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Shakespeare authorship
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Calling all historians!
Long ago, in the timeless realm we call Literature, a certain fox, we’ll call him Reynard, dragged a stinky red herring across the trail of a certain Court poet, sending the yelping hounds who were after his identity up a false trail, where they’ve been barking up one wrong tree after another ever since. That red herring was the name William Shakespeare. Dragged across the poet’s paper trail––the published plays that in performance, twenty years earlier, had launched the London Stage, it did what it was meant to do, it gave the author and his company the freedom they needed to keep on producing the plays that gave the actors a living and their world a good cry, a much needed belly laugh, and those inclined to philosophy something to think about.
This red herring was successful in protecting the true author from the rage of the puritans who ran the nation, uptight ideologues, hungry for social power, who feared and hated the forces unleashed by the London Stage, forces that we know today as the English Literary Renaissance. Unable to control it they sought to kill it. This protective maneuver on the part of the Company, probably born of exigency, a dodge put into effect during a moment of desperation, perhaps not intended to last as long as it has, has in fact lasted for centuries.
Despite the evidence that’s been provided over the past 200 years, it seems we are still stuck in a scenario where the hounds continue to chase each other around in circles, only now there’s a herd of authorship scholars who follow after them, their shouts unheard in the clamor. Isn’t it about time we put an end to this absurd waste of energy?
I say leave the hounds to their sport, stop confronting the ersatz gurus of the Birthplace Trust on their territory, something that does nothing but distract us from the real field of inquiry. Leave the English Departments to their publications and pronunciamentos, and take the issue to where it should have been from the begining, to the political history of the period when Shakespeare was writing. When you haven’t enough data on a topic of interest, you turn to what we call “proxy data,” material that surrounds the issue, that doesn’t touch on it directly, but that if put in place, shows the shape and nature of what’s missing. If you can’t find enough material to work from the inside out, work from the outside in. It’s time to turn away from the failures of the university English Department, and walk across the hall to the History Department.
We have the plays; what does it matter who wrote them?
It matters!! Only a culture that has allowed its literature to become divorced from its history could tolerate such a remarkably stupid credo. Divorced from history, from the ground out of which it grew, literature loses its relevance. Divorced from literature, the stories that bring a particular time and place to life, history loses the pulse of life. Bereft of the human drama that gives it meaning, history is little more than a laundry list of dates and names. Divorced from each other, both lose their purpose, their true meaning.
This divorce was actually taking place during the time that Shakespeare (we’ll have to call him that), was writing and his Company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, was producing his plays. Ancient studies were being divided: religion into superstition on the one hand, the early Church fathers on the other; alchemy into philosophy on the one, the science of chemistry on the other; astrology into folk psychology and medicine on the one, the science of astronomy on the other. Similarly history was being divided into story on the one hand, historiography on the other. This division of inherited materials into literature over here and history over there was eventually enshrined in the university curriculum, and from there into the secondary schools where it continues to discourage young people from developing an interest in either Literature or History.
The storehouse of Sin
In England the division was amplified by the passions of the Reformation which saw the division as a conflict between God and the Devil, with God on the side of History, and the Devil on the side of literature. History was truth, while Literature, which they called Poetry, they saw as a tissue of lies, deadly lies that entrapped men’s souls and led them down the primrose path to the fiery furnace. The respected Shakespeare scholar, Prof. Lily B. Campbell, is one of the rare English profs who could see the forest for the trees. As she wrote in Chapter X of her Shakespeare’s Histories (1945): “History versus Poetry in Renaissance England”:
In order to understand the place of history in the English Renaissance we must turn to the attacks made upon poetry . . . first by the adherents of the Reformation and later by the Puritans . . . . These attacks on poetry are not today so well known as are the defenses of poetry and particularly the great defense offered by Sidney. Nevertheless, the defenses of poetry cannot be fully comprehended unless we remind ourselves that defense is always organized to resist attack. (85)
One of the earliest attacks came in 1569, shortly after the plays in question began to escape the Court for which they were written to entertain the public at the London theater inns. As James Sanford wrote in his translation of Cornelius Aggripa’s 1530 Vanity and Uncertainty of the Arts and Sciences:
Poetry, as Quintilian writeth, is another part of grammar, not a little proud . . . that in times past the theaters and amphitheaters, the goodliest buildings of men, were erected not by philosophers, not by lawyers, . . but with exceeding great expense by the fables of poets, an art that was devised to no other end but to please the ears of foolish men with wanton rhythms, with measures, and weightiness of syllables, and with a vain jarring of words, . . . to deceive men’s minds with the delectation of fables . . . . Wherefore it [the Stage] doth deserve to be called the principal author of lies, and the maintainer of perverse opinions.
In November 1577, Bishop Thomas White preached against the Stage from the pulpit at Paul’s Cathedral, a sermon that, when printed, filled 98 pages. “See,” he cried:
the multitude that flocketh to them and followeth them; behold the sumptuous theater houses, a continual monument of London’s prodigality and folly. But I undersand that they are now forbidden because of the plague. I like the policy well if it hold . . . for a disease is but . . . patched up that is not cured in the cause, and the cause of plagues is sin,. . . and the cause of sin are plays; therefore the cause of plagues are plays.
In 1579, former playwright Stephen Gosson wrote in The School of Abuse, a pamphlet that the Church saw to it got published in the thousands and distributed all over London:
Cooks did never show more craft in their junkets [desserts? sauces?] to vanquish the taste nor painters in shadows [paintings] to allure the eye, than Poets in Theaters to wound the conscience. There set, they abroche strange consorts of melody to tickle the ear, costly apparell to flatter the sight, effeminate gesture to ravish the senses, and wanton speech to whet desire to inordinate lust. . . . Let us but shut up our ears to Poets, Pipers and Players, pull our feet back from resort to Theaters and turn away our eyes from beholding of vanity, the greatest storm of abuse will be overblown and a fair path trodden to amendment of life. Were not we so foolish to taste every drug and buy every trifle, Players would shut in [up] their shops and carry their trash to some other country.
Writers of fiction fought back. First Thomas Lodge in 1578 against Gosson’s diatribe: “Who then doth not wonder at poetry? Who thinketh not that it procedeth from above?” As Nashe snarled at Sanford in Piers Penniless (1593):
As there be those that rail at all men, so there be those that rail at all Arts, as Cornelius Agrippa [in his] De vanitate scientiarum, and a treatise that I have seen in dispraise of learning, where he [Sanford] saith, it is the corrupter of the simple, the schoolmaster of sin, the storehouse of treachery, the reviver of vices, and mother of cowardice, alledging many examples, how there was never man egregiously evil but he was a scholar; that when the use of letters was first invented, the Golden World ceased, Facinusque inuasit mortales: how study doth effeminate a man, dim his sight, weaken his brain, and engender a thousand diseases.
To no avail––the Crown had departed from the Reformation’s humanist creators, following the Church into the art-hating tenets of Calvinism. Campbell quotes “the most direct attack upon poetry as lying” with which she was familiar, the translation by Sir Edward Hoby of a French diatribe titled Politic Discourses upon Truth and Lying (1586) which he dedicated to his uncle William Cecil, patron and overlord of the English press. Campbell comments:
the description of poetry as poison mixed with honey, the emphasis upon pleasure derived from poetry as suspect, the reiteration of Plato’s contention [in The Republic] that passion and vice are replenished by poetry, are all familiar, but it must be noted that all other charges are made subordinate to the main thesis of the chapter that poetry is lying. (92)
As Sidney, whose response to Gosson in 1580 was finally published in 1590, put it: “Now for the Poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth: for as I take it, to lie is to affirm that to be true which is false. So. . . the historian, affirming many things, can . . . hardly escape from many lies.”
Campbell notes that Hoby’s Chapter 36 is dedicated to the consideration “of backbiters, mockers, and evil speakers, and why the comedians, stage players and jugglers have been rejected,” and that plays “infecteth more the spirits and wrappeth them in passions then drunkenness itself.” She quotes:
And for as much as comedies are compounded of fictions, fables, and lies, they have of divers been rejected. As touching plays, they are full of filthy words, which would not become . . . lacqueys and courtesans and have sundry inventions which infect the spirit and replenish it with unchaste, whorish, cosening, deceitful, wanton and michievous passions . . . . And for that besides all these inconveniences, comedians, and stage players do often times envy and gnaw at the honor of another, and to please the vulgar people, set before them sundry lies and teach much dissoluteness and deceit, by this means turning upside down all discipline and good manners [so that] many cities well governed would never at any time entertain them. (92-3)
Thus wrote Burghley’s nephew in 1586, when the London Stage was in its ninth year, teetering on the verge of disaster. Written while the nation was suffering the increasing severity of Burghley’s war on Catholic recusants and puritan dissidents, six years after his brutal execution of St. Edmund Campion and nine before the equally brutal execution, by his son Robert Cecil, of the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell, we should consider that perhaps it was less the poets’ “filthy” language that inspired this outburst on the part of his nephew than how they did “often times envy and gnaw at the honor” of the Cecils.
Though Burghley may have tolerated the Stage back in the 1560s when Philip II blamed him for the satires that were defaming his Spanish Majesty, it’s clear that by 1586, he was in the mood to trim both the London Stage and the commercial Press; perhaps cut them to the ground; perhaps uproot them entirely. It’s Polonius, accepted by all as a portrait of Burghley, who critiques the dedication of Hamlet’s poem to Ophelia: “To the beautified Ophelia”; “That’s an ill phrase,” says Polonius, “a vile phrase; beautified is a vile phrase.” We can be sure that this exchange has far more meaning than today’s so-called critics would give it.
Seen from the perspective of English history, the Renaissance, when it finally arrived, had to find its way past the Reformation fears of Satan. This is the major reason for the form that it took in England, and for most of the literary anomalies that academics have failed to explain, including, first and foremost, the mystery surrounding the identity of the playwright who is easily found, had the slightest attention been paid to the evidence of history, deep within the Court community. Had there been any genuine attention paid to the history of the period, it would also be clear long since that Shakespeare was not alone in this, but that most of the literature produced during this first early Spring of England’s Literary Renaissance was produced by men and women who took almost exactly the same route he did, hiding their identities behind a flock of standins, supernumeraries, and initials.
Forget the English Departments
We need to approach the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare, of which his true identity is but one, others pertaining to the identities of the authors who wrote under the names Edmund Spenser, Thomas Nashe, Thomas North, Arthur Brooke, John Lyly, Robert Greene, and a dozen others. History will show where these are located in time, and who besides the authors were involved, the powerful and wealthy patrons who made these efforts possible, the publishers and printers who took risks in publishing them, all easily located once the background of dates, current events, known personalities and conflicts are in place. With the stage set by history, we’ll have a picture that no one can argue with.
But to do that we need the help of historians. Those readers who seek an end to the questioning, the beginning of certainty, join in the quest for history majors, free thinkers who can see beyond the limits proscribed by the Stratford biography, probably located in London, certainly in England, individuals with access to the archives where documents never explored by authorship scholars remain to be examined. We need patrons with the wherewithall to provide funding for such a project, who can keep it moving until the university History departments––yielding to the thrill of establishing the great Shakespeare at the Court of Queen Elizabeth––open their doors to the authorship question.
Urge schools to combine literature with history.
By bringing a piece of the story of our lives to life with not just the events of the time, but the way the writers and artists who lived it then saw it, by accenting the story part of history, by connecting stories to the events that gave them birth, we’ll be putting the Humanities back on the road to importance. We’ll be turning fear into understanding, existential despair into acceptance and love, something has been the goal of literature ever since Plato set out to tell the world the truth about Socrates.
It’s time we told the truth about Shakespeare to those who are ready to hear it, and quit trying to tell it to those who are committed to ignorance.
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24 responses to “Calling all historians!”
Francis Murphy | April 8, 2014 at 6:25 pm | Reply
I would think that the likeliest spot for smoking gun evidence is in the archives of foreign ambassadors to the court of Elizabeth. But that makes the task doubly difficult: to recruit French and Spanish scholars to look into 16th-century archives in Spain and France. But I wholeheartedly agree that the focus should be on historians.
hopkinshughes | April 9, 2014 at 11:32 am | Reply
Yes, archives that contain ambassadors’ letters would be the best bet, but there are English archives too that William and Robert Cecil would not have had access to. After all, Bacon’s Promus and his Northumberland Manuscript managed to escape. And Spedding’s biography may hold clues as well.
Clayton Buerkle | April 9, 2014 at 12:33 pm | Reply
I’ve read that Spedding’s original works on Bacon’s biography disappeared from what library they were in and have never been recovered.
hschumann | April 8, 2014 at 8:06 pm | Reply
Queen Elizabeth 1 was known as a lover of the arts, yet the Puritans and her confidants such as Burghley set out to destroy the public theater. Did she support them in doing this, drawing a line between private performances at court and the public theater, or was she simply powerless to prevent playwrights and poets from being harassed and theaters closed?
I believe that the Queen did not know much about the connection between the Court Stage and the London Stage. Those involved kept her in the dark, its haters for one set of reasons, its patrons for others. Her personal interest was that someone saw to it that she got the entertainment she craved. She detested politics being thrust on her from the stage, and because the London Stage was so fraught with politics, it would have been best for all involved to keep her in the dark as much as possible. I’d like to write this up at some point. I have a fair amount of evidence, I believe.
I would like to see for and against arguments on this topic. I recently read how Elizabeth had one of the very sharpest minds for detecting underlying themes in another’s writings. As i recall it was Burleigh that tested her on this and amazed him at quick detective like wit.
thomasgoff | April 8, 2014 at 8:26 pm | Reply
Bravo! Perhaps the most eloquent statement ever on the urgency of a right view on the authorship, because it is so concretely (and concisely) linked to the pamphlet wars, to the embattled history of the theater. (Never was an age so divided against itself; never was an age so open to art and at the same time so blinkered to the potential for better governance, for societal improvement–albeit from the top down–and the nurturing of leadership: suggested above all in its poetry and plays, foremost among them the Earl of Oxford’s plays.)
Thanks. The main problem is the division between the two departments. Departmental courtesy keeps them from intruding on each others terrain. The English department accepts the general historical view, while the history department accepts the general literary view. The authorship question gets lost in a no-man’s land between the two.
Mystikel | April 9, 2014 at 12:06 pm | Reply
Brilliant one, Stephanie. Hank Whittemore recently touched on bringing in historians too. I’m not an historian but I do take an historical and multi-generational genealogical approach to authorship studies – and there’s a lot of low hanging fruit in the intersections of these fields.
hopkinshughes | April 9, 2014 at 10:11 pm | Reply
I regard myself as an authorship scholar, but more than that, what I really am is an historian. I’ve spent many years investigating, for my own satisfaction, other historical mysteries. I stayed with this one so long largely because what to me as an historian were so many obvious anomalies in the standard history, most of them, as you say, low hanging fruit. Knowing a fair amount of history of both the Elizabethan era and the Stage, from the beginning I’ve sought the means to shed light on an historical problem, first the absence of Shakespeare from the Court, a serious anomaly, and second, his connection to the newborn London Stage.
Looney, the Millers, and Ward located the true author, at Court of course, and many others have contributed to our knowledge about the Earl of Oxford, but little has been done to provide the necessary connection to the London Stage. The Reynard who broke that connection early on, knew enough about history, how it’s made and unmade, to erase the paper trails that, by any reasonable approach to the history of the times, should have been there.
If I’ve had any success in this, it’s only been to point, I hope, in directions that will some day bring genuinely solid answers, away from Stratford and away from pointless, absurd, time-wasting arguments with the Stratford defenders, to London, the Court, the Inns of Court, and the Parliament, in other words, to politics. Focussing on Shakespeare alone won’t get us there. However important, when viewed from an historical perspective, he’s only part of the story. Not until we have that will we be able to prove, not only that the Stratford authorship is false, but WHY it was created in the first place and why it has continued in place for so long. That is the question now.
Most of the low-hanging fruit has been plucked. Now we need people who know how to do real historical research to dig in the English archives. Only then will we have the kind of facts that will finally allow us to move on to the real story: what situations in Oxford’s life and those surrounding him in the history of the times gave rise and when to each of the plays, those that bear the name and those that have been shunted off to various early ghost writers because they’re obviously too early for the Stratford biography.
I’m accused of jumping off into space, providing conjectures where Oxfordians crave facts. But lacking facts, educated conjecture is a necessity. Facts, like foxes, can only be found where searchers have been given sensible direction. Until they can feel some confidence in where to look and what to look for, we’re never going to get this thing figured out.
Mystikel | April 10, 2014 at 8:56 am | Reply
That you’re an historian who can make the big picture come alive shows in every post. I agree with you absolutely that it is important to bring different lenses and filters to a question, to create the kind of narrative frame that considers the question from a specific perspective. This is what both you and Hank Whittemore do in your own ways. Anyone who criticizes that is missing the value. In your case, how do de Vere and Bacon relate to one another and to that revolution of the page and stage? A person does not have agree with every point to benefit immensely from reports of your journey.
So I think we need historians but also history minded story tellers who can approach the subject from specialized angles that have not been explored. That’s what I meant by low hanging fruit and I say that because I have my own little field I’m happily exploring.
Very much in agreement as I’ve been thinking the same for the last year. Most of the Shakespeare scholars are so very deeply committed to Stratfordian theory, with a very powerful lobby behind it, that they may be unable to even consider change by themselves. Or to even offer any competing theory. Those in history departments may have a lesser threat to their careers and could take a fresh look at various categories of the historical evidence.
hopkinshughes | April 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm | Reply
Yes, they don’t have a dog in this fight. And how exciting, to put the best known Elizabethan (they must admit that, over the world, Shakespeare is the best known Englishman from that era) at Court with the second best known, the Queen, and the third and fourth best known, Bacon and Raleigh, instead of floating somewhere in historical space! All it takes is to grasp how members of the literary sect were forced to hide their identities. There’s really plenty of proof of that, if one bothers to look.
Ken Kaplan | April 9, 2014 at 3:59 pm | Reply
Now it makes more sense why Burghley was savaged in Hamlet.
“P.S. A convocation of politic worms is ‘een at him.”
Hamlet not only kills Polonius, he spits on him when asked about his death.
Apt title for this blog.
crafty theatre | April 9, 2014 at 9:10 pm | Reply
This is so true. I believe that what the SAQ needs is researchers who have a good grasp on Elizabethan Literature as well as an historian’s approach and a willingness to suspends belief in any outcome until many of the conflicting reports from that time are considered. History and Literature have to work together.
hopkinshughes | April 10, 2014 at 8:03 pm | Reply
And they have to be taught together. When humanists begin to teach them in tandem, perhaps the humanities departments in the universities will begin to revive. Down with the critics! Up with the teachers!
crafty theatre | April 11, 2014 at 5:49 am | Reply
You should be so proud of what you do. You put yourself on the line and you are so generous with your educated opinion. Anyone, no matter how well or not so well acquainted with the SAQ, will take something away from your website.
hopkinshughes | April 11, 2014 at 9:44 am | Reply
Thanks! Your encouragement is so appreciated!
oxalis | April 14, 2014 at 7:33 am | Reply
Your advice to leave certain areas well alone is sage, but I have been unable to resist provocation and have been looking at Stanley Wells’ Kindle Single, “Why Shakespeare was Shakespeare.”
It is quite a frustrating work in that it does not always give full quotes or references for works it cites, when attempting to prove that contemporaries were well aware that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays.
However, when referring to the poem, Phoenix and the Turtle, which appeared in “Love’s Martyr”, Professor Wells writes “but how Shakespeare came to be associated with it is a mystery that I should dearly like to be able to solve”. I wonder if the following Oxfordian piece of information could help.
Sir John Salusbury, the book’s dedicatee, married Ursula Stanley, the illegitimate daughter of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby and Jane Halsall, in 1586. Ursula was apparently acknowledged by the Stanleys. Ursula was therefore the step-sister-in-law of Oxford’s daughter Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, who was married to the fourth earl’s son (who became the sixth earl after the early death of his brother Ferdinando).
Genealogy is another area that Oxfordians can perhaps profitably explore further.
hopkinshughes | April 14, 2014 at 11:46 am | Reply
Nina Green has done quite a bit connecting relatives to Oxford’s story. However, anything that comes this way has to have third party evidence to support it, since the peerage was so small, and just about everyone was related to everyone else, some bitter enemies. Just being related to Oxford says very little. There has to be more.
Frankly, I agree with Wells about “The Phoenix and the Turtle.” I don’t think Shakespeare/Oxford wrote it. It’s in a style totally different from any of his known works or that are probably his. There is, however, one poet from that time who did write very much in this rather unique style, Mary Sidney, but what connection it might have to her life or to anyone close to her isn’t yet apparent.
I’ve been thinking about this last, the true scenario for the writing of the Phoenix and the Turtle. I do believe it was written by Mary, no one else writes so tersely (until Dickenson), but it didn’t fit anything I knew about her own life. The major problem had to be that if it was about real lovers, both dead. Not long ago while researching the period of the mid-1590s, I came across the story of Marguerite Radcliffe, the belle of the ’90s Court, who was very close to her twin brother Alexander, both very attractive. Marguerite had her cap set for Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, who strung her along, then ditched her for another Court femme. When Margaret’s brother was killed fighting along with Essex in Ireland in 1599, she went off the rails, stopped eating, and eventually died.
My guess is that the poem was written to address a nasty rumor that the love that Marguerite and Alexander had for each other was incestuous, perhaps the reason why she was dropped by Brooke. One of the sorry truths of life is how those born beautiful are so often crucified by their contemporaries on the cross of envy. Mary, who had personal reasons for understanding the suffering this caused the beautiful girl, wrote to defend her and her love. I believe that Mary felt compassion because she suffered from the same rumor about herself and her dead brother Philip, who was rumored to have been the father of her son Philip (who would marry Oxford’s daughter Susan in 1604).
Rumors like these are rife in emotionally repressed communities like the Elizabethan Court, where love is routinely faked and those who feel the real thing are careful to hide it, which the twins perhaps were not. This is purest conjecture, but it does account for the tragic decline of the girl, which simple loss of lover and brother at a time when people died so easily, does not readily account for. It’s said that her death affected the Queen deeply, who had taken her for a sort of surrogate daughter.
The timing is certainly dead on: the twins died in 1599; The Phoenix and the Turtle was published the following year.
Here’s the Tudorplace account.
See also references in, for instance, Alice-Lyle Scoufos: Shakespeare’s Typological Satire (Ohio University Press 1979) to gossip about Margaret marrying “Sir Jo. Falstaff” and bearing a “godly miller’s thum”.
Absolutely. My focus here has necessarily been on the politics of the latter half of the 1590s, as that sheds the most light on the reasons why it wasn’t until that time that the name Shakespeare got attached to the published plays, but the more we know about what was going on at Court then, the more we’ll be able to connect him to the plays from that time, in this case: the Falstaff plays, Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Richard III, and doubtless several others. As long as he was at Court, he was writing as much for the courtiers of the period as he was for the lawyers at the Inns and the public at large, and so there are bound to be references to current situations that have left traces in history that help tie each play to that time, though it must be kept in mind that none of the great plays are the product of one moment in particular, as most were revised a number of times over the years.
It’s clear he loved twins, so this drama involving a pair of beautiful twins makes it altogether likely that he’d use their story in some way. Perhaps the story of Sebastian and Viola in Twelfth Night touches on the story of the Radcliff twins, as does the reason why Olivia won’t marry, because she’s mourning her brother. All this is conjecture, but it’s only through conjecture that we’ll find the threads that lead to the truth.
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A large group of kids could be seen congregating on the edge of the basketball court at the new Willie Brown Middle School in the Bay View district of San Francisco.
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garbiñe Muguruza, professional women’s tennis player and ambassador for Room to Read, reached her philanthropic goal to establish a brand-new children’s library in Cambodia with the support of her fans and supporters worldwide, it was announced today by Room to Read. Muguruza was named an Active for Education ambassador for Room to Read, a global non-profit focused on literacy and girls’ education, shortly before winning the 2017 women’s singles title at Wimbledon.
As a Room to Read ambassador, Muguruza launched an online crowdfunding campaign and set an initial fundraising goal of US$35,000 to support Room to Read’s comprehensive Literacy Program, including the creation of a brand-new school library in Banlech Prasat Primary School in Prey Veng Province, Cambodia. Prey Veng is one of the poorest provinces in Cambodia with 52.4% of its population living below the national poverty line. This economic need has made quality educational resources scarce, and the recent establishment of garment factories in the region poses a threat to school completion for many children who feel pressure drop out in order to contribute to their household income.
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Muguruza featured her Room to Read ambassadorship and philanthropic commitment regularly on her social media channels, inviting her worldwide community of followers to take action alongside her. Inspired by Muguruza's passion for Room to Read’s mission, fans and supporters responded. Over 50 monetary donations made across seven currencies were invested through her Room to Read online fundraising page at https://give.roomtoread.org/Garbine, accompanied by inspiring words of encouragement.
“I wanted to give this opportunity to children, especially young girls, who face many barriers to accessing a quality education and realizing their full potential,” said Muguruza. “I am so grateful to my fans who supported my campaign. Together we are bringing the joy of learning to deserving children and changing the future of this community.”
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Home Government Government Frowns at Striking Energy Commission’s Staff Over Appointments
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The Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has directed the striking staff of the Energy Commission of Nigeria(ECN) to end action as no person or union has the right to query the powers of the President over appointments.
A statement by the Director Press in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Samuel Olowookere said the Minister noted that it is illegal for a section of the staff members of the Commission to have been on four week strike over the re-appointment of Prof. Jidere Bala as the Director General of the Commission.
According to the statement, “Section 169 &170 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria established the Public Service of the Federation while Section 171(2)(d) of the same Constitution confers on the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, the power to appoint the Permanent Secretary in any Ministry of Head or any Extra-Ministerial Department of the Government of the Federation. It is therefore imperative that all unions understand this and be properly guided.”
“ It is similarly important to remind the striking workers that Section 42 of the Trade Unions Act, CAP T14 of LFN, 2004 makes it illegal to subject any person to any kind of constraint or restriction in the course of picketing or strike in an Organization. The striking workers should therefore allow the non-union members and the re-appointed Director General to go about their lawful business without further molestation or hindrance.
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Home Rugby Michael Cheika Rues “Disrespectful” Folau As Sacking Looms
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Michael Corry April 15, 2019
Israel Folau’s anti-gay comments look to have ruled him out of selection ahead of the Rugby World Cup according to Wallabies head coach, Michael Cheika.
Last week, Folau posted a message to Instagram stating that “Hell awaits” drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolators.
As Folau’s future with Australia hangs in the balance, Cheika criticised the 30-year-old following his “disrespectful” comments.
“We had a discussion after the last time and made it pretty clear about his right to believe and our support in that, if that’s what he wants, to be part of the team,” Cheika told reporters.
“But getting it out in that disrespectful manner publicly is not what our team is about.
“When you play in the gold jersey we represent everyone in Australia, everyone. Everyone that is out there supporting us, we don’t pick and choose.”
When asked whether or not he would select Folau again, Cheika admitted it would be highly unlikely as things stand.
“I think as it stands right now… you wouldn’t be able.”
Australian captain, Michael Hooper admitted to exchanging a brief text message with Folau, who he plays alongside with for both Waratah and the Wallabies. When asked whether he would still be comfortable playing alongside the much-maligned full-back, Hooper claimed it would be “difficult”.
“Like was said before, in this current state and being here and talking about this as a rugby player, it makes it hard, it makes it difficult.”
Just yesterday, Folau doubled-down on his comments, telling the Sydney Morning Herald that he was ready to choose religion over rugby.
“I live for God now”.
“Whatever His will is, whether that’s to continue playing or not, I’m more than happy to do what He wants me to do.”
Rugby Australia chief, Raelene Castle stated on Monday that Folau had repeatedly been warned over his social media use and refused to apologise for his comments at a meeting on Friday, leaving the association with no choice but to issue him with a “high-level” breach notice which warrants a contract termination.
Folau has 48 hours to either accept the breach notice or have the matter referred to a hearing. It is believed that Folau intends to fight the breach.
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Foliar-feeding insects acquire microbiomes from the soil rather than the host plant
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09284-w
S.E. Hannula
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T.M. Bezemer (Corresponding author)
Microbiomes of soils and plants are linked, but how this affects microbiomes of aboveground herbivorous insects is unknown. We first generated plant-conditioned soils in field plots, then reared leaf-feeding caterpillars on dandelion grown in these soils, and then assessed whether the microbiomes of the caterpillars were attributed to the conditioned soil microbiomes or the dandelion microbiome. Microbiomes of caterpillars kept on intact plants differed from those of caterpillars fed detached leaves collected from plants growing in the same soil. Microbiomes of caterpillars reared on detached leaves were relatively simple and resembled leaf microbiomes, while those of caterpillars from intact plants were more diverse and resembled soil microbiomes. Plant-mediated changes in soil microbiomes were not reflected in the phytobiome but were detected in caterpillar microbiomes, however, only when kept on intact plants. Our results imply that insect microbiomes depend on soil microbiomes, and that effects of plants on soil microbiomes can be transmitted to aboveground insects feeding later on other plants.
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Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione
Rosario Scaduto
Risultato della ricerca: Chapter
The essay investigates the extraordinary fortified architecture, commissioned of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, of the Palace of Grand Master of Rhodes (Greece), presenting the various restorations that took place over the years, from 1912 to 1940, when Rhodes and the nearby Aegean Islands were an Italian possession. The knowledge of the restauration work carried aut in the building, their designers (for example Giulio Jacopi, Pietro Lojacono and Vittorio Mesturino) and the cultural principles that inspired them, today remain useful to better address the necessary restoration interventions and the continuous maintenance, and for proper conservations and use. Certainly a greater knowledge of the Gran Master Palace, also through modern systems, will therefore the understanding of the architecture, declared, since 1988, together the town of Rhodes Word Heritage Site, Greece and Italy effect of the communions of values, which must remain the main feature of our Europe
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite
8_Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean
Scaduto, R. (2018). Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione. In 8_Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean (pagg. 869-875)
Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione. / Scaduto, Rosario.
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Scaduto, R 2018, Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione. in 8_Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. pagg. 869-875.
Scaduto R. Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione. In 8_Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. 2018. pag. 869-875
Scaduto, Rosario. / Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione. 8_Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. 2018. pagg. 869-875
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Geplaatst op 26 november 2019 door John941243
Gareth Bale: Ryan Giggs says Wales will not be ‘stupid’ over fitness
Wales coach Ryan Giggs will speak to Gareth Bale to determine whether he can play in Monday’s friendly against Belarus, insisting he won’t be”stupid” regarding the Real Madrid forward’s fitness.
Bale, who also scored the winning goal in the 2-1 win over Azerbaijan on Friday, trained with the squad on Sunday afternoon and Giggs will discuss whether his talisman could be involved”either from the start or off the bench” from Belarus.
“He has got a big game the next Wednesday against Paris Saint-Germain away, I’ll speak to Gareth later,” Giggs said.
“He’s completed three 90 minutes now, or nearly 90 minutes from his past Real Madrid match. We are going to look at it.
“He looked fit another night, he had been anywhere, working hard, sprinting back – it was fantastic. He is the example.
“We won’t treat it like a training session but he would not have done anything else and today if he wasn’t likely to participate. We are going to see whether he could play a role in the game.
“We are not being stupid, as well. Given that he’s just two weeks behind everyone else. He’s not got seven or six matches .”
Giggs says he knows the criticism directed at him following his negative it late to snatch a win against Azerbaijan, but told fans not to expect successes as he gets to grips with his most powerful line-up.
“The difficulty was that it was really good or really bad, we must balance that.”
“You do not often win 4-0 in international football.
“I made a huge attempt on Friday to play with players that are fit and then you can have an impact sub like Jonny Williams, that can change games”
Bale himself insisted that he was fit and available for selection, along with the 30-year-old is convinced Giggs’ men can be eligible for Euro 2020.
He said:”I wouldn’t be here wasting my time if I didn’t think we could (qualify). I believe the fans think we could do it and we need them as our 12th man.”
Bale believes Wales are progressing under Giggs and included:”We are working hard on enhancing. We’ve played better in some games than others”
Read more here: http://vnluxgoods.com/rugby-world-cup-warm-up-rhys-patchell-starts-at-fly-half-for-wales-against-ireland/
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Lewis Hamilton Valtteri Bottas Daniel Ricciardo Max Verstappen Sports Automobile racing Formula One
Red Bull's Max Verstappen wastes victory chance in Mexico
By JIM VERTUNO - Oct. 28, 2019 02:50 AM EDT
Pit crew change tires of the car of Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, of the Netherlands, during the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Max Verstappen will go to the U.S. Grand Prix mad about what might have been in Mexico.
The Red Bull driver fought his way from the back to a sixth-place finish at the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday. That he didn't have a chance to fight for the win or a podium is his own fault.
Verstappen's penalty for unsafe driving in qualifying bumped him off his second career pole position into fourth at the start. That meant he had to navigate the crowd of cars at the first turn of the race out of a furious sprint.
That didn't work out.
Verstappen and eventual race winner Lewis Hamilton bumped in the second corner and both cars went into the grass. Back down in eighth, Verstappen fought back three laps later to make a passing move on eventual third-place finisher Valtteri Bottas. Verstappen got by, but his right rear tire was punctured when it clipped Bottas' front wing. The tire soon shredded and Verstappen drove nearly an entire lap with a bare wheel as he dropped to last place.
Only a furious drive without another tire change brought him back to sixth.
"To come back to sixth was actually not a bad result if you look at everything that went on," Verstappen said.
But it only highlighted Red Bull's winning potential in driver and car that was wasted by Saturday's penalty.
The two-time defending race champion had been struggling since the summer break but in the thin air of Mexico City his blistering lap in qualifying easily topped Ferrari, everyone's pole favorite. Then Verstappen admitted in the post-qualifying press conference that he didn't slow down under a yellow flag on his final lap after Bottas crashed in front of him. He even dismissed a question whether that was unsafe.
His comments quickly drew an investigation and a penalty. And they doomed his victory chances.
The episode was a return to the brash Verstappen who rarely backs off, on or off the track. And it likely prompted his aggressive moves at the start Sunday as he fought to regain the front.
Driving angry had worked here in 2018. Verstappen seethed that he'd been bumped off the pole by then-teammate Daniel Ricciardo and channeled that anger into a brilliant move into the first turn that set him up for an easy victory.
Verstappen couldn't do the same Sunday. Not from fourth position.
"It's a real shame," Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner said of Verstappen's race. "We could have had a lot more out of today."
The bump with Hamilton could have been more impactful. Hamilton said his car floor was damaged and he had to deal with that the rest of the race.
"I thought at some stage I'd get torpedoed by Max," Hamilton said. "I always leave Max a lot of space. That's the smartest thing you can do ... But I don't think it was intentional or anything like that. It was just, he's a magnet for those kind of things"
Bottas said Verstappen came "out of nowhere" when trying to make a rare pass in the slow corners of the track's stadium section and "earned his puncture." Verstappen suggested it was Bottas' fault.
"The race was still on until I overtook Valtteri and he clipped my rear tire," Verstappen said.
Verstappen's rookie teammate, Alex Albon, finished fifth and has outscored Verstappen in the six races since the summer break. Verstappen twice didn't finish races because of engine trouble or car damage from a collision. His finish in Mexico dropped Verstappen to fifth in the drivers' standings, behind Vettel.
Albon, who is still awaiting word from Red Bull on a contract for 2020, drove well, said Hamilton, who spent several laps behind him early in the race.
"He's got a very bright future ahead of him," Hamilton said. "I hope (Red Bull) are good to him."
More AP Formula One news: https://apnews.com/FormulaOne
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How Food Tasters Work
by Melanie Radzicki McManus
Testers from the German Agricultural Society check out the quality of cookies in Berln. Besides looks and taste, they're examining consistency and sound (crunchiness).
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How'd you like to eat chocolate for a living? Or curly fries? You could if you're a professional food taster. The job sounds so appealing: Eating your must-have food as much as you want! That's not quite how professional food tasting works, however. While tasters definitely evaluate how delectable a product is, they're also scrutinizing how it looks and smells, plus considering its consistency and innumerable other factors.
And contrary to what some believe, they're not making meals out of the foods they're tasting, either. Taste-testers take small bites of a particular food, which allows them to truly evaluate its various components. Then they spit it out and cleanse their palate in preparation for the next sample by sipping water or perhaps even gargling.
There are two basic types of food tasters: The first group consists of professionally educated and trained men and women who are often employed as food technicians, food scientists or product developers. The second type comprises consumers who work part-time or on an as-needed basis to taste-test products for companies. The former group samples food as one part of their job, while the latter group is only involved in taste-testing.
Ice cream producer Ben & Jerry's has professional tasters on staff, dubbed "flavor gurus" who create new ice cream flavors. Most of these gurus have backgrounds in food science or as chefs. Meanwhile, the Schwan Food Company, which is based in Marshall, Minnesota, and sells frozen foods through home delivery and grocery stores, invites people living near company headquarters to become paid taste-testers. They sample current and new products in its "sensory tasting laboratory" and provide feedback. All potential tasters have to do is fill out a form with basic demographic information and food preferences and they'll be notified when tests are available.
In between these two extremes are firms like MMR Research Worldwide that conduct consumer and sensory market research for companies in the food, drink and personal care sectors, including Dunkin' Donuts, Unilever, Barilla and Kellogg's. MMR hires "sensory panelists" to taste-test part time on a fixed schedule, first putting them through extensive training. No particular education or experience is needed for the job, but the MMR website says that "candidates should have good sensory acuity (this will be tested at a screening session), and have the ability to articulate themselves in front of others."
So what is sensory acuity, and how do you know if you have it? Find out on the next page.
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Posted on 1 Aug 2019 by Jim Alexander
‘1917’ Trailer Reaction
Skyfall director Sam Mendes goes back over a 100 years to 1917 and WWI in his upcoming war thriller. Two young soldiers have a monumental task in front of them. The task appears to be to cross enemy territory to deliver a message that can save thousands of soldiers lives. No pressure, right? The first trailer is out for 1917, which won’t release till late 2019, into early 2020. Here are my thoughts on what the trailer gave us.
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The initial shot is fantastic. A soldier running with explosions going off behind him, as if he’s racing against them. The scene zooms out into a shot of the movie title “1917”. The following shot is an extended clip of the soldiers navigating through an underground tunnel. Building additional suspense.
The next dramatic clip is of the general telling his soldiers, “If you fail, it will be a massacre”. So there it is, all the stakes in the world are on the line. More bunker footage follows. Lots of mystery in this trailer.
Gives little away, but the clips we see are significant and underline the stakes the two male leads will have in the film. I liked how it gives you an idea of what the film will be about, but without revealing any major scenes.
‘1917’ Trailer Grade: B+
**Universal Pictures will release the film domestically in limited release on December 25, 2019 and wide on January 10, 2020.
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Under the Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo
Posted on February 17, 2012 by rraymond12
Cover of Under the Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo
In 2001, when assistant district attorney Philip Kearney left San Francisco for Kosova, he found himself driven by generous motives: he wanted to help “rebuild” this former Serbian province shattered by a decade of ethnic warfare (4). He would do that rebuilding “under the blue flag” of the UN, serving as a prosecutor of war criminals. But early in his brilliant book bearing the title above, Kearney acknowledges that his selfless wish to help heal the Balkans rooted in personal needs: his mission would help him to squelch the “feeling” that his life “was half over” yet he had not made his “mark” (2). He would fill the “hole” in his life, then, by helping Kosova restore the rule of law.
Early on, Kearney’s mission filled that hole, giving him a sense of “vigor and purpose” that he “hadn’t felt in years” (21). Yet after a year of service in Kosova, where Kearney found the justice system truly in “tatters” (14), one might have forgiven him had he returned to the comforts of San Francisco and written a judgmental book about the cowardice of some Kosovarans who won’t bear witness against murderers and rapists (84), and about the incorrigible corruption of some police and judges: “the same people who were supposed to be upholding the law were the people I needed to go after” (197).
But instead of complaining at home, Keaney stayed to pursue his mission, for the Balkans “had gotten into [his] blood” (224). Having lost himself in Kosovaran stories of suffering and endurance, of courage that sometimes overcomes terror, Kearney no longer had time to worry about making a mark.
Mesmerized by Kosovaran stories, Kearney quickly discovered the hatred—“still very real and still very alive”—that threads through both Albanian and Serbian narratives (39). Those hatreds, now and always, have made “retributive murder…commonplace” in the Balkans, and Kearney found in Kosova “no justice system to reign in the violence” (45). With no rule of law, either during or after the war, Kearney heard stories of Serbian death camps, where Albanian women suffered beatings and rapes daily (159), and of raids on Albanian homes, where rapes in front of family members preceded the lootings (108). Kearney also heard stories of Albanian retribution; one such case involved an Albanian with an AK-47 slaughtering a dozen Serbs, including a four-year-old boy, in front of a store (56). “Nobody here,” Kearney concludes, “has clean hands” (226).
To work toward ending this cycle of hatred and vengeance, Kearney used his Kosovaran courtroom to persuade both sides that “justice had to be blind—especially to ethnicity” (243). Sharing the UN’s commitment to “conquer ancient tribalism and replace it with the rule of law” (256), Kearney argued passionately that atrocities “committed either by military winners or losers” must be prosecuted by one high standard of human conduct, especially when committed “against the civilian population” (257, 259).
Amazingly, Kearney and his legal team won convictions against both Serbs and Albanians. Predictably, however, set-backs followed, like the acquittal of a Serb Kearney thought he had put away (268), and then the 2005 Supreme Court decision that “with the stroke of a pen” reversed “convictions we had fought so hard to achieve” (282). Yet even such reversals, Kearney hopes, persuades Serbs that international tribunals can be fair to “both sides of the conflict” (268).
Looking back on his mission, Kearney stresses two key lessons he hopes that we all take from his narrative: that “good governance takes time,” and that “our need to engage actively in the broader world” remains “stronger than ever” (294, 295).
Additional Links about Kearney
Radio interview with Philip Kearney and Verena Knaus, Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders, Wisconsin Public Radio, February 17, 2009
Interview with Philip Kearney, San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2009
Philip Kearney, Richard Reeves*, and Geoffrey Robinson^, Rising Above Oppression, Panel Discussion at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 24, 2010
*Richard Reeves, Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin
Airlift - June 1948 - May 1949 (Simon & Schuster; January 5, 2010)
^Geoffrey Robinson, "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die": How Genocide
Was Stopped in East Timor (Princeton University Press; November 16,
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Contentment…and Gaps
Posted on January 29, 2012 by rraymond12
I can’t recall the last time I felt so content, the product of a good sleep, a satisfying meal, and a sense of mission.
My severe-looking bed turns out to be quite comfortable, and with two wool blankets I stayed plenty warm.
Look, Ma--I made my bed!
After rising at 5:00, I fired up the hot-water pot, drank coffee, and read from Bron Taylor’s Dark Green Religion: Nature, Spirituality, and the Planetary Future, a book that celebrates Thoreau but actually relates in powerful ways to much of the 20th-century American literature I will read with my students. Think of Willy Loman longing for a garden to plant, or Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim finding some peace in a world of fire-bombings in his Buddha-like discovery of the simultaneity of every moment. More on this later.
Then breakfast: cranberry juice and yogurt (both chilled on my balcony) as well as a tomato, a banana, a chunk of cheese, and an even chunkier slice of bread. Such basic food satisfies deeply, and I’m certain that the pleasure comes as much from touch as from taste and smell.
My ‘mission’? To teach my Kosovaran students American literature by helping them to grow as writers and researchers, yes, but—even more fundamentally—to teach myself to listen and to lose myself in others’ stories.
But my rich experiences here come at a heavy price: my separation from Judy and from all the people and critters I love. Skyping helps, but I know that days will come when the mission fails and even electronics can’t bridge the gap between here and home.
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When Do You Require a Cochlear Implant?
Love is in the air says many hopeless romantics. No, Nitrogen, Oxygen, CO2 are in the air says the science and Sheldon Cooper. But more than anything else, there is vagueness aplenty in the air. It is everywhere, it is in our thoughts, actions, and speech. Vagueness in thoughts and actions might not bother many people but in speech it does. It is difficult to understand this vagueness ridden world and its people. And this is the problem faced by people with perfectly alright ears. If this is the case with people with faultless ears then what about people with the hearing disorders?? Then aid comes in the form of hearing aid. But for some people, hearing-aid is hardly of any help. So, should they remain deaf for the rest of the life and suffer in the sea of vagueness?? Well God may or may not bless America but the cochlear implants are blessing to the people with the hearing disorder.
What is a cochlear implant?
Cochlear implants are tiny electronic hearing devices designed for the people suffering from severe hearing loss.
These implants do not restore the damaged ears to its full hearing capacity but replace the function of the inner ear.
Though the design looks very similar to that of hearing-aid, in function it differs from hearing-aid. While the hearing-aid amplify the sound of the surroundings so that the damaged ear can hear things better, the cochlear works slightly in a different way. These implants sense the sound signals produced in the environment, bypass the damaged ear cells, and stimulate the auditory nerve which in turn produce sensations of sound and sends these signals to the brain.
Age is immaterial and, regardless of which brackets of age one fits in, they can be the victims of profound deafness. Both children and adults with acute hearing loss will have to get themselves these implants. If you have identified with any of the symptoms listed below, you should make no delay in contacting otolaryngologist or an ENT specialist for the medical advice.
Loss of hearing ability in one or both the ears
Deafness in one or both the ears ranging from moderate to severe
If you score falls below 50% in sentence recognition test done by the hearing professionals in the ear to be implanted.
If your score falls below 60% in sentence recognition test done by the hearing professionals in both hears with hearing-aid.
Dr. Chaitanya Rao, Managing director at Dr. Rao’s ENT group of hospitals has 6 years experience in the field of ENT.
His special areas of interest include Nose & sinus surgeries, Otology, Snoring and sleep apnea surgeries. During his Post-graduation itself he was invited as a visiting physician to House Institute of Medical sciences, Los Angeles; Rhinology and Anterior skull base unit, Ohio State University Medical Centre, Columbus, Ohio and University of Michigan from where he picked up his skills.
He plays a key role (Course Director & co-ordinator) in giving hands on training to around 150 ENT surgeons every year from all around the world for initiating and improving their ENT surgical skills as a part of Hyderabad ENT Research Foundation initiatives.
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Home Articles Attention Race-Pimps: Click Here to Stop Being Confused About ZumaMustFall
Attention Race-Pimps: Click Here to Stop Being Confused About ZumaMustFall
Martin van Staden
Our old friend Mohammed Jameel Abdulla from The Daily Vox has once again donned his race-pimp gloves and, unfortunately, seems to still be confused about free education after I generously helped him with some of his misconceptions last year. So, being the kind-hearted (if somewhat condescending) libertarian that I am, I once again offer my service for Abdulla and company to help clear some of the misconceptions about the ZumaMustFall movement and race.
To make it perfectly clear: I am not a supporter of ZumaMustFall. I think South Africa’s problem is, firstly, that we collectively have a very dangerous idea about what the role of government in society should be, and, secondly, our Constitution invites the abuse of power. Jacob Zuma as an individual, despicable to be sure, is but a symptom of a much deeper problem.
Without further ado, allow me to clear up some of the confusion emanating from the social justice left. I will be using Abdulla’s article for reference.
“South Africans are donning black…”
Yes, black is an internationally-recognized color. And, like in countless other contexts, in this context, it does not refer to black people. Yes, yes, the social justice left believes even the color black has an inherent negative connotation to it, which apparently makes life more different for black individuals. This is, however, just another case of bored leftist academics who have nothing better to theorize about.
“[Evil whites and capitalists say] that now is a time for unity.”
The ‘now’ in that sentence is clearly supposed to be emphasized, implying that whites, bankers, and evil elements in the ANC only want unity in South Africa when their own narrow interests are threatened. This is left unproven and assumed.
I have not seen any indication from whites at large that they don’t desire unity. Of course, Abdulla and the left would say ‘real’ unity would mean a communist-style land regime and perfect equality of wealth on average between race groups, however, this is academic nonsense, once again. ‘Inequality’ is a fabricated ‘problem,’ and, even if it were an actual impediment to freedom and prosperity (which it has never been proven to be, by anyone), it has nothing to do with unity. An extremely rich and an extremely poor person can find themselves united by common interests. It is bizarre for Abdulla to insinuate otherwise.
“But for us, the time for unity has come and gone many times before.”
Here Abdulla implies that the social justice left extended its hand in good faith toward ‘the others’ (simply people who don’t agree with them, and groups they’ve deemed to be undesirable) for unity. Nothing of the sort has ever happened. The moderate left and moderate right in South Africa, however, did come together and unite. That event gave us a pretty-okay Constitution and averted civil war. Naturally, the social justice left has insane demands which it believes are perfectly reasonable. If that is their standard for ‘unity’ – mass starvation, censor boards, government control of all expression – then unity is not certainly not worth it.
“Where were the corporates who now so vocally back Save SA during Marikana, when our own were massacred by the state?”
The left created this problem, believe it or not.
Companies in South Africa are irrationally averse to confronting government on anything. There are two reasons for this:
Companies cannot afford to upset some or other regulator, lest they lose out on license renewals or other necessary cooperation from government
Companies cannot afford to look as if they oppose government’s Transformation agenda, lest they upset the bloodthirsty Twitter Police who will harass them for the rest of eternity
After Marikana, the government was united.
However, with Jacob Zuma, there is no united front in government. Various ministers, the Deputy President, and the senior alliance partners have called on the President to resign. The ANC’s integrity commission even recommended the resignation of the President. It stands to reason that anyone – companies included – would feel much more comfortable voicing their concern with government when the government itself is divided (and a divided government is a good government, by the way).
“Where were their voices calling for a minimum wage and free education?”
For such a prolific writer at a respected outlet, Abdulla makes this argumentative error quite easily.
When, exactly, did a minimum wage and free education become a fait accompli? Is it now scripture that everyone must agree on a minimum wage and free education, otherwise they are hateful greedy bigots?
There is a wealth of content on the Rational Standard showing, often in easy and sometimes in scholarly language why neither the minimum wage or ‘free’ education is ever a good idea. Any ‘corporate’ who supports either of these things should not occupy the position they do. People in business, more so than the rest of us, need to have at least a rudimentary understanding of economics.
“Why weren’t they rallying for a national shutdown when the banks were outed for colluding in ways that belittled the economy they’re now so desperate to protect?”
The banks are subject to the ordinary laws all citizens are subject to, as the Competition Commission inquiry proves. The President on the other hand, is not. For goodness sakes, he had charges withdrawn against him because the prosecutor was taking the political climate of the country into account. The man was also found to have misused taxpayers’ money for his personal palace in KwaZulu-Natal, only to receive a slap on the wrist. Any other private individual or company would have been charged with fraud or forced to pay a hefty fine from the money they make on the market. Any fine the President has to pay inevitably comes out of the pocket of taxpayers.
Besides, the banks colluded in one of the most regulated financial services industries in the world, which often wins international recognition for how well it functions. I would say this is pretty severe indictment of the effectiveness of stringent regulation – perhaps the free market can do better?
“Did white people take to the streets when Helen Zille asked us to see the silver lining in genocide and oppression?”
Abdulla commits another fallacy: the straw-man.
I’ve never been a big Zille fan – although I am becoming more of one every day she triggers the social justice left – but she did not ask anyone to see the “silver lining in genocide and oppression.” I won’t indulge this intellectual dishonesty with a proper response, so I invite Abdulla to actually prove what he’s saying here.
“Where was the petition calling for action against the inequality that falls on racial lines…?”
Inequality is a red herring. Do yourself a favor and watch this video – I know the social justice left won’t watch it, because of the speaker – it answers most of the confusion around inequality.
As an aside, Abdulla embeds a tweet from someone known as “Ms.SK”. The tweet reads:
“Whenever you see whites protesting you must know it has nothing to do with: Racism, Land, Inequality, White privilege”
Not one of those four items are on the top twenty list of most pressing concerns in South Africa. The Rational Standard has, as it happens, also dealt with each of those items in detail.
Unemployment, growth, violent crime, and corruption are considered more pressing issues in South Africa by all race groups. The ‘problems’ of racism, land, inequality, and white privilege exist, for the most part, only in the halls of universities and press media outlets.
Abdulla makes a multitude of statements without further ado, and like the rest of the social justice left, believes we should take him at his word. He has made no argument. He has only tried to appeal to emotion and feelings, which is what Critical Theory-cum-Saul Alinsky tells them to do as a matter of tact. No reasoning or argument required.
But I do hope this article provided you with some food for thought and responses to the social justice left in this regard. Just because you oppose Jacob Zuma does not mean you have to support nonsense like free education and the land hysteria emanating from race-pimps.
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Harald Sitta 4 April 2017 at 21:16 PM
a bloody good slapping ….
Gillian Benade 9 April 2017 at 08:33 AM
On the topic of Fridays protest. Ordinary people defied the narrative that we have been fed that South Africans are racist, violent, non-law abiding and uncaring.
Steven van Staden 9 April 2017 at 10:24 AM
I wonder if, when asked what he does for a living, Abdulla answers honestly, “I twist and distort the positive and constructive to make it look negative and destructive”?
Steven van Staden 4 May 2017 at 16:15 PM
Looking for Abdulla’s rebuttal and month later but can’t find it.
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Purification of human basophils their response to anti-IgE
Michael A. Lett-Brown, Lisa Robinson, Harinder S. Juneja, J. Andrew Grant
University of Texas Medical Branch
Although usually the least prevalent blood leukocyte, the basophil can release potent soluble factors in response to multiple triggers. We purified basophils from normal volunteers by means of isopycnic centrifugation and affinity binding of mononuclear cells. The majority of the basophils from most subjects were recovered in a band formed between Percoll layers with densities of 1.070 and 1.080; at this stage basophils represented a mean of 22% of total leukocytes. These cells were reacted with monoclonal antibodies to T (OKT-11) and B (anti-HLA-DR) lymphocytes; B and T cells were removed by adsorption to insoluble antibodies against mouse immunoglobulin resulting in a mean purity of 75% basophils with a yield of 54%. These highly enriched basophils resembled unpurified basophils in terms of (1) intracellular histamine content, (2) spontaneous release of histamine in buffer, and (3) percentage of histamine released by anti-IgE. These findings suggest that the techniques used to purify the basophils do not affect the functional integrity of human basophils.
Journal of Immunological Methods
Published - Feb 24 1989
Isopycnic Centrifugation
anti-IgE antibodies
Histamine Release
HLA-DR Antigens
Anti-IgE
Basophil purification
Percoll
Lett-Brown, M. A., Robinson, L., Juneja, H. S., & Andrew Grant, J. (1989). Purification of human basophils their response to anti-IgE. Journal of Immunological Methods, 117(2), 163-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1759(89)90136-1
Purification of human basophils their response to anti-IgE. / Lett-Brown, Michael A.; Robinson, Lisa; Juneja, Harinder S.; Andrew Grant, J.
In: Journal of Immunological Methods, Vol. 117, No. 2, 24.02.1989, p. 163-167.
Lett-Brown, MA, Robinson, L, Juneja, HS & Andrew Grant, J 1989, 'Purification of human basophils their response to anti-IgE', Journal of Immunological Methods, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 163-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1759(89)90136-1
Lett-Brown MA, Robinson L, Juneja HS, Andrew Grant J. Purification of human basophils their response to anti-IgE. Journal of Immunological Methods. 1989 Feb 24;117(2):163-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1759(89)90136-1
Lett-Brown, Michael A. ; Robinson, Lisa ; Juneja, Harinder S. ; Andrew Grant, J. / Purification of human basophils their response to anti-IgE. In: Journal of Immunological Methods. 1989 ; Vol. 117, No. 2. pp. 163-167.
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Review of the new edition of John Okada’s No-No Boy
Special to the International Examiner, July 15-August 4, 2015
The appearance of the first new edition of John Okada’s No-No Boy in nearly 40 years offers the chance for re-evaluation of his work. As someone with a long connection with the novel, I find there’s much to like about the new edition – and one thing profoundly wrong.
After more than 100,000 copies in 13 printings, the University of Washington Press has republished this foundational work along with five others in its “Classics of Asian American Literature” series, with new covers and introductions.
First, the good. The new cover illustration reflects a lot of thought.
I’ll miss the menace of the 1976 design by Bob Onodera of San Francisco, with the flags of the U.S. and Imperial Japan peering from the eyes of draft resister Ichiro Yamada’s surly face, partly because
Bob based it on a photograph of myself taken the year before at the Asian American Theater Workshop. He designed the title with Army stencil font against a brown background that suggests the texture of a paper grocery bag of the kind used at Yamada grocery.
Illustrator and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki of Toronto, whose own family was interned in Canada, gives the new cover the feel of one of her celebrated graphic novels and cartoons, a look that will draw in a new generation of readers. Seen in profile, the downcast distress in Ichiro’s expression updates the anguish of the unseen Ichiro clenching his fists to his face in the original 1957 Charles Tuttle hardback designed by M. Kuwata.
The type has been completely reset. Designer Thomas Eykemans arranged his cover title to create what he calls a “tense visual ‘X’ that pulls the eye to the center before expanding outward,” while also suggesting the colors in the U.S. and Japanese flags.
The new edition wisely retains the 1976 Introduction by Lawson Inada and the Afterword by Frank Chin, which continue to bookend the novel for readers unaccustomed to the facts of forced incarceration.
Inada’s piece captures the personal thrill of rediscovering the book and setting in historical context its republication by CARP, the Combined Asian American Resources Project. Chin’s biographical essay, “In Search of John Okada,” frames the mystery surrounding our Seattle author and first revealed the heartbreak surrounding the burning of his unfinished second novel. This Afterword has been cribbed endlessly by two generations of students and scholars, and to this date continues to document the few known facts about Okada’s life.
In her new introduction, novelist Ruth Ozeki echoes this theme of yearning to know more about the author. Addressed as a letter to Okada, she strives to connect across the divide of time with him and his recreation of the postwar Chinatown/International District: “It’s Japantown noir, a demimonde of broken dreams, fallen heroes and brawling drunks …”
So here’s the problem with this new edition: At the end of the Preface, someone added the name “John Okada,” as if he had signed it as a statement from the author.
This attribution never existed in the original Tuttle hardcover overseen by Okada, or the CARP paperback reprint. It was not authorized by the Okada family. It interrupts the dream woven by Okada’s fiction, and violates Okada’s artistic intent.
At a time in 1957 when America actively worked to forget the war and the still-recent memory of American concentration camps, the Preface spectacularly draws the uninitiated into Okada’s imaginary world through a montage of unvarnished scenes from the reality of postwar Japanese America. As Floyd Cheung of Smith College notes, part of Okada’s art throughout No-No Boy lies in modulating a variety of different voices – the drunk in the tavern who “never thought much about the sneaky Japs,” the hooker who got “two bucks a head” from the Japanese boys, the Jewish merchant who “cried without tears for the Japanese, who, in an instant … had taken their place beside the Jew.”
The final voice in the Preface is that of a Nisei translator flying in the belly of a B-24, whom we hear in a terse exchange with a “blonde giant from Nebraska.” When asked how, with his family in camp, he could volunteer for the Army, the Nisei replies, “I got reasons,” and his thoughts go to his friend Ichiro who refused the draft until his family was freed. This passage ends the Preface and leads directly to Chapter One and Ichiro’s arrival by bus at King Street Station, with the cognitive dissonance of a narrative shift to Ichiro’s voice.
Signing the Preface with Okada’s name, Cheung agrees, “brings it into the realm of autobiography. But it’s not. It’s part of the novel, a product of his imagination.” He adds, “The signature seals what Philippe Lejeune called the ‘autobiographical pact.’ I’m not sure that Okada would have wanted that.”
Generations of scholars have carelessly misread the Preface and believed that Okada was inserting himself into it. But he’s not. The bit with the Nisei translator is certainly based on Okada’s experience as a radio message interceptor, but he erases any doubt as to what’s fact or fiction by having the translator reveal that his family is imprisoned in Wyoming. The Okada family, like most from Seattle, was evicted to Minidoka, Idaho.
The Preface is part of the fiction. It’s not autobiography. Okada’s “signature” is a jarring and misguided addition that disrupts the narrative and should be removed from future editions.
This editorial problem aside, No-No Boy continues to hold up today, 60 years from its initial publication. As geography, it’s a Rosetta Stone through which we can decode and piece together the bits of WW2 Seattle that survive for us today, from the rescued Wonder Bread sign on Jackson Street to the parts of Maynard Alley that will remain after demolition of the Wah Mee Club.
The book is still the great Japanese American tragedy, whose power and authenticity derives from the unexpressed rage of his generation that Okada pours into his characters. He holds nothing back, and tries to please no one. After “two years in camp and two years in prison,” the resister Ichiro Yamada returns to find his Seattle community shattered and its people divided. Parents mourn sons lost in battle; veterans return maimed and succumb to their wounds; resisters are blamed and ostracized; a woman abandoned by her soldier husband finds comfort in Ichiro’s arms; his mother goes mad when forced to admit Japan lost the war and drowns herself.
By novel’s end, Ichiro walks slowly away from a final violent confrontation that leaves one dead and another a drunken, sobbing mess, desperately searching in his mind for some kind of redemption from everything he’s seen – white racism, Pearl Harbor, and the war; mass eviction and incarceration based solely on race; and his own resistance that led him only to prison and social ostracism. Ichiro takes it all in, rendering him unable to pursue his American dream, and unwilling to settle for an easy answer.
It may say something about our current sensibility that recent attempts to adapt this novel to the stage or screen consistently veer toward the easy answer of a love-conquers-all scenario involving Ichiro and Emi, the abandoned wife. But Okada places their final romantic encounter 40 pages and two chapters from the end of Ichiro’s journey. Through his brilliant organization of the material, Okada states clearly his artistic intent. He refuses the idea of a happy ending. Love is not enough. As Ichiro might say, “the problem is bigger,” and Okada makes it clear it is something that Itchy will have to fight through for years to come.
At the time he wrote, Okada could not foresee how the Sansei would grow to take up the mantle of justice for the camps and redress, and make sense of the camp resistance. He could only hope something was coming. In the darkest part of the night for postwar Japanese America, even as Ichiro thinks and probes for answers not only for himself but for all those in his world, he can see “a glimmer of hope … a faint and elusive insinuation of promise.” And in that precise balance, and in the rigor of Ichiro’s arc, lies the greatness of this novel.
No-No Boy stands the test of time. It’s still the great Japanese American novel.
** UPDATE April 3, 2018: Through the magic of digital printing, the John Okada “signature” has now been removed from the Preface of new press runs of No-No Boy. Thanks to UW Press for its responsiveness to this issue.
FRANK ABE is producer/director of the award-winning film, Conscience and the Constitution, and is conducting further research into John Okada and his work.
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Bryant went 2-for-4 on field-goal tries and did not attempt an extra point during Sunday's 27-20 loss to the Seahawks.
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Bryant made both of his field-goal attempts, and three of four point-after tries during Atlanta's 34-33 loss to the Cardinals.
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Hits all four field goals and PATS
Bryant went 3-for-3 on extra-point attempts and made his lone field-goal try of 35 yards during the Falcons' 53-32 loss to Houston on Sunday.
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Misses second field goal of 2019
Bryant went 1-for-2 on field-goal tries and converted his lone extra-point attempt during Sunday's 24-10 loss to Tennessee.
Analysis: The ageless wonder Bryant has been far from his usual productive self in terms of fantasy output, drawing only five field-goal attempts in four games, and missing on two of those tries. As a benefactor of a prolific Falcons offense, Bryant converted on exactly 34 field goals in both 2016 and 2017, but has only been afforded 26 attempts in 17 appearances since. Week 5 presents a hopeful matchup, as Bryant and the Falcons oppose a Texans team that has conceded an average of 2.8 field-goal…read more
Published: Sun, Sep 29 at 8:23pm by Rotowire.com
Converts 34-yarder
Bryant made his only field-goal attempt from 34 yards and all three extra points in Sunday's loss to the Colts.
Analysis: Bryant's perfect on all six extra-point attempts this season, and he's made two of three field goals with one coming from 50 yards. His next contest will be against the Titans, which allowed two field goals over 40 yards in Week 3.
Published: Mon, Sep 23 at 1:18pm by Rotowire.com
Misses one kick in Sunday night win
Bryant went 1-for-2 on field-goal attempts and made all three of his point-after tries during Sunday's 24-20 win against Philadelphia.
Analysis: The 44-year-old placekicker sunk his first field-goal try of 2019 by knocking down a 50-yard attempt on Atlanta's first drive of the night. He pulled another 50-yarder wide left later in the contest, only to see Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz gift the ball right back to the Falcons with an interception on the subsequent play. Week 3 brings a matchup against an Indianapolis defense that's conceded just five field-goal attempts over its past five regular and postseason games.
Donut to kick off 2019
Bryant did not attempt a field goal or an extra point during Sunday's 28-12 loss to Minnesota.
Analysis: Scoring opportunities were severely limited for the 44-year-old Bryant in this one, as Atlanta found itself in a multi-possession, first quarter deficit to the Vikings and elected to forgo field-goal chances for potential touchdowns as the game wore on. Red-zone trips were sparse to begin with, as Atlanta did not get inside the Minnesota 20-yard line until its opening drive of the second half, and that series culminated in an Anthony Harris interception in the end zone -- his second of the…read more
Published: Mon, Sep 9 at 7:26am by Rotowire.com
Signs with Falcons
Bryant signed a contract with the Falcons on Saturday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.
Analysis: Bryant worked out with the Falcons on Thursday and was ultimately lured out of retirement, presumably to replace Giorgio Tavecchio and Blair Walsh, who were equally disappointing during the preseason. The 44-year-old has been nearly automatic in domes throughout his career, connecting on 89.4 percent of his kicks in the aforementioned contests. Bryant should be an intriguing fantasy option situated in the Atlanta offense that plays just three outdoor games all season.
Published: Sat, Aug 31 at 9:13am by Rotowire.com
Confirms tryout with Falcons
Bryant confirmed he has a tryout with the Falcons scheduled for Friday, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: The Falcons apparently haven't been too impressed by what they've seen from Giorgio Tavecchio and Blair Walsh, so the team now will take a look at the 44-year-old Bryant, who played in Atlanta from 2009 to 2018, converting 88.7 percent of his field-goal attempts in that stretch. His career rate of 89.4 percent in dome games should be appealing to a team that's scheduled for just three outdoor contests in 2019. Given the talent on offense along with a favorable schedule, the Atlanta kicker…read more
Published: Thu, Aug 29 at 11:15am by Rotowire.com
Tryout on tap
Bryant will reportedly try out for the Falcons, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Analysis: Fellow kickers Giorgio Tavecchio and Blair Walsh are currently on the team's roster, but the 44-year-old Bryant-- who kicked in 13 games for Atlanta last season -- may now get another shot with the team he played for from 2009 to 2018.
No plans of retirement just yet
Bryant said Tuesday that he wants to continue playing in the NFL and remains confident in his abilities to perform at a high level, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports. "I want to go where I'm wanted," the 43-year-old kicker explained. "I can still hit from 57 yards. I can still make the game-winning kick."
Analysis: Atlanta elected to let go of the ever-reliable Bryant last Wednesday, clearing up cap space for much-needed roster moves on both sides of the ball and providing Giorgio Tavecchio with an opportunity to become the Falcons' full-time place kicker. There are multiple teams who could use the services of Bryant, who connected on an extraordinary 20 of 21 field-goal tries last year. Though his ultimate destination remains up in the air, there is one team of the seven that posted a sub-80 percent…read more
Published: Tue, Feb 12 at 7:23pm by Rotowire.com
Cut free by Atlanta
Bryant announced Wednesday via his personal Twitter account that the Falcons informed him of his release from the roster.
Analysis: Bryant's post came a day after he noted that he intends to continue his career. If that's the case, Bryant will likely now need to find a home outside Atlanta, where he spent the past 10 seasons. He converted 88.7 percent of his field-goal attempts in a Falcons uniform, including 20 of 21 (95.2 percent) during the 2018 campaign. The 43-year-old missed three games with a hamstring injury, and he's been bothered by his back at times the past few seasons. Even with concerns about his durability,…read more
Published: Wed, Feb 6 at 9:13am by Rotowire.com
No plans to retire
Bryant said via Twitter on Tuesday that he is not retiring.
Analysis: Bryant is coming off his most efficient season as a kicker, as he made 20 of 21 field goals in 2018. The longtime Falcon will turn 44 in May and is under contract for two more seasons in Atlanta, as the team is likely to happily welcome his return in 2019.
Published: Tue, Feb 5 at 9:21pm by Rotowire.com
Flawless against former team
Bryant connected on field-goal attempts of 49 and 37 yards, while converting on all four of his point-after tries during Sunday's 34-32 win against the Buccaneers.
Analysis: Like fine wine, Bryant continues to improve with age. In his 17th pro season, the 43-year-old Bryant converted on 20 of 21 field-goal tries (95.2 percent), comfortably surpassing his previous career-best field goal percentage of 93.1 among seasons in which he attempted at least 10 field goals. It's hard enough to find a serviceable option at kicker, let alone an elite one, and the Falcons would almost certainly embrace the idea of Bryant returning for an 11th year with the franchise. Whether…read more
Published: Sun, Dec 30 at 10:38pm by Rotowire.com
Nails field goal, three PATs in win
Bryant converted on his lone field-goal attempt of 39 yards and went 3-for-3 on extra points during Sunday's 24-10 win against the Panthers.
Analysis: Bryant continues to build upon his ever-reliable form, knocking nine of his 10 field-goal tries through the uprights since returning from a hamstring injury Week 11 and converting on 18 of 19 field-goal attempts overall this season. If there is a black mark on Bryant's 2018 resume, it comes as a result of shaky results on point-after tries. The veteran kicker has missed multiple PATs for the first time in his past 17 seasons as a pro. In Week 17, Bryant's fantasy upside remains limited facing a…read more
Published: Mon, Dec 24 at 8:22am by Rotowire.com
Flawless outing against Arizona
Bryant converted on field-goal attempts of 22 and 33 yards while going 4-for-4 on extra-point tries during Sunday's 40-14 win against the Cardinals.
Analysis: Outside of coming up short on a 53-yard attempt last week at blustery Lambeau Field, Bryant has connected on all eight of his field-goal tries since returning from a hamstring injury in Week 11. This after going 9-for-9 through his first six appearances of 2018, though he has missed two extra points on the year -- just the second time Bryant has failed on multiple PATs since his rookie season of 2002. The fantasy upside is limited heading into a Week 16 matchup against Carolina's putrid…read more
Rough day at the office
Bryant failed on one of his three extra-point tries, also coming up short on a 53-yard field-goal attempt during Sunday's 34-20 loss to Green Bay.
Analysis: Not only did the veteran kicker miss his first field-goal attempt of the year after converting on his first 15 tries, he also failed on an extra point and a FGA within the same game for the first time since Nov. 13, 2016 (and for the third time over his past 11 years in the NFL). Kicking in blustery Lambeau Field conditions in December is less than ideal, as Bryant struggled to slice his ball through the wind both in warmups as well as during the game itself -- snapping an NFL-leading streak of…read more
Suiting up Week 14
Bryant (back) is listed as active Sunday at Green Bay, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Bryant was tacked onto Friday's injury report as a limited practice participant due to a lingering back concern, placing a cloud over his Week 14 availability. In the end, though, he'll suit up for the fourth game in a row against a reeling Packers squad. It should be noted reserve kicker Giorgio Tavecchio is in street clothes, a sign that the Falcons are confident Bryant will be able to handle his usual duties.
Published: Sun, Dec 9 at 8:34am by Rotowire.com
Back issue crops up again
Bryant (back) was added to the Falcons' injury report Friday and is listed as questionable ahead of Sunday's game against the Packers, Jason Butt of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Bryant's back issue forced him to miss three games between Weeks 7 and 10, but he reclaimed kicking duties for the past three contests and showed no rust, converting all six of his field-goal attempts and going 5-for-5 on extra-point tries. The veteran's late addition to the injury report suggests his back may have acted up again at some point after Thursday's practice, putting him in jeopardy of his fourth absence of the season. Perhaps in recognition of the touch-and-go nature of Bryant's…read more
Published: Fri, Dec 7 at 11:18am by Rotowire.com
Scarcely called upon in Week 13
Bryant converted on a field-goal try from 44 yards out and succeeded on his lone extra-point attempt during Sunday's 26-16 loss to Baltimore.
Analysis: The beloved veteran kicker has yet to miss since returning from a groin injury in Week 11 (6-for-6 on FGA, 4-for-4 on PAT), but the volume he's seen of late has proven insufficient to providing starting fantasy value. With just two field-goal attempts over Atlanta's past two games, Bryant has registered an output of 10 combined points (standard scoring) against New Orleans and Baltimore -- teams that have each allowed 17 FGA this season (tied for third-fewest in NFL). Facing Green Bay's…read more
Published: Mon, Dec 3 at 7:00am by Rotowire.com
Suiting up Sunday
Bryant is active for Sunday's game against the Ravens.
Analysis: Contained to just one limited listing on the injury report this week, Bryant nonetheless will continue on as the Falcons placekicker with Giorgio Tavecchio on the inactive list. In his eight appearances this season, Bryant has missed just one kick (an extra point) en route to 7.6 points per game.
Expected to play
Coach Dan Quinn said Bryant (back) will play Sunday against the Ravens, Jason Butt of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Bryant didn't practice Wednesday or Thursday, but with Giorgio Tavecchio still on the roster as a backup kicker, Quinn probably wouldn't have been as definitive in his statement if there was any real concern about Bryant's availability. While the matchup with Baltimore isn't an ideal one, Bryant has an excellent track record kicking at home.
Published: Fri, Nov 30 at 10:33am by Rotowire.com
Held out again Thursday
Bryant (back) didn't practice Thursday, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Bryant hasn't helped his cause with back-to-back absences to open Week 13 prep. As evidence, he didn't participate Thursday on his normal kicking day, as noted by D. Orlando Ledbetter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. During his three absences this season, Bryant was ruled out on the final injury report of the week, so Friday's version will be telling for his upcoming availability. If he's unable to suit up, he'll yield kicking duties to Giorgio Tavecchio on Sunday against the Ravens.
Published: Thu, Nov 29 at 2:34pm by Rotowire.com
Misses practice with back issue
Bryant was held out of Wednesday's practice with a back injury, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Bryant dealt with a back injury last season without missing any time, but sat out three games earlier in 2018 while recovering from a hamstring issue. While still reliable whenever he's on the field, the 43-year-old kicker seems to be feeling the impact of his age. He gets a sub-optimal Week 13 matchup against Baltimore, but the track record suggests Bryant is a strong fantasy option any time the Falcons play in a dome. The team will probably re-sign Giorgio Tavecchio later this week if there's…read more
Published: Wed, Nov 28 at 2:07pm by Rotowire.com
Limited opportunity against Saints
Bryant went 2-for-2 on extra-points tries, while putting his lone field-goal attempt through the uprights from 32 yards out during Thursday's 31-17 loss to New Orleans.
Analysis: Bryant has been just as flawless post-injury as he was prior to a three-game spell on the inactive list, knocking down all eight of his combined extra-point- and field-goal tries over Atlanta's past two games (was 9-for-9 on FGA and 16-for-17 on PATs prior to tweaking hamstring in Week 6). Atlanta's upcoming game against Baltimore isn't the most encouraging kicker matchup, with the Ravens surrendering 15 field-goal attempts all season (fifth-fewest in NFL).
Published: Fri, Nov 23 at 7:40am by Rotowire.com
Flawless day of kicking
Bryant succeeded on his only extra-point attempt and put all four of his field-goal tries through the uprights during a 22-19 loss to Dallas on Sunday.
Analysis: Fresh off a three-game absence due to a hamstring injury, the 17-year veteran appeared clutch as usual, connecting on tries from 21, 41, 45 and 53 yards out against the Cowboys. Bryant has potential to be a popular waiver-wire addition heading into a Thanksgiving night game against New Orleans, for what figures to be a high-scoring affair. The Saints haven't proven to be an especially fruitful matchup for kickers this season, however, allowing the sixth-fewest field-goal attempts, largely in…read more
Published: Sun, Nov 18 at 9:19pm by Rotowire.com
Cleared to play Week 11
Bryant (hamstring) will handle the kicking duties for the Falcons in Sunday's game against the Cowboys, Jason Butt of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Bryant made it through a full practice Thursday without any setbacks, allowing him to end his streak of absences at three games. He's immediately worthy of consideration in fantasy lineups, given his strong track record in terms of both kicking accuracy and distance in addition to his place on a high-scoring team. Giorgio Tavecchio filled in admirably while Bryant was sidelined and is expected to remain on the roster through the weekend in the event Bryant suffers a recurrence of the hamstring…read more
Full practice participant Thursday
Bryant (hamstring) practiced in full Thursday, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Prior to the session, coach Dan Quinn said Bryant was slated to kick, per Jason Butt of The Athletic. Bryant proceeded to do so, but the Falcons may exercise caution with the 43-year-old before making a final decision on the placekicker for Sunday's game versus the Cowboys. If Bryant gets the all-clear, the Falcons may waive his fill-in (Georgio Tavecchio) to shore up other positions on the roster.
No practice Wednesday
Bryant (hamstring) didn't practice Wednesday, Jason Butt of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Bryant has missed three consecutive games due to a lingering hamstring issue and his absence from Wednesday's practice leaves his availability for Week 11 against the Cowboys in question. If the veteran kicker is unable to suit up Sunday, Giorgio Tavecchio -- who has yet to miss a kick in his three games with the team -- will continue to serve as Bryant's replacement.
Ruled out again
Bryant (hamstring) has been ruled out for Sunday's game at Cleveland, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Bryant tested out his hamstring during practice Thursday, but he apparently hasn't made enough progress to kick in a game. Giorgio Tavecchio will handle the job for at least one more week, hoping to build on his flawless performance so far this season.
Published: Fri, Nov 9 at 10:31am by Rotowire.com
Puts in limited practice
Bryant (hamstring) was a limited participant in Thursday's practice, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Just as coach Dan Quinn predicted a day earlier, Bryant was able to kick in some fashion after sitting out Wednesday's session entirely. It's unclear if the hamstring presented any issues for Bryant during the workout, but Quinn should provide more clarity on that front Friday. The coach hinted earlier Thursday that even if Bryant is cleared to kick Sunday against the Browns, the team may still keep Giorgio Tavecchio on the roster as an insurance option, according to Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com.
Published: Thu, Nov 8 at 2:01pm by Rotowire.com
Doesn't practice Wednesday
Bryant (hamstring) was a non-participant at Wednesday's practice, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Bryant has missed the Falcons' last two games while tending to a right hamstring injury, but there's some reason for optimism with regards to his Week 10 status. According to McClure, coach Dan Quinn said Bryant would attempt to kick Thursday, after which the Falcons should have a better idea about his availability for Sunday's game against the Browns. The 43-year-old has missed out on the scoring opportunities presented by the Falcons offense, which has struck for 31.7 points per contest…read more
Published: Wed, Nov 7 at 1:49pm by Rotowire.com
Ruled out for another game
Bryant (hamstring) has been ruled out for Sunday's game at Washington, Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: The Falcons apparently weren't encouraged by what they saw when Bryant tested out his hamstring Thursday. The team will once again rely on Giorgio Tavecchio, who doesn't hold much fantasy appeal in a matchup with a Washington defense that ranks fourth in yards allowed (322.4 per game) and fifth in points allowed (19.1) this season. Washington's opponents have attempted just seven field goals and 14 extra points in seven games.
Not ruled out for Week 9
Coach Dan Quinn said Bryant (hamstring) would kick during Thursday's practice and remains a possibility to play Sunday against the Redskins, Kelsey Conway of the Falcons' official site reports.
Analysis: Quinn relayed that Bryant is "certainly close" to a return after missing the Falcons' last game Week 7 versus the Giants, with the kicker's performance during Thursday's session likely to be a major factor in his status for Sunday. Bryant will be confined to a side field during the workout, so it won't be known until after practice concludes whether his activity constituted full, limited or non-participation. If Bryant is forced to miss another contest while he works through the sore right…read more
Published: Thu, Nov 1 at 9:48am by Rotowire.com
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The effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises, digital vaginal palpation and interpersonal support on stress urinary incontinence: An experimental study
Yueh Chi Tsai, Chieh Hsing Liu
Department of Health Promotion and Health Education
Background/aims: The objective of this study is to examine if interpersonal support and digital vaginal palpation (DVP) as part of the pelvic floor muscle exercise (PFME) training is more effective for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) than PFME with a printed handout instruction. Methods: 108 women who presented to the family medicine outpatient clinic without having urine leakage as a chief complaint were selected. They were randomized to either the group who received interpersonal support and DVP as part of the PFME training (experimental group), or the group who received PFME with a printed handout instruction (control group). The effects were assessed with 1-h pad tests. Results: A total of 99 patients (50 experimental, 49 control) completed the study. The patients' mean age was 55.35 ± 9.60 years, ranging from 20 to 80 years. All patients without urinary leakage listed as a chief complaint exhibited more or less urine leakage during the 1-h pad test. A significant decrease in the weight of 1-h pad test from baseline was observed in the experimental group (p < 0.001) compared to the control group (p = 0.514). Conclusion: Interpersonal support and DVP as part of the PFME training is more effective than PFME with a printed handout instruction. PFME, performed correctly and consistently, is effective even in patients who have very few symptoms of SUI.
International Journal of Nursing Studies
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.03.003
Palpation
Control Groups
Digital vaginal palpation
Interpersonal support
Pelvic floor muscle exercise
Stress urine incontinence
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Tsai, Y. C., & Liu, C. H. (2009). The effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises, digital vaginal palpation and interpersonal support on stress urinary incontinence: An experimental study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(9), 1181-1186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.03.003
The effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises, digital vaginal palpation and interpersonal support on stress urinary incontinence : An experimental study. / Tsai, Yueh Chi; Liu, Chieh Hsing.
In: International Journal of Nursing Studies, Vol. 46, No. 9, 01.09.2009, p. 1181-1186.
Tsai, YC & Liu, CH 2009, 'The effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises, digital vaginal palpation and interpersonal support on stress urinary incontinence: An experimental study', International Journal of Nursing Studies, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1181-1186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.03.003
Tsai YC, Liu CH. The effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises, digital vaginal palpation and interpersonal support on stress urinary incontinence: An experimental study. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2009 Sep 1;46(9):1181-1186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.03.003
Tsai, Yueh Chi ; Liu, Chieh Hsing. / The effectiveness of pelvic floor exercises, digital vaginal palpation and interpersonal support on stress urinary incontinence : An experimental study. In: International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2009 ; Vol. 46, No. 9. pp. 1181-1186.
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Climategate? Not likely.
By Brian Angliss on November 20, 2009 • ( 101 Comments )
In case you were unaware, hackers got into the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) servers and published hundreds to thousands of documents and private communications from CRU climate scientists that pertain to climate disruption. And the climate disruption denial and conservative blogs have subsequently gone completely apeshit over it. The Wonk Room has a few of the better quotes from the deniers:
“If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW,” says the Telegraph’s James Delingpole.
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey claims the emails discuss “repetitive, false data of higher temperatures.”
The National Review’s Chris Horner salivates, “The blue-dress moment may have arrived.”
“The crimes revealed in the e-mails promise to be the global warming scandal of the century,” blares Michelle Malkin.
The Australia Herald-Sun’s Andrew Bolt claims the emails are “proof of a conspiracy which is one of the largest, most extraordinary and most disgraceful in moderrn [sic] science.”
So, do these emails and documents represent proof of a “conspiracy” and “scandal”? At this point it seems highly unlikely, and the more that people look at the illegally-obtained emails and documents, the less likely it will become. Here’s why.
First, there has been much ado made about some emails that supposedly talk about “tricks” and procedures to “hide the decline”, as well as other words used that indicate that the CRU scientists (and their various correspondents) were lying about their data (something that RealClimate discusses). And it’s much ado about nothing (with apologies to Shakespeare). I work in electrical engineering where I use words and phrases that, taken out of context, could be misinterpreted as nefarious by people who are ignorant of the context or who have an axe to grind. For example, I regularly talk about “fiddling with” or “twiddling” the data, “faking out” something, “messing around with” testing, and so on. In the first case, I’m analyzing the data to see if I can make it make sense or if I can extract the signal from the noise. In the second case, I’m often forced to force a piece of electronics into a specific mode manually so I can test it and verify some other function, or I use the phrase to provide artificial test data for calibration and/or verification that my electronics are working correctly. And in the third case, it usually involves trying to deduce whether a problem is caused by the electronic board I;m testing or by the equipment that is doing the testing.
Second, it might be unpolitical to say that you’ll be happy when someone died, or that Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts are pricks and assholes, but that doesn’t make the statements a scandal. I personally was happy when former Senator Jesse Helms died, and I will probably enjoy a drink of expensive scotch when Marc Morano, James Inhofe, and Steve Milloy kick the bucket. And I’ve got no problem calling someone like Joe D’Aleo a liar or Steve Milloy an oxygen thief. If that makes me a bad person, well, I’m OK with that. I expect that most people hold enough contempt for some of their enemies to relish it when they die. So it’s not political and it’s not nice or decent, but it’s also not scandalous. It’s still human, and scientists are just as human as anyone else.
Third and probably most importantly, no matter how much the deniers scream, these emails aren’t likely to reveal any evidence of scientific malfeasance. And even if they do, there’s an entire globe of researchers whose independent research has bolstered the case that climate disruption is real and that it’s predominantly caused by human civilization. It will take more than even a couple of thousand emails to knock the massive, reinforced scientific foundation that underlies anthropogenic climate disruption.
And let’s not forget – the emails and documents were obtained illegally. If there is truly damning information (such as a critical scientist or three overtly saying stuff along the lines of “I fudged my data and nobody caught me. You lost the bet – pay up.”), then the illegality of the release will fade somewhat in the face of other data. But if not, this hack will be a major problem for not only the hackers who released it but also for all the people who are republishing the emails. Hacking is illegal, but in some states and countries, releasing private email correspondence is considered breach of privacy and is thus also a crime.
Finally, let’s point out that some of the people here screaming the loudest from their soapboxes are hypocrites (such as Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey). If the hackers had got into military computers and released private communications, they’d be screaming for the hackers’ blood and demanding that any site republishing the emails be brought up on federal charges. But here they’re screaming for the victim’s blood. If hacking and leaking emails is wrong, then it’s wrong. Claiming that it’s wrong when a leak targets your friends but OK when it targets your enemy makes you a hypocrite and a political hack worthy of nothing but disdain.
There’s a chance that the hack will end the career of a scientists or two, probably for political reasons. But the supposedly damning emails the conservatives and deniers are touting are nothing of the sort. And given how strong the science is, it can survive this latest round of denier dirty tricks.
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Axel Edgren says:
Look, the e-mails are there, and if I point at them and shriek very loudly I instantaneously have proved my point. Don’t be silly, now.
Here’s the thing, actually trying to prove that these e-mails don’t mean that thousands of scientists worldwide haven’t formed a gigantic cabal in order to… Destroy he hopes and dreams of caucasian middle-class families (or something) is a fool’s game. You can’t win against people who value the appearance of correctness over actual correctness.
Go over their heads and keep hammering the politicians with the economic and scientific truth. You might lose some impressionable minds to the noise, but politicians don’t need mandates to safeguard the future and the well-being of many millions of third-world people.
slag says:
You can’t win against people who value the appearance of correctness over actual correctness.
Should be said again and again and again and…
Roark says:
You warmers are truly a despicable bunch.
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And you are a weak coward and an embarrassment to those who know you. One of the many reasons I support climate legislation is because it frustrates people who deserve it – I’m not ashamed to admit it and I don’t think it devalues the cause either. Hearing the usual suspects shriek about “cap-and-tax” nourishes me.
Unless you are joking or something. Irony and the internet, ya know.
Manbearpig says:
I agree with Axel.
Despite the massive evidence of fraud, deceit, deception, dishonesty, violation of basic scientific principles, etc. found throughout these emails over the course of the last decade, I still believe!!!!!!
My faith is unshakable!
Praise Gore!
Brian Angliss says:
And you’ve had a chance to read all 1000+ emails and have parsed the meaning of all of them? Wow, you’re good.
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Samuel Dijk says:
Sure–and when Tony Soprano said he wanted a hit on someone, he meant that he wanted them to be in a popular broadway show.
Sorry, the old “you rubes are too simple-minded to understand the complexities of scholarly thought” routine doesn’t work anymore. Except on the Press, of course. They are stupid enough to buy anything you throw out there.
Brett Stevens says:
The only solution is to reduce population, starting with the dumbest.
Ending global warming won’t bring genocided species back.
We need fewer humans… specifically, fewer stupid ones.
giantslor says:
Except there’s no evidence of any of that in the emails. But you believe there is, because some logic-challenged, honesty-bereft wingnuts with blogs say there is. Your faith really is unshakable.
Lets for a moment just say that it was a conspiracy among scientists. Maybe they just wanted people to pick up trash, recycle, use less water, and burn less. I’d be fine with that.
What is unbelievable is that there is really no proof that these e-mails exist. I also bet most deniers haven’t visited China and witnessed the yellow haze that blankets the country.
On a side note it was 60 degrees today in Buffalo, and we haven’t had one flake of snow, and only about 2 frosts so far.
The wheels are coming off the Global Warming gravy-train. We KNOW the earth has cooled for at least the last 11 years, we KNOW that the RCU has refused peer review, or to release their source data. We know they’ve hidden temperature transients. It’s like the original Catholic church control of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the truth will out – and it’s coming out now. This scandal has gone on long enough. Just google “missingsignature.pdf” and it all unravels…
60 deg’s in Buffalo, that’s weather, not bloody climate. Keep up at the back!
“Sorry, the old “you rubes are too simple-minded to understand the complexities of scholarly thought” routine doesn’t work anymore.”
You are the one claiming something about the emails. You have to show your work and explain how one snippet actually *proves* that any manipulation or skirting of the scientific process ended up in the final reports, moron. Do you go up to schoolteachers and say “I already know that stuff, I shouldn’t have to do the exams!”
That doesn’t prove anything, Darrell. There’s always an anecdote of coolness to negate one of hotter weather.
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“There’s always an anecdote of coolness to negate one of hotter weather”
Of course there are periods of coolness, but on a graph over time the trend line for temperature is going up. I was simply enjoying the global warming.
papertiger says:
Can’t decide which to comment on.
Axel Edgren, November 20, 2009 at 6:19 pm :
“ One of the many reasons I support climate legislation is because it frustrates people who deserve it – I’m not ashamed to admit it “.
Or Brett Stevens “We need fewer humans… specifically, fewer stupid ones.”
They both sound like crackerjack election slogans for Babs Boxer.
Lacrosse facts says:
well, the e-mail about them trying to create their own peer reviewed journal is pretty damning. Further, the e-mails where they describe how they want people to delete e-mails is also pretty bad. there appears to be a lot of evidence here.
I would say its a bit premature for this blog to say “this is not a story because I used the word fudge at my job”. . . its similar but not the same. IF there were bush era e-mails about fudging the intelligence on iraq, people would be in conniptions.
you don’t want to be on the wrong side of this story. If these guys come out and admit wrongdoing your credibilty tanks with them.
Lacrosse – first off, I didn’t use the word “fudge” to describe my job, and neither did they. My point was that, unless some of the CRU scientists came out and admitted that they “fudged” data, what’s here thus far is context dependent and examples of poor judgment, but not of conspiracy.
I haven’t read the email (about the journal) you’re referring to. Got a link?
“You are the one claiming something about the emails. You have to show your work and explain how one snippet actually *proves* that any manipulation or skirting of the scientific process ended up in the final reports, moron.”
No actually we just have to remember what you said, and cheer you on to even bigger and more over the top pronouncments, while you alienate all the “morons” for the 2010 elections.
Tell me more about how I’m stupid and need exterminatin.
Finally, let’s point out that some of the people here screaming the loudest from their soapboxes are hypocrites (such as Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey). If the hackers had got into military computers and released private communications, they’d be screaming for the hackers’ blood and demanding that any site republishing the emails be brought up on federal charges
We don’t need a hypothetical here. All we need to do is look back a little over a year ago when Sarah Palin’s email was hacked. These people were out for blood when it came to the hacker. Now they love hacked emails.
null01 says:
“there’s an entire globe of researchers whose independent research has bolstered the case that climate disruption is real and that it’s predominantly caused by human civilization”
so you accept their “research” and discount the entire globe of researchers whose independent research has bolstered the case that climate disruption (quite the word, eh?) is not a cycle or predominantly caused by human civilization?
Null01 – I read the papers of both the experts in the field and their critics, and at this point the preponderance of scientific data points to anthropogenic causes for climate disruption and to problems in the critics’ methodology. So no, I don’t ignore Singer, Soon, Baliunas, Christy, Douglass, Singer, et al. It’s because I’ve studied their work and understand the math, science, and data well enough to do most of it myself that I discount the critics’ positions.
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RH Potfry says:
When I first read the “Tricks” email, I immediately assumed someone would try to bury it with a context argument.
You, sir, win the prize. But you get extra moron points for arguing that your experience in electrical engineering is relevant here.
RH, electrical engineering is a math-heavy, science-based technical discipline with a specialized internal language that requires some foreknowledge of context to understand. Climatology is obviously science-based, but it’s also math heavy and it too has a specialized internal, context-dependent language. Most professional disciplines have similar context-dependent languages – medicine, law, marketing, public relations, business management, etc. all have terms and phrases that require a knowledge of the context in order to understand properly. I suspect that, if you’re a professional of some kind, your own job is just like this, although like most people you may not realize it.
Context matters. If it didn’t, then everyone who took photos of a murder would get pulled in by the police for watching crows.
NikFromNYC says:
Who are the deniers? Those who deny that there is an AGW signal in actual THERMOMETER records or those who deny that there is in fact no such signal?
I’ve posted this far and wide with not a SINGLE valid critique resulting. Silence seems to be the only response on sites full of true believers. It shocks me that such people haven’t looked into the actual long term temperature data that exists though in hindsight it took me a couple years to run into it and in those two years I did adopt many skeptical “talking points” that I came to understand were bogus, meaning both sides are prone to hogwash.
I can tell you why people ignore it, Nik – it’s a single thermometer, measuring a single point on the surface of the planet. And as such, it has no statistical value in and of itself. Anyone could choose a single thermometer anywhere else on the planet to make whatever claim they wanted.
At best, that graph is statistically meaningless for global conclusions. At worst it’s cherry-picking. And yes, those are completely valid arguments against that image, whether you think so or not.
Paul Woodward says:
These warming-deniers should be sent to live in igloos built on the arctic ice that they believe hasn’t melted.
As a long time AGW supporter I must say I found the emails very disturbing.
I don’t know if they qualify as “smoking gun” that the AGW science is bust, but I just cannot ignore it.
I feel ashamed for the behavior of our leading scientists. Even more than feeling ashamed – I feel betrayed.
For years I trusted that science will prevail over the unsubstantiated skeptic view. These emails reveal a very disturbing picture of ideology overriding science. Science being bent out of shape to support a hypothesis.
They reveal unbelievable arrogance. These people whom I trusted so much think they are
– above the law (destroying email, refusing FOIA, tax evasion)
– above the data (“hide the decline”, remove the cooling blimp)
– above their peers (get uncomforting journal editors fired, block skeptic publications)
– above the rest of us (manipulate the message, presentation and media)
I am sick to my stomach. I know there are so many other hard working scientists that have not tainted themselves. But this group – Phil Jones, Ken Briffa, Mike Man, Gavin Schmidt have casted a huge shadow of doubt over the entire field and caused a huge damage to the green movement.
I talked with many of my friends who, like most of us, continue to believe in AGW, and we think that as long as these guys continue to lead the science and the IPCC assessments they will continue to taint all of the good work done by thousands of other scientists.
We need to acknowledge that wrong was done. We need to replace the tainted leadership and continue the research without the air of doubt.
Dr. Denny says:
I wonder what a hacker would find if he or she downloaded a similar number of emails written by members of the community of AGW skeptics to each other …
ron from Texas says:
With respect to your creds (I majored in EE at Uni. of Texas at Arlington in 1982), what you talk about in engineering is with, indeed, a specific purpose in mind. That is what engineering is about. I am an electrician and electrical instructor. Testing with a meter will show that voltage present is not always “exactly” 120 volts. However, when designing a circuit or equipment to operate, we calculate with that number and design is to accomodate slightly varying voltages in the supplied power. That is, in engineering or electrical work, we have a desired result in mind, not just accepting what is. That should be the difference between engineering and scientific discovery. Rather, it would seem, in your justification of the data tweaking of the the CRU, the sword cuts both ways. You inadvertantly describe exactly what the skeptic’s problem with AGW alarmism is. “Engineering” the data to fit a desired result, namely, the belief that Man is warming the planet through CO2.
I have a question that I absolutely dare you to answer. Explain how CO2 or any gas is able to direct its re-emission in only one direction. It can’t but I would like to see someone try and define that. In reality, any gas will re-emit in any possible direction. Basic physics of collision (Poincare’s 3-body problem, as an example). Ignore the fact that CO2 primarily responds to 2.5 microns and 15.7 microns and most of the warming effect, if any is at 6.5 microns. Ignore the fact that most of the heat exchange rate of CO2 is in the first 20 ppm concentration and any greater concentration is approximately nil. That 20ppm is entirely in the natural signature. Explain how CO2 alone could re-direct its emissions only at the surface of the planet. Before you say gravity, remember that Einstein said that em behavior was a massless particle or behavior, which led to his development of General Relativity. Personally, I think Einstein was wrong but that’s another blog.
Ron – without knowing the context, however, “tweaking the data” could mean no more than running it through a low pass filter to take out high frequency noise. So long as the fact that the data has been filtered is made public and the filtered data isn’t misrepresented as raw data, the “tweaking” is just fine. And all science has a predetermined goal in mind – to prove or disprove a hypothesis. The question is whether the CRU scientists forced their data to match a predetermined outcome, and neither you nor anyone else has proven that this has happened before these emails came out, and I don’t expect that these emails will provide your evidence either.
You’re point about CO2 emitting in one direction doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve never heard any scientist make that claim, so could you explain why you think it’s relevant?
Konstantin says:
Climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr.’s comment on this
“Comment On The Hacking Of The CRU Website”
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/comment-on-the-hacking-of-the-cru-website
“The challenge to the IPCC community, now that their duplicity has been exposed, is to communicate to all of us why the peer-reviewed papers that we documented, and that were available in time for the IPCC review process, were considered “bad papers” and thus ignored in the IPCC report. A balanced assessment would comment on these papers, and provide the reason they disagree with their results.
The reply by Gavin Schmidt documents the control of the IPCC process by a few individuals (see also Climate Assessment Oligarchy – The IPCC).”
jeff watson says:
Here’s an interesting take and a good read.
http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=4137
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Colonel Neville. says:
I do believe I have the perfectly original catch name for this uber scandal. No really.
GAIACON.
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“Dr. Denny, November 21, 2009 at 9:44 am :
That’s an interesting thought there Doctor. Fortunately, in almost all cases , we don’t have to worry about it. Jones, Briffa, Mann, and Schmidt have never been shy about outing private correspondences from McIntyre, McKitrick, Pielke, Peiser ect. usually in Wikipedia entries via their stooge Connolloy.
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@ Brian , Here’s the temperature graph I’ve been promulgating recently : http://cosy.com/Science/Lindzenlineplot800.gif . It’s from Richard Lindzen and shows how absolutely inconsequential the entire variation in mean temperature over the century has been compared to daily temperature variance in Boston in April . This hysteria is a watermelon fraud , and it’s just sustained a severe crack .
You’re right that an EE background should provide one with the intellectual tools to see through this idiocy . I defy you to point me to any succinct coherent derivation of mean planetary temperature with anywhere near the rigor and clarity of an undergraduate EE text . Why do these frauds present a score of models ( none of which predict the last decade ) rather than one – which as Corky Hayden points out real settled sciences do .
Bob – wow, five major problems in such a short comment. That’s impressive
1. Lindzen should know better than to use that image, given his science background. First off, that image is a comparison of weather to climate, and as such shows pretty much nothing. All of those daily variations are intentionally removed from the climate data because, over the long term, they’re noise. It’s the signal, that red line, that represents the change in the climate (average weather over decades, not days, weeks, months, or even years). So the image is an attempt to convince ignorant people that the climate is negligable when it’s not.
And second, let’s add a little more context to that image. The green line below shows the difference between the pre-industrial temperatures and the average temperature during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PTEM) or the Middle Miocene (14-16 million years ago). The Middle Miocene was when CO2 was last as high as it is at present. It’s 6 deg. C, or 10.8 deg. F. During the PETM and the Middle Miocene, sea levels were 20-40 m higher than today, and during the Middle Miocene, there were no significant ice caps anywhere on the globe.
In addition, let’s point out that leading up to the PETM, temperatures took 20,000 years to rise 6 deg C – the latest science projects that, barring changes, it’ll take 100-200 years to rise that same amount due to human-emitted greenhouse gases. That’s a 100x increase in the rate of change.
Going from 60 to 0 MPH in 100 seconds (nearly 2 minutes) is so slow that the passengers would barely notice. Going from 60 to 0 MPH in 1 second destroys cars and lives. The rate of change matters as much as the magnitude of the change.
2. What evidence do you have that climate scientists and environmental reporters are, as a rule, closet communists? I’d love to hear it.
3. The mean planetary temperature is the global spatial average of the measured temperatures. Interpolation is used to fill in holes in the surface temperature due to insufficient ground station coverage. Satellite data doesn’t have those same interpolation problem, and yet all three major satellite datasets (RSS, UAH, and UMd, which all use the same raw data but come to somewhat different conclusions) agree broadly with the surface station-derived global temperature, strongly supporting the interpolation methods used to generate the ground station data. Still, a spatial average that includes interpolation is pretty standard, undergraduate stuff.
4. The models do predict the cooling over the last decade. The problem is that you misunderstand the function of the models – they don’t care about a single run of the model, because a single run is statistically invalid to project climate. Multiple model runs are averaged together and varied using statistical Monte Carlo techniques in order to generate a statistically valid projection instead of a singular prediction. And there have been at least two published papers that illustrated this point. For a more detailed explanation of this issue, see Point #4 in my response to a comment on another post here.
5. There’s a number of reasons why there are multiple models, but they mostly boil down to two things. The first is the complexity of the climate system and the second is computational limitations.
Modeling any complex system, be it climate or a complex electronic design, requires that assumptions and simplifications be made. This is largely because there are more variables than there are equations, and so there’s no such thing as a singular solution. For example, I can build a Sallen-Key Butterworth filter for a specific cutoff frequency using a nearly infinite number of combinations of operational amplifiers, resistors, and capacitors. Which combination(s) I choose are a function of my requirements, available components, part tolerances, temperature environment, and so on. But even using all those external inputs to the system, I still usually have two to 10 reasonable and correct solutions.
When I model the circuit, even a simple one, I also have to make assumptions or utilize additional inputs. For example, that same simple op-amp filter will perform differently at one temperature than at another. It will perform differently when it’s 5 years old than it does when it leaves my lab. It may perform differently at different humidity levels, or different air pressures, or when exposed to radiation or cosmic rays. Most of the time, however, I don’t care, and so I assume that the design is operating in a benign environment or I request that the customer provide reasonable ranges for all of the above so I can model the circuit correctly and verify that it should work right in the expected environment.
In all cases, the basic laws of physics that govern the operation of the model are well known and, in your parlance, “settled.” Yet there are multiple different solutions and multiple different correct models and modeling techniques.
Global climate is significantly more complex than the simple filter I just described (which is composed of two resistors, two capacitors, and a single opamp – 5 parts), so even though the underlying physics is well known and settled (CO2 absorption spectra, thermodynamics, heat capacity, thermal resistance, convection vs. conduction vs. radiation, CO2 geologic chemistry, and on and on and on), it’s entirely reasonable that there would be multiple different models.
I’ll grant you that there are a couple of areas that introduce significant uncertainty into the climate model results – cloud effects and aerosols. But that’s part of science, and that too is why there are so many models – different models assume different values. That’s also why the modelers use statistical methods to determine the sensitivity to initial conditions and model parameters, and then include those sensitivity calculations in the overall model uncertainty.
As a result of the complexity, though, it takes a massive amount of computational power to run climate models, and computational limits are a large part of the reason why there are so many different models. Not only do different supercomputers need different programming methods to efficiently utilize the available computational power, older supercomputers can’t model climate in as many different atmospheric layers and with as high of spatial resolution as the latest supercomputers can. So simplifications have to be made, and different scientists and modeling groups make different simplifications. In my own career, I could probably find a modeling program that would model the probabalistic movement of every individual electron through each of the components in my simple filter, but I don’t need that level of detail to know that my filter has the right cutoff frequency and won’t go unstable.
The models aren’t perfect – that’s why the modelers make statistical projections instead of specific predictions. But at this point there’s no evidence to support the idea that the models are fatally flawed. Adjustments made to models as data, theory, and computational power improve are to be expected. Anything else wouldn’t be science.
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Paper – you missed Denny’s point. Denny asked “I wonder what a hacker would find if he or she downloaded a similar number of emails written by members of the community of AGW skeptics to each other” (my emphasis). To the best of my knowledge, Mann or Schmidt have never published private correspondence that didn’t include them, ie they don’t have hacked emails between Singer and his Exxon contacts, or between Milloy and Ken Green (he of bribing scientists to write anti-IPCC articles before the IPCC AR4 was even public fame), or even between Douglass and Christy.
While I’d love to see this information, I would come out against it just as much as I did this – hacking is illegal, and it’s easy to misinterpret shop-talk as something nefarious.
On the other hand, I expect that discussions among the denier camp would be a lot more juicy, given the amount of money paid by Peabody, Arch, Exxon, Koch, etc. to people like Fred Singer and the many conservative think-tanks that host Douglass, Christy, Spencer, D’Aleo, McKitrick, et al.
Thus far, I’ve seen no smoking guns, never mind the “mushroom cloud” that some deniers are claiming. I would expect that we’d be much more likely to see such things coming out of a hack from the denier side.
Hey, it’s all religion anyways
Brian , your vita shows you have some impressive skills . However , you appear to have a captive mind with respect to this silliness . Lindzen’s Boston Globe graph has the current month’s weather , but the error bars are Boston’s climate . So , it’s you , not Lindzen & me , who should know better .
I’m sorry , I was going to spend more time rebutting your post , but the next line is so statistically illiterate , it would be a waste .
So, you’re saying that the current weather at a single point and over a single (small) period of time should negate the importance of a global average temperature? It is not possible to calculate variance and expected value for a single data point, therefore comparing any single point (in this case Boston) to the global average is, excuse the pun, pointless. Here’s a plot of average annual Boston MA temperatures from 1872-2002 (the best I could find given a quick look) – looks like:
Looks like Boston’s local climate has been warming faster than the global average to me – the difference between the two endpoints of that trend is 1.7 deg C, or 2x the global average. It looks to me that both you and Lindzen should have compared local climate change to local climate instead of trying to manipulate people by comparing global climate change to local climate.
Alan D. McIntire says:
Nobody here has addressed the context of the “tricks” email. The “trick” was to post the actual
temperature record after the 1960s, instead of the treering “proxy” record. The email is admitting that
McIntyre and McKittrick were right all along, and that tree ring proxies are crap. They never work outside the calibration period.
No, the “trick” in question is a way to make the graph more compelling. Check out the link to Greenfyre’s detailed explanation in the pingbacks above.
Brian , Interesting that you happen to have that 1872 spike in there which appears to have only been exceeded by the spike at the end of the series . But taking your 1.7c change over the century in a typical urban heat island to which we are continually adding on the order of a gigawatt of heat , and plotting it with a true 0 , you would see it as a line with about the thickness of Lindzen’s and total change of just 0.6% over the century . That’s the point of Lindzen’s graph ( see his YouTube linked on my Temperature page ) , and the physical point Vaclav Klaus makes . All this hysterical attempt to monopolize global government in a Soviet style hierarchy is over molehills of change . We’re damn lucky the sun is as stable at it is .
Note also that there is no visible CO2 acceleration visible in your graph .
Mean temperature of a radiantly heated ball is a much simpler problem than the chaotic flows which constitute “climate” . Point me to a quantitative explanation of that first , because that constrains climate .
Bob, you’ve made your communism claim twice now, without offering any proof. Do you have proof of your claim, or are you indulging in scare tactics? Similarly, if you can prove I’m “statistically illiterate,” I’d love to hear why. At this point, however, you’re making claims without offering any substantiation, and claims made without substantiation can be dismissed similarly.
As for the data, I’m very careful to include everything and to describe everything I’ve done if I process the data. I haven’t looked at the data close enough to see if there’s a good explanation for why that spike would be an artifact, so I left it. Better to leave it and weaken my own argument than cut something off and damage my own credibility.
There’s a paper about the urban heat island effect that you might be interested in. It found that, in long established urban areas, the UHI effects produced a correctable bias in the results, but didn’t alter the overall temperature anomaly measurement. Whether the Boston MA station has been stable long enough to have a simple bias effect is a fair question, and one I don’t immediately know the answer to.
Your point about CO2 acceleration doesn’t necessarily apply. Again, this is a single data point, and there’s nothing you can say about a global, spatially-averaged climate from a single data point.
The mean temperature of a radiantly heated ball doesn’t apply here, because the Earth is a) not a uniform ball and b) not uniformly heated. A radiantly heated ball doesn’t have a mixture of solid, liquid, and gas, with internal heat transfer via fluids and varying albedo. If the Earth were a radiantly heated ball, it would be about -25 deg C (assuming black body radiation from the sun and black-body absorption by the Earth). Clearly we’re not living on a iceball, so our atmosphere is keeping us warmer than a purely radiatively heated ball.
If you’d care to explain why you feel a radiatively-heated ball is an upper constraint instead of a lower one, I’ll consider going off to run the math myself.
After thinking about this a bit more, you may not have been referring to simple black body absorption of radiation, but rather the temperature delta through an arbitrary material of arbitrary thickness due to incident radiation. Still, though, this simple model qualifies as a lower bound, as the Earth has active heat transport from the tropics to the poles, and that enables the tropics to absorb more than a passive model would suggest.
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What a weird brain you have . I don’t understand how you could get thru
EE at Boulder or get your software to work given the holes I see in
your analytical abilities .
Who said anything about uniform balls or uniform heating ? In fact ,
while my first cut implementation of Stefan-Boltzmann&Kirchhoff
in an array programming language on my website only handles grays , not
full spectra , it has the advantage over all explanations of planetary
temperature I have found in properly handling anisotropic shading and
heating . Even without the needed elaboration to full spectra , this
basic physics explains why we are quite constrained to be about 1/21
the temperature the sun – which we are .
These equations , properly elaborated , are the
constraint on our mean temperature , not upper or lower .
Please feel free to read thru my implementation and extend it
. I would love to see it translated into MatLab in addition to APL and
J . Not being in any funding stream from anyone , it’s hard
to find time to do the extension to full spectra – which would give
quantitative answers to the effects of any spectra .
There will only be a science of global temperature when it is
understood in terms of these classic equations .
After visiting your site, I’m amazed. You seriously believe that Venus is heated to its temperature by internal sources, instead of by greenhouse warming? Even though greenhouse warming has been identified as the cause for decades?
To think that you’re accusing me of having holes in my analytical abilities.
Your equations aren’t wrong, as such – they’re just not sufficient.
I refer you to this discussion on Venus at New Mars as to why your internal sources example is false. Given that internal sources can’t be the entire cause, there must be something else. That something else is the greenhouse effect.
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We’ll know when AGW is really a threat when Al Gore and all the other alarmists stop using air travel. Until that day we can rest easy.
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Show me the physics . You claim it is possible to create a sphere , in fact a uniformly gray sphere , which when radiantly heated , will come to a higher temperature at its center than given by Stefan-Boltzmann&Kirchhoff . Show me the equations so that we can construct such spheres here on earth and have an eternal source of free energy . Seems to me it a priori violates Fourier’s heat flow law .
Browsing that blog you link , which is totally non-quantitative , I saw it appear to be accepted that changing the albedo of a radiantly heated isotropic gray ball will change its temperature . My implementation makes that fallacy , which was Kirchhoff’s essential insight 150 years ago this year , very clear .
Global warming is a hoax.
The “experts” have been lying all along.
Proven. End of story.
These hackers should be lauded as heroes for pounding the final nail into the coffin containing perhaps the most colossal lie to which mankind has ever been subjected.
The headlines should all read along the lines of: “Leaked Documents Prove Global Warming a Politically Motivated Hoax”
The truth is out.
All the Gore bunch has left are pure lies and weaseling mass psychology propaganda.
It’s admitted that the documents are valid.
Carbon dioxide is not planetary poison. More of it makes life thrive. Plants breath it.
It was all a fraud.
YOU LOSE.
Carbon MONOxide is BAD and there are real environmental problems with pollution, but global
warming is a hoax cooked up by the Club of Rome in the post WWII years.
It’s ALL political. Like Goebbell’s “Big Lie,” a crisis concocted to impose global taxation of the energy people use and the air they breathe and impose “GLOBAL GOVERNENCE” and global taxation of not only the People’s energy use, but the air they breathe, their very existence. Ban-Ki Moon, the head of the UN, is giddy over the idea. [See his Op-Ed entitled “We Can Do It” in the NY Times last month.] But now any notion of such a system even having the appearance of legitimacy is over.
All that’s left is for the people of the world can be deprogrammed and see the naked lunch on the end of their spoons. For them to see the BS they’ve been force fed for decades. For them to admit that, yes, the Sun is one of the most important factors affecting climate, if not THE most important. For them to have-the courage to admit their gullibility and rebuild their self-esteem on not being fooled again or as former puppet President, G. W. Bush once tried to say, “Fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me twice. Shame on me.”
Yes, G. W. Bush served the role of “bad cop” at Kyoto so now our new puppet, Obama, can pose as the “good cop” and savior of the planet at Copenhagen. Well, now the jig is up. We have to grow up and see through the psychological mind games where our idealism and altruism is twisted and used as a weapon against our best interests. The giant veneer of hypocricy and deceit has already fallen. It’s only a matter of time.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.” The truth has come out, the truth is being attacked, and we about to win and overcome the Big Lie of Man-made Global Warming.
And that’s all the liars and their dupes have left. All you have to cling to now is the willingness of people to remain sheep and believe the doublethink and the lies instead of letting their egos be bruised. For people to stick their heads in the sand and mutter “2+2=5.”
Well, it doesn’t.
2+2 does equal 4.
YOUR LIES ARE FINISHED.
Dan – That would be the same Club of Rome that wants to kill off 90% of humanity, right?
Sorry, but can you point to any studies that have been falsified by these emails? How about any data that’s been proven to be false?
How about this – can you point to any of the hundreds to thousands of scientists who aren’t involved and prove that their independent verifications of the climate science are somehow also busted by these emails?
Oh, and given that the emails appear to have been edited, how do you know that all the supposedly damning emails didn’t have exculpatory emails purged from the published list?
The answers to those questions are “No”, “No”, “No”, and “You don’t.” At this point, this is a political football, with no impact on the validity of the science and data whatsoever. And given that the science is what this is all about, until you can prove the science wrong (as Bob thinks he has), your crowing is rather premature.
It’s interesting to note that we’ve been hearing from Inhofe et al that “this year marks the end of the global warming hoax” for years now, but people like you don’t seem to notice how the science keeps getting stronger, how Inhofe and Morano keep moving the date. It’s like a doom prophet carrying a sign with “The world will end Monday Tuesday today tomorrow eventually, but you don’t seem to get the joke.
Brian , it gets extremely difficult to believe you have a MS in EE from Boulder .
Dr. Slammy says:
Bob, do you have a reply or are you just here to run smack? If you have an argument, please make it.
Bob thinks he’s got me, Sam, but I’m running the very math he says supports his position, and will be posting a comment once I’m done.
Brian – I’m not worried about your ability to make the argument. I’m just not interested in having our signal:noise ratio drug down.
“It’s like a doom prophet carrying a sign with “The world will end Monday Tuesday today tomorrow eventually, but you don’t seem to get the joke.” – Brian
Who is the prophet of doom? I think his name is Al Gore. The irony here should be obvious.
Oh yeah. The Club of Rome. They don’t exist right? Eugenics never existed and doesn’t exist now under different euphemisms like population control. The annual Bilderberg Group meetings don’t exist. Fabian socialism never existed. The Anglo-American Establishment doesn’t exist. Dr. Caroll Quigley, Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown that literally wrote the book on it never existed. The EU was never planned as far back as WWII and it doesn’t exist. The UN doesn’t exist. The world doesn’t exist. Reality doesn’t exist.
The science isn’t getting stronger. The power may be consolidating, but this is definitely a major hurdle and I don’t think Al Gore is taking this lightly. He has a lot of money to lose if he doesn’t get his “cap and trade” carbon taxes. And the surface of the planet has been cooling for at least 3 or 4 years, since the sunspots decreased. I suppose our SUV’s caused the ice caps to shrink on Mars. Don’t pretend that there is no room for debate on the science. There is no consensus among climatologists and science does not necessarily depend on consensus anyway.
People have been planning this scenario for decades with a worldwide power consolidation that’s at least hundreds of years in the planning to be the outcome of it’s success. There is much at stake here for either side. So those who plan are not just going to roll over. I get that. But this is a watershed moment. This thing is all about more centralized power through global control of people’s labor. You could call it feudalism. You could call it slavery. You could even say it’s the “free market” even though it is really fascism and corporatism. As long as people can think and distinguish themselves as individuals in any sense at all the power elite of this world have a problem. People will resist. The world will continue to turn and the overall fight will go on. I get the joke. But the worm HAS turned.
dubuois data says:
Have the comments in the readme_harry.txt file that was released along with the emails not ended this debate?
Instead of running calcs on the commenters, why not run calcs with the very data and source code the scientists used at CRU? It’s in there along with the emails. Start by retracing the steps in the readme_harry.txt
Or do I hear crickets chirping……
Ubertramp says:
Speaking of drugs…
You’re equations at your site have a significant error, and as a result, your conclusions are similarly erroneous. Here’s a link to a .pdf file where I illustrate your error and to the Excel spreadsheet (zipped) that I used to generate the images in the .pdf.
To anyone else – I don’t have a HTML equation editor, so I chose not to embed the file’s many equations in-line here – go and read the .pdf if you’re interested in my derivation.
Dan, if you have something serious to add to the discussion, please do so. But touting tired old conspiracy theories with no basis in fact just makes you look like a crackpot.
If you want to learn about the science underlying climate disruption and how it’s getting more and more clear, by all means read my various posts over the last 2+ years of regular updates. You’ll find debunking of the Mars meme (as well as examples of how it’s logically inconsistent – how could Mars temperature go up due to solar increases when solar radiation is low?) and the cooling meme. However, if all you’re going to do is spout nonsense without supporting it with science and data, then frankly, you’re not worth my effort.
Your choice – educate yourself by learning some actual science, or leave the rest of us alone.
The WSJ published a few excerpts from those suspect e-mails.
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Brian , finally some substance . Couldn’t justify spending time on this yesterday . I assume you don’t have an income stream from this conflict either .
I don’t have anything to edit PDFs which makes contextual commenting clumsy . Your spreadsheet motivates me to try to “read” one ( using OpenOffice ) for about the first time , and I haven’t yet figured out how to find the formulas for the graphs Is that your your derivation ? If so , I take back my questioning of your pedigree . In any case , it’s one of the cleanest I have seen . You ought to go get the Wikipedia pages on Stefan-Boltzmann and Black-Body fixed . I like the implicit recognition
that the Kirchhoff parameter is a single parameter , ε .
I see no difference between us on the physics . You are wrong that I assume a temperature of 6000k . Take another look at the tableK
modeling of basic black body planetary temps . You will see I also come to a temperature of 278.7 for a solar temperature of 5778 . An important point to note is that you see that the essential parameter is the ratio between the values of ε for radiation to and from earth . That ratio is what I label AE . You recognize that a default ratio is 1 which is the ratio for a
uniform flat-spectrum ( gray ) body . The overall albedo does not matter . So you don’t start with the absurd assumption , which Martin Herzberg calls the cold earth hypothesis , that the earth absorbs acording to its measured albedo , but radiates like a black body . Like Wikipedia , Pierrehumbert starts his new textbook with this absurdity which is where the notion that the earth would be , by my implementation :
AE : .7 1 1 ; Tcs : 5778 3 3 ; ?[ Tdif ; 0.0 ; 6000 ] / />/ 257.06
kelvin rather than 278.7k implying 31c needs to be explained rather than 9c .
The main differences in approach is that your formula is one dimensional implementation of the earh-sun geometry ; mine models a point surrounded by a sphere partitioned into areas at various
temperatures , each with its particular AE
I think after this point , you go off base , and are confusing the Planck spectra for the sun and gray body at our distance with the correlation of our spectrum with each of those . I think you can see
that your equations leave out the spectrum of the planet entirely . It’s the correlation between the actual spectrum of the planet and each of those spectra that counts . So , for instance , a pure CO2 spectrum , the important ratio is cor[ SunPlanck ; CO2_Spectrum ] % cor[ EarthPlanck ; CO2_Spectrum ]
I’ve not had the motivation to refine my implementation to handle full spectra yet , partly because of the need to find comensurable sources of spectra . Perhaps you could finish the computation and quantitatively close a bunch of that 9c gap .
None of this says anything about the temperature of Venus , of course .
Actually, Bob, my ratio IS albedo (and so is yours). I’ll crank out a long-winded mathematical explanation of how sometime this weekend.
Also, I failed to point out that I was assuming that the Earth was a uniform, ideal material for those graphs. However, my point was to illustrate that effective absorption and effective emission were NOT the same, and so the ratio would not be 1, even for a uniform ideal gray body. And since a uniform ideal gray body has different effective absorption and emission coefficients, non-ideal bodies will also have different effective absorption and emission coefficients.
I’ll see if I can’t crank out the math for your Venus problem too.
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Yah there’s nothing there all right. Just when trillions of dollars in infrastructure spending for questional purposes are being put to our world wide economies we find that a small group of scientists are refusing to share raw data, manipulating findings and quashing via a cabal the chances of opponents to publish. To me it wounds like George Orwell;s 1952. But to an Al Gore collectivist scientist I guess it is just business as usual….
Doug, let me ask you a couple of questions. Do you have any proof that the scientists involved manipulated their data? And if you were contractually obligated by another government to hold the data in confidence, would you break that contract because someone asked for the data, or would you abide by the terms of the legally binding contract?
CRU gets free weather station data from nations around the world who sell that data to anyone else who asks for it. CRU was contractually obligated to not release the data for that reason.
Oops make that 1984 please not 1952. It must be Goldstein who put in that error.
What you should find hilarious is that Brian is not at all concerned that there must be something wrong with his data when it’s extraordinarily higher than the even reported global average. If your city is higher than average, some station must be lower. But what if turns out there is a staggering correlation between stations in cities and higher than average temps and other stations outside cities? Well, you can use factor analysis to isolate and build-in the effects in and run the data against that. And guess what? no one will find fault with you — your results are open and others can see it. But if you go magically and secretly pulling datasets to fit your hypothesis and refuse to tell anyone where and when you pulled and poked, then you’d be an idiot. Or CRU’er.
It doesn’t matter if the same data is available to anyone — CRU doesn’t say how the massages the data (though it admits it does) and then demands you take their results as gospel and if you don’t you can’t get in the peer club. That’s not science and you should be offended.
Ted, can you prove that CRU chose data to match their hypothesis? I haven’t seen any emails quoted that come even close to proof.
At this point there’s no proof that any of the science has been manipulated. It’s about the science, people, and the science hasn’t changed as a result of this. Even if a few dozen papers are found to be seriously flawed (and don’t you think that we’d have heard about that by now? All I hear on the science front is crickets), those papers would barely scratch the surface of the overwhelming scientific evidence and fundamental physics underlying climate disruption.
No , Brian , your epsilon is albedo – which quantifies , in fact , not just reflectivity but absorptivity. As you indicate , it is the ratio between the values for the half millionth of the sky from which we absorb heat from the sun , and the entire sky to which we emit at the earth’s average temperature . Your standard one-dimensional model can’t correctly express that and therefore can’t model even such things as possible change in cloud cover at night , or differences in albedo between poles and equator . ( in fact , technically , it is equivalent to modeling a point surrounded by a sphere at a uniform temperature – in which case , the point must inevitably come to the temperature of the surrounding sphere , no matter what its color . ) And your comments about gray bodies having different absorption and emission are are just plain wrong . By definition , a gray body has a flat spectrum , so the SB T^4 relation between the area under the Planck curves for , eg , the sun’s and earth’s temperature hold exactly . The differences in absorption and emission are , as I have stated , due to the differences in correlation between a non-gray objects spectrum and that of it’s sinks and sources .
I invite any readers of this blog to study my implementation at http://cosy.com/Science/TemperatureOfGrayBalls.htm to compare approaches . It’s clear that both produce the same numbers , but understanding our temperature in terms of the difference between our absorption from the small disk of the sun , and the entire rest of space reflects the reality more realistically .
By the way ( 0 ) , Brian , I see where you got the idea that I was using 6000k . It’s just a starting parameter for K‘s search routine to keep the floating point from exploding . The answer would be the same with any starting point , eg , 5500 , so long as the calculations don’t overflow , which does happen with a starting point of , eg , 0 .
By the way ( 1 ) , the tax funded Met office’s behavior is inexcusable , but not that uncommon . It simply shows what I’ve always argued ( from experience ) , that peer review is just an “old boys” network and it’s the deifying of it by the Statist alarmists has been the real religious fraud .
Damn , I like having HTML , but I wish it was possible to preview if not edit entries here .
The sentence :
“As you indicate , it is the ratio between the values for the half millionth of the sky from which we absorb heat from the sun , and the entire sky to which we emit at the earth’s average temperature .”
Should be :
As you indicate , it is the ratio between the values for the half millionth of the sky from which we absorb heat from the sun , and the entire sky to which we emit at the earth’s average temperature which matters .
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First off, here’s a fantastic link (with references in the slides – pages 8 and 10 especially) for how albedo is mathematically defined according to astrophysicists. It appears not only that Wikipedia is wrong (and they’re usually pretty good on raw science), but you and I have been using the wrong definition as well. Albedo is clearly defined as the ratio of total emergent flux (ie reflected plus emitted energy) to total incident flux. Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter. The black-body temperature of a body is clearly altered by the ratio of the body’s effective absorptivity over the body’s effective emissivity, and so the temperature of the body can vary from the ideal according to that ratio.
Second, I’m not trying to accurately model clouds et al. I don’t need to go to that level of detail to illustrate the errors in your equations.
Third, it appears that there are two competing definitions of a gray body. Here’s a few definitions from scattered places around the Web:
“any body that emits radiation at each wavelength in a constant ratio less than unity to that emitted by a black body at the same temperature.” Source: Dictionary.com (emphasis mine)
“An energy radiator which has a blackbody energy distribution, reduced by a constant factor, throughout the radiation spectrum or within a certain wavelength interval. Also known as nonselective radiator.” Source: TheFreeDictionary.com (emphasis mine)
“An energy radiator which has a blackbody energy distribution, reduced by a constant factor, throughout the radiation spectrum or within a certain wavelength interval. The designation “gray” has no relation to the visual appearance of a body but only to its similarity in energy distribution to a blackbody.” Source: accessScience Encyclopedia (emphasis mine)
“A hypothetical body which absorbs some constant fraction, between zero and one, of all electromagnetic radiation incident upon it, which fraction is the absorptivity and is independent of wavelength. As such, a gray body represent a surface of absorptive characteristics intermediate between those of white body and a black body. No such substance are known in nature.” Source: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center definition
“Bodies that emit less thermal radiation than a blackbody have surface emissivities ε less than 1. If the surface emissivity is independent of wavelength, then the body is called a “gray” body, in that no particular wavelength (or color) is favored.” Source: Efunda.com
So NASA says it’s a flat spectrum while the McGraw-Hill accessScience Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online says it’s a black-body spectrum. I’m using the the blackbody energy distribution definition, as it more closely models reality than a flat spectral response gray body does. Here’s an updated explanation in .pdf, based on the same data, but reformatted (since I didn’t explain myself well enough the first time around).
Fourth, that’s actually not where I got my 6000K thing – The average temperature of the Earth’s surface (which isn’t the Earth’s black body radiation temperature, by the way – I’ll illustrate this below, with my discussion on your problem with Venus) only matches your Tsun/21 if you boost the temperature up from 5778K to about 6000K. Still, though, the difference is so small that it’s within the noise when using four significant digits, so it’s actually a small quibble.
Fifth, the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit may or may not get tax money from the UK government – I don’t know. But it’s not the same as the Met Office, which is the UK equivalent to the U.S. National Weather Service. Also, neither you nor anyone else I’ve read across has pointed out even a single scientific paper that the CRU emails invalidate. It’s put up or shut-up time on this one, Bob.
And finally, your errors with regard to Venus are included in this .pdf. In summary, there are two possible ways that Venus’ surface could be as hot as it is – internal heating from either Venus’ core or a collision millions to hundreds of millions of years ago, or the greenhouse effect. I disprove the internal heating hypothesis as the source of anywhere near enough energy to maintain the output energy, leaving the greenhouse effect as the only viable hypothesis.
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The Last Pundit says:
How many of you clowns actually know how much CO2 is in the atmosphere?
How many of you know what percentage of the total man contributes to the total CO2 and CH4 put into the atmosphere each year?
Just fine my other posts on this site and read the answers.
You are the programmed mindless droids of the new eugenics movement.
Agenda 21, SVCP, AGW, RAND
Answers 0.038% or 380ppm and 0.7% FOOLS
Because I know your programming has taught you to not look for the truth just beleve what the TV and Rothschild media empire tells you.
See my response here. Summary – your out-of-context data don’t represent the complex reality of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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David J. D. Earn1,2,*,
Pejman Rohani2,
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
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Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Uri Rosenthal reacted to the Libyan crisis with two goals: “Let’s get Dutch citizens out of Libya safely and make sure no more immigrants reach Europe.”
Meanwhile, the Italian government’s reaction focused on the “threat of massive immigration from Libya.”
The U.N. recently published a report on racism in Libya against the 2 million Sub-Saharan migrant workers.
In that context, we read about the fate of thousands of stranded African refugees inside Libya. Adding to their hopeless situation is Gaddafi’s use of African mercenaries. The mercenary story has of course been widely published and will soon be circulating at high speed throughout the African blogosphere. Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somali bloggers have already geared up in a desperate cry for help.
Yusuf Dirir Ali, a Somali blogger writes, “Many angry mobs are targeting Black Africans after reports that the government was using ‘African mercenaries’ to repress the revolt was transmitted by Western media.” Another Somali blogger, Somali for Jesus, repeated this cry for help.
Many angry mobs are targeting Black Africans after reports that the government was using ‘African mercenaries’ to repress the revolt was transmitted by Western media.
Europeans will try very hard to keep this story out of the news. They want us to see instead pictures of “our” pilots flying European and American citizens to Crete or Cyprus. Somalilandpress reported the lynching of four Somali immigrants in Libya. In all likelihood, these lynching were a response to the stories of mercenaries killing Libyans in the street of Tripoli.
Europe has a heavy responsibility for the wellbeing of refugees in Libya. I say this for obvious reasons. European governments, like the Netherlands, helped Libya to create a buffer against Southern African immigration to Europe. Who does not remember Gaddafi’s recent visit to Italy? It seemed funny to see one of the most xenophobic presidents in Europe receive Gaddafi but, in reality, the visit was in line with European policy to use Libya as a buffer zone to counter immigration.
UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, issued this statement: “UNHCR fears for the safety of refugees caught in Libya’s violence.”
Anthony Loewenstein writes that Germany trained Libyan forces: “Schroeder was fixing up a deal whereby elite German commandos would train the Libyan security services.”
I encourage my fellow bloggers and all my readers to start blogging this story, just like migrants at sea, as well as mutually sharing the story through social media.
“African refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea have told us that just being a Black face in Libya is very dangerous at the moment,” UNHCR spokeswoman Sybella Wilkes told Reuters.
H. Vincent Harris, based in The Netherlands, is a writer and new media consultant, Colored Opinions blogger and host of Colored Opinions Blog Talk Radio, a talk show about the Great Lakes Region of Africa, emphasizing Rwanda, Congo and Burundi.
Gaddafi’s Libya, African refugees and European xenophobia
by Ann Garrison
KPFA Weekend News, March 6, 2011
http://www.anngarrison.com/images/mp3s/libyaafroimmigration.mp3
KPFA Weekend News Anchor David Landau: Black sub-Saharan Africans in Libya are in peril consequent to both racism and Western media reports that Muammar Gaddafi is using “African mercenaries,” meaning Black Africans, to put down the Libyan uprising. Pleas for help have gone up on blogs in North Africa, and both NGOs and multilateral organizations are seeking access, resources and the relaxation of immigration restrictions so as to evacuate those endangered. KPFA’s Ann Garrison has more.
KPFA/Ann Garrison: Al Jazeera English recorded the voice of this Nigerian, who goes by the name of Courage, after he escaped an attack in Libya this week:
Courage: When I was coming from my work, I looked on my back. There were car after me, chasing me. They said I should stop. I can’t stop because they were holding cutlass and dangerous weapons with them. I was running for my life. If they had caught me, that would have been the end of my life.
KPFA: Vincent Harris, creator of the Netherlands-based blog Colored Opinions spoke with KPFA about what he calls xenophobic, anti-immigrant politics in Europe. He says European governments have a history of collaboration with Gaddafi to maintain a buffer zone meant to restrict African immigration to Europe by boat from the Libyan coast. Harris said that constraining African immigration is a high priority of most European governments and that, in exchange for his help with this goal, Gaddafi received military training for his army and acceptance in European capitals:
Vincent Harris: They needed Gaddafi to solve this perceived problem, that Africans were crossing into Europe from Libya. They worked together to make sure that no Africans go into Europe.
Harris added that North Africans are nevertheless likely to meet more xenophobia than sub-Saharan Africans in Europe because Europeans perceive North Africans as Muslims and Black Africans as Christians. He also reported that on March 3, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles urged the European Commission to appeal to EU member nations to help evacuate and offer protection to 4,000 sub-Saharan refugees who are currently trapped in Libya. Harris’s report, “Africans trapped in Libya,” can be found above and on afrobeatradio.net.
For Pacifica, KPFA and Afrobeat Radio, I’m Ann Garrison.
San Francisco writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News, the Newsline EA (East Africa) and her own blog, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, Weekend News on KPFA and her own YouTube Channel, AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached at ann@afrobeatradio.com. This story first appeared on her blog.
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KPFA Weekend News
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sub-Saharan African refugees
Sub-Saharan migrant workers
Sybella Wilkes
Yusuf Dirir Ali
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Shannon Donnelly Bio
Shannon Donnelly’s writing has won numerous awards, including a nomination for Romance Writer’s of America’s RITA award, the Grand Prize in the “Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer” contest, judged by Nora Roberts, and others. Her writing has repeatedly earned 4½ Star Top Pick reviews from Romantic Times magazine, as well as praise from Booklist and other reviewers, who note: “simply superb”…”wonderfully uplifting”….and “beautifully written.”
In addition to her Regency romances, she is the author of the Mackenzie Solomon, Demon/Warders Urban Fantasy series, Burn Baby Burn and Riding in on a Burning Tire, and the SF/Paranormal, Edge Walkers. Her work has been on the top seller list of Amazon.com and includes the Historical romances, The Cardros Ruby and Paths of Desire.
She is the author of several young adult horror stories, and has also written computer games and offers editing and writing workshops. She lives in New Mexico with two horses, two donkeys, two dogs, and the one love of her life. Shannon can also be found online at facebook.com/sdwriter and twitter/sdwriter.
26 thoughts on “Shannon Donnelly Bio”
Norman Hicks says:
Dear Shannon,
Can you help our book club networking site with a link? http://www.readerscircle.org/
We’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and currently serve nearly 100,000 inquiries for book clubs annually. A link from your site would help immensely!
Thank you so much for considering it!
Norman Hicks
CEO, Reader’s Circle
nhicks@readerscircle.org
randomfreshink says:
Be happy to add you to the site — I’m all for encouraging more reading. But it might take me a few more days yet (I’m still getting caught up on updates).
Evelyn Cartier says:
I want to say thank you for sending the manuscript and it was a wonderful story. I will mail the manuscript back to you and I realy appriciated you sending it to me.
Evelyn Cartier
For information on any OCC events, please contact the chapter — you’ll find info at http://www.occrwa.org. The workshop I’m starting in FEB is an OCC event, so you’ll need to go through that RWA chapter for additional information.
Terri O'Hanlon says:
Hi, Shannon.
I’m writing a quiz for romance writers and can’t remember the 10 years of the Regency period.
Love Reno. Say hey to my buds in OCC and EVA.
Terri O
The official years of the Regency are 1810 until George III died in 1820. However, a regency had been discussed as early as the 1790’s when King George first showed signs of a lasting madness that he might not recover from. So influence and style of the “Regency Era” is considered to be 1795 to mid 1830’s. By 1840, Victorian age is fully under way with Victoria on the throne and marrying Albert (she comes to the throne in 1837, while William IV is king from 1830 – 1837).
Daniel Donnelly says:
My daughter Shannon Megan Donnelly, wants to be a writer. Is there any advice you could give her or what schools might be good for her to attend. She is 16 and loves to write.
Thanks Proud Dad
SD Writer says:
A good Irish name. As to schools — there are dozens. As to writing, if you want to be a writer, write a lot. That’s the best advice possible. And read–everything.
Jo Manning says:
How do I subscribe to this?
There’s an email subscription link in the right column — you’ll see it if you scroll down on the homepage.
Jackie Leoncavallo says:
I just finished reading Proper Conduct and very much enjoyed it. I purchased the rest of that series as well as the “Compromise” series. One thing I did notice though was an unfortunate number of typos. I’m curious if that happened when the format was changed to digital? I have a bad habit of noticing things along those lines. I wrote to two other authors, one about dates not matching and a major continuity issue for the other, so please don’t feel badly! I enjoy your writing and felt that due to how many I saw I should say something. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you.
Please feel free to point out any typos that need correction — I did recently upload a new edition to fix a few other things that were put out of format in the ebook conversion. And thank you for reading.
Michelle Unger says:
Hi Shannon! I participated in one of your “Show vs. Tell” workshops through Lowcountry Romance Writers. The information was very helpful. I’ve been trying to contact you hoping you’ll be able to help with a problem I’ve run into. Is there another way to contact you? Thanks!!
Michelle Unger
You should have my email from the website or the class. Feel free to email me.
jayne smith says:
Really enjoyed your Proper series. Is the comprimised books a completly different series and how many books in it and how are they connected
The “compromise” series is its own set of books, but the hero of “Proper Conduct” first appears in “A Much Compromised Lady” when he is still the Gypsy Christo, and he and his sister are struggling to reclaim their birthright. Also, “A Compromising Situation” was the first book I had published, and won the RWA’s Golden Heart.
Patsy Fine says:
Do you have a follow-up novel for Lady Scandal. I want to find out what happens to her niece and the French captain. If you’ve already written it, please tell me which book and if not, do you plan to?
Yes, a book for Diana is in the works.
merry donnelly says:
shannon, do you have any new books out…..my husband and i have copies of your old books.
My latest book is a Regency Historical romance, Paths of Desire, and is out as an ebook at Amazon, BN.com, and Smashwords.
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Karen aragon says:
Are you the Shannon Donnelly that had property in Alaska? I have land in the neighborhood and was wondering if you might be selling it. If you’re not the right person I’m sorry to bother you
Nope…never been to Alaska and don’t have land there. Too cold for me.
I thought I would look you up on the internet because I appreciate your honest feedback in the show and tell class.
Pat Garcia
Thank you, Pat.
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In 1914 the International Health Division (IHD) applied the lessons learned from hookworm eradication campaigns in the southern United States on a global scale. Ten years later, hookworm campaigns had been adopted in 52 countries across six continents and 29 islands.[1]
Administering hookworm treatment at Karapa, India
Why Hookworm?
The IHD’s decision to undertake hookworm eradication as the first of its international projects was deliberate. Hookworm disease proved an ideal “wedge” that would allow for the creation or extension of public health organizations. Facts about hookworm disease were simple and easy to understand and could be clearly conveyed. IHD members saw hookworm as not only a disease but also as an opportunity for education. Illiterate populations could be educated through pictures, charts and health demonstrations that explained the dangers of the disease and the importance of sanitation.
Afternoon lecture to school children, Madras, India
The International Experience
The first hookworm campaigns outside of the United States began in British Guiana in 1914. Wickliffe Rose, director of the IHD, approached the British Colonial Office with his intentions in 1913 and quickly established a partnership between the two organizations. However, confusion over responsibilities prevailed. Disagreements between American and British staff were common, and the question of exactly which activities would be funded was a constant source of conflict. Following an established pattern, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) had agreed to cover the costs of medical surveys, treatment and public education, while trusting that the local government would assume responsibility for funding the construction of privies and the establishment of a public health network. On the other hand, the colonial authorities of British Guiana saw the RF as an unlimited source of wealth that could and should assume all associated costs related to both treatment and preventative care.
As the numbers and locations of hookworm campaigns increased, so too did the problems that the RF encountered. However, the organization remained optimistic, writing in the 1920 Annual Report that:
Demonstrations in the control of this one disease, while bringing relief to hundreds of thousands of suffering people and increasing the economic efficiency of communities and countries, are having a more important effect in creating a popular interest in public health and in promoting the development of permanent agencies for the control of this and other preventable diseases.[2]
Yet fueling interest in public health, and creating agencies to deal with it, was often more complicated than the report let on. For example, in the case of Madras Province in India, the numbers of infected persons overwhelmed staff and resources. The afflicted population was largely transient, and issues of poverty and caste stood in the way of privy construction.[3] The local colonial government was also unwilling to fund sanitary initiatives. Intensive work began in Madras in 1922, but by 1928 the campaign had ended with mixed results.
Prevailing type of privy, East Coast, Guyana
While IHD initiatives increased public awareness of hookworm in India, the RF was not able to rid the region of the disease or to elicit local funding for initiatives in sanitation and public health. The experience caused a fundamental shift in IHD policy in favor of undertaking hookworm campaigns only in areas where latrines were already in place. This decision mirrored the programmatic decision to shift from the broader goals of sanitation and public health to medical research and treatment. This decision would echo in subsequent IHD-led initiatives.
By the end of the 1920s, almost all IHD hookworm eradication campaigns had ceased. Instead, the IHD directed its energy toward other serious health concerns, including the often fatal diseases of malaria and yellow fever.
[2] The Rockefeller Foundation, Annual Report 1920 (New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1920) 110. (Link to PDF on Rockefeller Foundation Website)
[3] The Rockefeller Foundation, Annual Report, 1924 (New York: The Rockefeller Foundation, 1924) 116. (Link to PDF on Rockefeller Foundation Website)
The first dose of Thymol ever given on foreign soil by the International Health Commission Rockefeller Foundation 1913-04-16
Letter from Hector Holdbrook Howard to John A. Ferrell, 1914 March 13 Howard, Hector Holdbrook 1914-03-13
Letter from Edward Millington to C. Clementi, 1914 June 14 Millington, Edward 1914-06-14
Letter from George P. Paul to Victor G. Heiser, 1920 March 06 Paul, George P. 1920-03-06
Letter from George P. Paul to Victor G. Heiser, 1920 April 01 Paul, George P. 1920-04-01
Letter from George P. Paul to Victor G. Heiser, 1920 June 19 Paul, George P. 1920-06-19
Letter from George P. Paul to Victor G. Heiser, 1920 July 17 Paul, George P. 1920-07-17
Letter from John F. Kendrick to Victor G. Heiser, 1926 August 21 Kendrick, John F. 1926-08-21
Letter from John F. Kendrick to F.H.G. Hutchinson, 1926 September 07 Kendrick, John F. 1926-09-07
Letter from Victor G. Heiser to International Health Division, Rockefeller Foundation, 1927 December 15 Heiser, Victor George 1927-12-15
Main Street in Agricola village Rockefeller Foundation
Afternoon lecture to school children Rockefeller Foundation
Administering hookworm treatment at Karapa Rockefeller Foundation
Group of high caste villagers assembled for treatment - Caste Hindus at Kerai village, North Arcot District Rockefeller Foundation
Group of low caste coolies assembled for treatment - Caste Hindus at Kerai village, North Arcot District Rockefeller Foundation
Distributor giving thymol at hookworm patient's home, Peters Hall district Rockefeller Foundation
Prevailing type of privy in the villages on the east coast Rockefeller Foundation
H.H. Howard, representative of the International Health Commission, British Guiana Rockefeller Foundation
Office of the International Health Commission at Bagotville Rockefeller Foundation
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Acetone[1]
Preferred IUPAC name
Propan-2-one[7]
Dimethyl ketone[2]
Dimethyl carbonyl
β-Ketopropane[2]
Propanone[3]
2-Propanone[2]
Dimethyl formaldehyde[4]
Pyroacetic spirit (archaic)[5]
Ketone propane[6]
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Beilstein Reference 635680
CHEBI:15347 Y
ChEMBL14253 Y
175 Y
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D02311 Y
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1364PS73AF Y
UN number 1090
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Molar mass 58.08 g·mol−1
Appearance Colorless liquid
Odor Pungent, irritating, floral, cucumber like
Density 0.7845 g/cm3 (25 °C)
Melting point −94.7 °C (−138.5 °F; 178.5 K)[12]
Boiling point 56.05 °C (132.89 °F; 329.20 K)[12]
Solubility in water
Miscible
Solubility Miscible in benzene, diethyl ether, methanol, chloroform, ethanol[8]
log P -0.16[9]
Vapor pressure
9.39 kPa (0 °C)
30.6 kPa (25 °C)
374 kPa (100 °C)
2.8 MPa (200 °C)[2]
Acidity (pKa)
19.16 (H2O)[10]
26.5 (DMSO)[11]
Magnetic susceptibility (χ)
−33.78·10−6 cm3/mol
Refractive index (nD)
1.3588 (VD = 54.46)
Viscosity 0.295 mPa·s (25 °C)[8]
Coordination geometry
Trigonal planar at C2
Molecular shape
Dihedral at C2
Dipole moment
2.91 D
Std enthalpy of
formation ΔfHo298 (−250.03) – (−248.77) kJ/mol
combustion ΔcHo298 −1.772 MJ/mol
Standard molar
entropy So298 200.4 J/(mol·K)
Specific heat capacity, C 125.45 J/(mol·K)
Explosive limits 2.6–12.8%[13]
U.S. Permissible
exposure limit (PEL) 1000 ppm (2400 mg/m3)[6]
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Acetone, or propanone, is an organic compound with the chemical formula (CH3)2CO. This clear, mobile, easy-to-burn liquid is the simplest example of the ketones. Acetone can be mixed with water. It is an important solvent, often to clean things in the laboratory. Common uses of acetone in the home are as the active ingredient in nail polish remover and as paint thinner. It is a common building block in organic chemistry.
↑ The Merck Index, 15th Ed. (2013), p. 13, Acetone Monograph 65, O'Neil: The Royal Society of Chemistry.Template:Subscription needed
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Acetone in Linstrom, Peter J.; Mallard, William G. (eds.); NIST Chemistry WebBook, NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (MD), http://webbook.nist.gov (retrieved 2014-05-11)
↑ Klamt, Andreas (2005). COSMO-RS: From Quantum Chemistry to Fluid Phase Thermodynamics and Drug Design. Elsevier. pp. 92–94. ISBN 978-0-444-51994-8.
↑ Ash, Michael; Ash, Irene (2004). Handbook of preservatives. Synapse Information Resources, Inc. p. 369. ISBN 1-890595-66-7.
↑ Myers, Richard L. (2007). The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide. Greenwood. pp. 4–6. ISBN 978-0-313-08057-9.
↑ 6.0 6.1 "NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards #0260". National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
↑ Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book). Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry. 2014. p. 723. doi:10.1039/9781849733069-FP001. ISBN 978-0-85404-182-4.
↑ 8.0 8.1 Properties of substance: acetone. chemister.ru.
↑ "acetone". ChemSrc. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
↑ Chiang, Yvonne; Kresge, A. Jerry; Tang, Yui S.; Wirz, Jakob (1984). "The pKa and keto-enol equilibrium constant of acetone in aqueous solution". Journal of the American Chemical Society 106 (2): 460–462. doi:10.1021/ja00314a055.
↑ Bordwell, Frederick G. (1988). "Equilibrium acidities in dimethyl sulfoxide solution". Accounts of Chemical Research 21 (12): 456–463. doi:10.1021/ar00156a004.
↑ 12.0 12.1 Lide, David R. (ed) (2003). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 84th Edition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida; Section 3, Physical Constants of Organic Compounds.
↑ "Working with modern hydrocarbon and oxygenated solvents: a guide to flammability". American Chemistry Council Solvents Industry Group. January 2008. p. 7. Archived from the original on 2009-06-01. Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (help)
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Sixty is Not the New Forty
The Year In Rear View
Published on 09 December
Take Me Out Of The Ball Game
By Jonathan, In Blog, Sports
I actually started to write this installment over a year ago with the announcement to one Elliot Eisen that I would not be taking any of his season seats to the Toronto Blue Jays that season. Major League Baseball had mandated netting in front of the seats between the baselines because people were either stupid enough to take infants and small children into seating areas within the spray area of a foul ball or were more interested in their not-so-smart phones. Or both. The former Jays catcher, TV analyst and #metoo casualty Greg Zaun was always adamant after a report of someone hit by a foul ball, “Pay attention to the game people.” Not any more.
The thesis of the original piece was my creeping disinterest in televised pro sports and pro team sports in general which has since metastasized into something more of a grand mal revulsion at what the whole spectator experience has become. The trigger for this has been the recent, sudden dismissal of one Don Cherry from his throne at Coach’s Corner on Hockey Night In Canada, where he had, until a few weeks ago, ranted and raved about the state of the game between the first and second period for close to forty seasons clad in suitings that can only be described as the sartorial answer to staring at a solar eclipse. Some of his fabric choices have actual scarred my corneas. For full disclosure, I say this with some tongue in cheek because for the last several years my company has had the pleasure of doing business with Don and his son Tim as distributors of the venerable DVD hockey yearbook – Don Cherry’s Rock’Em Sock’Em Hockey.
Don was always professional at the appearances we scheduled and personable outside of business. No complaints, unlike the torrent of outrage that greeted what was to be the final installment of Coach’s Corner November 9th when Cherry offered that Canadians were sporting less poppy pins to commemorate Remembrance Day in honor of all the men and women who had made the ultimate sacrifice in battle and on duty for the country since World War I. He specifically directed his ire at a vague demographic he defined as “you people”. For context, Cherry surrounded the phrase in xenophobia by admonishing these same “you people” for enjoying the Canadian way of life without recognizing the country’s selfless heroes. It was a wide net. Ironically Cherry, a lifelong supporter of Canada’s military, was sacked in short order on said Remembrance Day – apparently he wouldn’t grovel to save his seat – putting to rest any thought of a Hall Of Fame dinner and relegating him to his weekly Grapevine podcast with Tim. This was the same man who in 2004 was voted the seventh most important Canadian of all time. Yes, the direction of his speech was not inclusive, so to speak, and would offend some people who previously counted themselves on Cherry’s team. Personally, I think Don was due for victory lap a couple of years ago. But I am not 85 years old and looking at going off into that good night sooner than later. Whatever, this was no way to exit and I put some blame on his longtime Ed McMahon, Ron MacLean, who did not have the mental foot speed to hear the offending phrase and call for a correction in real time. Neither did MacLean fall on his own sword but asked for forgiveness the next week in the disingenuous style of the tried and true caveat of “My dog ate my homework.” It was weasely and not in the Ron way. The Ron of Harry Potter to be clear. MacLean still has a job and Don doesn’t. Bobby Orr stepped up for Cherry, his former coach in Boston, with a rant of his own. But Bobby is pretty much forgotten and his, like mine, are the words of an old man. I’ll miss Don Cherry, for better or worse.
Not for his yearly warnings to Junior A moms not to let their sons go to the NHL draft unless they are “guaranteed to go in the first three rounds” because the trauma of leaving the arena without a ticket to a pro camp can emotionally cripple a young man. Oy. I’ll miss Don because he was the last living link to the hockey of my youth, allowing me the delusion that today’s game is even the faintest echo of a game when the lads wore leather skates, played without helmets and made about $100K a year. Maybe. Risking their life on crappy ice in old barns in wet equipment and against some very very tough, desperate competition. There’s very little in today’s game that can appeal to a man of my vintage who finds himself older than pretty much everyone but ownership in most buildings. The NHL has become a business for all involved, with a corporate structure and behavioural Kool-Aid that everyone has to drink. All personality has been genetically engineered out of the dressing rooms. On ice skills are more important than leadership skills. Players don’t hang around long enough to create a team narrative and a bond with their fans. My beloved New York Rangers are in a rebuilding mode let by three veteran Europeans – very few Canadians on the roster – and I am too old to wait around for another Stanley Cup run. I remember the sign that was held up after the win in ’94 following a 54 year draught – “Now I can die!”.
The loathsome Leafs in the city in which I live are an appalling assembly of rich kids who play with a stunning lack of urgency. Blame minor hockey and the current level of entitlement at the youngest levels. It’s no longer a sport for poor farm boys from Saskatchewan. Tell a kid today that his parents are too busy to get him to practice and he might have to take public transit. Yeah, once a kid is used to a hot latte waiting for him in a heated cup holder in an import SUV, he’s not much for transferring from one bus to another in the middle of February. Sadly these are the challenges that build character. When Mitch Marner rats out his recently sacked coach for some questionable coaching methods from years past, like some kid who was scarred by the swim staff at his toney sleepaway camp, that is not character. That is weasely. Again, apologies to Ron. You’re playing professional hockey wimp. Start acting professional.
The career broadcasters who cover the game are too scared of their own shadows to be entertaining lest they suffer the same fate as Cherry or Jimmy The Greek before him. If you can’t remember Jimmy The Greek….hmmm. What we have now is the choice between some former players turned intellectual lightweights, completely unfunny drive time bingo callers and dry as sand reporters taking their jobs with a measure of gravitas last seen at the Battle of Hue. Please see Rick Salutin’s excellent column on the whole Bill Peters fiasco and the attendant geniuses on the sports TV panels. Again, if the Battle Of Hue is lost on you…
I still watch the odd game but I don’t watch a fifth of what I used to. My time is now much more precious, given to taking care of my father, my severely autistic brother and providing as much moral support I can do my children. Someone spoke at my synagogue about the five biggest regrets people have on their deathbeds. One is not staying in touch with old friends. This is what I do. Especially those that need the conversation. As I do sometimes in the absence of a significant other.
As for the other big team sports I enjoyed the Raptors run last season but I now posit the question as to whom was responsible for the cheering in the Scotiabank Centre when Kevin Durant went down in Game Five of the NBA final? What Canadians were those? Yes, applauding an injury to a guy who put his career on the line to help his team put a tarnish on the series and the win. Not the Canadians I grew up with. Durant is now out for a full year, thank you. However I don’t care much for NBA basketball period. The travelling (more than 1.5 steps without a dribble) is completely out of control and the sport resembles more of a rugby match at times. There’s a lot of skilled shooters but very little team play until the last breath of the finals. And the money – $30 million salaries are rampant and the players are, for the most part, poorly disciplined, sub-literate cry babies What did John Havlicek make for running around in canvas Chucks? love the fact that guys making eight figures are upset with the use of the word “owner” to define the guys who actually worked hard and made enough to own the teams in the new ‘antebellum’. Here’s Adam Silver kowtowing. Wussy. I will take NCAA Tournament basketball over the NBA. But I don’t even watch that enough even though the travelling isn’t as blatant.
Baseball can’t hold my attention. Least of all the horrible Blue Jays. I am constantly amazed at what passes for major league fielding and hitting. Mickey Mantle is rolling in his grave looking at what guys are making to hit .267 with 35 dingers. I will grant you that hitting a major league pitch is the hardest transaction in all of sport. That is not arguable but even it was, MLB too has drained the blood out of the dugouts and I miss Bob Uecker, the brief reign of Mark Fidrych and Reggie Jackson and the crazy fuckers who played in Oakland for “Charlie O” in the early 70s and did not nothing but win World Series after World Series. I miss pitchers who could go nine more than not. I miss guys with junk balls. I miss Earl, Casey and Yogi and old managers that were quotable. I remember going to the ’68 Series in Detroit with my mother. Game Five. Lolich over Gibson. Jose Feliciano shook up the joint with his cantina version of the Star Spangled Banner. Nothing in my future will replace that memory.
What I will watch is some golf. It’s a game with which I still struggle but The Masters is pretty much a High Holyday in my world and it is the one event which has always been bigger than those who have been lucky enough to play the tournament. For that week every tour player at Augusta is humbled by the opportunity to walk its fairways like Arnie, Jack, Ben and Sam before them and breath in the greatness of the week as it wafts up like the morning dew off its pristine greens. Egos are put aside, emotions are palpable and the coverage is of a quality that understands tournament history and the foolishness of not paying it respect.
Come tonight I am going to watch Eli Manning take some of his last snaps as a New York Giant. Perhaps my last snaps as a fan. I have noticed over the years that my interest in pro football has waned significantly. Months will go by when I don’t watch a game. I have been a Giant fan since I watched Fran Tarkenton, Homer Jones and Pete Gogolak engineered a comeback win over the superior Cleveland Browns in the fall of 1967. I played some high school football, operative word being ‘some’ and I marvelled at the way Tarkenton would scramble away from defenders in the dirt infield of the old Yankee Stadium, scratching out the next play like a sandlot game. The game was slow, lumbering and populated by old white guys making $40K a year. Please see the ramblings of the late great George Sauer. I hung in there with the ‘Jints’ long enough to see Phil Simms and Lawrence Taylor, the greatest player ever to play the game, win that Super Bowl in ’87. Then there was that fluke win in 1991 on the Norwood missed FG and finally Manning’s wins in 2008 and 2012, one of which I watched at Howard Lapides’ house. What a great night. See my previous post.
My opinion of the game is that of a Luddite. It’s over coached, over officiated and under played. I don’t remember Fred Biletnikoff running up and down the sidelines like the second coming after he executed an eight yard slant play. The average game sees more drops than those of Fred’s entire career. Nor do I remember the heroes of my youth getting arrested for a variety of offenses usually attributed to juvenile delinquents or worse. There’s some horrible statistics about the percentage of NFL players with rap sheets. I think Ray Lewis might be a serious criminal convicted or not. I think Michael Irvin was the tipping point in the history of the Dallas Cowboys when they went from being the classiest team in football to a team bus infected with thugs. He remains an asshole. Aaron Thomas played tight end for the Giants in the 60s while holding down a job on Wall Street. He’s 82 now. I’d love to meet him. Colin Kaepernick had a salary guarantee of $13M when he re-signed with San Francisco in 2014. That’s more money than a large portion of the black population in America will make in their lifetimes. Combined. So when he took that infamous knee in 2016 to protest back oppression in America, so began a downward slide that resulted in him opting away from the Niners at the end of the season. The bottom line here is that Kaepernick and his minions took the advantage of a stage that was built, not by them, but the generations of Forty Niners before them to air a grievance. Something he and his only Super Bowl appearance had little to do with. The great John Brodie and the likes of Joe Montana and Jerry Rice are the stuff of the Niner firmament. Kaepernick is now out of football and will soon be the stuff of autograph confabs. Pro football is not the stage for social justice. The street is. NFL has become a Sunday/Monday/Thursday casino for the pool players and over/under junkies. I have to think – and smarter people than me have posited – that if gambling was illegal and businesses couldn’t write off their seat expenses, the sport and all its concussions would be over. And now, it’s not a stage on which I will not spend any more significant time.
So I am going to watch Manning and his weak arm tonight and remember the highlights he and the Giants gave me over the years – Strahan, OBJ, Amani Toomer, Plaxico and the others. I’ll find a bar somewhere here in Miami that has some Giant fans. It will be fun. It has to be. Can’t say I’ll be around when the next Eli Manning shows up.
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Kraken: China Miéville interview
China Miéville is the first author to win three Arthur C Clarke awards. He received the third prestigious science fiction award for his crime story, The City and the City. China spoke to Socialist Worker about his latest novel, Kraken
Published Tue 18 May 2010
The cover of Kraken
Would you say Kraken is a return to some of your earlier work?
For readers who really liked the big, undisciplined, chaotic, rumbumptious books like Perdido Street Station, I was deliberately writing something big and monstery.
But because it is ten years later, it doesn’t feel like a retread. The language is more disciplined even if the story is more shaggy.
It feels almost nostalgic to be writing that sort of book. But the book is a comedy.
It is meant to be relaxed, with a lot of teasing of fantasy, and other genres I love.
People who are into these things tend to have a sense of humour about themselves – that’s why there are a lot of stupid Star Trek jokes and things like that.
You move and change as a writer, but publishing schedules also do funny things. Kraken was written at the same time as The City and the City.
And there is another book that I wrote before Kraken that hasn’t come out yet. The sense of trajectory that the reader has can be a little confusing.
The book centres on the theft of a giant squid and warring religions, including a squid cult. Were you cautious writing about religion?
There is nothing so recherché that somebody somewhere isn’t worshipping it.
The idea of the squid cult is far from a new idea, particularly in fantasy and horror writing.
There is a list of them in the book, which is a present for the squid nerds.
There are couple of conversations in the book where one of the characters is essentially doing a critique of the “Richard Dawkins” style of atheism.
I am an atheist but I am impatient with that kind of thumping atheism that treats religion as simply an intellectual error.
If you are writing about religion today in Britain, you cannot but be aware of the debates about Islam.
But I didn’t want it in the foreground of the book, because you run a real risk of rather clumsy analogies.
I am emphatically not saying that the worshippers of the squid cult equate to real worshippers of any faith.
It is as much about that melodramatic trope of cults as is it is about real religions in the real world.
I hope that the depiction of religion, for all that it teases, doesn’t sneer.
You are often seen as a London writer. Does the latest book reinforce that idea?
The book is not primarily driven by London – rather the fact that there really is a giant squid in a tank in London’s Natural History Museum.
The peg of the story was the squid in a tank in London, otherwise it could have been an Oslo novel.
I’m part of a London fantastical tradition. Most but not all London novels focus on it not being an ordinary, everyday city.
Kraken is centred on the strange city, it is focused on the fantasmagoria.
So I think of this as much less of a London novel than say, King Rat, which is all about the oscillation between two levels.
There is a fantasticial strike by familiars [spirit servants often in animal form, such as a witch’s cat] in the book. Does politics always slip into your writing?
I am in no way anxious about politics slipping in. Because I am political, it would be ridiculous to try and keep it out.
It is more than that these are my politics and I am interested in thinking about aspects of them.
Strikes tend to be interesting and exciting stories. They are stories of great heroism, humour and sadness.
The idea started from Disney’s Fantasia and the magic brush getting out of control.
It is a form of workplace resistance, oddly moving in a silly way. Fantasy is about seeing what happens if you treat ridiculous ideas not as absurd but see where they take you.
Kraken is out now in hardback, published by Macmillan, priced £17.99.
Go to » www.bookmarksbookshop.co.uk or phone 020 7637 1848 to order your copy
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Metro Wikipedia page updated to include DWP ‘advertorial’ scandal
16/06/2019 · by SKWAWKBOX (SW) · in News. ·
So far, edit has not been removed
Last month, a scandal broke over a leaked document that Amber Rudd had authorised the use of at least a quarter of a million pounds of public funds for disguised ‘advertorials’ in the Metro newspaper – ads that were described as ‘propaganda’ for the DWP’s hugely-criticised Universal Credit system.
Metro was also heavily criticised for accepting and running the ‘wraparound’ ads, including by the National Union of Journalists.
Disability campaigners were understandably outraged, especially as the leaked letter made much of the fact that the DWP’s ‘branding’ would be omitted to make it less obviously an ad:
The subterfuge and the Metro’s participation were roundly condemned on social media:
I’ve never seen this before: a government press release/advert on its much criticised Universal Credit dressed up as 4-page investigative news report, basically framed around the ‘fake news’ narrative. pic.twitter.com/Z9sQV8GDWu
— Jane Bradley (@jane__bradley) May 22, 2019
£10 says "Paul" is an extra from Game of Thrones
— Gareth Davies (@Gareth_Davies09) May 22, 2019
The Russians and the Chinese would be so proud of the UK Conservatives new found Pravda ethos…
— ❄I, Daneel Giskard (D.G.) Baley ❄💚 (@i400s) May 22, 2019
"The Advertising Standards Authority will doubtless be interested in that description of the feature.Its guidelines stipulate that“marketers and publishers must make clear that advertorials are marketing communications” @ASA_UK WILL YOU INVESTIGATE @DWP'S TAXPAYER FUNDED PR STUNT
— nyeannebevan (@nyeannebevan) May 25, 2019
Earlier this week, the controversy was also added to the Metro’s Wikipedia page by an anonymous editor, to ensure that casual searchers for information on the paper are informed;
The DWP has previously come under fire for using actors claimed to be benefits claimants praising the Tories’ changes to the social security system. The identities of the individuals in the new wraparound campaign have not been disclosed.
The Metro was involved in controversy after it was paid similar sums by the Northern Irish DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) to run pro-Brexit wraparounds during the EU referendum campaign. Under Northern Irish electoral rules, the DUP did not declare the source of the ‘dark money‘. The ad was not run in Northern Ireland.
At the time of publication, no attempt appeared to have been made to remove the information from the Wikipedia page.
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24 responses to “Metro Wikipedia page updated to include DWP ‘advertorial’ scandal”
The Toffee (597) 16/06/2019 at 6:47 pm · · Reply →
The ad was condemned by the PCS, was it?
They gonna expel any member found to have cooperated/ taken part in the ads? Are they shite.
Fuck the PCS and that cowardly bastard serwotka.
Simon Dewsbury 16/06/2019 at 7:02 pm · · Reply →
Why on earth is that your first reaction? This was a media stunt. And what part of the union rule book would they have broken?
RH 16/06/2019 at 8:37 pm · ·
Ah, but Simon – to answer your question : God moves in mysterious ways, but is totally outclassed by Toffee in terms of the inscrutability of the revelations perceived by the true seekers after righteousness.
The Toffee (597) 17/06/2019 at 8:57 am · ·
Now you listen here you pair of sadsack little pricks – have YOU been on the wrong end of a grossly unfair benefit sanction, carried out by a vindictive, jumped up, spotty little shit that sees your questioning their ‘authority’ as a crime punishable by starvation?
No. But I have…And so have hundreds of thousands like me. Where was the ‘solidarity’ from serwotka and the pcs? You know? Like the ‘solidarity’ they expected from me when UC rules affected their members, too?
Here’s their version of ‘solidarity’ out of the grid of ndrew lloyd, midlands pcs secretary…
http://docshare.tips/pcs-union-midlands-regional-newsline-summer-2013_58bfc6b9b6d87fc5418b529d.html
Mr Lloyd said Jobcentre workers had threatened to tear up £25 Marks and Spencer vouchers received for getting claimants off benefits as part of a DWP ‘carrot and stick’ approach.
He said: “The carrot is a small one and a number of PCS members from Smethwick were considering tearing up their vouchers in front of IDS to show their feelings over the matter.”Mr Duncan Smith’s Parliamentary office failed to respond to requests for a comment.IDS ducks visit after threat of walk outLincoln TUC “unity against racism—fight the cuts not each other” demonstration 8th JuneAfter Woolwich we will not be dividedWomen chainmakers festival
ALMOST THREATENED TO TEAR UP THEIR £25 M&S VOUCHERS….YES FOLKS – THAT’S WHAT THEY NEARLY DID AT THE PCS…
Makes you wonder how many poor bastards had their pittance of a livelihood snatched away from them so dwp/pcs member could get not just any old pudding…but m&s pudding..
So, until you’ve been on the end of a sanction that saw your ‘work coach’ receive a fucking easter egg for forcing you into abject penury- do shut the fuck up.
David McNiven 17/06/2019 at 9:55 am · ·
I suppose we shouldn’t take the way toffee conducts himself here as necessarily representative of how he would conduct himself at jobcentre interviews.
Maybe it’s only here that he feels the need to parade his ill-temper by writing so loudly and coarsely.
And even if not, why should someone of his quality have to treat some jumped up little clerk with the same consideration he demands of said clerk for himself?
I think he has every right to be angry – don’t they know who he is?
The Toffee (597) 17/06/2019 at 10:43 am · ·
I deserved my lifeline cut off because the dwp shut the closest JCP to me without so much as a fucking murmur from illeagle or the pcs; and subsequently the bus I had to catch was held up at a raised bridge which made me six minutes late.
I deserved to have some spotty little bastard, from almost out of nursery school pontificating to me about life’s do’s & dont’s, then stop my mens of feeding meself…Because I’m the Toffee and I might raise my voice and become coararse and vulgar…..with valid fucking reason, mind.
Nevermind the hundreds of thousands of others who’ve had to endure the same or worse than me…They’ve no right to be angry neither, have they?
No, that’s their lot in life, isn’t it?
WELL, ISN’T IT?
What a bunch of fucking useless invertebrate specimens you’ve proved yourselves to be.
May a worse fate befall you and yours.
RH 17/06/2019 at 11:09 am · ·
OK Toffee. I agree that your rage at your treatment is justified. I also agree that it is typical of the persecution meted out to many by the benefits system under the Tories.
But ranting at the clerk behind the desk is beside the point -systems like this have always recruited operatives from the same victim group. So what are those individuals going to do – even if they are union members – after you’ve ranted at them?
Again, just ranting at characters on this blog may be a release – but it gains nothing in terms of changing anything. At best, it just makes you the object of piss-taking, after which people just move on. You write stuff such as :
… which is unlikely to evoke solidarity, empathy or illumination about what lies behind the ranting.
There’s genuine opposition around without creating some more out of simple disagreement.
‘Ere mcniven…
Let’s see your sarcasm applied to all these poor sods.
Go on, have yerself a good ol’ middle-class sneer at them all. It’s what your likes do best. (Cue the other bromidic bollockite known as rh to enthral us all once again with his social commentary on class, the predictable ignoranus [sic] )
http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/a-list-of-completely-ridiculous-benefit-sanctions-people-have-experienced
C’mon lad, tell us all how these people really ought to know their place, too??
Not doing so will make serwotka look positively lion-hearted
“… and my phone died so I couldn’t video the fact of the bridge making me late and the bus driver bastard wouldn’t listen when I asked him for a phone number so the bus company could confirm it and my pen wouldn’t work when I tried to write down the driver’s badge number and why should I have to go to all that trouble anyway? I’m THE toffee.”
I’ve been on benefits myself and never had them stopped for any reason – never had a cross word with anyone at any JC – because I was always careful not to give them an excuse when thatcher was giving out gold stars to the pen-pushers for getting people signed off “for cause” or getting them to sign up for sickness benefit instead to get them off the JC books – which later enabled the MSM to call them scroungers and make the working poor hate the wrong people ALL OVER AGAIN.
If I had been sanctioned I’d have studied their rules and challenged them politely on those. Citizens Advice are very helpful but only if you present with the right attitude – as with most people you want to do something for you.
Pretty sure it was you mentioned flies and honey recently.
Good advice that you apparently prefer to give rather than take.
Just don’t bother. You have no empathy with anyone outside your social strata and policies. Time & again your words have proved so. Everyone familiar with your guff will know it to be the case.
I openly dislike you. Intensely so. I make no secret of it. I make no secret that as long as you (And your colleagues) continue to bait people I will not let your sneering and condescending tone pass without making sure you get at least the same with interest.
Difference is, I have no fear about being direct when I’m doing so. I’ll call a c**t an rh. don’t like it? Oh, that’s just your hard shit, lad.
But you continue to do so – especially going out of your ways to getting a rise outta me. Says more about you than me when you cry foul after my reaction following you & your mates’ deliberate provocation of me.
But you do it because you know none of you can argue the point(s) without showing yourselves up as non-socialist while claiming to be socialist.
You’re not having it both ways, despite your protestations and use of ‘westminsterspeak’ like ‘virtue signalling’ and other such bollocks.
I’ve been on this site a lot longer than clowns like you….I’m still here now – they’re not. I’m going nowhere, so either del with it, or continue with your shithouse ways and be called out on them.
‘I’ve been on benefits meself and never gave them a reason; never had a cross word….blah blah blah’
And yet you make up all sorts of arguments why you think I should’ve had my dole stopped?
No mention of the others from that link I provided though. Your logic suggests you think they all deserved their dole stopped or they’d have given a good enough reason, too.
Or perhaps it’s cos they’re not the Toffee?
You’re what’s commonly known as a shithouse, lad. No wonder you never had your dole stopped for something as trivial, just like hundreds of thousands of other people.
Good little boy, is mcniven. wouldn’t surpriseme if you grssed some poor sod up for doing an hour’s graft somewhere, just to try & make ends meet, you’re that type of snake.
Still, even the ‘kapos’ got theirs once the camps had been liberated…
The Toffee (597) 17/06/2019 at 12:10 pm · ·
oh and by the way, when I told them the bridge was up – know what the reply was?
”Should’ve got an earlier bus…”
Even though the buses are every 10 mins and the bridge was up for around 15.
But in all honesty it DIDN’T happen…Not to me – But it DID to a family member….Although I s’pose they deserved it for being related to me, eh, mac?
timfrom 17/06/2019 at 12:14 pm · ·
McNiven:
“I’ve been on benefits myself and never had them stopped for any reason – never had a cross word with anyone at any JC – because I was always careful not to give them an excuse”
You evidently haven’t been anywhere near a Jobcentre in the last 10 years or you would know you don’t have to give them a reason to sanction you. They’ll trump the “reason” up for you for free! They’re all heart.
Citizens’ Advice can’t help much these days. Law changes have seen to that. Legal Aid is virtually a thing of the past, in case you hadn’t heard.
Toffee,
Your anger is entirely justified towards patronising pricks who claim to be socialist, but have next to no life experience in common with most socialists, or with anyone at the sharp end of austerity or the hostile environment of the 21st Century Jobcentre.
Because they don’t see much of that sort of thing from their ivory towers, yet still feel the (guilty) need to fake that they do. Their support for Remain is all about preserving their standard of living in full knowledge that it comes at the expense of the millions who would quite like one.
Sanctimonious scumbags!
But you’re one of the four mouthketeers – what happened to one for all and all for one, O Great Defender of the Downtrodden?
If it’s hunger weakening you I can pass the hat around.
If it’s just that your insults taste as stale to you as they do to everybody else I can probably help you out there too.
No charge, just wash my Roller a couple of times a week.
You get everything else wrong, why wouldn’t you believe I drive a Roller instead of my old banger?
timmiekins, no I haven’t been in a JC for more than ten years so I couldn’t possibly imagine today’s level of oppression.
And I’m sure you’re right that hunger & poverty feel different now to when I was poor and hungry.
Maybe you’re both right – maybe shouting the odds at the people behind the bulletproof glass (?) with the plod on speed-dial IS the best way to deal with them – how could I possibly know anything about that?
And Stuffy, I didn’t say you should have had your dole stopped – nobody should – I just said what everyone else was thinking – that you’re an objectionable, mouthy twat here and the odds are you’re the same everyfuckingwhere you go.
RH 17/06/2019 at 12:54 pm · ·
“I’ve been on this site a lot longer than clowns like you….I’m still here now – they’re not. I’m going nowhere, so either del with it, or continue with your shithouse ways”
OK, fair enough, Toffee.
You choose to be a self-pitying, incoherent and rambling rantmobile who fantasises about people who you have created in your mind. It’s your choice, and if this is therapy, who am I to argue? Your choice. Your problem.
But being at the shit end of the stick doesn’t make you a hero in the class war.
And being self-described ‘working class’ doesn’t make you a socialist or a coherent advocate for others who know about wading in shit. That requires more than a constant whine.
And none of it makes you very perceptive in the incontinent stream of blather you produce. You are ineed ‘still here’ – but only to vent your spleen to no useful end.
Surprise us. Prove me wrong. Your choice.
I never said hunger and poverty feel different now – it’s the way you are treated and spoken to which is so different and shocking and the level of undisguised malice many of the job “coaches” display towards people they are meant to be helping. You’d need to have experienced it to believe it. Very scary.
And I never raised my voice to them, either. It’s not difficult to put them in their place firmly but politely if you know your rights. They’re not very bright, on the whole.
But your words are very revealing. The empathy and compassion just pours out of you, doesn’t it?
Doug 16/06/2019 at 10:07 pm · · Reply →
UC is part of the solution but
Never under the cheap and nasty Tory party
That is because they dont believe in the safety net
Problem is the hostile environment always ends up costing twice as much, hence national debt now over £2 Trillion
Posh fuckwits
Tony 17/06/2019 at 1:35 pm · · Reply →
The government has created a ‘hostile environment’ for the unemployed.
Unemployment Benefit became ‘Jobseeker’s Allowance despite the fact that people paid in when they had a job.
‘We must be fair to taxpayers’ as if the unemployed did not pay tax when they had a job or do not still pay taxes. Toothpaste, toilet paper and many food items are subject to VAT.
And. of course, Rachel Reeves said Labour should not represent the unemployed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rachel-reeves-says-labour-does-not-want-to-represent-people-out-of-work-10114614.html
Tony, it certainly is a hostile environment for the unemployed but the Tories get away with it because enough working class people trust the MSM.
When Tories win elections it’s because more than half of ordinary people have been conned into believing:
1. that the unemployed cause unemployment.
2. that immigrants – not Tory austerity and greedy employers – cause low wages, housing and hospital waiting lists and poor schools.
3. that “Labour overspending” caused a Worldwide banking crash.
4. that Brexit means Brexit.
5. that Theresa May is strong and stable.
6. that only the Tories can be trusted with the economy.
7. that Boris Johnson is a good bloke.
8. that Jeremy Corbyn and Labour are antisemitic.
9. that politicians are all the same.
10. that newspapers might be biased but the BBC reports the news honestly and without fear or favour.
David McNiven 17/06/2019 at 4:13 pm · ·
Oh yeah:
11. that Rory Stewart’s completely different to the rest of the Nasty Party… hardly a Tory at all, really.
Simon Dewsbury 17/06/2019 at 5:18 pm · ·
Good summary David. Though I hope that despite the media’s best efforts the antisemitism smears aren’t gaining much traction.
” the Tories get away with it because enough working class people trust the MSM.”
Contrary to myth, more working class voters actually opted for the Tories than opted for Labour in 2017. The sentimental narrative of class allegiances has no basis in reality, and is plainly a stupidly fictional way of framing political discussion.
Corbyn actually succeeded because of middle class and Remain votes in actuality.
Time to get real.
Timmiekins, you’re correct – I don’t do hugs, cuddles or shoulders to cry on.
What I have provided to family, friends, neighbours and some others in trouble – braggarts and internet tough guys excepted – and in real trouble, not just some transient and easily-reversible sanction – has been advice and assistance in communicating with and otherwise persuading ‘the authorities’ to reconsider the occasional decision.
I’ve been lucky enough to recover some sums some people thought lost, and gained others an extra ‘last chance’ or two they’d been told to forget.
People tend to overcome their pride enough to ask for favours when freedom or penury are at stake.
Some people are just inarticulate in the face of authority and fall into sullen silence, meek acceptance or despondency.
Others are unwilling to consider the possibility that their own actions to date might have contributed to their difficulty and those people get short shrift – the refractory have serial issues and I’m commitment phobic.
So no – the shouty ones in this conversation can expect no empathy from this quarter.
I expect you peddlars of tea and sympathy will be only too willing to take up the slack though, given the trivial cost in time and treasure of virtue signalling.
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Gamma-Linolenic Acid (GLA)
Relaxation Therapies
Tripterygium wilfordii
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments Other Proposed Natural Treatments Herbs and Supplements to Use Only With Caution References
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in the general family of lupus . For reasons that are not understood, in rheumatoid arthritis the immune system goes awry and begins attacking innocent tissues, especially cartilage in the joints. Various joints become red, hot, and swollen under the onslaught. The pattern of inflammation is usually symmetrical, occurring on both sides of the body. Other symptoms include inflammation of the eyes, nodules or lumps under the skin, and a general feeling of malaise.
Rheumatoid arthritis is more common in women than in men and typically begins between the ages of 35 and 60. The diagnosis is made by matching the pattern of symptoms with certain characteristic laboratory results.
Medical treatment consists mainly of two categories of drugs: anti-inflammatory drugs in the ibuprofen family (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs) and drugs that may be able to put rheumatoid arthritis into full or partial remission, the so-called disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs).
Anti-inflammatory drugs relieve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis but do not change the overall progression of the disease, whereas the DMARDs seem to affect the disease itself. A good analogy might be the various options available to "treat" a house "suffering" from a severe termite infestation. You could remove heavy furniture, tiptoe about instead of holding public dances, and put large beams under the joists. However, none of these methods would do anything to stop the gradual destruction of your house. These methods are like NSAIDs and other supportive techniques in that they treat only the symptoms.
A more definitive approach would be to hire an exterminator and kill the termites. In medical terms, this would be described as a disease-modifying treatment. Because medical treatments for chronic diseases are seldom as completely effective as this example, a closer analogy might be spraying a chemical that slows the spread of termites but does not stop them.
In rheumatoid arthritis, the drugs believed to alter the course of the disease (to slow it down or stop it) include antimalarials (hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine), sulfasalazine, TNF inhibitors (etanercept, infliximab, and adalimumab), interleukin-1 receptor antagonists, leflunomide methotrexate, gold compounds, D-penicillamine, and cytotoxic agents (azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, and cyclosporine). They are unrelated to one another but work somewhat similarly in practice.
Unfortunately, most of the drugs in this category can cause severe side effects. Because of this toxicity, for years a so-called pyramid approach was taken with people with rheumatoid arthritis. Physicians started with NSAIDs to help with the pain and inflammation, and progressed to successively stronger and more toxic medications only when the basic treatments failed. Natural treatments such as those described here might also be useful in early stages.
However, over the last few years, research has found that severe joint damage occurs very early in rheumatoid arthritis. This evidence has caused many authorities to suggest early, aggressive treatment with disease-modifying drugs to prevent joint damage. Nonetheless, this approach has not been universally adopted, and some physicians still prescribe NSAIDs for early stages of rheumatoid arthritis. The treatments described here may be reasonable alternative options.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a difficult disease, and no alternative approach solves it easily. Even if you choose to use alternative methods, you should maintain regular visits to a rheumatologist to watch for serious complications. Finally, keep in mind that medical treatment may be able to slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis. It is not likely that any of the alternative options have the same power.
Fish oil is the only natural treatment for rheumatoid arthritis with significant documentation. According to the results of at least 13 double-blind, placebo-controlled studies involving a total of over 500 participants, supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids can significantly reduce the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. 1,2 In addition, at least one small study suggests that it may help rheumatoid arthritis patients lower their dose of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication (eg, ibuprofen). 84
However, unlike some of the standard treatments, fish oil has not been shown to slow the progression of rheumatoid arthritis. It has been suggested that omega-3 supplementation is more effective when omega-6 intake (particularly arachidonic acid) is kept low, as occurs with a vegetarian diet. 67 The benefits of fish oil may also be enhanced by simultaneous use of olive oil. 74 A badly designed human study hints that a relative of fish oil, krill oil , might be helpful as well. 79
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Fish Oil article.
Flaxseed oil has been offered as a more palatable substitute for fish oil, but it does not seem to work. 8
Other Proposed Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Boswellia serrata is a shrub-like tree that grows in the dry hills of the Indian subcontinent. It is the source of a resin called salai guggal, which has been used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional medicine of the region. It is very similar to a resin from a related tree, Boswellia carteri , which is also known as frankincense. Both substances have been used historically for arthritis.
Recent research has identified boswellic acids as the likely active ingredients in boswellia. In animal studies, boswellic acids have shown anti-inflammatory effects, but their mechanism of action seems to be quite different from that of standard anti-inflammatory medications. 10-13
An issue of Phytomedicine that was devoted to boswellia briefly reviewed previously unpublished studies on the herb. 14 A pair of placebo-controlled trials involving a total of 81 people with rheumatoid arthritis found significant reductions in swelling and pain over the course of 3 months. Furthermore, a comparative study of 60 participants over 6 months found the boswellia extract relieved symptoms about as well as oral gold therapy. However, keep in mind that while gold shots can induce remission in rheumatoid arthritis, we have no evidence that boswellia can do the same.
Another double-blind study found no difference between boswellia and placebo. 15 The bottom line is that we need more research to know for sure whether boswellia is an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Boswellia article.
The herb devil's claw may be beneficial in rheumatoid arthritis. One double-blind study followed 89 people with rheumatoid arthritis for 2 months. The group given devil's claw showed a significant decrease in pain intensity and an improvement in mobility. 16
Another double-blind study of 50 people with various types of arthritis showed that 10 days of treatment with devil's claw provided significant pain relief. 17
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Devil's Claw article.
Other Herbs and Supplements
Glucosamine is best known as a proposed treatment for osteoarthritis. However, it might be helpful for RA as well. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 51 people with RA found that glucosamine at a dose of 1,500 mg daily significantly improved symptoms. 77 It did not, however, alter measures of inflammation as determined through blood tests.
Some evidence, including small double-blind trials, additionally support the use of the following herbs and supplements for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis:
Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) found in evening primrose oil and borage oil 30-33,94
Cat’s claw ( Uncaria tomentosa ) 68
Rose hip powder 88
Chinese herb Tripterygium wilfordii (either applied topically or taken orally) 25,56,69,94
Note : Tripterygium wilfordii is believed to be unsafe for pregnant or nursing women, and may present risks in other groups as well. 26,27,75
Highly preliminary evidence suggests potential benefits with the following herbs and supplements: methyl sulfonyl methane (MSM) , 40yucca , 28 and a mixture of poplar, ash, and goldenrod . 29
Vitamin E may reduce pain in rheumatoid arthritis, but it does not seem to reduce inflammation. 37,54,55 Some evidence suggests that adding vitamin E, or vitamin E plus other antioxidants, to standard rheumatoid arthritis therapy might improve results. 39 However, an extremely large randomized trial involving over 39,000 women found that taking 600 IU of vitamin E every other day did not reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. 87
Individuals taking the drug methotrexate for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis may benefit by taking folate supplements. Folate appears to reduce methotrexate side effects, including mouth sores, nausea, and liver inflammation. 57-59 In addition, folate supplements may help reverse a more subtle methotrexate side-effect: a rise in blood levels of homocysteine . 60,61 Elevated levels of homocysteine are thought to increase risk of heart-disease.
The following treatments are also sometimes proposed as effective for rheumatoid arthritis, but there is as yet little to no scientific evidence for or against their use: adrenal extract , beta-carotene , betaine hydrochloride , boron , burdock , cayenne , chamomile , copper , feverfew , folate , ginger , L-histidine , horsetail , magnesium , manganese , molybdenum, pantothenic acid , D-phenylalanine , perilla frutescens , pregnenolone , proteolytic enzymes , sea cucumber, and vitamin C .
Current evidence regarding green lipped mussel for rheumatoid arthritis is more negative than positive. 62-66
One study failed to find vitamin B6 at a dose of 50 mg daily helpful for rheumatoid arthritis, despite a general B6 deficiency seen in people with this condition. 76
Zinc supplements have been evaluated as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, but overall the study results have not been encouraging. 34,35,49-53 Other treatments that have as yet generally failed to prove effective in small double-blind trials include selenium , collagen, 46,47-50probiotics , 72white willow , 73 and an Ayurvedic herbal mixture containing extracts of ashwagandha , boswellia , ginger , and turmeric . 45 Two studies commonly cited as evidence that turmeric alone is useful for rheumatoid arthritis actually fail to provide any meaningful supporting evidence. 20,21
A 6-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 168 people with rheumatoid arthritis failed to find that elk velvet antler enhanced the effectiveness of conventional treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. 83
Other Alternative Therapies
Adopting a vegan (pure vegetarian) diet might help mild rheumatoid arthritis, although the supporting evidence is weak. 41,42
Identifying and avoiding food allergens has also been tried, 43 but one controlled trial found no clear evidence of benefit with a low saturated fat, hypoallergenic diet. 44
Balneotherapy (hot baths) , 78relaxation therapy , 80-82 and magnet therapy70 have shown a bit of promise for rheumatoid arthritis.
Two separate groups of researchers conducting detailed reviews of 8 randomized controlled trials found some beneficial effects of acupuncture for rheumatoid arthritis, but were unconvinced that it was more beneficial than sham acupuncture or other standard treatments. 85,86 Another review of 11 randomized trials did not find that mediation, progressive muscle relaxation, static magnetic therapy, acupuncture or tai chi relieved pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The 11 trials included a total of 607 patients. 95
Homeopathy has also been evaluated for rheumatoid arthritis with no consistent evidence of beneficial effect. 89-93
Herbs and Supplements to Use Only With Caution
Various herbs and supplements may interact adversely with drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. For more information on this potential risk, see the individual drug article in the Drug Interactions section of this database.
Reviewer: EBSCO CAM Review Board
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America’s Poetess of Neurotic Vanity
In HBO’s Veep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays the vice president as a personality in search of a cult.
By Troy Patterson
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO’s Veep
Bill Gray/HBO.
Related in Slate: A conversation with Armando Iannucci.
Armando Iannucci’s Veep (HBO, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET)—ruefully amused and regularly amusing—stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the vice president of the United States. The farce busies itself with filibuster-reform failures and a clean-jobs-commission hassle. But where Iannucci’s earlier comedic explorations of government (BBC’s The Thick of It and its big-screen spinoff, In the Loop) directly concerned themselves with the substance of politics, Veep focuses on style, on mangled image-management and interpersonal bumbling. This is appropriate both to the nature of the No. 2 job—famously, a gig not worth a pitcher of warm piss—and to the facts of public service in 21st century America.
As any random rerun of Seinfeld will remind you, Louis-Dreyfus is a veritable poetess of neurotic vanity. Here, when her character, Selina Meyer, gets word that the POTUS has suffered a heart attack, her face tickles you with its hopeless attempt to stifle a pulsing expression of giddiness beneath a mask of gravitas. Meyer is a pure incarnation of Beltway narcissism and fake-smiley realpolitik. Much of the time that we spend in her company ticks by at cocktail parties where she anxiously glad-hands, and at photo ops where she condescends to visit with, in the words of her director of communications, “the normals and the normalistas.” She’s a personality in search of a cult.
Meyer surrounds herself with staffers engaged, perpetually, in a grandly silly verbal slap-fight of all against all. At a key moment in each of the first three episodes, she literally surrounds herself with them to put a human shield between herself and the Fourth Estate. In the pilot, after publicly using the word retard, she rings herself with these delightful incompetents to escape questions about the matter. In the second episode, struck with a stomach bug, she directs them to circle her as, clammy and heaving, she heads into her limousine for a discreet session of operatic antiperistalsis. One gets the sense that such calamities befall Meyer all the time—that damage control represents her central professional goal.
Scholars of filthy language—meaning both Ph.D. linguists and enterprising middle-schoolers—will want to study the agile profanity of Veep’s dialogue with Talmudic intensity. Iannucci (writing with Simon Blackwell, among others) has a great ear for rhythmic invective and withering insults. He may well be the Werner Von Braun of the F-bomb (to use that euphemism that Meyer stiffly employs in front of her college-aged daughter).
The retard incident occurred because she was she was loonily winging a speech that the West Wing had abruptly and overwhelmingly edited: “This has been pencil-fucked? Completely?” At one of those pseudo-social events, Meyer’s chief of staff (Anna Chlumsky, delicious), seethes into her phone requesting an explanation for the sparse crowd: “Mike, talk to me. I am in a room with three people and a fuckload of quiche.” This is a novel juxtaposition of nouns, delivered unblinkingly. Veep’s salty language offer consistent pinches of high-end sea salt, coarse but refined, as when a word of caution cleverly unpacks its idiomatic self: “You do not want to fuck with those guys because they fuck in a very unpleasant fashion.”
There is, perhaps, something lightly sour in all of this—in the absurdist bumbling of Tony Hale as Meyer’s body man, in the alpha-dork posturing of a West Wing liaison high on his own idea of his status, in the backroom rivalries that play like school-cafeteria spats. Iannucci’s earlier political comedies played for human emotional stakes and glared hard at the marketing of a war. But it takes a kind of passion to be thus engaged. Only a former idealist could communicate In the Loop’s aches of disappointment. By contrast, Veep is post-political from the jump. A double-headed running gag finds Meyer repeatedly asking her secretary if the president has called (he hasn’t) and Meyer repeatedly extracting herself from conversations by pretending that the president has called her BlackBerry (he hasn’t). Worming through the core of power politics, Veep tells you that the core is not just rotten but hollow. We laugh at its slapstick cynicism, but nothing and no one is on the line.
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High 5s: 10/3/2012
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2012
This week's honorees are some of Michigan's best on the golf and cross country courses and volleyball court.
Each week, Second Half recognizes two athletes and a team for their successes during the current season. To nominate a candidate, email editor Geoff Kimmerly at geoff@mhsaa.com.
Below are this week's honorees. Check back later this week for details plus links to stories on each.
Jacqueline Setas
Lansing Catholic junior
Setas earned all-state honors in Division 4 as part of MHSAA championship teams her first two years of high school, but likely has put herself in contention for the Miss Golf Award this fall as one of the state's elite, regardless of division. She's won five tournaments this season, finished second twice and sixth in her team's first event this season, and is averaging 74.3 strokes for 18 holes and 35.9 for nine-hole matches. She shot a 68 on Thursday to win the Capital Area Activities Conference White championship at Wheatfield Valley in Williamston. She also plays basketball and softball, but hopes to play Division I college golf and is down to a list of five or six schools from which she'll likely choose.
Brother knows best: Setas' older brother Ben Setas played on Lansing Catholic's 2005 Division 3 championship team. "If I needed a quick swing change, without my coach (there), he's a scratch golfer and he can spot things really quickly. ... I beat him for the first time this summer, and that was not a happy day for him."
Still in the swing: "A lot of people told me that softball screws up your golf swing. (This spring) was the first time I've played in five years, and I was hitting my best this summer. I don't think it screwed up my golf swing too badly."
My favorite golfer is: "Probably Morgan Pressel, because she's sponsored by Polo. Luke Donald too; he's got a picture-perfect swing."
Pearly whites: "I'd like to study pre-dental. I just really liked going to the dentist growing up. Not a lot of people did, but I found it fascinating. If I had a loose tooth, I always pulled it out."
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Nathan Burnand
Waterford Mott senior
Burnand, last season's sixth-place finisher at the MHSAA Division 1 Final, has been arguably the top runner in the state this fall and won the Sept. 14 Spartan Invitational elite race at Michigan State in 15:21 -- 17 seconds faster than his time at Michigan International Speedway last November. He opened this season with a second-place finish at the Oakland University Golden Grizzly Invitational and last weekend won the Waterford Mott Fall Classic.
My toughest opponents: "There can be so many. There are so many good people. I've raced (Lake Orion's) T.J. (Carey) a lot. (Milford's Brian) Kettle, (Cody) Snavely. (Mason's) Tanner Hinkle.
XC for me: "I like being in control, and cross country allows me to be in control of my own destiny. It's what I do, not others, and of course I've been helped by my team and coaches. I (also) like the measured improvement I can constantly see."
My favorite runner: "Galen Rupp over the summer was amazing. That was a highlight."
Race thoughts: "It's definitely a challenge to keep negative thoughts out of your head. (When I'm running) I'm thinking things about my form and what I can do to make my race good as possible. I'm thinking about making my race as perfect as possible. (Mental focus) is definitely something I'm constantly improving on."
Beal City volleyball
The Aggies are 26-5-1 under first-year coach Kelly David, a former standout on the team who graduated in 2010. Beal City is ranked No. 3 in Class D, and last weekend won the St. Louis Invitational with wins over the Class C No. 2 Sharks and No. 7 New Lothrop.
Previous 2012-13 honorees:
Julia Bos, Grand Rapids Christian cross country - Click for more
Aaron Chatfield, Burt Lake Northern Michigan Christian soccer - Click for more
Ludington boys tennis - Click for more
High 5s: 10/31/12 Finishing lower than first is a rarity for this week's High 5 recipients, who have found themselves ahead of the pack throughout most of this fall's v...
High 5s: 10/24/12 Two of this week's honorees finished their MHSAA careers over the weekend with Finals championships. The third hopes to accomplish the same on the fir...
High 5s - 10/17/12 We love to recognize first-time accomplishments (or first time in a long while), and this week's High 5s go out to some of the best this season in swi...
High 5s: 10/10/12 Two of this week's honorees have combined for five MHSAA championships, and a third has a chance to be part of his first next month. Each week...
High 5s: 4/3-10/2012 With most MHSAA schools on spring break either last week or currently, High 5s will take a break as well. Look for the next round April 17.
Lansing Catholic, High 5s, Beal City, Waterford Mott
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Arizona Investors Acquire Mobile Home Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico
By kckaz February 16, 2015 Mobile Home Park Investing, Non-Performing Notes, Private Money Lending, Recent TransactionsAspen Ridge Corporation, Fenix Private Capital Group, Foreclosure, Jefferson 16 Partners, Mobile Home Parks, Mortgage Notes, Non-Performing Notes, Private Lenders, Private Money, Stan McNeece, Thomas McPherson, Three Flowers Mobile Home Park
Phoenix, AZ (February 16, 2015): Jefferson 16 Partners, LLC announced today that it is the new owner of the 65-lot, Three Flowers Mobile Home Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
According to Ken Kurtz, a Phoenix Arizona resident and partner of Jefferson, the park was acquired through foreclosing on a non-performing mortgage note against the property that Jefferson purchased from a private equity group in the latter part of 2014.
Jefferson Partner, Thomas McPherson, also of Phoenix added, “We saw exceptional value in the property and were able to buy the mortgage note at a discount.”
Kurtz says he thinks there is growing demand for mobile home parks. “The stigma of run-down, drug-ridden trailer parks is changing,” he said, “Many residents of Three Flowers are retired and on a fixed incomes.”
He went to say, “Growth is largely driven by retirees with almost no savings and those who have savings are earning almost no interest. Over 10,000 folks a day are turning 65 for the next 19 years and despite the prosperity in this country, nearly 25% of households have incomes under $25,000 a year.”
Stan McNeece, manager for Three Flowers said, “We are delighted to be under new ownership, and Jefferson has already begun funding much needed repairs and improvements. This should definitely increase interest”.
McNeece said the park was about 85% occupied in 2014 but he expects it to be fully leased by the end of the third quarter of 2015. He added,“Three Flowers is a safe, clean community with some of the best rates around. We’re located right off Highway 54 and just south of Highway 70, 50 miles north of El Paso, Texas.”
According to McNeece, the park sits on 7.7 acres near Holloman Air Force Base, which he said gained national attention for conducting missions of the Predator and Reaper drones.
“As a retired vet, I settled in Alamogordo years ago and fell in love with its beauty,” said McNeece, “It has a cosey population of roughly 35,000 and is home to the White Sand Dunes National Park, known for its sugar-white dunes and spectacular sunsets,” he added.
McPherson said Jefferson secured financing for the initial mortgage note acquisition from private investors including entities owned by Kurtz and McPherson.
“Our plan is to secure longer-term financing either from a bank, conduit or private lenders,” said McPherson. “This would be a good portfolio loan for a bank,” Kurtz added, “but we also like working with private money lenders because there is such a demand for better rates of return than from what they’re getting in money markets or CDs.”
About Jefferson 16 Partners, LLC: Jefferson 16 is an investment vehicle established by Ken Kurtz, President of Aspen Ridge Corporation (https://www.secureyields.com ) and Thomas McPherson, manager of Fenix Private Capital Group (http://www.Fenixpcg.com). Jefferson and its partners continue to seek opportunities in distressed debt, non-performing notes, mobile home parks, storage units and hotels.
Jefferson 16 Partners, LLC
Ken Kurtz or Thomas McPherson
208 West Portland Street, Phoenix AZ 85003
Stan McNeece, Manager
Three Flowers Mobile Home Park
1906 U.S. 54, Alamagordo, NM 88310
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Iranian-Americans rally outside the White House to urge the administration to remove the MEK, from the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations List.
Iranian dissident group warned delisting from US terror not guaranteed
The United States warned an Iranian dissident group that it may have "over-interpreted" recent events, and should not presume its removal from the U.S. terror list is guaranteed.
The Obama administration has told Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) an orderly departure from its base Camp Ashraf inside Iraq will be a central condition to any decision regarding the group's removal from the list.
From Camp Ashraf, the residents travel by convoy under United Nations and Iraqi government auspices to a former U.S. base in Iraq where they can be processed and eventually re-settled to countries in Europe and elsewhere.
Some 2,000 MEK members have left Camp Ashraf since the process began, but none have moved since May 5. Some 1,200 to 1,400 still remain at Camp Ashraf.
"Constructive offers must be met with a constructive spirit, and not with refusals or preconditions to engage in dialogue," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said in a written statement. "Recent publicly declared conditions for cooperation, including calls for the Department to inspect Camp Ashraf as a precondition for further relocations to Camp Hurriya, are an unnecessary distraction."
Nuland also called on the Iraqi government to "intensify its efforts to fulfill its commitment to provide for the safety, security, and humanitarian treatment" of Camp Ashraf residents.
"The residents’ request for the US to inspect Camp Ashraf, which Ms. Victoria Nuland has described as unnecessary in her June 18 statement, is to prevent the Iraqi government and the Iranian regime’s operatives in Iraq from stage managing of finding ammunitions and explosives at Camp Ashraf once the residents leave," said Shahin Gobadi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a group that supports the MEK. "For this reason, the representative of the residents of Ashraf wrote to [State Department Special Advisor on Camp Ashraf] Amb. Dan Fried on June 17, 2012 that if no inspection of Ashraf is possible, he should issue a statement as a confidence building measure. He is yet to receive [sic] a response."
MEK has waged a widespread, well-publicized campaign for enforcement of a 2010 ruling by a federal court ordering the State Department to review the group's status on the terror list.
Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make a decision by October 1, or the court would issue a so-called writ of mandamus to set aside the designation. The State Department has said it will comply with the ruling.
On a conference call with reporters Monday, a senior administration official said MEK may have "over-interpreted" the court ruling, and may believe that Clinton has no choice now but to de-list the group. The official said that belief would be "quite plainly, wrong."
Clinton "retains complete discretion on this matter," the official said. "The court has told her to deliver a decision one way or the other. They have not told her to de-list."
The administration says it is incumbent for MEK to realize that Camp Ashraf's existence is coming to a rapid close.
"The Iraqi government is committed to closing it," the official said on the call with reporters, "and any plan to wait out the government in the hope that something will change it - change its mind - is really quite dangerous."
The Iraqi government has said it would like to see Camp Ashraf closed by July 20, the beginning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
A second senior administration official on the same call said that MEK may also have "over-interpreted" Iraqi politics and the possibility of a no-confidence vote against Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a reason to cease cooperating in the eventual closure of Camp Ashraf.
"We believe the MEK may indeed calculate that a change of government in Iraq could rebound to their advantage, and they may be able - and they might be able to stay," the second official told reporters. MEK are "gravely mistaken" to think any Iraqi government "would, in fact, allow them to remain as a paramilitary organization in Iraq," the official said. "We think that their time in Iraq is over."
The official said the push for a no-confidence vote on Maliki appears to be receding.
MEK was placed on the terror list in 1997 because of the deaths of Americans during attacks in the 1970s against the U.S.-backed shah of Iran.
The U.S. says MEK engaged for years in terrorist activities in Iran, launched from bases in Iraq, including assassinations of high-level Iranian officials and attacks in Iran with heavy weaponry. The group was granted refuge in Iraq by Saddam Hussein during and after the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
MEK supports the overthrow of the Iranian theocracy.
The terrorist designation prohibits Americans from providing material support to the organization, but a number of high-profile former U.S. officials have taken up the cause of the MEK and called for it to be de-listed. Some of them have received speaking fees for that support.
The Treasury Department currently is issuing subpoenas to some speakers bureaus for information on the source of those funds.
Filed under: Hillary Clinton • Iran • Iraq • M.E.K. • Secretary of State
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If Camp Liberty was good enough for our troops, it is more than appropriate for a bunch of cultish terrorists who want to replace the current dictatorship in Iran with their own. To support a group that fought against its own country/people when a neighboring Arab country invaded seeking to acquire Iranian territory is disgusting. Let the MEK rot in hell.
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Thank you, nancy. I've been waiting all day to read your post above. Let's all forget about the Iranian M.E.K. After all nancy, they're just a bunch of troublemakers!!!!!
It seems that the MEK leadership is afraid that they will lose control if the Camp Ashraf residents are dispersed. The MEK has supposedly renounced violence but the insistence upon retaining Camp Ashraf as a cohesive paramilitary unit suggests otherwise.
Yusha Shahab
If MEK is forced back to Iran they will be tortured, imprisoned, killed, etc...
Hahahahahahahahha
And your point is? Hahahahahahahahaha
good. Hopefully all of the above, they deserve it
You don't say that the HIGH profiled people haven't given in to the treasury or the state department and they are fighting against that despite that they can lose a lot on this, because they are true Americans and have integrity whilst many in the state department clearly don't have that word in their dictionary.
HnAbbasi
US are calling for the residents to move to this Hell hole called Camp "Liberty" to pursue the court ruling and to take them off the list. I say forget it. Who would believe in the US anyway? I mean how many times have they actually said something and then done it. It's a disgrace that the US has turned out like this. Instead of helping the Iranian Opposition it's aiding the regime.
FOR GOD SAKE! Look at the people backing the MEK. Patrick Kennedy, Louis Freeh. Rudy Giuliani and many more. I think you should start thinking because the history is not on your side.
Another thing is these American officials without names. I mean it can be anyone. Why can’t you be brave and say who you are. It just makes it more ridiculous.
Its not really the people backing the MEK, it is the money. If you throw money at a politician, they will say ANYTHING you want them to say.
No you are wrong Mr journalist. I have my family in Camp Ashraf and Liberty and they tell me the reason for them not moving out it that the Iraqi government is not complying with what they promised. They are not even allowing them to have clean water and obstruct them from daily living necessities. Whatever happens with the court ruling the US gov. knows this is a great farce and in the end it will go down in history that they helped the theocratic regime in Iran. Quote: " All it takes for the EVIL to flourish is for the good man to do nothing ". The US clearly is not on the good mans side.
For what they did to the Iranians, Iraqi Kurdish and Shia civilians they dont deserve clean water or any necessities. Have maryam joon send money, I hear she has as much as her brother Khamenei.
SaeedIbadi
What was the court decision on Mek appeal:
The cout decision mocked the Obama administration’s claim that the Secretary of State has been too busy to be able to decide on the designation after 600 days. It points out the fact that Congress was fully aware of the Secretary’s demanding agenda when they gave her only 180 days to decide. The court also makes no connection between the evacuation of PMOI members from Ashraf and the blacklist, contrary to Ms Clinton’s insistence.
The court deciion on MEK appeal :
The court decision mocked the Obama administration’s claim that the Secretary of State has been too busy to be able to decide on the designation after 600 days. It points out the fact that Congress was fully aware of the Secretary’s demanding agenda when they gave her only 180 days to decide. The court also makes no connection between the evacuation of PMOI members from Ashraf and the blacklist, contrary to Ms Clinton’s insistence.
“The US blacklist has enabled the Iraqi authorities, pushed and cajoled by their sponsors in Tehran, to psychologically torture and bully the 3200 men and women in Ashraf and to pressurise them into moving to a new location – Camp Liberty – next to Baghdad Airport,” Struan Stevenson, the President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq, said at the meeting. “More than 2,000 PMOI refugees are now crushed into an area measuring less than half a square kilometre, with dilapidated sewage systems, no facilities for the disabled and inadequate supplies of water and electricity.”
“They were persuaded to move to Camp Liberty on the pledge of the United Nations Special Representative, Martin Kobler, that this was simply a Temporary Transit Location (TTL) which would be their home for only a few weeks. Some have now been there over four months in unbearable conditions. The good name of the UN is being besmirched by their association with and apparent indifference to such blatant ill-treatment and repression. They must declare Camp Liberty as a long-term refugee facility and not a TTL and they must then insist on the full humanitarian provisions appropriate to a refugee camp.”
Mrs Clinton now faces three choices:
One: Do nothing and let the court remove the designation after four months; a humiliating scenario for the State Department.
Two: Decide to remove the designation before the lapse of the deadline and save face.
Three: Decide to maintain the designation, which will of course embolden Tehran to increase internal repression and to accelerate its nuclear weapons project. It can also be interpreted as a green light to the Iraqi government to launch new brutal attacks against the defenceless refugees in Ashraf and Liberty; an embarrassing situation for Obama’s foreign policy in the wake of the upcoming presidential elections.
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Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) – The 800 Pound Gorilla
by Dave Fischer | Dec 27, 2010 | Commercial Spaceflight, Near Earth Objects, Space, Space Science, Technology | 1 comment
The most recent issue of Science News (18 December 2010) has the following notes from 17 December 1960:
HEAVY SHIELD UNNECESSARY — Heavy shielding as protection for an astronaut against space radiations may not be necessary, at least for trips of less than 50 hours and at distances not greater than 618 miles from earth…. [B]iological specimens were encased in different types of metal to test their effectiveness as shielding materials. Some specimens were shielded only by the thin aluminum covering of the specimen capsule and the comparatively thin shell of the recovery capsule. Radiation dosimeters showed that aluminum provided better shielding properties than lead and that any heavy metal such as gold or lead becomes a hazard during a solar flare as high energy protons interact with these heavy metals to create damaging X-rays.
However, if you want to travel to the Moon or journey anywhere within the Solar System, Galactic Cosmic Radiation will require that the human crew is protected. Let’s take a look at the problem and the research required to test and implement solutions.
The GCR problem arises from interstellar atomic nuclei traveling near the speed of light striking the structure of a spacecraft. The resulting shower of secondary particles cause radiation damage. The Earth is protected by the Van Allen belts and a deep atmosphere. Brief journeys such as an Apollo mission does not expose the astronaut to dangerous dosages. However, astronauts on such a journey are at risk from Solar flares (Solar Particle Events – SPE). SPEs can be mitigated with layers of hydrogen rich materials such as polyethylene or water. GCRs, however, require spaceships on long journeys of more than 100 days, or habitats on the Lunar or Martian surface, to be surrounded by tens of meters of water for passive protection, or magnetic shields for active protection. Either solution is extremely heavy and makes space flight prohibitive in terms of propellant requirements.
The following sections discuss each aspect and provide references for further reading about the problem
The Source of GCR
Galactic Cosmic Rays come from outside our Solar System, but from within our galaxy, the Milky Way. They are comprised of atomic nuclei that have been stripped of their electrons. These nuclei can be any element. Common elements are carbon, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, and iron with similar abundances as the Solar System. Lithium, Berylium and Boron are overabundant relative to the Solar System ratios.
Cal Tech article on Cosmic Rays
NASA article on Galactic Cosmic Rays
The Shielding Problem
Early on, it was suggested that cosmic rays could penetrate the Apollo spacecraft. From “Biomedical Results of Apollo” section IV, chapter 2, Apollo Light Flash Investigations we have the following account:
Crewmembers of the Apollo 11 mission were the first astronauts to describe an unusual visual phenomenon associated with space flight. During transearth coast, both the Commander and the Lunar Module Pilot reported seeing faint spots or flashes of light when the cabin was dark and they had become dark-adapted. It is believed that these light flashes result from high energy, heavy cosmic rays penetrating the Command Module structure and the crew members’ eyes. These particles are thought to be capable of producing, visual sensations through interaction with the retina, either by direct deposition of ionization energy in the retina or through creation of visible light via the Cerenkov effect.
When Galactic Cosmic Rays collide with another atom, such as those contained in the Aluminum, Stainless Steel or Titanium structures of a spacecraft, they can create a shower of secondary particles, These secondary particles cause radiation damage in living organisms (humans).
The problem is creating sufficiently powerful barriers to these extremely energetic nuclei.
Compilation of Spacecraft Shielding papers by Simon G. Shepherd at the Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering.
Scientific American article on Shielding Space Travelers.
Researching Solutions
Passive Shielding – At least for solar flares (SPE), some solutions are easier than the GCR problem.
Active Shielding
Fast Passage to avoid exposure (integrating vapor core reactors into a VASIMR propelled craft).
A proposal for studying radiation and other factors associated with long term human occupation of space.
NASA’s Space Radiation Program in association with the Brookhaven National Laboratories.
In 2008, the National Academies of Science published Managing Space Radiation Risk in the New Era of Space Exploration, which included chapter 6: Findings and Recommendations
From the Summary in Radiation Shielding Simulation For Interplanetary Manned Missions
Inflatable Habitat + shielding
Hadronic interactions are significant, systematics is under control
The shielding capabilities of an inflatable habitat are comparable to a conventional rigid structure – Water / polyethylene are equivalent
Shielding thickness optimisation involves complex physics effects
An additional shielding layer, enclosing a special shelter zone, is effective against SPE
Moon Habitat
Regolith shielding limits GCR and SPE exposure effectively
Its shielding capabilities against GCR can be better than conventional Al structures as in the ISS
See also the recent article in New Scientist about radiation hazards. A tip of the hat to ParabolicArc.
Dan Shaffer on June 19, 2018 at 12:25 am
What is the most effective barrier for GCR. What is the long term prognosis for someone exposed to it over a period of time. Is there any safe amount of time to be exposed.
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Exclusive: Virgil Abloh's MCA Exhibit By: Paige Darling and Alfonso Fernandez
"Architecture"
In 2003 Virgil Abloh graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology, earning his Masters in Architecture. In his pieces, Abloh often uses contrasting colors to draw the audience’s attention, a technique repeated throughout his exhibit and other works. In a small room, a miniature replica of Chicago made out of Styrofoam was displayed on the floor, with the pink plastic building being the focal point. The pink building is a proposal for a skyscraper bending over the river, leaning away from the other high-rises.
Darling’s Interpretation: A common message of the exhibit is that instant gratification does not happen without dedication, art observer Micheal Chuna said. With hard work you will eventually get where you want or where you’re supposed to be. This message is employed in Abloh’s Master’s thesis. The building is meant to stand out in order to present itself as an item out of place, demonstrating that there is solace in straying from the norm in order to make your own path. The pink color and tilt of the building resembles a flower blossoming towards the sun, and with its bold shade the appearance symbolizes purpose and individuality.
Fernandez’s Interpretation: Once entering the room a big blue sculpture appeared in the corner while the other side of the room had two transparent chairs. At first the building appears insignificant to the other figures towering over it, but after close examination, it’s shape displays its originality from the other buildings. “I embrace imperfection as much as I embrace the pursuit of perfection,” Virgil Abloh tells the viewer in one of the videos displayed on the exhibit. This quote epitomizes his understanding that some embrace their differences while others pursue approval, and that both paths are valid. The curve in the buildings shape conveys it as modern and as the model arcs away, it displays the desire to be distant from the norm which displays Abloh’s theme about the “pursuit of perfection.” The physical features support this; the clashing colors and different material shows its distance from the norm. The model is a memorable part of the exhibit by giving the viewer a distinct view of chicago with two contrasting colors. The larger view of chicago is engaging towards the observer by offering different angles to look at, while the building bearing the contrasting color makes it captivating.
“Black Gaze”
A look into Abloh’s campaigns for Louis Vuitton as their Men’s Artistic Director. His work in fashion and comments on issues involving diversity and black people in art. As you enter the room a description on the wall writes, “This section presents Abloh’s fashion and artworks that reflect on the black cultural experiences in the United States.”
Darling Interpretation: My initial reaction to the room was pride because it seemed for the first time a black artist was being recognized and celebrated on a large scale for their work in fashion. It is a big accomplishment for a current black artist to be loved by fashion and art enthusiasts. To think that Abloh has plenty of work ahead of him causes even more excitement. Two pieces that stand out the most are “As Impossible” and “Options”. They are two prints of a young boy playing with Louis Vuitton bags and paper boats across from and 16 steel markers on the floor. “Options” is a reference to Laquan McDonald, a 17-year old black boy who was shot 16 times by a police officer. Through juxtaposition of these pieces he addresses colorism in fashion and black boys childhood that is often tainted by society’s harsh judgment. In my eyes the boy is looking into two versions of his future: a creative mind brimming with talent or another young black boy shot dead from senseless violence. Overall it feels as if Abloh is staking his claim as a black artist who will continue to stand up for his people.
Fernandez’s Interpretation: This room was one of the more compelling parts of the exhibit. My leading thought once entering the room was that it was complex. Yet every piece was honest with its purpose. The evidence markings upon the floor was eye-catching to the general audience; although not in the information card, the number of evidence markings alluded to the number of shots a police officer fired at Laquan Mcdonald. The two photos directly across from it was two large prints of a young boy playing with markers, and in the other with origami. The featured pieces connect to each other as it relates back to his off white campaigns that celebrates black artists, athletes, and musicians. With Abloh’s growing influence on a younger audience, this room is used to promote diversity in fashion and art.
An orangish-red screen projects a reel of phrases lasting about a minute before starting over. On the right a 14-minute spoken word is being played with records laying on the floor next to it. On the left, beams lie on the floor and a case displays diamond paper clip jewelry. This room is dedicated to his work in music.
Fernandez’s Interpretation: The red room is a mesmerizing area of the exhibit, with a huge screen that displayed a bright red video on loop, including captions at the bottom of the screen with no sound. To the right was yellow and black girders which were masked by the bright red screen. Behind the clear hanging strips was an enlarged CD case of Kanye West’s album,“Yeezus” which hinted at the musical inspiration in the room. The Red screen was the most interesting piece in the whole room because of two thought-provoking aspects. The beaming light is hypnotizing while the bottom text constantly changed. Each phrase gave viewers a different image to imagine while a consistent ray of bold red went into your eyes.
Darling’s Interpretation: The vivid and sensory overloading room with Abloh typical ironic phrasing, “BLUE” plastered on a plastic curtain,was my least favorite of them all. The orange screen covering one full wall is nauseating and overwhelming. This room shows the importance of intertwining music and collaboration. A repeated partner he works with is Kanye West, which he shows in a massive replica of Abloh’s design for West’s sixth album. This room helps solidifying Abloh as an innovative all around artist that can work in any medium.
The exhibit is an outstanding. The vast amount of diverse pieces makes it unique. It tells a chronological story through Abloh’s career displaying his achievements and creativity while also relating each room to 21st century culture today. The exhibit was a refreshing retrospective from a talented Chicagoan; who desired to inspire everyone from fellow Chicagoland artists to young and black creatives. In many areas of his exhibition it felt like he wanted to connect to his roots with graffiti displays, his older Pyrex fashion designs, and architectural builds.
“It was an example of possibility and manipulation of systems allowing you to see him as an artist not just designer,” museum patron Sean Beauford, said.
His work has always challenged thought and what we deem as possible. Pushing diversity and a space for everyone to be recognized. It is important to have a current body of work instead of seeing a retrospective when he is gone, art observer Tara Fay said.
“We have to appreciate black artist while we have them,” Fay said.
Nina Shearrill
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Grandfather Has Inappropriate Contact with Step-Granddaughter: 20 Year Sentence: Court of Appeals
Paragraph two reads: "On December 23, 1999, Eggenberger was convicted of three counts of sexual contact with his nine-year-old step-granddaughter. Eggenberger submitted a defense presentence investigation, which included a report by Dr. George Palermo, a forensic psychiatrist. Palermo's report noted Eggenberger was prescribed Prozac before the assaults and discussed the effect Prozac may have had on his conduct. The report explained, "Prozac, at times … causes mental confusion and excitement. It has been thought by some experts to precipitate suicide, especially when combined with a benzodiazepine [which Eggenberger was also taking]." Palermo concluded, "[I]t is my professional psychiatric opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that Mr. Eggenberger's sexual molestation of his granddaughter … may be the outcome of the disinhibiting, confusion-producing action of Prozac …."
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STATE v. EGGENBERGER
State of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent,
Charles A. Eggenberger, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 2009AP1998-CR.
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District III.
Opinion Filed: July 7, 2010.
Before Hoover, P.J., Peterson and Brunner, JJ.
¶ 1 PER CURIAM.
Charles Eggenberger appeals an order denying his request for either sentence modification or resentencing. Eggenberger argues the sentence he received after he was convicted of sexual contact with a child should be reduced because recent research has established his crimes likely stemmed from his adverse reaction to Prozac. We affirm.
¶ 2 On December 23, 1999, Eggenberger was convicted of three counts of sexual contact with his nine-year-old step-granddaughter. Eggenberger submitted a defense presentence investigation, which included a report by Dr. George Palermo, a forensic psychiatrist. Palermo's report noted Eggenberger was prescribed Prozac before the assaults and discussed the effect Prozac may have had on his conduct. The report explained, "Prozac, at times … causes mental confusion and excitement. It has been thought by some experts to precipitate suicide, especially when combined with a benzodiazepine [which Eggenberger was also taking]." Palermo concluded, "[I]t is my professional psychiatric opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that Mr. Eggenberger's sexual molestation of his granddaughter … may be the outcome of the disinhibiting, confusion-producing action of Prozac …."
¶ 3 At the sentencing hearing, Eggenberger testified Prozac played a role in the assaults. "After consulting with experts and reading the results and research, it is now clear to me that the Prozac medication … had a negative [e]ffect on me. Among other things, [it] impaired [my] judgment …." Eggenberger's wife also testified: "I can understand that the Prozac caused this to happen. … Prozac causes mental confusion and excitement, per Dr. Palermo's report …." His son concurred, pointing out Dr. Palermo's observation that pairing Prozac with anti-anxiety benzodiazepines increases the odds of negative side-effects. In his closing argument, Eggenberger's counsel again drew the court's attention to the possibility Prozac affected Eggenberger's conduct: "Then, before the [assault] incident … he got put on Prozac. … And as far as I'm concerned, the book is still out on Prozac."
¶ 4 The court did not explicitly reference Eggenberger's Prozac theory, but stated it "reviewed the information [Eggenberger's counsel] submitted [and found it] quite enlightening." It concluded: "[A]t the core of this proceeding … is the fact that what we are dealing with is sexual contact with a nine-year-old girl. We start with that. That is an extremely serious offense. There is no way that that offense can be in any way minimized or glossed over." The court sentenced Eggenberger to twenty years in prison, followed by two concurrent twenty-year probation terms.
¶ 5 Ten years later, Eggenberger has moved for either sentence modification or resentencing, arguing that new research on Prozac and other SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) suggests Eggenberger's conduct was the result of an adverse reaction to his medications. As relevant here, he argued this research constituted a new factor warranting sentence modification.
¶ 6 After holding a hearing on the motion, the court concluded Eggenberger failed to establish a new factor warranting sentence modification:
[The sentencing judge] knew everything that's being argued in this motion. He may not have called it SSRIs. … [B]ut there was a strong presentation by the experts that Mr. Eggenberger had by his attorney, by the family members that spoke, and even his comments that one of the causes or the primary cause of this was that Prozac and medication and whatever other factors resulted from taking it.
The court further concluded that even if the research was a new factor, it "would not justify a modification of Mr. Eggenberger's sentence. … I think the structure of the sentence, the nature of the sentence, the logic behind the sentence, the fact that Mr. Eggenberger was facing 120 years of incarceration and received only 20 years, would not justify modifying the sentence."
¶ 7 The issue in this appeal is whether Eggenberger has proved the existence of a new factor that warrants sentence modification.[ 1 ] A new factor is
a fact or set of facts highly relevant to the imposition of sentence, but not known to the trial judge at the time of original sentencing, either because it was not then in existence or because, even though it was then in existence, it was unknowingly overlooked by all of the parties.
Rosado v. State, 70 Wis. 2d 280, 288, 234 N.W.2d 69 (1975). Whether a proven fact or set of facts constitutes a new factor for the purposes of sentence modification is a question of law we review independently. State v. Crochiere, 2004 WI 78, ¶10, 273 Wis. 2d 57, 681 N.W.2d 524. However, "whether a new factor warrants a modification of sentence rests within the trial court's discretion." State v. Michels, 150 Wis. 2d 94, 97, 441 N.W.2d 278 (Ct. App. 1989).
¶ 8 Eggenberger argues that recent research has established that SSRIs such as Prozac can severely impair one's behavior, particularly when combined with anti-anxiety medication and alcohol. He contends this research explains why he assaulted his step-granddaughter and is therefore a new factor warranting sentence modification. The State counters that even if recent research has clarified Prozac's side-effects, the general parameters of Eggenberger's argument were nevertheless presented to the sentencing court.
¶ 9 When Eggenberger was sentenced, evidence was available that Prozac could have affected his behavior. Palermo's report identified Prozac as a possible explanation for Eggenberger's conduct and explained the drug could be particularly problematic when paired with other medication Eggenberger was taking. Eggenberger's expert at the motion hearing conceded that "roughly a decade of research and … publication [on Prozac's side-effects]," including her own work, existed before Eggenberger was sentenced. Not only was evidence available when Eggenberger was sentenced, it was also
presented to the sentencing court. The court was provided with Palermo's report, which contained his "professional psychiatric opinion … [the assaults] may be the outcome of the disinhibiting, confusion-producing action of Prozac …." In addition, Palermo's conclusions were repeated by no fewer than four people at the sentencing hearing.
¶ 10 Thus, it appears the sentencing court already had the benefit of much of the information Eggenberger presents now as new.[ 2 ] But we need not belabor the point because to secure sentence modification on the basis of a new factor, Eggenberger must prove not only that a new factor exists, but that the new factor warrants sentence modification. See Crochiere, 273 Wis. 2d 57, ¶14. As discussed above, this determination lies within the circuit court's discretion. See Michels, 150 Wis. 2d at 97. We will affirm a circuit court's discretionary decision if it "examines the relevant facts, applies a proper standard of law, and uses a demonstrably rational process to reach a conclusion that a reasonable judge could reach." See American Fam. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Golke, 2009 WI 81, ¶43, 319 Wis. 2d 397, 768 N.W.2d 729.
¶ 11 Here, the circuit court found that even if the new research Eggenberger cites were a new factor, it would not justify sentence modification. It observed that the determinative factor in Eggenberger's sentence was the gravity of his crimes. This factor is not diminished by evidence Eggenberger's behavior was driven by a combination of medication and alcohol.[ 3 ] The circuit court concluded that the sentence imposed reflected an appropriate level of punishment. Referring to the structure, nature, and logic of the sentence, it concluded a sentence of twenty yearsa fraction of the time Eggenberger was facingwould be appropriate regardless of Prozac's role in the crimes. This conclusion was well within the court's discretion.
By the Court.Order affirmed.
This opinion will not be published. See WIS. STAT. RULE 809.23(1)(b)5.
1. Eggenberger also argues he is entitled to be resentenced because he was not sentenced on accurate information. This argument, however, simply rehashes Eggenberger's assertion that new research on Prozac is a new factor. We therefore do not address it. In any event, Eggenberger fails to meet the burden required to show he is entitled to a resentencing. "[I]n a motion for resentencing based on a circuit court's alleged reliance on inaccurate information, a defendant must establish that there was information before the sentencing court that was inaccurate, and that the circuit court actually relied on [that] information." State v. Tiepelman, 2006 WI 66, ¶31, 291 Wis. 2d 179, 717 N.W.2d 1. Eggenberger merely argues that if the sentencing court had the benefit of research published after his sentencing, it would have had a more complete understanding of his conduct. But Eggenberger nowhere alleges, much less proves, the sentencing court was presented with or relied on inaccurate information.
2. Eggenberger's present argument also appears to misrepresent how much information was previously available and presented. Eggenberger claims that the idea Prozac influenced his behavior "was not more than a speculative hunch [when he was sentenced]. No scientific support was offered to bolster it." Yet Eggenberger clearly did offer scientific support for that theory at this sentencing, namely the expert opinion of Dr. Palermo, a clinical professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and Director of Criminological Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Similarly, Eggenberger assertswithout citation to authoritythat "supporting scientific data was not in existence, such as data about the safe daily dose of SSRIs or about the surprising impact of SSRIs on elderly patients, those with prior cranial injuries, or those taking anti-anxiety drugs." At the very least, his claim concerning the interaction of Prozac and anti-anxiety drugs is directly contradicted by Palermo's confirmation Prozac could have negative consequences when combined with benzodiazepines; that is, anti-anxiety drugs.
3. Even if there were merit to this argument, though, it still falls short. For one thing, new evidence about Prozac's side-effects does not necessarily proveas Eggenberger suggests it doesthat Prozac sapped him of volition with respect to his conduct with his step-granddaughter. The State argues that the record shows Eggenberger knew what he was doing, knew it was wrong, attempted to coerce his victim into staying silent, and even tried to shift the blame to her when explaining his conduct to Dr. Palermo.
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The English seaside gets a bad rep. And it’s true, you can’t guarantee the weather, but there’s something special about Cornwall that means that doesn’t really matter. It’s raining for a week? Grab your wellies or wetsuit and get stuck in anyway. Sun shining? Then the area really comes to life with surfers, kayaking, coastal walks and cream teas.
St Ives is a pretty seaside village on the northern coast towards the end of the peninsula. It’s one of the most popular holiday spots for a lot of Brits (and, weirdly, also a lot of Germans, Austrians and Swiss. Apparently a famous romance novelist sets a lot of stories here) but the atmosphere manages to remain laid-back, creative and authentically Cornish. Everyone from artists to surfers, gourmet travellers to action-adventurers rubs shoulders at ice cream parlours along the pretty harbour or in the water.
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SEA & DO
1. TATE MODERN: London’s most famous modern art gallery has come to Cornwall and it couldn’t have picked a better town. Showing a permanent collection and a revolving exhibition list of the world’s greatest contemporary creatives. http://www.tate.org.uk
2. THE ISLAND: Not really an island. The peninsula separates the St Ives coastline in two and has amazing views over the ocean and the village. The tiny chapel at the top has been used as a lookout for spotting smugglers and a store for the War Office before being restored in 1911 and again in 1971. http://www.stivestowncouncil.co.uk
3. BEACHES: With two huge, golden sand beaches in town (Porthmeor and Porthminster), it’s not hard to get your daily dose of laid-back seaside life. Both have watersports centres, swimming and cafes although Porthmeor (on the west side) is one of only five blue flag beaches in Cornwall.
8. WATERSPORTS: Kayaking, surfing, stand-up paddle boarding – you name it, St Ives Surf School can teach you how to do it. They offer tuition and tours of the coast with experienced and friendly instructors and it’s a great way to see another side of the town – and meet the local wildlife, seals and dolphins occasionally pop in along the way. http://www.stivessurfschool.co.uk
9. BUY LOCAL ART: The streets of St Ives are peppered with galleries showcasing local watercolours, sculpture and ceramics. Pop into any and pick up a unique souvenir.
10. WANDER THE BARBARA HEPWORTH SCULPTURE GARDEN: Part of the Tate St Ives, and perfect for a relaxing afternoon when you’re tired of sand in your shoes. Hepworth’s bronze, stone and wood pieces are dotted throughout the area in a celebration of the work of one of Cornwall’s – and the UK’s – most important 20th century artists. http://www.tate.org.uk
4. PORTHMINSTER BEACH CAFE: Want fresh-as-it-gets fish from the local waters? Porthminster is your place. The award-winning fine dining restaurant is directly on the beach, providing spectacular sea views while you tuck into your smoked mackerel, oysters sea bass, or even local Dartmoor venison. www,porthminstercafe.co.uk
5. RUM AND CRAB SHACK: Part bar, part restaurant, this spot doesn’t look that promising, but does a seriously good lobster. Sweet, succulent and served with all the trimmings, it’s a top spot for a casual dinner that doesn’t disappoint. No reservations. http://www.rumandcrabshack.com
6. SEAGRASS: It doesn’t have a seaside view, but it has great seafood in a sophisticated setting. http://www.seagrass-stives.com
7. PASTIES: You can’t come to Cornwall and not eat a pasty. www.pengennapasties.co.uk
11. THE HUB: The local favourite. It’s pretty generic, but it has a good vibe and you’ll meet plenty of St Ives locals there. The sea front location invites spilling out onto the pavement to make the most of a sunny summer evening. http://www.hub-stives.co.uk
12. THE RUM AND CRAB SHACK: Already eaten? The Rum Shack does a mean line in rum-based cocktails and rum shots that will release your inner pirate. Their list is pages long and features classic brands and up-and-coming distilleries from across the world. www.rumandcrabshack.com
BEYOND ST IVES
13. COASTAL DRIVE: The B3306 between Land’s End and St Ives winds its way along the tops of the coastal cliffs around the entire toe of the peninsula.
14. FORAGING: Caroline Davey is a former ecologist turned professional forager, running cookery courses from her home in St Buryan. Participants are taken to find seasonal, local food in the hedgerows, woodlands and coast, before cooking it up into delicious dishes. http://www.fathen.org
SEAGULLS: These bold bullies are all along the beach, waiting and watching beady-eyed for a briefly unattended box of chips or an ice cream carried without due care.
PENZANCE: 30 mins from St Ives on the southern coast, Penzance is the area’s other main town. It’s famous for pirates, but in reality it feels a bit like a dock town fallen on hard times. If you’re in the area, head to St Michael’s Mount instead.
LANDS END: Someone, somewhere thought it would be a good idea to turn Land’s End into a budget theme park with 4D movies about dinosaurs. I have no idea why. Seeing the actual end is quite fun, if a little underwhelming, but go outside of opening hours.
1. Tate St Ives, Portmeor Beach 2. The Island 3. Portmeor Beach, Porthminster Beach 4. Porthminster Beach Cafe, Porthminster Beach 5. Rum and Crab Shack, Wharf Road 6. Seagrass, Fish Street 7. Pengenna Pasties, 9 High Street 8. St Ives Surf School, Portmeor Beach 10. Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, Barnoon Hill 11. The Hub, 4 Wharf Road 13. Coastal Road, B3306 14. Fat Hen, Gwenmenhir, Boscawen-noon Farm, St Buryan
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Jesús Carmona, best figure in dance and show business at the Lukas Awards in London
The UK's Latin Lukas Awards recognise the categories of Dance, Art, Sport and Music. The most international dancer from Barcelona will be at Tablao Flamenco Cordobes during the month of July. Jesús Carmona, Barcelona's most international flamenco dancer, is once again recognised for his artistic career in the world of dance. This Wednesday, the'Lukas' awards of the United Kingdom were officially published. These awards are given annually to the best works in Dance, Art, Sport and Music of the Latin world in the country. The Barcelona native has just received two Lukas awards in the Dance category: Best International Artist and Best Production of 2018 for'IMPETU'S'.
Jesús Carmona
The UK’s Latin Awards recognise the categories of Dance, Art, Sport and Music. The most international dancer from Barcelona will be at Tablao Flamenco Cordobes during the month of July. Jesús Carmona, Barcelona’s most international flamenco dancer, is once again recognised for his artistic career in the world of dance. This Wednesday, the’Lukas’ awards of the United Kingdom were officially published. These awards are given annually to the best works in Dance, Art, Sport and Music of the Latin world in the country.
The Barcelona native has just received two Lukas awards in the Dance category: Best International Artist and Best Production of 2018 for’IMPETU’S’. This show was presented at the end of 2015 and it is in 2017 when he visits several places in the world such as Miami, Albuquerque, Santiago de Chile or Los Angeles. In 2018 he also participated with’IMPETU’S’ in Portland, Boston, New York, Manchester and London, gathering great reviews from the international press and great recognition from the public. One example is the success reported in The New York Times, which appeared three times in a single week and was called “A fenómeno of the Flamenco World” by the newspaper.
The’Latin UK Awards’ began six years ago to recognize the impact of Latino culture in the UK (today it is the only Latin Awards ceremony in Europe). This year 2018 the ceremony will be held on 9 August at The Troxy in London. Before this ceremony, during the whole month of July, Jesús Carmona will be in Tablao Flamenco Cordobes accompanied by other great artists such as Paloma Fantova, Mara Rey, Águeda Saavedra, David Cerreduela, Eugenio Santiago, Tuto, Bocaíllo, Antonio Fernández and Coco.
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The National Film Archive programmes the projection of 'Carmen, Carmen, Carmen', produced by Tablao Flamenco Cordobes
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The Catalan dancer Jesús Carmona receives the 'El Ojo Crítico de Danza 2019' Award from RNE
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Bishamondo, Kyoto
Bjorn Koolen
After having been reduced to ashes by wars and fire Izumo-dera, which was located north of the Imperial Palace at the time, moved to Yamashina valley in eastern Kyoto in the early 8th century. Over time the temple grounds were expanded with buildings and gates originating from Kyoto’s Imperial Palace amongst others. Being located along one of the major roads leading out of Kyoto the temple flourished and members of the Imperial Family even served as its head priest allowing it to become a “monzeki” temple.
The temple’s current name, Bishamondo, is derived from the enshrined of a statue of Bishamon, one of the seven gods of good fortune in Japanese lore. According to the lore, he is serves as a warrior god and punisher of those who do evil. He is often portrayed in full armor wielding a spear and holding a small pagoda symbolizing the divine treasure he protects, while his virtue of luck is to help people win any kind of competition.
Some of our readers might recognize this story as the seven gods of good fortune have been featured in the book “Digital Fortress” by Dan Brown and of course in some Japanese anime, such as Shirobako in which the protagonists make their own animated story based on the story to one day make a full-length anime.
Bishamondo sees a peak of visitors during the autumn season when the trees leading up to and within the temple grounds turn into the most beautiful autumn colors. As the leaves slowly fall down upon the pavements or float in the small ponds and basins, the temple is engulfed in the countless shades of green, orange and red. The Edo period temple garden set around a small pond with a stone bridge, a so-called “bridge to paradise”, is a scene of true tranquility is especially a treat for your eyes. The small Shinto shrine in the background with its orange painted beams and turquoise roof tiles enhance the autumn colors even further. The second garden has a larger pond with a small mausoleum and stone pagoda nestled within the plant life. During spring the temple’s over 150 years old weeping cherry trees bloom in fullness, offering another splendid seasonal scenery Kyoto has to offer.
Access, opening hours and admission fee
Bishamondo is about a 20 minute walk away from the nearest stations, being from Yamashina Station on the JR Line or Tozai subway line and Keihan-Yamashina Station on the Keihan Line. The temple is open year-round between 8:30 and 17:00. The temple grounds themselves are admission-free while the main temple building can be accessed for a minor admission fee of 500 yen upon entry.
For those who are in Kyoto during New Year’s Eve, you can head out to Bishamondo and ring the temple’s bell from 23:45 to call in good luck for the upcoming year.
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Make sure users understand their roles in the enterprise before you begin a BI project.
By Max T. Russell, Max and Max Communications
I used to think most of the "history of terrible communication between IT and BI users" -- which my articles address -- was IT's fault. I've come to believe at least half of it is the responsibility of user management.
Expert BI teams know that BI is as interpersonal as it is business-oriented and that BI projects flourish when there is a sustained, transparent conversation between IT and users.
When workers don't understand their roles in relation to each other and to the business, they aren't ready for the kind of conversation a BI initiative requires.
There's no better illustration of this than my recent experience with just such a problem at a manufacturer I'll call Growing Conveyor. The IT director's positive reports on data management cannot hide the fact that he doesn't know how to introduce fact-based business solutions to users and user management who don't even know how to talk to each other about the company's business.
A recently hired project manager at the engineering and design facility has dared to take action on the problem. This project manager -- I'll call him Edward -- doesn't know what business intelligence is, and yet, by addressing the facility's own "history of terrible communication," he is unknowingly moving his site's upper management and employees straight at the IT director's dream of introducing BI to them.
The Company Profile
Growing Conveyor's history of innovation was soiled after acquiring a number of vendors of conveyor components, materials, and related products. These were brought under one corporate umbrella to keep Growing Conveyor strong among established contenders.
Growth has outpaced the company's readiness to coordinate its thousands of employees and multiple work cultures at locations across the country. Workers at some sites have a clear view of their roles but they believe management does not. Entire departments at some sites wouldn't know a fact-based business solution if it hit them between the eyes.
Management at the engineering site where Edward now works has been unable to motivate and organize its employees. Projects have been carried out with communication marked by independence, confusion, and tension. The workers seldom have even the most basic conversations about the business that faithfully delivers their paychecks.
Can You Tell Me Why You're Here?
A big obstacle for management at Edward's site is that the workers simply don't understand how they fit into the whole enterprise. Until recently, senior management never thought about their workers' need to understand the business. Edward is different; he oversees projects with the perspectives of a business person and an engineer. Unfortunately, Edward points out, other managers don't.
The idea of taking a stand against enterprisewide communication dysfunction rattled Edward's nerves severely because he is new to Growing Conveyor and was assigned a job that his predecessor was fired for bidding on and winning (and which the accounting office later said was doomed to financial loss).
A supervisor began pressuring Edward to work a miracle. The foremost, unspoken concern was: Is there any way to prevent a financial catastrophe? The second unspoken concern was: Can we deliver on time so that we can save our reputation, move past this loss, and get on with profitable engagements?
Edward didn't have satisfactory answers, but he was bent on another kind of ROI that would impact the work culture all the way up the chain of command. He made up his mind that nothing would stop him -- as long as he didn't get fired.
Several months of struggling to find a sensible direction for the project opened his eyes to a costly lack of interpersonal and interdepartmental communication. He discovered that certain departments weren't planning to meet his project's milestones. They weren't even working toward them. They were spending their time on jobs that would make them look good.
Spreading the Responsibility
Edward felt the weight of the entire project on his shoulders. He hadn't figured out the in-house politics yet. How in the world could he get employees to work? Which (if any) of his bosses wanted to hear the real reasons for the dysfunctional work culture?
Edward would soon have a new boss who would be highly interested in knowing what he knew, but that boss hadn't arrived yet.
Edward called me for advice. I emphasized that his first order of business was to refuse to take the blame for a lost cause he had inherited. I explained that upper management was pressuring his supervisor to get some sort of favorable result from the project, and that the pressure was being passed down to Edward because the company was paying him good money.
Instead of panicking, this was Edward's opportunity to offer leadership. It was time to tell the truth -- carefully and specifically -- without playing the blame game. Part of his opportunity would be to draft a protocol for choosing the most promising contracts in the future. In the meantime, he had to deal with the current, problem-plagued project.
"Upper management will be watching to see what you can do with this project," I said. "They don't know what to do or how to talk to technical employees. When you show them what to do, they will promote you." Edward answered, "If that's true, then I am just the person to handle this project."
He quickly itemized all tasks along with the departments and individuals who were responsible for completing them. He assigned deadlines, and employees were able to see that all levels of management had a clear view of each person's responsibilities and impact. If senior managers did not enforce the deadlines, the failures would fall squarely on them.
Edwards actions immediately drew attention. His supervisor asked, "Edward, do you mind leading our discussions with senior management about this project from now on?" A senior manager copied all senior managers on an e-mail to Edward, saying, "Edward, it would be good to have your leadership involved in all our projects."
How to Think Like Edward
As with most BI implementations, tensions rose as the deadline for "going commercial" with the product approached. Edward stayed on track with his simple plan. When he saw signs that upper management was nervous, he presented diagrams and other graphics that illustrated (1) all the individual responsibilities to the project, (2) which milestones were not necessarily scheduled realistically, and (3) the next logical project step(s).
Edward also explained that the goal was to cut losses and deliver a good product on time. A few weeks later, the product was released. Deadlines had been met under his leadership, and one part of Growing Conveyor was being nudged in a good direction.
He had succeeded in leading a sensible business conversation among managers, as well as proving the effectiveness of a basic strategy to coordinate the work force toward a high priority. Communication was key; when team members understood their roles and responsibilities, they could begin correcting their communication dysfunction.
Perhaps within a year, Edward's leadership will have created a BI-friendly environment that IT will take advantage of. The engineering facility could certainly benefit. To get there, Edward and senior management must continue to educate the engineers, designers, and programmers about how they fit into the business of the enterprise and why departments need to cooperate with each other and with management. Such discussions must become part of the company culture, and IT must be part of these discussions.
As you market IT in-house, look for the Edwards who can help you move the cause of the enterprise forward. Once users understand the context of their roles and are willing to communicate with each other in the language of the business, the BI team can offer technological support that adds meaning, clarity, and usefulness to the interdepartmental conversation.
Max T. Russell invites your suggestions about future article topics. As owner of Max and Max Communications, he works behind the scenes to promote individuals and projects in a variety of industries. He and his identical twin, Max S., are heavy technology users who have been discussing and dissecting the challenges of IT in the workplace for the past 18 years. You can contact the author at maxt@maxtrussell.com .
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Rural workers
by Carl Walrond
Runholders and shepherds, blacksmiths, shearers, cooks, roadmen and hawkers – New Zealand’s farming economy was built by the labour of its rural workers.
Large sheep runs
Early farming in New Zealand was dominated by large sheep runs in the east of the North and South islands. Elsewhere in the country, small family farms were slowly cut out of the bush.
Runholders and shepherds
Huge sheep runs were developed in the open tussock country of the eastern South Island in the 1850s and 1860s. Settlers had to find unoccupied open land and run sheep to establish the right to lease it. They needed capital to build up flocks and pay shepherds. These farmers were known as runholders. Large high-country farms were called runs or stations, while large lowland farms were often known as estates. On lowland estates, as well as running stock, fields were ploughed and crops and grain grown.
The labour force
As farms were set up, there was a demand for labour. Tussock lands had to be burnt and ploughed, bush cleared and swamps drained. Rural occupations were many and varied. There were bushwhackers, drainers, shepherds, cooks, blacksmiths, bullockies, musterers, drovers, shearers, roadmen, ploughmen, threshers, fencers, saddlers, packmen, rouseabouts, gardeners, grooms, maids, general farm hands and more. Some were permanent workers on salaries, while others were itinerant contracted workers.
There was a distinct hierarchy on many sheep farms. The manager or owner was at the top, followed by the head shepherd, then the shepherd, then often a married couple who lived on the farm, the wife doing domestic tasks and the husband farm work. Skilled workers such as shepherds earned more respect and money than unskilled workers such as farm hands.
Permanent hands like shepherds and cooks were usually paid a salary. Seasonal workers received wages, which were reasonable during shearing or harvest periods but poor at other times. In the late 1850s general hands on a salary earned £40 a year. Workers could earn higher rates working per day, but they did not have job security. The rate for a day’s work was 7 shillings, or 10 shillings for skilled workers such as blacksmiths. Head shepherds made around £60 a year, which rose to £100 in the 1870s because of demand for their skills.
In 1880 Te Waimate Station in South Canterbury had 57 permanent hands on its books: ‘The Manager, the Book-keeper, 7 Shepherds, 1 Stockman, 20 Ploughmen, 1 Head Ploughman, 2 Fencers, 1 Drainer, 2 Grooms, 4 Men’s Cooks, 1 Gardener, 1 Packman and Rouseabout, 4 Bushmen, 2 Bullock Drivers, 1 Waggoner, 1 Blacksmith and 1 Striker, 1 Carpenter, 1 Saddler, 1 Married Couple, 3 maids in house.’ 1
Permanent hands
Shepherds – the boundary keepers
South Island landowners and leaseholders were often English and had little experience in pastoral farming. Many employed Scottish shepherds. Before fences were built, flocks of sheep had to be watched so they didn’t wander over the station boundary or get attacked by wild dogs.
Shepherds lived lonely lives. They often patrolled the boundaries on foot, and slept in small huts, with dogs as their only company. After four or five years, some salaried shepherds had saved enough for a deposit on a small farm – the dream of many rural workers.
Large farms employed their own cooks, and cooks’ assistants known as ‘slushies’ who served up the meals. At shearing or harvest time the workload was considerable and cooks had to triple their quantities. They would already have been up for an hour before waking the men at 5.30 a.m. Shearers then often worked for an hour or two before breakfast.
The food was usually cold or hot mutton, potatoes, bread, salt and pepper. Cooks baked bread and also a popular alternative, the ‘brownie’ – made of dough, mutton fat, brown sugar and sometimes currants. Bread or brownie was doled out at regular smoko breaks along with large amounts of tea served in tin pannikins. Farmers often struggled to get cooks and some went through them at a great rate. Good cooks were valued, as food was important for farm productivity, and poor food made it difficult to keep workers.
Cooks who fed the workers were mainly men. On larger stations maids were employed in the homestead.
E. C. Studholme, Te Waimate: early station life in New Zealand. Dunedin: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1940, p. 93. › Back
Itinerant workers
Some workers – including shearers, harvesters and drovers – moved around from place to place for work.
Shearers had a regular calendar. Many worked in Queensland, Australia, in June and July, moving down to New South Wales from August to November. Then they boarded a ship to New Zealand, where they could work from November to February. Much time was lost to travelling, and shearers worked perhaps two-thirds of these 30 weeks. Shearing was done with hand-held shears, which put immense strain on the hands, wrists and arms. From the late 1880s shearing machines were introduced, which made the job a little easier and allowed more wool to be taken off the sheep.
Māori were prominent in early shearing gangs, especially on the North Island’s East Coast. They worked in extended-family groups, including women and children, rather than the male-dominated gangs in the rest of the country. Māori shearing gangs are still prominent in the industry.
Musterers
Musterers specialised in bringing sheep off the high country in autumn for shearing. They mostly worked on foot, each with a team of five to seven dogs. A mustering team usually comprised the station’s head shepherd and four to six contracted musterers. The packman brought in the gear to the musterers’ huts by packhorse. He also cooked meals and killed a few sheep for mutton and dog tucker.
Musterers walked huge distances trying to find all the sheep, often climbing and descending through rough bluffed country.
Drovers were contracted men who took stock from one place to another, often to farms, or to the saleyards or freezing works. They rode horses and used dogs.
Missing mates
Poet David McKee Wright touched on the lonely life of the itinerant worker who made friends and never saw them again in his ballad ‘While the billy boils’:
‘He went to a job on the plain he knowed of and I went poisoning out at the back,/And I missed him somehow—for all my looking I never could knock across his track. /The same with Harry, the bloke I worked with, the time I was over upon the Coast,/He went for a fly-round over to Sydney, to stay for a fortnight—a month at the most!’ 1
Rabbiters
Introduced rabbits became a scourge in the 1870s. They competed with sheep for grass, and in places their burrows turned the ground into a moonscape. Rabbiting was mainly seasonal work, with rabbit-infested runs employing 50–100 men for short periods over winter to kill rabbits. Some large Central Otago runs had their own permanent rabbiters.
At first rabbits were hunted using dogs, and their burrows were dug up. However, numbers exploded, and large-scale poisoning became the only practical method. When refrigeration was introduced in the 1880s, a rabbit industry developed and animals were trapped for their meat and skins. Schoolboys often earned pocket money by shooting rabbits.
The professional rabbiter was a lonely man, often living in a tent down by the trees near a river. Rabbiters were common in rural areas until the late 1940s, when the government introduced a levy on rabbit skins to devalue the pest. In 1947 control of rabbits was given to locally-elected rabbit boards, which levied farmers and organised their own control methods, with part-funding from the government.
David McKee Wright, ‘When the billy boils.’ In New Zealand farm and station verse, 1850–1950, edited by A. E. Woodhouse. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967, p. 38. › Back
Grain and crops
Importance of horses
Large lowland estates grew grain and crops, and needed horses to plough the land. They bred their own, and could have around 100 working horses, requiring a full-time blacksmith and assistant, and a saddler to repair harnesses and collars. Blacksmiths made horseshoes and tools, and repaired ploughs.
Many other rural jobs involved horses – there were horse breakers and castrators, and rural towns had livery stables where horses could be kept and fed for a charge. The work of farriers (who shod horses) and wheelwrights (who made wheels) also depended upon horses.
In 1918 there were 351,544 horses in New Zealand, but this had dropped to 319,034 in 1921. They were slowly being replaced by machines.
Ploughmen
Until the 1870s, ploughing was done with bullocks and a single-furrow plough. Then Clydesdale horses replaced the bullocks, and double- and three-furrow ploughs were introduced. Ploughmen were often called teamsters, because of their teams of horses. They contracted themselves and their horses out to farmers. Ploughing competitions were popular from the 1860s. Two-furrowed ploughs with three wheels, pulled by four Clydesdale horses, were ideally suited to ploughing the tussock-covered plains and downs of Canterbury.
Much ploughing was done by contractors, who were paid 10 shillings ($64 in 2008 terms) an acre (0.4 hectares) in 1877.
Threshers
As wheat and other grain crops were grown on the lowlands from the 1870s, demand grew for gangs to operate threshing mills. On big estates such as Te Waimate in South Canterbury, around 300 men were taken on at harvest time. Early threshing mills were worked by horses – in the 1880s these were replaced by portable steam threshing mills, which were used for the next 50 years.
Men were usually employed on a contract basis. They were paid per bushel of grain, and often worked from six in the morning till 10 at night. The threshing mill was portable and towed a cookhouse and bunkhouse. It was often moved at night – workers had to try and sleep, and the cook prepare food, while they bumped along the metal road to the next farm.
Before small huts and men’s quarters were built, many farm workers were housed in stables and sheds. There was little to protect rural workers from exploitation. There was an oversupply of labour for unskilled work – those who didn’t like a job could leave and the farmer could easily fill their boots. Skilled workers had more bargaining power – so did shearers, threshing gang workers and harvesters, whose labour was critical at certain times.
Shearers exercised their power by striking, and many shearers’ unions were set up in the eastern South Island in the 1870s. Unions representing rural workers advocated for better working conditions, hours and pay. Membership grew steadily until the depression of the 1930s. It leapt in 1936 when the Labour government introduced compulsory unionism.
Wagoners
Wagoners were another unique breed of rural worker whose lives were itinerant – but usually back-and-forth on one route, delivering supplies and collecting produce. Eight Clydesdale horses typically pulled a narrow four-wheeled wagon. Many places had no real roads, just tussock hills with ruts, and on steep inclines men had to hold down the upper side of wagons to stop them rolling into gullies. As roads improved, wagons got wider. Before the better roads, 3 kilometres an hour was considered a good speed.
Roadmen
Men were employed by road boards, which levied farmers to pay for the work. Road grading was done by a couple of draught horses, a single-furrow plough, a horse-drawn scoop, a shovel and a pick. Before crushing machines, heavy hand-held hammers were used to break river boulders into metal. A horse and cart with a tip tray transported the metal, tipping and spreading it on roads at regular intervals.
Bullock drivers
Bullock teams could pull heavier loads than horses, and could also negotiate rougher country. In the early days they were the only means of supplying remote stations and taking out the wool clip. A return journey to the more isolated South Island stations could take a month, as flooded rivers often held up the team. Teams rarely moved more than 30 kilometres in a day. Drivers were tough men, known for their bad language.
Bullock drivers were often hard-living men. One Sam Phelps, who was often locked up for drunkenness, named his bullocks after magistrates and loudly cursed his beasts whenever officials were nearby. In the mid-1930s, bullocks in one of the last teams on the Wairarapa coast were all named after drinks – Whisky, Brandy, Soda, Beer, Gin, Wine, Sherry, Rum, Stout, Lemonade, Ginger and Coffee.
‘Working class athletes’
Many itinerant rural labourers went ‘on the swag’ – they walked from job to job. John A. Lee, who later became a cabinet minister, worked as an itinerant labourer in the early 1900s. His 1977 book Roughnecks, rolling stones and rouseabouts detailed the lives of these men. It included the reminiscences of many other people, one of whom described labourers as ‘working class athletes’.
One example was Jock McKenzie, known as the Highland Chief, who was said to be in Ōamaru, drunk, at 5 a.m., but showed up at 9 a.m. for the shearing call at Ōtemātātā Station, some 80 kilometres away. While such anecdotes may be exaggerations, no one could shear more sheep in a day than McKenzie. Physical prowess was respected in rural communities, and still is.
Once the shearing or the harvest were finished on one farm, it was time to get on ‘Shanks’s pony’ or ‘the hobnail express’ – in other words, walk to the next station. Often workers cashed their cheque at the nearest pub. After a drinking binge – sometimes lasting days – they were broke and hit the road again.
The professional swagger
There were also a number of professional swaggers, who chose to stay on the road, avoiding work and cadging free meals from farmers. Famed in rural folklore, they included such characters as Russian Jack in the lower North Island, and Barney Whiterats and Shiner Slattery in Canterbury and Otago. They fell into a band of gentlemen of the road who belonged to the ‘starlight boarding house fraternity’. 1Swaggers spent their lives wandering, finally ending up in an old men’s home, their wanderlust unquenched but their bodies failing.
Hawkers were mobile salesmen or saleswomen, usually with a horse and cart containing their wares. They mainly sold clothing, general provisions, crockery and trinkets. Some offered a service, such as the old Lebanese woman who pushed a pram around the Waimate back roads repairing old pots and pans. Another, known as the Sewing Lady, had a pram containing a hand-operated sewing machine, which she used to patch sheets and clothing.
Jim Henderson, Swagger country. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976, p. 147. › Back
Changes in the rural sector
Wool, wheat and refrigeration
In the 1870s wheat-growing was expanding, especially on the Canterbury Plains, creating demand for threshing gangs at harvest time. By the 1890s the dominance of wool had begun to wane as refrigerated shipping made meat, butter and cheese into exportable commodities.
The groceries are coming
Irishman Creek Station had a good view across the Mackenzie plains towards the road from Burkes Pass. In the 1920s a whole year’s stores was brought in by traction engine (which had replaced bullock teams). Coal, flour, sugar, oatmeal and chests of tea were piled up on wagons. From the station, staff could see the engine’s steam up to two weeks before it arrived.
Technology and mechanisation
In the early 1900s, mechanisation gradually reduced farm labour needs. Shearing machines replaced hand shears. Header harvesters, firstly horse-drawn, were introduced in the late 1920s, and by the mid-1930s had replaced steam threshing mills. At the same time, tractors with rubber tyres were replacing horses.
Mechanisation increased the viability of smaller farms, run by a farmer with his wife and children. Numbers of itinerant workers dwindled – although there was still work for contractors such as shearers, harvesters and fencers. By the 1920s, most New Zealanders lived in urban areas, and less than 30% of the male workforce was engaged in agriculture.
Demise of the casual labourer
Artist Trevor Moffitt’s father Bert was a casual rural labourer in the small town of Waikaia, Southland. But by the mid-1940s, within a decade of Trevor’s birth, the writing was on the wall for such roles. ‘The moment concrete posts came in, header harvesters came in, machine shearing came in, [my father] couldn’t change or adapt or somehow be part of that. So what had been there for years and years on a seasonal basis just disappeared in a year or two.’ 1
In the Second World War there was an acute labour shortage because of men away fighting. Many farms were without farmers. Young women, known as land girls, stepped in to manage properties – but this was just a brief interlude until the men returned. The government was keen to provide farms for returned servicemen, and steep hill country in the North Island was developed in the 1940s and 1950s. Contracted scrub cutters attempted to convert mānuka-covered hills into pasture. From the 1950s the use of superphosphate fertiliser on paddocks greatly increased grass growth and stocking capacity.
Specialist workers
Specialist rural workers emerged after the war, as more science was applied to farming. Government-employed farm demonstration workers taught farmers new practices and technologies. In the era when milk was separated on the farm, up till the mid-1950s, herd testers visited dairy farms to assess milk quality. Often women, they arrived just after lunch, had a cup of tea, then tested the evening’s milk. In the morning they did another test before moving on to the next farm.
Selective breeding, which became more common in the 1950s and 1960s, greatly increased productivity and contributed to the intensification of farming. Artificial insemination technicians still exist in the early 2000s. More recently, TB testers visit farms testing deer and cattle for bovine tuberculosis.
Quoted in Chris Ronayne, Trevor Moffitt: a biography. Auckland: David Ling, 2006, p. 21. › Back
The family farmer
Breaking up the estates
In the 1890s the government wanted to free up more land for settlers and small farmers. Between 1892 and 1912, the Crown bought 223 estates, totalling over 500,000 hectares, and broke them into smaller farms on which they settled 7,000 families. This occurred mostly on the lowland estates – hill-country runs remained large. Most of the broken-up estates were in the South Island. In the North Island, government purchases and land confiscations from Māori were subdivided and sold off as small farms. Much of this land was covered in forest and had to be cleared.
Until the 1900s, small landholders eked out a living – farmers may have had a cow for milk and some chickens and pigs, but a small wool clip made them little money. Many had to work off the farm as contractors, so they could afford to get by and to develop their farms. In Northland some small-scale farmers dug kauri gum.
From the 1890s there were increasing numbers of smaller farms. Refrigeration had created an export market for meat and dairy products as well as wool. As the small family farm became capable of supporting itself, the workload fell on the family. Family labour was augmented by contracting out large jobs such as shearing or threshing and harvesting. Farmers also pooled their labour – for example, helping each other in turn as they mustered sheep before shearing. From the 1900s, the settled contractor increasingly replaced the casual itinerant worker. Small businesses such as fencing contractors servicing rural areas developed in small towns – largely enabled by better roads and the growing use of motor vehicles.
Bushwhackers
Much of New Zealand, especially the North Island, had to be cleared before it could be farmed. Often bush was simply felled. Once dry it was burned, and grass seed sown in the ashes.
The job of chopping trees fell to the bushwhacker. Newspapers advertised felling contracts, often in hill country. Typically all trees greater than half a metre in diameter had to be dropped. In 1897 this brought a contracted gang just over $31 (in 2008 terms) per hectare. Men typically worked in teams of four or five and carried in all supplies. Huts built from ponga (tree-fern) logs were thatched with nīkau-palm or tree-fern fronds. Bushwhackers worked from dawn to dusk, wet or fine, six days a week, earning just enough to make a living. Sunday was spent gathering firewood, getting the camp in order and hunting pigs for meat.
Dairy demands
Children on dairy farms had to help out. One author wrote, ‘The task of milking as many as five to ten cows each morning and then facing a walk of up to 8–10 kilometres to the nearest sole-charge school resulted in large numbers of country children from small dairy farms being too tired to learn at school, probably attending only for a chance to escape the daily drudgery of looking after dairy cows.’ 1
Sharemilkers
For decades the sharemilking system has been a central part of the dairy industry. Dairying is demanding work, with the herd usually milked twice daily when cows are in milk. Many farmers contract out their land and their herd to sharemilkers, who get a share of the milk produced. By sharemilking, these young men or couples gain experience and can save for their own land.
Wives and children
The family farmer was assisted by his wife, who also looked after the farmhouse and children. A 1939 survey of dairy farms found that in a one-week period 38% of wives worked on the farm as well as doing domestic work. Children were given chores such as milking the cow and feeding the chooks or pigs. By the time they were in their teens they were often heavily involved, and boys were groomed to take over the farm if they showed an inclination.
Irene Waswo, Farming progress in New Zealand, 1814–1995. New Plymouth: I. Waswo, 1996, p. 64. › Back
Contemporary rural workers
Falling labour force
In the 1920s around 30% of New Zealand’s workforce was employed in rural work. By 1951 this had dropped to around 20%, and in 2004 to about 6%. In 2004, 128,430 people were employed in agriculture, and in agricultural servicing and processing industries. A further 28,710 were employed in horticulture, and 23,405 in forestry and forestry processing.
Patterns of employment have also changed. In sheep farming and cropping there has been a shift from permanent live-in farm labour to family and contract work. In the 1990s and 2000s, dairying expanded into new regions and became more intensive. Dairy farms have grown larger, increasing the demand for paid labour.
Boom and bust
The 1950s to the 1970s were boom decades for agriculture, with huge gains in farm efficiency and productivity. By the 1970s and 1980s farmers were managing 5,000 animals on their own – something which was unheard of a few decades earlier. Diversification into forestry, horticulture and viticulture also provided work opportunities.
When the government removed many agricultural subsidies in the 1980s, farmers faced harder times. The number of men in rural employment fell, but the number of women working (both on and off the farm) increased. With better transport, farmers’ wives often found work in nearby towns to augment the family farm’s falling income.
The 1980s and 1990s also saw the closure of many small freezing works, dairy factories and other processing plants, leading to job losses. These were typically replaced by a few very large plants.
Diversification and seasonal jobs
New job opportunities have arisen in horticulture and viticulture – but pay rates are low and the hours long. New Zealand’s high employment levels in the 2000s made it difficult for these industries to attract workers.
Plenty of labour is needed to set up a vineyard, and at pruning and harvest time. In Central Otago many orchards employ students or backpackers. In Hawke’s Bay in 2005, apple growers and other horticulturalists had to import labour to New Zealand as they could not attract local apple pickers. In 2007 a new policy was introduced, allowing viticulturists and horticulturists to employ up to 5,000 overseas workers a year if they could not find New Zealanders to do the work.
Move to rural areas
Since the 1980s, an increasing proportion of people live in rural areas but do not rely on agriculture for their income. Many live on lifestyle blocks on the outskirts of cities or towns, and commute or work from home.
More suggestions and sources
Cant, Garth, and Russell Kirkpatrick, eds. Rural Canterbury: celebrating its history. Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates and Lincoln University Press, 2001.
Hatch, Elvin. Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Lee, John A. Roughnecks, rolling stones and rouseabouts: with an anthology of early swagger literature. Auckland: Penguin, 1989.
Martin, John E. The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Trade Union History Project, 1990.
Newton, Peter. Straggle muster. Wellington: Reed, 1964.
Studholme, E. C. Te Waimate: early station life in New Zealand. Dunedin: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1940.
Walrond, Carl. ‘Keas in the land of kiwi.’ New Zealand Geographic 54 (November– December 2001): 68–77.
How to cite this page: Carl Walrond, 'Rural workers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/rural-workers/print (accessed 21 January 2020)
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Twitter Claims Searches 3x Faster With “Blender”
By Graeme McMillan @graememApril 06, 2011
A new homepage isn’t the only change Twitter’s recently undergone. As the Twitter Engineering blog reports, last week saw the launch of Blender, a new server that reportedly makes its search function three times faster than before.
The new server doesn’t just speed up what the blog calls “one of the most heavily-trafficked search engines in the world,” it distributes the workload.
According to Twitter’s engineers, the introduction of Blender means that Twitter can now handle a higher number of requests than before, ultimately helping reduce costs by allowing Twitter to invest in fewer servers as demand continues to grow.
Want to know how Blender does what it does? Here’s a technobabble sample:
In the sample workflow above, we have 6 services {s1, s2, s3, s4, s5, s6} with dependencies between them. The directed edge from s3 to s1 means that s3 must be called before calling s1 because s1 needs the results from s3. Given such a workflow, the Blender framework performs a topological sort on the DAG to determine the total ordering of services, which is the order in which they must be called. The execution order of the above workflow would be {(s3, s4), (s1, s5, s6), (s2)}. This means s3 and s4 can be called in parallel in the first batch, and once their responses are returned, s1, s5, and s6 can be called in parallel in the next batch, before finally calling s2.
Hope you caught all that, and while it sounds impressive, the blog avoids the more important question: Whether Blender will be able to prevent more involuntary changes between New Twitter and Old Twitter, as happened for an hour or so last night (April 5).
More on TIME.com:
Take A Look At Twitter’s Handsome New Homepage
New Twitter App Puts Your Followers on the Chopping Block
How To Tweet Like Barack Obama (Or Anyone Else, For That Matter)
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2nd December 2019 2:56 am
Once again the Internet thinks that Hailey Baldwin is pregnant and I said once again because it has happened earlier also. Recently a picture of Hailey Baldwin went viral where she was walking in front of her husband Justin Bieber meanwhile rubbing her belly. The model was wearing an extra-large hoodie but as the couple was leaving the venue, the model was seen putting her hand on her stomach and as per the netizens the reason why she was wearing an extra-large hoodie is that she was trying to hide her tummy.
Photo Credit: Free Press Journal
This is not the first time that the netizens are thinking that the model is pregnant. Actually earlier Justin Bieber pranked his fans by putting out a rumor that Hailey Baldwin is pregnant and the Hollywood picture also shared pictures to gave this rumor more fire. But later it was revealed by the artist that this was the part of his April Fool’s plan and he was just messing with his fans.
This pranked earned a lot of heat from fans against Justin Bieber. And now again the same rumor is making everybody thinks that the model is pregnant. But in reality the truth is something else. As per Hailey Baldwin, the viral picture is not the result of her being pregnant but because she had too much food. Hailey even posted on her Instagram account that she is not pregnant she just love eating, so now you all can chill as she is not pregnant.
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Inside Premier Hub, an innovation hub empowering South-Western businesses from the heart of Akure
Titilola Oludimu November 26, 2018
Many reports in the past years have revealed that a lot of businesses in Nigeria fail within their first three to five years. According to Ibukun Obe, Nigerian businesses, unlike their global counterparts struggle to survive through generations due to a lack of knowledge on how to scale over a long period of time.
Ibukun is the CEO of Premier Hub Innovation Centre, an innovation hub located in Akure, the Ondo state capital. It began operations in August this year.
Ibukun Obe, CEO, Premier Hub
“We set up Premier Hub to give Nigerian entrepreneurs the kind of knowledge and exposure they need to scale their businesses from one generation to other. The South-West is our focus area and we’re starting from Akure,” Ibukun told us during our recently concluded Innovation Tour across South-West Nigeria.
To achieve this, Premier Hub plans to run several training and incubation programmes for entrepreneurs. Starting with the recently concluded i-startup Southwest, an incubation programme for entrepreneurs in the South-Western region of Nigeria, in partnership with the federal government through the National Social Investment Programme (NSIC).
“We plan to organise other training and incubation programmes soon,” says Kome Brown, Communications Lead at Premier Hub.
Kome Brown, Communications Lead, Premier Hub
“For sustainability, we run a co-working space for visitors, entrepreneurs, freelancers and students who need spaces to work from.”
With the help of Tolu Adesemola, our tour guide and Community Manager at Premier Hub, we took a tour of the facility. Join us.
Premier Hub, The Building
Premier Hub Innovation Centre is located along the Ilesha-Owo expressway, which is sort of at the outskirt of Akure.
The reception gives you a glimpse of what you should expect, a very relaxed and innovative space
Once you step into the work area, you are welcomed by some work-friendly music.
The Selfie Spot
The lights already give its purpose away. This space is designed for visitors to take selfies and post on social media, of course not without tagging Premier Hub. It also doubles as a waiting lounge.
To the work spaces!
“Think outside the … box”
Get it? This space is actually called the Box Office.
“It’s a co-working space,” Tolu tells us. “The subscription is for students basically. It costs ₦1,000 (about $3) per day and ₦4,000 (about $11) per week. It includes access to uninterrupted power supply, WiFi and our dining room from 8 AM to 5 PM.”
The cozy U-Lounge
U-Lounge because the space is U-shaped. Check out the depiction of innovation on the wall.
“Every icon on this wall represents everything around the creative industry, innovation, ideas, funding, and so on.”
It doesn’t look like your regular shared work space, but it is. Subscription rates are the same as that of the Box Office.
The training room
As the name suggests, organisations use the space for training and workshops.
“It can sit between 30 to 50 people depending on the number of furniture we have here. It goes for ₦70,000 (about $192) for a full day, usually on weekends and ₦9,000 (about $25) per hour on weekdays. We also offer printing and scanning at discounted prices. ”
“Technology connects here”
This is the Manufacturing Room. 3D printing happens here. According to Tolu, most of their customers are architecture students from the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA). Printing is at ₦300 (about ¢85) per gram.
This room is for business meetings and conferences. It goes for ₦4,000 (about $11) per hour and ₦30,000 (about $82) per day.
An innovative open work space
For people who choose not to work from the Box Office or U-Lounge, this equally conducive space is available to them at the same subscription rate.
This open space can be converted to an event centre
We actually held our Akure meetup here
An additional work space. The music that welcomed us came from here.
There’s a private office space
“Businesses can use this place for a long period and pay quarterly, for six months or annually. They can brand and structure the space and put their name on the door. They also have access to a shared reception.”
“Upload here”
This is the dinning room where all the “uploading” takes place. Tolu tells us that food is not allowed outside here to enable them contain the aroma.
“Downloading” takes place here.
Words to live by;
Team Premier Hub
This brings us to the end of the tour of Premier Hub; a beautiful, innovative and conducive work environment. A space that promises to stimulate your creative juices.
Do you think your office is cooler? Invite us to take a tour through our lens.
Titilola Oludimu
I’m always open to new experiences. Director, SME by Techpoint. Get in touch.
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I'm always open to new experiences. Director, SME by Techpoint. Get in touch.
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Titilola Oludimu December 17, 2018
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Titilola Oludimu October 30, 2018
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Office Tours Work
A tour of Workstation; the “co-everything” space located in Victoria Island
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Mobility & Logistics
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Welcome to Camp Wonderland: Tour of Imaginarium HQ
Adewale Yusuf March 26, 2018
Farmcrowdy has a new office space; it will make you green with envy
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“Pickman’s Model” by H. P. Lovecraft: An Exploration of Art and Horror
Art has the ability to express that which standard forms of communication are unable to convey. This is particularly true when it come to the expression of the deeper regions of the subconscious. Often, these recesses contain our darkest thoughts, the fodder from which our nightmares take shape. It is this realm that the artist in this tale by Lovecraft delves into for inspiration.
You know, it takes profound art and profound insight into Nature to turn out stuff like Pickman’s. Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear—the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. I don’t have to tell you why a Fuseli really brings a shiver while a cheap ghost-story frontispiece merely makes us laugh. There’s something those fellows catch—beyond life—that they’re able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it. Angarola of Chicago has it. And Pickman had it as no man ever had it before or—I hope to heaven—ever will again.
Artists who explore these darker regions of the psyche are skirting the fringes of insanity. But often, an artist must temporarily let go of sanity in order to glimpse the internal landscapes which provide inspiration for truly powerful creations.
He shewed me all the paintings and drawings he had about; including some pen-and-ink sketches that would, I verily believe, have got him kicked out of the club if many of the members had seen them. Before long I was pretty nearly a devotee, and would listen for hours like a schoolboy to art theories and philosophic speculations wild enough to qualify him for the Danvers asylum.
Lovecraft uses tunnels and wells as symbols for the entry and exploration of the buried realms of the subconscious. When the characters enter the cellar and uncover the well, leading down into the tunnels below Boston, they are symbolically letting go of their fragile sanity and opening themselves to the darker mysteries of the psyche.
My host was now leading the way down cellar to his actual studio, and I braced myself for some hellish effects among the unfinished canvases. As we reached the bottom of the damp stairs he turned his flashlight to a corner of the large open space at hand, revealing the circular brick curb of what was evidently a great well in the earthen floor. We walked nearer, and I saw that it must be five feet across, with walls a good foot thick and some six inches above the ground level—solid work of the seventeenth century, or I was much mistaken. That, Pickman said, was the kind of thing he had been talking about—an aperture of the network of tunnels that used to undermine the hill. I noticed idly that it did not seem to be bricked up, and that a heavy disc of wood formed the apparent cover. Thinking of the things this well must have been connected with if Pickman’s wild hints had not been mere rhetoric, I shivered slightly; then turned to follow him up a step and through a narrow door into a room of fair size, provided with a wooden floor and furnished as a studio. An acetylene gas outfit gave the light necessary for work.
The danger that artists face when exploring the subconscious is that they may ultimately plummet into insanity, losing all touch with the world of light and getting lost forever in the realm of shadows.
Richard Upton Pickman, the greatest artist I have ever known—and the foulest being that ever leaped the bounds of life into the pits of myth and madness. Eliot—old Reid was right. He wasn’t strictly human. Either he was born in strange shadow, or he’d found a way to unlock the forbidden gate. It’s all the same now, for he’s gone—back into the fabulous darkness he loved to haunt.
Creative people should never shy away from looking into the depths of the soul for inspiration. But they should do so with care. It’s important to stay grounded when unlocking the forbidden gates of the mind.
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Tag: Suffolk Closeup
Suffolk Closeup: Refusing to be captured
Good for democracy. That’s the significance of the legislation authored by State Senator Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) and Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) signed into law last...
Suffolk Closeup: Ending the scourge of Lyme disease
Want some good news? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last month a plan to expedite the approval process for a vaccine to ward off Lyme disease.
Suffolk Closeup: Getting a little squirrelly
It was quite unlikely for me, a vegetarian for 50 years, to be out shopping the other day for a gun to shoot squirrels. But squirrels have been stripping...
Suffolk Closeup: A green, and tasty, future for Long Island’s wine region
Long Island, with a centuries-long history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes...
Suffolk Closeup: Looking for answers at Stony Brook University
What’s going on at Stony Brook University? The university has just suspended student admissions into its theater arts, comparative literature and cinema arts departments, part of a series of...
Suffolk Closeup: Bad season ahead for Lyme disease
This could be a bad year for Suffolk County for Lyme disease — the malady that residents of the Island and the county were numbered among the earliest victims.
Column: Free tuition—an old idea for a new age
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal last week for free tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools has roots going back nearly two centuries in this region, to 1847 and...
Suffolk Closeup: Ruling against preserved farmland development is misguided
A local environmental organization has brought a lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Suffolk County Farmland Preservation Program, a visionary concept that has been the key to saving an...
Suffolk Closeup: A familiar Long Island creature facing extinction
A world expert on horseshoe crabs is worried about their extinction after 455 million years of life on Earth — largely because the crab has become a delicacy in...
Suffolk Closeup: Inside the county elections
The astonishing win of the U.S. presidency by Donald Trump on the Republican ticket has, to put it mildly, overshadowed all other political news out of the 2016 election.
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Songwriters: Emily Sprague
Florist is, and began as the friendship project of Emily Sprague, Rick Spataro, and Jonnie Baker in Upstate, NY. The three started making weird sounds on synths and guitars together as a way to cope and relate, and grew close. Felix Walworth joined as a drummer and collaborator when Emily moved to New York City and continued writing songs with the moniker.
Emily Alone, out July 26, 2019, is a collection of songs made by Florist songwriter Emily Sprague during a time of great stillness and isolation with the self. An attempt to capture the dark spaces between change and acknowledge their beauty. It is a natural, isolated, and momentary tangent away from the otherwise collaborative project that is Florist, while still maintaining the documentary nature of the band that, like all things, is a mutable entity in this universe. These songs, as they exist now, were born partly out of literal distance from her bandmates on the east coast, and partly out of urgency to translate an emotional moment.
Emily wrote and recorded all 12 tracks in her Los Angeles home during the last, rainy months of 2018. After moving to California from New York a year prior, Emily found herself in a transformative time of self exploration and independence after leaving the many lives she knew of as home on the east coast to start on a new journey. Living alone and separate from many of the things she once held most close, a deep dive into the dark void of the mind began.
There is a metaphysical quality to the songs as they search for meaning in existence, swaying between the mundane and the spiritual. Emily believes deeply in the magic and connectedness of all things. The album Emily Alone is the creation of a self reflective lens through which we can view that omnipresence of love and life and the energy of all things around us as well as within us.
Florist "Thank You" in Homecoming (Netflix film)
Florist "Glowing Brightly" in Strangers (Facebook)
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Tag Archives: RIAA certification
CONFIRMED: Tidal Music Streaming Counted On Billboard Charts
July 5, 2017 L. Wayne Ashley Leave a comment
Anyone that has been following the music industry knows that the 2010s have been an exciting, yet turbulent time. The digital age has led to a mass democratization of nearly every possible information source, but few areas have been rocked by that impact like music. Once a dependable source of revenue, physical sales of albums have dwindled to fractions of their former strength for all but a few superstar artists. Even while artists and chart hounds continue to boast about massive amounts of streaming activity, the truth is these plays earn just cents on the dollar when compared to physical sales. To turn a profit today, artists have had to get rather creative.
One leap in that creative space was Tidal, formally launched on March 30th, 2015 by rapper Jay Z and other Artist Owners. Tidal’s goal was to set a standard for paying artists a larger percentage of royalties than mostly free streaming titan Spotify at the time. And while Tidal has actually kept that promise (able to pay between twice and 6 times per stream what an artist would receive on Spotify, dependent on their record label’s contract terms), the service has had a tough time building a sizeable subscriber base. With no free tier for music listening, Tidal subscribers have to pay a minimum $9.99 per month to utilize the service.
Another significant set back for Tidal? The service’s streaming data was not previously counted on any of Billboard’s official charts. In other words, if an artist released music exclusively to Tidal, they would be unable to claim success on the charts.
But after months of confusion and social media debate, Billboard has finally confirmed that Tidal streaming data is now factored into their charting methodology. On the strength of Jay Z’s explosive new album 4:44 being certified platinum by the RIAA in less than a week, Billboard gave this clarification…
According to an RIAA spokesperson, a sale can count towards a certification if purchased directly by the customer, or a business can purchase the album or song and offer it to customers. In the latter case, customers must take affirmative steps to acquire the album or song (submitting an email address and promotional code, for example).
Note: for Billboard charting purposes, as per the current pricing policy, the Sprint-supported downloads would not count towards 4:44’s chart ranking. However, any streams reported by Tidal to Nielsen Music for the album’s songs in the week ending July 6 would contribute to the album’s ranking based solely on streaming equivalent album units.
So by next week, fans should expect to see Jay Z’s new album somewhere on the Billboard charts, even if it doesn’t place as high as it would if streamed on all services.
For those confused as to how a platinum certification is even possible if the album’s not “for sale”, here’s the breakdown…
As part of Tidal’s mammoth deal with Sprint, Jay Z gives exclusive rights to the music to Tidal subscribers for a window of time.
Upon release of the Album, Sprint offers its customers a free 6 month trial of Tidal and attach the album as a free download, as long as they actively sign up using their email address.
Tidal can then report these sign ups as equivalent sales, with Sprint being the sole purchaser of the content. And they clearly got over a million people to sign up.
It’s worth noting that before anything was even posted on Tidal, Jay Z probably made far more from the Sprint deal than he ever could have in traditional album sales or digital downloads. Even under the old sales model of $15/cd ($15 million) an artist would be lucky to net even a quarter of that sum after paying product costs, distribution, the co-writers and artist performers and the label.
But this victory is only one in a much longer fight. Though the launch of Tidal and Apple Music have improved the dismal profits of streaming since their low point in 2014, audiences continue to prefer the ‘freemium model’ of music consumption via Spotify, or illegal piracy. And while Tidal’s superstar artist owners like Jay Z, Madonna and Beyoncé have the power and influence to be able take risks and discover innovative new methods of revenue generation, less known artists are still caught in a challenging situation to profit from their craft. Just like the political landscape, the music industry’s future is a lot more complicated than one success.
We’ll see what comes next for Tidal.
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Todd In The Shadows Transcripts, Articles that need improvement
I'm the One & Wild Thoughts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWDnPCe2dio
Todd plays "Laffy Taffy" on the piano
D4L - LAFFY TAFFY
Todd: [sounding bored] Welcome to One-Hit Wonderland, where we something, something, something... something... Look, I'll be honest with you, I'm just gonna phone this one in.
Video for "Laffy Taffy" starts
D4L: That laffy taffy
Todd (VO): Look, I-I got some vacation time...
Todd: ...coming up. I made plans, and, you know, I was thinking maybe I can head out early, spend the next couple weeks in Myrtle Beach, so, uhh...I'm just gonna shit out an episode and clock out.
Fabo: Girl, shake dat laffy taffy
That laffy taffy
Shake that laffy taffy
Todd (VO): So, uhh...[pause] yeah, right. Yeah, so if you're wondering how this particular blast from the past wound up on the schedule...
Todd: ...well, here was the decision making process. I asked myself, "What song would require the least effort from me?"
Todd (VO): What song do you not need to think about or research or analyze in any way?
Shawty Lo: C'mon trick, c'mon trick
Here go Mr. Chocolate
Todd (VO): And, uhh, yeah, that's how we got here, "Laffy Taffy" by D4L. By any standards, one of the dumbest #1 hit singles of the 2000's. Or...
Todd: ...any decade, really.
Todd (VO): And yeah, you heard me, it was a #1 hit in 2006, which...
Todd: ...I don't wanna say it was a bad year, but I remember a lot of crap like this.
Clip of Dem Franchize Boyz - Lean wit it, Rock wit it)
Dem Franchize Boyz: Lean wit it (Rock wit it)
Lean wit it (Rock wit it)
Todd (VO): Club bangers that, as far as I'm concerned, you couldn't really dance to it, made by people who had... one or at most two [clip of Young Dro ft. T.I. - "Shoulder Lean"] hits and then jumped off the face of the earth. I can seriously run this show for years just based on shitty forgettable rap songs that got big in 2006.
Todd: But most of those club bangers were, you know, bangers.
Todd (VO): "Laffy Taffy's" basic claim to fame was basically the single slowest, hokiest, gentlest beat this side of a [snippet of...] musical crib mobile.
Fabo: (Candy girl) That laffy taffy
Todd (VO): And onto this lazy-ass beat, they, uh...they rapped a strip club song. About strippers that make you think about taffy. [sighs] I don't even know.
Todd: So yeah, let's, uh, let's get this over with. I mean, I'm already packed. [singing along] Girl, shake that...
Todd (VO): ...laffy taffy, that laffy taffy. Even if I weren't trying to get to the beach I probably ...
Todd: ...wouldn't be spending a lot of time on this song. Good Christ.
Fabo: Let me see that laffy taffy,
Nah nah nah, girl...
Before the hit
Todd: [laughing] Who cares? No, no, I'm not gonna completely zone out here.
Todd (VO): OK, the name of the group was D4L, which...
Todd: God knows what that means. Sounds like some kind of [shot of...] abbreviation for Craigslist personal ads. Dudes 4 Ladies? Doglovers 4 Lasagna? I dunno, [screenshot of D4L article on...] let me pull up Wikipedia here. OK, judging by the album cover, D4L stands for "Down For Life." They were from Atlanta, which...
Montage clips of Ludacris - "Welcome to Atlanta"; Crime Mob - "Knuck If You Buck"
Todd (VO): ...of course, every rapper from the mid-2000's was from Atlanta. And yeah, Atlanta's obviously still huge, but in the mid-2000's, it was huge to the point of insanity. Like, I think Jermaine Dupri was just picking random guys off the street and throwing them into the studio and they'd be superstars within a day.
Todd: Anyway, D4L was four guys...
Todd (VO): ...Fabo, Mook-B, Stoney and Shawty Lo.
Todd: Ah, that name sounds familiar, Shawty Lo? Yeah, [image of Shawty Lo solo] I think I remember him, he had a couple hits, and, uhh...didn't know he did "Laffy Taffy." I swear he did something recently, what was it? I'm sure it'll come to me. Anyway, let's examine where hip hop was in 2006.
Clip of Unk - "Walk It Out"
Unk: Now walk it out, now walk it out
Todd (VO): Answer? Not a great place! At least the really popular stuff. A lot of it was pretty bad, from one-hit wonders with not a lot of lyrical skill, but who somehow found a decent beat and a catchy enough hook and got big. We called it [image of three cell phones] "ringtone rap."
Todd: Not sure why, lots of rap, including the good stuff, was used as ringtones.
Clip of Huey - "Pop, Lock & Drop It"
Huey: Pop, lock & drop it, pop, lock & drop it
Todd (VO): I think the idea is that anything that was called "ringtone rap" was popular as a ringtone but nowhere else. Like, that's all it was good for, being a ringtone. And that's about as long as you'd listen to it, you know, as long as it took you to find the phone and shut it off. [clip of Shop Boyz - "Party Like a Rockstar"] I mean, ringtones were great for this kind of rap song, because you could listen to the good part, which was the chorus, and not have to listen to the verses, which were usually filler garbage. [image of Eminem wannabe with caption: "Ringtone Rap (2004-2007)"] And once ringtones were no longer a hot trend, it disappeared.
Todd: To be replaced by [image of Vine rap duo; "Juju On That Beat" briefly plays in the background] Vine raps. And God knows what's gonna come after that, songs that...play when you fart. [image of Fartr with caption: "Fart Rap (2018-2030)"] You'd get an app that, when you fart, it plays music, and that's where tomorrow's hits will come from. I-I dunno.
Clip of Youngbloodz - "Damn!"
Todd (VO): So yeah, that's where we were. Y-you could blame a lot of that on the rise of Lil' Jon, who was all about loud banging hooks and not necessarily a lot of substance to fill out the parts in between, but Lil' Jon's gimmick was interesting enough that he was able to sustain a career out of yelling about five or six different words.
Todd: Not so much for most of his followers. Except for Shawty Lo, I guess. I mean, he must've had more of a career, 'cause I do remember him.
Video for Soulja Boy ft. Gucci Mane & Shawty Lo - "Gucci Bandanna"
Todd (VO): Yeah, it's coming back to me. He had a couple hits, and a couple of guest verses, and, umm... [Image of CNN article: "Rapper Shawty Lo dies in car crash at age 40"] Oh yeah, he died in a car accident last year.
Todd: [punches himself in the head] God damn it! Goddamnit, goddamnit, goddamnit. Well, OK. [image of fan art of Shawty Lo] OK, this episode is now a tribute to the late, beloved Shawty Lo, where we talk about the legacy, and...ah, Christ, no. I don't have time. The one...
Clip of Fox News broadcast of Shawty Lo's memorial
Todd (VO): ...time I try to rush something out and it turns out the guy just died! Let this be a lesson, kids...
Todd: ...this is what happens when you cut corners. [sighs; beat] Well, I mean, we're still doing the song, let's go, let's go.
Video for "Laffy Taffy" starts again
Todd: Okay, I'm gonna try and be respectful here. But, [chuckles] I mean, this is a bad song. It's a real, real bad song!
Fabo: That laffy taffy
That laffy taffy (candy girl)
Todd (VO): Now, if you were paying attention at the time, you knew how we got here. It wasn't just the ringtone rap, but there was a lot of stuff.
Clip of New Edition - "Candy Girl"
Ralph Tresvant: Candy girl
Like, sugar and candy...that's been used in love and/or sex songs since, like, candy was invented. But...
Todd: ...just the year before, there were two big giant rap songs coming off that theme. There was this...
Clips of Trick Daddy ft. CeeLo Green & Lil Kim - "Sugar (Gimme Some)"...
CeeLo: She put that sugar on my tongue
She's gonna
Gimme gimme some
Todd: ...and there was the even bigger...
...and 50 Cent ft. Olivia - "Candy Shop"
50 Cent: I'll take you to the candy shop
I'll let you lick the lollipop
Go ahead, girl...
Todd (VO): So, yeah, sex and candy: Proven formula, always works.
Todd: But it was also proven that year that rap songs didn't need to sound aggressive or hard.
Clip of Ying Yang Twins - "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
D-Roc: Hey how you doin' lil' mama let me whisper in ya ear
Tell ya somethin' that ya might like to hear
Todd (VO): Yeah, there were a lot [brief clips of Snoop Dogg ft. Pharrell - "Drop It Like It's Hot"...] of songs coming out that minimalized the entire thing. They [...Juelz Santana - "There It Go (The Whistle Song)"...] used less music, or no bass; just as little as possible.
Clip of "Laffy Taffy"
Fabo: Gone get loose (oh)
Gone get low (oh)
Todd (VO): So, yeah, you can see how we got to "Laffy Taffy." And yet it's amazing how "Laffy Taffy" took those elements...
Todd: ...and made it go horribly, horribly wrong!
Clip of "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
Kaine: You fine, but I ain't gone sweat ya
See I wanna fuck...
Todd (VO): Ying Yang Twins', "The Whisper Song" whispers because it's trying to sound intimate.
D-Roc & Kaine: Wait til' you see my dick
In its own "Ying Yang Twinsy" way.
Todd: But the beat from "Laffy Taffy" is emphatically un-hot.
Todd (VO): [imitating the beat] Dun-dun, dun. Dun-dun, dun.
Todd: Jingle bells, jingle bells.
Todd (VO): I mean, this doesn't sound hot. It doesn't make anyone think of sex. Makes me think I'm listening to someone play a particularly [clip of...] slow-moving game of Pong.
Shawty Lo: Here go Mr. Chocolate
And candy, everyone likes candy. Well, look at the girls there, sucking on lollipops. Not hard to make that sexual. How do you get this wrong?
Todd: Oh, I don't know. How about using the least sexy candy possible!
Fabo: Laffy taffy
Todd: Do you even know what taffy is?
Clip of taffy pulling machines in a factory
Todd (VO): This is what taffy looks like! If she's shaking what she's got and it looks like this, I...pfft. I-if you like your women saggy and shapeless, good for you. I'm not judging, it's just not what I wanna look at.
Todd: [pause] Does anyone even eat Laffy Taffy?! [image of Laffy Taffy bars] It's like candy corn, you know. I-it's just barely candy, and barely edible.
Todd (VO): It's about as appetizing as if they sang, [singing] "Shake that [image of guy looking under desk with...] already-chewed gum. That already-chewed gum."
Todd: But you know, what the hey? Maybe I just don't understand the artist's vision.
Todd (VO): You gotta understand where they were coming from. Take it straight from Fabo, who apparently in real life very much likes eating candy, which...you can tell. The guy knows his sugary confections.
Fabo: Mrs. Bubble Gum
I'm Mr. Chick-O-Stick
Todd (VO): [image of Chick-O-Stick] I've never even heard of that. What is that? And he's the one who came up with the Laffy Taffy concept, and the entire song. And if you hear them talk about the writing of it...
Todd: Even if you don't like the song, you can respect how much heart and soul D4L put into it when you hear Fabo say, quote, [shot of interview quote] "I hated the song. I swear to God, I hated the song. I could remember Shawty Lo calling home from jail saying, "Don't put that song out!" And I can't believe I'm saying this, 'cause I don't like 50 Cent at all, but...even he had better lines than D4L did.
Clip of "Candy Shop"
50 Cent: I'm trying to explain, baby, the best way I can
I melt in your mouth, girl, not in your hand (uh huh)
Todd (VO): Yeah, you know, that's a decent line.
Todd: Not great, but you know, five, six out of ten.
Video for "Laffy Taffy"
Todd (VO): Meanwhile...
Fabo: Girls call me Jolly Rancher
Cause I stay so hard
You can suck me for a long time
Todd (VO): OK, if I'm a big-name rapper, I'm not...
Todd: ...comparing my junk to a Jolly Rancher, which...you know, is...like, what [holding fingers up] this big?
Todd (VO): And a Jolly Rancher will melt in your hand. And real quick, too, 'cause...again, they're very small.
Shawty Lo: Close yo mouth and don't say shit
Todd: Like, it's not even a song about sex. It's about skeeving on dancers at the strip club, and groping them.
Shawty Lo: Girl, lemme touch ya
I will neva tell
Security guard don't scare nobody
Damn right I touched that ho
Todd (VO): So, like, it's not just gross imagery; it's gross on a personal level. If you're in any kind of decent place, yes, the guard does care.
Todd: This guy's about to eat some Laffy Pavement.
Todd (VO): So what was it? What made the song so big, was it just the dance?
Todd: [shrugs] I dunno!
Todd (VO): One thing you learn about music history is that it's like the history of anything else. Things don't succeed because they're good...
Todd: ...it's just trends. Trends sweep [image of Joseph Stalin] dictators into power. Trends put "Laffy Taffy" on the top of the charts.
Mook-B: You made it skeet skeet skeet
Todd (VO): See, it's the mid-2000s, so we gotta get a "skeet skeet" in there. No, "Laffy Taffy" got big not 'cause it was good. It was because [brief clip of...] "Candy Shop" was big the year before. "Laffy Taffy" got big because people wanted music to play when they got a phone call. This was, for a little while, the single-most downloaded song of all time. Because it already sounded like [image of iPhone getting a call] an average ringtone. It was like this perfect storm of terrible that could only have happened that year.
Todd: [sighs] Anyway, that's what I remember about "Laffy Taffy." And, uhh...let's get the rest of the crap outta the way. 'Cause, uhh...I got a plane to catch.
Video for "Betcha Can't Do It Like Me" starts
Todd (VO): D4L only ever released one more single.
D4L: And we back
Betcha, betcha, betcha, betcha
Todd: Calling me a bitch? [pretends to be offended]
Shawty Lo: I betcha can't do it like me (nope)
I betcha can't do it like me (nope)
Todd (VO): No, it's "betcha." As in, they're saying, "Betcha can't do it like me," which is the name of this song, you betcha.
Fabo: Prince O in the house and we represent the south
And I got to let 'em know
Todd (VO): And true enough, I can't do it like them. I-I'm being serious, I can't. Look at them. Like, th-they're going all out.
Fabo: Ain't nothin' but the pimpin' inside and she can go
We done kicked up, they can watch me roll
It's weird to me that Shawty Lo was the one with the solo career, 'cause Fabo seems to be the focal point of the group. I mean he's up there dancing and popping and locking, like he's throwing everything at it.
Todd: And as for the other two guys, Mook-B and Stoney, pfffft...
Todd (VO): ...I don't know. I'm not surprised they didn't take off. Honestly, I'm not sure one of them even exists. There is supposed to be a fourth guy. Like, where is he? I have no clue.
Todd: And, uhh, yeah, this is not my kind of hip-hop. But...
Todd (VO): ...at least it's got more energy than "Laffy Taffy" did. The-the lyrics don't really deserve any more attention, but at least I like the machine-gun flow.
Shawty Lo: I'll knock a nigga ass to the flo'
Ask Carlos, ask Fa-bo
This did make the rap charts, so if you were a hip-hop head that year, you might remember it. [pause] And a bunch of other hip-hop songs that sounded like this. OK, apparently D4L was also called, "snap music," which is a way better name for it than "ringtone rap." I didn't know it was called that, but yeah, I totally remember snapping being a thing. 'Cause snapping your fingers is like a dance move, except anyone can do it.
Todd: Yeah, there's a pretty direct line between Fabo and uhh...[clip of Soulja Boy - "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)"] this shit the year after. If you wanna know what finally killed ringtone rap, I'm putting it all on this kid.
Clip of "Betcha Can't Do It Like Me"
Todd (VO): And that was it for D4L. They never officially broke up; I was hoping to find some kind of beef that would be entertaining. But it's just, like...none of them thought D4L was gonna be successful.
Todd: Which would be the logical conclusion, but reality sometimes says, "Screw logic."
Todd (VO): And they were completely blindsided by their success, so when "Laffy Taffy" took off they were already working on solo projects. And once they finished those, they just never found the time to work together again, so that was the end of them. Which is, uhh...
Todd: ...such...a shame [shrugs]?
Todd: OK, let's see. What do I remember about Shawty Lo?
Clip of Shawty Lo - "Dey Know"
Shawty Lo: L O, L O, dey know, dey know
Todd (VO): Oh yeaaah! Yeah!
Todd: This was him. Yeah, yeah.
Shawty Lo: L O, dey know, dey know
L O, L O
Todd: [cockney British accent] 'Ello!
Todd (VO): H-he sang, "L O." As is Shawty Lo, L O, get it?
Shawty Lo: Said you see three I'm the one middle
I don't need this beat, I could rock it acapello
It's amazing how much better this dude sounds when he has an actual beat behind him. Not saying the guy's a lyrical mastermind or anything, but yeah. This is pretty decent.
Todd: [laughing] Which, thank God! I did not wanna have to shit-talk the poor guy throughout the review while he's still being mourned.
Shawty Lo: Dope boys let's get, get ,get it
Todd (VO): Let's see what else...oh yeah! Yeah...
Todd: ...there was that big feud he had.
Clip of Shawty Lo - "Dunn Dunn"
Shawty Lo: Add the fire it to the flame
Who mention Bankhead didn't say my name?
Todd (VO): Yeah, see Bankhead is the project he's from, and the guy who mentioned Bankhead and didn't mention Shawty Lo was [clip of "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)" by...] T.I. This started, like, a minor feud. ["Dunn Dunn"] Like this was Shawty Lo low-key blasting T.I. after not being street enough...which is pretty rich coming from a guy who made his name off of goddamn "Laffy Taffy."
Todd: But then again, T.I. was kinda vulnerable at the time. He was making, like...
Video for T.I. - "Whatever You Like"
Todd (VO): ...really terrible pop songs like, "Whatever You Like." And, uhh, the main thing T.I. has contributed to music this decade is [clip of "No Mediocre" featuring...] Iggy Azalea. So, you know...maybe Shawty Lo kinda had a point.
Todd: But both of those guys said the beef was never really much of a beef, and...
Video for Shawty Lo - "Put Some Respek On It"
Todd (VO): ...you know, they were pretty cool with each other in the end. Shawty Lo never got to release a second album while he was alive. Fabo tried for a solo career, too, but it never really took off.
Todd: Uh, last anyone heard from Shawty Lo before his death, he was making this network special about him and his...
Clip of Fox News headline: "'All My Babies' Mamas': Train Wreck TV"
Todd (VO): ...ten...baby mamas.
Trailer for All My Babies' Mamas
Todd: ...Yeah, it, uhh...it did not make it to air.
Todd (VO): Yeah, it turns out that was not a very, uhh, popular premise for a show.
Todd: Who the hell thought that was a good idea?! [another clip of Shawty Lo's memorial] And then he died last year. He's still, uhh, very well remembered in Atlanta. He was indeed down for life, as brief as it was.
Todd: No. I mean, yeah sure. [pause] No, of course not. I don't know!
Fabo: Shake dat laffy taffy
Todd (VO): Look, "Laffy Taffy" was not a good song. That's all I wanted to say when I started this episode. Just wanted to make an episode real quick about the worst song I could remember, and, uhh...and now here we are.
Todd: OK, yeah, this episode was a total disaster. [pause] Well, I'll have a lot of time to think about how to make a better episode next time, while I'm on the beach. [pulls hoodie down and puts on a baseball cap] Have a good summer, everybody.
Gets up and leaves
Closing tag song: Girl Talk - "Laffy Taffy"
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One of the issues that many Trek devotees seem to be fixated on is that of recasting. The assertion of these fans is that audiences will not accept new actors in the roles made famous by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. But Hollywood has never shied away from recasting roles…even iconic ones. This week the top film is Miami Vice, in which original show creator Michael Mann has recast quintissential 80s stars Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. The film made over $25 million in its first weekend in the US (The LA Times saying it is on track to exclipse Mann’s 2004 hit Collateral). Are Kirk and Spock any more iconic than Crockett and Tubbs?
Olmos more Adama than Greene?
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When word of a possible recasting of Kirk and Spock hit the interweb it wasnt long until a faction of Trek fandom started throwing around words like ‘sacrilidge’, ‘impossible’, ‘doomed’ and of course ‘online petition’ .It is easy to understand why some hardcore fans find it difficult to see their favorite characters get recast, they have a deep emotional investment in these shows and their stars. The performances are burned into their psyches…it is hard to accept anything different. A recent example of this was the storm created in the run up to Trek vet Ron Moore’s revamp of the classic series Battlestar Galactica. BSG’s co-creator David Eick recently told the crowd at Comic-Con that it got so bad on the internet forums before the show aired that they just stopped reading fan input. Then the show came out and became a hit. Now most would agree that Edward James Olmos (ironically an Emmy winner for the original Miami Vice) is a better Commander Adama than Lorne Greene ever was.
Routh fit well into Reeves boots
Recasting has a long track record
Hollywood has been successfully recasting roles for decades, just look at the list of TV Adaptations to the big screen that have made it. And of course many film franchises have surivived and thrived with multiple recastings, such as Bond, Superman, Jack Ryan, and coming soon: ‘Fletch’ (to be recast with Scrub’s Zach Braff). And of whatever your opinion of the latest Star Wars prequels (Episodes I, II, III) there seems to be universal agreement that Ewan Mc Greggor’s portrayal of a young Obi Wan was near perfect. The closest example may be the Batman franchise, like Trek it had seen better days and so (again like Trek) they decided to get back to basics and do a recast and an origin story with Batman Begins. That film went on to be a mega-hit for Warner Bros. and just today they announced its sequel. It does not seem to matter if a character was originally created on the page, TV or film either, recasting has worked in all cases. To be sure there have been some duds that had recasting (like last year’s Bewitched), but was it recasting with Will Farrell or a bad script that killed that one? In the end Star Trek is just another film franchise and it is subject to the same laws of Hollywood Physics. Mainstream audiences seem fairly flexible when it comes to recasting…its really only the hard core fanboys that have a hard time coping, and often even they come around.
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Although recasting works, that does not mean it is easy, just ask Brian Singer who went to great lengths to find his Superman. That being said, the rumor that Matt Damon would play Kirk has actually been well received in the media and amongst fans, even William Shatner has said he thinks ‘its great’. He is seen as having star power, being able to do drama and action, and having a ‘fit’ with the character. The big question at Paramount is: does it need a big star? It is easier for a good unknown actor (like Routh) to emboddy a role made famous by others, but a big star helps ensure box office success and bringing in new fans (something the Trek franchise could use). Although Damon seems like a good choice (if true) there seems little consensus on the more difficult Spock character. Opinions vary widely from Keanu Reeves to Jude Law to Adrien Brody to lesser-knowns like Milo Ventimiglia. One thing people tend to agree on is that Damon shouldn’t be paired up with his buddy Affleck. The TREK XI Report is a strong believer a pairing of Matt Damon with Juaquin Phoenix in the roles of Kirk and Spock. One thing is for sure, recasting is one of the hottest issues in fandom, and will remain so for the next two years.
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Ranking the top 5 moments from “The Walking Dead” season 10 episode 7: “Open Your Eyes”
Happy Monday TV fans! After watching AMC’s The Walking Dead season 10 episode 7, Siddiq may have had “miles to go before he sleeps,” but he does still have promises to keep. The truth can be a dangerous thing, but once all of the pieces are put together, what else will be revealed? Please note MAJOR spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet.
In last night’s episode, “Open Your Eyes,” Siddiq’s flashes finally come together, as we learn the truth behind them. Meanwhile, Carol attempts to get some answers out of her prisoner and Lydia makes a choice.
My top 5 moments from The Walking Dead season 10 episode 7 are:
“Alpha drew a line and you need to choose what side you’re on.”
That may be so, but Carol also needs to remember that Lydia is more than a potential weapon against Alpha. She’s also a person and Daryl reminds her that she’s been through enough. That being said, Lydia does share some information with Carol about her mother using manipulation as a strategy.
She explains that if The Whisperers see a place like Alexandria, another way to survive will be revealed and it could destroy everything Alpha has worked so hard to put in place for them.
Lydia reminds Carol that “an idea like that is dangerous” and that it could spread. The idea of hope can spread quicker than any threat or sickness, but will Carol and the others be able to execute this plan effectively?
We’ll have to see how this turns out, but it’s clear that Lydia may be the key to all of this.
“He is one of them.”
Our forbidden Romeo and Juliet story continues, as Aaron and Gamma continue to meet together and bond. Aaron tells Gamma about his daughter and family, but Gamma has trouble opening up about her own sister.
It’s clear that Gamma is having second thoughts, recognizing the potential for goodness through Aaron, but Alpha whips her back into reality.
Although all bets might be off now that Gamma knows that Lydia is alive…
Will Gamma be the one to truly turn the tables on Alpha? Will Aaron get caught in the crossfire? I can’t wait to find out, but I think that Gamma’s character has a lot of potential and I’m waiting for her to do something truly significant.
“He bleeds until he answers.”
Carol means business, but she decides to first start off with some bread and jam. After the prisoner spits it back in her face, Carol is not playing nice anymore and shows off her potential skills as a torturer.
Daryl gets in on the action as well, but it looks like the prisoner is going to remain loyal to Alpha until the end, but Carol realizes that exposing that Lydia is alive might get him to talk.
Of course the prisoner dies before this can happen, as Dante tells Siddiq that he packed the wrong bag, which led to his untimely demise.
“I choose mine!”
After Carol brings Lydia to the line, revealing her to Gamma, Lydia realizes that Carol has been using her and tells her that she is just like her mother.
She may have a point here, as Carol is just acting without really thinking things through. Lydia decides to choose her own side and runs off, but where can she really go now?
It’s not like she can go back to her mother, but she’s not exactly safe out in the woods either…
Is she going to look for Negan? Will he be able to help her now that he is with The Whisperers?
Let’s hope that Daryl and Dog can help find her because Lydia is one of my favorite characters on the show and I would be devastated if we lost her.
This episode was jam-packed with a lot, but the scenes with Siddiq stole the show. We have been getting bits and pieces of Siddiq’s flashes sprinkled across each episode and they all led to this moment.
The guilt is clearly getting to Siddiq, as he even jumps in the water to find some kind of escape, but Rosita jumps in after him and he finally takes a moment to confide in her.
Siddiq explains that he blames himself for what happened because he simply did nothing and watched his friends die. Rosita tries to remind him that he has people who truly love him and that he is not alone, which was a touching moment between them.
Toward the end of the episode, Dante goes to see Siddiq to see how he is doing and Siddiq hears a clicking sound Dante is making, which triggers back the missing pieces.
It is revealed that Dante is a Whisperer and he is the one who held Siddiq back and made him watch his friends die. Siddiq tries to keep his cool with this revelation, but it’s too late, as Dante kills him in a shocking and heartbreaking scene.
Dante seems like he did truly care about Siddiq in some kind of sick and twisted way, but he does what he has to, realizing that Siddiq will expose him. Siddiq is also the only one who has realized that the water may be making people sick, which is another reason why Dante needs to eliminate him.
RIP Siddiq.
You will be missed!
Now that we know that Dante is an undercover Whisperer, who will be the one to unmask him…or I guess put the mask back on?
Will Rosita be able to get justice for Siddiq’s death?
Overall, this was a shocking and revealing episode. All of the pieces are coming together now, but let’s hope that Siddiq’s death was not in vain. Stay tuned for the mid-season finale next week!
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Kenya Safari Tours: Everything About Kenya That a Tourist Should Know
by admin_rc | Oct 7, 2019 | Articles & Tips, Safety Tips, Tips n Tricks, Tour Guide | 0 comments
Kenya Safari Tours: The magnitude of our experience in life determines its quality and traveling certainly enriches it. If you have a strong travel impulse, prepare yourself to be taken up by the enchanting culture and over-flowing wilderness of this place, situated in the East of Africa. Kenya. Officially known as the Republic of Kenya, the 49th largest country of the world is bound to give you many enlightening experiences.
Plan your luxury or economical trip from various available packages with the prominent ones marked as Kenya Safari tours, Kenya tour packages, Kenya Safari packages, Masai mara packages, Masai mara migration packages 2019.
Kenya Wildlife Safari Holidays: Itchy Feet & fading smiles? Lighten up with the magic that is Kenya.
The charm of Kenya is indescribable but we will try to articulate the beauty of those golden beaches, vast savannah grasslands, the spectacular coastline views, and other iconic landmarks.
Get your adrenaline rushing in the heart of African Safari:
When a man puts the wild beasts in a cage, he closes himself to the sorcery of nature. Seeing the wildlife in their natural habitats might give you goosebumps but will prove to be the most thrilling experience ever. Get ready for a tickle in your heart as you watch the elephants, buffaloes, leopards, lions, rhinoceros, giraffes, hyenas, jackals and other animals roaming uncaptivated in their primary ecosystems.
You can choose from Kenya Safari tours and Kenya Safari packages which will take you through the finest and classiest destinations of Kenya like Samburu National Reserve, Amboseli National Park, Laikipia Plateau, Masai Mara, and Nairobi.
Transport your spirit back to childhood in the avifauna and lakes:
What is that element in nature that could easily put us down on our hands and knees, singing songs to the beautiful birds as we saw them eating, dancing or flying? There is a special connection between humans and nature that grows when they come to each other’s company. Kenya has special places to foster this love. Visit the freshwater lakes of Nakuru, Bogoria, and Naivasha and watch the diverse migrants of avifauna like pink flamingos, fish eagles, pink-backed pelicans, and crested eagles. The beauty of their beings and the special moments captured will surely turn you into a storyteller.
Open up your heart to the diverse culture:
Culture in Kenya is a celebration of diversity with 62 languages and varied ethnic make-up. There is joy, security, and unity in the relationships of the people, who are group-oriented rather than individualistic. Kenyans value relationships with care and uphold a strong social structure. You will be delighted to take part in the ceremonies, traditions, and activities of the natives of African Mecca. Peep into the routines of folklore here, the customs which have been serving as guideposts and maintaining continuity in the hearts and souls of the people. You will return enlightened and pragmatic.
Augment your joy with the elements of recreation & creativity in the Sand beaches and Islands:
If you get inspired to ride on the wings of imagination when you see an open sky and blue waters; if you can hear the whisper made by the waves of a beach, then this is the place where your heart will find the treasure it is looking for! Kenya’s islands like Funzi, Lamu, Mombasa, and its northern and southern beaches are a charm for thousands of tourists and an invitation to enjoy life in its simplicity. They resonate with a clear message, Life and living are not so hard!
Do you love to fly? Try flying under the water, there are things to see...Serendipity is a traveler’s ally and Kenya’s underwater world is sure to give you sweet surprises. The world of the sea is wild, beautiful and free. Underneath lies bounty of marine life waiting to be explored. You can go snorkeling, diving, or take delight in the coral wilderness of Watamu Marine Park, Canyon, Moray Reef, Mtwapa and Barracuda Reef, and Kisite Mpunguti Marine Reserve.
Time machine exists! Travel back with Kenya’s artifacts
Paintings, relics, and profound archaeological designs conceal the past and also the understanding of where it all came from. There are mysteries to be solved, art pieces to be discovered, and expertise awaiting its due recognition in the Kenyan Artefacts. Perhaps because these artifacts have helped us to understand the common humanity that the Lake Turkana has been named as ‘Cradle of Mankind’. This World Heritage site is believed to be the place where life began as the bones of human beings dating back to mankind’s existence were discovered from here by Dr. Richard Leakey.
The creativity in Kenya exists to date and can be found in the works of its 40 varied ethnic groups. World-class Kitengela glass art, Flamingo Wall Tiles, Outdoor and bamboo furniture, Housemark artwork, stone and wood carvings are some exemplary works.
Top attractions in Kenya
Masai Mara National Reserve:
Located in the south-west region of Kenya, Masai Mara safari is famous for its unique population of cheetas, leopards, lions, zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, and other wild beasts. Watching their herds in the huge stretches of rolling grasslands, you will develop a fine ear and eye for the rhythm of wilderness that can only be felt at this place.
Best time to visit: More than 2 million wild animals migrate from Serengati National Park of Tanzania to the Masai Mara National Reserve in July till October each year, which remains the peak time to visit the place. The wildlife view is however good all year round and millions of tourists visit annually.
Packages and activities: Choose from various Masai Mara Tour packages available in luxury and economic range. The packages cover Diani Beach, and Masai Mara game reserve with several activities like hot air balloon rides, safari game drives, in addition to basics like meals, drinking water, accommodation, pick and drop and transport. You can also enjoy cultural visits in the Masai villages, bird watching, visit Mfangano island at Lake Victoria, and go for walking safaris along with guides.
Cost: The average cost of traveling and accommodation is around $400 per person for 3 days and 2 nights.
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The word ‘Amboseli’ comes from a Masai word that means ‘salty dust’. This naturally beautiful National Park is situated in Southern Kenya and spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. The park is renowned for its large elephant herds, wildlife like giraffes, zebras, cheetas, and bird species. It is also known for its magnificent views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
During the safari visit, you will find yourself admiring over 1000 elephants including around 58 families as they move around regally around the park. Get ready for a tingle as you watch the lions climbing up the trees, a kingfisher hunting for a fish, and over 400 species of birds including ostriches, flamingos, grey-crowned cranes, yellow-billed storks, African ibises, and pelicans, to name a few.
Best time to visit: June to October and January to February are the dry months and also the perfect time to visit. The animals tend to gather more at the water sources and grass is shorter. There are rains in November, April and May and the place witnesses fewer tourists at this time. Game drives and activities are also suspended during the rainy season.
Packages and activities: Kenya Wildlife Safari packages are ranging from 4 hours to 3 days that includes food, accommodation, game drives, entrance fee, guide fees, and pick-drop. Enjoy the Amboseli Lake (if you plan to visit after rains); Normatior, a pyramid-shaped hill for splendid views; Sinet Delta, the place for bird-watching or visit the Masai village.
Cost: The average cost for 3 days is $540 and varies according to the type of package taken.
Lake Nakuru
The most beautiful, peaceful and pleasurable experiences await those who love to watch the world in the crystal waters of Nakuru lake.
Nakuru lake lies to the south of Nakuru in the rift valley of Kenya and is well-known for its landscapes and wildlife. In order to protect the birdlife in the plains and surrounding hills of lake, the Nakuru National Park was set up in 1960. A huge population of pink flamingos flock to the lake each year to the soda lake, attracted by a special kind of algae. Wild animals like warthogs, baboons, zebras, Eastern black rhinos and southern white rhinos can also be viewed along the woodlands or grazing along the shorelines.
Best time to visit: The months from June to October and January to February is the time to behold the wildlife and birds. The park gets busy from July to March when the rainfall is very little.
Packages and Activities: The duration of the Kenya Safari tours range from are one day that takes you to Lake Nakuru, to 3-4 days that include other locations also. The second one may include a combination of places like Masai Mara, and Tanzania along with the lake. A full-day tour consists of private or group game drives to Lake Nakuru National Park, guide services with bird and wildlife watching, meals, and transport. You can upgrade to boat trips to look for hippos and eagles on Lake Navisha.
Cost: The packages range from $70 to $635 depending on the type and duration chosen.
Tsavo National Park is one of the oldest and biggest parks in Kenya. It is divided into east and west sections by a road and railway line. The park is named after the Tsavo River which flows from west to east through the National park. The open canopy of its savannah attracts a variety of life consisting of wild as well as docile. The big five including the lion, black rhino, cape, buffalo, elephant, leopard and diverse birds like crowned cane, love birds, sacred ibis can be seen. Just as the trees attract sunshine, freshness blossoms in the minds of those who visit Tsavo as their worries drop off like autumn leaves.
Best time to visit: Tsavo is best visited during the dry months of June to October and January to February.
Packages: The Kenya Safari Tour packages start from one day trip to a few days in luxury and budget range. Private safaris are also available where you can enjoy the trip with your members using facilities like pop up car roof, and catching close splendid views of the animals in their eco-system.
Cost: Simple day trips on an average cost of $ 200 and may extend to $500 or more as per the increase in duration.
Other top tourist attractions in Kenya are Samburu and Shaba National Reserves, Lamu Island, Lake Naivasha, Nairobi, Mombasa island, Maldini Resort, Mount Kenya National Park, and Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
Basic information about Kenya that a tourist should know
Demographics: The multi-ethnic state has a population of 4.97 crores that is unequally distributed with over 70 ethnic groups classified into Bantu, Nilotic, Cushitic, and Kikuyu as the largest group. The official languages are Swahili and English.
Climate: Kenya has a pleasant tropical climate which varies by location. The coastal cities witness a higher temperature and rainfall. It changes from cool to hot, every day. February is the hottest month while most of the rainfall is in April. The lowlands are hot and dry while the highlands are temperate.
Currency: Shilling is the Kenyan currency and 1 Kenyan Shilling = 0.68 Indian Rupees and 0.0096 US dollars. Even though dollars are widely accepted, it is recommended to carry local currency for things that are not included in your package.
Food: Staples grown in Kenya are maize, cereals, millets, which are enjoyed with vegetables and meat. A typical Kenyan diet includes Ugali, green vegetables, milk, beans, eggs, sukuma wiki, nyama choma.
How to reach Kenya: The main airport is Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and Moi International Airport in Mombasa. Most of the packages include transportation from these two destinations.
Your backpack for travel: If you intend to travel to many parts of Kenya, keep in mind the climate and duration and carry your basics along with the following:
Formal and informal wear (lightweight)
Camera and binoculars
Sunscreen and repellents
Travel documents and cards
Maps and travel guides
So, get ready to develop a wider view of the world around. Enjoy the food, regard the customs, meet the people, travel to Kenya.
If you are interested in Kenya Safari Tours & Holidays? You may feel free to contact us on our Website – https://thetourbasket.com or Whatsapp at – +91-77019 57716
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The Three Most Terrifying Parts About Climate Change Have Nothing To Do With Climate.
Six years ago today, I was harvesting spinach from my little urban farm in unheated poly low tunnels, wearing a t-shirt during the day time and there was barely any snow on the ground. In recent years, our winters have definitely been getting colder, but the first four years of my farming career were an anomaly compared to the seasonal averages here in the Okanagan Valley. Back then everyone I knew, myself included was crying Global Warming and demanding action from our governments. Now, many, not me this time, are crying for the same thing because it’s now kind of how it used to be before those four odd years. The most recent years, we’ve been seeing a trend to much colder winters, kind of like how it used to be twenty years ago. I remember skating on the lake when I was in elementary school. Is this the dreaded Climate Change that the mainstream media and government reminds us about every single day? Are we all doomed if we don’t change our wasteful human behaviour?
After being caught up in the environmentalist frenzy from the time I was twelve until just a few years ago, I am beginning to doubt it. Look, I don’t doubt the climate is changing, it’s obvious that it is and always has. And, I don’t doubt that humans might have something to do with it either. What I doubt is that the government, despite the billions of dollars they spend every year, is going to do a damn thing about it. Personally, I think Climate Change has become just another religion to fill a vacuum of morality for the secular west and it’s a fantastic way for politicians to get elected by virtue signalling about saving the world while moving around billions of dollars of funding from one company boondoggle to the next. It’s also great marketing. Just look at the amount of products and services being offered that claim to “save the environment”.
I really care about the environment of the planet and local ecology, it’s the main reason why I got into organic farming in the first place, but I also value the truth at the upmost of my being, this is why I start to feel sick when I see people virtue signalling about saving the world, because frankly, I just don’t think it’s entirely honest to say that. It’s really about advancing careers and political campaigns. I just wish people would be more honest about that. Let me be clear though, I am not saying that everyone who cares about climate change is just shallowly trying to advance their careers. There a lot of good people out there just doing the best they can and they truly believe that. However, I see so much dogma in this space and it’s turned into a tribe mentality where if one tribe or person hears some evidence that may contradict their core beliefs, they fall into a deep state of cognitive dissonance. I experienced that myself the first time I started to hear evidence that was compelling. The biggest one for myself are the climate models that have been predicting catastrophe for thirty years or more now. None of these events have come true, at least none of the ones I’ve read about. If someone can show me an accurate climate model from years ago that successfully predicted where we are now, I would happily look and would be willing to change my mind. Even the infamous Al Gore who ten years ago, predicted that the ice caps would be melted by now never happened. A total nothing burger. If you go back in history, even thousands of years back, you’ll notice that humans have always made predictions about catastrophe, it’s a bit of a racket actually. People make huge money and occupy powerful positions by jumping on this gravy train.
I also want to make it perfectly clear again that I am not implying that industry should keep going the way that it’s going. I am deeply concerned about ocean acidification, topsoil runoff, clean air and many other issues. I want my daughter to live in a clean environment. I don’t want us to end up like China. I also probably do far more than the average virtue signalling politician when it comes to these things. I live in a solar powered home. I grow most of the vegetables that my family eats as well as buy most of our food locally, we ride bikes everywhere in the warm months and I have taught tens of thousands of people to do the same.
I don’t need to validate myself here anymore, but I want to illustrate three things that I see as far more dangerous and devastating to the well being of myself, family and community at large than supposed Climate Change. They are, as follows.
1. Dogma and social ostracism
Many people in the environmentalist space, of course not all, have become absolutely dogmatic about Climate Change and in my opinion it has turned into an orthodox religion for atheists. I have endured outright harassment and slander because I have changed my views slightly on the issue and I have seen friendships fall apart and vitriolic hatred directed towards me from online trolls for a video I posted once titled “Trump, Climate Change and Why I No Longer Care”. Even one person, who used to be a close friend of mine, went so far as to campaign customers of my farm to boycott me because I was an alleged “Trump supporting Climate Change Denier”. So, I’ve seen this first hand in my life, but also witnessed it in all over the world. All you have to do is tune into social media on any given day to see people calling each other nasty things over a disagreement of opinion. It’s insanity. I see it greatly affecting the mental health of many people. I’m not looking for pity here or claiming any level of victimhood status. I mention this to illustrate my point.
2. Policy and funding
The amount of policy that is being changed in governments around the world is absolutely astonishing. I travel around the world for my work as a teacher and consultant and I often work with not for profit groups who are the beneficiaries of some kind of Climate Change funding. There is a unified effort to change the laws of countries and even the constitutions of them in the name of climate change. That’s not even really the part that I see as the most damaging to individuals and business, it’s the amount of grants and funding being offered that will create an environment of regulatory capture in the market place, i.e. government sponsored corporate monopolies. One local example that has the potential to do this is the Buy BC program here in British Columbia, that grants sales contracts and money to producers who can sell to state run institutions like hospitals and other public services. This may sound good and I would certainly like to see these places buying local, but what it will do is create monopolies because the barrier to entry to sell these markets is extremely high. You’re not going to see nurses at the hospitals running around the farmers market to buy produce for their patients. One; that would be totally impractical and two; would not be cost effective, they need it streamlined, and from a free market perspective that totally makes sense. But that’s not how it will pay out, the government will act as a gatekeeper and only certain players will be able to get in that game. Thus, a few big farms may benefit and the rest of us, being small farmers, will now have way bigger competition.
This is pretty typical when you see the state messing around with the marketplace. Having widely available produce is a good thing, but if it’s only provided by a few huge monopolies, that doesn’t help the small farmer or family business, quite the opposite. Another example in the US was the Obama funded boondoggle of the solar company Solyndra. Billions of dollars were dumped in, only to have the company go totally bust shortly after. Similar as to when the US government bailed out the banks in 2008. All the top CEO’s immediately took out massive bonuses. The message here is, how can you trust anyone who is being fed a massive amount of government money? It skews the natural incentive of the marketplace. By that base principle, this is why I have a hard time believing most of the climate scientists today. They are all getting huge funding to support the narrative that climate change is going to lead to global catastrophe. If someone can find a climate scientist that has government funding and still has their grant or job after presenting data that may contradict that narrative, I’ll happily adjust my thinking on this. Now, you might say, well ya Curtis, look at all the oil companies that are funding the other narrative! Yes, you’re correct, those exist. If you can see that, then you are not blind to see how market incentives can alter a company or persons behaviour. But ask yourself this question, who has more money, the government or the oil companies? Who prints the money, controls interest rates and sets the rules of the game? Government does. Certainly with the help of the big banks, but it’s obvious who is out gunned here and I am in no way sticking up for the big oil companies, I’m just trying to point out something that is painfully obvious to those who can understand how incentive works.
We already have a provincial carbon tax here in BC and potentially one coming in Canada. Increased taxes only hurt small business. Big business and people who are wealthy, always have options. They can afford to move shop or diversify their options, whereas the small business or middle class families don’t have those options. I’m not saying that the carbon tax is going to immediately put people out of business, but it is clear that it is affecting people lives. It costs us money and it moves that money to the state, who then take a big cut for administrative costs and then deal out the crumbs to some programs that may circle back to funding monopolies in industry like I illustrated in point 2.
Let me be clear, I am not saying these three things are going to cause armageddon in our political systems, I am just saying that they’re going to affect our lives a hell of a lot more than a slightly colder winter than the last or maybe a warmer summer. Last summer here in the Okanagan Valley, we saw the lake flood higher than it has in recent history, but we also saw less wild fires than previous years. People were screaming climate change about that too. It seems that there is nothing that can happen in the weather today that would make people not scream about climate change. Frankly, as someone who works and spends most of his time outside, the weather over the past four years has more less returned to how it’s been for most of my life. We have always had wild fires here, we live in a high desert climate. The lake has also fluctuated it’s height. Sure, last year was a record, but records are always made in something, then we return to the mean.
Maybe with point one, I’m aiming at a wider issue that goes far beyond just the conversation about climate change, but to the polarization of the political space that has gone fully ideological and all about what team you’re on, but perhaps that’s another can of worms for another time.
You might be saying, “Ok Curtis, now that you’ve pointed out a bunch of problems, what’s your solution?”. Well, many solutions are unfolding right now and very quickly. The market place is demanding local and organic food more than ever. If you look at the demand for organic, it’s growing faster than ever. Most of the farmers I know around the world, their biggest problem is scaling up fast enough to meet the demand. Solar power, electric cars and green tech in general are getting better, cheaper and more available every year. Are these things happening as a result of government intervention? Maybe, it’s kind of hard to say because the government has been tinkering with the market for most of our lives. For most of us alive today, we have never really had a free market. In the US, ever since the inception of the federal reserve system in 1913 and in Canada in 1974 when Trudeau changed the role of the bank of Canada. They can manipulate interest rates and control the flow of money and the amount, thereby controlling incentives in business to move one way or the other. Government can also raise or decrease tax on certain industries at will or even make somethings outright illegal.
Though, we still do have remnants of a free market and you can see it playing out in the sectors that have the least amount of regulation, particularly technology. Products in technology continually get better, cheaper and faster. Just look at the affordability of any technological product today, then what it was even ten years ago. This is what happens in free markets. Now, compare that to sectors that are highly regulated. The opposite occurs. Take health care for example, in Canada and the US, it’s a similar market situation even despite the fact that our two health care models are very different, they are both highly regulated. Nothing gets better, cheaper and faster in these kind of markets. It might appear to be cheap in Canada because we have universal health care, but service can be painfully slow and outdated. And, that cheapness is only what we as the end user see. The cost to the government and tax payer is absolutely absurd. This happens because there is no incentive in the marketplace to make things cheaper, because there are few to no options available to the consumer, thus a lack of competition. Another local example of this is ICBC, the Insurance Corporation of BC. It’s an absolute boondoggle. A government sponsored monopoly that has no competition, guaranteed customers, yet still has taken over a billion dollars in losses last year.
Prices are high because the government has an allocation of money to spend and the companies and people that supply the government know this and they have a market incentive to make sure they get as much of that money as possible. Also, they don’t really have to worry about pissing off customers, because they have zero competition. If you’re American, just spend an afternoon waiting at the DMV or as a Canadian living in BC, try to settle an injury claim with ICBC and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
In a free market, the customer is king and he/she has options and feels the pain of increased prices, they want to spend less while getting better quality. It’s exactly that point that drives innovation, reduces costs and waste. In a real free market, there’s a massive incentive to reduce waste, because waste costs money. Now, I am not claiming that all industries aren’t wasteful, there are many that certainly are, but what I am saying is that the demand for cleaner and more efficient products is driving demand.
At the end of the day, I would far rather live in a world that values civil liberties and personal freedom that is on a path to making the world better and cleaner, then a green utopia with high regulation, taxes and limited freedom. The western world was founded on the values of the first example.
My approach is to never let the fear messages from the government and media of the end of the world, scare me into demanding for more help from the government. Like the three points I made, more help from the government is going to continually strip the last remaining freedoms we have. In our “somewhat free market”, each of us our free to make consumer and life decisions to best support the world we want to live in, whether that’s putting solar on our homes, riding bike to work each day, growing our own food and supporting the companies and groups that share our values. The power is in our hands to make the world a better place and I would encourage everyone to put their money where there mouths are by being the change, instead of “mailing it in” by asking government to fix the problem.
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Reid Park's new playground is ADA-accessible.
Courtesy Tucson Parks and Recreation
An example of one of the wheelchair-accessible structures at Reid Park's new playground.
The playground has separate area for kids ages 2 to 5.
Reid Park's new accessible playground just opened and it looks amazing
Reid Park's new playground is now open.
The play area near the DeMeester band shell replaces an older, smaller playground in that location. (The playground near 22nd Street is still there).
Not only does this new playground have shade in certain spots, but it's mostly ADA accessible.
"There are ramps all throughout, so it's more accessible than normal playgrounds are, with lots of lower components so kids in wheelchairs or of different abilities can play," says Sierra Boyer, the community promotions and marketing manager for Tucson Parks and Recreation.
Components include musical pieces, climbing structures and a rocking feature — basically a teeter-totter a child in a wheelchair could roll onto.
The playground includes an area for kids ages 2 to 5, as well as a bigger playground for kids ages 5 to 12. A few swing sets (that aren't yet installed) are also planned.
The project cost around $700,000 and was funded by the city's Impact Fees, Boyer says.
Construction on a splash pad for the park may tentatively begin next summer. That project is separate from the playground and one of the Proposition 407 projects. Check out this story for more information about other Reid Park plans.
"The community has been asking for something that is more accessible, and something that is not the same cookie-cutter playground, something that all abilities and ages can enjoy," Boyer says.
A grand opening is planned for Friday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m.
Reid Park is getting a new playground and splash pad
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A rendering of the proposed park posted on Intermountain's website shows two different age-specific play areas for children ages 2-5 and children from 5-12 and five different themed zones — beach, music, woods, wild animals and farm. It also includes plenty of shade trees and sails.
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The Mechanisms
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Arthur was drowning. He could feel the blood pounding in his ears and the breath beating its way out of his chest. He knew that he needed to fight his need for air and he knew that in a moment he would be able to resist it no longer. Dirty water would fill his lungs. He would sink to the rusted floor. Even the location of his body would be forgotten. He fought all of it, thrashing desperately against the water and the hands holding him down…
“Art? You dreamin’ again?”
He opened his eyes. The corrugated iron of the sheriff’s house loomed over him. The hole in the corner where the rust had worn it down and the light seeped in was a comfort. As was Lancelot’s hand on his shoulder. Gwen mumbled something in her sleep and curled closer against him as if unconsciously sensing his discomfort.
“The Lady?” Lancelot asked. He was leaning on one elbow and staring at Arthur in that intense way he paid attention to anything. Arthur turned to look at him. He gave a wry smile.
“How did you guess?”
Lance twitched his lips, and kissed Arthur on the forehead.
“Go back to sleep, Art. You ain’t going to drown in this bed, s’long as Gwen don’t crush you in her sleep. And that ain’t no bad way to go.” Arthur raised his eyebrows, then raised his lips for another kiss.
“That’s as may be. I’m going to go get some air anyways.”
Thirty years ago, a younger Arthur nearly drowned. He was running in the dark. The dark water was pulling at his legs until suddenly the floor disappeared beneath him and he fell. It was a small gap. His flailing arms scraped against the other side before his head had completely sunk beneath the surface. He scrabbled, tore the flesh from one side of his arm but managed to haul himself up to collapse onto his side on solid ground. He had been underwater for all of maybe five seconds. The dreams would haunt him for the rest of his life.
The shouts and splashing water quickly reminded him that he could not rest long. He had killed several of her gang. Enough remained. Arthur hauled himself to his exhausted feet and continued. Behind him he heard a muffled scream cut short. Perhaps someone else had fallen for his own near death. He grinned to himself, a macabre joke.
And on he ran. In the complete darkness he navigated by the current of the water and the noises of his pursuers. He would circle round, cut one bandit off as he searched blindly and reduce their numbers bit by bit. Sometimes he came stalked their torchlight or raised campfires. He would shoot down as many as he could before they could pinpoint his muzzle flash then run. It is not possible to run silently in thigh-deep water so he ran far and fast. For three months, he did not stop running.
In the days when he was nothing but a journeying sellgun he used to pass through Camelot when he could. His distant upbringing stopped anyone from knowing him as his father’s son. There was good work to be had in Camelot, even if you refused to work for the Stones. Arthur never took work too close lest they attempt to recruit him. He was not yet ready to move against them.
There was something else which drew him strangely to Camelot. He knew his father’s thoughts towards the Hanged Man and at first he had gone to see him out of curiosity. Fashions changed, and the Hanged Man was little more than a curiosity nowadays, though he had been a sight and would become one again. Before Arthur gained his gun and met his loves and took his town he had the Hanged Man to himself. He would sit beneath him. The town of Camelot stretched out before his eyes and he would talk.
“Someone needs to break the Lady of the Lake’s hold on the water,” he said. He spoke mostly to himself, but loud enough that the Hanged Man could hear. “Without water, the Stones can’t last long. With water, I could persuade most people over to my cause.”
“I’d be cautious,” said the Hanged Man. “Nimue has a weapon the likes of which you’ve never seen. A relic, the last remaining military-grade piece on the Station. It will kill you before you can see her. She’s currently beyond even your desperate optimism.”
“A relic weapon?” said Arthur. His brow furrowed in thought. “If I could claim that of her…”
No one knew how many bandits the Lady had gathered to her. They seemed to swell in number as Arthur killed them. Perhaps the Lady was giving away more of her precious water to overcome this threat. Maybe Arthur had underestimated her power. He could be trapped down here, waging an eternal war in the dark until he died to a bullet or the rust or old age. He began to yearn for food seared delicious on a fire. He thought of Ygraine and wondered if she was bearing his child.
Time and light became as legendary to him as company and the Light Beyond. He slept when he was exhausted and woke at every slight noise. For a long time he did not find the Lady, or the Lady did not find him. Or he was not allowed to find her. After some time he no longer let it concern him.
But slowly, but surely, he began to gain on her. Suddenly he began to spend entire waking days without seeing another soul. Arthur knew that the Lady was getting closer. He could almost see her.
Then the Lady’s railgun shattered the ground behind his feet. The water absorbed the splinters of metal and rust but the shock sound wave tore at his ears anyway. Arthur threw himself down into the water. He had not even heard the Lady’s approach. She must have been waiting for him here, where the water was freshest and some light filtered vaguely through the bulkheads.
Arthur twisted in the water. Only his face was exposed to the air. He breathed slowly. He allowed as few ripples as possible to betray his presence. Finally he heard the shuffle of movement and the faint splashing of water as someone moved away.
They still call it a morning routine. Gwen exercises. Lance watches her stretching and balancing on the porch overlooking Main Street. He makes tea, boiling stale leaves in water to make it taste ever so slightly of something other than dust. Arthur disassembles the railgun on the table. Impenetrable ammunition rack here. User serviceable magnetics there. The gunslinger has figured out most of its workings over the years. The last thing he does every morning is to rattle the boxy ammunition rack. There were days when it had felt full, days when it had seemed to be emptying too fast, and nowadays it seemed never to change.
Lance saw that he had finished and put the cup of tea in front of him. “You’re more gentle with that gun than you ever are with me,” he said.
“If you want to play less rough anytime, you just say,” Arthur replied.
She had thought him dead, and that was her death. He did not pull the same trick as she had, knowing that she would be on her guard against her own deceptions. Instead Arthur stalked her. He took each step more slowly than the last. The drips of water which fell from him echoed no louder than the condensation which dripped down the walls. And he listened closely. Finally, a week later, he heard the Lady. She was singing softly to herself, under her breath. Arthur recognised the tune.
He let her finish the tune before he shot her. Three months at her mercy in the flooded sector had taught him not to take chances. She fell with a soft splash. Then there were no sounds to be heard but the water dripping down the walls and the creaking of the hull.
The Lady’s body lay just below the surface. The cloth of her duster floated in the ripples on the surface. In her hand she still clutched the .x-calibre railgun tightly. Arthur took it. He cast aside his own pistol and slotted it into his holster. It fitted, but awkwardly. He would need to make some new way of carrying it. The Lady seemed to have simply carried it in her hands at all times.
On the Station, water was worth more than bullets or even meat. Now Arthur was master of more water than could be found anywhere else. He could threaten, cajole or bribe near anyone. He left the reservoir without looking back, his precious relic held at his waist. His hands did not leave its guard.
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TWIMLcon: A New Conference to Help the Enterprise Adopt Machine Learning
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5 Sep 2019 5:00pm, by TNS Staff
On this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, TNS Founder and publisher Alex Williams sat down with Sam Charrington, who is the founder of This Week in Machine Learning & AI podcast. They discuss Charrington’s inaugural TWIMLcon conference taking place Oct. 1-2, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Diego, California.
Growing out of conversations that Charrington had with enterprises, TWIMLcon aims to bring a fresh perspective to AI and ML events. Companies “tended to be at a very interesting transition point,” he said, noting that he heard towards the end of last year that they “kicked off a lot of machine learning proof-of-concept types of projects, they had some initial successes, their data science teams were out evangelizing, and some of those proof-of-concepts were starting to mature […] And so all of a sudden these organizations, they were challenged with the transition from ‘How do I successfully execute an individual machine learning project,’ to ‘How do I become an engine for delivering machine learning at my organization?’”
After starting the TWIML podcast, Charrington found that the focus at other AI and ML conferences tended to be on high-level business use cases, or on modeling and building out algorithms, but not as much conversation was happening on how to build models efficiently and organize. Thus, TWIMLcon was created to fill that gap.
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TWIML also recently published an ebook that explores where the inefficiencies are in AI and ML, which Charrington says breaks these down into three broad categories: Data Access and management, experiment management and model development, and model deployment and monitoring. “Across these three areas, there are quite a few potential gotchas and places where inefficiencies can arise. Because this process is highly iterative, not just the model building and event experimentation, but all of these are things that kind of fall inside loops. Any investment in creating efficiencies makes the whole process go a lot smoother, and can help organizations scale up their ability to get models out,” Charrington explained.
When asked how the technology stack continues to evolve, Charrington then went on to highlight an upcoming presentation taking place at TWIMLcon from Leemay Nassery, director of software engineering at Comcast. As a guest on the TWIML podcast, Nassery had talked about, “How Comcast went from a traditional monolithic recommendation system that was not really meeting their business needs as they scaled, to a system that was based on serverless, serverless for data transformation and for model inference.” Now the cable giant has a stack for inference that is based on the Tensorflow ecosystem, TensorFlow Serving.
“That’s just one example of the kinds of transitions that organizations are making as they’re trying to figure this stuff out. It’s new for a lot of people, and the technologies are evolving really, really quickly,” Charrington said.
Readers of The New Stack can get 20% off early bird registration to TWIMLcon by entering the code thenewstack on the registration page. Early bird rates close Sept. 6.
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Daiichi Sankyo Offers $300M To Settle Thousands Of Benicar Lawsuits
Daiichi Sankyo Offers $300M To Settle Thousands Of Benicar LawsuitsSarah2017-08-22T09:33:45-05:00
Daiichi Sankyo has entered a settlement agreement to resolve claims that the company’s blood pressure drug Benicar causes severe intestinal conditions:
$300 million fund
Deadline: August 23, 2017
Our experienced attorneys can help. We are still offering free consultations to all interested parties, but the deadline for new claims is fast approaching. Act now.
Time is running out to file a claim against Daiichi Sankyo. Every hypertension patient should investigate their legal options.
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Daiichi Sankyo, the manufacturer behind blockbuster blood pressure drug Benicar, has agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed over the medication’s alleged link to serious gastrointestinal disorders.
The settlement fund is open both to patients and families who have already filed lawsuits and individuals who have yet to file a claim. Daiichi Sankyo is devoting $300 million to compensate the claims of injured victims and their loved ones, but strict deadlines apply.
Benicar Lawsuits Lead To $300M Settlement Fund
Claimants who have not filed lawsuits in a federal or state court have until April 23, 2017 to retain an experienced product liability attorney and complete the necessary paperwork.
Complying with this time limit is mandatory. We urge you to contact our lawyers today to preserve your legal rights, as well as those of your family. You can learn more about pursuing a claim through the Benicar settlement agreement in a free consultation, at no charge and no obligation.
To find more information on the Benicar settlement and a detailed breakdown of the fund’s eligibility requirements, including injury prerequisites, read our full guide here.
On August 22, 2017 our firm stopped accepting Benicar cases.
What Is Olmesartan, The Active Ingredient In Benicar?
Olmesartan is a chemical branded for sale in the United States under several brand names:
All of these medications are manufactured and marketed by Daiichi Sankyo. While each drug contains different chemicals, they are all based on olmesartan medoxomil, a chemical that relaxes overly-tight blood vessels to reduce blood pressure. Olmesartan belongs to a class of chemicals known as angiotensin receptor blockers, because they block the action of a hormone, angiotensin, that causes blood vessels to constrict.
Benicar was first approved by the US Food & Drug Administration in 2002. The drug is indicated for the treatment of hypertension, both alone and in combination with other drugs classified as antihypertensives. Almost immediately after being released, Benicar became a blockbuster, generating billions of dollars in revenue for Daiichi Sankyo. Around a decade would pass before medical researchers began to express concerns about the medication’s safety.
Potential Side Effects Of Benicar
In 2012, a study of Benicar-related side effects found evidence that drugs based on olmesartan medoxomil could cause a strange mix of intestinal issues called sprue-like enteropathy. Sprue is another name for celiac disease, a chronic autoimmune disorder that affects the small intestine:
Severe and chronic diarrhea
Researchers generally believe that celiac disease is caused by genetic mutations and passed from parents to their children. A very similar disorder, however, appears to be linked to certain pharmaceutical drugs. This condition is called sprue-like enteropathy. One of those drugs is olmesartan medoxomil.
Over the following years, more and more research would discover that people who take Benicar, but have no genetic predisposition for celiac disease, seem more likely to develop celiac-like symptoms. More troubling, their symptoms do not respond to gluten-free diets, the most effective treatment for celiac. Instead, the celiac-like symptoms only go away after the patients stop taking an olmesartan-containing drug.
FDA: Stronger Warning Labels
The evidence was damning. Eventually, the US Food & Drug Administration stepped in, telling Daiichi Sankyo to create new warning labels for its olmesartan-based products. Approved in 2013, the new labeling contained explicit references to the chemical’s link to sprue-like enteropathy, including an instruction to healthcare professionals: “consider discontinuation of Benicar in cases where no other etiology [cause] is found.” The label’s Warnings and Precautions section had even more to say:
“Severe, chronic diarrhea with substantial weight loss has been reported in patients taking olmesartan months to years after drug initiation […] If a patient develops these symptoms during treating with olmesartan, exclude other etiologies. Consider discontinuation of Benicar in cases where no other etiology is identified.”
The warning makes a critical point about this alleged risk. Note that the symptoms of sprue-like enteropathy can, and often do, only begin to appear months or years after a patient has begun taking Benicar (or other olmesartan medications). This delay, in part, explains why researchers only became aware of Benicar’s link to celiac-like symptoms a decade after the drug was approved.
Likewise, the public, along with the legal community, only learned of this link after the Food & Drug Administration announced its seminal decision to strengthen the drug’s warning label.
Olmesartan Lawsuits Consolidated In New Jersey
Legal action soon followed. The first Benicar lawsuit was filed in 2014, Reuters reports. Soon after, dozens of other patients had followed in those footsteps, pursuing their own claims over alleged Benicar complications. In 2015, a panel of federal judges decided that the litigation should be consolidated and made more efficient. As a result, the lawsuits were transferred to the US District Court of New Jersey, where they were soon joined by hundreds of other claims.
In New Jersey, the lawsuits were guided through pre-trial motions and discovery (evidence-gathering) by Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider and District Judge Robert Kugler. Eventually, the litigation came to include about 2,300 personal injury and wrongful death claims.
Settlement Agreement Would Resolve Litigation
Now, Daiichi Sankyo has agreed to settle these legal claims by establishing a $300 million trust fund. In the coming weeks, people who have viable claims over Benicar-related side effects will begin to submit their applications and medical records to the Olmesartan Products Resolution Program.
After being reviewed by a claim administration company, each valid claim will be paid out according to a 6-level injury schedule, ranging from confirmed diagnoses of sprue-like enteropathy to associated gastrointestinal symptoms.
Importantly, the fund is open both to claimants who have already filed lawsuits and to people who have yet to bring their claims in court. It’s open to injured patients and families who have lost loved ones to intestinal disorders associated with olmesartan. The deadline, however, is fast approaching. Patients and families who have yet to file a lawsuit have until August 23, 2017 to retain legal counsel and file the application documents necessary with the trust fund’s Administrator.
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Fortnite search between playground campsite and a footprint
Where to Search Between a Playground, Campsite, and Footprint in 'Fortnite'
Fortnite: Search between a Playground, Campsite, and a Footprint
Fortnite - Playground, Campsite and a Footprint location explained
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SEARCH BETWEEN A PLAYGROUND, CAMPSITE, AND A FOOTPRINT!
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For this week, players are told to search between a playground, campsite, and footprint in Fortnite Battle Royale to discover hidden loot. For this Week 6 challenge, the biggest clue is the footprint, which was discovered at the start of Season 4. Check out our map below to see where to find the hidden Battle Star location for this Fortnite challenge. The hidden Battle Star for this challenge should be found somewhere within the center of grid section B6 in Fortnite. Note that you must own the Season 4 Battle Pass in order to complete any of the Fortnite challenges. If you need help with any other Fortnite challenges, be sure to check out our Fortnite Season 4 Challenge Guide to find out how to complete previous challenges, such as searching for rubber duckies or dancing at different film camera locations in Fortnite. Larryn is a content creator on YouTube and a full-time writer who has written guides and editorial features for various gaming websites.
Here's a guide on how to complete the "Search between a Playground, Campsite, and a Footprint" task. Fortnite Season 4 is due to end soon. Very soon in fact, with Epic introducing players to the highly-anticipated Season 5 this week. Once Season 5 starts, you may not be able to complete challenges in the Season 4 Battle Pass and unlock those various seasons 4 goodies like skins, emotes, loading screens and much more. So it's definitely worth completing these tasks now whilst you have the chance and before you run out of time. Fortnite Battle Royale's Week 6 Challenges are now live and are confirmed to be the exact list of challenges previously linked by the Fortnite Tracker earlier this week.
The Season 4, Week 6 Battle Pass challenges are live in Fortnite: Battle Royale , and in keeping with tradition we've got to search between three objects to find a battle star. That's how the game goes: one week it's a treasure map, the other week it's a search between. This time around the game asks us to search between a playground, a campsite and a footprint: you're free to give the thing a roll on your own, but if you'd like a little bit of help you can look below. See the rest of the Week 6 challenges and how to solve them here. The best orienting point that we have to work with is the footprint, which is we can find in the southwestern part of the map. It's a bit hard to notice from the ground, but it's clear what it is with a little bit of elevation: a massive dinosaur footprint over the ruins of a house. Here's what it looks like:.
Breaking news: Hearthstone: Saviors of Uldum guide. Fortnite: Battle Royale. Our Fortnite: Search between a Playground, Campsite and a Footprint guide explains how to find this hidden location and collect your rewards in Week 6 of Season 4. Every week brings with it a set of new challenges, and one of the toughest boils down to searching for a hidden location and tracking down its buried treasure. Struggling to find all the Carbide and Omega posters?
"Search Between a Playground, Campsite, and a Footprint" - Fortnite *LOCATIA* Pe Harta! (Week 6)
Here's where to collect Fortnite 23, found between and RV campsite, a gas station and a monstrous footprint in 'Fortnite: Battle Royale. My greatest hope is that Season 10 has a similarly engaging season-long challenge, whether it's called Fortbytes or something else. It's such a great way to keep players engaged beyond the usual daily challenges. In any case, we have arrived at Fortbyte It's a good number! It's also a fun Fortbyte challenge. I love search-between challenges!
In this full Fortnite Playground, Campsite, Footprint guide , we'll be walking you through to the final location of the treasure on the Battle Royale map, so you can complete the challenge as quickly as possible and bag yourself a reward of Bronze Stars in the process. If you instead need anything else relating to the current season of Battle Royale, you'll want to head over to our full Fortnite Season 4 guides hub. It's in this guide that you'll find all the information you need on how to progress through reward tiers in the Battle Pass as quickly as possible, all with the end goal of unlocking elite cosmetic items like the Omega skin. Before we continue any further, there are a total of seven challenges to complete as part of Week 6 of Fortnite Battle Royale, with this treasure challenge being but one of them. Make sure to check out our Fortnite Week 6 Challenges guide if you need a helping hand on completing any of the additional six challenges this week, as you work your way towards the Hidden Challenge. There's always one 'treasure'-themed challenge in the Fortnite Weekly Challenge, and the one for Week 6 tasks you to 'Search between a Playground, a Campsite, and a Footprint'. This isn't an easy challenge, as there's no specific map to follow�all you're looking for is a place on the Battle Royale map between these three locations.
Click through the gallery above in this story to find out how to solve Fortnite search between a playground, campsite and a footprint. So the game needs to end in either a glorious Victory Royale or you going down in a blaze of glory. A list of alleged Fortnite week 6 challenges leaked over the weekend thanks to datamining efforts. So YouTubers have had a few days to figure out solutions for the Fortnite week 6 challenges well before they went live. And one of those who figured out the solution for the Fortnite search between a playground, campsite and a footprint challenge was YouTuber gattu. In a video posted online the YouTube user offered a guide for the Fortnite search week 6 challenge. Alternatively, here is a step-by-step guide on how to complete the Fortnite search between a playground, campsite and a footprint challenge.
Working out where to search between the Playground, Campsite, and a Footprint is one of Fortnite's many Weekly Challenges. Completing it will give you additional XP to help go towards your many Season 4 rewards. Note you'll need to be a Battle Pass holder in order to undertake this challenge. If you're just getting started, our Fortnite Battle Royale tips and tricks can provide some helpful hints. Note this particular challenge is no longer able to be completed.
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Saudi Arabia and UAE will not disappoint Pakistan
*RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa said Pakistan is proud of its special strategic and brotherly relationship with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).*
He was talking to Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Ahmed Al Jubeir and UAE’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan who called on him in Rawalpindi.
Pakistani PM Imran Khan to hold important meeting with US President Donald Trump
They assured of their full support to resolve the situation created by India’s unilateral steps in occupied Kashmir, the Inter-Services Public Relations said.
As per the military’s media wing, matters of mutual interest including growing bilateral ties and security situation in the region were discussed during the meeting.
PM Imran Khan leaves for important foreign policy tour tomorrow
The visiting dignitaries appreciated Pakistan’s role for peace and stability in the region.
Both the foreign leaders had arrived in Islamabad a day earlier, where they had a meeting with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan sternly warns India yet again
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Wednesday Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) stand by Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.
Speaking at a press conference link after a meeting with the Saudi and UAE counterparts, Qureshi had said that Saudi Arabia and UAE stand by Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.“We hope that they [the two countries] won’t disappoint us.”
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Marianne Williamson Deletes Tweet Crediting Mind Power For Shifting Dorian’s Path
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Wednesday tweeted ― then quickly deleted ― a message that credited “power of the mind” and positive visualization for turning Hurricane Dorian “away from land.”
The problem, of course: Dorian made that turn over the Bahamas, which it hit as a Category 5 storm, leaving the islands in a state of “total devastation.”
Williamson’s tweet overlooked what’s been described as an “apocalyptic” scene 150 miles east of Palm Beach.
There’s nothing wrong with mindfulness, prayer or positive visualization, but it’s critically important people heed the warnings of the National Weather Service and take action when told to do so.
(For the record, nuking hurricanes ― a method reportedly suggested “multiple times” by President Donald Trump ― is also a dangerous idea.)
Williamson replaced the deleted tweet with a call for peace and comfort for those affected by the storm:
In the meantime, the threat posed by Hurricane Dorian is far from over. The storm could yet come ashore in Georgia, South or North Carolina, all of which remain within the National Hurricane Center’s forecast cone.
South Carolina is bracing for what could be the the region’s second-worst flooding in 85 years, and more than 2 million people along the coast from Florida to North Carolina have been urged to evacuate.
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Toss Up House Elections 2018 Part 2-Bob Davis Podcast 754
Second in a series of podcasts detailing the so called toss up races in the 2018 midterm elections. Most noteworthy here are my observations about whether many of these elections are actually toss ups. Find out why I say this in Toss Up House Elections 2018 Part 2-Bob Davis Podcast 754.
Trump’s Future Hangs In The Balance
From Iowa, to Illinois. Kansas to Kentucky in this podcast you’ll find out why the media says the future of Donald Trump’s administration hangs in the balance. You’ll also find out whether the predicted ‘blue wave’ could be reality. Or not.
Details Without Partisanship
As I have said many times, one of the things our media loves to do these days is predict the future, The reason I am producing this series of podcasts is to give you the existing conditions in each of these districts without partisan comment or predictions. This series includes the Senate toss ups, and the Governor’s toss ups and part one of the house toss ups.
How Close Are They?
How close is the race in Illinois’ northwestern suburbs that make up the 6th district? What about all the predictions about 12th district which stretches from the working class Saint Louis suburbs across the river, all the way to the southern tip of the Land of Lincoln? Especially relevant here are predictions about Kentucky’s 6th district, which the president won by 17 points. When a candidate for president wins a state by over twenty points, is there a potential for backlash? Learn more in Toss Up House Elections 2018 Part 2-Bob Davis Podcast 754.
Telling The Voter What’s Going To Happen Before The Vote
These days it doesn’t matter whether you’re on network television or You Tube. If you have a national talk radio show or are a podcaster. Everyone wants to tell the voter what’s going to happen before it happens. If you listen to this series of my podcasts you’ll know the situation in these districts. You’ll know what races to watch on election night.
What IS The Situation?
Once the voters decides for themselves who their voting for on election night, they can sit back and watch the results knowing what races to look for. Why? Because someone looked at all the key races and without partisanship or rancor laid out what the situation is.
Finally, many of these districts have no polling unless its done by partisan groups or political parties. Predictions are being made based on the 2016 election or because one party or another said they were ‘targeting’ that race. In conclusion our politics are too fluid for political fortune tellers to be accurate.
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The Book Doctors are always drawn to books that break new ground. We love it when someone takes an established genre and tweaks it, twists it, then turns it on its ear. Kate Forest is making a career doing just that. She writes about romance, but she likes to make her characters have some kind of differently-able challenge. So when we saw that her new book, In Tune Out of Sync, is out, we wanted to get the skinny on what brave new world she’ll be taking us to this time.
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Kate Forest
The Book Doctors: What have you learned from writing your previous books that you could apply to writing In Tune Out of Sync?
Kate Forest: Everything and nothing. I feel as though I will never stop learning how to write a better book. I am constantly reading, going to workshops, and asking people for feedback. I strive to remain open in improving my craft. That said, I seem destined to write first drafts with unlikeable heroines and secondary characters that steal the scene. At least I know those mistakes are coming.
TBD: What is In Tune Out of Sync about?
KF: At the core, it’s about “inspiration porn.” This is the idea that typical bodied people watch videos or read stories about people with challenges doing everyday things and feel “inspired to do better.” As if they were to ask, “What’s my excuse?” People with disabilities are not there to inspire the rest of us. The two main characters in this book struggle with how to overcome, or use, their differences. Yes, they compete for the same jobs, but their real conflict stems from how they view themselves and how the world views them.
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TBD: Why did you choose violin and dyslexia as such main elements of your book?
KF: I had a learning disorder when I was a kid. I couldn’t read until I was about 10. I didn’t have dyslexia, but I knew the pain that simply being in school could elicit. As a school social worker, I have worked with kids with dyslexia and wanted to bring those stories to a romance novel.
Violin? I chose something that seems counterintuitive to dyslexia and Tourette’s Syndrome. The violin, to me, seems delicate, requiring speed reading of music and total control of one’s body. Now put someone who doesn’t always control his body, and someone who can’t read quickly, in an orchestra. It was perfect for building tension.
An important thing to note about this book is that it will be available as an audio book. It’s important to make it accessible to anyone interested in dyslexia stories.
TBD: How did you get into the mindset of someone with Tourette’s Syndrome?
KF: I watched many documentaries. I interviewed people. I read. Tourette’s Syndrome is the one issue I have written about that I hadn’t had much experience with. I needed to be accurate and sensitive. I wanted my language to reflect how people in the TS community talk. Two resources I recommend are Jess Thom’s Touretteshero site and An Unlikely Strength by Larry Barber.
TBD: How did you manage to capture the world of the New York Philharmonic and high-end classical music? Did you do lots of research?
KF: Oh, I had to do tons of research. My music education ended in 5th grade with “Hot Cross Buns” on the recorder. I love music, and admire people who make it. Luckily, I know professional classical musicians, and they were kind enough to read drafts of the story and answer my insane questions.
TBD: How do you devise plots for your romances?
KF: I don’t start with plots. Romance stories hinge on the characters. For me, the characters’ inner conflicts are what drive the story. I begin by developing the characters. What do they want? Why do they want it? And what is standing in their way? Layer on that, the two main characters need to have goals that are in direct conflict with each other. There has to be no possible way these two people can end up together. And then, they grow and change, and presto, they are together—happily ever after.
TBD: How do you not fall into cliché as you write books that are filled with so many rules?
KF: The only real rule to genre fiction is that there is an emotionally satisfying ending. I prefer genre fiction to literary fiction for this reason. The genre fiction author makes a promise to the reader on the first page: You will be entertained, we will go on a journey, and everything will be answered in the end. Whether you’re fighting an alien invasion, rooting out a murderer, or watching two people find love, there will be a solution. So clichés? There’s no reason to rely on them when there are no limits.
TBD: Do people who are differently abled ever contact you?
KF: These are my best reviews and letters. I get emails from parents of kids on the spectrum and people with different challenges who say my book portrayed the characters in a sensitive and accurate way. But I’m also happy when someone reads the story and says, “I learned something about this issue.” The more we see fictional characters with disabilities in typical situations, the more we will accept real life people with disabilities in all areas.
TBD: Does your writing fall into any single category? Do you try to fit into the romance genre?
KF: Some people have told me that my books aren’t strictly romance, since they tackle other issues. But the truth is that my books fit squarely in the romance genre. The Romance Writers of America defines romance as stories that “contain a central love story and the resolution of the romance must be emotionally satisfying and optimistic.” All of my books easily meet these criteria. There should be no reason that a story that portrays characters with disabilities should be outside of this genre.
TBD: What new advice do you have for writers?
KF: I’d ask what your goal is as a writer. If you’re writing for pleasure, or you have a single story you want to share, then have fun. Work at your own pace. Take some writing classes. Find a group of like-minded writers. If you have a goal of being a commercial writer, you must join a professional organization of writers. There’s one for each type of book. Writers can’t write alone. I have a team of critique partners who send back angry red comments, slashing entire scenes. I have a different team of beta readers (some writers, some for research questions, some who just like to read). Then I have a technical team of cover designer, formatter, and copy editor. I run a small business, and spend just as much time networking and marketing as I do writing. My grandmother was in a nursing home in her last days, after a lifetime of hard work. Her husband of over 70 years had just died. She said, “Life is not for sissies.” And all I can say is, “Writing is not for sissies either.”
Author Kate Forest has worked in a psychiatric hospital, as a dating coach, and spent a disastrous summer selling above-ground swimming pools. But it was her over twenty-year career as a social worker that compelled her to write love stories with characters you don’t typically get to read about. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two kids, and a fierce corgi. Visit her at www.kateforestbooks.com.
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14th MC Info Session: A Reimagined MC
By News Desk August 19, 2014 October 1, 2017
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The attendees of the 14th MC Info Session
By Choo Ruizhi
Stark changes, streamlined teams, and the first step in a momentous undertaking – yes, you must have heard it all before – but have you heard, or watched them play out in the USC Community? Such details, and more, were laid out by the outgoing USC President Law Zhe Wen at the 14th Management Committee (MC) Information Session held on Monday evening (Aug 18).
Marking the start of the USC MC election calendar, the information session was intended to clarify any doubts, queries or questions that potential candidates intending to run for the MC may have had. Streamlining the MC from a committee of 11 members to just 6, the new structure of the MC is grounded on a highly participative (if experimental) way of realizing a more open and inclusive culture within the USC.
“We felt that the current 11-member structure of the MC tends to focus on many positions focusing on only small-scale events – events which we hope to now ‘outsource’ to different people in the USC community,” said Jonathan Chua, the Honorary General Secretary of the outgoing MC. “In doing so, we think it will encourage more people to organize events, because they need only direct more short-term commitments that do not tax their resources and time as heavily.”
The proposed changes to the incoming MC thus seek to encourage more participation and community-led events organised by the community, for the community. Thus, the MC seeks to reposition itself as an avenue for like-minded individuals within the USC community to link up and initiate events on their own, instead of waiting for the MC to do so.
Explaining these changes, Zhe Wen said: “It’s a little hard to address broader issues of student welfare and student interests if we need to continually focus only on the organizing of events. By encouraging more of a ‘ground-up’ approach, we seek to foster a more participative, independent and initiative-driven culture in USP.” Therefore, these structural changes will give the 14th MC more freedom to focus on policy-level issues rather than the planning of events.
Eclairs were provided at the session
In this interesting repositioning of its role and responsibilities, the MC seems to draw a parallel within our little community and the wider Singaporean societal discourse. Beyond its elected representatives, the USC community will now have to decide what kind of culture it will literally shape and build for itself. No doubt, these are baby steps – the MC intends to still coordinate “baseline”, college-wide events (and which events fall into this category would purportedly be up to the 14th MC to determine) but its members will now be engaged in a more conscious, active process of identifying and persuading motivated and keen individuals to organize their own events.
A curious departure from rigid, formalized structures and roles, the participative approach put forth in this information session is premised on the assumption, of course, that we can find USPeople willing and able to organize events that appeal to the wider USC community. It is a bold assumption to make – yet by no means a flippant nor alarming one, given our notable history of risk-taking and rule-breaking alumni. Yet if the attendance at this information session is anything to go by, the future of such an independent, active student community remains uncertain – despite more than a week of publicity for this event, only five attendees out of the handful which attended this event indicated their interest in running for the MC. The coming weeks and months will testify to what the USP community will want for itself, and from its leaders; what we can perhaps say for certain is that we are again entering another interesting academic year.
The Cinnamon Roll will continue to bring you more coverage of the 14th MC Elections over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
Nominations for the 14th MC are now underway and will close this Friday (Aug 22).
For further information on the Elections, do check out tinyurl.com/uscelections2014.
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Zion Williamson injures thumb in McDonald’s All-American Game right after broadcast team demands more effort from players
The broadcast team spent the night demanding more from high school kids in an exhibition game.
High SchoolNCAABy Jay Rigdon on March 29, 2018 March 29, 2018
The McDonald’s All-American Game was a pretty tough watch, there’s no denying that. It amounted to a glorified scrimmage, though one filled with plenty of ridiculous athleticism and highlight-reel dunking on display. There wasn’t much defense, rarely was there any ball movement, and if it’s possible for it to be any looser than this description portrays, it was.
That frustrated the broadcast team, especially analysts Jay Williams and Cory Alexander, who spent most of the night complaining that the high school kids with everything to lose weren’t playing as though they had anything to gain. There was no better illustration of the stupidity of that mindset than this sequence, with the score tight late, when the crew starts to finally deem the players’ effort more acceptable. Then dunk contest god Zion Williamson gets hurt.
It’d be funny if the injury wasn’t so serious.
“This is what I want to see! This is what real basketball is!”
(Williamson promptly gets injured)
In the aftermath, as a viewer, it was even more frustrating; Williams and Alexander went on about how Williamson wasn’t in pain, he was angry that he’d turned it over on the play. And hey, maybe it was anger that he had one turnover in a meaningless exhibition game en route to being forced to play a year at Duke before he can actually get paid his market value (well, closer to it) to play basketball in the United States. Or maybe it was pain from what looked like a gruesomely dislocated thumb, as ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported after the game:
The family released a statement after the game saying Williamson, who is left-handed, will see a personal orthopedist on Thursday upon returning home to South Carolina.
One of his teammates, Nazreon Reid, told ESPN that it looked as though Williamson had dislocated his thumb.
This is exactly why they don’t play hard! Why risk it? Sure, Williamson will probably be fine in this case. But freak injuries are by definition unpredictable, and can happen even in a scrimmage setting. (Ask Paul George.) That Jay Williams, who should know more than anyone what it means to have your basketball career effectively ended instantly by avoidable injury, would spend a broadcast lamenting the lack of effort from kids who are already playing for the benefit of everyone but themselves is infuriating.
The coverage of the entire event is weird. These are kids who are still in high school, after all, and they’re being written up like this, from ESPN’s draft Insiders Jonathon Givony and Mike Schmitz:
The feedback from NBA executives in Atlanta, including numerous general managers, was decidedly mixed, with quite a bit of grumbling regarding the format of the practices, the competitiveness of the participants and the overall quality of the 2018 high school class, which should form the backbone of the 2019 NBA draft.
A distinct lack of energy and urgency prevailed in all three practices, as many of the best players coasted, seemingly not having much to prove despite the presence of such a large number of people in the stands who will have a huge role in deciding the outlook of their professional careers.
How are we still covering it this way? How do people not realize that the high school kids acting in their self-interest (by not risking damaging their long-term prospects by injuring themselves in pointless settings) is not any different than what the NBA execs and scouts are doing when they complain about their jobs being harder because of it? If anything it’s better, because those NBA executives were paid to be there, as were the media rubberstamping their concerns.
In perhaps the most ridiculous example, Jeff Goodman told Indiana star (and still uncommitted) Romeo Langford to smile during a mid-game interview so Goodman could win $10 on a bet from a college coach. So Romeo did, and sure, Goodman probably wasn’t consciously trying to be weird. He was just trying to create a fun moment with a kid who comes across as reserved. But had Romeo Langford taken $10 from a college coach, he’d have had to pay it back to avoid being ineligible. He’s already doing work for others, including ESPN.
And that’s what the broadcast came across as, people complaining about the product, as though the McDonald’s game has some history of fiery, intense competition that should be honored, or that would be missed if it disappeared forever. If the game disappeared entirely no one would miss it, except perhaps for the kids who get to participate. Let them do it however they want to if you’re going to have it at all. Otherwise they’re going to get hurt for no reason.
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Insights on Crisis Management
Doug Duvall Vice-President, Corporate Communications, Sprint
Every experienced social media practitioner has “crisis planning” as one of the first steps in the on-boarding process with a new client. So naturally when Nick Johnson of Useful Social Media asked me to moderate a panel called “On the Defensive: Tactics to Spot and Avert Corporate Crises” at last week’s Incite Marketing Summit, I said, “sure, no problem,” thinking I actually knew something about the topic. Fortunately for me, a prep call with the panelists quickly revealed I was a babe in the woods compared to these genuine crises professionals.
Jan Jones, Vice-President, Government and Communication at Caesar’s Entertainment, Debbie Mitchell, Senior Vice-President, Public Affairs at Cardinal Healthcare and Doug Duvall, Vice-President, Corporate Communications at Sprint, have been confronted and dealt with crises of the highest order including murders and suicides, hurricanes and bombings and just about every other imaginable (and some well beyond my imagination) challenge a corporation might face. Needless to say, it was a great panel (or so they said on Twitter!) rich with real world examples of how and how not to deal with crises. After the panel, Doug provided his insights in the interview below, which among other things confirmed to me that Crises Management is a distinct expertise all by itself and should never ever be left to amateurs. That said, here are some great tips if you are looking to build up your expertise in this area.
Q: Can you give me a sense of your job responsibilities at Sprint?
I’ve been at Sprint about a year now and I’m responsible for national and regional media relations; social media relations; financial communications; crisis planning; public affairs; customer experience communications and social responsibility positioning.
Q: What types of crises have you experienced at Sprint?
Most of the routine crises involve our network. Our nationwide network is the backbone of our company and it’s the infrastructure that enables our 56 million customers to call, text, check email or watch a video on their mobile device. Today we’re so reliant on smartphones, and when there’s a network outage it’s understandable that customers become frustrated. So we’re really conscious about threats to our network – whether it’s from a construction crew accidentally cutting a fiber line or from weather events like storms, hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes.
We also have office buildings and thousands of retail stores across the country, so of course we worry about store robberies and potential harm to our employees.
Q: What is the worst crisis or near crisis you’ve experienced?
Before joining Sprint I spent seven years at Freddie Mac, a mortgage finance company that was thrust into the national debate during the financial and housing crisis. I managed the public relations team and we had our fair share of crises – from the government suddenly taking over control the company, to foreclosures, to protests at company headquarters. But the one crisis that stands out to me, and probably to most employees at that time, was waking up to the news that our CFO had committed suicide. It was completely unexpected and yet another major emotional shock to employees, who had already been through a lot. And to make matters worse, our critics tried to make the incident more of a conspiracy about “what did he know, and what was he hiding?”
Q: What were the key steps you took to diffuse the situation?
My boss and I quickly drafted a public statement and he walked it down the hall to get approved by the CEO. We felt it was important not to use “corporate speak” and to express our sincere sorrow in plain English. That’s critical in any crisis, but particularly one that involves a human tragedy. We talked about what kind of man and leader he was and how he will be most remembered “his personal warmth, his sense of humor and his quick wit.” We posted the statement on our web site and quickly sent it to reporters who covered us regularly. But given this was in the midst of the financial crisis, we had calls from all over the world, and from nontraditional outlets like Entertainment Tonight. I even did a radio interview with BBC, talking about the kind of person he was and what a tragedy it was for the company and his family. We also developed an internal communications plan that included a memorial event, and to respect his family’s privacy, we developed protocol on who would have interaction with the family.
Q: What are the organizational requirements to avoid being taken by surprise by crises?
It’s important to have designated crisis representatives from across the company. We have a person on Sprint’s Corporate Communications team whose primary job is to manage crises, whenever they may occur. She has a backup, and he has a backup too. But she is part of a larger company-wide team and regularly works with crisis representatives from our Network division, corporate security, sales, marketing, legal, government affairs, IT, etc.
You may hear about a crisis occurring in a number of different ways – through social media, breaking news, a phone call. But everyone needs to know who to escalate it to – that’s why we have designated people. So whoever might first hear of a crisis, they know who to send it to for managing the issue.
Q: Once you hear of a potential crisis, how do you begin to manage it?
Well, it’s definitely a team effort, but I start by asking four simple questions at the onset of any crisis, no matter the issue or size of the organization:
When did it happen?
What did you do once you found out it happened?
How can you assure the public that it won’t happen again?
If you have decent answers to these basic questions, you’ll survive the crisis. When you see a corporate or political crisis lasting longer than it should, usually there wasn’t a solid answer to the last two.
Q: Most companies experience complaints on a daily basis. How do you tell the difference between a routine complaint and looming crisis?
Given social media, everyone has a megaphone these days. But you can’t treat every negative post on Facebook or Twitter the same. It does matter who it’s coming from and what they are complaining about. Is it a high school kid ranting on Twitter, or is it someone from the media with 20,000 followers? Is what they are complaining about true? Would your competition benefit if this got viral? Those things do matter and can help you prioritize.
To me, what separates a big crisis is scope, or how much it impacts your company. I’m talking about impacts such as:
Business operations and customer base. Are we talking about a large region or large swath of customer base, perhaps from weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes?
Lives. Are customers or employees injured? Is there loss of life? Is the public in danger?
Cost. How much will a “fix” impact the company’s bottom line?
And while all these events can harm a company’s reputation, there can be also be issues that simply cut to the heart of what your company stands for – your brand, your CEO, or the corporate culture.
Q: Do you ever experience disagreements on how a crisis should be handled?
Of course. By definition, crises are messy. Even when you have a detailed crisis plan that outlines ways in which the company should respond, every crisis is different. And every company has silos of employees with different business functions. For example, lawyers are not eager to admit wrongdoing; Finance employees don’t like allocating money towards a “fix” that’s not planned in the budget; and the IT division always seems to be juggling competing priorities. So it’s difficult to convince everyone to “drop everything” to focus on an issue that wasn’t there yesterday. At Sprint, it really helps that we have three corporate priorities: Improve customer experience, build the Sprint brand, and generate cash. So building the brand, and protecting our reputation, is front and center in everyone’s mind. It’s part of our culture and part of how all employees are compensated.
Q: After you have a sense of what happened and the scope of the problem, how do you communicate it internally and externally?
Tone is important, and a crisis is not a time for spin. Mike McCurry, President Clinton’s former press secretary, advises corporate clients to think about the “C’s” when communicating during a crisis:
Clarity. Use understandable, plain English.
Credibility. Be authentic and willing to address shortcomings.
Compassion. Remember there’s a person on the other side of this crisis.
Commitment. Devote the time and resources to resolve issue.
And he’s right – how you communicate during a crisis is critical. These 4 “C’s” and the 4 “Q’s” I mentioned earlier are essentially my “cheat sheet” that I keep in the back of my mind during a crisis. They help keep you on course.
There’s a lot of chatter in Communications circles about needing targeted communications for your many stakeholders – employees, investors, customers, etc. To me, it’s most important to get it right. Determine what happened and what the company’s response is, and make sure the facts have been verified. Everything else flows from there. And while the phone may be ringing off the hook and Twitter is blowing up, you should communicate first to any victims and make sure employees are well informed early.
Q: While a bad customer interaction can happen anywhere, they tend to mushroom into crises on social channels. Do you monitor social channels 24/7 in real time and if so, how is this helping you deal with potential crises?
Employees from three distinct departments are engaged on social media – Corp. Communications, Marketing and Care. Marketing also has an outside ad agency and Sprint has more than 75 Care representatives actively resolving customer complaints/issues through Facebook and Twitter. Sprint also has a progressive employee advocate program where more than 3,000 employees use their personal social networks to discuss devices, promote Sprint offerings, or refer their friends to Care.
Q: The lines between corporate communications and marketing are increasingly blurred. And certainly the customer doesn’t care who responds as long as their needs are satisfied. Who ‘owns’ crisis communications?
Most of our proactive Facebook posts, infographics, and paid media ads are developed and managed by our Digital Marketing group and their outside ad agency. And they have frequent contact with our Corporate Communications social media team to develop an editorial calendar of social media content. But when it comes to issues management or crisis communications, Corporate Communications clearly owns that public response.
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“A Wrinkle in Time” Director Ava DuVernay to Direct NEW GODS Movie
by Fanboy SEO · March 17, 2018
Looks like DC’s not done yet with their shared universe concept as its been revealed that “A Wrinkle in Time” director Ava DuVernay has been tapped to helm a New Gods movie.
The 45 year old director who also helmed the much-talked about film “Selma” has been reportedly in finalizing the deal to do a movie about Jack Kirby’s DC Comics contribution, the New Gods
If the deal would be locked in, DuVernay would be the second woman to direct a DC movie adaptation after Patty Jenkins who had done Wonder Woman and the upcoming Wonder Woman 2 which recently confirmed casting of Kristen Wiig as the Cheetah, one of Diana’s long-time enemies.
The Jack Kirby stable of characters have been a fixture of DC’s cosmic universe for quite some time now. It’s also fitting that they did New Gods to build up on the lore of characters like Darkseid, who was mentioned as early as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Steppenwolf, the villain from 2017’s Justice League movie is also a part of the New Gods.
There are a lot of heroes and villains in this sub-branch which may or may not be appealing to moviegoers; this includes Orion, the son of Darkseid…
as well as Mr. Miracle…
Then of course there’s also Darkseid and the dozen or so denizens of Apokolips including frequent Superman enemy, Kalibak.
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Sigh, Are These People For Real? Wonder Woman and Feminism
Category: Current Events, EntertainmentBy William Lehman June 10, 2017 18 Comments
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Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt. No, sadly, this isn’t a movie review of the new Wonder Woman. I haven’t gotten to see it yet, due to domestic commitments. Rest assured it’s on my list, but this is the busy part of the year for the wife and I, and we must carve out some time among our other jobs.
This is rather, a commentary on the phenomenon of feminism, and the shifting of goal posts. I refer you to exhibit A:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/06/05/will-wonder-woman-fat-femme-woman-color/
and if that isn’t enough to make you vomit exhibit B:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/06/02/i_wish_wonder_woman_were_as_feminist_as_it_thinks_it_is.html
If you really need to, there’s where you go to see the sources of this rant. I don’t recommend it though. That’s the sad thing about electronic media, you can’t use it to line bird cages or wrap dead fish, so there’s absolutely no use left for such rot.
In the first three sentences, we’re treated to a tirade against “the patriarchy” … As an aside, if “gender is a social construct” as the left keeps telling us, then how can there be a patriarchy? In the fourth sentence, we’re informed that MS magazine is THE authority on what constitutes Feminism… If they don’t recognize you, apparently you’re not a “real” feminist.
We then wander into a pathetic whine about how women are under recognized in the film industry and so it’s not that this is a real victory for feminism, but rather an example of how fucked up the entertainment industry is. (We’ll leave aside for a moment the fact that Leading Ladies are the biggest draw in Hollywood, see that doesn’t count, because they’re used as “sex symbols” and therefore somehow traitors to their gender oops, can’t say that, group, yeah that’s it, a traitor to their group.) It feels like MS is still butt hurt about the flop that was the new Ghost-Busters… you know, the reimagining of the story with an all-female team? It’s damn sure that Salon is butt hurt about it, they got in a whine specific to that horrible piece of shit. Here’s a hint, MS/Salon the film flopped because they let “message” get in the way of storytelling. Wonder Woman, on the other hand tells a story and entertains.
We’re told that the female lead “does nothing to challenge modern-day racist beauty standards”. Uh, I wasn’t aware that that was a fucking requirement. Here’s a novel concept, Diana is a fucking GREEK. Which means she’s not black, or Indian, or Asian, or… fill in minority here. Shit these folks complained when a woman that wasn’t Asian played the role of a ROBOT in a Movie based on a Japanese comic (in the comic the robot was very much Anglo, but it was an excuse to whine, so they took it).
The lead in WW, Gal Gadot, while not actually Greek, is Israeli (close enough that you couldn’t tell the difference in a lineup) and while NOT a “classic Hollywood beauty” as my wife noted, is PERFECT for the role of a stunning Greek princess. The fact that she was Miss Israel, and was a Hand to Hand combat instructor for the IDF doesn’t suck either at pulling off the role. Then she supposedly put on 30 LBS of muscle doing sword work and unarmed combat work for this role. She is NOT I’ll say again, a “Modern Day beauty” as Hollyweird would cast, but she is perfect for this role.
We’re told that there are black women on this island that Diana comes from (maybe so, haven’t seen the movie yet) The fact that the author went looking for them tells me everything I need to know, and the fact that the author then whines that there aren’t other minorities represented tells me even more. This is a woman that doesn’t go to a movie to be ENTERTAINED. She goes to be VINDICATED. The movie must pass all her shibboleths, or, like Eliot Gould at the pivotal point in the movie, shrieks and points at the offending people/piece, and screams De Accuse!
She wants to know why Diana couldn’t be a woman of color, or a “fat, thick and short body type”… UH because they were trying to stay somewhat true to the legend and the comic book? Because AMAZONS aren’t black fat short thick women? (because 1) being Greek, 2) living a Warrior culture in a subsistence economy, that is probably near the point of hunger if not starvation on a bad year, there isn’t enough food to get fat?) DEAR GODS to the ancient Greeks and predecessors the height of pulchritude was a heavier woman, precisely because they were so rare, and if you were fat, that meant you were RICH. She (the author of this rag) then uses the excuse that “linebackers are fat, and no one doubts their athletic ability”. Well yes, they’re athletic. There’s a difference between athletic, and warrior. Athletes do one thing (or maybe several) A linebacker stands and pushes another guy aside, then tries to bring down a quarterback. A warrior lugs a hundred plus pounds several miles (40 mile marches are not unheard of, 20s are standard) and then fights a battle, often running, and climbing, and in era before “modern war” going hand to hand with the enemy. If you get “turf toe” you don’t get toted off the field, and dropped in an ice bath then a whirlpool, followed by a steroid shot. You suck it up and drive on. The difference is much like the difference between the Samurai, and a Sumo. One will pick you up and throw you out of a ring. The other will March 40 miles and kill your ass.
Oh and the crowning complaint that is sounded, is that Diana isn’t lesbian enough. Sigh, I got nothing. Look, If you go looking for movies to pass some sort of political and socioeconomic litmus test, well then maybe reading MS reviews, and Salon reviews are where you should be.
If on the other hand you go to movies to be entertained by a story well told and true to the genre, the coffee is on, the bourbon is on top of the microwave, if you use the stuff in the crystal decanter in coffee or anything but glass and an ice cube, you better be able to run faster than 980FPS (that being the speed of a 45ACP bullet) and if you’re getting some, how about you refresh my mug too?
Pull up a chair, you’re at home. Thanks for stopping by, until next time, I remain
Yours in service
William Lehman
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Douglas Dandridge says:
Great post, and you hit all the salient points. No, she wasn’t a classical Hollywood beauty, but she was beautiful. I thought she did really well in the role. Saw the movie twice, and will buy the DVD. The funny thing is all the people who shout about equality, sexism, bigotry and such are the real bigots. The ordinary people really don’t care what color or sex a character is. They just want to enjoy the movie.
byron k clark says:
Good Piece! very well done…..
William Lehman says:
EG says:
Came here from Instapundit. Loved the movie, and I agree 100% with your article. So sad about these feminists, but they are their own worst enemy, these bitter trolls looking for something to complain about. Asking why WW and the Amazons aren’t fat is like asking why Olympians don’t look like couch potatoes. That’s what happens when you train relentlessly for hours every day: your body adapts and gets in phenomenal shape. The Amazons trained for hours every day for battle. As for “not being lesbian enough”, this is usual SJW bullcrap, because to them a feminist icon would want nothing to do with a man.
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Alec Rawls says:
The reason not to have a short thick smelly hairy transexual play Wonder Wonan is not because these creatures can’t possess fighting skills. It’s because NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THEM. They don’t even want to see themselves.
Maybe Castro or Maduro woud make such a movie. Commie dictators like producing what no one wants while failing to produce basic necessities. SJWs should all go to Cuba and Venezuela. How much additional harm can they do to a corpse? But we do have to try to save what is left of Venezuela first. Most Venezuelans aren’t actually dead yet.
Johann Amadeus Metesky says:
” “linebackers are fat, and no one doubts their athletic ability” – Actually linebackers aren’t fat at all, they’re incredibly fit and have to cover a fairly large area of the field so they’re usually quite fast for athletes of their size.
Thomas Hazlewood says:
The world built by white European males created industry, technology, philosophy, and science, all while progressively leading to a white European female world that decries industry as greedy, technology as dangerous, philosophy as a male construct, and which insists that science is determined by consensus. When ‘virtue’ exceeds merit, the gauge permits for no advances save but the ephemeral, and electives become ‘rights’.
Line backers are not fat.
Defensive lineman may be but not linebackers.
Joe Mack says:
Very nice comment. Don’t you feel pity for these sad womyn who go through life in self exile from society? It must be awful to be so vulnerable to slights that you never have a good day.
Brent Buckner says:
I think you meant “Donald Sutherland”, not “Elliot Gould”.
(c.f. _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ (1978) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077745/ )
William m Lehman says:
you’re right. My bad, couldn’t remember his name
Alex deWinter says:
Anytime you see a feminist bitching about ‘beauty standards,’ it translates to ‘she makes me feel like the ugly lard-ass that I secretly know I am.’
Doug Whiddon says:
Excel;lent article.
I just saw the movie last night. There were certainly a number of black Amazons on the island. I thought that a little odd, but there was trade between ancient Greece and Africa, so it’s not unthinkable that a few black women might become integrated into the Amazon culture.
The movie was good, your article covers all the feminist bull that has been surrounding it. Hollywood needs to make movies that please the actual greater audience not the SJW’s who are just going to look for things to complain about.
Gal Godot was GORGEOUS and I’m not sure what she lacks for the “classic Hollywood beauty”
As I huge anime/manga fan in general and Ghost In The Shell fan specifically I would argue the statement “in the comic the robot was very much Anglo” but I’m not going to because its a huge ongoing argument among the otaku and my feelings on the US GITS movie are complex and discussed elsewhere.
What she lacks is that Blond stupid bimbo shit that’s so popular with hollywood
KG2V says:
Nicely done. Got any Sambuca to go in the coffee? (won’t ruin good bourbon with coffee – and good coffee really doesn’t need Sambuca either, but hey, I’m French/Italian descent, so a little Sambuca in the demitasse after dinner was something I grew up with – yes I was under age, get over it)
After my last med run, sambuca doesn’t come in my house… long story, involving 4 submarine sailors and the town of Toulon France…
Caradoc says:
Apparently neither the author of this article nor the linked one knows what a linebacker is. They aren’t fat, at all.
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We can lease out 5 Jet Airways planes: AI chairman to SBI chief
Mumbai, Apr 18: National carrier Air India is looking at leasing five of the grounded carrier Jet Airways Boeing 777s and operate them to London, Dubai and Singapore.
Jet Airways, grounded since last night, owns 10 wide-body Boeing 777-300 ER planes, along with a few Airbus A330s, which it used to operate on medium and long-haul international destinations such as London, Amsterdam and Paris connecting New Delhi and Mumbai.
"We are exploring the possibility of operating five of the grounded B777s on the established routes, hitherto operated by Jet Airways," Air India chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani wrote to SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar on April 17-the day the private carrier went belly up. PTI has seen a copy of the letter.
The carrier is now under the management control of the SBI-led consortium of lenders, which has offered to offload between 32.1 and 75 percent stake to any eligible investors and has so received four interested parties-Etihad Airways, the sovereign wealth fund NIIF and PE players TPG Capital and Indigo Partners.
The grounding of Jet has caused great inconvenience to the travelling public, said Lohani in the letter.
"In tune with to our role and responsibilities as the national carrier, we would be happy to alleviate this inconvenience by considering the possibility of operating a few B777s," he said.
He said that the move is subject to approvals and financial viability, and Air India can examine the possibility of taking five B777s on wet/dry lease basis from SBI on mutually agreed terms.
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Nose cone at the top of a launch vehicle that protects satellites during the launch campaign and during ascent through the dense layers of the atmosphere.
Test that looks at the behaviour and performance of a vehicle or item of equipment to assess how it will perform in flight.
flight train
The elements suspended underneath the envelope of a balloon.
Passage of a spacecraft within the vicinity of a star, without being captured into orbit.
State of a body moving freely in the presence of the gravitational attraction of a star. The laws of free fall established by Galileo state that in a vacuum all bodies fall at the same velocity independent of their mass.
free falling bodies
Free movement of bodies in a state of free fall.
Substance that burns in the presence of a source of oxygen (oxidizer) to generate thrust for a rocket engine.
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Technician who handles and monitors propellants, and fills a launch vehicle’s fuel tanks.
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UFO Encounter & Missing Pilot Still a Mystery After 40 Years
Frederick Valentich disappearance:
How UFO helped inspire The Kettering Incident
‘It’s not an aircraft’
A pilot who disappeared nearly 40 years ago after reporting a UFO is one of the inspirations for the plot of the new television drama series The Kettering Incident.
By Carol Rääbus
www.abc.net.au
While the show revolves around fictional mysterious disappearances in the Tasmanian bush, the disappearance of Frederick Valentich was very real.
Valentich was a 20-year-old pilot who went missing over Bass Strait in 1978, leaving nothing behind except a mysterious radio transmission.
Historian Reg Watson has been researching the disappearance for many years.
“I’ve looked at it for gosh, three decades,” he told Leon Compton on 936 ABC Hobart.
“I have to say, in my opinion, he had an encounter with a UFO — and I don’t say that lightly.”
Farmer May Hold UFO Clue To 36-Year Valentich Plane Mystery
Never-Before-Seen Australian Government UFO Policy
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NWHL's Beauts, Whale See Front Office Changes
31 March 2016 . 3 min read . by Melissa Burgess
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In the inaugural NWHL season, Shelley Looney and Ric Seiling served as co-head coaches of the Buffalo Beauts, while Linda Mroz served as the team's general manager.
But on March 30, in a matter of minutes, everything changed.
First came a press release from the league that announced Seiling as the Beauts' GM, per commissioner Dani Rylan.
"Ric Seiling brings a wealth of professional hockey experience to the National Women's Hockey League," Rylan said.
Rylan went on to say that Seiling would not only be the general manager for the 2016-17, season but would also be back in his coaching position.
This press release left us with a lot of questions. Most notably, what happened to Linda Mroz, who had served as general manager of the Beauts this past season? Per a league response to that question, the NWHL said that Mroz will remain a part of the Beauts’ management team.
Her new title? “Game day operations manager,” working directly with Seiling.
At this point, it's unclear exactly what that position involves, but since it often seemed like Mroz was doing everything under the sun at Beauts home games last season, it's safe to say that she'll be busy again.
Last season, though her official title was GM, Mroz seemed to have done it all. From preparing game-day scripts for Beauts PA announcer Ryan Burgess to coordinating ceremonial face-offs; from skating with the team at practices to doing post-game media interviews -- and all this, not to mention the traditional GM duties of helping select and sign players in the offseason and the like.
The change in position will allow Mroz to perhaps take a few things off her plate, and will generally help to make Beauts gamedays run smoother. It's a change in the organization's structure, but it does keep Mroz in a management position.
With that news under our belts, another bombshell was dropped.
Eric Wollschlager of Today's Slapshot posted an exclusive interview with Seiling after the announcement. With that interview came the news that Looney would not be returning as co-head coach of the Beauts.
"Her responsibilities with the Buffalo Bisons youth hockey organization have taken priority and she’ll be focusing on that going forward. We will be working to find a replacement as soon as possible," Seiling said in the Today's Slapshot piece.
This is no doubt a huge piece of news for the Beauts, who, despite the odds, went all the way to the Isobel Cup finals this past season.
Based on Seiling's quote, it's unclear if the Beauts will be seeking another person to be co-head coach alongside Seiling, or an assistant coach to work below him.
Either way, that's something we should find out later in the offseason, but it seems like the focus for right now is on re-signing players. Every NWHL player was on a one-year contract; therefore, everyone is technically up for grabs.
The NWHL's free agency period begins on May 1 and goes until July 31. The 2016 Junior Draft will be held on June 18.
The Beauts aren't the only team that's seen some shifting in the front office this offseason, though Wednesday's moves are undoubtedly the biggest as of late.
The Connecticut Whale also recently introduced their new general manager, Lisa Giovanelli. Giovanelli served as an assistant coach last season for the Whale; she'll return in that capacity while also taking on the title of GM.
Giovanelli was previously the assistant coach of the Quinnipiac Bobcats and has won five gold medals with the U.S. Women's Inline Hockey Team.
"To build our team this year, I'm looking for players who have great character and will help us create good team chemistry on and off the ice,” said Giovanelli.
Giovanelli will be the Whale's fourth general manager. She replaces George Speirs, who was acting as GM as well as COO of the NWHL, until mid-February.
With that, we move onto talk about the NY Riveters, who were looking for a GM to replace Rylan in her position as the general manager of the New York team.
Now, that spot has been filled by none other than Chad Wiseman, per a league press release on Thursday.
Wiseman served as head coach of the Riveters this past season; he'll retain that role while also picking up the GM role for the 2016-17 season.
The Boston Pride will see Hayley Moore return as their general manager for the upcoming season, per a league press release sent out Thursday.
“The future of women's hockey is brighter than ever, and I am honored to be a part of creating that future,” Moore said.
After all of this, we're still left with a few questions. Who will the Beauts pick up as another coach? And, of course -- how will free agency change the way the teams look when they hit the ice this October?
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Netflix release dates 2019: all the major upcoming TV shows revealed
Netflix’s biggest TV shows are all set to make a return in 2019. After a year off, The Crown, Stranger Things and Black Mirror are all back this year, alongside reliable big-hitters like Ozark, GLOW and 13 Reasons Why.
Plus, we’ve got some exciting new series to look forward to, including the revival of cancelled drama Lucifer and hip-hop talent show Rhythm + Flow. Find out about the key shows coming to Netflix in 2019 below…
Wednesday 4th September
Wanderlust (Season 1) – Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh explore polyamory in this BBC drama.
Friday 6th September
The Spy – Sacha Baron Cohen stars as real-life Mossad agent Eli Cohen, who successfully went undercover in Syria in the early 1960s.
Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father (Season 3) – This time around, the comedian brings his curmudgeonly dad to the USA.
Hip-Hop Evolution (Season 3) – Documentary series tracing the growth of rap music.
Elite (Season 2) – The teen drama unveiled the killer at the heart of its murder-mystery at the end of season 1, but will they be brought to justice this time around?
Tuesday 10th September
Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 – A Japanese reality series, which stuffs a bunch of strangers into a house for up to a year.
Bill Burr: Paper Tiger – The latest stand-up special from the popular US comedian and podcaster.
Wednesday 11th September
Call the Midwife (Season 7) – The BBC period drama continues.
Thursday 12th September
The Mind, Explained – Emma Stone narrates a documentary series which explores various occurrences in the brain, from anxiety disorders to dreams.
The I-Land – Ten people wake up on a strange island with no memory of how they got there, and soon discover the world is not as it seems.
Top Boy – Netflix has re-booted the Channel 4 contemporary drama starring Ashley Walters. Coming this Autumn
Unbelievable – Police call into question a young girl’s (Kaitlyn Dever) account of her sexual assault in this drama inspired by true events.
The Chef Show (Volume 2) – The Lion King director Jon Favreau cooks food with his celebrity friends.
The Ranch (Part 7) – Netflix’s longest-running sitcom, led by Ashton Kutcher, rides on.
Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea – Comedian Chelsea Handler puts her own white privilege on blast in this topical comedy.
Tall Girl – Coming-of-age tale about a 6-foot-tall teen making her way through high school.
American Horror Story: Apocalypse – The ninth instalment of Ryan Murphy’s spooky anthology series.
Sunday 15th September
Only Fools & Horses (Seasons 1-2) – The comedic misadventures of Del Boy and Rodney Trotter.
The Lego Batman Movie – Will Arnett voices the Caped Crusader in brick form in this animated spin-off.
Between Two Ferns: The Movie – Zach Galifianakis attempts to drag his sardonic internet chat show out to a feature length.
Criminal – David Tennant and Hayley Atwell both feature in this international anthology series set within the walls of a police interrogation suite.
Disenchantment (Part 2) – Matt Groening’s fantasy animated series continues after last year’s tragic conclusion.
Fastest Car (Season 2) – Real-life drag racing.
Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates – A three-part documentary about the billionaire’s efforts to improve the world.
.@BillGates is trying to solve some of the world’s most persistent problems and our new three-part documentary — “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates” — offers an unprecedented peek inside the mind of the celebrated tech visionary, business leader, and philanthropist pic.twitter.com/vUqttK3v1f
— See What’s Next (@seewhatsnext) August 20, 2019
Glitch: season 3 – Australian original series about an unusual zombie outbreak.
Abstract: The Art of Design (Season 2) – A series which looks at how visionary designers across various fields work.
Call Me By Your Name – Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet strike up a romance in Italy in this beloved film from Luca Guadagnino.
Explained (Season 2) – A co-production with news site Vox, which breaks down relevant topics in 18-minute episodes so that our simple brains can understand them.
The Good Place (Season 4) – The final season of this heartwarming after-life comedy begins, with episodes airing weekly.
In The Shadow Of The Moon – Psychological thriller film about a police officer tracking a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces every nine years.
The Politician (Season 1) – Wealthy student Payton Hobart mounts his campaign to get elected as student body president of his high school, with the help of his mother (Gwyneth Paltrow).
Monday 30th September
Mo Gilligan: Momentum – The British comedian’s first special for Netflix.
SEPTEMBER TBC
Final Space (Season 2) – The animated sci-fi series returns for another batch of episodes.
South Park – A selection of episodes of the long-running cartoon is set to drop at some point this month.
Shameless (Season 8) – William H Macy, Emmy Rossum and co return as the Gallaghers in this US adaptation of the beloved British series.
Fuller House (Season 5) – The final season of the Full House spin-off is set to be released “this Fall”
Friday 4th October
Big Mouth (Season 3) – The animated comedy from Nick Kroll returns for yet more explorations of puberty
El Camino: a Breaking Bad Movie – A spin-off of the beloved crime drama centred around Aaron Paul’s Jessie Pinkman
Living with Yourself – Paul Rudd stars as a Miles, who undergoes an experimental spa treatment and returns home to discover he has been replaced by a better version of himself
The Kominsky Method (Season 2) – The Emmy-nominated comedy series starring Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin returns
The Kominsky Method Season 2 premieres October 25 — FIRST LOOK: pic.twitter.com/lyiinrud5E
OCTOBER TBC
Rhythm & Flow (Chance and Cardi) – A hip-hop focused musical talent competition, featuring an impressive line-up of rap stars as judges: Chance the Rapper, TI and Cardi B.
Sunday 17th November
The Crown season 3 – A whole new cast, a whole new era, but we expect the same quality from Peter Morgan’s majestic royal drama as we march towards the 1970s.
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Ozark season 3 – Marty Byrde and his family are staying put in the Ozarks, and Wendy is really growing into her role as the bad guy… This can’t go well.
OTHER SERIES COMING UP IN 2019:
Narcos: Mexico (Season 2)
BoJack Horseman (Season 6)
Insatiable (Season 2)
The Last Kingdom (Season 4)
Selena The Series
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Gucci Mane And Megan Thee Stallion Celebrate Thickness On Their New Collaboration ‘Big Booty’
“Hot Girl Fall” is just getting started, and Gucci Mane is celebrating with a fresh Megan Thee Stallion collaboration, a new track called “Big Booty.” The succinct two-minute track is built on a sample of 2 Live Crew’s “Hoochie Mama,” and on the song, Mane celebrates thickness with lyrics like, “She’s a big booty b*tch showing ass and cheeks / She’s a walking bag of money, she’s a masterpiece.” Thee Stallion touches on similar themes on her verse, rapping, “This the type of booty make a n**** drop his b*tch (wait) / This the type of ass when I get home, he washing dishes.”
This is the first collaboration between Mane and Thee Stallion, although it’s not the first time they’ve appeared on a release together: They both made contributions to the recent Control The Streets, Volume 2 compilation album. Mane hopped on “Intro” with Migos and Lil Yachty, while Thee Stallion linked up with Quavo and City Girls for “Pastor.”
It has not been made clear if “Big Booty” is set to appear on Gucci Mane’s recently announced upcoming album Woptober II, the sequel to the 2016 mixtape and a quick follow-up to Mane’s new album Delusions Of Grandeur, which only just came out in June. When Woptober II was announced, it was also revealed that Mane is finally and oh-so-appropriately teaming up with Gucci for a new ad campaign.
Watch the lyric video for “Big Booty” above.
Some artists mentioned are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music.
Topics: #Gucci ManeTags: Big Booty, Gucci Mane, Megan Thee Stallion
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Urang Minang
Kinds of Business
NHGRI’s Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) Consortium – Lucia Hindorf
Posted by Oren Garnes August 26, 2019 in Articles
Lucia Hindorff:
I’ll take a moment, maybe, to thank Dr. Ginsburg and Dr. Manolio and the organizing committee
for inviting me here to talk about the NHGRI Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Program.
I am the NHGRI program officer for CSER, which means that that are number of grantees and
many, many investigators who actually do the hard work and heavy lifting. I’ll acknowledge
them at the end, but I do want to acknowledge at the outset that this is a tremendously
collaborative opportunity. So, okay, here’s my slides. Let me, right
button. I’m clicking. It’s not working. There we go. Okay, so this is a familiar slide to all of
you, so I don’t need to spend a lot of time on it, but let’s take a look at similar data
in a different way. So, in clinical sequencing what we’re trying to do is to bring the value
of clinical sequencing to the treatment of patients. And so if you consider a clinical
decision that has to be made at the level of a patient, and you look at the increasing
amount of information that’s going to be gleaned, not just from sequencing and SNPs and so forth,
but the future promises to bring in functional genetics and possibly proteomics, we’re talking
about a huge number of facts per clinical decision per person. I should mention to you
that this is a schematic. It is not data based at all, so take these numbers with a grain
of salt. They are courtesy of Dan Masys. And let me also mention that as the amount
of information that we collect in the clinical setting increases, the amount that we are
going to actually find to be clinically relevant is likely to be relatively constant, so the
realm of traditional health care will probably only consider a very small subset of this
information. And furthermore, human cognitive capacity, at least as far as we know, is really
quite limited, and so I think what we’re struggling to deal with in the realm of clinical sequencing
is this gap, right? So I think this brings at least a few implications. One that I think is that we have to be convinced
that this additional data is necessary to collect, so there has to be some clinical
utility to it. A second implication, I believe, is that there needs to be some serious filtering
going on here. I think that the ability to filter for patient context, disease context,
and so forth, is going to be critical, not to mention figuring out, at least at the sequence
level, which variants are actually actionable, right? And then a third, I think, implication
is that obviously this small set of information that’s relevant to the decision at hand will
need to be communicated in an intuitive way to the patient and to the physician, because,
obviously, they will need to be aware that all of this information is going to be assayed,
but, you know, only some small subset of information is going to be directly relevant to them. Okay, so those were just a few issues, and
obviously this is a huge area that a number of us are struggling with. In 2010, and again
in 2012, NHGRI issued a request for applications to fund grants studying the challenges inherent
to incorporating clinical sequencing into clinical care. I’ve mentioned to you that
I think the challenge really here is to look at the clinical sequencing in the clinical
workflow. We touched on a number of areas in the RFA, the generation, and the interpretation
of the genomic sequence data, both kind of the technical challenge as well as the annotation
challenge and interpretation challenge, and then obviously communicating the results back
to the patient in the correct manner and in the appropriate manner is going to be incredibly
important to study. We also, similarly to what Anastasia mentioned in the newborn program,
made the ethical and psychosocial implications a primary aspect of this program. To tell you more detail about each grant,
there are three different components, similar to the newborn sequencing program that you
just heard about. Project 1 is what we term our clinical study. There needs to be a clinical
rationale. Project 2 is the sequencing analysis and informatics pipeline. And then Project
3 is ethical and psychosocial implications. One thing that I didn’t mention to you on
the previous slide is that you may notice, actually, that nowhere in here is any particular
aim about discovery. So we recognize that discovery is an important aim, but for this
particular program we wanted to focus on common challenges which are actually, I think, more
important, and, in fact, more general for the National Human Genome Research Institute
to address. These challenges are not disease-specific. Okay, so back to the structure of each project.
Okay, so, obviously, these are interdisciplinary teams. We have a management structure for
each team, and then if you look at the overall consortium, I’ll tell you a little bit more
about these studies, but we funded nine of these interdisciplinary projects. We include
our intramural collaborators from the ClinSeq program who sit on a couple of our working
groups as they have extensive and long-standing expertise in this area. I’ll tell you a little
bit more about this, but we also funded a coordinating center to help facilitate the
high priority goals of the consortium, and then we also are fortunate to count as our
collaborators a number of grants that were funded specifically to look at return of results
from the ELSI Program and NHGRI. So, here is a summary of the U awards, the
kind of Project 1, Project 2, Project 3 organization that I showed you before. You can just take
a quick scan here. Four of these grants study cancer; three of them are doing actual sequencing
of tumor-normal pairs, three of them we are co-funded by our collaborators at the National
Cancer Institute. You’ll notice that we also have representation of pediatric diseases,
as well as healthy individuals, so, in particular, the Brigham and Women’s grant, as well as
the Kaiser grant, are actually sequencing individuals who are not showing any overt
signs of disease. The R grants, focusing on the return of results
that I mentioned to you before, are shown here. They are a combination of both sort
of empiric or data generating studies as well as normative or more philosophical approaches.
Our coordinating center is housed at the University of Washington and headed by Gail Jarvik and
her colleagues. We funded the coordinating center because we recognize that the value
of a consortium like this would be to bring the various sites together, and to identify
similarities and differences, common challenges to be addressed, and common opportunities
to really help move the field together. I think we realize that clinical sequencing
is obviously being done in a number of centers around the United States, and, in fact, around
the world, as we’ve heard. And so it was important to us to really figure
out how best to use this critical mass of individuals, and so the coordinating center
has a range of expertise. Their key activities so far have been to coordinate the working
groups in cross-consortia collaborations. As needed, they coordinate, initiate, and
even lead some high-priority CSER projects. They are synthesizing site-specific variant
pathogenicity data and gene lists; that’s one product that we hope to bring forth for
the community, is to share what each site is doing and what the consortium is doing
as a whole in terms of calling variants — of annotating variants, excuse me, and then defining
predetermined gene lists for each specific condition. And they also coordinate logistics,
and in sort of coordinating the work of the consortium, help us raise the consortium visibility. So each site is responsible for achieving
their specific aims for their specific disease context and patients, but we also rely on,
heavily, in fact, on the work of working groups. This is a similar structure to probably what
you heard from the eMERGE consortium yesterday. We have a number of working groups in a number
of areas; some of them are quite technical, such as sequencing standards or electronic
reports. Others are more sort of actionability or return of results based. I think this is
a good representation of the type of work that is being done across the consortium.
We do have a cancer working group that is just getting up and running, so we hope to
do some more specific work in that area as a consortium. So, here is what the recruitment looks like
as of December 2013; so, so far, about 1,100 patients have been approached about enrolling.
We’ve actually sequenced — oops, sorry — consented almost 500 of them, and then sequenced about
nearly 200 of them. You’ll note here that we’ve also enrolled physicians, so it’s really
important, I think, to understand the physician perspective in terms of generating the data,
interpreting the data, and returning it back to patients. And so the Project 3 individuals
are studying — the physicians — quite carefully, in fact, that a lot of them are doing audio
transcripts and so forth. I think a good analogy is that the technical side, the genome sequencing
side, is sort of, you know, mining every single variant, and then some of the clinical teams
are trying to interpret variants at sort of the sequence level. And the ELSI folks are
really doing the same thing at sort of, you know, the — each sort of word of the interview,
they’re really trying to look for themes and commonalities in terms of what physicians
want and how they respond to information, and how they best communicate results back
to the participants. So, I will just mention that we still have
a lot of work in progress. We are, I think, learning that one size does not fit all, and
I think, you know, while we hope to bring forth some best practices for the community,
we are discovering that there are a lot of different and equally valid approaches. For
example, six of the initial sites that were funded were asked about their practices of
reporting incidental findings, and you can see here that all six report the incidental
findings, half of them include the incidental findings in their primary indications, and
half actually have a separate report, and these decisions are also made by consensus
— generally made by consensus among the clinical teams, so there are many perspectives. Half
of the sites actually allow patients to opt out of receiving medically actionable incidental
findings, again for various site-specific reasons, and well-justified ones as well.
So you can see that there is some variability here, and we’re working to understand sort
of why people made these decisions, who makes the decisions. Are there — is there a clear
way going forward that we can recommend to the community, or is it more of an issue of
kind of defining what factors each group needs to consider in terms making their choices
about how information is returned? Groups are also displaying some sort of heterogeneity
in terms of how they return variants. And obviously, I think one big challenge for
the field as well that we are hoping to address within CSER is what is sufficient evidence
for pathogenicity? I think this is really a critical area that is not unique to CSER,
and we are eager to collaborate with others, I think, in this regard. Some examples of recent work from our consortia.
There have been two recent working group papers, one focused on summarizing the similarities
and differences, and defining challenges in terms of identifying actionable genes within
the consortium. So this is a summary and descriptive paper from the first six CSER sites in terms
of actionable genes. There is also a working group paper on approaches to integrating genomic
information into the electronic healthcare record. We have a number of other papers that
are published or co-authored by subsets of the consortia or individual sites, and I’m
just highlighting a few here. There was an article written by a number of folks in response
to the ACMG recommendations on incidental findings, a exercise to actually annotate
incidental findings in NHLBI exome sequencing project, and then one example of the discovery
study in cancer where a whole exome sequence — oh, sorry, this is — this is describing
the clinical pipeline — clinical sequencing pipeline from one of our sites that has extensive
experience, and then here’s the discovery study identifying several EFR mutations in
hormone-resistant breast cancer. So we are doing some critical discovery as well. So, I could not give this talk were it not
for the contributions of numerous people. I’m showing you here the U grants, the first
phase that were funded, the three that were funded in the second phase, as well as our
— the PIs of our grantees. Also, I’m fortunate to count among our collaborators a number
of people at NHGRI that have helped us really lead and champion this effort, in particular
Brad Ozenberger, who is now at Washington University in St. Louis, and then our collaborators
at NCI as well. I’m happy to take any questions at this point.
Thank you for your time. [applause] Male Speaker:
So how does your study differ from the TCGA? Lucia Hindorff:
So, my understanding is TCGA is — they’re collecting samples from a number of cancer
— individuals with cancer, but it’s not in the setting of their routine clinical care.
And the purpose of CSER, first of all, is much — it goes beyond cancer. It’s — the
lessons are not cancer specific, although we do have cancer sites, but it’s really to
figure out how to generate the information, how to interpret it and return it within the
context of the clinical workflow. So I don’t know if anybody else from NHGRI wants to comment. Male Speaker:
[inaudible]. It’s all discovered; it stops there. Lucia Hindorff:
It’s all — right, so it’s all discovery. Male Speaker;
Can I ask maybe any impressions or data on patients and providers, and how adaptable
sequencing has been to the provider community in particular, and the — you know, I don’t
know if there’s a little discordance between the number of people, why people haven’t agreed
to do this, if there’s any insights into that as well. Lucia Hindorff:
I’m going to try and tease some of that apart. So maybe the acceptability of sequence to
physicians and their — Male Speaker:
Their — you know, how readily they are, you know, really prepared to actually utilize
it in their practice, and what do we need to do to really facilitate that. And also
the patients, what are the most common reasons for them not to want to participate? Lucia Hindorff:
Okay, so I think in terms of the physicians, we are fortunate to have a pretty big diversity
of, I think, clinical domains represented within the CSER consortium, and some of you
that are involved in CSER may want to comment on this, but my understanding is, you know,
it really depends on the — not just on the clinical community in terms of cancer versus
pediatrics. It really depends on one’s institution, what sort of the climate is for being receptive
to clinical sequencing. So NHGRI’s visited, we’ve had the fortune to visit a number of
CSER sites, and, you know, many physicians really are on board because they see this
as sort of the next sort of step in personalized health care. Many, through, I think, recognize
that there are challenges, like really, really critical challenges, where they don’t have
a lot of time; the clinical utility, perhaps, is not as evident for genomic sequencing yet,
but I think, you know, for these nine sites at least, there’s a lot of promise there,
I think. Many individuals sort of see this as a research endeavor, which it absolutely
is. It’s clinical research, and I think we’re learning the lessons in order to move the
field forward. So I have to say that at least in the nine
sites that we’ve heard about so far that we fund, you know, the physicians have been receptive.
I think it does take some effort to recruit some patients in light of their busy workload,
but many of them are wanting to do it. I can offer one particular example, the pediatric
cancer study from Baylor, for example. The physicians there are used to enrolling their
patients in clinical trials, and so, you know, the value of clinical sequencing in that context
I think is seen as much higher, and there are similar examples throughout the CSER consortium. And then in terms of patients not participating.
In general, actually, we have heard that a lot of patients are really receptive to this.
I think once they get passed the idea that, you know, you’re sequencing the human genome,
you’re sort of actually learning about an individual at sort of the nucleus high level,
once you get past that scientific explanation, a lot of them really do see sequencing as
perhaps an end to their diagnostic odyssey. Some of these individuals have been going
from visit to visit, test to test, trying to get an answer to, you know, what is causing
their condition, so that’s one example. I think we haven’t seen so far people decline
participation due to the fact — due to return of results. Actually, a lot of them — or
results being placed in their medical records. I think once people — once the researchers
explain to them what the value of the information potentially is and how it will be interpreted,
many of them really don’t see many concerns with that approach. So, so far, early signs
are that it’s reassuring. Female Speaker:
Yeah, but you have fewer than half of patients approached enroll. Lucia Hindorff:
That’s true. Female Speaker:
That does seem low. Lucia Hindorff:
That’s — so we do have — so we do have a pipeline. I think what I’m showing you is
that there is a process by which people are consented. They are putting in the sequencing
pipeline. They have to come back to have their results returned. Female Speaker:
So they may be in a purgatory. Lucia Hindorff:
And in fact — and the other important thing that I want to add is that in the early days,
especially at each site, there is a process for determining which variants to return,
right? That’s not a trivial process, and I see Heidi back there, so maybe she can comment
on really how long it takes to actually call a variant, but, I mean, that is a process
that takes a substantial amount of time. I think it’s shortening, but that has to be
factored into as well in terms of who actually gets sequenced and the results returned. Heidi Rehm:
And I just do want to comment that we have had patients decline because they do not their
result in the medical record. So we do have a proportion of patients that, upon enrollment,
once they go through and find out that a criteria for enrollment is that their results will
be placed in the medical record, they have declined for that reason. Not — you know,
the majority do continue to enroll, but I just wanted to make that clarification. Lucia Hindorff:
It’s not universal, yeah, that’s a good point. Heidi Rehm:
And on the physician enrollment side, they are required to undergo six hours of training,
two that are didactic, and then four hours of self study, case modules that they have
to take quizzes on. They get CME credit, but there is, you know, the time commitment that
is the major barrier for the physician involvement, though I think it’s usually mainly just a
time commitment question and not interest in general in the topic. Female Speaker:
So, I guess what is returned at one site might be considered incidental to the phenotype
of interest at another site, or what? Lucia Hindorff:
So, each site does make their own decision about what constitutes an incidental finding,
so you could find your — you know, there are differences in terms of what’s returned,
so it’s possible that what one site that considers a variant crucial for primary phenotype is
considered an incidental finding in another study because they’re not recruiting patients
from the same phenotype. Female Speaker:
And I guess you are not trying to make people harmonize their procedures at this point,
but are they at least keeping tracks of which findings are returned and which genes are
considered incidental in some public place where we — Lucia Hindorff:
Yes — Female Speaker:
— could access that information? Lucia Hindorff:
So it’s not yet public, we’ve just now started to collect the gene list that are actually
the diagnostic gene list, as well as the incidental findings. So I think, again, I think it remains
to be seen whether or not, you know, there is a consensus. I think there are also plenty
of other organizations and societies that want a way in that are probably more appropriate
that this research consortium, but certainly we are looking at that very critically and
plan to share that information as well. Male Speaker:
As a participant in the Philadelphia site, I can answer Mary by saying, you know, if
you’ve seen one CSER site, you’ve seen one CSER site, that they are very different, and
hopefully the working groups will amalgamate some results. I just want to emphasize a couple points that
you’ve mentioned. One is that we are very concerned about why people don’t participate
and are screening them — querying them as carefully as we are the participants, and
the second thing is that we found one of the reasons that parents opt not to participate
is that this is not a substitute for regular medical care, and so our patients with congenital
hearing loss, let’s say, are getting cytogenomic arrays and full panels of known hearing loss
genes, and then this is an add-on, and oftentimes, parents say, “Look, you’ve done what you can,
that’s enough. We don’t want to invest the additional time.” Lucia Hindorff:
So, right, so the extra time burden of participating. Male Speaker:
Thank you. Lucia Hindorff:
Okay, thank you.
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Effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint
Atsuko Tsuge, Tomohiro Uno, Kaoru Mizuno, Kohei Tatsumi
Effects of Al 2O 3 films in the system of Au/Al joint widely used in semi-conductor devices at present have been studied. In the experiment, a thin film of Au/Al 2O 3/Al was used, and the diffusion of Au atoms across through Al 2O 3 films and the formation of intermetallic compound at temperatures between 25°C and 500°C were observed by using Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, electric resistance measurement and secondary ion mass spectrometer with using 18O as a tracer. It has been cleared from test results that, (1) Au diffuses through Al 2O 3 films and reacts to Al, (2) as temperature rises up, the intermetallic compound grows in an island formation for Au/Al 2O 3/Al system, and (3) the behavior of its growth varies with the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere applied. On the basis of the above results, the effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint are discussed in this paper.
Nippon Steel Technical Report
Published - 1997 Jan
Electric resistance measurement
Auger electron spectroscopy
X ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Tsuge, A., Uno, T., Mizuno, K., & Tatsumi, K. (1997). Effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint. Nippon Steel Technical Report, (72), 95-101.
Effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint. / Tsuge, Atsuko; Uno, Tomohiro; Mizuno, Kaoru; Tatsumi, Kohei.
In: Nippon Steel Technical Report, No. 72, 01.1997, p. 95-101.
Tsuge, A, Uno, T, Mizuno, K & Tatsumi, K 1997, 'Effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint', Nippon Steel Technical Report, no. 72, pp. 95-101.
Tsuge A, Uno T, Mizuno K, Tatsumi K. Effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint. Nippon Steel Technical Report. 1997 Jan;(72):95-101.
Tsuge, Atsuko ; Uno, Tomohiro ; Mizuno, Kaoru ; Tatsumi, Kohei. / Effects of Al 2O 3 films on the reliability of Au/Al joint. In: Nippon Steel Technical Report. 1997 ; No. 72. pp. 95-101.
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Multi-electron transfer process of vanadyl complexes for oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide
Kimihisa Yamamoto, Kenichi Oyaizu, Eishun Tsuchida
The aim of the present work is to demonstrate that a novel catalysis by vanadyl complexes can be applied to the synthesis of oligo(p-phenylene sulfide) (OPS) with S-S bond. In addition, an example which demonstrates the reversible multi-electron transfer is presented. In this example, the net reaction of the process is the transfer of two electrons.
Polymers for Advanced Technologies
Published - 1995 Mar
diphenyl disulfide
Yamamoto, K., Oyaizu, K., & Tsuchida, E. (1995). Multi-electron transfer process of vanadyl complexes for oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide. Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 6(3), 155-158.
Multi-electron transfer process of vanadyl complexes for oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide. / Yamamoto, Kimihisa; Oyaizu, Kenichi; Tsuchida, Eishun.
In: Polymers for Advanced Technologies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 03.1995, p. 155-158.
Yamamoto, K, Oyaizu, K & Tsuchida, E 1995, 'Multi-electron transfer process of vanadyl complexes for oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide', Polymers for Advanced Technologies, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 155-158.
Yamamoto K, Oyaizu K, Tsuchida E. Multi-electron transfer process of vanadyl complexes for oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide. Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 1995 Mar;6(3):155-158.
Yamamoto, Kimihisa ; Oyaizu, Kenichi ; Tsuchida, Eishun. / Multi-electron transfer process of vanadyl complexes for oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide. In: Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 1995 ; Vol. 6, No. 3. pp. 155-158.
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Tensile fracture properties of single glass fiber in cryogenic environment
Mamoru Hayakawa, Norihiko Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Nishiwaki, Norio Hirayama, Hiroyuki Kawada
The strengthening mechanism of the glass-fiber at cryogenic temperature has not been fully studied so far. In the present study, tensile tests of a single E-glass fiber with heat treatment in air and liquid nitrogen were conducted to reveal the strengthening mechanism. The strength of glass fiber in liquid nitrogen was twice as high as the strength in air. Based on the area of the mirror zone in the fracture surface, the mirror constant was detemined. Besides, the mirror constant of the glass fiber were equal regardless of the heat treatment condition and the testing temperature. From the observation of surface crack, it was clarified that the mirror zone was the mark of surface flaw propagation and therefore it was suggested that the area of mirror zone doesn't have a direct effect on fiber strength.
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, A Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part A
Published - 2010 Jun
Glass fibers
Brittle fracture
Cryogenic temperature
Hayakawa, M., Taniguchi, N., Nishiwaki, T., Hirayama, N., & Kawada, H. (2010). Tensile fracture properties of single glass fiber in cryogenic environment. Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, A Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, 76(766), 652-654.
Tensile fracture properties of single glass fiber in cryogenic environment. / Hayakawa, Mamoru; Taniguchi, Norihiko; Nishiwaki, Tsuyoshi; Hirayama, Norio; Kawada, Hiroyuki.
In: Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, A Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, Vol. 76, No. 766, 06.2010, p. 652-654.
Hayakawa, M, Taniguchi, N, Nishiwaki, T, Hirayama, N & Kawada, H 2010, 'Tensile fracture properties of single glass fiber in cryogenic environment', Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, A Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, vol. 76, no. 766, pp. 652-654.
Hayakawa M, Taniguchi N, Nishiwaki T, Hirayama N, Kawada H. Tensile fracture properties of single glass fiber in cryogenic environment. Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, A Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part A. 2010 Jun;76(766):652-654.
Hayakawa, Mamoru ; Taniguchi, Norihiko ; Nishiwaki, Tsuyoshi ; Hirayama, Norio ; Kawada, Hiroyuki. / Tensile fracture properties of single glass fiber in cryogenic environment. In: Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, A Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part A. 2010 ; Vol. 76, No. 766. pp. 652-654.
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HomeSuccess StoriesDMG
Owner: Angela Todd
Location: Laguna Niguel, CA
angelatodd.com/dmgcorporate
Entrepreneurs often face the dilemma of deciding how and when to add new services in order to keep a small business growing. For Angela Todd, founder and CEO of DMG, Inc., the challenge was identifying the most promising niche for her company, then investing the right resources to make it successful.
My Successes:
In 1999, Angela Todd had started her own business that provided “turnkey” services for Southern California’s commercial real estate market. Drawing on her experience in professional services marketing, she helped connect real estate brokers and developers with qualified engineering consultants and contractors to help launch and complete new projects.
Angela enjoyed tremendous success in her first four years as an entrepreneur. In 2003, her husband Charles, himself a commercial development professional, was ready to become a partner and help take the business to the next level. The question was, what direction was best for the company go?
“We were growing fast, trying to be a lot of things to a lot of people,” Angela recalls. “With so many potential paths available, we needed to find one that was right for us.”
By narrowing their market, it helped DMG double its business in 2004. Angela is now looking to bring the company’s services to new markets, including banks that provide SBA-backed loans to other small business owners. DMG is also giving back to the community through activities such as sponsoring a luau fundraiser for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, and sponsoring a motocross racing team.
“We essentially created our own niche market—providing due diligence engineering and inspection services within the ‘short escrow’ period—the brief timeframe that brokers and developers have to verify the value of their properties to lenders,” Angela says. “We act as the ‘building police,’ investigating the property and the surrounding areas for hazards and concerns using our own engineers and inspectors to ensure that these services are performed within each customer’s stringent escrow contingency deadlines.”
How SCORE Helped:
“A lot of credit goes to Betty and SCORE,” Angela says. “Our discussions have produced valuable ideas that have helped us build our business, and address issues that might have thrown us off track. That’s why I recommend SCORE to everybody I talk to. Who wouldn’t want to take advantage of all that valuable knowledge and support?”
What's Great About My Mentor?:
While researching SBA loans, Angela learned about SCORE’s free mentoring services. After meeting with volunteer mentor Betty Otte, an expert in launching and managing various types of businesses, Angela was confident that she had found the answer.
Otte made recommendations for shaping DMG’s marketing advertising strategy. “Even though my background was in marketing, Betty provided valuable advice on how to tailor our message to our target markets,” Angela says. “Betty essentially gave us homework assignments, and every one proved to be successful.”
Along with refining DMG’s direct mail pieces and client newsletter, Otte has helped the couple bring some fun to their work. “Betty gave us the idea of turning our business development visits to brokers into ‘holidays,’ where we deliver pastries along with company information,” Angela says. “That reinforces our presence in each office, and we almost always meet someone we’ve not done business with.”
DMG, Inc. angelatodd.com/dmgcorporate
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Admiral Mike McConnell Honored With 27th Annual William Oliver Baker Award
By Brynn Koeppen June 15, 2011 No Comments
Last week Admiral John Michael “Mike” McConnell, Executive Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton, was honored with the William Oliver Baker Award at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner.
Admiral Mike McConnell is the former director of the National Security Agency (1992-1996) and former Director of United States National Intelligence (2007-2009). Admiral McConnell also previously served as vice admiral to the United States Navy.
The William Oliver Baker Award is given by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) to those who “promote excellence in the intelligence and national security activities of the United States government and associated endeavors in the private sector.”
Above: Admiral McConnell smoked a cigar as his “last act of defiance” and in celebration of the Navy SEALs elite “Team 6” success in the capturing and killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Above: Fran Townsend, Terry McConnell, Admiral Mike McConnell
Past award recipients include:
Secretary of Defense of Robert Gates (2010)
Former Senator John Warner (2009)
The Honorable George Tenet (2003)
Admiral Mike McConnell Booz Allen Hamilton INSA slider William Oliver Baker Award
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With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson
Pinkney, Andrea Davis author.
324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Dear America.
"Hadley, Virginia, 1954"--Cover.
School integration -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Families -- Virginia -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.
Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Book J FICTION DEA 0 1
Coretta Scott King Honor author Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a stunning new Dear America diary about school integration.
In the spring of 1954, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new school and to leave behind all that is familiar to face great uncertainty in the school year ahead.
However, not everyone supports integration and much of the town is outraged at the decision. Dawnie must endure the harsh realities of racism firsthand, while continuing to work hard to get a good education and prove she deserves the opportunity. But the backlash against Dawnie's attendance of an all-white school is more than she's prepared for. When her father loses his job as a result, and her little brother is bullied, Dawnie has to wonder if it's worth it. In time, Dawnie learns that the true meaning of justice comes from remaining faithful to the integrity within oneself.
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters ; Duke Ellington , a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation ; and most recently the New York Times bestseller Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down . She lives in New York City, where she also works as a children's book editor.
In 1954 Virginia, Dawnie Rae wants to be a doctor, to help her brother be "normal," and to meet Jackie Robinson. With her parents' approval, she also wants to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn School. Harassed by Coburn students and teachers and rejected by lifelong friends, Dawnie Rae, through Pinkney's authentic scenes of boycotts, violence, and familial love, walks the difficult path toward racial equality. (c) Copyright 2012. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
In this Dear America title, set shortly after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, 12-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson is a gifted student and talented baseball player and becomes the first black student to integrate Prettyman Coburn school. There, Dawnie is alternately taunted, ignored, or ridiculed (even by the staff), incidents that test her faith and resolve. There are also difficulties at home: when her father's employer endorses segregation, he quits, leaving her laundress mother sole moneymaker. Despite all of this, Dawnie, increasingly supported by family and a new friend, Gertie, who is Jewish, experiences moments of hope, showing to readers how equality and justice are an ongoing endeavor. Dawnie is a wonderfully drawn character whose lively and poignant diary entries including letters to her hero, Jackie Robinson detail her dreams, fears, frustrations, and achievements, personalizing segregation's and integration's diverse impacts. Back matter provides historical background, information on real-life events and people mentioned throughout, photos, and a time line, while Pinkney relates her own experiences in an author's note.--Rosenfeld, Shell. Copyright 2010 Booklist
Gr 4-7-Upon being identified by the NAACP, Dawnie Rae Johnson becomes the first African American to integrate an all white school following the ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education. An animated reading of Dawnie's diary entries draw listeners in and make them part of her experiences and emotions as she bravely faces the angry crowds on her first days of school, excitedly describes her adventures on a pogo stick, angrily confronts her little brother after finding his scribbles in her diary, and nervously wonders when her father will find a new job. Waites's exceptional talents give voice to Dawnie's determination. Channie Waites expertly brings to life Andrea Davis Pinkney's story (Scholastic, 2011). Dawnie is a fictional 12-year-old living in Virginia in 1954. Pinkney's ability to weave historical events such as the Montgomery bus protest, Jackie Robinson's integration of baseball, and visits from Martin Luther King, Jr. into the fictional diary entries give listeners insight into what life was like during this important period of American history. Read with passion and expression, listeners will admire the spunky young girl in this entertaining, historically-based recording. The enhanced CD includes historical images and an interview with the author. Highly recommended for school and public libraries.-Cathie Bashaw Morton, Millbrook Central School District, NY (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Coretta Scott King Awardwinner Pinkney provides an outstanding contribution to the Dear America series with the diary of the (fictional) first African-American student to integrate the segregated schools of Hadley, Va.Pinkney paints a vivid picture of a bright 12-year-old who is athletic, fun-loving and full of dreams. She admires Jackie Robinson and is fiercely protective of her autistic younger brother. Shortly after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision is handed down, Dawnie Rae is selected as one of three African-American children who will integrate the Prettyman Coburn school. True to the series' format, the fictional diary entries, chronicle the both events of the primary story arc and fill in telling details of the time and place. Today's readers may well be stunned when Dawnie Rae's Mama and Daddy bluntly tell her the family doesn't have enough money to buy a television, and she goes on to muse about the buying power of the 1954 nickel. While many contemporary accounts of the Civil Rights movement focus on the courage, integrity and character of those who pioneered the struggle, Pinkney does a commendable job imagining both the setting and the inner emotions that ordinary children might have wrestled with as they stepped into history.A solid entry in an ever-popular series. (historical note, photographs, biographical notes, time line)(Historical fiction. 8-14)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
From Dear America: With the Might of Angels This morning when I sat down, Daddy took a break from his breakfast reading. The little smile playing in his eyes told me a surprise was brewing. He looked at me for a long moment. "Happy birthday, Dawnie." Then he pushed that New York paper under my nose. "Here, child." He was eager to show me the front page headline. "Clip this for your new diary." I looked carefully. Daddy told me to read what I saw. He said, "Speak loud enough to scare some pigeons." I read slowly, pressing each word into the warm morning air. Washington - May 17, 1954 High Court Bans School Segregation: 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply Seems Mama already knew the news. Didn't take her but a minute to hand me a pair of scissors from her sewing basket, and a tin of paste from her craft bin. "Make your birthday book look pretty," Goober said. Nobody even had to tell me what to do. I knew right off why those scissors and paste brush were suddenly in my hands. I've carefully glued the headline right here as a memory of the day I turned twelve. Excerpted from With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia 1954 by Andrea Davis Pinkney All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
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(Tom Armitage)
(Dennis Bauszus)
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/barros/ Felipe Sodré Barros]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/fernando/ Fernando Quadro]
| <span id="4">4</span>
| Seth Girvin
| Ireland
| ''Seth is a member of the MapServer PSC and has been very active in the community for a number of years now and is also very active in the Irish chapter of OSGeo. He has presented and a number of FOSS4G events and is both an excellent advocate for OSGeo and just a generally excellent person too.''
* [[User:Sethg|Seth Girvin]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/girvin/ Seth Girvin]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/michael-smith/ Michael Smith]
| Antonio Cerciello
| Netherlands
| ''Antonio is very enthusiastic about promoting the use of free and open source geospatial software and has been active in the FOSS4G community, for almost 3 years now. During this time, he has contributed with his coding skills to Geonetwork, Geoserver, OpenGeoportal and to the OSGeo Live image. He has attended many code sprints and has presented talks and workshops in FOSS4G events around the world.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/cerciello/ Antonio Cerciello]
| [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Doublebyte Joana Simoes]
| Pēteris Brūns
| Latvia
| ''Peteris and his company SunGIS [1] is long term supporter of FOSS4G . In Latvia, they are building environment for further usage of FOSS4G in the public sector as well as business. Peteris is already valid member of OSGeo and it would be great to have him as Charter member too. [1] http://sungis.lv''
* [[User:Peteris|Pēteris Brūns]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bruns/ Pēteris Brūns]
| [https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Jachym Jachym Cepicky]
| Tom Armitage
| UK
| ''Long-term Scottish QGIS user group co-chair and co-chair of FOSS4GUK 2019, Tom has many years' experience teaching and training QGIS in academic institutions. He also freely shares material via http://learngis.uk, and actively encourages inclusivity and diversity at geo-events. Under his joint chairing, FOSS4GUK 2019 made a huge step up in diversity from previous years, with only one out of four keynotes a white man, and the offer of on-site childcare and childcare grants, all explicitly backed by a major sponsor. Tom is also a great speaker, giving perhaps the best talk at FOSS4GUK 2017 in the cartography stream, and has run FOSS4GUK workshops in the past. He will be a great advocate for FOSS4G as a charter member of OSGeo.''
* [[Tom_Armitage|Tom Armitage]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/armitage/ Tom Armitage]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/chadwin/ Tom Chadwin]
| <span id="10">10</span>
| Dan Ormsby
| ''As Operations Manager at Astun Technology, Dan has been hugely influential in increasing enterprise adoption of open source products across UK local and central government, by promoting and improving integration with cloud-based solutions such as AWS- in particular the adoption of QGIS over appstream. He would be a great Charter Member as he would be able to raise the profile of and champion the use of open source technologies in business and government. Dan has demoed and spoken about running QGIS in the cloud at numerous workshops, usergroups, and most recently the FOSS4GUK 2019 event in Edinburgh.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ormsby/ Dan Ormsby]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/cook-joanne/ Jo Cook]
| Dennis Bauszus
| ''Dennis has attended all global and UK FOSS4G events since 2016 and given talks and/or organized workshops at each event. He has used Openlayers and Leaflet since their first versions and is active within the community both on stackoverflow (where he has more than 1000 reputation related to OSGeo projects) and GitHub. Dennis organised a FOSS4G code sprint at the Geolytix (his current employer) offices after the 2018 FOSS4GUK event. Over the last few years he has worked almost exclusively on a project which he hopes to propose as an OSGeo community project later this year.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bauszus/ Dennis Bauszus]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/matt-walker/ Matt Walker]
| Robert Coup
| ''Robert is a long time collaborator and contributor to open source geospatial projects across many libraries and tools, including as a GDAL committer and contributor to Mapnik, GeoDjango and a number of other OSS projects. He has been heavily involved in improving the state of Open Data in New Zealand via community initiatives and working directly with Government through his company Koordinates. He has helped to refine and improve the OGC API - Features (formerly WFS3) specification. He has attended and spoke at several FOSS4G and SoTM conferences, and was on the organising team for the Linux.conf.au 2010 conference in Wellington. And also mentored & coordinated Google Summer of Code projects for several years for GDAL & Mapnik.''
* [[User:Rcoup|Robert Coup]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/coup/ Robert Coup]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/even-rouault/ Even Rouault]
| Edoardo Neerhut
| ''I would like to nominate Edoardo Neerhut as a Charter Member of OSGeo. Edoardo has been heavily involved in developing FOSS4G SotM Oceania and OSGeo Oceania since day 1, always bringing a well-reasoned and insightful perspective to every discussion, and playing a leadership role in critical areas. As someone with strong engagement with the OSM community, and with strong teamwork skills, he plays an important role in knitting the community together. I believe that Edoardo is an asset to the OSGeo community.''
* [[User:Eneerhut|Edoardo Neerhut]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/neerhut/ Edoardo Neerhut]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bryant/ John Bryant]
| Ross McDonald
| Scotland
| ''This year Ross has chaired the committee for the UK FOSS4G conference in Edinburgh. His enthusiasm for open source geospatial was clear in the effort he put into the event, and his contribution was one of the key factors in its success. He has also spoken at many open source and more general scientific and geospatial meetings, and organised QGIS UK User Group meetings in Scotland. Furthermore in his work capacity he switched a Scottish local council to Open Source, introducing QGIS, PostGIS and Geoserver. Ross is an asset to open source, to OSGeo, and will make a great charter member.''
* [[Mixedbredie|Ross McDonald]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/mcdonald/ Ross McDonald]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/rowlingson/ Barry Rowlingson]
| Ivana Ivanova
| ''Ivana Ivanova is a senior lecturer at Curtin University in Perth (Australia) and Research Fellow at the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information Australia. Since 2000 she has been very active in the FOSS4G world, especially in the Education frame. Here some few examples: * She designed, developed and tutored (to date 3 editions) blended learning course on ‘Developing standard compliant geo-web applications for service-based spatial data infrastructure’ (FOSS4G tools used in the course). * She developed a distance course on Open Standards and Open Source Web Mapping for EuroSDR educational series (EduServ10) – resulted in an invitation to present at the GeotTech Centre Professional Educators Webinar Series. * In the frame of UN OpenGIS, she was coordinator and tutor of 6 editions of the PostGIS course. * Moreover, she is currently one of the UN OSGeo challenge mentors. * She regularly supervises student projects developed with open-source for geo tools – e.g. OpenLayers, GeoServer, GeoNode, PostGIS. * She is member of Geo4All. * She presented the UN OpenGIS initiative at the UNWGIC 2018. Besides her activity with Open Source, she is working on Open Standards and she is the Co-chair of Open Geospatial Consortium’s Data Quality Doman Working Group – where the focus of interest includes the use of open access and standards to geodata.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ivanova/ Ivana Ivanova]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/maria-brovelli/ Maria Brovelli]
| Ana Leticia Ma
| USA
| ''I met Ana at FOSS4G2019 where she was a volunteer. Her company didn't paid for the travel from the USA so she had to take unpaid leave and bought the ticket by herself. This proves her determination to attend the event and be part of our community. She helped a lot with the event recordings. She also attended FOSS4G NA 2019. I'm sure Ana made many friends at those event that can join me demonstrate that she is part of our community and shares our values. I believe she will make our community even more lively and colorful :)''
* [[User:AnaLeticiaGIS |Ana Leticia Ma]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ma/ Ana Leticia Ma]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/bakaniko/ Nicolas Roelandt]
| Ionuț Ungurianu
| Romania
| ''Ionuț is working as a Sr. GIS Consultant for a Romanian company active in the field of telecommunications, cadaster and remote sensing. Ionuț is a co-founder of the NGO Timisoara GIS Community (https://www.gistm.ro/), where he serves as President. The NGO tries to promote open source GIS solutions though local projects or by providing mostly QGIS trainings. At FOSS4G2019, during the OSGeo Community Sprint Ionuț became a contributor to the OSGeoLive project as a Romanian translator. He is part of the very active Romania Local Chapter. Ionuț will be a great advocate for FOSS4G as a charter member of OSGeo especially in his local region Timișoara.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ungurianu/ Ionuț Ungurianu]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde Astrid Emde]
| Dimitris Karakostis
| Greece
| ''Dimitris works in the World Food Programme and he is very active in the GeoNode community. He promotes many of our projects in World Food Programme and UN. Dimitris attended the last FOSS4G, joined the OSGeoLive translation team during the code sprint and started contributing. I know Dimitris for some time now and he is really passionate about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software. I believe Dimitris would be a very good addition to our charter members list.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/karakostis/ Dimitris Karakostis ]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/ Angelos Tzotsos ]
| Julia Wagemann
| Italy
| ''Julia is a strong advocate of open geospatial data and open-source geospatial technologies, and a strong believer that data standards and FOSS4G are vital building blocks to build bridges between different user communities. Julia has played a huge role in raising awareness about open geospatial software in the meteorological / climate communities. She regularly engages with user communities, as a key organiser of the OpenDataHack @ECMWF and current coordinator the ECMWF Summer of Weather Code - an online coding programme that promotes the development of weather-related open-source software. She is also the co-founder of Women in Geospatial, a rapidly growing network that aims to increase diversity at geo events and the geospatial community in general. I’ve known Julia for some years now through working on OGC standards, open geospatial software and petascale data collections. I believe she supports the goals of OSGeo and will be a fantastic asset to the organisation for many years.''
* [[User:Jwagemann|Julia Wagemann]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/wagemann/ Julia Wagemann]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/steer/ Adam Steer]
| Andrea Trovant
| Argentina
| ''She's been with the Osgeo Argentina Local chapter for three years now, collaborating with everything from social media to cashier at events and to help people get involved in the community, specially students at our University just starting their careers. She represents our younger side, bringing more and more energy everyday, but also working tirelessly in any task she is presented with. She is board member and part of the founders of the Geolibres NGO, that gives a legal framework to the local chapter.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/trovant/ Andrea Trovant]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/libman/ Malena Libman]
| Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala
| Mexico
| ''I am proud to nominate Hennessy Becerra for charter member of OSGeo. I knew about Hennessy for the first time, last year during the First Mexican Reunion of QGIS users. That is where I found out that he is one of the organizers of that reunion and not only that, also that he is the founder of the QGIS users group in México. Very eager to make things happen, like for example, having international speakers in the Reunion, organizing workshops, and taking care of all the details that an event implies. The Reunion was a success, and this year he is also organizing and promoting the Second Mexican Reunion of QGIS users. This second event is the one that made me think of nominating Hennessy as he is showing a commitment to continue with this task: - he cares about the users, - he cares to spread the knowledge of open source for geospatial. Me, as a developer, I really appreciate this kind of work and caring, as the software we develop is for users to use. In my opinion his addition to the charter member of OSGeo community will enrich our organization.''
* [[User:Hbecerra|Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/becerra/ Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vicky-vergara/ Vicky Vergara]
| Cécile Le Calvez
| ''Cécile is part of the OSGEO community and she is very active here. She is part of the OSGeo-fr board as secretary. She is involved in the organization of incoming events of the local chapter. Cécile shares the OSGeo values and will make a great charter member.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/lecalvez/ Cécile Le Calvez]
| Daniel Santillan
| Austria
| ''Daniel has been attending and presenting at various FOSS4G conferences like the last one in Bucharest (https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-391-interactive-eo-data-visualization-in-the-web). Daniel is a long time user but also contributor to Open Source Software, for example with graphly (https://github.com/EOX-A/graphly) and plotty (https://github.com/santilland/plotty).''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/santillan/ Daniel Santillan]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/stephan-meissl/ Stephan Meißl]
| Sylvain Beorchia
| ''Sylvain is a long time supporter of OSGeo. He is a geospatial web and python developper and a talented graphical designer. He has been authoring many designs for FOSS4G-EU, FOSS4G-FR, QGIS French user, PGConf, etc... Lately, he authored the PROJ6 project logo. He has very special skills of extrem wisdom and kindness in any project he gets involved in.''
* [[User:Sbeorchia|Sylvain Beorchia]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/sbe/ Sylvain Beorchia]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/rhaubourg/ Régis Haubourg]
| Romel Vázquez Rodríguez
| Cuba
| ''Romel is an enthusiast of Open Geospatial Technologies working in particular with R in his position as professor in the Centre for Computing Studies (Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas). He is making strong efforts in promoting the use of open tools in his country, Cuba, as he did it outside his country, especially in Ecuador. His election as a charter member will benefit inclusion and diversity.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vazquez/ Romel Vázquez Rodríguez]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/acosta-y-lara/ Sergio Acosta y Lara]
| Saber Razmjooei
| ''Saber has been a great supporter of FOSS for more than a decade. He has given a number of talks on OSGeo software in UK and elsewhere. He has been active especially within QGIS community. Through his role as the director of Lutra Consulting, he is supporting development of QGIS and other FOSS projects, as well as providing migration, support and training to larger organizations for greater adoption of FOSS.''
* [[User:Sabb|Saber Razmjooei]]
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/razmjooei-saber/ Saber Razmjooei]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/dobias/ Martin Dobias]
| Ji Yoon Kim
| South Korea
| ''He is an passionate open source developer and a geospatial businessman in Korea. He has contributed much to geospatial open source community not only in Korea but in Asia as well. As a developer he appears regularly at OSGeo Korean chapter’s meetup and shares much of his knowledge and experiences with other community members. He is a regular speaker of many of community events and also a core member of QGIS translation in Korea. As a businessman he’s sponsored many conferences such as International FOSS4G Seoul, FOSS4G Asia, and FOSS4G Korea. I believe his passionate and unique view toward open source community could give fresh insights to our community. ''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/kim-3/ Ji Yoon Kim]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/sanghee-shin/ Sanghee Shin]
| Mahdi Farnaghi
| Iran
| ''Mahdi Farnaghi has a strong academic background in GIS (expert in Geospatial Web Services; PhD from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran). He is a researcher at Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), at Lund University, Sweden. I work with Mahdi in an European project in Central Asia. I also know him and Lund GIS Centre people for their active participation in AGILE. As a researcher, Mahdi develops and evaluates algorithms and workflows for many research projects he his involved all around the world. Having a solid researcher as Mahdi as a member of our community will make it more stronger. Soon as I invited Mahdi, he promptly reply and offer himself to participate in the coming OSGeo activities.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/farnaghi/ Mahdi Farnaghi]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/rocha-jorge-gustavo/ Jorge Rocha]
| Cristina Vrînceanu
| ''Cristina is an important member of the Romanian Local Chapter of OSGeo - geo-spatial.org - for many years now. She has been actively volunteering to all our activities, by giving talks and workshops at the seminars we organize yearly in Romania. Even more, together with the other members of our community, she has been promoting cartography and geospatial education as an Acting Secretary of the Romanian Cartographic Association. Furthermore, Cristina was part of the FOSS4G 2019 Local Organizing Committee where she has done a wonderful job promoting the conference and also being the one-person-to-go-for-help at the venue Info Point. Cristina has worked with the European Space Agency as a Young Graduate Trainee for Earth Observation Data Applications and now she is pursuing a PhD in Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy at the University of Nottingham with a thesis on the automatic detection and characterization of hydrocarbon seepage in the on-shore and off-shore environments using multiple satellite sensors. Thus, I strongly recommend Cristina to be included in the OSGeo Charter Member community, as I believe she has all the qualities required. ''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/cristina-vrinceanu/ Cristina Vrînceanu]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ Codrina Maria Ilie]
| Ion Nedelcu
| ''It is a great honor for me to nominate my colleague, Ion Nedelcu as a OSGeo charter member. Ion is an active member of OSGeo Romania[1] (geo-spatial.org) since 2011. From this position participated as organizar or participant to numerous FOFSS4G events (international, regional and local). Ion was part of the FOSS4G2019 Bucharest Local Organizing Committee and he was the chair of the FOSS4G EO Data Challenge[2]. With his extensive experience in the geospatial field, Ion will be a great addition to our group of charter Members.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/ion-nedelcu/ Ion Nedelcu]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/vasile-craciunescu/ Vasile Craciunescu]
| Marius Budileanu
| ''It is my plasure to nominate my colleague, Marius Budileanu as a OSGeo charter member. Marius is an active member of OSGeo Romania[1] (geo-spatial.org) since 2011. Marius was a key person in the organization of our national FOSS4G conferences (24 editions to date) and of FOSS4G-CEE 2013. Marius was part of the FOSS4G2019 Bucharest Local Organizing Committee, he was the chair of the Volunteer Committee and the person responsible for our great FOSS4G2019 Pub Race. Marius passion for open source geospatial makes him a great candidate for our group of charter members. [1] https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/geo-spatial-org/''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/marius-budileanu/ Marius Budileanu]
| Olimpia Copăcenaru
| ''Olimpia joined the Romanian OSGeo Local Chapter while she was still at the University of Bucharest. She participated to all geo-spatial.org seminars, first as a participant and then actively contributing by presenting her own work and giving workshops. Olimpia is very efficient and dedicated to the cause, skills that she has proven to the full as part of the Local Organizing Committee for FOSS4G 2019, where she has been heavily involved in the Travel Grant Program, as well as the workshops committee. Olimpia has also very well managed all VISA requests received from participants to FOSS4G 2019 and she did a wonderful job assisting all of them. Her day job is at a Romanian based company as a GIS Analyst and she is also pursuing a PhD at the University of Bucharest using free satellite imagery in assessing the land fragmentation processes in Romania in the post-communist period. I believe Olimpia should be an OSGeo Charter Member as she has fully proven her adherence to the goals and principals of OSGeo foundation. ''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/olimpia-copacenaru/ Olimpia Copăcenaru ]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/codrina-maria-ilie/ Codrina Maria Ilie ]
| Andi Lazăr
| ''Andi has joined the Romanian OSGeo Local Chapter in 2016 and ever since he has been participated and contributed to all our initiatives. He was part of the FOSS4G 2019 Local Organizing Committee, volunteering his time and experience, being pro-active and supporting all that needed help to bring the FOSS4G 2019 to life. Andi is a research assistant at the Romanian Space Agency and he has a MSc degree in Geomorphology and Cartography with Cadastre elements from the University of Bucharest. He is a power user of open source solutions for geospatial and a very active promoter of the OSGeo values within the Romanian and European context. Therefore, I would like to nominate Andi to be an OSGeo Charter Member.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/andi-lazar/ Andi Lazăr ]
| Fiona Hemsley-Flint
| ''I know Fiona through her involvement in the QGIS user groups held in the UK and more recently as a fellow member of the local organising committee for Foss4guk that was held in Edinburgh. As the event co-ordinator Fiona worked tirelessly to make sure everything went to plan. She is a great motivator and understands the importance of the osgeo and helps by spreading the word. She will be a great addition to our community as a charter member is osgeo.''
* [https://www.osgeo.org/member/hemsleyflint/ Fiona Hemsley-Flint]
| [https://www.osgeo.org/member/travis/ Matt Travis]
The Charter Member nomination (part of the Election 2019) will be open from 2019-09-23 to 2019-10-20 (4 weeks). This list of nominees is maintained by the Chief Returning Officer (cro@osgeo.org). This page is write protected and can only be edited by SysOps.
Nominee Name
Positive attributes
Nominated by
1 Daniel Silk New Zealand I would like to nominate Daniel Silk as a Charter Member of OSGeo. Building on a history of professional engagement with open geospatial through his work with LINZ, Daniel has played a crucial role in establishing OSGeo Oceania and the FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference series over the last 2 years. As conference chair this year, he has demonstrated a strong work ethic, great teamwork skills, and empathy, effectively bringing together an engaged team. He's an exemplary leader, and will be an asset to OSGeo.
Daniel Silk
2 Narcélio de Sá Brazil Narcélio is a Geographer, Open Source Geek, QGIS Brazil Community Coordinator, enthusiast and volunteer mapper OpenStreetMap, having contributed to many projects/disasters. He has been a great supporter and promoter of Open Source GIS in Brazil through his blog, youtube and presentations at events.
Narcélio de Sá
Fernando Quadro
3 Felipe Sodré Barros Brazil Felipe is a geographer and Open Source GIS enthusiast through his support of the QGIS Brazil Community, GeoCast a GIS YouTube channel, as well as supporting both the reorganization of the Brazilian chapter and the initiative to bring FOSS4G Global 2021 to Argentina.
Felipe Sodré Barros
4 Seth Girvin Ireland Seth is a member of the MapServer PSC and has been very active in the community for a number of years now and is also very active in the Irish chapter of OSGeo. He has presented and a number of FOSS4G events and is both an excellent advocate for OSGeo and just a generally excellent person too.
Seth Girvin
5 Antonio Cerciello Netherlands Antonio is very enthusiastic about promoting the use of free and open source geospatial software and has been active in the FOSS4G community, for almost 3 years now. During this time, he has contributed with his coding skills to Geonetwork, Geoserver, OpenGeoportal and to the OSGeo Live image. He has attended many code sprints and has presented talks and workshops in FOSS4G events around the world.
Antonio Cerciello
Joana Simoes
6 Pēteris Brūns Latvia Peteris and his company SunGIS [1] is long term supporter of FOSS4G . In Latvia, they are building environment for further usage of FOSS4G in the public sector as well as business. Peteris is already valid member of OSGeo and it would be great to have him as Charter member too. [1] http://sungis.lv
Pēteris Brūns
Jachym Cepicky
8 Tom Armitage UK Long-term Scottish QGIS user group co-chair and co-chair of FOSS4GUK 2019, Tom has many years' experience teaching and training QGIS in academic institutions. He also freely shares material via http://learngis.uk, and actively encourages inclusivity and diversity at geo-events. Under his joint chairing, FOSS4GUK 2019 made a huge step up in diversity from previous years, with only one out of four keynotes a white man, and the offer of on-site childcare and childcare grants, all explicitly backed by a major sponsor. Tom is also a great speaker, giving perhaps the best talk at FOSS4GUK 2017 in the cartography stream, and has run FOSS4GUK workshops in the past. He will be a great advocate for FOSS4G as a charter member of OSGeo.
Tom Armitage
Tom Chadwin
9 Carmen Tawalika Germany Carmen jumped into "cold water", when she agreed to take over the organisation of the workshops for FOSS4G 2016, and undoubtedly she did a great job. After several contributions (workshops and talks) at FOSSGIS conferences (the local german speaking FOSS4G-conference), she held her first talk on a FOSS4G this year in Bucharest. In her job, Carmen is an active contributor to several Open Source Geo-projects (check out her Github profile), at least she is one of the main contributors to the OSGeo community project "actinia". In my eyes, there is no doubt, that Carmen believes in the general goals of our foundation and also is willing to continue to contribute positively towards our goals, as she already did in the past. Having Carmen as a charter member will also benefit OSGeo's diversity.
Carmen Tawalika GitHub
Carmen Tawalika
Till Adams
10 Dan Ormsby UK As Operations Manager at Astun Technology, Dan has been hugely influential in increasing enterprise adoption of open source products across UK local and central government, by promoting and improving integration with cloud-based solutions such as AWS- in particular the adoption of QGIS over appstream. He would be a great Charter Member as he would be able to raise the profile of and champion the use of open source technologies in business and government. Dan has demoed and spoken about running QGIS in the cloud at numerous workshops, usergroups, and most recently the FOSS4GUK 2019 event in Edinburgh.
Dan Ormsby
Jo Cook
11 Dennis Bauszus UK Dennis has attended all global and UK FOSS4G events since 2016 and given talks and/or organized workshops at each event. He has used Openlayers and Leaflet since their first versions and is active within the community both on stackoverflow (where he has more than 1000 reputation related to OSGeo projects) and GitHub. Dennis organised a FOSS4G code sprint at the Geolytix (his current employer) offices after the 2018 FOSS4GUK event. Over the last few years he has worked almost exclusively on a project which he hopes to propose as an OSGeo community project later this year.
Dennis Bauszus
Matt Walker
12 Robert Coup UK Robert is a long time collaborator and contributor to open source geospatial projects across many libraries and tools, including as a GDAL committer and contributor to Mapnik, GeoDjango and a number of other OSS projects. He has been heavily involved in improving the state of Open Data in New Zealand via community initiatives and working directly with Government through his company Koordinates. He has helped to refine and improve the OGC API - Features (formerly WFS3) specification. He has attended and spoke at several FOSS4G and SoTM conferences, and was on the organising team for the Linux.conf.au 2010 conference in Wellington. And also mentored & coordinated Google Summer of Code projects for several years for GDAL & Mapnik.
Robert Coup
Even Rouault
13 Edoardo Neerhut Australia I would like to nominate Edoardo Neerhut as a Charter Member of OSGeo. Edoardo has been heavily involved in developing FOSS4G SotM Oceania and OSGeo Oceania since day 1, always bringing a well-reasoned and insightful perspective to every discussion, and playing a leadership role in critical areas. As someone with strong engagement with the OSM community, and with strong teamwork skills, he plays an important role in knitting the community together. I believe that Edoardo is an asset to the OSGeo community.
Edoardo Neerhut
14 Ross McDonald Scotland This year Ross has chaired the committee for the UK FOSS4G conference in Edinburgh. His enthusiasm for open source geospatial was clear in the effort he put into the event, and his contribution was one of the key factors in its success. He has also spoken at many open source and more general scientific and geospatial meetings, and organised QGIS UK User Group meetings in Scotland. Furthermore in his work capacity he switched a Scottish local council to Open Source, introducing QGIS, PostGIS and Geoserver. Ross is an asset to open source, to OSGeo, and will make a great charter member.
Ross McDonald
Barry Rowlingson
15 Ivana Ivanova Australia Ivana Ivanova is a senior lecturer at Curtin University in Perth (Australia) and Research Fellow at the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information Australia. Since 2000 she has been very active in the FOSS4G world, especially in the Education frame. Here some few examples: * She designed, developed and tutored (to date 3 editions) blended learning course on ‘Developing standard compliant geo-web applications for service-based spatial data infrastructure’ (FOSS4G tools used in the course). * She developed a distance course on Open Standards and Open Source Web Mapping for EuroSDR educational series (EduServ10) – resulted in an invitation to present at the GeotTech Centre Professional Educators Webinar Series. * In the frame of UN OpenGIS, she was coordinator and tutor of 6 editions of the PostGIS course. * Moreover, she is currently one of the UN OSGeo challenge mentors. * She regularly supervises student projects developed with open-source for geo tools – e.g. OpenLayers, GeoServer, GeoNode, PostGIS. * She is member of Geo4All. * She presented the UN OpenGIS initiative at the UNWGIC 2018. Besides her activity with Open Source, she is working on Open Standards and she is the Co-chair of Open Geospatial Consortium’s Data Quality Doman Working Group – where the focus of interest includes the use of open access and standards to geodata.
Ivana Ivanova
Maria Brovelli
16 Ana Leticia Ma USA I met Ana at FOSS4G2019 where she was a volunteer. Her company didn't paid for the travel from the USA so she had to take unpaid leave and bought the ticket by herself. This proves her determination to attend the event and be part of our community. She helped a lot with the event recordings. She also attended FOSS4G NA 2019. I'm sure Ana made many friends at those event that can join me demonstrate that she is part of our community and shares our values. I believe she will make our community even more lively and colorful :)
Ana Leticia Ma
Nicolas Roelandt
17 Ionuț Ungurianu Romania Ionuț is working as a Sr. GIS Consultant for a Romanian company active in the field of telecommunications, cadaster and remote sensing. Ionuț is a co-founder of the NGO Timisoara GIS Community (https://www.gistm.ro/), where he serves as President. The NGO tries to promote open source GIS solutions though local projects or by providing mostly QGIS trainings. At FOSS4G2019, during the OSGeo Community Sprint Ionuț became a contributor to the OSGeoLive project as a Romanian translator. He is part of the very active Romania Local Chapter. Ionuț will be a great advocate for FOSS4G as a charter member of OSGeo especially in his local region Timișoara.
Ionuț Ungurianu
Astrid Emde
18 Dimitris Karakostis Greece Dimitris works in the World Food Programme and he is very active in the GeoNode community. He promotes many of our projects in World Food Programme and UN. Dimitris attended the last FOSS4G, joined the OSGeoLive translation team during the code sprint and started contributing. I know Dimitris for some time now and he is really passionate about Free and Open Source Geospatial Software. I believe Dimitris would be a very good addition to our charter members list.
Dimitris Karakostis
Angelos Tzotsos
19 Julia Wagemann Italy Julia is a strong advocate of open geospatial data and open-source geospatial technologies, and a strong believer that data standards and FOSS4G are vital building blocks to build bridges between different user communities. Julia has played a huge role in raising awareness about open geospatial software in the meteorological / climate communities. She regularly engages with user communities, as a key organiser of the OpenDataHack @ECMWF and current coordinator the ECMWF Summer of Weather Code - an online coding programme that promotes the development of weather-related open-source software. She is also the co-founder of Women in Geospatial, a rapidly growing network that aims to increase diversity at geo events and the geospatial community in general. I’ve known Julia for some years now through working on OGC standards, open geospatial software and petascale data collections. I believe she supports the goals of OSGeo and will be a fantastic asset to the organisation for many years.
Julia Wagemann
20 Andrea Trovant Argentina She's been with the Osgeo Argentina Local chapter for three years now, collaborating with everything from social media to cashier at events and to help people get involved in the community, specially students at our University just starting their careers. She represents our younger side, bringing more and more energy everyday, but also working tirelessly in any task she is presented with. She is board member and part of the founders of the Geolibres NGO, that gives a legal framework to the local chapter.
Andrea Trovant
Malena Libman
21 Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala Mexico I am proud to nominate Hennessy Becerra for charter member of OSGeo. I knew about Hennessy for the first time, last year during the First Mexican Reunion of QGIS users. That is where I found out that he is one of the organizers of that reunion and not only that, also that he is the founder of the QGIS users group in México. Very eager to make things happen, like for example, having international speakers in the Reunion, organizing workshops, and taking care of all the details that an event implies. The Reunion was a success, and this year he is also organizing and promoting the Second Mexican Reunion of QGIS users. This second event is the one that made me think of nominating Hennessy as he is showing a commitment to continue with this task: - he cares about the users, - he cares to spread the knowledge of open source for geospatial. Me, as a developer, I really appreciate this kind of work and caring, as the software we develop is for users to use. In my opinion his addition to the charter member of OSGeo community will enrich our organization.
Hennessy A. Becerra Ayala
Vicky Vergara
22 Cécile Le Calvez France Cécile is part of the OSGEO community and she is very active here. She is part of the OSGeo-fr board as secretary. She is involved in the organization of incoming events of the local chapter. Cécile shares the OSGeo values and will make a great charter member.
Cécile Le Calvez
23 Daniel Santillan Austria Daniel has been attending and presenting at various FOSS4G conferences like the last one in Bucharest (https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-391-interactive-eo-data-visualization-in-the-web). Daniel is a long time user but also contributor to Open Source Software, for example with graphly (https://github.com/EOX-A/graphly) and plotty (https://github.com/santilland/plotty).
Daniel Santillan
Stephan Meißl
24 Sylvain Beorchia France Sylvain is a long time supporter of OSGeo. He is a geospatial web and python developper and a talented graphical designer. He has been authoring many designs for FOSS4G-EU, FOSS4G-FR, QGIS French user, PGConf, etc... Lately, he authored the PROJ6 project logo. He has very special skills of extrem wisdom and kindness in any project he gets involved in.
Sylvain Beorchia
Régis Haubourg
25 Romel Vázquez Rodríguez Cuba Romel is an enthusiast of Open Geospatial Technologies working in particular with R in his position as professor in the Centre for Computing Studies (Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas). He is making strong efforts in promoting the use of open tools in his country, Cuba, as he did it outside his country, especially in Ecuador. His election as a charter member will benefit inclusion and diversity.
Romel Vázquez Rodríguez
27 Saber Razmjooei UK Saber has been a great supporter of FOSS for more than a decade. He has given a number of talks on OSGeo software in UK and elsewhere. He has been active especially within QGIS community. Through his role as the director of Lutra Consulting, he is supporting development of QGIS and other FOSS projects, as well as providing migration, support and training to larger organizations for greater adoption of FOSS.
Saber Razmjooei
Martin Dobias
28 Ji Yoon Kim South Korea He is an passionate open source developer and a geospatial businessman in Korea. He has contributed much to geospatial open source community not only in Korea but in Asia as well. As a developer he appears regularly at OSGeo Korean chapter’s meetup and shares much of his knowledge and experiences with other community members. He is a regular speaker of many of community events and also a core member of QGIS translation in Korea. As a businessman he’s sponsored many conferences such as International FOSS4G Seoul, FOSS4G Asia, and FOSS4G Korea. I believe his passionate and unique view toward open source community could give fresh insights to our community.
Ji Yoon Kim
Sanghee Shin
32 Mahdi Farnaghi Iran Mahdi Farnaghi has a strong academic background in GIS (expert in Geospatial Web Services; PhD from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran). He is a researcher at Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre), at Lund University, Sweden. I work with Mahdi in an European project in Central Asia. I also know him and Lund GIS Centre people for their active participation in AGILE. As a researcher, Mahdi develops and evaluates algorithms and workflows for many research projects he his involved all around the world. Having a solid researcher as Mahdi as a member of our community will make it more stronger. Soon as I invited Mahdi, he promptly reply and offer himself to participate in the coming OSGeo activities.
Mahdi Farnaghi
Jorge Rocha
33 Cristina Vrînceanu Romania Cristina is an important member of the Romanian Local Chapter of OSGeo - geo-spatial.org - for many years now. She has been actively volunteering to all our activities, by giving talks and workshops at the seminars we organize yearly in Romania. Even more, together with the other members of our community, she has been promoting cartography and geospatial education as an Acting Secretary of the Romanian Cartographic Association. Furthermore, Cristina was part of the FOSS4G 2019 Local Organizing Committee where she has done a wonderful job promoting the conference and also being the one-person-to-go-for-help at the venue Info Point. Cristina has worked with the European Space Agency as a Young Graduate Trainee for Earth Observation Data Applications and now she is pursuing a PhD in Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy at the University of Nottingham with a thesis on the automatic detection and characterization of hydrocarbon seepage in the on-shore and off-shore environments using multiple satellite sensors. Thus, I strongly recommend Cristina to be included in the OSGeo Charter Member community, as I believe she has all the qualities required.
Cristina Vrînceanu
Codrina Maria Ilie
34 Ion Nedelcu Romania It is a great honor for me to nominate my colleague, Ion Nedelcu as a OSGeo charter member. Ion is an active member of OSGeo Romania[1] (geo-spatial.org) since 2011. From this position participated as organizar or participant to numerous FOFSS4G events (international, regional and local). Ion was part of the FOSS4G2019 Bucharest Local Organizing Committee and he was the chair of the FOSS4G EO Data Challenge[2]. With his extensive experience in the geospatial field, Ion will be a great addition to our group of charter Members.
Ion Nedelcu
Vasile Craciunescu
35 Marius Budileanu Romania It is my plasure to nominate my colleague, Marius Budileanu as a OSGeo charter member. Marius is an active member of OSGeo Romania[1] (geo-spatial.org) since 2011. Marius was a key person in the organization of our national FOSS4G conferences (24 editions to date) and of FOSS4G-CEE 2013. Marius was part of the FOSS4G2019 Bucharest Local Organizing Committee, he was the chair of the Volunteer Committee and the person responsible for our great FOSS4G2019 Pub Race. Marius passion for open source geospatial makes him a great candidate for our group of charter members. [1] https://www.osgeo.org/local-chapters/geo-spatial-org/
Marius Budileanu
36 Olimpia Copăcenaru Romania Olimpia joined the Romanian OSGeo Local Chapter while she was still at the University of Bucharest. She participated to all geo-spatial.org seminars, first as a participant and then actively contributing by presenting her own work and giving workshops. Olimpia is very efficient and dedicated to the cause, skills that she has proven to the full as part of the Local Organizing Committee for FOSS4G 2019, where she has been heavily involved in the Travel Grant Program, as well as the workshops committee. Olimpia has also very well managed all VISA requests received from participants to FOSS4G 2019 and she did a wonderful job assisting all of them. Her day job is at a Romanian based company as a GIS Analyst and she is also pursuing a PhD at the University of Bucharest using free satellite imagery in assessing the land fragmentation processes in Romania in the post-communist period. I believe Olimpia should be an OSGeo Charter Member as she has fully proven her adherence to the goals and principals of OSGeo foundation.
Olimpia Copăcenaru
37 Andi Lazăr Romania Andi has joined the Romanian OSGeo Local Chapter in 2016 and ever since he has been participated and contributed to all our initiatives. He was part of the FOSS4G 2019 Local Organizing Committee, volunteering his time and experience, being pro-active and supporting all that needed help to bring the FOSS4G 2019 to life. Andi is a research assistant at the Romanian Space Agency and he has a MSc degree in Geomorphology and Cartography with Cadastre elements from the University of Bucharest. He is a power user of open source solutions for geospatial and a very active promoter of the OSGeo values within the Romanian and European context. Therefore, I would like to nominate Andi to be an OSGeo Charter Member.
Andi Lazăr
38 Fiona Hemsley-Flint Scotland I know Fiona through her involvement in the QGIS user groups held in the UK and more recently as a fellow member of the local organising committee for Foss4guk that was held in Edinburgh. As the event co-ordinator Fiona worked tirelessly to make sure everything went to plan. She is a great motivator and understands the importance of the osgeo and helps by spreading the word. She will be a great addition to our community as a charter member is osgeo.
Fiona Hemsley-Flint
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Middle East tensions
France, Germany, Britain trigger Iran dispute mechanism
Jan 14, 2020 — 11.00pm
Paris | France, Britain and Germany confirmed on Tuesday that they had triggered the dispute mechanism in the Iran nuclear deal given Tehran's ongoing violations, but said they were not joining the United States campaign to exert maximum pressure on Tehran.
"We do not accept the argument that Iran is entitled to reduce compliance with the JCPoA," the three countries said in a joint statement, saying they had no choice but to trigger the process that could eventually lead to UN sanctions.
"Instead of reversing course, Iran has chosen to further reduce compliance."
Iran took a further step back from its commitments to the 2015 pact, with six world powers, by announcing on January 6 that it would scrap limits on enriching uranium, though it said it would continue cooperating with the UN nuclear watchdog.
"We do this in good faith with the overarching objective of preserving the JCPoA and in the sincere hope of finding a way forward to resolve the impasse through constructive diplomatic dialogue, while preserving the agreement and remaining within its framework," they said.
In a bid to keep the door open for diplomacy, the three said they were not joining the United States campaign to implement maximum pressure against Iran.
"Given recent events, it is all the more important that we do not add a nuclear proliferation crisis to the current escalation threatening the whole region," they said.
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By Jon O'Connell The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Entrepreneur Rashida Lovely is passionately dedicated to showing young people the possibilities that exist in the world. From teaching kids to learn how to dance, to building a website, Lovely is all about hope for the future.
Newave Studios sits only about a block away from where a fight between dozens of kids and cops broke out on Olive Street back in November.
Owner Rashida Lovely, a biologist, dance instructor and entrepreneur who moved her family from New Jersey to Dunmore about a decade ago, still thinks that's too far.
She started Newave at Wyoming Avenue and Olive Street three years ago to give disadvantaged kids a low-cost, creative outlet where they can learn to dance, pick up technical skills and see examples of wholesome families.
Now she wants to get even closer to Scranton High School, which is at the end of Olive Street, where she can provide an immediate resource for kids as they leave school each day and catch them before another brawl breaks out.
In her current spot, students access the building from a loading dock behind the old industrial building.
The door at the top of a steep steel staircase opens up to a spacious general purpose room and an adjacent dance studio where students can learn hip-hop moves, exercise routines or practice aerial acrobatics from suspended silks and ropes.
In the summer, she tapped a network of relatives, friends and colleagues in the science, technology, engineering and math fields, often lumped together under the acronym STEM, to flight test a summer program.
About a dozen kids ages 4 to 12 attended five days a week, eight hours a day. At the end of it, they had all built their own websites and robots and had a basic grasp on computer coding languages.
As she considers expanding to offer STEM classes year-round, she's eyeing a few long-for-sale vacant lots on Olive Street west of the Lackawanna River where she'd be even closer to her clientele.
More often, her students are children of color who come from fractured homes. They don't have solid role models or anyone to show them how they achieve successful careers and raise happy families.
"Even on TV, we don't see black superheroes," said Nikens Toussaint, a civil engineer who grew up in Haiti and now lives in Hazleton. He volunteered for Newave's summer STEM program last year and plans to return for the next one with lessons on how to use computer programs to design bridges and roads.
"Every time we look at the TV, always it shows the African American down and the African American in jail," he said. "Seeing someone they can relate to gives them hope that one day I will be able to either supersede my mentor or be as good as my mentor is."
The Lovelys, Rashida, Keith and their three sons, fled urban New Jersey when they feared for their safety.
"My eldest son, these drug dealers wanted to shoot him because he didn't want to become a drug dealer," she said. "My very next door neighbor was killed. I was accosted. So I just told my husband, 'We can't stay here anymore. We have to move.'"
Feeling desperate, one day they jumped in the car and just started driving until they hit Dunmore. Her husband commuted to work in New Jersey until he found a job in construction in the Poconos.
When she couldn't find work as a biologist with comparable pay, Rashida Lovely took a job as an accounting clerk at Olde Good Things, an architectural and antique salvage retailer in Scranton, and worked there for eight years. She was promoted to accounting supervisor and also taught dance part time at another local studio.
"What I realized when I went there, the amount the parents pay is really high," she said. "I'm the only person of color who is teaching here. I see no children of color, and I always pass them in the streets dancing."
She runs a for-profit business and though she makes just enough to pay the rent and keep the lights on, she said her company status makes it hard to chase grant funding.
Organizations such as the Moses Taylor Foundation and the Scranton Area Community Foundation are restricted on who they pick for grant awards, and they can't fund for-profit groups.
Newave's prices range from $20 per month (four classes; $5 for a single class) for a fitness course to $60 per month for advanced technical classes, for example aerial silks. Hip-hop and contemporary dance classes cost $40 per month, which includes four classes.
Since her rates only cover her operating costs, Lovely said she'll have to run a campaign to raise the money to buy the land and build a center.
Radi Lewis, a video game designer and comic book creator out of New Jersey, who came to Scranton to teach during the summer STEM program, said the greater community should see value in helping Newave succeed.
"The idea is to help people to see that you don't have come from a triple-A company to design and create something of your own," Lewis said. "That was the intent on speaking at Rashida's studio -- to get the kids to understand that whatever you create comes from your perspective and it's something that can't be replicated."
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PKL 7: Bengal Warriors beat Puneri Paltan 43-23
Bengal Warriors produced a commanding display as they beat Puneri Paltan 43-23 in Pro Kabaddi League Season 7 here on Monday.Maninder Singh was the chief architect of the win as he scored 14 raid points and got able support from Mohammed Nabibakhsh who chipped...
Ridiculous, have had no issues with Rohit : Virat Kohli
India skipper Virat Kohli quashed rumours of a rift in the team, saying he is baffled by talks of things not going well between him and Vice Captain Rohit Sharma."In my opinion, it's baffling to be honest. It's absolutely ridiculous to read such stuff that...
29-Jul-2019 London
We fancy our chances at World Test Championship : Virat Kohli
Insisting that India have performed well in the recent years in Test cricket, skipper Virat Kohli believes his boys will fancy their chances of winning the inaugural ICC World Test Championship.The ICC on Monday officially launched WTC which begins with the first...
PKL 7: Bengaluru Bulls overpower U Mumba in close contest
Riding on a terrific raid performance by Pawan Sehrawat, Bengaluru Bulls beat U Mumba by 30-26 in a Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 7 match here on Sunday.The match was built as the battle between Bengluru's Sehrawat and U Mumba's Fazel Atrachali and...
PKL 7: Dabang Delhi K.C. stomp Haryana Steelers 41-21
Dabang Delhi K.C. eased past Haryana Steelers 41-21 in the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 7 here on Sunday.The turning point came during the 29th minute when an All Out by Delhi's Chandran Ranjit as he entered the lobby, completely pushed the momentum towards...
Abhinav Bindra not in favour of boycotting 2022 CWG
Abhinav Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist, on Sunday said boycotting the 2022 Commonwealth Games is not an option, and advised the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to "load" the CWG committees with more of their people so that, in...
Mary Kom wins gold at President's Cup in Indonesia
Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom on Sunday bagged the gold medal in the 23rd President's Cup, in a one-sided 51kg bout final in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia.Pugilist Kom eased past Australian April Franks 5-0."Gold medal for me and for my country at #PresidentCup...
28-Jul-2019 Chandigarh
Hockey legend Ajit Pal leads Run for awareness organised by GI Rendezvous on World Hepatitis Day
GI Rendezvous, a group of healthcare professionals who got together to bring about academic and health awareness activities amongst medicos and general population, organised an event titled ‘Run for Awareness' highlighting World Hepatitis Day commemorated...
27-Jul-2019 Islamabad
Shoaib Akhtar, Wasim Akram disappointed with Amir exiting Test cricket
Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir's decision to quit the longest format of the game has not gone down well with former greats like Shoaib Akhtar and Wasim Akram as they both feel it was an early exit by Amir.Left-arm pacer Amir had announced his retirement from Test...
Will continue to admire you : Bumrah tells Malinga
As Lasith Malinga retired from ODI cricket on Friday, many cricketers took to Twitter to extend their wishes to the veteran Sri Lanka pacer and wished him luck for his future.On Friday, Malinga brought an end to his illustrious ODI career with a wicket...
27-Jul-2019 Colombo
To survive in cricket be a match-winner : Lasith Malinga
"You have to be a match-winner" is the golden rule to survive in veteran pacer Lasith Malinga's golden words for the youngsters after playing his final ODI for Sri Lanka in front of his home crowd.On Friday, Malinga brought an end to his illustrious ODI career...
Five potential medal winners for India at Tokyo Olympics
In the last 24 Olympic Games that India have participated so far since 1900, only 28 medals have been won by the country which now has a population of more than 1.3 billion. Of these, nine were gold, six silver and 11 bronze medals.In the 2016 Rio Olympics,...
Big shoes to fill : Rishabh Pant on replacing M.S. Dhoni
Young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, who is touted to be the future of Indian cricket, knows he has big shoes to fill as the person whom he will be replacing is none other than legendary captain M.S. Dhoni.In an interview with Hindustan Times, Pant spoke...
England recover, take 181-run lead against Ireland
Nighwatchman Jack Leach scored a career-best 92 while Jason Roy notched up his maiden Test half century as England recovered from a poor start to erase a 122-run deficit and take a 181-run lead with one wicket in hand at stumps on a rain-affected day 2 of the only...
24-Jul-2019 Hyderabad
All-round show help Bengal thrash UP 48-17 in PKL
An all-round show guided Bengal Warriors to a massive 48-17 win over UP Yoddha in an Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) contest here on Wenesday. It was also Bengal's biggest win in the history of the league.Bengal's skipper and ace raider Maninder Singh (9 points)...
24-Jul-2019 Tokyo
P.V. Sindhu advances, Srikanth crashes out of Japan Open
Ace Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu kicked off her Japan Open campaign on an emphatic note as she registered a comprehensive victory over China's Yue Han in her first-round clash of the $750,000 tournament.The Olympic silver medallist needed just 37 minutes...
Learn from my mistakes: Kohli to young Indian players
Captain Virat Kohli has insisted that the environment in the Indian change room is very friendly where each and every person is allowed to express their opinion in a free manner.In an interview with the Times of India, Kohli said he treats all the players with...
Twin celebration in Chahar household as Rahul Chahar joins Deepak Chahar in Team India
Even as the spotlight had been on M.S. Dhonis future and India skipper Virat Kohlis decision to play in all three formats against the West Indies, for the Chahar household, it is time for double celebration as after Deepak, it is Rahul who has now made it...
21-Jul-2019 Nove Mesto (Czech Republic)
Hima Das sprints to 400m gold, 5th this month
Ace Indian sprinter Hima Das continued her sensational sprint as she clinched her fifth gold in July by claiming the top honours in a 400-metre race in Czech Republic.The ace Indian sprinter won the gold after she clocked...
Eye on youngsters as selectors & Kohli gear up to pick WI squad
After much hullabaloo, the selection of the Indian team for the West Indies tour will take place on Sunday afternoon in Mumbai and along with the five-wise men -- led by M.S.K. Prasad -- skipper Virat Kohli will also be...
20-Jul-2019 Jakarta
PV Sindhu reaches Indonesia final with 21-19, 21-10 win over Chen
PV Sindhu beat China's Chen Yu Fei 21-19, 21-10 to reach the final of the Indonesian Open in Jakarta on Saturday. She will now face Japanese fourth seed Akane Yamaguchi in the final on Sunday. Both players will be playing...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni ends mystery, takes 2-month sabbatical to join army regiment
The mystery surrounding Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his future has been solved for now. The former India skipper has decided to take a two month break and serve his army regiment after a gruelling India Premier League season...
Not fair to win the World Cup like that : Eoin Morgan
England captain Eoin Morgan admitted that he is troubled with the way the 2019 World Cup ended. England and New Zealand played out a match that was tied twice -- first in regular play and then in the Super Over -- and Morgan's...
Improving defence & finishing skills our focus : Manpreet Singh
India hockey skipper Manpreet Singh said on Saturday that going into the Olympic qualifiers, the focus of the team has been on improving their performance at the two ends of the pitch. "All our recent training sessions have been about improving our defence...
Pro Kabaddi League captains geared up for seventh season
The second most costliest league in country after the Indian Premier League -- the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) -- is all set to kick-off its seventh season on Saturday.On the eve of the opening match, all the twelve captains of the PKL came together to express...
Windies tour perfect chance to look at future beyond Dhoni
Talks of M.S. Dhonis future have made headlines right from his struggle against England in the group stage encounter at Edgbaston in the World Cup. While the team management has made it clear that they havent heard from the former India skipper, it is also...
Sachin Tendulkar 'humbled & happy' to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar thanked his family, friends and fans after being inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, alongside retired South Africa pacer Allan Donald and former Australia woman fast bowler Cathryn Fitzpatrick."Humbled and happy to be inducted...
Will miss Indian players in Euro T20 Slam : Rashid Khan
Afghanistan captain and star leg-spinner Rashid Khan on Friday said he would miss Indian players in the inaugural Euro T20 Slam, adding that he hopes some of them would be there to take part in the meet.The player auction of the Euro T20 Slam which will take place...
You can't chop down a whole Olympic sport from CWG : Heena Sidhu
The Commonwealth Games Federation's (CWF) decision to abandon shooting from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) has dealt a big blow to India, which has swiftly emerged as a giant in the sport. Amidst the controversy, ace shooter Heena Sidhu feels...
P.T. Usha nominated for IAAF Veteran Pin Award
Former Indian athlete and Olympian P.T. Usha has been nominated for the prestigious International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Veteran Pin Award.On Thursday, Usha revealed the news on Twitter and said: "IAAF Veteran Pin for the long and meritorious...
Jason Roy receives maiden Test call-up
Swashbuckling opener Jason Roy has been named, for the first time, in England's 13-member Test squad for the match against Ireland which will be played at Lord's from July 24.Roy played a star role in England's World Cup victory, hitting 443 runs in seven innings...
Defending champs Dabang Delhi face Puneri Paltan in UTT opener
Top Indian and international paddlers will be under the spotlight as the curtain goes up on the third edition of the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) here on July 25.Defending champions Dabang Delhi T.T.C, led by the current highest-ranked Indian Sathiyan Gnanasekaran...
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'We shouldn't fear truth': Nine CEO calls for new press freedom laws
Nine will join forces with the ABC and News Corp to push for new laws to protect journalists and press freedom in the wake of a series of police raids targeting the media.
The three organisations will be pushing for stricter rules in allowing search warrants on journalists.
It comes after the AFP searched the ABC headquarters and the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst earlier this month after stories were published based on leaked government information.
Smethurst's house was raided on June 4 after she published a story stating the government was considering spying on Australians.
Nine CEO Hugh Marks spoke at the National Press Club today alongside News Corp executive chairman Michael Miller and ABC managing director David Anderson.
"As a society, we shouldn't fear truth," Mr Marks said.
"We shouldn't fear debate. We shouldn't fear opinions. The Australian public's right to know makes our democracy function."
Mr Marks said technological change, bad legislation and overzealous officials have steadily eroded press freedom.
Officers from the AFP raided the ABC offices in central Sydney. (AAP)
"Doing what journos do best is never easy. Breaking big stories and conducting major investigations that serve the greater good is tough, relentless work. But work rendered increasingly difficult by the myriad of hurdles I’ve mentioned.
"Our National Security is of course something we should all respect. In some cases journalists must put these interests before their desire to publish or broadcast."
Mr Anderson said that a free press is a "foundation stone of democracy".
Acting AFP Commissioner Neil Gaughan is seen through a view finder as he speaks to the media. (AAP)
"Decriminalising journalism is a mandatory first step," he said.
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What’s On This Weekend: 3 to 5 January 2020 | A List
PUBLISHED ON 20/12/2019 12:00 am
By Deanne Galicia
Welcome to the first weekend of the year and a new decade. Kickstart it in a meaningful way with arts and culture events. Admire well-made art, explore what the future holds at a futuristic exhibition or get acquainted with the history of Chinatown through a guided tour. Keep reading for our picks on things to do this weekend.
Collisions: Information, Harmony And Conflict
Feast your eyes on this art exhibition at Gillman Barracks, featuring intricate sculptural works by Korean artist Chun Kwang Yong. Each of his work is made up of thousands of triangular polystyrene pieces wrapped in mulberry paper, hand-painted and arranged together like puzzle pieces. Details about Collisions: Information, Harmony and Conflict here.
OMM: Die Walküre
Go on an epic cosmic adventure through mythical worlds with Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre, as a pair of young lovers pursue a forbidden love against all odds. Wagner’s music drama will be staged this weekend at the Esplanade by the Orchestra of Music Makers, and with theatre practitioner Edith Podesta as director. Details about OMM: Die Walküre here.
Life Aftermath Afterlife
Don’t miss your last chance to catch a free exhibition this weekend by Filipino artist Arturo Sanchez Jr, who makes use of collages to depict the different nuances in human behaviour. This exhibition is held at TAKSU Galleries in Holland Village. Details about Life Aftermath Afterlife here.
As we enter a new decade, travel into the future to contemplate what life in Singapore might look like in 200 years at this ArtScience Museum exhibition. The show is inspired by the work of Singaporean writer and poet Alvin Pang, and it features works from both local and international artists. Details about 2219: Futures Imagined here.
Streets Alive
Explore Singapore’s multicultural roots with this guided cultural tour of Chinatown. The tour will tap on modern technology, such as the use of virtual reality, to create a fresh and immersive experience of heritage-rich Chinatown. This event is part of Singapore Art Week, an annual celebration of visual art organised by the National Arts Council, Singapore Tourism Board and the Singapore Economic Development Board, about Streets Alive here.
(Photos: Gillman Barracks, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, TAKSU, ArtScience Museum and Changi Travel Services)
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