiritual teacher Aiken, spiritual leader of the Packrats. Amieal has a sacred charge that is his destiny and we follow his training and the ups and downs of his teenage years in the series as he plans and trains for his mission he will undertake at age 17, his destiny. There are many secrets in Amiael’s life that I will not reveal here but they will have a large impact on the Empire and Lino Dejarre the Emperor of the Pacific Territories.
What does it feel like to come to the end of the grydscaen series?
It is bittersweet that the grydscaen main series will come to an end but the story has a rightful conclusion and we are finally there with grydscaen: imperium. It has been 9 years since we published the first book grydscaen: retribution. When I wrote retribution I set out to write a single book but when that one was done there was just more to write. Now that we are at the end, it has been an awesome journey and I have learned not only a lot about the grydscaen world and its characters but I have learned a lot about myself emotionally, personally and as a writer. This has been a great journey and I would not change any of the ups and downs that I experienced as the series was published. This has been an awesome ride and I hope you like the climax grydscaen: imperium as much as I do. Stick around for the Prophet trilogy to learn more about the religious aspects of the grydscaen world and as grydscaen signs off I leave you with Rom’s favorite phrase: Hackers Unite! Hack Till You’re Dead! All Hail the Packrat Code!
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Chapter 14: Guṇa Traya Vibhāg Yog
Yog through Understanding the Three Modes of Material Nature
The previous chapter explained in detail the distinction between the soul and the material body. This chapter describes the nature of the material energy, which is the source of the body and its elements, and is thus the origin of both mind and matter. Shree Krishna explains that material nature is constituted of three modes (guṇas)—goodness, passion, and ignorance. The body, mind, and intellect that are made from the material energy also possess these three modes, and the mix of the modes in our being determines the color of our personality. The mode of goodness is characterized by peacefulness, well-being, virtue, and serenity; the mode of passion gives rise to endless desires and insatiable ambitions for worldly enhancement; and the mode of ignorance is the cause for delusion, laziness, intoxication, and sleep. Until the soul attains illumination, it must learn to deal with these three powerful forces of material nature. Liberation lies in transcending all three of these modes.
Shree Krishna reveals a simple solution for breaking out of the bondage of these guṇas. The Supreme Lord is transcendental to the three modes, and if we attach ourselves to him, then our mind will also rise to the divine platform. At this point, Arjun enquires about the characteristics of those who have gone beyond the three guṇas. Shree Krishna then systematically explains the traits of such liberated souls. He explains that illumined persons remain ever equipoised; they are not disturbed when they see the guṇas functioning in the world, and their effects manifesting in persons, objects, and situations. They see everything as a manifestation of God’s energies, which are ultimately in his hands. Thus, worldly situations neither make them jubilant nor miserable, and without wavering, they remain established in the self. The chapter ends with Shree Krishna again reminding us of the power of devotion and its ability to make us transcend the three guṇas.
The Divine Lord said: I shall once again explain to you the supreme wisdom, the best of all knowledge; by knowing which, all the great saints attained the highest perfection.
Those who take refuge in this wisdom will be united with me. They will not be reborn at the time of creation nor destroyed at the time of dissolution.
The total material substance, prakṛiti, is the womb. I impregnate it with the individual souls, and thus all living beings are born. O son of Kunti, for all species of life that are produced, the material nature is the womb, and I am the seed-giving Father.
O mighty-armed Arjun, the material energy consists of three guṇas (modes)—sattva (goodness), rajas (passion), and tamas (ignorance). These modes bind the eternal soul to the perishable body.
Amongst these, sattva guṇa, the mode of goodness, being purer than the others, is illuminating and full of well-being. O sinless one, it binds the soul by creating attachment for a sense of happiness and knowledge.
O Arjun, rajo guṇa is of the nature of passion. It arises from worldly desires and affections, and binds the soul through attachment to fruitive actions.
O Arjun, tamo guṇa, which is born of ignorance, is the cause of illusion for the embodied souls. It deludes all living beings through negligence, laziness, and sleep.
Sattva binds one to material happiness; rajas conditions the soul toward actions; and tamas clouds wisdom and binds one to delusion.
Sometimes goodness (sattva) prevails over passion (rajas) and ignorance (tamas), O scion of Bharat. Sometimes passion (rajas) dominates goodness (sattva) and ignorance (tamas), and at other times ignorance (tamas) overcomes goodness (sattva) and passion (rajas).
When all the gates of the body are illumined by knowledge, know it to be a manifestation of the mode of goodness. When the mode of passion predominates, O Arjun, the symptoms of greed, exertion for worldly gain, restlessness, and craving develop. O Arjun, nescience, inertia, negligence, and delusion—these are the dominant signs of the mode of ignorance.
Those who die with predominance of sattva reach the pure abodes (which are free from rajas and tamas) of the learned. Those who die with prevalence of the mode of passion are born among people driven by work, while those dying in the mode of ignorance take birth in the animal kingdom.
It is said the fruit of actions performed in the mode of goodness bestow pure results. Actions done in the mode of passion result in pain, while those performed in the mode of ignorance result in darkness.
From the mode of goodness arises knowledge, from the mode of passion arises greed, and from the mode of ignorance arise negligence and delusion.
Those situated in the mode of goodness rise upward; those in the mode of passion stay in the middle; and those in the mode of ignorance go downward.
When wise persons see that in all works there are no agents of action other than the three guṇas, and they know me to be transcendental to these guṇas, they attain my divine nature.
By transcending the three modes of material nature associated with the body, one becomes free from birth, death, disease, old age, and misery, and attains immortality.
Arjun inquired: What are the characteristics of those who have gone beyond the three guṇas, O Lord? How do they act? How do they go beyond the bondage of the guṇas?
The Supreme Divine Personality said: O Arjun, The persons who are transcendental to the three guṇas neither hate illumination (which is born of sattva), nor activity (which is born of rajas), nor even delusion (which is born of tamas), when these are abundantly present, nor do they long for them when they are absent. They remain neutral to the modes of nature and are not disturbed by them. Knowing it is only the guṇas that act, they stay established in the self, without wavering.
Those who are alike in happiness and distress; who are established in the self; who look upon a clod, a stone, and a piece of gold as of equal value; who remain the same amidst pleasant and unpleasant events; who are intelligent; who accept both blame and praise with equanimity; who remain the same in honor and dishonor; who treat both friend and foe alike; and who have abandoned all enterprises – they are said to have risen above the three guṇas.
Those who serve me with unalloyed devotion rise above the three modes of material nature and come to the level of Brahman.
I am the basis of the formless Brahman, the immortal and imperishable, of eternal dharma, and of unending divine bliss.
14. Guṇa Traya Vibhāg Yog
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Ghost Town Media on the Making of the Video for Linkin Park’s ‘A Light That Never Comes’
During the two months they worked on the video, the biggest challenge Ghost Town Media faced was the sheer expansiveness of the piece, Parvini says. Because CG is ubiquitous these days, it’s easy to take for granted what it takes to create an entire digital world. But for a small production house, the reality is “you’re wrangling a monster,” he explains.
“We had to build the whole place brick by brick, and having to make everything, gather all of the assets and drop them in all scenes was really challenging. I think at one point we had about 70,000 buildings in our city setup, which is around the same as Manhattan.” (Watch the process video here.)
It helped that they were able to use CINEMA 4D’s MoGraph to clone many of the buildings they needed.
Combining stock models and custom-built building structures, Ghost Town used cloned instances in CINEMA 4D to allow for quick population of buildings across specific segments of the city. Using the instance cloner system after the buildings were populated allowed Ghost Town to quickly adjust positions and final angles.
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Significant 3D Printed Rocket Engine Milestone Reached
Aerojet Rocketdyne is pushing the 3D printing envelope once again with their latest tests. They recently reported two milestones that have been reached in the development of the 3D printed AR1 rocket engine.
Due to the outcomes of their testing, the AR1 rocket engine is now slated for certification by 2019 which will replace the Russian made RD-180 engine.
According to Aerojet, the “AR1 is the lowest-risk, lowest-cost-to-the-taxpayer and fastest path to eliminating U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers.”
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This milestone by Aerojet Rocketdyne also moves them a step closer to fulfilling a congressional mandate to end U.S. dependence on Russian engine technology for military launches. The company says that 3D printing is what has enabled them to get to this point.
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Can 3D Metal Printed Rocket Parts Hold Up To Stress Tests?
As part of it’s AR1 booster engine project, Aeroject Rocketdyne put some 3D printed rocket parts under fire. The parts were subjected to a round of hot-fire tests in preparation for an AR1 engine production by 2019. Can 3D Printed parts hold up to such strenuous and exhaustive testing?
A little background. Aerojet Rocketdyne is currently developing the AR1 for full production. The AR1 is a 500,000 lb thrust-class liquid oxygen/kerosene booster engine which is an American-made alternative to the likes of the Russian built RD-180. Aerojet is preparing for the replacement of the RD-180 due to a new rule from the National Defense Authorization Act which was enacted in 2015 that calls for the replacement of the RD-180 for “national security space launches by 2019.”
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In order to bring the AR1 to market by 2019, testing has to begin now and it’s an incredible amount of heat and stress they are placing these 3D metal printed parts under. The motivation for these hot-fire tests was an evaluation of various main injector element designs and fabrication methods.
A few of the injectors were fabricated using Selective Laster Melting (SLM) and Aerojet has invested heavily into the use of SLM capabilities for rocket engine applications.
Aerojet Rocketdyne fully believes that the AR1 single-element hot-fire tests are the highest pressure hot-fire tests (over 2,000 psi) of a 3D metal printed part in rocket engine application. Because of the success of these tests, Aerojet Rocketdyne says that 3D metal printing will account for a potential 70% reduction in cost for production of the main injector, and a possible nine-month reduction in part lead times.
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Whats is the definition of “game changer” for metals manufacturing? Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), a 3D printing process that eliminates binding agents and uses 400-1000 W lasers to melt micro powders together, layer by layer until a 3D CAD model of a part is built, is one of the 3D manufacturing processes that are the the epitome of “game changer” according to Hod Lipson or Cornell University. Read more
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3D metal printing is in its element when it comes to production parts at micro scales. While machine development is focusing on creating DMLS paltforms that can print parts over 14″, Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), current DMLS capabilities are perfect for small, complex parts. 3D printing enables i3D MFG™ to deliver integral tiny, complex parts in Aluminum, Titanium, Maraging Steel, Stainless Steel and Inconel to Aerospace, Prosthetics, Medical Devise, UAV/UAS, Rocket/Spacecraft, Oil & Gas, Firearms, and Recreational Gear industries. For the part shown, a .015″ (15 thousandths of an inch) high latticed geometry was grown in Maraging (tool) steel. Machining the tiny part out of such a tough metal was expensive and problematic. Since DMLS build parts from mirco powder layers, laser melted together one micro layer at a time, 3D printing precise micro geometries is not much more difficult than printing large bulky parts – in fact, the larger the mass on a DMLS machine, the greater the risk of delamination and failed builds.
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Study Shows DMLS Most Effective Way to Produce Heat Sinks
A recent Plunkett Associates study looked at a variety of methods to build more efficient heat sinks and it concluded that, “The five best performing heat sinks were built using DMLS.” They further concluded that all five cases showed a consistent heat source temperature when compared to traditional extruded and stamped 2D processes. A different IOP Science study examined the impact of DMLS surface roughness on heat sink performance and concluded, ” Our results offer an evidence of the possible impact of DMLS on electronic cooling since a 50% and 20% enhancement (compared to milled samples) is observed for flat and finned heat sinks, respectively… These results open the way for a huge boost in the technology of electronic cooling by DMLS.”
i3D MFG™ has produced several successful heat sink projects for a variety of aerospace and UAV companies using our DMLS Aluminum. In addition to the conformal cooling channels and the surface roughness advantages, client can also produce multiple designs on one build for testing and then come back and do production runs on the bets performing design. i3D™ also 3D prints in Titanium, Stainless Steel, Maraging Steel, and Inconel.
Oregon Welcomes i3D MFG™ 3D Metal Printing
Why would a new small business opening in The Dalles, Oregon be newsworthy to Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Magazine? Aerospace is big in the Pacific Northwest and the UAV/UAS giant Insitu is located 20 minutes from i3D™ Manufacturing’s Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) factory. 3D metal printing has emerged as a critical component in aerospace, rocket, and UAV design and manufacturing, but until 2014, there were no Northwest DMLS service providers. Insitu, Boeing, and the like were forced to use services thousands of miles away, reducing some of the lead time and cost advantages 3D printing is known for. Oregon is defined by innovation and i3D™’s 3D printing technology is at the forefront of advanced and additive manufacturing. DMLS moves 3D printing from the prototyping realm into true production parts manufacturing. DMLS parts are used in final assemblies by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE, etc. In addition to aerospace, i3D™ also provides parts for medical and dental device applications, firearms accessory manufacturers, the energy and recreational gear industries, and automotive parts users.
The Future of Manufacturing
In 2013, manufacturing accounted for 28% of Oregon’s economy, over $65 billion in output. So, its not surprising that the Portland Tribune and Portland Business Journal also featured i3D™ in their Summer 2014 publications. As opposed to traditional, or subtractive manufacturing where parts are carved out of billet, the additive manufacturing process starts with 20-40 micron layers of powdered metal and uses a laser to melt thousands of micro layers together, one layer at a time based on a 3D CAD model – adding material only where the model dictates. The no-waste process enables parts to be built that cannot be traditionally manufactured, including complex geometries, lattice and honeycomb structures, conformal channels, and single part builds of multi-part assemblies. i3D™ prints stock metals including Titanium, Aluminum, Inconel, 15-5 and 17-4 Stainless Steel, and Maraging Tool Steel as well as custom powders created for specific customer applications. The Dalles has a long history of metal manufacturing and gave i3D™ a warm welcome to its community and the Columbia River Gorge region. Both The Dalles Chronicle and Gorge Technology Alliance celebrated i3D™’s headquarters locating in Oregon.
Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace
The Critical Role of Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications:
The Aerospace industry has been integrating DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering) in its structural applications for years. Other industries are now jumping on board with this cutting edge technology (oil and gas, medical, military, auto…). While typical applications revolved around standard objects such as brackets and ducts using investment casting- the future lies with 3D Design-for-Manufacturing. Nozzles, Injectors, Turbine Blades, Wing Spans, Spars, Struts, Entire Jet and Rocket engines all contain 3D production parts. Check out GE’s latest DMLS advancement.
Exciting New Metals for Aerospace: Titanium Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo (Ti-6-2-4-2)
Chemistry Data :
Aluminum 5.5 – 6.5
Carbon 0.08 max
Hydrogen 0.0125 max
Iron 0.25 max
Molybdenum 1.75 – 2.25
Nitrogen 0.05 max
Oxygen 0.12 max
Silicon 0.1 max
Tin 1.75 – 2.25
Titanium Balance
Zirconium 3.5 – 4.5
Titanium (Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo) has generally been intended for high temperature use in environments up to 538°C (1000°F). Common applications consist of “hot section” gas turbine components such as discs, impellers, turbines, etc. With excellent tensile creep and fatigue properties, Ti 6-2-4-2 is also used for afterburner structures and hit airframe “skin” applications. Not readily available, Ti-6-2-4-2 is possible to convert and print using DMLS. i3D™ specializes in custom DMLS powder development and production.
Titanium is considered difficult to machine or cast. While Titanium for DMLS requires experienced operators, once its risk factors are mastered, it is forgiving and relatively affordable using DMLS. Its characteristics have been compared to those found in 316 Stainless Steel 3D printed parts. Recommended practice includes high coolant flow which aids the offset of the materials for minimal thermal conductivity establishing gradual speeds and relatively high feed rates.
i3D™ works relentlessly to make sure customer requirements are always met and understood. We actively use our manufacturing knowledge for customers’ benefits. Whether it is one part or production volume parts, i3D™’s experienced team is determined to deliver the highest quality part, quickly and accurately.
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What is narcolepsy?
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. At various times throughout the day, people with narcolepsy experience fleeting urges to sleep. If the urge becomes overwhelming, individuals will fall asleep for periods lasting from a few seconds to several minutes. In some cases, people may remain asleep for an hour or longer.
What causes narcolepsy?
The cause of narcolepsy is not known. It involves the body's central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord. Narcolepsy is a genetic disorder. It is caused by a deficiency in the production of a brain chemical that helps neurons talk to each other.
What are the symptoms of narcolepsy?
The following are the most common symptoms of narcolepsy. However, people may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). An overwhelming desire to sleep at inappropriate times.
Cataplexy. A sudden loss of muscle control ranging from slight weakness to total collapse.
Sleep paralysis. Being unable to talk or move for about one minute when falling asleep or waking up.
Hypnagogic hallucinations. Vivid and often scary dreams and sounds reported when falling asleep.
Automatic behavior. Performing routine tasks without conscious awareness of doing so, and often without memory of it.
Disrupted nighttime sleep and waking up often
You may have other difficulties as you cope with this condition including:
Feelings of intense fatigue and continual lack of energy
Difficulty in concentrating and memorizing
Vision (focusing) problems
Eating binges
Weak limbs
Difficulties in handling alcohol
Whatever the age of onset, patients find that the symptoms tend to get worse over the two to three decades after the first symptoms appear. Many older patients find that some daytime symptoms decrease in severity after age 60.
How is narcolepsy diagnosed?
In addition to a complete medical history and physical exam, lab tests to confirm diagnosis and plan treatment may include:
Overnight polysomnogram (PSG). A sleep specialist will monitor you during an entire night of sleep.
Multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). This test measures when you fall asleep and how quickly rapid eye movement (REM) sleep occurs.
Genetic blood test. To test for a genetic mutation often found in people who tend to have narcolepsy.
Narcolepsy is not definitively diagnosed in most patients until 10 to 15 years after the first symptoms appear.
How is narcolepsy treated?
Specific treatment will be determined by your healthcare provider based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Severity of the disease
Your tolerance for specific medicines, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
The goal of treatment of narcolepsy is to help you remain as alert as possible during the day. It's also important to reduce times when you lose muscle control. Ideally, this can be done using a minimal amount of medicine.
Medicines. Central nervous system stimulants are usually prescribed for excessive sleepiness. Antidepressants may help with muscle control.
Nap therapy. Two or three short naps during the day may help control sleepiness and maintain alertness.
Behavioral therapy
There is no cure for narcolepsy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug called modafinil for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness. Two classes of antidepressant drugs — tricyclic antidepressants and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors — have proved effective in controlling cataplexy in many patients. Drug therapy should be supplemented by behavioral strategies. Many people with narcolepsy take short, regularly scheduled naps at times when they tend to feel sleepiest. Improving the quality of nighttime sleep can combat excessive daytime sleepiness and help relieve persistent feelings of fatigue.
None of the currently available medications enable people with narcolepsy to consistently maintain a fully normal state of alertness. But excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy, the most disabling symptoms of the disorder, can be controlled in most patients with drug treatment. Often the treatment regimen is modified as symptoms change.
Key points about narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a chronic, neurological sleep disorder with no known cause. The main characteristic of narcolepsy is excessive and overwhelming daytime sleepiness, even after adequate nighttime sleep:
In addition to a complete medical history and physical exam, there are several lab tests to confirm the diagnosis.
The goal of treatment of narcolepsy is to help you remain as alert as possible during the day.
Treatment of narcolepsy may include:
Nap therapy
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Category: Supply and Logistics Posted: 01.07.2020 Age Requirements: Must be between the ages of 17 and 35 It takes energy to keep the Army National Guard marching on, and thats where you take the lead. As a Food Service Specialist for the Guard, its your duty to provide the sustenance your fellow Soldiers need to put their best foot forward and protect the nation. In this role, you will take care of all dietary and nutritional needs of fellow Soldiers, ensuring their ability to face the challenges before them. You'll learn how to plan and prep menus, how to prepare and serve food, and how to ensure food safety and facility sanitation, whether you're feeding 25 Soldiers or 2,500, in the field or in a fixed facility.Job Duties Bake, fry, braise, boil, simmer, steam and saut as prescribed by Army recipes Operate, maintain and clean field kitchen equipment Perform preventive maintenance on garrison and field kitchen equipmentSome of the Skills Youll Learn Standard and dietetic menus and recipes Food and supply ordering Storage of meats, poultry and other perishable itemsHelpful Skills Interest in cooking, home economics, health, mathematics, accounting and chemistry Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career in restaurants or organizations that have their own dining facilities. Depending on which specialty you pursue, youll be able to pursue a career as a cook, chef, meat cutter, butcher, or baker.Earn While You Learn Get paid to learn! Join the Army National Guard and you will learn valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance. Food Service Specialist job training requires 10 weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn fundamental Soldiering skills, and nine weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT). Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field. Benefits Paid training A monthly paycheck Montgomery GI Bill Federal and State tuition assistance Retirement benefits for part-time service Low-cost life insurance (up to $400,000 in coverage) 401(k)-type savings plan Student Loan Repayment Program (up to $50,000, for existing loans) Health care benefits available VA home loans Bonuses, if applicable Most non-prior service candidates will earn between $200 and $250 per drill weekend, subject to change Requirements Military enlistment in the Army National Guard Must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate Must be between the ages of 17 and 35 Must be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards Must meet citizenship requirements (see NATIONALGUARD.com for details) Requires military enlistment. Programs and benefits are subject to change. Ask your Army National Guard recruiter for the most up-to-date information. Actual MOS assignment may depend on MOS availability. This position may qualify for a bonus, ask your National Guard recruiter for the most up-to-date information.
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What did the Romans really do for us?
by How It Works Team · 19/06/2014
HIW chats to Dr Ed Bispham: University lecturer in Ancient History at Brasenose College, Oxford
Ed Bispham
What is the most important roman invention, creation or discovery?
Concrete, especially concrete, which was water-resistant or could be coated with a waterproof lining; also concrete which set under water (hydraulic concrete). The perfection of concrete construction allowed the development of the vault and the dome, giving us the blueprint for St. Peter’s and the Channel tunnel. It also allowed mass-construction to enter building for the first time, everywhere from leisure complexes to high-rise housing.
How are the effects of Roman society still present in modern civilization/what Roman things do we use todsy? (In all walks of life)
See the famous scene in the Life of Brian. Perhaps half the words in our language are derived from Latin (words like ‘language’ and ‘derived’, as well as ‘effect’, ‘present’, ‘society’ and so on). It should be said that many ideas which we consider Roman have Greek precedents; the Roman genius was not so much in innovation (although there were innovations, from communal bathing to satire) as in adaptation. So the Greeks invented sport, and bathing for recreation, but only under Rome do we find sport as something for the masses, with (in chariot racing for example) fanatical devotion to teams distinguished by different coloured strips. Indeed the idea of ‘popular culture’, keeping the masses happy with ‘bread and circuses’ is intrinsically Roman. Another key area is law – Roman law is at the root of modern European legal systems. Roman legal thinking brought with it Roman political theory (itself clearly a Greek invention, but developed by Romans in new ways), and we owe concepts like patriotism to the Romans.
A further legacy is the idea of a professional army in which service could be a career for life, but in the service of the state. But every time you spend coins in a shop, read advertising in a shop window, make a credit-agreement to buy something or take out a loan, vote in an election, watch a play or a sporting event, turn on a tap and see water come out, climb a staircase in a block of flats, use a pedestrian crossing to get over a busy road, post a letter overseas, or say etcetera, you are doing something which would be absolutely familiar to a Roman. The list could go on and on and include schools, dentists, political assassinations and repressive autocrats, regime change and mass protest.
Romans, Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Dr Ed Bispham, Oxford university, Ancient history, Classical Antiquity, Roman inventions
What advancements did they make in architecture and building construction?
See above on concrete construction. The Colosseum again shows the flexibility of concrete, with the ability to build enormous stadia with raked permanent seating on flat ground, as opposed to the side of a hill. The Circus Maximus was very large (and doing things as colossal scale is a Roman mode), but not architecturally very daring. Mass-construction, and the ability to throw up warehouses or blocks of flats quickly was an innovation. The Romans didn’t really bring much to mosaic art. The Romans also invented a genuine multi-culturalism that actually worked, based on the power and flexibility of the base-culture – it was open, and happy to take on elements from the local substrate.
How innovative were Roman roads and the Empire’s transport network for the age?
Very; the roads did bring the parts of the empire much closer together, and projected Roman power more forcefully; milestones gave the whole a unity as well as associating the whole with the emperor of the day. Goods and ideas travelled as much as people and armies, and promoted cultural unity, and made access to empire-wide markets possible, changing local social and economic horizons.
How did the Romans progress methods of warfare on both land and sea?
Romans didn’t really add a whole lot to naval warfare, other than the idea of policing the seas and having a responsibility to get rid of pirates. In terms of land warfare they introduced the idea of a professional long-service army which could be deployed away from home for years at a time; the idea of training, discipline and special military corps like medics and engineers and vets. Romans specialized in heavy infantry conflicts, but introduced a flexible fighting mode which made existing infantry formations obsolete. Over time the Romans managed to adapt weapons and tactics from all the people they encountered, but felt that discipline and ruthlessness were their real contributions.
How big was the Greek influence (and other Hellenistic period civilizations) on Roman life?
Huge; the number of purely Roman innovations is not huge (mostly discussed above), but Romans adapted and reshaped Greek culture in such a way as to make it something the whole Empire could buy into. From the Greeks came the whole Roman political and religious set-up, most literature, intellectual and leisure pursuits (although the Romans never really adored athletics, and the Greeks didn’t get beast-hunts or gladiators); the idea of political society; sophisticated luxuries; and the idea of cities as the place where civilization is essentially located.
What progress did the Romans make in politics, economics, law and society as a whole?
The idea that a political society was one of stake-holders was one the Romans embraced; and the idea of the rule of law was, as in Greece, central. But Rome was also one of much greater social mobility than any previous society: most graphically seen in the case of freed-slaves, who might, when freed, become wealthy and influential figures, and see their children, who were born free, make a political or military career. Romans were also much more relaxed that Greeks about the role of women in private life, and less restrictive, although by our standards they still seem backward. Economically Rome was quite sophisticated, with complex instruments of credit, detailed legal provision for financial ventures and partnerships; Romans had banks, accounts, book-keeping and so on. Their economic prowess was not limitless, and thus the failure to control inflation in the late empire.
One major innovation was the extension of taxation to the whole of Europe, and the growth of a monetary economy driven by the need to pay taxes. Like Greeks, Romans did not tax the poor, only the rich. Innovations in civil and criminal law were huge, including the creation of a legal profession (and education), elaboration of concepts like restitution etc; and indeed law as we think of it today is intrinsically Roman.
How did Roman ideas affect future civilizations and spread over Europe?
Roman ideas spread with Roman people (soldiers, settlers, traders) but were associated with a high cultural status, and thus across Europe native peoples, especially upper classes and then others imitating them, wanted to buy into the Roman ideals, which could lead to Roman citizenship, and then perhaps even a career in the army or the central administration. Roman civilization was also strikingly open to local ideas, as long as everyone was unambiguously loyal to the emperor. Romans would have found our anxieties about what we call multi-culturalism incomprehensible.
After the Western Roman Empire declined, what Roman traditions did the Eastern Empire (Byzantine) maintain?
Not the language, but the political power structures; the Christian religion of the western empire; bureaucratic and legal structures; as a major city Constantinople bore very many similarities in terms of architecture, society, character and law, to the major western cities.
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Call to make osteoporosis plans a priority for hip fracture patients leaving hospital
30 Aug 2018 | Reducing Harm from Falls
Authors of the newly released 2018 annual report of the Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) are calling for hospitals to make osteoporosis plans a priority for patients leaving hospital after a hip fracture.
Minimal trauma fractures are relatively common in people aged 50 and over. Among New Zealanders in this age group, it is estimated that one in three women and at least one in five men will experience a minimal trauma fracture.
Treatment for osteoporosis is key to reducing minimal trauma factures. However, data from the report shows only 25 percent of patients in New Zealand who undergo surgery leave hospital on active treatment for osteoporosis and only 24 percent of hospitals provide individualised written information on prevention of future falls and fractures.
Commenting on the report, Professor Jaqueline Close, geriatrician and co-chair of the ANZHFR, said that, while the data showed an improvement over last year’s report, New Zealand and Australia were still significantly behind other countries in closing the osteoporosis care gap.
‘There are huge opportunities to further improve hip fracture care, including the prevention of future falls and fractures. Strong evidence exists to support treatment of osteoporosis in this population yet all too frequently we fail to offer treatments which can impact on people’s lives,’ said Professor Close.
‘Hospitals need to work towards closing the care gap to ensure hip fracture patients go home with an individualised care plan designed to prevent future fractures.
‘General practitioners and other medical specialists also play a critical role in ensuring that bone health is addressed and that treatments are offered on an ongoing basis for our older New Zealanders unfortunate enough to break a bone from a fall.’
Although the rate of low trauma hip fractures has decreased over time, the actual number of fractures continues to increase due to the rising number of older people.
‘Our goal is to highlight the current gaps in care and work with hospitals across New Zealand and Australia to increase the uptake of proven, evidence-based treatments,’ said Dr Roger Harris, clinical lead for the hip fracture registry in New Zealand.
‘We also need to work in partnership with general practitioners who have a key role in managing chronic diseases such as osteoporosis.’
In New Zealand, the Live Stronger for Longer initiative is a multi-sector, system-wide response to the threat that falls and fractures present to older people.
As well as the hip fracture registry, a key focus of the initiative is the implementation of fracture liaison services (FLS).
The purpose of FLS is to ensure that all people who sustain fractures caused by osteoporosis undergo bone health assessment, receive osteoporosis treatment where needed and are referred to strength and balance programmes to prevent future falls.
Since a major investment by the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) in 2016, and considerable local investment from district health boards, access to FLS across New Zealand has improved dramatically.
‘FLS are internationally recognised as the best model of care to ensure we do our best to make the first osteoporotic fracture the last,’ said Christine Gill, executive director of Osteoporosis New Zealand.
‘As of August 2018, New Zealand has in fact become the first country in the world to provide universal access to FLS. With FLS teams working hard across the country to ensure every fracture patient receives the care that they need, a significant improvement in the management of osteoporosis after hip fracture should be evident in next year’s ANZHFR report.’
Resource: Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry 2018 Annual Report and Supplementary Report
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The Management of Hate
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Nitzan Shoshan's ethnographic research among young neo-Nazis in East Berlin served as the basis for his award-winning publication 'The Management of Hate'. In a conversation the author talks about the ongoing polarization of society, the resurgence of right-wing extremist movements, and why public agitation and normative judgements in academic debates tend to hinder real debate about the problems.
ifa: How do you assess the current polarization of society and the rise of right-wing extremist discourses in Germany and elsewhere?
Nitzan Shoshan: Social polarization or socioeconomic inequality has been growing steadily but unevenly across countries and regions and its relationship with nationalist and anti-democratic currents (or political polarization) has been complex. In some cases, far-right supporters come primarily from disadvantaged sectors (e.g., the AfD), yet in others they come from privileged groups (e.g., Trump in the USA or Bolsonaro in Brazil). Relative inequality levels do not always correlate with right-wing extremist success. More important than objective measures of deprivation are subjective experiences and perceptions, which emerge from frustrated expectations and assumptions about personal and collective futures.
Hopes and fears about the future grow out of sensibilities that had been shaped under historical conditions and social contexts very different from the present. The relatively short history of democracy in much of Europe — including Germany, of course — has been deeply intertwined with the promise of universal prosperity as its mode of self-legitimation, especially throughout the middle of the 20th century. Today, we witness increasing tensions between the lingering attachments to this promise and its gradual collapse, not only as an objectively measurable reality but also, and more importantly, as an imagined futurity. I think we should be looking at such tensions if we wish to understand the links between social polarization and the surge of right-wing populism.
What makes populism or authoritarianism so successful in the political landscape today?
Populism can mean many things, from resentment against elites or claims about the true and unique essence of the people to hostility and scapegoating of cultural, religious, ethnic or sexual difference. Populism also can be used as a strategically deployed label to delegitimize movements and actors that question the status quo. The rise of authoritarian populist discourses owes to multiple factors, of which I will mention three here.
First, together with the ostensibly unprecedented democratization after the fall of the Soviet bloc we have witnessed a crisis in the capacity of democratic regimes to sustain previous modes of self-legitimation. Established ways of justifying ideologically the domination of political elites over populations in democratic states had become increasingly obsolete, much for the same reasons already mentioned above. The nostalgia we see today for those lost futures of collective wellbeing offers fertile ground for certain types of authoritarian politics.
Second, the recent revival of race and the renewed legitimacy of its usage as a pseudoscientific biological — rather than social — category inspires majoritarian political ideologies today. Tabooed and repressed yet always latent, biological concepts of race have returned forcefully in popular renderings of advances in genomic science and are employed for multiple political ends today, for example to argue for the putatively different intelligence levels of racial groups.
Finally, technological developments, like digitalisation, have generated powerful challenges to previously consolidated modes of authorizing public discourses (such as officially validated expertise), which no longer command the same capacity to shape political debates. This process has enabled heretofore silenced voices to be heard, and has therefore yielded profoundly decentralizing, democratizing, and emancipatory effects, yet it has simultaneously contributed to legitimizing right-wing populist discourses.
You have conducted research in the field of what you call 'The Management of Hate'. What can political ethnography contribute to understanding right-wing extremism?
Ethnography entails the development of intimacy with those whom we study. Looking up close, what we see is very different from distanced impressions, and we can observe with greater detail the unfolding of complex processes. Instead of defining categories in advance, ethnography allows —indeed, demands — an approach that is more open-ended and receptive to the heterogeneity of the social world. Moreover, especially with illicit or strongly tabooed topics, the proximity and confidence we establish with our interlocutors may grant us access to data they would otherwise be unlikely to share.
When I began my study, I could find virtually no ethnographic research on right-wing extremism, a field studied largely from a safe distance, for example using statistical surveys, structured interviews in staged settings, or analyses of political rhetoric, propaganda, and literature. My observations and conversations with my young interlocutors led me to question, for example, the very category of extremism, which hardly corresponded with the diversity of ambivalent and shifting positions that I found. They similarly confronted me with the dynamic nature of political identification that academic research often understands as immutable.
Why do state preventive measures, such as anti-racism messages and heavy-hand measures against neo-Nazis, often fall to stony ground or cause the opposite?
Many government programs have shown significant positive impact and policies against neo-Nazis have frequently incorporated lessons from past experiences, improving upon or abandoning failed strategies. Additionally, the fight against right-wing extremism takes place on the streets, not in a controlled lab. And therefore evaluating the success of specific policies, whose results depend on multiple factors, is difficult. Often such programs can only offset so much the local effects of more powerful forces.
Yet government efforts indeed often fail to meet their desirable goals. In the book I published based on my ethnography with young neo-Nazis, I describe several interventions and explain why they prove counter-productive. In part, the deep anxieties and prejudices that for historical reasons burden what I call the management of hate in Germany sustain potent cultural taboos. Moral panics in the public sphere and normative judgments in scholarly debates hinder the confrontation with unpleasing realities, resulting in simplistic explanations that fail to grasp complex problems and design adequate responses. Perspectives that remain distant from the target of such interventions, with little first-hand experience or solid grasp of the problems that young neo-Nazis embody and confront, usually gain priority over those who, either through praxis or ethnographic research, are intimately familiar with such persons.
How, in your opinion, can Germany combat the growing nationalism and racism more effectively?
Beyond specific strategies that have shown positive effects, Germany must acknowledge racism and nationalism as mainstream problems, rather than project the fight against them onto putative deviant extremes and thereby providing itself with an alibi. Racism and nationalism constitute normalized dimensions of social life in Germany. They happen casually, in everyday situations and among people who consider themselves neither racist nor nationalist. Externalizing them onto some presumed extreme disavows their prevalence and hinders the fight against them.
For example, many in Germany continue to hold to a notion of national belonging based on blood kinship or shared genealogy. German migration and naturalization laws largely continue to reflect this notion, even after their (very limited) liberalization. They enshrine ideas of racial nationalism institutionally in how the German state recognizes membership and belonging. Moreover, German media, news outlets, and entertainment tirelessly reproduce racial stereotypes, reinforcing racist worldviews among broad publics (consider, for example, the Netflix series Dogs of Berlin). I oppose censorship and prohibitions, which I find counter-productive. Rather, Germans must reflect critically on such representations and expose them for what they are.
Nitzan Shoshan is an anthropologist specializing in German and European nationalism and right-wing extremism. He is a professor at the Center for Sociological Studies at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City and received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2008.
His ethnographic research with young neo-Nazis in East Berlin serves as the basis for his prize-winning monograph 'The Management of Hate Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany'.
The interview was conducted by Ulrike Prinz.
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IFJ Condemns Attack on Canadian Journalists: "Ugly and Intolerant" Vision of Modern Media
The International Federation of Journalists today accused the Canadian media company CanWest over corporate censorship and the victimisation of journalists who are trying to defend professional standards.
"The CanWest corporation is showing the ugly and intolerant face of modern media," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "While openly interfering in editorial content it cravenly punishes those journalists who have the courage to protest."
CanWest has suspended journalists for talking to outside media and disciplined others for protesting over internal censorship. Journalists throughout the group - which includes newspapers and television outlets across Canada - have also been angered by the imposition of corporate editorials that destroy local editorial independence.
The IFJ, which is the world's largest journalists' group, says that media concentration and the creation of powerful media corporations is potentially dangerous to independent journalism. "The CanWest vision of modern media is one in which the twisted values of the media market always come first and where there is contempt for traditional journalism," said Aidan White.
CanWest has slapped gag orders on newspaper reporters in the group and this has been extended to CanWest Global TV operations across Canada. TV newsrooms have been told that reporters are banned from taking part in editorial protests that have occurred at two of the company's newspaper outlets - the Montreal Gazette and The Leader Post in Regina.
Four LeaderPost reporters were suspended for five days last week, for talking to outside media and another six were given letters of reprimand after they withdrew their by-lines in protest over an incident of censorship at the newspaper. Management at the LeaderPost censored a story to tone down criticism of CanWest for pulling articles by some of its columnists who expressed views the company did not like. The workforce is represented by The Newspaper Guild of Canada, an affiliate of the IFJ.
"If this had happened in Eastern Europe 15 years ago there would have been widespread protests from media owners and journalists' groups," says the IFJ. "The issues today are no different - the fight for editorial freedom and protection from censorship. What has changed is that the threat comes from within the media community itself."
CanWest has refused demands by The Newspaper Guild to withdraw the disciplinary action against the ten staff in Regina. The issue is going to arbitration. "The Company has no shame," said Aidan White, "It should withdraw all disciplinary actions, end all form of intimidation and keep its hands off journalists' work."
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