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== [[North American SCRABBLE Championship]] venues ==
At the high end, a national event for 400–800 players would almost always be held in a hotel ballroom or convention center and be organized by NASPA staff. Such an event would usually be planned at least a year in advance based on in-house research, though unsolicited bids are welcome.
At the high end, a national event for 400–800 players would almost always be held in a hotel ballroom or convention center and be organized by NASPA staff. Such an event would usually be planned at least a year in advance based on in-house research, though unsolicited bids are welcome. [[Contact]] us for the current RFP.
Our premier event, the [[North American SCRABBLE Championship]] (NASC), was for some time being scheduled with some flexibility on a four-year geographic rotation in the Northeast (2014, 2018), West (2015, 2019), Midwest (2016, 2020), and South (2017, 2021). As of summer 2019, we have received some bids for 2020 and 2021, and are open to bids from outside of this rotation.
NASC competition starts on the last Saturday in July, give or take one week, and runs for five days ending on a Wednesday. Before the event, supplies begin arriving on Monday and staff on Wednesday; setup takes place on Thursday and a warmup event alongside registration on Friday. After the event, teardown takes place on Wednesday, some staff leave on Wednesday night, and remaining staff and supplies leave on Thursday. Depending on other local attractions, players may wish to book additional shoulder dates.
Here is what our ideal national event site would include the following; you can consider it our RFP (request for proposal). See also further down on this page for a more detailed discussion of general requirements for tournament sites.
Here is what our ideal national event site would include the following; a more detailed RFP (request for proposal) is available on [[Contact|request]]. See also further down on this page for a more detailed discussion of general requirements for tournament sites.
=== Main playing room ===
NASPA-sanctioned tournaments are held in a wide range of tournament venues — hotel ballrooms, convention centers, community centers, church basements, restaurants, cruise ships, etc. — according to the needs of the players and directors.
1 North American SCRABBLE Championship venues
1.1 Main playing room
1.2 Ancillary requirements
2 Other tournaments
North American SCRABBLE Championship venues
At the high end, a national event for 400–800 players would almost always be held in a hotel ballroom or convention center and be organized by NASPA staff. Such an event would usually be planned at least a year in advance based on in-house research, though unsolicited bids are welcome. Contact us for the current RFP.
Our premier event, the North American SCRABBLE Championship (NASC), was for some time being scheduled with some flexibility on a four-year geographic rotation in the Northeast (2014, 2018), West (2015, 2019), Midwest (2016, 2020), and South (2017, 2021). As of summer 2019, we have received some bids for 2020 and 2021, and are open to bids from outside of this rotation.
The event was recently held in the following locations:
2019: Reno, NV. Silver Legacy Resort Casino.
2018: Buffalo, NY. Hyatt Regency and Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
2017: New Orleans, LA. Hyatt Regency
2016: Fort Wayne, IN. Grand Wayne Convention Center.
2013: Las Vegas, NV. Riviera Hotel.
2012: Orlando, FL. Royal Pacific Resort.
2011: Addison (Dallas), TX. Hotel Intercontinental.
Here is what our ideal national event site would include the following; a more detailed RFP (request for proposal) is available on request. See also further down on this page for a more detailed discussion of general requirements for tournament sites.
Main playing room
about 20,000 square feet, configured in one open, undivided space with lines of sight to all points in the room from a central position; a little larger or smaller is fine, 10,000 square feet is about the smallest space that we could function in, and would require substantial redesign of our event..
either a ballroom or an exhibit hall is fine
quiet: our group likes to concentrate quietly, will not disturb others, and does not want to share space with groups that make loud noises
bright indirect lighting: must be bright enough for people with moderate vision impairment to read comfortably, but not cause glare on equipment
good climate control: must be sufficient to maintain a comfortable atmosphere for 400–800 players to sit in and not have to change clothes over the course of the day
no mirrors: player tiles must not be visible to opponents, like cards in a bridge or poker tournament
accessible to the disabled: must include accessible restroom facilities near the playing room
100-200 30"x6'~8' rectangular banquet tables: 3'-wide tables are not acceptable, and pairs of 18"-wide tables less so. Availability of color-coded linens is a plus.
400~800 chairs: players play one-on-one, two games to a table, so four chairs to a table
one centrally located riser for our command center
one riser for a stage, with podium, mike and P/A system
one wired Internet line, unlimited WiFi: we upload content to build our live event website, which may include one video feed and photos and data that add up to less than the bandwidth of a second video feed; players access the event website to download small graphics and text giving them their current standings and next opponents
unlimited electrical drops: typically six on the command center and about ten throughout the room for word adjudication laptops
Ancillary requirements
one nearby lockable site office
three nearby lockable breakout rooms of about 1,000 square feet each
free parking, WiFi Internet and access to fitness room and pool for on-site guests
a good on-site or nearby restaurant where small daily lunch meetings can be held
good cheap concession catering so that players do not have to go off site for breakfast and lunch
location near a major air hub, with reasonably priced ground transfer services able to handle the simultaneous departure of our entire group
accommodation either in or immediately adjacent to the playing area, with a fully accessible connection
Many club directors organize an annual regional tournament that may attract 50–200 players. These tournaments may be held at hotels, but especially at the smaller end they are more commonly found in other public spaces such as community centers and churches. These events would be planned six to twelve months in advance, and might use a site selection service, but would more often not.
Some clubs also organize more frequent, smaller events for 4–40 players that meet either in public spaces or restaurants (where players may be required to make a food purchase in exchange for their use of the space). We require eight weeks' advance notice for a tournament booking; clubs which host events regularly may sign contracts with the same venue for a year or so in advance.
At all levels, organizers look for the following in a venue:
Space, tables, chairs: tournament Scrabble is played one-on-one at square or rectangular tables 2.5–3 feet wide. One game can fit on a square table; two on a 6–8-foot rectangular banquet table. There must be room between tables for players to move comfortably on foot or in a wheelchair. A director will also need an electrical drop for computer and printer, and at a large event a public address system.
Low venue cost: in industry jargon, we are SMERFs (Social, Military, Educational, Religious & Fraternal) and typically book space that would otherwise go empty off-season.
Pleasant playing environment: bright but non-glare light, quiet, not too hot or too cold, a reasonable number of restrooms nearby.
Reasonably priced catering: players are hurried during their short lunch breaks, will eat on-site if offered convenient and reasonably priced food, but will otherwise find fast food off-site.
Accessibility to the disabled: all organizers must announce whether or not their event will be accessible, and are strongly encouraged to make it so.
Convenient but separate smoking areas: smoking players need quick access between rounds to a place where they can smoke; non-smoking players do not want to have to pass through smoke to get fresh air.
Free Internet access: directors often post their tournament results live online.
If you manage a venue that you think would be appropriate for a SCRABBLE tournament, you may contact us at info@scrabbleplayers.org or look through our club roster for the contact information for a director near you.
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TikTok clubs are opening in US high schools, could this be the future of teaching?
By Yair Oded
There is no doubt that TikTok is exploding. Rapidly. What began as an infatuation among teenagers in China and across Southeast Asia has spread like wildfire throughout the US over the past year and a half. According to SensorTower, the app, which is owned by the Chinese tech conglomerate ByteDance, has been downloaded over 1.4 billion times across the world. ‘What’s this whole Tik Tok craze about?’ remains a frequent question among millennials, often to be followed by ‘should I download it?’. Even as the basic facts about TikTok become more widely known, the lingering debate is whether or not to join the circus. What’s the point? Surprisingly, teachers across the US are beginning to see the value of the platform and are incorporating it into the school system with open arms.
The vast majority of TikTok’s popularity is among gen Zers, between 12 to 20 year-olds to be exact. Adults, for the most part, still gape at this 15-second musical skit phenomenon with a fusion of wonder, admiration, bewilderment, and dread. The upbeat, trendy, and, let’s face it—frequently mindless character of TikTok skits attracts people mostly in their teens, looking to goof around, be silly, be noticed, and have a good time.
A recent piece by The New York Times reveals that in high schools across the US, the cultural and mental chasm between young TikTokers and adults is gradually closing, with the proliferation of TikTok clubs and the incorporation of the app into the curriculum. High schools have, for quite some time, been a breeding ground for TikTok, with students shooting skits in hallways, classrooms, and even school buses—making fun of the universal teenage experience and responding to challenges set by their peers from across the world.
Teachers saw this new platform as an educational and recreational opportunity, and supported the creation of after-school TikTok clubs, in which kids meet to discuss current trends on the app and make videos themselves. Students are accompanied by adult advisers who supervise their activities, and often contests are being held to select the club’s best TikTok. Some teachers reportedly utilised this trend as a way to immerse kids with various fields of study. A high school teacher from San Jose, California, for instance, had her students make TikTok skits about Newton’s Law for extra credit. Other teachers hail the app as a platform encouraging creativity and genuine self-expression. “I think you just have to engage students in whatever they’re interested in,” Ms Gordon, the principal of West Orange High School in Florida, told The New York Times. “On other media you’re hiding your flaws,” Mr Callahan, the adviser of the school’s TikTok club said, “here you’re showing them off.”
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It’s also been noted that TikTok’s format can potentially exacerbate its users’ need for attention at the expense of uninhibited self-expression. With TikTok trends rising and falling in the blink of an eye, it can be easy for users to get caught up in the race to stay relevant and go viral.
Another major issue, which isn’t exclusive to TikTok but is being perpetuated and expanded through it, is the commercialisation of an increasing amount of content on social media. As the popularity of TikTok surges among young people, countless brands flock to the new platform in search for potential promoters for their products. This fact alone punctures holes in the theory that TikTok is the long-awaited social media app where people could simply be themselves and create content for the sake of creating. How authentic can this content ultimately be if more and more of it is generated with the aim of selling us stuff? We clamour for climate justice and demand to save the future of our children, yet prime our youths to become an army of brand ambassadors—elevating consumerism culture to new heights.
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For a great many of us, the prospect of a world without Instagram or Facebook is simply inconceivable. It is easier to imagine a reality in which oxygen is no longer free than to picture one in which likes and Stories are nonexistent. But the surging popularity of a new Chinese app called TikTok may be signalling the twilight of the Facebook app dynasty (including Instagram and Messenger) and the rise of a new ruler of the social media realm. In 2018, TikTok’s download rates surpassed those of Instagram and Facebook, and have continued to rise in the past few months throughout the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia.
TikTok is one of the most recent creations by ByteDance—a Beijing based tech company that produces machine learning-enabled content platforms. TikTok’s first incarnation emerged in 2016 in the form of Douyin—a media app for sharing and creating videos exclusively for the Chinese market. In 2017, ByteDance merged the Chinese app Musical.ly (which was highly popular in the West) with Douyin to create TikTok, an app that resembles Snapchat but centres exclusively around enhanced micro-video content. The merge with Musical.ly proved to be seamless, as the majority of the former app’s users and influencers quickly adapted to TikTok.
Initially, TikTok did not pose a significant threat to social media behemoths such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat. But the tide is rapidly turning.
Ensnared in myriad scandals, the public’s trust in Facebook has been steadily plunging, and along with it its stock value. Last year, the company lost $120 billion after warnings that its revenue growth will plummet. But sizzling scandals and stock-market undulations are not the only soft-spots of Facebook, as its primary flaw seems to be its inability to appeal to the youth. With its flagship app gradually becoming a virtual nursing home—where grandmas and millennials vent their scorn and stalk old lovers who may not even be alive at this point—and Instagram failing to penetrate the Gen Z market, the Facebook ‘family’ appears to be in the early stages of its downfall. For a moment, Snapchat seemed to be the next ‘it’ app, but that hope never materialised.
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This is where TikTok beats them all. The youth, which appears to be increasingly interested in the app’s features and responds favourably to its user interface is migrating to the platform en masse.
Unlike other social media apps, TikTok’s function is fairly limited, as all it enables users to do is create 15-second videos and share them with their network. Yet ByteDance managed to tap right into the core of youth’s fascination with micro-video content that’s light and entertaining, by offering a wide variety of effects and editing options (something that’s lacking from Facebook and Instagram stories). And so TikTok serves Gen Z and soon Alpha precisely what they’re after—content that is live, short, potentially-viral, and, well… silly.
The app’s popularity has been exploding over the past year. In 2018, TikTok was the fourth most downloaded non-game app, with 663 million new downloads, surpassing Instagram which gained 444 new downloads. In the App store alone, TikTok’s download rates exceeded those of Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Should the numbers remain steady, TikTok can be expected to surpass Facebook and Instagram in overall popularity worldwide (let us not forget that it also dominates the Southeast Asian market, something that Western apps are unable to do due to censorship barriers).
The conquering of the social media landscape by TikTok could have several ramifications. Firstly, it would most likely alter the way in which the future generation communicates, with words and pictures replaced by short, heavily edited memes.
It would also generate significant changes in the market, which currently relies heavily on the models of existing social media platforms, such as Instagram. In a TikTok-dominated world, influences, businesses, and corporations will have to find a new way to promote their products, capture the attention of buyers, and adapt to new metrics indicating popularity and profitability.
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On a more personal level, a TikTok takeover gives us a chance to reexamine our interaction with social media. Before replicating our virtual lives onto yet another platform we, the veterans of the social media revolution, must ask ourselves: where are we going with this? Do these platforms contribute to or impede our personal and spiritual growth? What toll have they been taking on our mental wellbeing? Can our thoughts and feelings and aspirations be effectively expressed in a 15-second video? And what would be the consequences for doing so?
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Nursing: a vocation for exploitation?
As we approach Nurses Week 2019, in Canada, we discover that working conditions are far from ideal within the profession. Widespread fatigue, poor health and fear of making mistakes prompt the question: who is taking care of the caregivers?
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The situation, throughout North America, is critical. Susan Reese, director of the healthcare practice group Kronos Incorporated, summed up the urgent need to improve conditions in a recent press release: “A workforce that is so inspired by their work is hard to find in other industries, and hospitals and health systems need to invest in nurturing and supporting their nurses”.
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Nurses are the backbone and the heartbeat of our medical system, but do they get the support and status that they deserve? As a pediatric nurse in intensive care at BC Children’s Hospital for 27 years, Dr Pushpa Chandra says, “I had the enormous and privileged opportunity to heal the body, mind and the spirit of many children and their families.” But, she added, “nursing is so much more than a competent execution of clinical skills. It’s true to say that ‘caring based discipline’ is the fundamental element that makes this profession effective and even possible”. Compassion, she says, is the quality consistently required to fulfill a nurse’s duty to care; treating patients in a dignified manner in a warm, sensitive and safe environment routinely, day after day after day.
Compassion is the quality consistently required to fulfill a nurse’s duty to care
However, nurses are not machines. They have feelings and physical needs that are often at odds with physical and emotional stresses and scheduling that are part of the job. As professionals they have to put sleep ‘debt’, their own sick children at home or any other personal life issues on hold as they show up for a 12.5-hour shift. They have the duty of competency, accountability and must exercise mental strength to confront any situation (pressure of work, conflicts, distress etc.) they may encounter.
Blame the nurses, give them pills to get over it
Night shifts, when the body is ‘expecting’ to be resting and restoring, are a time when sensibilities are particularly vulnerable. Mistakes and errors are four times more likely to happen. Drug errors are most common and, because of chronic circadian rhythm disruption, the accompanying feelings of failure and diminished autonomy as nurses are required to fill out incident reports that inevitably cascade through to the higher levels of management.
Ironically, bearing in mind their role of promoting health in others, in many ways nurses have below average health. They are more likely to be overweight, have higher levels of stress and be sleep deprived. Additionally, they may experience workplace violence and injuries. According to the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration, nurses and health care workers experience the highest rate of non-fatal occupational injuries and illnesses of any sectors, including construction.
Occupational illnesses and injuries, by sector
Hospitals: 157.5
Construction: 147.4
Manufacturing: 111.8
Private industry: 105.2
Professional/business services: 54.5
Cases per 10,000 full-time employees.
Source: US Bureau of Labour Statistics
A 2015 Canadian study also noted the prevalence of major depression in Canadian nurses is double the national average of working women. As a matter of fact, in BC last year, with the introduction of British Columbia's Nurses Union's (BCNU) new contract, there was an increase in pharmaceutical coverage for depressed nurses who, remarkably, are given antidepressants rather than having their deeper issues addressed. If this is the attitude of the medical institutions to their own, what hope is there for the rest of us!?
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Despite all this, Dr Chandra has fond memories of working as a senior nurse with children—but also some memories that have scarred her. “Senior nurses handle more complex assignments and these have a higher patient mortality. I remember spending hours with parents and their dying children. As a nurse, you are part of the most tragic times when, as happened on one shift, your patient dies in the middle of a night shift at 3am. You would think that you would be offered a choice to go home to recover from such a trauma, with an opportunity to heal and return later. No, that doesn’t happen. You just have to carry on.”
45% of nurses choose to leave the profession early
“The truth,” Dr Chandra continued, “is nurses can quickly burn out—physically and emotionally—and the only option they have is to leave this nurturing profession that leaves them so empty! In the USA, a recent survey showed that 45% of nurses will leave the profession within a few years of qualifying.”
Indeed, a study in the Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice reveals that an estimated 17.5% of newly-licensed nurses leave their first nursing job within the first year, and one in three leave within two years. Even though a survey in the USA recently revealed that 93% of nurses think they made the right career choice, fatigue is a pervasive problem. This, according to Susan Reese, confirms what anyone who has spent time in a hospital already knows—that nurses are compassionate, hardworking professionals, and it’s time to take care of the caregivers. Otherwise, it is clear that nurses are being exploited for the very qualities that make them the best people to work in the profession.
Running the numbers on nurses
93 % say they are mentally/physically tired at the end of a typical day
98 % say their job is both physically and mentally demanding
85 % say their work causes them to suffer from fatigue, which has consequences
70 % who work night shift admit they drive home from work drowsy
23 % who work night shift have pulled their vehicle off the road to rest
44 % worry their patient care will suffer as a result of fatigue
37 % worry about making a mistake
11 % admit to making a mistake as a result of fatigue
28 % have called in sick to catch up on sleep
63 % say their job has caused burn out
80 % find it hard to balance mind, body and spirit
44 % say their managers don’t know how fatigued they are
The top causes of fatigue
60 % excessive workloads
42 % not being able to take lunch and dinner breaks during a shift
41 % not being able to take any breaks during a shift
25 % not being able to get enough sleep between shifts
25 % doing 12-hour shifts (as opposed to 8-hour shifts)
Susan Reese says, “A fatigued employee at risk of burnout is not an engaged employee. Combating fatigue can be achieved by giving nurses more control over their work schedules, ensuring they have regular breaks, along with offering adequate rest periods between shifts and access to health and wellness programs. These benefits will ultimately help nurses, patients, and hospitals and health systems".
A fatigued employee at risk of burnout is not an engaged employee
Are you a nurse? Have you ever been a patient in a hospital? How do you think these issues can be resolved so that the people who dedicate their lives to caring for others can also lead a happy and healthy life? Please leave your comments below.
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“A bargain to refrain from disclosing to a third person, to whom a duty of disclosure exists, information of value or interest to him is illegal.”
So says the Appellate Court in Chicago in a decision concerning confidentiality terms in contracts.
Ruling in Signapori v. Jagaria, 2017 IL App (1st) 160937, the court dealt with a situation where the confidentiality provision was inserted to conceal from banks and the Small Business Administration that the parties were violating previous agreements with those bodies. The court rejected an argument that relief should be denied because violation of bank fraud statutes had not in fact been proven.
“There is no question that the purpose of the confidentiality provision was to conceal the parties’ prior and continuing misrepresentations to the banks and the SBA,” the court said. “We do not see any indication that the nature of the injury, whether criminal or tortious, is essential to the central issue of whether the confidentiality provision is contrary to the public policy of this State.”
Existence Of Release Depends On Operative Language
A document’s apparent intent to release claims is insufficient if the document does not also contain operative release language.
That’s the ruling of a panel of the Appellate Court in Chicago in C.O.A.L., Inc. v. Dana Hotel, LLC, 2017 IL App (1st) 161048.
In Dana Hotel, plaintiff and defendant made an agreement for plaintiff to manage a restaurant in defendant’s hotel. Things did not go well, and the parties entered into a separation agreement. That agreement contained language referencing release provisions therein, and even included a section including “Release” in its title. Nowhere, however, was there any actual release language.
The panel held plaintiff had not released its claims against defendant. “Releases can be general or specific, and the scope of releases is a subject of frequent litigation,” the panel said. “It is impossible to interpret a release without any express language present.” Furthermore, it said, “releases are strictly construed against the benefitting party and must spell out the intention of the parties with great particularity. We will not read a release into a contract where one is not expressly provided.”
Dana Hotel also teaches that contract drafters should draft integration clauses with care. In Dana, the clause provided that the separation agreement superseded all prior agreements “with respect to the subject matter hereof.” The panel held that the management agreement (under which the parties had done business) “was a more comprehensive document” than the separation agreement and that therefore promises in the former were not barred by the latter.
Court Enforces Liquidated Damages Clause
The present value of future lost rent is an appropriate measure of a commercial lessor’s damages upon the tenant’s breach, though there may be a set-off under the landlord’s duty to mitigate.
So held a panel of the Appellate Court in Chicago recently. 1550 MP Road, LLC v. Teamsters Local Union No. 700, 2017 IL App (1st) 153300.
In 1550, the court dealt with a lease term which gave the landlord the right upon tenant’s breach to “a sum of money equal to the value of the Rent provided to be paid by Tenant for the balance of the Term.” The successor to the tenant (upon which liability was imposed under successor liability principles) contended that the clause imposed an unenforceable penalty.
The court noted that three elements must be present for a liquidated damages clause to be enforceable: “(1) the parties intended to agree in advance to the settlement of damages that might arise from the breach; (2) the amount of liquidated damages was reasonable at the time of contracting, bearing some relation to the damages which might be sustained; and (3) actual damages would be uncertain in amount and difficult to prove.”
Finding those tests met, the panel enforced the liquidated damages formula.
Existence Of Contract Defeats Quantum Meruit Claim
In determining whether a plaintiff may recover in quantum meruit, it doesn’t matter so much whether the plaintiff is seeking to recover on a contract as whether the contract exists and covers the items for which plaintiff seeks recovery under a quantum meruit basis.
That’s the message of a recent decision in the Appellate Court in Chicago. Ruling in Archon Constr. Co. v. U.S. Shelter, L.L.C., 2017 IL App (1st) 153409, the court said that “[i]f the work for which a plaintiff seeks remuneration under a quantum meruit theory concerned the same subject matter of the express contract, then the quantum meruit claim is barred as a matter of law.”
In Archon, plaintiff had first sought recovery for certain work as “extras” under a construction contract, but then dismissed the contract claim and sought recovery only in quantum meruit. However, the contract existed and had terms covering the work at issue, and that, the court said, doomed the quantum meruit claim.
Quantum meruit means “as much as he deserves” and often is pleaded as an alternative to a contract count. Archon teaches that such pleading must be undertaken with care, lest matter introduced on an unsuccessful contract claim be fatal to the quantum meruit count as well.
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Dione's Canyonlands
The Cassini spacecraft views the far-off wispy canyons of Saturn's moon Dione and sees an interesting dichotomy between the bright wisps and the bright south polar region at the bottom.
The view looks toward the trailing hemisphere on Dione. North is up. Dione's diameter is 1,126 kilometers (700 miles).
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on Sept. 20, 2005, through a filter combination sensitive to polarized green light. The image was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.1 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 64 degrees. Resolution in the original image was 12 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two to aid visibility.
+ Annotated Version This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage. The moon...
Map of Mimas - June 2012 -- Unannotated
This picture captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a portion of the northern rim of Occator Crater, which measures 57 miles (92 kilometers) across and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep.
Dawn LAMO Image 103
Saturn's moon Janus casts a shadow on the F and A rings while the moon Prometheus, seen on the left of the image, creates a streamer-channel in the thin F ring. The gravity of potato-shaped Promet...
Along the F Ring
NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to the worl...
ASTER's Global Digital Elevation Model
This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image was taken on September 9, 2015, and has a resolution...
Dawn HAMO Image 32
A 1909 VDB penny sent to Mars aboard the Curiosity rover as part of an image calibration target (and a nod to a geology tradition of using a coin for scale).
Lucky Penny on Mars
Dione's icy surface is scarred by craters and sliced up by multiple generations of geologically-young bright fractures. Numerous fine, roughly-parallel linear grooves run across the terrain in the ...
At Carthage Linea
Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth (2014 MU69) as seen by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1, 2019.
Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth (2014 MU69)
The Cassini spacecraft spies the large Penelope crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. Penelope crater lies near the center of the image. See Odysseus and Penelope to learn more about the prominent featu...
Spotlight on Penelope
The tiny moon Pandora appears beyond the bright disk of Saturn's rings. Pandora (81 kilometers, or 50 miles across) orbits outside the F ring and, in this image, is farther from Cassini than the r...
Beyond Bright Rings
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows Rubria crater, with dark and bright material, offset from the center of the image. Rubria crater is located in Vesta's Gegania quadran...
Rubria Crater
MarCO-B took these images as it approached Mars in November 2017.
MarCO-B (Wall-E) Mars Approach
This composite of Huygens DISR images shows patterns of drainage, flow and erosion in the Huygens landing site region. The top panel shows two types of drainage networks in the bright region abou...
Building Our New View of Titan II
The shepherd moon Pan orbits Saturn in the Encke gap while the A ring surrounding the gap displays wave features created by interactions between the ring particles and Saturnian moons. Pan (17 mil...
Pan and Waves
This anaglyph image shows the topography of part of Vesta's equatorial region; this uneven topography is mostly due to large, ancient, rather degraded ruin eroded craters. You need 3-D glasses to v...
Anaglyph Image of Vesta's Equatorial Region (II)
This high-resolution view shows incredible detail within a spiral density wave within Saturn's A ring. A spiral density wave is a spiral-shaped massing of particles that tightly winds many times a...
Structure in the Spiral
Dione floats in the sea of space, bisected by Saturn's edge-on ringplane. The Saturn-facing side of Dione (1,126 kilometers, or 700 miles across) is visible here. Saturn is just off to the right o...
Skewered Moon
Saturn's shadow cloaks the faint D ring at the bottom of this image. Observations of the shadow boundary, like this one, enable scientists to clearly detect and measure the brightness of diffus...
Science at the Shadow Boundary
This is one of the most detailed views of the surface of Triton taken by Voyager 2 on its flyby of the large satellite of Neptune early in the morning of Aug. 25, 1989.
Triton High Resolution View of Northern Hemisphere
Saturn's moon Dione coasts along in its orbit appearing in front of its parent planet in this Cassini spacecraft view. The wispy terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (1,123 kilometers, or 6...
Dione Up Front
+ Annotated version Five images of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings. Clockwise...
Meteors Meet Saturn's Rings
From its unique perspective high above the planet, the Cassini spacecraft looks down upon Saturn's murky northern hemisphere. The bluish hues seen in some Cassini views of Saturn's north are notabl...
The Cassini spacecraft surveys the southern hemisphere on Dione's anti-Saturn side, spying a broad impact basin near bottom. Most of the medium-sized craters visible here have pointed central peaks...
Rebounded Craters
With the expanded range of colors visible to Cassini's cameras, differences in materials and their textures become apparent that are subtle or unseen in natural color views.
Bright Basin on Tethys
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of Ceres shows a portion of a large crater with prominent spurs of compacted material and gullies along its rim.
Dawn LAMO Image 82
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Kees van Draanen back with Réalisations Inc. Montreal
Michael Raine Dec 09, 2016 0 Comments
Kees van Draanen back with Réalisations Inc. Montreal. He has more than 30 thirty years of experience working for cultural organisations based in Québec, Ontario, and Europe in the fields of administration, human resources, and finance.
After studies in history followed by diplomas in accounting and economics, Kees worked most notably for Cirque du Soleil as an administrative director from 1988 to 1993 in Canada and from 1994 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2005 in Europe. Upon his return to Canada in 2006, he consulted for the Palais Montcalm theatre to put into place its administrative structure. He then worked for Réalisations as its director of administration and finances and afterwards worked with the Grand Ballets Canadiens and, most recently, with RIDEAU – an independent network of presenters of artistic events.
Roger Parent, Realisations’ president, says he is pleased to announce that Kees has returned to Réalisations as VP Finances and Administration to help in structuring the recent growth and development that the company is experiencing.
For more information, go to www.realisations.net.
Michael Raine is the Senior Editor at Professional Lighting & Production. He is also a co-host of the popular Canadian Musician Radio weekly podcast.
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Our View | The Democrats and Their Fake Impeachment Query
Signal Editorial Board
By The Signal Editorial Board
The current impeachment inquiry is not an inquiry at all.
Without a congressional vote, the impeachment inquiry is not an inquiry. It’s nothing more than a series of hearings on a congressional investigation.
The Democrats are conducting a fraud on the American people. If this were a real impeachment proceeding, there would be a vote of the full House of Representatives to start an impeachment investigation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not ask for a vote. She does not want her members from swing districts to be on the record asking for an impeachment with no evidence of wrongdoing.
If this was a real impeachment inquiry, it would go to the Judiciary Committee, not the Intelligence Committee, where it is now.
In the three impeachment inquiries that have taken place in our country — for Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — there have been certain rules and procedures that have been followed, none of which are currently occurring.
The Republicans would have a right to call witnesses. The Republicans would have a right to subpoena witnesses and documents. The president’s counsel would have a right to sit in on the questioning and also the right to suggest witnesses.
This time, however, none of this is happening. Why?
This time witnesses are testifying in secret. Why?
Is it because they know there is nothing there but to have a fake impeachment and selectively leak a sentence here and there that might hurt President Trump’s re-election campaign and his standing in the polls?
Is it because there really is no evidence but the Democrats and Rep. Adam Schiff want to leak only a couple of sentences out of 10-hour sessions to make the president look bad?
And remember, Schiff is the one who ad-libbed a fake transcript of Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and when Schiff was called on it, he chalked it up as “parody.”
Here’s what Schiff said last month, on the dais, at the testimony of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire:
“I have a favor I want from you,” the California congressman said, appearing to read the lines from a piece of paper. “And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it, on this and on that.”
Funny thing. Trump never said that. Or anything like it. But the truth doesn’t matter to people like Schiff who will stop at nothing — even fabricating things during congressional hearings — to achieve their political goals.
The Democrats have tried to impeach this president since his first day in office. They never accepted his election victory. The multiyear, multimillion-dollar investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller turned up nothing.
So now we have the whistleblower.
The rules were changed just days before the complaint to accommodate this whistleblower. Until the rules were changed you had to have firsthand knowledge of the events.
Yes, the rules were changed to allow hearsay evidence for the complaint. Good enough for Democrats but it would not be allowed in any court in the United States.
Schiff, in a TV interview, claimed he did not know or speak to the whistleblower prior to the complaint being received, but as it turns out that’s not true. In fact not only did Schiff and his cohorts know who he was, but they also spoke to him, got him a lawyer and helped him write the complaint.
Lies, lies and more lies.
They wanted the whistleblower to testify, but in secret behind closed doors, and hiding his identity. All of this, denying the president even the most basic concepts of due process.
Then it comes out that the whistleblower is a partisan Democrat and worked with Joe Biden during Biden’s vice presidency.
According to the Washington Examiner: “Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, told members of Congress that the whistleblower had a ‘professional tie’ to a 2020 Democratic candidate. He had written earlier that while the whistleblower’s complaint was credible, he had shown ‘some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.’
“A retired CIA officer told the Washington Examiner, ‘From everything we know about the whistleblower and his work in the executive branch then, there is absolutely no doubt he would have been working with Biden when he was vice president.’”
Now Schiff has changed his mind. No need for the whistleblower to testify. Why allow him to be cross-examined and reveal his biases and the fact that he was coached in his complaint?
This whole whistleblower complaint started because Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden.
The media says there is no evidence against Biden, despite him bragging on camera about threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless the then-Ukrainian president fired a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company for which Biden’s son, Hunter, was a board member making $50,000 a month.
Interestingly enough, the Democrats’ push has been to kill our natural gas exploration here in the United States, while we are subsidizing Ukraine’s.
Someone should be following the money when it comes to the Bidens and Ukraine. But with Trump-obsessed Democrats holding the power in the House of Representatives, that won’t happen — and the fake impeachment inquiry marches on.
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A Wolf in the Shadows (Sonic Adventure 3: GX)
This page features the story of Shadow the Hedgehog in the platformer game Sonic Adventure 3: GX in full detail. Shadow, Rouge, E-123 Omega and John Washington, a G.U.N. Soldier are playable in Shadow's storyline. Shadow's story is named A Wolf in the Shadows.
Shadow's story begins when he is appointed by Commander Hugo Brass on a mission to find the G.U.N. Soldiers gone missing while battling against Eggman's forces in E.G.G. Metropolis along with his closest ally E-123 Omega. However, as he searches in depth for their mysterious disappearence and after battling the newly created Shadow Androids, Team Dark ends up confronting a devious mastermind who is closely connected with Shadow's past.
Stages in Shadow's Storyline
Shadow is playable in 20 stages overall in his story mode. Rouge has 12 levels, Omega has 11 and the G.U.N. Soldier has 4 levels. There are 11 Boss battles.
Great Guns (Shadow)
G.U.N. Stronghold (Shadow, G.U.N. Soldier), Boss: Egg Viceroy (Shadow)
Old Megalopolis (Shadow)
Sky Squadron (Shadow, Omega), Boss: Egg Chamberlain (Shadow, Omega)
Chaotic Casino (Shadow)
Blue Bay (Shadow, Rouge)
Old Megalopolis (G.U.N. Soldier)
Memory Complex (Shadow, Rouge)
Rail Mountain (Shadow, Rouge, Omega), Boss: The Magician (Shadow)
Mad Terminal (Shadow, Rouge, Omega), Boss: Beast of Xenin (Shadow)
Tropical Sanctuary (Shadow, Rouge, Omega), Boss: E-102 Gamma (Omega)
Nocturnal Haunt (Shadow, Rouge, Omega), Boss: Dark Legion Squad 4# (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
Dumm Jummai (Shadow, Rouge, Omega), Boss: Fang the Sniper (Omega)
Scrap Fortress (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
Plague Garden (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
Chthonian Ruins (Shadow), Boss: King Ophis (Shadow)
Great Guns (G.U.N. Soldier)
Dragon Dojo (Rouge)
Lost Paradise (Shadow, Omega)
Huge Inferno (Shadow, Omega)
Echidnaopolis (Shadow, Omega)
Air Winds (Rouge)
Glyphic Babylon (Shadow, Omega), Boss: Dimitri (Shadow)
Last Colony (Rouge), Boss: Egg Aura (Rouge)
Genocide City (Shadow, Omega, G.U.N. Soldier), Boss: G-72 BLACK COBRA (Shadow, Omega, G.U.N. Soldier)
Shadow's Story
Hugo Brass succeeds Abraham Tower as G.U.N. Commander.
Shadow's story begins some time earlier than the events chronicled in the game when G.U.N. Commander Abraham Tower is forced to resign under pressures by the Government and Hugo Brass is appointed new G.U.N. Commander. Upon taking office, Commander Hugo Brass officially wages war against the Eggman Empire, sending the army to battle against Eggman's forces in the E.G.G. Metropolis, Dr. Eggman's base of operations.
A few days later, Shadow is called up by the newly appointed G.U.N. Commander Hugo Brass to report at the G.U.N. base.
Stage 1: Great Guns (Shadow)
When Shadow arrives at the base, he meets Hugo Brass, who informs Shadow of the reason he called him up. Brass tells the hedgehog that since the war against Eggman began he sent a squad of G.U.N. forces consisting of numerous G.U.N. Soldiers as well as E-123 Omega to fight at the E.G.G. Metropolis fronts. However, no one has heard of them in a long time and they are believed to have disappeared. He assigns Shadow on a mission to infiltrate into Eggman's base and gather as much information as he needs to uncover the mystery behind their disappearance. Afterwards, the two head outside the base where they are informed by the authorities that Sonic and his friends have arrived at the base. Shadow and Hugo greet Sonic and his team but before long, the base is attacked by Eggman's forces. Sonic and Shadow try to repell them.
Stage 2: G.U.N. Stronghold (Shadow, G.U.N. Soldier)
(Here you will introduced to John Washington, a not so ordinary soldier who follows Hugo Brass' orders unwillingly as he believes that the whole war against Eggman will only resolve in more pain and suffering. As a playable character, he is the only one of the soldiers whose thoughts and feelings are conveyed to the player).
Boss 1: Egg Viceroy (Shadow)
After successfully repelling Eggman's forces from the base, Hugo Brass becomes filled with anguish and launches a massive attack against the Eggman army to confront his robots until the city of Old Megalopolis. Shadow heads there with the soldiers in an attempt to find his friend Omega.
Stage 3: Old Megalopolis (Shadow)
At the ruins of Old Megalopolis, Shadow finds Omega deactivated in a pile of destroyed robots. After activating him, Omega tells Shadow that the last thing he remembers was fighting a group of Shadow Androids. Shadow becomes upset after Omega mentions these words as they remind him of his past. He immediately suspects Eggman being behind all this and decides to go confront him in his base. Eggman's Fleet arises from beneath the ruins of the city and Shadow receives orders from Hugo Brass to board the fleet and confront Eggman.
Stage 4: Sky Squadron (Shadow, Omega)
At the flagship, Shadow and Omega confront Dr. Eggman, who tells them that he does not know anything about the Shadow Androids and is not related to the mysterious disappearances of the G.U.N. Soldiers.
Boss 2: Egg Chamberlain (Shadow, Omega)
After Eggman's defeat, Shadow and Omega are picked up by the G.U.N. fleet, which takes them back safely to the base to the Commander. Omega says that Eggman is not behind this event and that he needs urgent repairs. After a discussion between Shadow, Omega and Hugo Brass, Shadow decides to go talk to Rouge while Omega stays at the base for repairs.
Adventure Field: Central City
(Talk to the townspeople; they will tell you that Rouge is working in Casinopolis. Head there to find her).
Stage 5: Chaotic Casino (Shadow)
Shadow heads to Casinopolis and finds Rouge. After a short conversation, Rouge agrees to join Shadow and the G.U.N. forces to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the G.U.N. soldiers. At that point, Shadow receives a call from Hugo Brass telling him to report back to base as soon as possible. Rouge tells Shadow that the G.U.N. fleet is passing by the sea and they should go there to board them.
Stage 6: Blue Bay (Shadow, Rouge)
Meanwhile, the G.U.N. forces attack the E.G.G Metropolis from the Old Megalopolis sector.
Stage 7: Old Megalopolis (G.U.N. Soldier)
Back at the base, Shadow and Rouge meet up with Hugo Brass, who informs them that they have managed to enter a program within Omega's hardware and that they need Shadow and Rouge to enter Omega's computer hardware in order to see Omega's last recordings during the fight in E.G.G. Metropolis before he went off.
Stage 8: Memory Complex (Shadow, Rouge)
Inside Omega's mind, Shadow and Rouge are able to witness Omega's actions at the point before he was abducted when he was battling against Eggman's robots. At some point during the fight, Omega was caught and disabled by some black hooded warriors revealing themselves as Dark Legionaires. They were approached by a figure whose voice could only be heard ordering the Dark Legionaires to take the soldiers to a base at the Blue Ridge Zone. After they exit Omega's hardware, they tell what they saw to Hugo Brass; that the missing soldiers are located at a base in the mountains of the Blue Ridge Zone. He orders them to go find them and sends a squad of G.U.N. troops to acompany them. Team Chaotix will also be there.
Stage 9: Rail Mountain (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
At the Rail Mountain, Team Dark encounters a large robot piloted by an unseen figure from inside. His voice sounds familiar. After he sees Team Dark, he unleashes an army of Shadow Androids.
Boss 3: The Magician (Shadow)
After defeating it, the figure inside was a mere illusion and the robot was piloted automatically. Rouge and Omega detect the missing soldiers just nearby. G.U.N. forces and Team Chaotix arrive and rescue the soldiers who were captivated inside the base. Shadow, however, becomes worried as the Shadow Androids he just fought were far more powerful than the ones he has fought in the past and are definetly not created by Dr. Eggman's technology but from someone else. As he touches a part of an android, Shadow suddenly sees a vision of a floating Echidna head inside an orb.
(At this point, Shadow will insist they go to Professor Pickle to examine the origin of these Shadow Androids. You must go to his laboratory by train. Head to the train station).
Stage 10: Mad Terminal (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
On the train, Team Dark is attacked by Xenin, who mistakens Shadow for Knuckles.
Boss 4: Beast of Xenin (Shadow)
Team Dark defeats Xenin and his Dark Legion squad and sees yet another vision of the same echidna he saw before saying that he knew Prof. Gerald as well as him and to stay out of his way or else he will have the same fate as all of the rest Echidnas. Shadow grows impatient and instructs Omega and Rouge to head to Pickle themselves while he goes to the library to find answers about his visions.
At the library, Shadow stumbles on a copy of Professor Gerald's diary. As he reads some of his notes and finds an interesting piece of information. It says that long before Poject Shadow begun, Professor Gerald had been approached by a cybernetic Echidna scientist named Dimitri with whom he worked with intensively and together constructed various inventions. Gerald was interested in the technology of the Echidnas and so Dimitri would help him to build the Eclipse Cannon using concepts of the Albion Technology. Shadow is shocked to discover these informations and heads quickly to meet up with his team mates at Pickle's laboratory.
Meanwhile, Rouge and Omega talk to Professor Pickle about the technology used to bring these Shadow Androids to life. Pickle tells them that it is possibly a very ancient magic, black Echidna magic to be precise and if they need further information, they should consult the Echidnas themselves. During their discussion, Omega spots Gamma in Pickle's laboratory undergoing repairment and aims at him to destroy him as one of Eggman's robots. Gamma then grabs Pickle's Albion artifact which Sonic had left him and escapes. Omega then chases after him in the jungle.
Outside Pickle's laboratory, Rouge meets up with Shadow and informs him about Omega going beserk and chasing after Gamma to the jungle. They head after him.
Adventure Field: Angel Island
(Go find Omega, he must be somewhere in the Angel Island Adventure Field. Talk to the townspeople to help you. They will tell you that he has gone in the jungle of the Mystic Ruins).
Stage 11: Tropical Sanctuary (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
The story switches to Omega, who has confronted Gamma in the jungle. The two robots face each other.
Boss 5: E-102 Gamma (Omega)
In the middle of the fight, they are interrupted by a group of Dark Legionaires. Luckly, Shadow and Rouge intervene and assist Omega while Gamma runs away. After they beat some Dark Legionaires, the rest of them escape in defeat. Team Dark pursues them.
(Follow the Dark Legionaires, you will be lead to Dr. Finitevus' base).
Team Dark ends up in a huge base, which resembles the one they had seen before in the Twilight Cage. Not knowing what lies inside, Shadow has another of his visions of Dimitri, that floating echidna head and concludes that the one they are after has got to be inside the castle.
Stage 12: Nocturnal Haunt (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
It is now night time and Team Dark has infiltrated into the castle of Dr. Finitevus. Inside, they meet face to face with Dimitri, who after introducing himself explains to Shadow that he knows of his past having worked with Professor Gerald long ago to help him construct the Eclipse Cannon. Shadow accusses Dimitri for the revival of the Shadow Androids and demands to know his intentions, to which Dimitri replies that he is aiding Dr. Finitevus in his plan to uncover the Enerjak suit. At that point, the alarm goes off signaling the invasion of the Cat Kingdom in attempt to rescue Knuckles and Julie-Su. Dimitri departs from the scene and gives orders to the Dark Legion minions to subdo Team Dark.
Boss 6: Dark Legion Squad 4# (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
After defeating a Dark Legion hoard, they confront Dimitri, who uses a Warp Ring given to him by Dr. Finitevus and escapes from the castle.
The following day, Team Dark is once again called up by Hugo Brass to the headquarters. Shadow and Rouge keep their mouths shut about what happened yesterday until Omega tells Hugo that they might have found the one responsible for the disappearance of the G.U.N Soldiers. Hugo, being stubborn, insists that Eggman is behind this and orders Team Dark to go confront him at Dumm Jummai where he is heading.
Stage 13: Dumm Jummai (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
There, they find Fang the Sniper.
Boss 7: Fang the Sniper (Omega)
After his defeat, Fang tries to run away but is caught by Team Dark. Shadow obliges Fang to tell him what Dr. Eggman is up to to which Fang replies that he is working with two Echidna scientists, one of them being Dimitri. Shadow then tells him to take them to Dimitri.
Stage 14: Scrap Fortress (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
At Eggman's base, Team Dark along with Fang confront Dimitri once again. After a short conversation between them, Dimitri summons Dr. Eggman's minions and opens yet another portal with his Warp Ring (given to him by Dr. Finitevus) and escapes in it. Team Dark quickly deals with Eggman's army and chases after Dimitri through the portal. They find themselves in an unknown forest which they decide to explore to find where they are.
Stage 15: Plague Garden (Shadow, Rouge, Omega)
Shadow, Rouge and Omega find Silver, Blaze and Cream. Silver tells Shadow that they are searching for a Chaos Emerald to open a portal to the past and collect some very valuable objects called the Golden Epics. He tells them that Dr. Magic has returned and is seeking for them. Shadow offers to assist Silver in his quest since he has a Chaos emerald as a friend. He tells Rouge and Omega to go find clues to where Dimitri has headed. Silver and Shadow create a portal by using the two Chaos Emeralds and together, along with Cream and Blaze enter it to arrive in the distant past.
Shadow, Silver, Blaze and Cream are teleported at Never Lake approximately at 1000 BC. It is night time. There, they spot Silver's past self and try to stay unnoticed from him. Silver orders the team to go after him to the underground serpent city to where the Golden Epics are.
Stage 16: Chthonian Ruins (Shadow)
Shadow, Silver, Blaze and Cream arrive at the centre of the underground serpent realm and witness Silver's and Blaze's past selves battling against King Ophis, the gigantic serpet king guarding the Golden Epics. As they witness them fighting behind a rock to remain unseen, King Ophis knocks Silver and Blaze unconscious and prepares to devour them. Cream urges Silver and co to intervene and fight them back but Silver says that would disrupt the the past and would not be good. However, Shadow stands up and jumps in front of King Ophis and prepares to fight him back as Silver's past self collapses to the ground losing his consciousness. Silver, Blaze and Cream then find the opportunity to intervene and battle King Ophis themselves.
Boss 8: King Ophis (Shadow)
With King Ophis defeated, Silver retreives the Golden Epic he was earching for. They take Silver and Blaze's past selves whilst unconscious to the Never Lake and leave them there safely. Silver thanks Shadow for his help and they return back to the present using the Chaos Emeralds (check Silver's story for more details).
The story switches to the G.U.N. Soldier, who is on the headquarters guarding the area when he sees a group of his fellow soldiers taking Sonic to a prison cell. He goes to rescue him.
Stage 17: Great Guns (G.U.N. Soldier)
(Note: This short event with the G.U.N. Soldier takes place some time earlier than Shadow's quest in the past).
John Washington secretly opens the prison cell and frees Sonic, having an acknowledgement of who he really is. Back at Angel Island, Rouge finds and rescues Sonic while falling from the sky. After thanking her and revealing his objective to her, Espio reveals himself from being invisible and offers to take Sonic and Rouge to his clan's kingdom where an Albion artifact is kept. Rouge joins them and together they head to the Dragon Kingdom (check Sonic's story for more details).
Stage 18: Dragon Dojo (Rouge)
Back at the present, Shadow is teleported at the Angel Island.
(Talk to the locals; they will tell you that Omega is somewhere in the island. Go find him).
Shadow finds Omega just outside of the ruins of Teotihuacan. He tells Shadow that Dimitri is inside the ancient ruins. The duo heads after him.
Stage 19: Lost Paradise (Shadow, Omega)
Shadow and Omega confront Dimitri, who ironically congradulates Shadow and Omega for managing to find him. After a short conversation, Dimitri uses a spell and casts Shadow and Omega in the past, at the time Dimitri himself was good, in order for them to learn who he really is and his intentions. The two wake up in an ablaze ruined city, which they decide to explore.
Stage 20: Huge Inferno (Shadow, Omega)
Upon clearing the stage, they find Dimitri waiting for them. He explains to them that this city is Albion after it was severely bombarded by Dr. Eggman's fleet under the command of Dr. Finitevus. He then takes them to another location while he disappears. Shadow and Omega explore the city to figure out why Dimitri wanted them to come here.
Stage 21: Echidnaopolis (Shadow, Omega)
Shadow and Omega witness Edmund's death.
Shadow and Omega have now been teleported back to the past, back when Echidnaopolis was during civil war. There are Dark Legionaires all over the city attacking civilians. Then, they witness an Echidna scientist who tries to knock out two Dark Legionaires by his own but is caught and ultimately shot dead. Some seconds later, another Echidna comes running towards him shouting "Edmund, Edmund"!!. He then mourns for him. Shadow realizes that Edmund was Dimitri's brother and was killed during the civil war, which cost him very much. Dimitri himself was unable to help him as he was outcasted by the High Council for his ideas to use the Albion technology to bring down the Angel Island from the sky to the surface.
Sonic, Rouge and Espio arrive at the Dragon Kingdom, Espio's homeland and are welcomed by the clan. After a brief discussion with the leader of the clan, Sonic is granted with the last remaining artifact but expresses his concern of not having enough time or transportation to reach the island where Eggman is. The clan council informs Sonic of the existence of a race of flying creatures known as the Air Winds, which ocassionally passes above the skies of the Blue Ridge and travel to the nearby areas. By going there, they could reach their destination. The trio thanks the Dragon Kingdom for their service and head to the mountains to reach the Air Winds.
Stage 22: Air Winds (Rouge)
Shadow and Omega return to the present after witnessing a part of Dimitri's past.
(After talking to the townspeople, you will be informed that Dimitri is at Albion. Head there to confront him one final time).
Adventure Field: Blue Ridge
Stage 23: Glyphic Babylon (Shadow, Omega)
At Albion, Shadow and Omega find Knuckles, Julie-Su, Archimedes, Vector, Mighty and Charmy. The heroes confront once again Dimitri in a newly built robotic body and his army of Dark Legionaires. After a quick conversation, the battle commences.
Boss 9: Dimitri (Shadow)
The heroes defeat Dimitri and his army. As he tries to escape the battlefield, his bubble is destroyed by Shadow's Chaos spear but still manages to escape by flying with his tenticles. Knuckles, Mighty, Charmy and Vector go after him in Echidnaopolis when Shadow receives a call from Hugo
Dimitri prepared for battle.
Brass informing him that they have cornered Dr. Eggman's army in the Old Megalopolis front and he needs Shadow to go and head to the centre of the city where Eggman is and finish him off for good. Thus, Shadow and Omega head to the final battle against Eggman.
The story then switches to Rouge. Sonic, Rouge and Espio arrive at their destination; a large island, a once colony of the Echidnas and the location of the hidden Albion Thaumaturge. The island has not yet been discovered by men but only by Eggman. They spot Eggman's base of operations where he has brought large machines for excavations. They also spot Tails, Amy and the rest being held captive there and devise a plan for their salvation. But before long, they are attacked once again by Fang, who obeying Eggman's orders is guarding the island, waiting for Sonic to come and steal his artifacts. Fortunately, with the help of Rouge and Espio, Fang is defeated. Sonic tells Fang to guide them to Eggman so that they can save their friends. Fang unwillingly teams up with them and the four head to confront Eggman.
Stage 24: Last Colony (Rouge)
(At this point, Rouge's storyline is entirely the same as Sonic's with the small difference that Eggman points the gun to Rouge instead of Sonic and demands that she solve the riddle to open the gate).
Fang successfully guides the team to their friends, whom they rescue. Prof. Pickle and his mates escape to somewhere safe whereas the team, now composing of Sonic, Tails, Amy, Espio, Rouge and Fang continue on their mission in confronting Eggman (Here you will play the second Act of Last Colony). The team winds up in an ancient underground temple where they find an army of hundreds of mechanical warriors, perfectly alligned with each other in lines and untouched. Fang explains them that these machine soldiers were constructed by the Albion Knight of Aurora, as he had heard from Eggman to win the war against the Nocturnal Tribe, but after going out of control, they were diactivated for ever and were sealed here. Eggman plans to reawaken them by assembling all the Albion pieces together. The heroes wander across the vast room until they spot E-102 Gamma standing in front of a large mural again depicting a war against Echidnas. Above this event, there are huge, monstrous tentacles coming from the sky, grabbing Echidnas and causing destruction. One of the tentacles is depicted grabbing an entire piece of land and taking it above in the sky with it. They try to read the hieroglyphics but are not able to understand them. At that point, Dr. Eggman appears with his guard of robots. He tells the heroes that the Albion Thaumaturge lies behind this mural, which is actually a hidden door and one must solve the riddle which is inscribed on the mural to open the gate. He then points a gun at Rouge's forehead and demands him to solve the riddle. After some hard thinking remembering of what Locke had told her long ago in Teotihuacan, Rouge is able to crack the code and open the gate. As the gate opens, Sonic, Tails, Amy, Espio, Rouge, Fang, Eggman and his guard enter a wide chamber. It is decorated in various hieroglyphics and covered with vegetation. There is also a small pond formed by a fall coming out of huge Echidna statues. In the centre, there is a small island with an altar in the centre where there are 9 openings, apparently for the 9 artifacts. Eggman tries to get there first but after making a few steps, the entire chamber starts shaking and the floor collapses. Eggman nearly makes it to the altar but the floor below him collapses and falls into an abyssal pit. Sonic and his team try to get there before Eggman while his army of mechs escapes. Before Sonic and his team make it to the altar and place the artifacts they have, Eggman arises from the pit inside his Egg Aura, a tremendously powerful machine empowered by 6 artifacts. He summons his army and demands the remaining artifacts from Sonic. Fang complains about having turned against him and wanting to get what Eggman promised him. The heroes battle Eggman.
Boss 10: Egg Aura (Rouge)
Eggman manages to steal Sonic's 2 artifacts during battle and quickly heads to the altar to activate the Albion Thaumaturge, but to his suprise, there are only 8 artifacts and one is missing. Eggman demands it from Sonic but Sonic denies having ever collected it. At that point, Gamma opens his chest and reveals the last remaining artifact, which was all along in his possession. After being sent from Eggman to search for the artifacts, Gamma found one of them in Old Megalopolis. However, before he could bring it to Eggman, he somehow got mixed up in a battle between the Eggman army and the G.U.N. forces, got damaged and was deactivated until he was found by Sonic, Tails and Amy. Gamma expresses his gratitude to Sonic for his help and gives it to Sonic enabling him to deliver one final blow to Eggman and destroy the Egg Aura, as well as the altar. With Eggman defeated, the entire place starts collapsing and the heroes escape as quickly as possible. They reach a safe place outside the temple which they observe as it collapses. They meet up with Professor Pickle and his mates, who have brought the G.U.N. forces with them to restore order. They arrest Fang and secure the area. The cutscene ends as Sonic, Tails, Amy, Espio, Rouge, Professor Pickle and his mates observe the blue sky having triumphed once again and getting ready to return home.
Adventure Field: E.G.G. Metropolis
Stage 25: Genocide City (Shadow, Omega, G.U.N. Soldier)
Shadow and Omega are now at the core of the ruined city. There are wounded soldiers everywhere who are evacuated by fellow soldiers. John Washington is also present. There, they encounter Hugo Brass inside his fighting machine. Hugo orders Shadow to go and attack Eggman with his army of G.U.N. Soldiers now that they have him cornered. Shadow defies his orders by saying that all this war has led to nothing but destruction and pain and point at the wounded soldiers. Too many lives have been lost and many more are at stake. Nevertheless, Dr. Eggman is not the main culprit but another one is whom they have found. Hugo becomes filled with anger and orders Shadow one more time to do as told. Shadow denies once again with the support of Omega and John Washington on his side. Hugo, then, loses his temper and turns against Shadow considering him a traitor for not following his orders and prepares to attack him and his two allies.
Boss 11: G-72 BLACK COBRA (Shadow, Omega, G.U.N. Soldier)
Shadow, Omega and John Washington defeat Hugo Brass in his robot. Shadow then announces that he quits from G.U.N. and decides to retreat the G.U.N. forces from the battlefield and end the war, as he is sensing that far greater evil is coming up ahead. Omega and John, the G.U.N. Soldier help him with withdrawing the forces from the city and head back home.
THE END... ?
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Office of the Dean Dr. Reggie J. Caudill is currently the Dean of the Martin Tuchman School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the Panasonic Chair of Sustainability. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Alabama.Office of First Year Students; Undergraduate Advisors; Van Houten Library; Student Life: Academic Support& Student Affairs; Athletics; CCAPS: The Center for Counseling and Psychological Services; Clubs& Organizations; Community Service; Dean of Student Services; Dean's List; Fraternities& Sororities (Greek Life) Graduate Student Association office of the dean of students njit
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» No one knows what Bandai’s real-life Pot of Greed does, but it’s still pretty cool
No one knows what Bandai’s real-life Pot of Greed does, but it’s still pretty cool
Dale Roll Dec 4, 2019
Yu-Gi-Oh interior item would make a great talking point in your home, that’s for sure!
Yu-Gi-Oh! is an old-time favorite anime for many people who grew up in the early 2000’s, and, along with Pokémon, is one of the most popular card games to come from Japan. The collectible cards can sell for hundreds of thousands or even millions of yen (thousands or hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars), and players of the card game can be pretty intense about it.
One of the most famous cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise is the Pot of Greed, which has become an international joke on the Internet thanks to the anime, which tells you what it does every single time it’s used.
▼ In case you didn’t know what “Pot of Greed” does, you will most certainly know by the end of this video.
Of course, the good people at Premium Bandai can’t let any popular, anime-related character or feature go without making a product out of it, so the awesome anime goods store has just opened pre-orders for a real-life, decorative Pot of Greed (no magical powers included).
This Pot of Greed stands 25 centimeters (almost 10 inches) tall and is about 30 centimeters in diameter at its widest point, so it’s a sizable replica suitable for any Yu-Gi-Oh! fan’s home. It’s a ceramic vase hand-crafted in the traditional style of Mino Province, now Gifu prefecture, and is also carefully painted by hand, so each and every one is a little bit different.
The pot is strictly decorative and therefore cannot be used to hold liquids, so you might wonder, “Well then, what does the Pot of Greed do?!” But don’t worry, P-Bandai has various suggestions for its use: as a present for your lover or friend, as an item to add an element of beauty to your home, or as simply a decorative accent to your toko-no-ma, or alcove in your Japanese-style room.
Reservations for the pot, which sold for 11,500 yen (US$105.52), opened at 4 p.m. on December 2, but by the next morning it was, unfortunately, already sold out. If you managed to get your reservation in before they were all gone, you’ll get your Pot of Greed in June 2020. Otherwise, scour the resale sites starting next summer to see if you can’t get your hands on one!
Source: Premium Bandai via My Game News Flash
Images: Premium Bandai
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The Japan Self-Defense Forces have their own kind of Coming-of-Age ceremony and it’s pretty cool
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Drink your tea in style with the new Zaku mobile suit-shaped heavy iron teapot
Forget the flowers, these Japanese households are growing potted felines! 【Pics】
This beautiful, heartwarming winter anime is also a McDonald’s Japan commercial【Video】
Rethinking of gender roles is a “prerequisite” for raising Japan’s birth rate, experts say
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Overambitious diners set restaurant ablaze trying to grill all-you-can-eat yakiniku
Bring spring into your home with pink flower-themed Le Creuset pots and tableware!
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Feel luxurious, comfy, and magical in new Sailor Moon Luna and Diana bath robes from P-Bandai
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Our reporter tries “Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream Hot Pot” in China
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Alien Ramen: In space no one can hear you complain…
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New posable life-size detective Pikachu plushie commits crime of stealing our hearts【Photos】
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Lipchitz, Jacques (11)
Art Institute of Chicago (10)
Evergood, Philip (9)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (9)
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Guston, Philip (7)
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Davies, Arthur B. (Arthur Bowen) (6)
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Query: Art Club of Chicago
533 records — Page 10 of 54
Morrison, Joseph Paul Eldred
1923-1973 and undated
1.5 cu. ft. (3 document boxes)
The largest portion of Morrison's papers consists of professional correspondence written and received between 1923 and 1973. It documents his research interests and the extent of his influence as an adviser and research editor to students and colleagues worldwide in malacological matters. In addition there are small groups of letters, not...
1.8 Linear feet (Boxes 17-22)
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Eight scrapbooks date primarily from 1888 to 1915, with some earlier clippings in the first volume from Alexander's first trip to Europe in the late 1870s. Scrapbooks begin shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Alexander and contain annotations that appear to be in her handwriting. Thus, the scrapbooks may have been created by her. Most of the c...
John White Alexander papers / Scrapbooks
Morris Henry Hobbs papers
Hobbs, Morris Henry, 1892-1967
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The papers of etcher Morris Henry Hobbs measure 4.7 linear feet and date from circa 1901-2014. His career as an artist in Chicago and New Orleans is documented through biographical material, correspondence, writings, professional files, printed material, photographs, artwork, and four sketchbooks.
Louis Pomerantz papers
Pomerantz, Louis
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The papers of Chicago art conservator, Louis Pomerantz, measure 34.2 linear feet and date from 1937 to 1988, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1950s-1980s. The papers document two principal aspects of Pomerantz's professional life: his conservation work for institutions and individuals, and the development of his professional expertise as documented through his writings and teachings, his continued conservation training, and his involvement in professional organizations. Files include scattered biographical material, professional correspondence, interviews, writings, project and client files, teaching and reference files, printed material, and photographic material primarily documenting conservation treatments and techniques.
Art Thieme Folk Music Slides
Thieme, Art
circa 1960s-1990
0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
Art Thieme was a noted folk singer who recorded many traditional ballads and folk songs from midwestern states. This collection is a series of 459 color slides documenting folk musicians and folk music, in both concert settings and informal portraiture, all taken by the donor.
Earle B. Winslow papers
Winslow, Earle (Earle B.), b. 1884
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This small collection of the papers of illustrator Earle B. Winslow measures 0.6 linear feet and dates from 1898-1977. The papers consist primarily of 9 sketchbooks and printed materials, such as clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and reproductions of Winslow's artwork. Additional scattered materials include biographical material, letters concerning Winslow's art-related activities during World War II, notes and writings, and photographs of art work.
#461 Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe, 3/7/1986-6/15/1986 (11 folders)
Records / Box 51 / #461 Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945: Paths to Taos and Santa Fe, 3/7/1986-6/15/1986 (11 folders)
Beverly -- Rockmarge
Moore, Ada Small
Moore, William H.
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The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of an article and other information.
J. Horace McFarland company collection / Garden Images / United States / Massachusetts / Beverly -- Rockmarge
Subject Files Photographs
Consists of images documenting Schiedt's interests including ballrooms, night clubs, the Cotton Club, the Lyric Theater and Mississippi river boats. Materials relating to United States locations known for music include Chicago, Harlem, Indianapolis, Iowa, Hollywood, Michigan, Missouri, New Orleans and New York. Schiedt maintained files on differe...
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6 Folders (Boxes 1-2, OV 4)
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This series contains assorted printed materials including exhibition catalogs for the Society of American Artists and the National Sculpture Society; a catalog for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; information from clubs to which Warner belonged; newspaper and magazine clippings; promotional materials and a booklet highlighting Warner's doors for the ...
Olin Levi Warner papers / Printed Material
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Virat Kohli named PETA India’s Person of the Year
Virat Kohli’s efforts to improve conditions for animals include sending a letter to officials asking for the release of an elephant used for rides at Amer Fort.
20 November, 2019 15:06 IST
Virat Kohli playing with sniffer dog during a practice session ahead of the fifth and final test match against England at MAC Stadium in Chennai in 2016. (File Photo) - PTI
India captain Virat Kohli was, on Wednesday, named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s ‘Person of the Year for 2019’ for his animal advocacy efforts.
A vegetarian, Kohli’s efforts to improve conditions for animals include sending a letter on PETA India’s behalf to officials calling for the release of Malti, an elephant used for rides at Amer Fort, who was reportedly violently beaten by eight men, a PETA India statement said.
The 31-year-old also reportedly visited an animal shelter in Bengaluru to check on injured and formerly neglected dogs there, sending a message to his fans to adopt animals rather than buying them.
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“Virat Kohli is a fierce animal rights proponent who never hesitates to run out cruelty to animals any way he can. PETA India encourages everyone to follow his lead and always be an advocate for animals in need.” PETA India Director of Celebrity and Public Relations, Sachin Bangera said.
Past recipients of PETA India’s Person of the Year award include Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, former Supreme Court Justice KS Panicker Radhakrishnan, and actors Anushka Sharma, Hema Malini, R Madhavan, and Jacqueline Fernandez.
Virat Kohli will lead India against Bangladesh in their first-ever pink-ball Test match beginning on November 22 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
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Peter Righton, PIE (Paedophile Information Exchange)
Child care expert fined over photographs of naked boys (17.9.92)
The Independent, September 17th 1992
By CHRIS MOWBRAY
A LEADING expert in residential childcare was fined pounds 900 yesterday when he admitted importing and possessing illegal homosexual pornographic material.
Magistrates at Evesham, Worcestershire, heard that the material included copies of a recognised paedophile magazine and photographs of young boys under the age of 16 posing partly dressed or naked. Peter Righton, 66, of Badsey Road, Evesham, admitted two illegal importation charges and one charge of possessing obscene material. He was ordered to pay pounds 75 costs and the magistrates ordered that the magazines should be destroyed.
The chairman of the bench, Robert Rowland, told him: ‘We are aware that you are of previous good character, but we think these are serious matters and the penalty we impose must reflect that.’
Righton, a former consultant to the National Children’s Bureau whose patrons include the Secretary of State for Health, Virginia Bottomley, is known as Peter but appeared in court under his real forenames, Paul Pelham.
He has been a lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work in London, and has worked with the Open University advising social-work managers on the rights of children in care. Gordon Smith, for the prosecution, said that a book and a magazine containing pictures of young men were intercepted by Customs officers at the Dover postal depot in April. The packages were addressed to Righton.
The following month, the police raided his home and found one copy of a magazine called The Stud Boys and three copies of a paedophile magazine, Ben.
John Warner, for the defence, said there was no suggestion that any of the material had been bought for anything other than the defendant’s personal use, and it was not hard-core pornography.
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Ben Allan: The Insert & Leaflet Team (TILT)
Focus: Marketing & publishing
Updated: Sep 18, 2013 Published: Mar 31, 2011
Ben Allan, 31
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Abandoning statistical significance is both sensible and practical
Posted by Andrew on 16 April 2019, 1:59 pm
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blakeley McShane, and I write:
Dr Ioannidis writes against our proposals [here and here] to abandon statistical significance in scientific reasoning and publication, as endorsed in the editorial of a recent special issue of an American Statistical Association journal devoted to moving to a “post p<0.05 world.” We appreciate that he echoes our calls for “embracing uncertainty, avoiding hyped claims…and recognizing ‘statistical significance’ is often poorly understood.” We also welcome his agreement that the “interpretation of any result is far more complicated than just significance testing” and that “clinical, monetary, and other considerations may often have more importance than statistical findings.”
Nonetheless, we disagree that a statistical significance-based “filtering process is useful to avoid drowning in noise” in science and instead view such filtering as harmful. First, the implicit rule to not publish nonsignificant results biases the literature with overestimated effect sizes and encourages “hacking” to get significance. Second, nonsignificant results are often wrongly treated as zero. Third, significant results are often wrongly treated as truth rather than as the noisy estimates they are, thereby creating unrealistic expectations of replicability. Fourth, filtering on statistical significance provides no guarantee against noise. Instead, it amplifies noise because the quantity on which the filtering is based (the p-value) is itself extremely noisy and is made more so by dichotomizing it.
We also disagree that abandoning statistical significance will reduce science to “a state of statistical anarchy.” Indeed, the journal Epidemiology banned statistical significance in 1990 and is today recognized as a leader in the field.
Valid synthesis requires accounting for all relevant evidence—not just the subset that attained statistical significance. Thus, researchers should report more, not less, providing estimates and uncertainty statements for all quantities, justifying any exceptions, and considering ways the results are wrong. Publication criteria should be based on evaluating study design, data quality, and scientific content—not statistical significance.
Decisions are seldom necessary in scientific reporting. However, when they are required (as in clinical practice), they should be made based on the costs, benefits, and likelihoods of all possible outcomes, not via arbitrary cutoffs applied to statistical summaries such as p-values which capture little of this picture.
The replication crisis in science is not the product of the publication of unreliable findings. The publication of unreliable findings is unavoidable: as the saying goes, if we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research. Rather, the replication crisis has arisen because unreliable findings are presented as reliable.
I especially like our title and our last paragraph!
Let me also emphasize that we have a lot of positive advice of how researchers can design studies and collect and analyze data (see for example here, here, and here). “Abandon statistical significance” is not the main thing we have to say. We’re writing about statistical significance to do our best to clear up some points of confusion, but our ultimate message in most of our writing and practice is to offer positive alternatives.
P.S. Also to clarify: “Abandon statistical significance” does not mean “Abandon statistical methods.” I do think it’s generally a good idea to produce estimates accompanied by uncertainty statements. There’s lots and lots to be done.
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I have visited each of John Ioannidis Youtube presentations three or four times.
What has stood out in John’s explanations of vibration of effects’ and the ‘Janus phenomenon, is that John, in particular, is very pessimistic about the prospect of more studies/trial, however well conducted? I would be pessimistic in light of both, given those explanations.
What really puzzles me is why John thinks a ‘state of statistical anarchy.” will ensue with the abandonment of statistical sig. It seems to me that John has implied and stated that chaos is in the making already. Why some audiences don’t acknowledge this also curious. Maybe it will be valuable to spell out, in more detail, where the agreements and disagreements are actually.
John may suggest that there is far more agreement between Sander Greenland specifically and himself. We can evaluate that claim.
To add, I have read Sander Greenland’s articles several times each. And of course, Andrew’s I’m an equal opportunity reader.
I actually have embarked on an ambitious reading journey.
I just don’t get it sometimes. Were we ever engaging in dichotomous thinking? If I submit a study to PNAS and p < .05, I don't get automatic acceptance, right? Assuming I am right, we have always been bringing multiple criteria to the table when we evaluate research results. We look at statistical results partly with our own prior — p = .04 for a finding that seems like it must be logically true is more compelling than p = .04 for a result that is counterintuitive. An experiment is more compelling than a quasi-experiment, except when other aspects of the design make the latter more generalizable.
Nobody would say that experiments are automatically valid, other designs automatically invalid, etc. So why impose such a threshold on statistical results?
I like to just say here's my motivation, design, model, results. Make your own decision after I try to highlight the things that are important. I won't sell you my p = .07 finding as God's given truth, but I'd prefer to tell you what exactly it is and you can decide if we should utterly ignore the finding or consider it something tentative. And you might also see my p < .005 result and think the model is inappropriate or whatever. You mix the strength of the statistical result with everything else.
We discuss your concern here. The short answer is that that we are opposing the status quo, which is a lexicographic decision rule in which findings are first evaluated based on whether the p-value is statistically significant, and then decisions are made. Beyond this, a key concern is that in a research projects there are typically lots of results, and the common procedure of dichotomizing them or trichotomizing them based on statistical significance is a way to add lots of noise to one’s results.
I do concur with some academics who draw attention to the question of what effects some methodologic, conceptual, or terminological changes will have on how science is conducted & improved: perhaps introducing different risks and outcomes. That is a prudent concern.
Mayo says:
Andrew: I don’t see such a qualification in the most recent response to Ioannidis that you’ve joined in on (and perhaps strengthened). Did I miss it? But I don’t really get the point of Ioannidis battling Greenland et al on this. I would venture to say that he is far more negative on error statistical tests than Greenland. Most important, it’s too late. At the very least some of the more misleading sentences in the Wasserstein editorial can be modified.
We were limited to something like 500 words so not everything could fit.
Which sentences in the Wasserstein editorial should be modified?
To add, as an editor, I might have held off on publishing the Comments simultaneously with the TAS19 Special Edition. I now speaking as an ad/public relations person. Apologies. I have been immersing myself in marketing ideas. I know, I know just craven. But if u can’t lick’em then join ’em. hehe, Seriously the conversation has been reduced to a ripple due to the acrimony on Twitter and other media. This has occurred on Facebook as well. The argument culture dominates many domains. Not sure that it leads to entropy change, a change what we need now.
Ben Prytherch says:
You don’t get automatic acceptance for p 0.05. There are plenty of meta-analyses showing a large drop off in the frequency of published p-values just above 0.05, as well as too large a frequency of p-values just below 0.05.
Interesting — and disturbing.
Has JAMA accepted this response or is it still unknown whether they’re going to publish it or not?
Valentin Amrhein says:
Hi Zad: It is unknown and will still be unknown for some weeks whether they publish it or not.
Here is an article that Was quite intriguing to me.
Ioannidis, J. (2008). Why Most Discovered True Associations Are Inflated Epidemiology, 19 (5), 640-648 DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31818131e7
It is so sad to see all the people saying stuff like “We rely on statistical significance in genetics/medicine/astronomy/etc, nothing else can achieve what it does for us”. A field can survive use of NHST, but saying it is relied upon is basically an admission that decades of work will need to be redone.
What a mess that’s been created… I always return to this prophecy:
“We are quite in danger of sending highly trained and highly intelligent young men out into the world with tables of erroneous numbers under their arms, and with a dense fog in the place where their brains ought to be. In this century, of course, they will be working on guided missiles and advising the medical profession on the control of disease, and there is no limit to the extent to which they could impede every sort of national effort.”
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/fisher272.pdf
Interesting quote (and link).
Garnett says:
I liked the paper as well. Writing styles have certainly changed a lot since 1957!
On a side note, I’m always stricken by how clearly written many statistics papers are, at least in comparison to the mainstream scientific work that I read on a daily basis. I suspect it has to do with the importance of logic within the statistics discipline.
Fritz Strack says:
It is often a tradeoff between innovation and reliabiity. And it is the editors’ task to decide if a submission is worth being published. To arrive at such a decision and enable the readers to come up with their own judgments, the p-values must be reported in their full beauty.
Peter Gerdes says:
Why is the threshold of publish/not-publish in the absence of statistical significance expected to be any less distorting than the current system? It will still favor results that show stronger effects and disfavor insignificant results.
Is the move from a sharp cutoff to a more flexible standard an advantage or does it make the problems posed by forking paths and file drawer effects harder to estimate?
Presumably one hopes that it would favour well-conducted studies and disfavour poorly-conducted studies.
A key point of avoiding statistical significance is not to think of there being a number that gives a “threshold of publish/not-publish.”
My cell phone posts my earlier comment as in moderation, awaiting approval.
A ubiquitous problem in much writing is that it does not contain specific enough examples demonstrating where the uses of stat sig and p-values make specific sense, a view amplified by Raymond Hubbard even though several have offered definitional clarifications.
‘The ASA statement on p-values (Wasserstein and Lazar 2016 Wasserstein, R. L., and Lazar, N. A. (2016), “The ASA’s Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose,” The American Statistician, 70, 129–133.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]), of course, had to be of a general nature. Subsequent publications on the topic of the appropriate and inappropriate uses/interpretations of p-values, whether from the ASA or elsewhere, must be specific; the more specific the better. They must amount to a list of Do’s and Don’ts concerning p-values. A good place to start would be for the ASA to articulate those circumstances if they exist, in which the use of NHST clearly is beneficial. At the same time, this will serve to illustrate that its rank and file usage is little more than scientist window dressing.’
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2018.1497540?af=R
To make progress in this effort to improve endeavors billed as science related. I speculate that Raymond Hubbard’s broader framework points to the inadequacies of specific proposals. Here are a couple of observations, taken from a review of Hubbard’s Corrupt Research, that seems relevant.
‘Less familiar to readers may be his [Hubbard, my emphasis] discussion of how the widespread tacit acceptance of a philosophically naive form of Hypothetico-Deductivism (HD) as the Scientific Method permits and exacerbates the other complementary causes. According to Hubbard, HD is erroneously thought to legitimize the inappropriate use of NHST and other methodological flaws.’
I attribute the prevalence of HD to the natural inclination of most Westerners to think in binary constructs. They pop somewhere in thought processes. So while there is now greater awareness of potential cognitive biases, it is difficult for most to avoid those identified when a particular context may demand their avoidance. Nearly everyone is subject to binary constructs and cognitive biases.
The use of HD is naive as it may also indicate a violation of Occam’s Razor. But HD is what western thought is emersed in. A similar observation was made by Robert Nozick. Unfortunately, I no longer possess Nozick’s books for references. I donated my library a few years ago.
Science is a messy prospect. John refers to ‘Science’ as one of the best things to happen to the species. Well, that may be so. But it has had risks and consequences associated with it that require oversight.
Lastly, I think that Steven Goodman wants us to be more circumspect as to what will transpire after a decision to adopt a specific proposal. We just don’t know really.
That is why specificity at this time should be a priority: that is to give enough examples as I started out suggesting earlier.
Apologies, I reposted my earlier comment b/c i didn’t see it in the body of the article nor on the side. Must be that pesky software.
Andrew, I am probably missing something but one can be opposed to statistical significance, a binary measure, without being opposed to p-values, a continuous one. I believe that the p-values should be reported without emphasizing the binary measure. A p-value of 0.11 may be informative for somebody with a very different prior. In this sense everybody would be allowed to make up their mind, rather than being nudged, more or less forcefully, to pay attention only to the results that clear the p<0.05 threshold.
I am sure that your critique runs much deeper. My point, I guess, is that even for somebody who is still a good old frequentist, there are many ways to improve the current system.
Tom: I agree. I propose one way (in Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (2018, CUP) by reformulating tests so that one reports discrepancies that are (and are not) indicated at different levels. One is reporting,not on confidence or belief, but on how well or poorly tested claims are. The claims are, like CIs, generally of inequalities (e.g., mu > mu’). People prefer CIs to tests, but there is a clear duality between the two. The lower CI bound is the value that x is statistically significantly greater than at the given level; the upper, the value that x is statistically significantly lower than, at the given level. To emphasize what has been poorly indicated, at least 1 intermediate benchmark is useful. As Ioannidis points out, the “enthusiasts” are concerned with fallacies of non-significance: taking a modest p-value as indicating no effect. But this is easily remedied in the manner I’m describing (even power analysis enables going beyond the dichotomy to setting an upper bound that a non-significant result rules out statistically.
To test statistical assumptions or check if a result replicates, however, statistical tests and minimal thresholds are required. As Fisher always insisted, isolated small p-values don’t suffice; but when you can bring about a few statistically significant results, a genuine anomaly is indicated. Without that, there’s no falsification in science (with few exceptions, building up a genuine anomalous effect, in order to falsify a theory, is strictly statistical). The choice isn’t a rigid, automatic dichotomy, or a lack of thresholds to distinguish fairly good from terrible evidence.
I really like the last sentence of the last paragraph in “Abandoning statistical significance is both sensible and practical.”
Ignoring statistical significance and p-values for a second – In regards to “noise amplification” and “unrealistic expectations of replicability” – It always strikes me how many of Andrew Gelman’s examples that I remember seeing (himmicaines, beauty and sex ratio, esp, etc) would seem to an outsider rather implausible at face value, without any data or statistics or studies.
Maybe that’s just because I’m not an expert in the field, but still I wonder if ‘statistical significance’ has gotten in the way of common sense at times.
Ioannidis last sentence is interesting – “Without clear rules for the analyses, science and policy may rely less on data and evidence and more on subjective opinions and interpretations.”
Well, at present, there does seem to be evidence that with “clear rules” (statistical significance) for the analyses, science and policy relies less on common sense and more on statistical filters.
Also, I think the “noise amplification” of statistical significance can actually foster subjective opinion and interpretation. Not the reverse.
Perhaps one way to put this, is that Ioannidis is arguing for the need to block bad information processing without realizing that it can also block good information processing. The latter seems to be mostly whats happening currently in many ares of science.
The bigger picture to me is the preference for censorship (blocking bad information processing at least among the elite) over enabling/encouraging better information processing widely. My preference has been for the latter.
at least among the NON-elite
That’s a good way to put it. If I understand your interpretation correctly, Ioannidis is requiring a “bad information processing” filter. But hasn’t the statistical significance filter failed to “block bad information processing” in many cases? Hasn’t it encouraged bad information processing? So it doesn’t seem to accomplish what he is arguing for anyway.
Transposed Conditionals, Shrinkage, and Direct and Indirect Biasedness
Stephen Senn
https://www.phil.vt.edu/dmayo/conference_2010/Senn%20Comment%20on%20Ioannidis.pdf
Now I thought that this response to John Ioannidis was intriguing, in light of John’s more recent commentaries. I don’t see Stephen Senn’s name on the Retire Significance Petition.
It’s worth reading the entire article. Draw your own conclusions. I saw its relevance in further exploring the bases of clinical trials, a necessary step.
Beep beep, said Roadrunner says:
I hope I don’t remember the details horribly wrong, but here we go…
There was a study about how using p-values as a red herring affects how people (students and researchers in this case, again, if I remember correctly). There was–shudder–a worded question about some treatment, how n one group people on average got better in, say, 3 months and in the other group in 4 months. The task was, for the participants, to tell if these two numbers are different from each other. In this case, if indeed the number four is larger than the number three.
When they were given the unnecessary information that the difference wasn’t statistically significant, these highly educated people failed this simple question that most elementary school students would ace. Somehow in their brains the fact that the difference wasn’t statistically significant seemed to mean that, yes, the numbers 3 and 4 for are different on the surface level, but the significance test has reveled a much deeper level of the universe to us, a level, in which these numbers are actually NOT different at all! Oh those uneducated plebeians who in their foolish minds think that 3 and 4 are different numbers… HAH HAH HAH (slowed down laugh of a ghost in a cheesy film)
I believe you’re thinking of “Blinding Us to the Obvious? The Effect of Statistical Training on the Evaluation of Evidence” by Blake McShane and David Gal.
I completely agree regarding the often counter-productive use of statistical significance. Ioannidis and many others see significance as this kind of protection against being fooled by randomness, and they worry that if we get rid of that protection then all observed patterns, even those highly probable under the null of “no effect”, will be treated us evidence for some claim.
I don’t buy this, for the reason you give: we have too many examples of sketchy results that on their face look like noise, but get that “p < 0.05" seal of approval and thus become publishable. In this sense, "statistical significance" may be achieving the exact opposite of what it is intended to do. It's supposed to make patterns in noise less likely to be taken serious; it very well may be making them more likely to be taken seriously.
Correlation statistics are a great example. You don't need that large of a sample size for a small correlation to be significant. And so we see so many studies highlighting "statistically significant" correlations that are so small they can't be detected by the naked eye – in the rare instances that plots are published. I have a hard time believing that a correlation which, when plotted, looks like noise, would get highlighted as good evidence for a theory if it weren't for a "p < 0.05" seal of approval.
In all fairness, we tend to overgeneralize and misrepresent what some experts recommend. This is a key problem with many critiques and commentaries. Then I find myself having to intervene to correct both. I do this for individuals with whom I disagree as well. I welcome reciprocal criticisms.
If you follow John Ioannidis’ comments, John offers a wider range of cautions on practices than on simply ‘statistical significance’. John Ioannidis has consistently suggested that stat sig and p-values should not constitute the default practice. Their utility is relevant in a minority of queries.
John’s objection to the ‘retire significance’ comment/article was perhaps a bit too narrowly focused. In previous articles & talks, John Ioannidis has emphasized the differentiated conceptual & methodologic needs of different fields. and subfields It is in that frame, John has expressed his views of the utility of stat sig and p values. In particular, he seems to have focused on ‘discoveries’. I believe that even the Benjamin et al article left open the question of practices in non-discovery related studies. I’m being a bit lazy probably by not furnishing the exact quote from the Benjamin article.
Ben said,
“I don’t buy this, for the reason you give: we have too many examples of sketchy results that on their face look like noise, but get that “p < 0.05" seal of approval and thus become publishable. In this sense, "statistical significance" may be achieving the exact opposite of what it is intended to do. It's supposed to make patterns in noise less likely to be taken serious; it very well may be making them more likely to be taken seriously."
Also worth mentioning: Making decisions based on statistical significance leads to "The Winner's Curse", since the "false positive" are likely to have inflated estimates (Type M Error).
There has been an abiding trust in allopathic medicine that more recently has translated into mistrust. Ironically some within the medical establishment has written about the latter. Of course, Richard Harris’ Rigor Mortis ranks as one the best narratives of the current malaise being visited in medicine and statistics.
I’m not sure why some question or not question, among the highly educated. As I have speculated now and then, some people are natural diagnosticians, regardless of their educational background.
I think we need to do even more depth analyses of clinical trial procedures, design, and methods a view that I shared with some academics in the ’90s.
But whether I endorse larger and larger trials is a question. John Ioannidis also has expressed whether even more studies will yield information gain; thus requiring exploration of new concepts, methods, etc.
David Colquhoun says:
A particularly gross example of abuse of p values occurred in Science not long ago. Memory is improved by TMS,p=0.043. The results were very unconvincing IMO,Zbut they were tweeted by Science and rapidly got a high altmetric score.
http://www.dcscience.net/2014/11/02/two-more-cases-of-hype-in-glamour-journals-magnets-cocoa-and-memory/
Ahhh, the tabloids!
Thank you for posting this! Our center does some work with rTMS, so it’s especially interesting to me.
From the hyped-up press release:
“They remembered more face-word pairings after the stimulation than before, which means their learning ability improved,” Voss said. “That didn’t happen for the placebo condition or in another control experiment with additional subjects.”
This conclusion was drawn because the p-value for percentage change from baseline during active treatment was less than 0.05, while the p-value during sham treatment was bigger than 0.05. N=16 subjects.
All of that notwithstanding, they observe about +25% average change from baseline in face-word pairings after active treatment compared to about +5% average change from baseline after sham treatment (contrast p=0.043, as you wrote).
“+25% improvement”? That really seems like a lot, but it’s hard to relate change in performance on a face-word pairing task with day-to-day quality of life or clinical significance. How do we interpret the magnitude of this claim? Interestingly, the press release claims that rTMS may help stroke survivors or people with Alzheimer’s apparently because of the statistically significant result that you note. Maybe because the therapy is (presumably) non-invasive, _any_ benefit is considered worthy of recommendation?
John Maindonald says:
Much of the problem is surely with review processes that took shape pre-internet, in times when funding and reward systems were not so pernicious in their effects. As has been suggested, all studies that meet reasonable “severe check” criteria should appear somewhere, but they do not have to appear (and maybe should not) on a printed page. Pre-registration, at least to the extent of posting details of the proposed study design and execution, should be required. There should be provision for continuing critical re-evaluation, with reporting on replication attempts encouraged.
This strikes me as the only way to move reasonably seamlessly from present inadequate (relative to what really matters) refereeing to refereeing that will look more incisively at design, execution, and modeling — those who attempt independent replication of the work will not commonly repeat the same mistakes. Such independent checking has the potential to focus scrutiny, not just on the study, but also on the quality of the refereeing process that gave the paper a tick. “Publication” processes of this type have the potential to generate useful and interesting data.
I have no settled view on the role of p-values. I am attracted to David Colquhoun’s proposal that they should be supplemented by a properly documented rough assessment of what might be the false positive risk, if only in order to make it clear that the p-value does not directly measure the false positive risk.
In those areas that retain traditional pre-internet (and pre the modern era) publication processes, statistical analysis (with or without p-values) is being asked to do a job for which it is not fitted.
John, Great set of comments. Transparency is most certainly critical to identifying & developing better approaches to the scientific enterprise. Why I support Open Science Initiatives. In particular, Pre-registration should be mandatory. But that missive appears not to be a robust expectation among some stakeholders that have vested interests. Nevertheless, I think the state of several sub-fields in medicine necessitates pre-registration, anyway, you know, including the protocol, the data analysis plan, Code, etc.
What I am less sure of is whether it makes sense to specify a statistic plan at the outset. That just does not compute with me, as a general rule. I would think it depends on the context. In any case broader science & social sciences related questions arise concomitantly from the outset. The tendency is to proceed in the hypo-deductivist mode, which Raymond Hubbard, rightfully, critiques in his ‘deemed’ landmark book Corrupt Research. He also discusses ‘abduction’. I haven’t yet read the book, but it is next.
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During combat situations, the player can use various weapon types such as skirmish and firearms, which have three ammunition types: light, medium, and substantial. These weapons can be customized to include natural harm. The player can use stealth or social skills (persuasion) to stay away from combat out and out. As the player progresses, they gain experience points, which the player and their companions can use to step up and open new skills. The player can build up their specialized skills, which are additionally separated into three categories: Science, Medical, and Engineering. For instance, the player can use a shrinking beam to shrink down an adversary. The player is ready to invest points into these skills, which will open new perks that upgrade combat proficiency. The player can also enter a Strategic Time Dilation state, which slows down time and reveals opponents’ prosperity statistics, which grants the player strategic advantages. The player leads their companions and they have improved their companion’s combat strength and resilience. The player can also gain a “defect” that occurs when the player fails over and again in certain gameplay segments. Flaws debuff the player in some manner, yet in addition give extra perks and advantages.
The Outer Worlds Game Development :
The game is developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Take-Two Interactive’s publishing name Private Division. In spite of the fact that Obsidian was in progress to be gained by Microsoft Studios at the hour of the game’s declaration, the task had been a work in progress before that point, and Take-Two had secured the publishing rights preceding Microsoft’s acquisition offer. Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are the creators of the Fallout game series served as the game’s directors. The team directors described the game as “the blend of Boyarsky’s dull bleakness and Tim’s silliness”, and they would have liked to seek harmony among silliness and show when making the game’s tone and story. Sentimental options were at first considered, yet the component was inevitably cut by the studio. The game’s writers incorporate Boyarsky and Megan Starks
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The Outer Worlds System Requirements(Recommended)
OS: Windows 10 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K or Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 470
The Outer Worlds System Requirements(Minimum)
OS: Windows 7 (SP1) 64bit
CPU: Intel Core i3-3225 or AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
GPU: Nvidia GTX 650 Ti or AMD HD 7850
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According to Duncan Castles on Twitter, Real Madrid are interested in signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Arsenal. But could the bigger deal be in who goes the other way. They are ready to offer the Gunners Luka Jovic...
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This week it was hot. My brain melted. I wake up and the high low thermometer telling me it got DOWN to 68º or 70º during the night, and (on the front porch) was up to 110º. I figure it was probably really in the high 90ºs. I’ve been taking brief showers morning AND evening, and peeling damp clothing off at night, Argh! It makes thinking hard as well as almost everything else. I picked up my sketchbook and tucked it under my chin while I was moving something and there was a sweat stain on the outer page where my chin had been! I sure home this is just a hot spell, and not a preview of Global Warming! I understand that the weather is going to break tomorrow, and it will go down to the 60ºs and 70ºs. I can hardly wait!
Well, it’s technically Fall. The Equinox (Mabon) came and went. I did make two Mabon Rings- (sweet bread stuffed with fruit and nuts). There was one still untouched on Saturday morning, so I took it with us to share. As Kat said “The worst outcome is that you make another!”
Willow was so exhausted we left her behind when Kat and I went up to ASP. John and I had gone over to Mark’s and helped him clear out a lot of Bruce’s old clothes. I didn’t think of all the work Shema does with the homeless, and put them over in Willow’s car. Duh! They’d have loved them!
This was another one of those Saturday and Sunday in two directions weekends. Saturday was at a Sacred Place in Caanan NH. Kim Snowhawk Hart had asked me to run the woman’s circle. I am not big on ritual, but felt I could talk about balance and women’s paganism. So Kim opened the circle with drumming, and I passed around the Mabon bread (in my view, when women get together, they share food), and talked for a while, then Kim did a final ritual sharing with water, and the Men’s and Women’s circles got together. Since I don’t drive after dark, Kat and I immediately packed up, and headed home- although it was still dark when we arrived because I’d stayed talking too long.
Since ASP is up in the boonies (like us), my phone was pretty much dead by the time we had to leave, so I got directions from Shema to get back to 89. As she described, it was very simple, and in fact it took no longer than going the more direct, shorter route, because 89 is highway. Sadly, it did require heading almost directly west- into the sunset- to catch it up at Lebanon. Then we zipped right down, stopping to pick up some fast food and a USB cord to plug the phone in while driving. (Who knows what happened to the last one!) I did discover a pleasant thing. When I’ve got the GPS navigator telling me a turn is coming up in X feet, I can manage to drive after dark much more easily! I’m not sure quite how much, but it’s good news.
The next day was Eastern Mass Pagan Pride Day at Winekini Castle in Haverhill. Willow was still wiped out- and pretty cross about it. It’s frustrating to rest and have it not do any good! I had gone to a workshop with Ninnian, about herbs for winter, and she reminded me of Oatstraw, which is supposed to help restore your strength when sleep doesn’t. So I’ve been making Oat straw tea again. Luckily Willow and I actually like it. I like it best with cran juice mixed in. Anyway, Kat had had some trouble with the smoke at A Sacred Place “It’s coming to get me!” The fire only blew our way occasionally, but smokers were banished to behind Shema’s house, and that’s where the privy is, so that made going there hard. So I guess it may be any air with particulate, not just sage and incense. At any rate, Pagan events are out for Kat. With Willow still wiped, I called Steve, and he came up to sit with me. (You can sort of see him in the back of our tent.) We’d left at 8 on Saturday, and I left 7:45 on Sunday. That doesn’t sound so bad until I note that I was up until midnight- and maybe those who get only six or seven hours of sleep a night don’t think that’s odd, but I think that a lot of the reason I’m healthier than most is that I do usually get nine hours of sleep a night, and I missed it!
I also missed the girls- a LOT- while setting up. The three of us can unload and get set up in 45 minutes, but doing everything myself took me past 11 when it opened, and Steve arrived. (You can see that I didn’t get my car out from behind the tent- but they forgave me). Oh, lord it was hot! The crowds followed the shade of the trees in the middle, and ducking into the hade of the tent you could really feel the difference. We loved every passing breeze. The silver, when the sun was on it, got hot although no burns I know of.
The music was lovely, although the performers weren’t as polished as they have sometimes been, but a lot of them sang folk music, and I enjoyed that. To my disappointment, the group that did the take off on Y-M-C-A (W-I-CC-A) didn’t do it again. Steve was able to watch when I went to the ladies room, and went out after some local honey I saw while I was there, and he picked up lunch from the food vendor for us. The ice actually melted in my insulated cup! First time that’s happened so fast! Other than that I didn’t get out of the booth, and see anyone. (Except I said hi to Lori Bruno, who unfortunately was in the middle of looking for a lost cell phone, so it was just “hi”, and Jeff Cerneson, who was set up next to us.) There were only three workshops this time, but they know I’d want to speak next year, so that’s good.
With Steve’s help I did manage to pack up by six (in an hour), although that still had me as nearly the last one out except for the food vendor. Oh well. Steve followed me home- although actually he got there before me, probably because I stopped to pick up Chinese food on the way. I didn’t reprogram that in, because I knew darned well where the restaurant was, and the GPS kept trying to re-direct me from going through Milford to get back out to the by-pass, at almost every street. Until it was really quite a significant retracing of steps! What the heck‽ They also REALLY wanted me to go home up through Manchester. Who knows? Maybe it would have been faster as the full length of 89 was the day before.
Steve also brought a disc and installed a sort of light version of photoshop, since mine had stopped working. He confirmed what I’d suspected, that my disc reader was dead. Oh well. I’ve also had to break down and actually buy “cloud storage”- 99¢ a month.
I’ve spent a great deal of time this week working on the CTCW website. I discovered that no one was putting in the presenters as we accepted their proposals, so all we had up was those that confirmed in February that they’d be coming back. Irk! Some of them still haven’t sent in pictures, and I don’t think it’s fair that we should have to try to search for a picture to put in. Why can’t they just send it? I had been adding the workshops, but had gotten behind on the blog posts, and we hadn’t put up the readers and vendors. We are nearly done getting people to sign up for the panels, which will allow Kathy to plug everything into the schedule. We’ve got so many vendors and readers that we’ve added another room, and so many proposals that we’ve added another track. Luckily the rooms at the resort are cheap. It’s about 5 weeks away now, and we are getting the expected inquiries from vendors who want to know if we have room for them. If I hadn’t done it myself, I could be a lot more self righteous about it.
I also heard today from the fellow who won the portrait in the NHPTV auction in 2015. He’d lost track of it for nearly a year, then I had the Lyme, and so I’ve done last years, and have started this years, so will try to get that done and get to the older one.
I got a letter and form from Lorraine (who bought the old house). Apparently a form getting our name off the title was never put in, which would explain why we keep getting notices about the house. She sent me a form to fill out, and said I’d need to provide another death certificate. I feel I should ask her for the $15 it cost me (on the other hand, I tried to do it on-line, and that would have cost $65). I’d be a lot more put out about having to go to Nashua to get it, if I hadn’t been going there to visit Mark anyway.
I am also preparing for the Twilight Covening. I’m a bit disoriented because it’s not Columbus Day weekend this year, but the first (not long) weekend of October. While I’m there the girls will be going to the Baronial Birthday party, then they’ll be going to AAC (Another Anime Con). Willow has been busily trying to make sure all her most popular blankets will be available- stitch stitch stitch. At least she can do that sitting down.
We’ve been looking forward to the fall- unfortunately, although Willow found two jackets (or a jacket and a vest that “should have” fit, they don’t. One of these car trips I was listening to “Wait Wait Don’t tell me” and the panelists came up with three options for why men are better than women on STEM (Science, Tech, and Math). One suggested that it was because boys got early training in physics by using a penis to urinate. Another suggested that girls get so confused by the totally illogical different values in sizing in clothing that they just decide that numbers don’t mean anything. The third option was that people simply respect men more because they have beards. I thought it was the ridiculous wild variations in sizing. (after all, why would a “half size” mean fat?) It turns out it was the peeing one. The upshot is that I guess we’ll just pass the jackets to Shema’s homeless along with Bruce’s clothing. (unless they can be returned)
I also seem to have screwed up with ordering Kat some new Sweet Chili Doritos. While I had been really careful to avoid clicking on the “Reduced Fat” version, but when they arrived, they were RF. ARGH! I am SO annoyed. While I’m not 100% sure that I didn’t somehow click the wrong button, I do remember noticing the possibility, and was working really hard to avoid picking the wrong one, and I really fear that you can click something and get something else. (These can’t be returned because they are food.)
It’s really convenient to be able to search the world and find what you’re looking for and have it delivered right to your door- until what’s delivered isn’t what you were looking for.
I am sick of the news. I’m depressed that the far right has started to come back in Germany, I’m depressed about the floods and fires and hurricanes causing so much harm. I am ashamed that the current president has left Puerto Rico to suffer (thank goodness his predicessors have stepped up, but they don’t have the power he could be using. Instead he’s trading taunts with the Koreans and trying to use his power (illegally) to stop the protests against police brutality of blacks. (I was interested to read that the “taking a knee” pose was taken from military funeral as a sign of sorrow and respect.) We cannot get rid of Trump too soon for me! Every day he’s here creates more harm we’ll have to clean up after! At least the latest attempt to repeal the ACA was stopped.
Today we got the written notice that they found nothing when they did the Endoscopy on Kat last week. Now we get to wait for the various bills to come in. I’ve been reading An American Sickness: how Healthcare became Big Business and How you can Take it Back. Sadly, as fascinating as this history is, as it runs through the development of Insurance, Hospitals, Physicians, Pharmaceuticals, Testing and Ancillary Servacies, Contracters, Coding, Research, Conglomerates, HMOs, and the ACA, I haven’t gotten to the “how to fix it” part yet, and it’s something like watching film of a car crash or a building burning; I sort of remember when each of these influences were introduced. And yes, at the time, each idea seemed like a good idea, but then market forces twisted each thing into something that hadn’t been intended. Another thing it reminds me of is the many short documentaries I’ve seen over this last year explaining the Nazi rise to power. You don’t want to watch, you know what’s coming and how awful it is, but you can’t turn away. There’s also a certain similarity to a stream flowing downhill and getting bigger and bigger as more streams join into it, until when they’re all combined it’s a mighty river that can’t be stopped. I actually flagged several fascinating bits of this history to share, but at this point, it seems too depressing. I have also started reading a small book Medicine, Magic and Religion, which is actually the text of an hundred year old lecture in sociology, to balance the depressing modern take on medicine (now without the Magic and Religion). What a difference a century makes in attitudes!
I finished the book Miss Kopps Midnight Confessions, the third in the series of books written based on newspaper clippings about the first female deputy sheriff in Hackensack NJ. The details are marvelous. I love the peek into the world where women were only just beginning to have rights recognized, and a world where there was no safety net. If you had no money, you starved, you didn’t get medical care, you were out on the street. The author did a great job of creating characters who are believable as real people in the modern world, but living in a world so different from our own. One rarely sees that in historical novels, and I’m not sure it’s really possible when you go back more than a century. We don’t have the detrius of so much media to fill in the details. Having finished that, I am trying another Charlaine Harris book Real Murders. Her writing style feels familiar (after recently re-reading so many of the Sookie Stackhouse books), and there is comfort in dealing with a plot where the real question is with which of the very attractive men the heroine is going to get romantically involved. The plot is about a girl in a club where people exchange stories about real murders when one of them, then another, actually is killed. One has to accept the idea of a fan base of people who would rather read about historical murders than made up ones, and certainly there are huge numbers of people who read murder mysteries. I have myself read books suggesting various possible explanations of Jack the Ripper, and the fascinating book on the Johnstown Flood is simply about how a large number of people died because the authorities wouldn’t maintain the dam. How people live and die is fascinating, and I can easily see the combination of history and mystery one that would attract a club’s worth of people in a fairly large town. At least with fiction, I can be fairly certain that at the end the good guys will win, and a fairly satisfying romantic encounter will happen.
However- it is now later than I’d intended to stay up, and I should close. Until next week, (as I say at the end of my podcasts) “Don’t do anything egregiously stupid.” Oh, I didn’t mention, I also have lined up guests for all but one New Normal between now and CTCW. Tonight was Sophia Shultz, who has produced a new Oracle Deck nd that’s what we talked about. It was great! She is a trained Egyptologist, and has recently gotten into Assyrian and Hititte mythology. When Mark came over the other day he read me some more stories from the Watley universe in which a student started a class on Epics- from Gilgamesh through the Illiad and Odyssey through Beowulf, and Dante, Spencer, etc. Wow, did that sound like a great class! And talking to Sophia was like that, as the two of us “fan girled” about various stories. Anyway, goodnight!
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Facebook Lockdown…
By Kenn Anderson, Jr.
Have you ever logged into your Facebook account while attached to a public Wi-Fi connection? If you have, you are not alone. A majority of smart-phone users do it on a regular basis, and why not? It is easy enough, standing in line at Starbuck’s? Just update that Facebook status and check out what your friends are up to. Unfortunately, using public Wi-Fi hotspots makes it very easy for almost anyone to intercept your internet activities.
This vulnerability is best demonstrated by an extension for the Firefox browser called Firesheep that makes use of a packet sniffer to intercept information from popular websites (Facebook and Twitter, for example) traveling over the Wi-Fi network and then allows the Firesheep user (hacker) to assume the log-in credentials of whoever’s identity was intercepted. Once logged in, the hacker has access to all sorts of personal information with very little fear of detection. Keep in mind, this extension is readily available and is very easy to use. Next time you think about logging into Facebook at your local Wi-Fi hotspot, look around. Is one of those guys (or gals) in the corner with a laptop running Firesheep?
Fortunately, defeating this particular exploit is fairly simple. Facebook allows you to access their website with the HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) protocol instead of the more commonly used HTTP. HTTPS encrypts communications with SSL (Secure Socket Layer), preventing hackers from eavesdropping on your browsing. Some websites, such as banking websites, PayPal, and others require the use of HTTPS and Facebook has allowed the use of HTTPS on its website for quite some time, although it required users to manually type https://facebook.com into the address bar of their browser instead of the using the default http://facebook.com.
Facebook has a new option, automatically enabling the use of HTTPS. This option can be accessed by selecting Account from upper right corner of the page, and choosing Account Settings. Within the Account Settings is an Account Security section that looks like the one below.
Putting a checkmark in the Browse Facebook on a secure connection… box (be sure to click Save to apply the setting) will do just what it says and will provide a much more secure Facebook experience. Do yourself a favor, check the box, and shear that Firesheep!
NOTE: Enabling HTTPS will make browsing a little slower and Facebook apps like Mafia Wars and Farmville won’t work. Facebook chat, however, may still work. I just tested chat and it works for me, although others have been unable to use it over a secure connection.
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The trial of Jerry Sandusky has begun. Prosecutors accuse the former Penn State assistant football coach of abusing at least 10 boys, allegations that have become widely known.
What may be less familiar is a mental illness his lawyers are connecting with him: Histrionic personality disorder. The defense attorneys say they intend to offer expert testimony from a psychologist who "will explain that the words, tones, requests and statements made in the letters are consistent with a person who suffers from a Histrionic Personality Disorder," according to documents.
Histrionic personality disorder is part of a class of conditions called dramatic personality disorders, which are marked by unstable emotions and distorted self-images, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
For these people, self-esteem doesn't come from true feelings of self worth, but rather from the approval from other people, and those suffering from this disorder will often engage in dramatic or inappropriate behaviors to call attention to themselves.
“People develop this disorder because they have a need to be appreciated and to feel valued and worthwhile and special,” said Nadine Kaslow, psychologist at Emory University School of Medicine, who has not treated Sandusky.
About 2% to 3% of the general population is thought to have histrionic personality disorder, she said. "We all have traits that resemble this, but it becomes a problem when all of the symptoms are combined in a way that makes functioning difficult."
Inflicting sexual abuse is not a commonly recognized trait of this condition, but sexually-provocative behavior is, she adds.
People with this personality disorder may also change emotions rapidly, overly dwell on physical appearance, and take criticism or disapproval sensitively. They are easily influenced by others and make rash decisions, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Rarely showing concern for others, they often find it challenging to maintain relationships. People with histrionic personality disorder may even threaten or attempt suicide for the sake of getting attention.
No one knows what causes this disorder, but experts say it's probably a combination of nature and nurture. The personality disorder can run in families, suggesting a genetic connection, but children may also be influenced by their parents in ways that would lead kids to crave attention or be confused about how to get parents' approval.
The standard treatment for this disorder is a type of counseling called psychotherapy, in which a mental health professional helps the person delve into what's causing their thoughts and behaviors, and figure out how to create more positive relationships. Depression and anxiety may be issues for some patients, and may be treated with medications. But generally this personality disorder has not received a lot of attention in terms of evidence-based treatments, Kaslow said.
It's important to seek help if you believe you have symptoms of histrionic personality disorder, especially if it's causing trouble in your romantic or professional life.
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All the personality disorders have in common the absence of empathy for others . . . histrionic typically affects more women than men . . . the only personality disorder associated with felonious type behaviors is the antisocial personality disorder which we used to call sociopathic . . . so sandusky's lawyers are going for a much more benign diagnosis than i would . . . but then I don't to represent the man . . . which would not be possible for me to do even if I were a lawyer. I don't think histrionic is all it is.
Rusty Shakelford
"All the personality disorders have in common the absence of empathy for others"
Nailed it. Sadly, most people commenting all over the internet have this problem.
jbkb012575
I hope they call this expert to testify:
Dr. Glen Gabbard, clinical professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said histrionic personality disorder is overwhelmingly diagnosed in women and could in no way be seen as a reason or explanation for the abuse of children. "That diagnosis, if he has it, would be completely irrelevant to anything having to do with criminal responsibility for acts of pedophilia," said Gabbard, who is an expert on personality disorders. Read more: http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-06-15/jerry-sandusky-trial-update-judge-histrionic-personality-disorder-child-sex-abus#ixzz1y5bCSDhl
I was diagnosed with 3 personality disorders many years ago, (none of them histrionic PD) but am doing very, very well and am a happy, healthy person. I respectfully disagree with your statement – if anything, I have too much empathy for others.
Pure, full criteria personality disorders are not common. Constructing a personality is a subtle process ,often taking years. If one ever has an interest in scanning a DSM IV they will be convinced they have almost every pathology in the manual. I am really not sure what relevance this even has in the Sandusky case . It certainly will not affect the outcome.
..PS not ALL personality disorders have absence of empathy for others as a defining characteristic. It is common within the cluster B or "dramatic" personality disorders, but not necesssarily present in cluster A or C. I would not be so quick to generalize, especially during mental health awareness month.
russellis1946
From what I have learned is that you cannot treat this disorder as a learned disorder bt behavior modification as these people will even take control of a controlled group and that is why the avoid group therapy. Today we try treating these behaviors as a learned problem when they are a medical mental illness and caused by a brain malfunction or brain trauma. I believe I lost someone very dear to me because of this disorder, when it could have been treated, her end was to not tell anyone she had brain cancer except her husband who promised not to tell anyone.. She was high on the sympathy she was getting and played it to long, at the last with just a few days left to live, I have been rushed to a hospital where they found a mass on my brain and we got the phone call. No one would listen, because so many are so misinformed on this problem even a psychologist failed us when she was yet a child, after a night with him he said she knew we didn't love her but just her other brothers and sisters so we should spoil her with name brand cloths and romance her. Histrionic personality disorder, he miss it, manipulated by a young girl who planned her own pink funeral. We talked over and over on the phone before her death and every other word was I love you dad.. but everyone said they knew knew she hated us.. it was the most heartbreaking thing to hear her voice again after she cut us out of her life for year saying we cut her out and everyone believed her.
I'll tell you what Histrionic Personality Disorder is – an excuse.
How do these lawyers live with themselves?
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Dominic Maka
Difficult to ascertain. However, they take an oath to practice law representing their client to the best of their ability. The larger question might be (considering private practice),why does a particular attorney choose to represent a particular client?
Because they have to. Whether they believe he's guilty or not they have to defend him, and with that mountain of charges and only Sandusky's word (and he didn't even take the stand), the lawyers had to think of something... Afterall, it just takes one juror to believe the disorder is real
jethro bodine
Personality disorder or not, Sandusky is an adult and sane adults have to understand that children can not process sexual advances directed to them. They can only be victims. He is obviously a total selfish human with little or no empathy for anyone. His root problem is selfishness and I hope the victims in this case can heal in time.
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A quick execution would rid him and us of this problem. 😦
innocent until proven guilty asshead. maybe someone would think you should be executed. are you so much better a human because you don't have a sexual deviance? alert the vatican. candidate for sainthood. don't be so quick to kill. it's quite possible the man is not guilty. doubtful. but... even if he is found guilty a cell will do nicely.
Troy, go to hell. You are probably a pedophilic deviant as well. No room in this country for enablers. POS.
Death would be good but I'd rather see him put in prison among the general population. I think he would get his just reward then!
ginae
The only thing wrong with him is he's a pervert. Period!
$uck you troy you POS.............I WOULD NEED ABOUT 30 SECONDS WITH YOU AND WOULD HAVE WISHED YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN
Platofish
By going down the 'personality defect' route the defense is more or less admitting that Sandusky is guilty, and they are just looking for ways to lessen his sentence. At age 68 would it really mater if he gets sentenced to 90 years or 50 years? Does the defense team think the public will feel – poor guy, it was his disorder that made him do it, go lightly on him? Sandusky is clearly a cunning man, capable of setting up a charity as a source of future victims. I can't imagine anyone will feel its wrong to send Sandusky to prison for the rest of his natural life if found guilty.
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I agree with you, completely. The only flaw that I see in your post is, 'if he is found guilty' – I think should read, 'when he is found guilty'.
God help anyone that feels any sympathy for this POS – we know he is sick, it's just clearly not any excusable kind of 'sickness'. I feel the same way about Magnotta.
Histrionic Personality Disorder. Yeah, right! I guess the next BS defense "experts" pull out of their cavities is that Jerry was "high" on whatever (twinkies, Jesus, GW Bush, etc.). Criminal defense attorneys will use whatever shill they think might hang up the juror with the lowest IQ. Guess that's what we're seeng now.
Only in America can perverts, abuser, murders, and thiefs get away with a crime just because some doctor made up a a name and gave them a condition. He will claim he is sick!
I think they should get all those SICK people and send them to the gas chamber.
I don't care if Sandusky has the most extreme case of Histrionic PD or any other illness known to mankind – he is/was a powerful, calculating, scheming monster. He should have just plead guilty because making those young men testify seems so cruel and I shudder to think that ol Jer relives his crimes while they do. Unfortunately, I do not think there is a punishment in the US, including the death penalty (too bad his crimes don't qualify him for that), that is fitting for this POS. Jer, may you burn in the eternal flames, buddy – even they are too good for you!!!
Please accept my apologies for my english. But what I read about this Mr. Jerry Sandusky and what he's done to these young boys makes me feel sick and sad and shocked and I am so angry, I'm fuming. I could hit away his false smile. I hope he will not smile/grin at his victims or at anyone for that matter for a very long time..
And if he gets away with 'histrionic personality disorder' then I don't understand the word 'justice' anymore.
Jacaranda, no need to apologize. You stated so clearly exactly what I'm feeling, too. May justice be served.
The most powerful piece of this trial up until now was not the testimony, but the fact that one of these young men that testified was SO embarrased that he left the courtoom with a PLASTIC BAG over his head. This man totally destroyed these boys childhoods, and will leave an eternal mark on their minds. I hope he ROTS in jail, and gets exactly what he gave out!!
James Hotz
The disorder is that he gets off in a kids mouth, that's where he gets his thrill, and knowing that the kid is too ashamed to say any thing. But not to worry this guy has done this many times, the rest are to embarrased to come forward. I can remember being approched by many gizzers like him when I was growing up, they like to prey on young boys and young men like sailors. One told me I like sea food.
Good...His cell mates can console him when he is upset and not feeling pretty
Dr. David Hartman
Personality Disorder, even if applicable to JS, is not a mitigating excuse for pedophilia. I would like to see a copy of the psychologist's testimony explaining how an individual with a propensity for dramatization ( per the dx) somehow would be compelled to molest children. On the face of it, it seems to be an entirely irrelevant, if not entirely inaccurate diagnosis.
Jaycey
I would like to know which disorder caused him to say what he said to Bob Costas.
Boy this is a stretch! I'll tell you what's wrong with Sandusky, he's a sociopathic pedophile. The end.
I don't give a tinker's damn what happens to JS as long as it does no more damage to the PSU football program.
only in America can people get away with murder of the wife, or her child. or sodomizing little boys. oh don't forget the boys who get done by the church and everyone says what a shame. do something people. for god's sake do something. if jerry touched my kids i'd make him eat his own privates.
It seems to me the only way a PD could be considered a criminal defence is if the case could be made caused a major break with reality which is the chief characteristic of the class of mental disorders subsumed under the various forms of Psychotic Disorders....which Histionic PD is not. It seems to me the very best Sandusky's defense could hope for is to have the court accept this diagnosis as a possible mitigating factor. It seems a long shot to me but really what else do they have available to them.
SueDonym
What will happen to all of those who witnessed or knew about the abuse and did nothing? Any charges against them?
Didn't the parents of any of these boys notice a change in their own children ?
A Personality Disorder is the opposite of Neurotic. The book "Road Less Traveled" has a good explanation. You want to be able to identify these people in your life; they are far more mentally ill than they appear – or will *EVER* admit. They are psycho's in stealth mode, and truly evil.
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I would have thought Anti-social PD would be more apt; but I haven't followed the case much or heard the psychiatrists testimony.
Doesn't matter, as one previously said, it's an excuse. We make up lots of them, different disorder coming up every week it seems like. But no matter what disorder you do or don't have, it's never going to be an excuse for pedophilia, or child abuse, or any criminal activity. But you blame the lawyers - what about the dumb jurors that jump on believing the garbage they spew? Spewing isn't fun unless it sticks ... and there's a potential 12 suckers in every jury pool ... and then they tell others and pretty soon we all believe in one stupid disorder or another. Excuses. Being sick mentally or physicaly isn't an excuse for criminal activity anyway. Sick or not, you have to pay the price. Death isn't the answer, getting rid of excuses and BHLs would do better.
AreYouKiddingMe?
Histrionic personality disorder should not be used as an excuse for what that monster did. Sandusky and his wife need to die and go to hell.
I have Poundapedophile disorder. This is my excuse for my overwhelming need to beat the snot out of perverts who abuse children.
I have a cousin who fits all of the listed criteria for this disorder- she's undergone psychotherapy for numerous 'issues', and has been through several rehab programmes. She's manipulative, selfish, lacks any trace of empathy and acts out sexually, and she's been that way all her life. And you know what, you can't 'cure' what ails her. It is her. How do you 'treat' or 'cure' a personality, however dysfunctional it may be?
I wish the psychiatric community would remove this disorder from the books, as they did with a couple of the Cluster A personality disorders. You can probably describe any personality type as a pathological condition, it would be roughly as useful as this diagnosis. Jerry Sandusky is accused of a series of heinous crimes, diagnosing him as having a defective personality is not going to change, explain or excuse what he has done. Personality disorders are not like mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, they don't remove culpability for a person's actions. Any person who's behind bars now has a potentially diagnosable 'personality disorder' that could be used to explain their actions, all you'd need if for someone in the psychiatric community to propose it, and others in that community to start diagnosing it. But they still chose to break society's laws and they should still pay the penalty.
lancet98
The motivation behind claiming hystrionic PD was to discount the 'I love you' letters to the one victim. To make them look like just a person's efforts to seek attention from the victim, rather than the efforts of a pedophile to groom or maintain access to a victim. The effort was ridiculous. Sandusky has no history of being diagnosed with such a disorder nor are there any indications his behavior was anything other than a pedophile attempting to maintain access to victims.
All the power in these relationships was his. Children are no match for an adult. He also enjoyed a sort of "second childhood" by surrounding himself with kids. At the end of the day, he had absolutely no sympathy for his victims' suffering. It was all about Sandusky. He should be made to feel what they felt.
Guest 2/10/2013
Sandusky is a pedophile plain and simple; Sandusky is not "histrionic". Histrionic Persoanlity Disorder in its purest form is characterized by attention seeking behavior usually based on a preoccupation with physical appearance and the seduction of or soliciting of attention from of members of the opposite sex.
Hi, I think I am also suffering from this Histrionic Personality disorder as I have tried to commite Suicide twice and I am also not happy with my marriage life as we are not living together and I always try to seek attention, want to appriciated by other. Please help me, what can I do with this?
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Dave Bittner: [00:04:40:24] Another Russian espionage group has been connected to 1998's Midnight Maze operation against the US Department of Defense. Exactly where this one would appear in a state-cum-criminal organization chart is unclear but it's the familiar Turla APT. Turla is also known as Snake, Uroburos, Venomous Bear or Krypton. The group is still using, and apparently with success, versions of the venerable LOKI back door.
Dave Bittner: [00:05:09:18] Continuing our coverage of last week's Women in Cybersecurity conference, I sat down with Amanda Rousseau, malware researcher at Endgame, to learn about her work and the path she took to get there.
Amanda Rousseau: [00:05:20:16] I'm always looking at security news because I'm following the current threats and trends as they come along. And then what I'll do is I'll look at those independently and try to reverse engineer it or recreate it so that I can create a new detection for it. And it can be either ransomware one day or it can be APT malware another, or even, like, kernel level stuff. It all depends on what's the hot new thing at the time, kind of like following fashion trends. [LAUGHS]
Dave Bittner: [00:05:52:23] What is the pathway that took you to malware engineering? Like, how did that become the thing you were interested in?
Amanda Rousseau: [00:05:58:11] Well, okay, so I'll start back when I got into computer science and everything. So I really didn't think I would be doing this field at all. I started out in graphic design which is why all of my slides and presentations are all pretty. [LAUGHS]. And then once I took a computer science class, I couldn't look back. And then I heard about what reverse engineers do because my Dad was in the Air Force and he kind of knew about that hacking world and he would kind of, you know, drill me in conversations on security and protection and all that. And then that's how I learned what a reverse engineer did.
Amanda Rousseau: [00:06:35:07] So I worked my way up through the DOD, at the Cyber Crime Center and incident response to get to malware reverse engineering research and development.
Dave Bittner: [00:06:48:02] When you're looking ahead, sort of looking over the horizon at what the challenges are facing people in your field, what are those things?
Amanda Rousseau: [00:06:55:20] I think it's just plain knowledge of it. A lot of people don't know about the hacking world and when they see it on the news, they think it's some type of magic or, you know, it's evil. But a lot of people out there, they want to protect other people and that's how I feel about it. Like, I want to protect the normal person. I want to protect a nuclear power plant. I want to protect the critical infrastructures. But to do that, you know, I need to look at threats and trends and build something that's actually useful.
Dave Bittner: [00:07:28:09] Coming at this field as a woman, has there been any specific challenges from that point of view, you know, for you to be able to get where you are today?
Amanda Rousseau: [00:07:35:09] Oh, yes. A lot of imposture syndrome, all the time. When I started, you know, you're in the computer science class and you're, like, one of-- one of the only girls in the class or one of five in the whole department and you have-- you, you feel, am I on par with everyone else, like, what am I doing wrong? But I really-- I was actually average. I didn't-- I wasn't bad, I wasn't too good. I would understand it and get it, and it was the same in my career. You know, I was young, I was a girl, I didn't know how to act in a corporate environment, you know, trying to deal with social situations that you grew that over time and eventually, you know, you start to gain confidence in what you do, and then that's when you can focus on just your work and not what's going on socially.
Dave Bittner: [00:08:26:00] That's Amanda Rousseau from Endgame. You can hear more from her in our upcoming CyberWire Women in Cybersecurity Conference special edition. She's on Twitter @malwareunicorn and it's a feed worth following.
Dave Bittner: [00:08:39:12] Israeli security researcher, Amihai Neiderman, reports finding 40 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung's Tizen OS. Tizen runs on Smart TVs, Smart watches and on some Samsung phones. If exploited they would give an attacker control over the device.
Dave Bittner: [00:08:56:22] Apple issues an emergency iOS patch to close a Wi-Fi drive-by vulnerability. This is in addition to last week's regular patches.
Dave Bittner: [00:09:05:18] In industry news, Verizon will combine its AOL and Yahoo acquisitions into a unit called Oath and Intel Security has now spun out and become McAfee once more.
Dave Bittner: [00:09:18:07] And finally we're just two weeks away from tax filing day in the US. Fraudulent returns have, according to experts, resulted in tens of millions of dollars lost. We'd like to pass on some advice from the encryption company Alertsec. They recommend that businesses protect themselves by using a VPN tunnel with encrypted communications, full disk encryption, multi-factor authentication and a good firewall. It's familiar advice but good advice. It's also good to remember that your personal information, always a target for criminals, will receive particular attention this month. So be prudent, stay safe and happy filing. Taxes are the price we pay for civilization, or so we hear.
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Dave Bittner: [00:11:17:07] Joining me once again is Doctor Charles Clancy. He's the director of the Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech. Doctor Clancy, we are certainly familiar with denial of service attacks here on the CyberWire but today you wanted to touch base about denial of service when it comes to our telephone system.
Dr. Charles Clancy: [00:11:35:04] Yeah, there's an interesting new set of control plane attacks that are happening within the landline and cellular telephony infrastructure. Your listeners may be familiar with many of the control plane protocols on the Internet. There are similar but different control plane protocols within our telecommunications infrastructure with the legacy protocols being SS7 and some of the newer ones with voice over IP all being based around SIP.
Dr. Charles Clancy: [00:12:01:22] So in the same way that you can launch a distributed denial of service attack against an IP network, you can do the same thing against a phone number, right? It's a unique identifier just like an IP address. So there have been a number of cases with an increasing rate of such cases where bad actors have essentially gotten a whole bunch of devices to simultaneously call 911. And what happens is essentially the trunking line from the local landline phone operator into the public safety answering point where there are operators who answer these 911 calls, becomes overwhelmed with calls and there aren't enough channels in the trunk in order to have additional calls terminated within the PSAP or the public safety answering point.
Dr. Charles Clancy: [00:12:47:09] But I guess there is some light at the end of the tunnel. There are some standardization efforts underway right now within the Internet engineering task force that are looking at adding authentication to some of the newer SIP protocols associated with the caller ID which would give telecommunication companies the ability to start blocking calls rather than having to sort of manually trace them back to the originator.
Dave Bittner: [00:13:11:10] And in terms of overwhelming a 911 system, are the people who are doing this, at this stage are they simply pranking and testing out their abilities or is there any sort of ransom component or what's their motivation?
Dr. Charles Clancy: [00:13:24:05] Right now there doesn't appear to be any kind of criminal component associated with it. One of the more recent examples was essentially someone who walked into a cellphone store in Texas and walked around each one of the display phones in the store and dialed 911 on each of them and since cellphones are required to place outbound emergency calls regardless of whether or not they have a SIM card active within them, all of these calls went through despite the fact that these phones didn't have valid SIM cards. So far there have not been any examples that are associated as far as we can tell with a ransomware type attack or an effort to prevent other people from calling 911 as part of some sort of criminal activity. But many believe that it's only a matter of time before that sort of behavior begins to show up in the landscape.
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Say you could stop the school shootings-then what?? | Tennessee Valley Talks
Say you could stop the school shootings-then what??
antimaimHall of Famer
Last edited by antimaim 2/19/1810:14 AM
What do you do about this?
From Best Friends to Killers: Teens Murder Friend Because They 'Didn't Like Her'
http://abcnews.go.com/US/best-...nt/story?id=24573749
https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19...rder-plot/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...omemade-bomb-n814526
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...friend-19-times.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer
And on and on, and so many every year of attempted and actual murders, not only of each other but their parents and siblings. These cases aren't talked about, but the school shootings pale in comparison of the horrific crimes these kids commit.
Mandatory home schooling for all people K--16.
All education after that is done per specialized institutions,
law, medical ect. Liberal arts will be banned because it's a
waste of time, money and space.....
Do away with all "social media", take their phones or have them fixed so they can only call 911, their parents, and their parents can track them. Do away with their internet.
When these things happen there is seldom a lack of ideas and suggestions about how to correct thing or make things safer, which is a good thing, but in this case, EVERYTHING was there for this to have been prevented from happening. One man did what he was supposed to do by notifying authorities when he saw things that sent up the red flags and he did so just about a month ago, and somehow all things that should have worked failed. Sometimes you have a case that slips through the cracks and this one horrendously did. This could have been prevented and some people are having to live with the fact that they didn't do their job or fell down on their job and as a result, 17 innocent people died.
If people want to do away with or modify the 2nd Amendment then there is a Constitutionally prescribed way to do that. If the American people decided to do that then it should be by that very procedure and if it doesn't pass then that decision should also be accepted. In my opinion, though, even doing it by the Constitutionally prescribed way, if it passed and surely if it was attempted by any other way would it potentially put our nation in another (un)Civil War for there are many freedom loving people that will not relinquish their weapons to the Government regardless of how it comes about. This still will not stop mentally deficient people from doing horrendous things for this boy had been studying how to make bombs and given enough time could have perfected doing that and could have potentially killed or injured more.
If eliminating the instrument stops the violent act from happening then why don't we eliminate alcohol again as many more innocent people die annually from drunk drivers than from legally obtained guns?
From David's Soapbox .. dated article though
MADD Stats
This one says Alcohol 3 times more deaths
There are things that can be done to help reduce gun violence and those stem around following up on tips and warnings like was given. Paying attention to all the checkboxes that are so common with people like this boy who did this. Beefing up and strengthening background checks and doing more to prevent mentally ill people from ever obtaining firearms.
giftedamateurOld Faithful
Way too many of them "slip through the cracks".
Br’er RabbitHall of Famer
Last edited by Br’er Rabbit 2/19/188:22 PM
So, is this supposed to say we don't need to end school shootings? I can't understand the course of this topic.
Why is there such an argument from the right about the cause of the school shootings? Regardless of the mind set an individual is in, the cause of school shootings is people with guns in a school seeking to do harm to others.
What about PTSD? You think it's hard on our troops? What about the school children who are now going to suffer from PTSD FROM GOING TO SCHOOL? I thought the Republicans were the party of the troops. Does someone who willingly put themselves in harm's way to protect our freedoms life matter more than a completely innocent child's?
Why do Republicans always turn the argument to other items. Would a solution to DUI deaths be to give more people drivers' licenses or give them more to drink? I don't understand why it's so difficult for a sane, "responsible" gun owner to be in favor of gun control. We can use the same argument the NSA did, "if you aren't hiding anything, then you shouldn't be afraid." Or do these gun owners really think of themselves as John McClain who will save the world one day or beat back an oppressive government? Today's military has access to tanks, drones and unimaginable technology. That 30.06 isn't going to stop the US Army...
Br’er Rabbit posted:
I'm certainly glad you didn't politicize things.
RecraticanHall of Famer
Kraven posted:
Sounds impossible to make everyone go to college, even at home.
My wife wanted to homeschool our grandchildren but I knew there was no way that we could do it or accomplish it. I do think, in many cases, other than the lack of social interaction with other students which some Churches make up for, that homeschooled kids come out with a far more rounded education. To do so though requires discipline on the part of parents, as well as the time and neither my wife nor I, have either at our ages. I do know that there are some good materials out there for Homeschoolers and it's seeing an increase in inquiries for the materials and some parents are better equipped for teaching at home both mentally, psychologically, and emotionally, than others.
I don't know about mandatory home Schooling but I believe it should be protected and made fully available for any parents that want to research it or try it without much of the stigma that many put upon it.
Last edited by antimaim 2/20/187:30 AM
I was never much of a home schooling fan, but now I see the need to get kids out of the liberal run "institutions" that don't give a flip about kids' safety, only how to use them to push their loony, lefty, agendas. IF they really cared about kids, there would be security in every public school in the country.
antimaim posted:
Ummm... there was an armed guard at the school in Parkland, FL. EVERY ON DUTY COP EVER SHOT WAS ARMED. This is the reason kids are suffering from PTSD, because they attended school.
Recratican posted:
Over here in Memphis, Shelby county and city schools have
educated their students since the pioneers settled the area
that many years ago. Once the liberals took control of the
Memphis school system and city government it didn't take
but a few years to completely decimate the entire educational
system to the point of surrendering the charter and throwing
it's responsibility to the children on the backs of the County.
No need to go into the reasons for their failure to the state of
Tennessee and it's citizens, only to mention the incorporated
towns of the county as always do an outstanding job.
The new name for Memphis and rural county schools would
be " Shelby County Schools"
k p 2 hr ago
There have been guns in the USA for over 240 years ..... In the '70's it was common place to see a gun rack in a truck at a high school ...... NO gun locks.... No gun safes .......This is a new phenomenon ........ What brought this on is a combination of not keeping score and everyone gets a trophy coupled with this new age of "Social" being sitting at a computer ........ This generation doesn't know how to deal with failure and rejection along with having no real people skills that comes from personal interaction in groups and not on a PC ......
Kids all over America are walking out of school today. Protesting gun violence. Republicans are talking gun control. These kids are looking for a future for themselves. Republicans can argue with them. They're the ones being shot. We'll see how this turns out for the Republicans. These kids are not playing around and don't intend to settle for the standard Republican line of drivel. You wanted the kids to stand up, they are... now what, Republicans?
Republicans could give these kids 100% of EVERYTHING they demand and ask for and they would still not be satisfied and on top of that they still would vote for Democrats who end up promising everything yet deliver nothing except blaming the Republicans for not doing what they (Democrats) did not do when they had the power to actually do what they end up requesting. In Obama's first Term, especially the first two years, Democrats had it all and had a filibuster-proof majority meaning they could have done ANYTHING! They could have solved the problems with the minority community, they could have passed reparations, they could have enacted gun control, they could have done anything. But they didn't.
All they did do was enact Democratic Healthcare (AKA Obamacare) imposing burdens upon most everyone that had health insurance before. AFTER the Democrats enacted their Healthcare bill citizens had their health insurance cost double or triple for monthly cost and had their deductibles (money that actually come out of people's and families pockets BEFORE Insurance ever takes effect) quadruple. People's deductibles went from $400.00 annually for a family to over $4000.00 in some cases which means 10 times more money comes out of a family's budget BEFORE the 80% copay takes effect. Democrats did do that but couldn't seem to do anything else when they had total power in their hands. All the problems they always complain about and blame the Republicans with could have been addressed but weren't. Why is that cause it sure wasn't due to the Republicans because they didn't have the power to do anything?
Why can't Republicans pass any legislation? They have total power and have had for a year? Why don't Republicans address issues , now?
Last edited by gbrk 2/21/187:06 AM
Please recheck your sources and information as you are incorrect. Republicans do not have TOTAL unchecked and filibuster-proof majority power as the Democrats had. Democrats had that kind of power and Republicans have not and have had to deal with Democratic filibusters. In order to have the power advantage that Democrats had Republicans would have had to have in excess of 60 Senate seats. When Democrats had less than the filibuster-busting majority Harry Reid altered the Senate Rules to make 51 Votes a majority. Harry Reid changed the rules in other words to favor their side. The Republicans have never done that even though Trump has urged Mitch McConnell to do so. Republicans have had instances where they have shot their own selves (as the Democrats have done) in the foot by not passing the Obamacare repeal legislation as requested by Donald Trump. Yes, there were Republican holdouts that detested Trump such as Flake and McCain that the Democrats didn't have to contend with. Democrats had none of the detractors, within their party, that the Republicans are dealing with yet even with their Majorities where they could have run rough shot over the Republicans they did nothing toward all those ills that they identify as problems needing to be fixed.
You need to check those facts before making those kinds of statements because I think you are wrong.
1) Republicans never had the filibuster-proof 60+ vote majority and majority proof in House along with the Whtie House. They have had to deal with the Democrats who could stop legislation due to their numbers alone.
2) Democrats had those majorities in Obama's first term in the House and Senate as well as holding the Executive branch. TOTAL control.
3) Lastly, when Democrats did not hold the Senate Majority they changed the rules to allow them to rule, iron-fisted, through reconciliation with a 51 vote majority rather than the 60+ Majority that the rules said all along they needed. Republicans haven't done this although Harry Reid did set the precedent and Donald Trump has urged Mitch McConnel to do just that in order to pass the Republicans agenda that the Democrats have 100% opposed and suppressed.
If I am wrong please cite the times that Republicans have held that kind of power that the Democrats held and when the Republicans changed the rules as Harry Reid did?
Democrats never had a full Senate or House, either because of sickness/death. I've probably written 10 posts explaining the process.. yet, here you are again, same old tired talking point. Republicans blame Democrats for their inability to govern, as usual.
Last edited by Br’er Rabbit 2/21/188:13 AM
gbrk posted:
Republicans could give these kids 100% of EVERYTHING they demand and ask for and they would still not be satisfied and on top of that they still would vote for Democrats ....
The real reason Republicans won't address the issue. They're scared the kids 'will vote for Democrats'... and in the process, Republicans are making them Democrats.
Liberal colleges will be razed.
I'll not deny that many Republicans have no guts and will not balk against certain voting groups or even the Media because they are fearful of their influence on elections upcoming. That said, with regards to the current topic and Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment I will only say there are provisions in place, in our own Constitution, by which someone who wants to alter, modify, or change the Constitution can do so. There is an amendment process and that is the avenue that people should choose.
Attempting to circumvent that Constitutional amendment process/provision by Executive Order, Congressional Legislation or worse Advocate Judges and Courts is UnConstitutional and dangerous to our freedom and dangerous to our Nation.
If you want to alter, modify, or change the 2nd Amendment then do it by the Constitutionally prescribed method and if you lose you lose if you win you win. Otherwise, you risk, or liberals risk, another (un)Civil War among our citizens. If you have the government moving to remove guns from citizens ownership by any other method than what is constitutional then you will have anarchy, war, and extreme violence amongst the citizens. I even believe if the 2nd Amendment was removed by the constitutional means that you would have some people that would still resist but nothing to the degree that you would have if they did it by Executive Order, Congress, or the Courts.
The question posed is not about banning guns. It asked the question that IF it was possible to stop school shootings what would be done about the real problem, kids killing kids and others at a rate much higher than any school shooting.
Three teens admitted to police they attacked two homeless men who were found dead in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday, police said.
The boys -- 15, 16 and 18 -- used bricks and a metal pole to kill the men, according to a criminal complaint accusing each of them of two counts of murder.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/21...er-charge/index.html
By 2020, most of these kids will be able to vote. On behalf of all Democrats, Thanks Republicans.
Max 21 hr ago
When a nation raises a couple generations with zero discipline or training in the importance of respecting the rights of others, what you get are mass shootings and worse! MOST of the guys I knew FORTY years ago had, and were well-trained in the use of AR-15s, yet NONE of us would have ever considered using them to randomly kill innocent people. it is our PEOPLE that have become more DANGEROUS, NOT our guns!!!!
Pete 1 day ago
Eleven teens die every day in this country from texting behind the wheel. AAA says 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admit to doing it anyway. This is equivalent to four Parkland, FL incidents every week. Where is the outrage and marches and demands for change? Should kids not be allowed to own phones until they are 21? Should we ban cell phones from cars?
CW 1 day ago
All I've heard the media publish are kids and parents screaming for action to be taken. But I have not heard one parent or student say what they will do. And that doesn't include protests, lie-ins, marching on the WH and other non-action events. Start changing our culture: put down the cell phone, be empathetic, take away all violent computer games from your kids, turn off the reality TV shows, and so on. We are raising a bunch of psychologically oppressed politically correct disengaged youngsters that have to interactive or social skills anymore. And probably 90% don't attend church or have God in their lives.
What is so amazing is with everything that has now come out regarding all the failings of the system and the number of things that went wrong, each of which could have potentially prevented this horror, the one thing that is touted is how we are going to stop all school shootings by banning certain guns.
Any rational person knows that banning weapons or making new laws is not going to work or succeed. Ban the AR15's and then the next shooting that happens with a pistol or shotgun will lead to the next step, let's ban pistols and shotguns and so on and so on and so on. You never hear a word about the vicious first-person shooter video games that puts the player in the position of shooting and killing. You never hear calls condemning the horrendous movies that are out that desensitize kids and people to violence against others.
Antimiam, likewise hit on a good point about texting and driving and the same could be said about drunk driving but you will never hear anyone up in arms about that because that doesn't fit the narrative of getting rid of guns and the 2nd amendment. Those on the left, the liberals have their media outlets to sound out their agenda such as CNN when it scripted their program about the school shooting.
GB, those are comments from others, but they do have good points. Too, how many kids are murdered, disappear, are raped, or harmed in all sorts of ways by people they meet online? Plenty more than 17. But instead of outrage at all the social media garbage, the left pushes it. ALL the liberal "stars, celebrities" take to their little social media outlets to tell us what they think of our president. That is right after they post their "selfies" showing off their huge *** and ***s, and finish ranting about how men "objectify" them. As if they matter to anyone other than the other loony left pieces of trash. How about the little witch that kept harping at the young unstable kid urging him to commit suicide, which he finally did. OR the boy that killed the 13 year old girl because she was "bothering" him on social media? Guns are not the problem. What society has become because of the liberals and so called "progressives" dragging us to hell is the problem.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...er-driver-death.html
Get my picture on face book then go hack someone to death. But it's the gun's fault. Then all the commenters can say how "hot" I am and how I can "hack them to death" any day.
Last edited by antimaim 2/23/1812:04 PM
But guns are the problem.
The mother of an 11-year-old Michigan boy who killed himself after a cruel social media prank wants a 13-year-old girl to face a harsher penalty for her alleged involvement.
“I wish that there were higher charges,” Katrina Goss, of Marquette, told The Huffington Post. She said she plans to speak to the prosecutor about it.
The Marquette County Prosecutors Office filed two misdemeanor charges against the girl: malicious use of a telecommunications device and using a computer to commit a crime. The maximum penalty for both would be 18 months in jail.
Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace
I couldn’t save my child from being killed by an online predator
Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, Lorin LaFave, was worried – would her pleas for help from police have been taken more seriously if he’d been a girl?
https://www.theguardian.com/li...-gaming-lorin-lafave
Little hotsy totsy, she's a youtube "star". People pay her nasty little *** to wear their t-shirts with their ads on them when she "twerks". But the downfall of society is the gun's fault.
The tragic story of 13-year-old Lily Clara McClish
Moab mom says bullying led to daughter's suicide; 3 who attend 13-year-old's school are focus of manslaughter investigation
https://www.deseretnews.com/ar...y-Clara-McClish.html
Sorry Lily, the left doesn't care about you unless you were killed in a "school shooting". School bullying until you commit suicide doesn't matter.
It's not peer pressure, it's not trying to look cool, it's not being given expensive phones and access to all the "social media" outlets without your parents knowing or caring what you are doing, it's the gun's fault.
Boy, 13, accidentally shoots himself dead on Instagram Live as dozens of his horrified friends watched.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...ots-himself-10217168
It's not the purple drink or the tide pods, it's guns.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...-new-purple-12077794
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...478ae4b00a7f171c2926
Didn't the FLOTUS take up cyber bullying as her hobby? How's that going, considering her hubby is a huge problem?
Republicans couldn't care less about any of it until it happens to their family, then we'll see some action.
https://tnvalleytalks.hoop.la/t...2#577493138070687382
direstraitsOld Faithful
K-12, maybe.
direstraits posted:
That would be the logical thing, but 13-16 exposed to the college
environment/professors is where the Alinsky indoctrination
begins...
Home schooling isn't conductive to advanced learning.
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Despite big business and Amazon going all-in behind corporate candidates in all seven city council races, Seattle voters rejected Jeff Bezos’s bid to flip the council to the right. In Seattle’s most-watched, most expensive, and most polarized council race in decades, Socialist Alternative’s Kshama Sawant has won re-election. Socialist Alternative is the sister organisation of Socialist Action in the United States.
After election night returns showed Seattle’s socialist City Councilmember behind by 8 points, with 46% to Egan Orion’s 54%, the corporate media and big business sounded triumphalist. But 60% of late arriving ballots counted in the following days swung dramatically toward Kshama Sawant. By Friday evening’s count Sawant had crested 3.6 percentage points over Orion with a lead of 1,515 votes, with that number likely to rise a bit further in the days ahead.
Declaring victory at a press conference the following day, Sawant said: “These election results are a repudiation of the billionaire class, of the richest man in the world, of corporate real estate, of the establishment.”
Washington State’s mail-in ballot system allows voters to mail in their ballots up to three weeks before election day. Early voters tend to be older and wealthier, with later voters being disproportionately younger, working class, and renters – those more likely to vote socialist. This year the late ballot bump for Sawant was bigger than ever. Even our critics in the corporate media were forced to credit Socialist Alternative’s record-breaking get-out-the-vote operation.
The high turnout was driven also by the movement base and support Sawant has built over the past six years, through which working people have won historic victories like Seattle’s groundbreaking $15 minimum wage and landmark renter’s rights laws.
A growing wave of outrage swept Seattle in the final weeks of the election after already unprecedented corporate PAC spending was compounded by Amazon’s $1 million “money bomb” dropped on Seattle on October 14. This brought Amazon’s total contribution to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce PAC to $1.5 million, and corporate PAC spending as a whole to over $4.1 million – approaching five times the previous record!
Sawant had won support over the hard-fought campaign from a substantial majority of Seattle unions along with a number of major endorsements like Sierra Club, The Stranger newspaper, and many progressive community leaders in the city.
But following Amazon’s money bomb, a number of major national political figures also weighed in against Jeff Bezos, followed by a wave of national media attention. The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board complained that “Bernie Sanders tweeted this week that Amazon’s spending in Seattle was ‘a perfect example of the out-of-control corporate greed we are going to end.’ Elizabeth Warren decried Amazon for ‘trying to tilt the Seattle City Council elections in their favor,’ adding that ‘I have a plan to get big money out of politics.’”
Yet while the massive spending by Amazon backfired with many voters, the $1.5 million also bought a torrent of ads, mailers, and paid canvassers, all of which swayed other votes in the direction of Sawant’s corporate-backed opponent. Campaign volunteers repeatedly encountered the talking points trumpeted through these richly-funded attacks in the final weeks.
Crucial to overcoming those lies and attacks was the thousands of conversations on the doors and at street corners by Socialist Alternative members and volunteers.
Who runs our city?
Warning that Bezos’s $1.5 million gamble to defeat Sawant and other progressives may have backfired, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat said: “[the election] could well be a referendum on Amazon and corporate power” (10/23/19).
Socialist Alternative had foreseen the potential for an Amazon-led corporate offensive from day one. In January, Sawant stated: “What’s at stake this year is who runs Seattle – Amazon and big business, or working people.”
The corporate media, with the Seattle Times at the forefront, waged a relentless corporate propaganda offensive to blame Sawant and other so-called “left ideologues” for the failed “performance of the City Council” in addressing Seattle’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis — the top concern for voters. The paper endorsed Amazon-backed candidates in all but one city council race, portraying them as “change” candidates.
In reality, Seattle’s affordability crisis is part of the global failure of capitalism, which treats housing as a commodity to enrich billionaire speculators, rather than as a basic human right. Working people are right to be angry at the inaction of city, state, and federal authorities to address the crisis. But blame for this falls squarely on a political establishment that is complicit with corporate power, not on activists and political leaders like Kshama Sawant calling for bold solutions like rent control and taxing big business to massively expand social housing.
Amazon executives’ chosen opponent for Kshama was Egan Orion, a fully corporate candidate who posed as a “progressive” to win votes, but whose campaign was fueled by a tsunami of corporate cash. This included both massive PAC funding as well as direct donations from a who’s who of big business leaders, including top Amazon executives, real estate lobbyists, and rich Republicans.
A socialist program
Sawant’s campaign led the charge for rent control in Seattle, building on momentum from our many years of campaigning on this issue, as well as victories in Oregon, New York and California which took place over the course of the year. The demand for universal rent control in Seattle, without corporate loopholes, energized working people around the district and city, and Kshama’s council office rapidly gathered 13,000 petition signatures. Our socialist council office also organized a mass rally attended by over 400 people in July, and later a packed City Council committee meeting to introduce the rent control ordinance — helping build a powerful dynamic which put rent control front-and-center in the political debate taking place in Seattle.
In spite of the defeat of the Amazon Tax repeal the prior year, from the beginning our campaign we demanded the restoration of the tax as well a number of other taxes on big business and the rich — instead of taxing ordinary working people, homeowners and small businesses. While Kshama’s opponent under pressure said he supported “progressive taxation” in the abstract, he rejected the Amazon Tax — a bottomline requirement of his corporate backers — but in so doing revealed his corporate political loyalties.
Sawant’s campaign also boldly fought for a Green New Deal for working people to make Seattle 100% renewable energy based by 2030, including massive expansion of public transit — making it fully electric and free. The campaign also tied the fight to avoid climate catastrophe to the need to take the big energy corporations into democratic public ownership and retooling them for clean energy. Kshama spoke alongside Tammy Morales and Shaun Scott at the September 20 Climate Strike, and increasingly youth and college students were drawn to our campaign and its socialist program for a Green New Deal.
Debate on Seattle’s left
Once again, Seattle has shown that socialists and working people can take on the most powerful corporate titans and win. This victory should give confidence to movements everywhere, from the recent wave of mass anti-austerity and democracy protests spreading across the globe, to the youth climate strikes, labor battles, as well as other socialist election campaigns, including Bernie Sanders’ crucial fight for the presidency.
Yet it would be a major mistake to imagine that similar victories can be won purely through determination and struggle. The role of Marxist perspectives, program, and organization was essential in Seattle and will be vital to defeating the concentrated power of the capitalist class everywhere.
Socialist Alternative members provided the backbone of this campaign. Their energy, self-sacrifice, and political skills successfully built perhaps the most powerful grassroots election campaign in Seattle history.
We brought our socialist politics to ordinary people in District 3 with over 1,000 volunteers and SA members knocking on over 225,000 doors and making 200,000 phone calls, while raising over $570,000. We smashed all previous records for both total raised and the number of donors.
Our ability to build left unity with other forces was also important to our victory over Bezos.
At the start of the election campaign, a de-facto alliance between big business, key labor leaders, and most liberal political figures had coalesced to try and defeat Sawant and block the election of Democratic Socialists of America candidate Shaun Scott in District 4.
After an avalanche of corporate cash against her, years of relentless attacks in the corporate media, no endorsements from her fellow city councilmembers or other prominent Democratic Party politicians, and a section of labor leaders backing one of Sawant’s opponents, Sawant received just 37% in the primary election. While this result put her more than 15 points ahead of Egan Orion, she was portrayed as a long shot for the general election by the corporate media. Our perspective was that in order to win the general election it would be crucial to expose the corporate character of Orion’s campaign, and to build left unity against Amazon’s attempt to buy City Hall.
The fight for unity against Amazon
In spite of the considerable working class support for Sawant, if she and Socialist Alternative had adopted the approach of most liberal and labor leaders to try and avoid a direct confrontation with Amazon, it’s likely Jeff Bezos’s strategy would have succeeded. There was nothing automatic about the widespread working-class distrust toward corporate power getting organized into a coherent fightback.
In fact, most elections across the U.S. don’t feature bold working-class challenges, given the corporate domination of the two-party system. Even in Seattle, where the local Democratic Party organizations have shifted leftward under the impact of Sanders and other left challengers, this hasn’t resulted in strong working class fighters running for city council in most races.
Socialist Alternative based our electoral strategy on confidence that, if offered a fighting lead, working class and young people in Seattle were capable of defeating Amazon and big business. This included the need to use working-class pressure from below to push progressive and labor leaders off the sidelines and into a united fight with us against Seattle’s corporate establishment.
The dynamic unleashed after the primary election confirmed our strategy. Candidates backed by Amazon and big business moved on to the general election in all seven council races, facing off against more progressive candidates. With the looming threat of the Chamber of Commerce engineering a wholesale takeover of City Hall, our call for maximum unity against big business rapidly gained traction among grassroots activists, exerting pressure on bigger political players.
More endorsements for Sawant, as well as Shaun Scott, began rolling in from progressive leaders and groups who had sat on the sidelines in the primary. The scandalous effort of conservative labor leaders to win the Labor Council’s endorsement for Egan Orion was defeated when over 300 union members signed an open letter in protest. A joint event promoting a Green New Deal for Seattle was organized with Sawant, Morales, and Scott speaking, in an important display of left unity.
In a major defeat for the business-backed Democratic establishment who have long-dominated city politics, local Democratic Party groups endorsed both Kshama Sawant and Shaun Scott in September (they had already endorsed Morales in the primary). Sawant is the first independent socialist ever endorsed by Seattle’s Democrats, and this endorsement was made despite her very public calls for left Democrats, labor, and social movements to join together to build a new party for working people. This victory was the product of an energetic grassroots effort, including passing resolutions by local Democratic Party groups condemning corporate PAC spending.
All this laid the basis for our re-election campaign to become the central driving force behind a unified response when Amazon dropped their $1 million money bomb on October 14. Alongside the Democratic Party groups, we organized a press conference two days later outside of Amazon headquarters, followed by rally called by Amazon workers a week later.
A wave of national media coverage followed. In a high profile reversal, even Lorena Gonzalez and Teresa Mosqueda – the liberal city councilmembers who had publicly called for Sawant’s defeat in the primary – felt compelled to speak at the rally against Amazon and announce their endorsement of both Sawant and Scott.
Our united front strategy to mobilize working class anger to pull together a broader opposition to the attempted corporate takeover helped deal the final blow to Bezos.
The role of Socialist Alternative, with our clear analysis, strategy, and class struggle approach, was central to the success of this historic campaign. As the wave of socialist election campaigns across the country continues to expand, the rich lessons of how we defeated Jeff Bezos in his hometown can help serious organizers develop winning strategies for the struggles of working people everywhere.
By our reporters in Seattle
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Bill’s big wink
Should the sins of the father be visited upon the children?
Wait, what’s working?
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 6:26 am, August 13th, 2008 - 17 comments
Categories: bill english, john key, national, privatisation, slippery, spin - Tags: national's secret agenda
ENGLISH: So we’re sitting here saying the punters are keen to keep it. They’re facing a recession. The last thing we want is to spend the whole election campaign with families of four on TV saying ‘Mr Key’s taking money off us’. You can’t do that. So later on we’re gonna have to have a bit of a sort out. Yeah, we’re gonna do something, but we can’t do it now…
DELEGATE: What about getting rid of Kiwibank, I mean
ENGLISH: Well, eventually, but not now. Well, its working. A lot of our supporters get a bit antsy about it, but it’s working. It’s like a lot of things
The common interpretation of the “but it’s working” quote is that English is talking about Kiwibank. It is the interpretation John Key gave on Monday morning last week and most people simply followed him, but that’s wrong. Look at the context. English has explained to someone who purportedly opposes Kiwibank and Working for Families that National is accepting them, for now, because they don’t want to (in Lockwood Smith’s words) “scare the horses”, they don’t want to raise opposition to that “nice Mr Key”. It is this strategy that English is saying is working – the strategy of “swallowing dead fish” (Lockwood again), being “in neutralise phase” as Nick Smith put it. How is it working? By getting those “Labour plus voters” supporting National. English acknowledges that some National supporters are “antsy” about taking on so many Labour policies but he argues winning those Labour plus votes so National gets into power is more important. The Labour policies can then be “sorted out”, “eventually”.
Now that the strategy has been exposed by English so cynically in his own words, the question is: will it keep on working or will National find itself minus those ‘Labour plus’ voters?
17 comments on “Wait, what’s working?”
The Nats have the same problem as the Chinese with the national anthem at the Olympics. It’s called lip synching. There are other simularities too as the Chinese didn’t want the less attractive face showing and preferred to show the pretty little girl to the punters (sorry, world).
The pretty face of national may have been working, but once the mask is down, the ghosts of Hollowmen return.
jafapete 2
Well done for spotting that. It makes more sense. A bank doesn’t “work”.
I’d also like to know a bit more about the meaning of, “So later on we’re gonna have to have a bit of a sort out. Yeah, we’re gonna do something, but we can’t do it now ” How much later?
It does look like English was even more loose-lipped than people think.
monkey-boy 3
So, it turns out that the transcript now is not about ‘selling’ kiwibank?
It now appears that this is a transcript of English stating what Key said – That WfF is not under threat?
I thought yesterday and last week you were saying that English is engaged in a covert operation to undermine John Key?
But this week it appears they are in cahoots to roll out a long term secret agenda to dismantle WfF?
Are you suggesting that should they win the election that they just sit on their hands for three years and make no effort to get to grips with the present situation?
What if they come up with a better alternative? Will you still cry wolf?
Or is this just this just setting the theme for this week’s paranoid rant about Nationals ‘secret agenda’ from the Standard?
Steve Pierson 4
monkey-boy… they’re accepting the policies for now, and planning to sell them later… nothing inconsistant there
sorry that was unjustified. I meant planned, premeditated ‘faux paranoia’ designed to dupe your good readership.
Because I am of the opinion that you are not paranoid, but only pretending to be This ‘campaign of fear’ started last August, and will run until the election.
[lprent: Why do you think it will stop at the election. Regardless of the outcome of the election, we’ll still be examining politics, and the right and the nat’s will tend to be a focus. For some reason we don’t think they are benevolent towards the areas we value. The MSM surely don’t seem to be very good at looking at politics critically.]
infused 6
“nothing inconsistant there”
So why all the hot air?
[nothing inconsistant between me saying there’s a secret agenda to sell Kiwibank, gut Wff, and me saying that by “it’s workin” English is talking about the strategy of accepting these policies for now. SP]
Matthew Pilott 7
monkey-boy, what has this to do with WfF? The question is about kiwibank, the answer being eventually, but not now.
Just because English wants to roll Key doesn’t mean they can’t agree on anything.
You’re looking really paraniod these days.
And I think you’ll find, for the most part, that people would want National to act on a mandate that has been spelled out in the bloody election campaign! What do people find so spectacularly hard to understand about that? Is it somehow a mysteriously hard concept to grasp, monkey-boy, please, explain! That proponents of open democracy would want a party to act upon what they have said they will do – what is wrong with that idea?
They’ve had nine years to come up with a better alternative – they’ve been doing a hell of a lot of hand-sitting if what we’ve got thus far is any measure – boot camps that are proven failures, a $50 rape, murder and pillage fee, a half-arsed boradband plan the industry doesn’t want and a regressive DPB plan that isn’t needed and even the E-bloody-MA don’t like!
Paranoid? Get a grip.
‘They’ Steve? I thought it was ‘He’. It’s all very confusing.
Besides, ‘sell’ is confusing and nebulous when employed in political debate isn’t it? I mean, when someone wants a minority share in an airport, then that seems to be ‘selling’, but when someone wants to buy up all of the electricity grid in Wellington that seems somehow more acceptable doesn’t it? (can you hear the silence)
Are you proposing they will ‘sell’ WfF? or tender it out? or dismantle it?
YOu seem a little obsessed (if I may) with the idea that National are going to ‘sell’ everything from workers’ rights to the beneficiary system? To foreigners/ foreign bagmen.
Wouldn’t it seem a little bit – well- paranoid to an objective observer?
They are evidently centre-right, with littel desire to lose whatever grip they may get on power. Surely under any democracy they are entitled to consult with the electorate and then go ahead with the mandate they get.
You know like s59, the EFB, making WP Foreign Minister…. I mean there was no ‘secret agenda’ then. Was there?
Or is ‘secret agenda’ another nebulous term?
Matthew you seem like a decent sort, but I did amend my ‘paranoid’ remark to ‘faux-paranoid’. have a look at monkeys with typewriters post for my take on it – I will not link-whore as it may get spat back…
Scribe 9
From MP: Just because English wants to roll Key doesn’t mean they can’t agree on anything.
What’s the Crosby/Textor strategy called when you keep repeating something nonsensical with the hope that people will believe it?
Whatever it is, congratulations to MP and others. You’ve got it mastered.
Matthew Pilott 10
Monkey-boy – I’ll have a look, cheers.
Scribe, just as it isn’t paranoia if they’re really after you, it’s not ‘truth by repetition’ if it’s really the truth!
Do you honestly think there’s nothing in it?
Oh you guys are seriously scraping the bottom of the barrel to read that into what English said. Let it go guys. You can read into it what you want, but anyone with more than half a brain will see it for what it really was.
[lprent: Read No you must…
forgetaboutthelastone 12
If you just read the text there is nothing in it other than the obvious, unless – on the audio there is some sort of intonation in his voice that would suggest otherwise.
And anyways – this alternative interpretation doesn’t make much of a difference as we already know that English thinks in this way.
Robinsod 13
Hey monkey boy – nice conspiracy theory. I really think you are becoming a bore with it though. Perhaps a some kind of pressed aluminium headgear is in order…
Andrew – here’s an idea. Instead of whining about the subjects chosen by SP why not start your own blog and then write about what you think should be said. I’m sure if your editorial opinion is as great as you clearly regard it to be then market forces will ensure readers flock to your missives at the expense of the Standard’s readership. Especially those with more than half a brain…
Or on the other hand you could just STFU.
[lprent: good point – noted on the comment that Andrew should read No you must…. I should add that to the preprogrammed responses.]
Scribe 14
MP: Do you honestly think there’s nothing in it?
If you’re asking about the prospect of English rolling John Key, then no, I don’t think there is anything to it.
Phil 15
Hey Sod,
Your blog gets as many comments as mine.
You’ve got a blog???
I am just expressing my opinion. Thats what blogs are all about arn’t they? Even though Labour has all but banned free speech in this country with thier ‘secret adgenda’ also known as the EFA.
If you dont like what i have to say then dont listen to me. I obviously got your back up over my comments and i have no idea why. My comments are nothing compared to your scathing attack on the National Party.
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We are a primarily volunteer-driven team passionate about helping the breast cancer community.
Bob Carey is the photographer and subject of “Ballerina” images featured in The Tutu Project. His series of stunningly silly videos and still self-portraits was originally created as a personal artistic photograph for the Arizona Ballet and later expanded as a way to deal with his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.
Bob is a commercial photographer, Co-founder of the Foundation and The Tutu Project. Among others, Bob has worked for Men’s Health, ForbesLife, “O” Oprah Magazine and worked on ad campaigns for Lexus, MasterCard and Honeywell. Bob is a speaker and breast cancer advocate. He speaks about the power of art and humor as a way to cope with life’s difficult moments.
Linda Carey
Linda Carey is the President of the Carey Foundation, the non-profit supported by The Tutu Project. Linda co-founded The Tutu Project after her husband’s self-portraits in a tutu went viral.
As President and Co-founder of the Foundation, she is passionate about providing support to those diagnosed with breast cancer. As a 12-year survivor with metastatic disease, she understands the emotional roller coaster brought about by a diagnosis of cancer. Linda’s goal is to make a difference in the lives of those living with breast cancer and to provide inspiration–by example– that one can live a full life with breast cancer. She speaks at conferences about Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer as a chronic disease, and about how art and photography have helped her cope with her diagnosis.
In addition to Bob and Linda Carey, the following individuals are a part of the success of our organization as Board Members.
Marybeth Leet
Marybeth has worked in healthcare for over 40 years and has been an integral part of the education and ethics committees. She is deeply involved in the ever-changing landscape of healthcare and most recently, trained employees as the hospital transitioned to electronic medical records. Her life has been profoundly changed by losing her husband to cancer, which fuels her dedication to help families who struggle financially. She understands when a family member has cancer, the entire family is affected.
Leslie Konigsberg Levy
Leslie is the director of Tripp Lake Camp and served many years as a clinical social worker at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. Her experience as a camper and counselor has given her a deep appreciation for Tripp Lake’s traditions and, coupled with her time as a social worker, a unique perspective on the benefits for a young girl of summers spent at Tripp Lake. Her knowledge, vast experience and commitment to family are welcome components for our board.
Marcela Shine
Marcela Shine has been with the team from day one. Marcela Shine is the digital strategist and operational advisor to The Tutu Project. She has been in digital marketing for over fifteen years and has grown The Tutu Project’s community while supporting partnership development.
Marcela is currently COO of OneQube. She has held CEO, COO, and Product Strategy positions in venture-backed software as a service startups. Marcela is a partner in Avanzar Ventures, which makes seed investments in online marketing technology. She also serves on the advisory board of companies such as The Tutu Project (for Carey Foundation), CancerLIFE, and Primero lo Primero. Marcela was born in Medellin, Colombia and has deep ties to her community there. She is a proud mom of two boys.
Kevin Shine
Kevin Shine is Vice President of Operations at Vestorly. Kevin and his wife Marcela (our advisor) have volunteered countless hours to our foundation in honor of his father, whom they lost to cancer in 2010.
Kiku Collins
Kiku has established herself at the heights of pop, jazz and R&B as a trumpet player (and occasional backup singer). During this musical journey around the world, backing up some of the biggest names in music both on stages and television, she was diagnosed with IDC. Since 2012, she has been traversing her career while going through surgeries, radiation, and other treatments – even two appearances at The White House – the first being 3 weeks before her reconstruction, as her radiation burns were fading. According to Jazz Journal International, “Ms. Collins plays trumpet and flugelhorn like a twenty-first century Miles Davis.
Kiku is also a cancer and lymphedema patient and is actively involved with The Tutu Project as a patient advocate and program advisor. She is also very active in other advocacy organizations, including #Cancerland, a grant recipient in the 2016 Carey Foundation “Breast Cancer Allies” program.
Dave Duplay
Dave is an advocate for people living with chronic illnesses and the founder of Healtheo360. He advises The Tutu Project on brand partnerships and expansion opportunities. Dave is a business and technology strategist for the healthcare industry with a heritage in healthcare marketing, communications, and technology. Dave has dedicated his career to finding ways to leverage advanced and emerging technologies to advance the delivery of healthcare and provide patients and caregivers ways to communicate with each other and the medical community.
The Tutu Project of the Carey Foundation 110 Chestnut Ridge Road, #185 Montvale, New Jersey 07645 Tel: 201-785-7974 *The Tutu Project is a campaign of The Carey Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization EIN# 45-4907360.
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Catamount Arts Dance Bolshoi Ballet
Choreography by George Balanchine
Sunday, April 19, 12:55 pm
Encore - Tuesday, April 28, 7:00 pm
Catamount Arts Center
St. Johnsbury, VT
Tickets: Adults - $18, Members - $15, Students - $6
This opulent triptych was inspired by Balanchine’s visit to the famous jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels on New York’s Fifth Avenue, celebrating the cities and dance schools of Paris, New York and St. Petersburg, each bound to its own precious stone: emerald, ruby and diamond.
Balanchine built an homage of captivating beauty to the three dance schools that had forged his style, each represented by a contrasting gemstone. Jewels offers a unique occasion to enjoy the genius of choreographer’s visually captivating work performed by some of the world’s most dazzling dancers in a live broadcast to cinemas.
This is an on-screen event.
Catamount Arts Theater 2
Plenty of tickets
Presented by: Bolshoi Ballet
USA, Rated PG-13, 125 Minutes
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Cynthia Erive, Leslie Odom, Jr., Joe Alwyn
Daily - 5:30 pm & 7:40 pm***There will be no screenings on Monday, January 20th
Sunday & Wednesday matinees - 1:30 pm
Tickets: $9 adults, $7 seniors, $6 members/students
Matinees and Bargain Nights (Monday & Tuesday): $7 adults, $5 seniors, $4 members/students
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Director: Todd Hayes
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins
Daily - 5:30 pm & 7:40 pm
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything -- his future, his family, and his own life -- to expose the truth.
Felted Wool Neckwarmer Workshop
(For adults and high school students)
Saturday, January 25, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Catamount Arts Classroom
Instructor: Tatiana Murray
Participants will learn wet felting technique and use spinning fiber merino wool, bamboo silk, lace and soapy water to create this unique and beautiful accessory. All materials will be provided, including wool in black, gray, and blue. This fun workshop is for all skill levels.
Class fee: $40 (10% discount for Catamount Arts members and high school students).
Scholarship funds are available for high school students; please call Anne at 802-748-2600 ext. 109 for details.
Materials fee: $15, to be paid directly to the instructor
Registration deadline: January 23
Parents of students under age 18: Please complete an enrollment form HERE after paying for the workshop.
Tatiana Murray worked as an art teacher and illustrated children’s books in her native Russia. A member of the New Hampshire Art Association and New Hampshire League of Craftsmen, she has exhibited widely and has an Etsy shop featuring her wool felted designs.
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
Sunday, January 26, 12:55 pm
Tuesday, February 4, 7:00 pm
The young peasant girl Giselle dies of a broken heart when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the Wilis, vengeful spirits of jilted brides who condemn Albrecht to dance until he dies of exhaustion.
In this brand-new production of Giselle, world renowned choreographer Alexei Ratmansky brings a fresh perspective to one of the oldest and greatest works of classical dance, giving the audience an opportunity to discover this iconic ballet anew.
Next event1/26/2020 12:55 PM
Shai Wosner
Sunday, January 26, 2020 - 3:00 pm
South Church
Tickets: Adults - $18
Senior - $16
Student - $6
Special* - $6
*For those who find the regular price beyond their budget. We believe classical music should be available to everyone. Just request the special rate. No questions asked.
Season Passes are available by calling the box office at 802-748-2600.
"Agility and insight...dexterity and interpretive subtlety." — San Francisco Chronicle
This Israeli virtuoso, known for his sensitive Schubert interpretations, performs an unusual and enticing program pairing works of Scarlatti and Rzewski, along with one of Schubert's most-loved sonatas.
Yamato - The Drummers of Japan
Spectacular and exhilarating display of virtuosity and endurance.
Lyndon Institute Auditorium
168 Institute Circle
Lyndon Center, VT
Tickets: $54, $44, $34, $15. Students $15.
Ticket prices do not include any applicable fees or sales taxes.
Save 20% when you buy by December 31. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
“A genuinely theatrical experience, delivered with balletic grace and infectious humor.” Times of London
“This is a show of unbridled enthusiasm, much humor and great musical variety.” – The Scotsman (UK)
Yamato was founded by Masa Ogawa in 1993 in Nara, ‘the land of Yamato” which is said to be the birthplace of Japanese culture. Presently based in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture, Yamato travels all over the word with Japan’s traditional Wadaiko drums, putting its very souls into the unusual instruments, whose sound stirs the hearts of people everywhere.
In the village of Asuka, a place with more than a thousand years of history and culture, Yamato seeks new expression with Wadaiko as its backbone. They think of the sound of the drums – made of animal skin and ancient trees, some of which are more than 400 years old – as a pulse or heartbeat (Shin-on), the center of life and the source of power which pulsates within the human body.
Like the strong and sturdy heartbeats of a lonely runner with a sleek and powerful body, Yamato attempts to create the energy of life, which envelops the audience and performers. What one feels when surrounded by the sound of Wadaiko, brought out by these highly trained performers, is what the Japanese call “Tamashy”, translated as soul, spirit, and psyche – the basic elements of life. It is something which is invisible and intangible but whose existence is certainly felt. The pulse, carried down from antiquity, will resonate within all the bodies gathered at any given performance.
Saturday, February 1, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, February 8, 12:55 pm
Tickets: $25 adult, $23 Catamount Arts member, $16 student
The Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, starring bass-baritone Eric Owens and soprano Angel Blue in the title roles. Director James Robinson’s stylish production transports audiences to Catfish Row, a setting vibrant with the music, dancing, emotion, and heartbreak of its inhabitants.
Next event2/1/2020 12:55 PM
Kingdom All-Stars
The NEK’s Own Rockin’ Role Models
Wednesday, February 5, 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM
Fuller Hall
St. Johnsbury Academy
Tickets: $4 each (buy tickets for all three shows for $10)
Groups of 50 or more - $3.50
Plus 6% Vermont sales tax
The Kingdom All Stars team of student musicians was featured live in concert this year in the Vermont State House, on Vermont Public Radio and at the Rising Star Showcase at Lyndon State College. Members come from nine public and private schools in northeastern Vermont.
The band features six new members this year, including the first ever from Danville. Their music is a blend of popular and rock music with its roots in blues, R&B, gospel and country music.
The Kingdom All-Stars have been featured on WCAX Channel 3 and Fox 44 television, The Caledonia County Fair, Somersworth International Children's Festival, and the Discover Jazz Festival in Burlington.
Next event2/5/2020 10:30 AM
Thursday, February 6, 7:00 pm
Encore - Thursday, February 13, 7:00 pm
by Arthur Miller
directed by Jeremy Herrin
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.
America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.
But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.
Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House, People, Places & Things) directs a cast including Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin).
All My Sons is an Old Vic co-production with Headlong
Next event2/6/2020 7:00 PM
“Loose and goofy…a brilliant ad libber.” - Variety
Friday, February 7, 7:00 pm
Dibden Center for the Arts
Northern Vermont University - Johnson
337 College Hill Road
Johnson, VT
Tickets: $45, $35, $25
Seniors and Catamount Arts members save $3.00 when ordering in person with id at the box office.
Save 20% when you buy by January 8. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
Paula Poundstone is one of our country’s preeminent comedians, known for her smart, observational humor and legendary spontaneous wit. Writes Nick Zaino for The Boston Globe, “You know that she is a great comic, the way you know any fine performer when you see one—there’s a disarming ease in her craft, an immediate sense that she’s so quick on her feet you need never worry about the possibility of something going wrong.”
Paula is a popular panelist on NPR’s # 1 show, the weekly comedy news quiz, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Paula’s guest appearances include The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Late Night with Carson Daly, The Montreal Comedy Festival/Just for Laughs, Nerdist with Chris Hardwick, and she was a clue in a New York Times crossword puzzle.
She’s filed commentaries for CBS Sunday Morning, and for NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Paula voices the character, “Forgetter Paula,” in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, winner of the 2017Academy Award for Bes
Dancing Hearts Valentine Workshop
Saturday, February 8, 10am-noon
Catamount Arts Center Cabaret Room
115 Eastern Avenue
Led by local artist Sharon Kenney Biddle, participants in this drop-in workshop will make Valentine cards for the special people in their lives using a variety of bright papers and other materials.
For all ages (children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult)
Admission: FREE, all supplies included (donations to Catamount Arts welcome)
Registration not required, but we’d love to have an idea of how many people to expect, so please email acampbell@catamountarts.org or call 802-748-2600 ext. 109.
Birch Bark Basket Workshop (Adults and high school students)
Saturday, February 8, 10am-4pm
Instructor: Penny Hewitt
Create a double woven diagonal plaited basket and experience the amazing qualities of the inner bark of the white birch tree. Students will have choices in the shape and rim design. Included in the workshop is a discussion on how the material is sustainably harvested and processed.
Workshop fee: $60/$54 for Catamount Arts members and high school students. Scholarship funds are available for high school students; please call Anne at 802-748-2600 ext. 109 for details.
Materials fee: $50, payable directly to the instructor.
Registration deadline: February 1
Parents of high school students under age 18: Please complete an enrollment form HERE after paying for the workshop.
A craftsperson, teacher, homesteader, and homeschooling mom, Penny Hewitt lives with her family on a diversified farm in the Northeast Kingdom. Working with responsibly harvested and hand-processed materials from the forest surrounding her home, Penny seeks to create objects of beauty that are useful in everyday life. She is inspired by traditions of other cultures, and grateful for the opportunities of connection to people, place, nature, and self that her craft cultivates. Her experience with weaving includes teaching workshops, leading homeschool groups, and crafting for income.
Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night - Jim Rooney
Saturday, February 8, 7:00 pm
Catamount Arts
115 Eastern Ave
Admission: Free (Donations accepted)
As always, Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night will be hosted by Vermont's favorite bluegrass band, Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing. This month's special guest will be Jim Rooney.
Rooney is a 50-year veteran of the music industry and recent winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association's Distinguished Achievement Award.
Ancient Voices
Sunday, February 9, 2:00 pm
St. Kieran Community Center for the Arts
155 Emery Street
Berlin, NH
Tickets:$15 all seats
A great combination of piano and native flute, Dan Kennedy and David Rose combine their talents to present an afternoon of Native American music with a contemporary twist. To hear a sample, please click HERE.
Northern Vermont Songwriters
Location: Catamount Arts Center
Northern Vermont Songwriters is a new organization for songwriters to share knowledge and maximize creativity. Membership and meetings are free. We meet at 6:45 p.m. on the second Tuesday of every month in the cabaret room at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury. Songwriters from Vermont, New Hampshire and anywhere else are invited to attend, and all genres of music are welcome. Songwriters may bring a song to share. The song may be performed live for the group, or a recording may be played (an iPhone dock will be available). Songwriters are encouraged to bring 6 copies of lyrics to share with the group. They may also bring lyrics only, or choose to simply listen and comment on the songs of others. Members might be invited to participate in public performances, including a Songwriter Round at Catamount Arts and at First Night. Another exciting benefit is occasional workshops hosted by music industry professionals, designed to help songwriters improve their craft. Please join us for our next meeting. Any questions should be sent to jakarns33@gmail.com; or phone: (802) 467-9859.
"The Kingdom's Got Talent?" - Benefit Talent Show
Saturday, February 15, 6:00 pm
Veteran's Ave
Tickets: $15 all seats.
This Benefit Event is the second part of finding that elusive talent in Northern Vermont! Judges will choose from the contestants selected at the Benefit Talent Search in Dec. 2019 and award prizes (cash and more). Proceeds benefit Joshua House Inc. Helping to prevent homelessness in Northern VT since 1996. The holidays are over. January is long. Getting out and having an evening of fun, is a great way to help a neighbor in need!
Cash prizes and more are made possible through the generosity of Sponsors of these Events.
Cabin Fever Follies: Following the Country Road
Sunday, February 16, 2:00 pm
Take a walk down the Country Road of Music with a great collaboration of local musicians as they present a history of this popular music genre. Always a highlight of our performance series schedule, the lineup brings many of our musical friends back to the venue and presents many new participants as well.
Join us for an afternoon of great entertainment and support our local arts center; keeping the live arts alive in the North Country!
Northern Third Piano Quartet
Violin, Viola, Cello and piano
Plainfield Town Hall Opera House
Plainfield, VT 05667
Tickets: Adults - $15, Students - $5
A program of Central European music by Dvorak, Debussy, Dohnanyi and Suk.
By Edmond Rostand, in a new version by Martin Crimp
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the London’s West End.
Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?
Edmond Rostand’s masterwork is adapted by Martin Crimp and directed by Jamie Lloyd (Betrayal). This classic play will be brought to life with linguistic ingenuity to celebrate Cyrano’s powerful and resonant resistance against overwhelming odds.
★★★★★"McAvoy is spellbinding as Cyrano" - Metro
★★★★★"funny, thrilling and deeply moving." - WhatsOnStage
★★★★★"The most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now" - Evening Standard
★★★★"this re-reading of Rostand works beautifully" - Guardian
★★★★★"James McAvoy gives a stunningly powerful performance in this piece of pure theatre" - Evening Standard
★★★★"James McAvoy shines as the lovelorn cavalier in this post-‘Hamilton’ take on the iconic French rhyming play" - TimeOut
★★★★★"I defy anyone not to fall in love with it." - The Telegraph
Cape Breton Kitchen Party
Fiddle Workshop - 5:30 pm
Dance Workshop - 6:30 pm
Kitchen Party - 7:30 pm
Open Session - following the Kitchen Party
Tickets: $22 all seats
Join us for a night of music, food, dance, and good cheer. A kitchen party is a gathering of community who play music together, and has been enshrined as an iconic image of Cape Breton. Feel the rhythm of the Island through the pulse of music and create a warmth in our community.
Our evening will begin with a Cape Breton fiddle workshop. Whether you’re an established Cape Breton fiddler, or you’re new to Cape Breton music and want to learn more about the style of music, join Jacob Brillhart at this workshop and join in later at the session. Next, we will host a dance workshop. The step dancing that is incorporated into Cape Breton square dancing is one of the neat things that separates it from generic contra dancing, and the basics are fairly simple. This is a great introduction for interested folks and also a good way to put you on track for the square set held later in the evening during the Kitchen Party. We will kick off our Kitchen Party with an explanation of Cape Breton music and culture. Savor traditional Cape Breton fare as you enjoy the sounds of Footworks. During our evening together we will wrangle up dancers and lead them through a Cape Breton square set (four couples). Traditionally the square set is danced in very tight spaces (crowded kitchens and pubs) and the intimate setting of 142 Eastern makes this an excellent space. We will finish up our evening together with a session. A session is a time where anyone is welcome to join in and play with the group or share a song.
Footworks is inspired by the high-energy Gaelic music of Cape Breton Island. They are a Vermont-based instrumental band. With Jacob Brillhart on fiddle, Jon Brillhart on whistle, and Tory Heft on guitar, Footworks provides a rich and balanced sound that is bound to get you up on your feet.
Traditional Cape Breton fare is curated by local chef Sarah Spence. The evening includes a raw oyster bar; Acadian rappie pie (a traditional dish made up of grated potatoes and meat), veggie hodge podge stew, fishcakes, and homemade bread. We will end with oatcakes. Sarah has worked at the Rabbit Hill Inn, Karme Choling, and Bread&Butter. She currently has her own catering company and hosts community Indian dinners.
Wine and beer will be available for purchase throughout the evening.
Please note: Apologies, but since the menu is prix fixe table’hote, special dietary restrictions cannot be accommodated. Ticket sales are final purchase. No refunds.
Combining dazzling surrealism, poetic movement, and sheer physical strength
Friday, February 21, 7:00 pm
Save 20% when you buy by January 21. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
“It’s as if we’re being given a fleeting glimpse of the inner workings of the universe.” - Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times
“Grace meets physical agility to create movement that is as lyrical as it is astonishing.” - The Sunday Oregonian
“Pilobolus embodies a large part of what the best in contemporary dance is all about: discovery. Making something new with the same standard body parts the rest of us have.” - The Washington Post
Pilobolus—named after a barnyard fungus that propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accuracy and strength—is a dance company founded by a group of Dartmouth College students in 1971 – among them Lyndon Institute grad Moses Pendleton who later went on to his establish his company, Momix. Of note: The evening’s performance will include a signature piece from those early years, choreographed by Pendleton and his partners. It’s title – Walklyndon.
Pilobolus continually forms diverse collaborations that break down barriers between disciplines and challenge the way we think about dance. Physically and intellectually, the company engages and inspires audiences around the world through performance, education and consultation.
Pilobolus propels itself in a variety of directions to reach these goals. The original company, Pilobolus Dance Theater, has been touring its 115 pieces of repertory to more than 64 countries over the last 42 years. To date, the Pilobolus Lab has produced collaborations with Penn & Teller, the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, Maurice Sendak, OK Go, Radiolab, and many others.
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich
Sunday, February 23, 12:55 pm
Encore - Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 pm
Prince Siegfried is summoned by his parents to choose a bride. However, he encounters a mysterious and magnetic swan-woman, Odette, by the lake and is captivated. His vow of eternal love to her will have irreversible consequences.
Tchaikovsky’s essential masterpiece returns for a live broadcast of the most-beloved ballet in the classical canon. Technically challenging and filled with vibrant emotion, with a stunning and world-famous corps de ballet in perfect unison, the legendary love story between Prince Siegfried and the dual personalities Odette/Odile, born at the Bolshoi Theatre, is a must-see.
Agrippina (George Frideric Handel)
Saturday, February 29, 12:55 pm
Encore - March 7, 12:55 pm
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, which gives this Baroque black comedy a politically charged, modern updating.
Aaron-Park Duo
Cello, Piano
Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 3:00 pm
"Glittering...lyrical phrasing...pearly tone quality. (Park)" — Charleston Post & Courier
"Gifted...accomplished...superb. (Arron)" — New York Times
As a young musician, Eddie first appeared on our Series 19 years ago. Now at the height of his artistic career, he returns with his wife, pianist par excellence Jeewon Park, in works of Beethoven, Janáček, Schumann, and Mendelssohn.
Concert sponsored by VPR.
A Cappella Live!
Four of the nation’s top a cappella sensations – on stage
Tuesday, March 10, 7:00 pm
Tickets: $54, $44, $34, $15. Students free.
Save 20% when you buy by February 8. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
Built on the classic Motown review tour model and guaranteed fun for all ages, this high-energy musical celebration of contemporary a cappella, was conceived and arranged by Deke Sharon, vocal producer of the 2012 hit comedy/musical film, Pitch Perfect and the television musical competition show, The Sing-Off.
This concert will feature four internationally recognized, award-winning, rising star ensembles. They will include 1) The charming boy band sound and moves of The Filharmonic; the rich harmonies of gospel/r&b legends Committed; chart-topping lead vocals and live-looping beatbox by Blake Lewis; and internationally-inspired songstresses Women of the World.
Don’t miss this rare treat – to hear and enjoy four acts of this caliber, together on the same stage on the same night. Audiences will have an opportunity to hear each group perform their greatest and best-known hits as well as large-scale production numbers featuring all four groups, plus some additional special surprises.
Der Fliegende Holländer (Richard Wagner)
Saturday, March 14, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, March 21, 12:55 pm
Sir Bryn Terfel returns to the Met for the first time since 2012, as the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation. Director François Girard, whose mesmerizing production of Parsifal recently wowed Met audiences, returns to stage Wagner’s eerie early masterwork.
Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night - The Kowal Family
Saturday, March 14, 7:00 pm
As always, Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night will be hosted by Vermont's favorite bluegrass band, Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing. This month's special guests will be The Kowal Family.
"The Kowal Family of Groton Vermont, ranging in age from 10-16, are an exciting young bluegrass group that represents the future of great traditional bluegrass in the Green Mountain State."
Sponsored by KINGDOM TAPROOM, with additional support from PAMFest.
Brian Boyes presents THE SATURN PEOPLE SOUND COLLECTIVE!
Beer and wine available by Positive Pie
“Mind Blowing Radness . . . anything Boyes does from here on out will likely inspire genuine curiosity among a growing segment of the local music-listening public. The Saturn People’s Sound Collective’s set at the FlynnSpace was simply transcendent, not merely a local highlight, but a Discover Jazz festival topper, period.” - Seven Days
Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 pm
Alexander Twilight Theatre
NVU-Lydon
1001 College Road
Lyndonville, VT
Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he’s celebrated for his original compositions and verbose poetry, an original creator in a genre defined by cover bands. In the exterior, where Saharan rock has become one of the continents biggest musical exports, he’s earned a name for himself with his guitar moves. Mdou shreds with a relentless and frenetic energy that puts his contemporaries to shame.
Mdou Moctar hails from a small village in central Niger in a remote region steeped in religious tradition. Growing up in an area where secular music was all but prohibited, he taught himself to play on a homemade guitar cobbled together out of wood. It was years before he found a “real” guitar and taught himself to play in secret. His immediately became a star amongst the village youth.
In 2008, Mdou traveled to Nigeria to record his debut album of spacey autotune, drum machine, and synthesizer. The album became a viral hit on the mp3 networks of West Africa, and was later released on the compilation Music from Saharan Cellphones. In 2013, he released Afelan, compiled from field recordings of his performances recorded in his village. Then he shifted gears, producing and starring in the first Tuareg language film, a remake of Prince’s Purple Rain (Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red in It). Finally, in 2017, he created a solo folk album, Sousoume Tamachek, a mellow blissed out recording evoking the calm desert soundscape. Without a band present, he played every instrument on the record. “I am a very curious person and I want to push Tuareg music far,” he says.
2019 brings his first recorded in a proper studio - Ilana (The Creator), out Mar. 29th on Sahel Sounds. He has shared the first single, “Kamane Tarhanin,” and has announced spring tour dates in support of the new record. A long time coming, Ilana is Mdou’s first true studio album with a live band. Recorded in Detroit at the tail end of a US tour by engineer Chris Koltay (the two met after bonding over ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres), the band lived in the studio for a week, playing into the early hours. Mdou was accompanied by an all-star band: Ahmoudou Madassane’s (Les Filles de Illighadad) lighting fast rhythm guitar, Aboubacar Mazawadje’s machine gun drums, and Michael Coltun’s structured low-end bass. The album was driven by lots of spontaneity – Mdou’s preferred method of creation – jumping into action whenever inspiration struck. The resulting tracks were brought back to Niger to add final production: additional guitar solos, overdubs of traditional percussion, and a general ambiance of Agadez wedding vibes.
The result is Mdou’s most ambitious record to date. Ilana takes the tradition laid out by the founders into hyperdrive, pushing Tuareg guitar into an ever louder and blistering direction. For Mdou, his style is to draw on both modern and traditional sources and combine elements into new forms. In “Ilana” Mdou reaches back into Tuareg folklore for inspiration, riffing on the hypnotic loops of takamba griots, or borrowing vocal patterns from polyphonic nomad songs, and combining them with his signature guitar. You can hear the effect in tracks like “Kamane Tarhanin,” where a call and response lyric lifts up over a traditional vocal hum before breaking into a wailing solo with tapping techniques learned from watching Youtube videos of Eddie Van Halen.
As Mdou travels the world, he divides his time between two places, alternating from lavish weddings in Agadez to sold out concerts in Berlin nightclubs. It offers a unique perspective, but also means that he needs to address different audiences. At home, his compositions send a message to his people. Abroad, his music is an opportunity to be heard and represent his people on a world stage.
Jaw dropping artistry and grace.
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“THE PEKING ACROBATS push the envelope of human possibility, combining agility and grace in remarkable feats of pure artistry.” - Clive Davis, New York Post
For the last thirty two years, THE PEKING ACROBATS have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and control.
THE PEKING ACROBATS are often accompanied by live musicians who skillfully play traditional Chinese instruments; the time-honored Chinese music coalesces with high-tech special effects and awe-inspiring acrobatic feats, creating an exuberant entertainment event with the festive pageantry of a Chinese Carnival.
Since their founding in 1986, THE PEKING ACROBATS have been featured on numerous television shows including Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, Ellen’s Really Big Show (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), The Wayne Brady Show, That’s Incredible, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and NBC’s Ring In The New Year Holiday Special.
THE PEKING ACROBATS set the world record for the Human Chair Stack on FOX Network’s Guinness Book Primetime television show in 1999: they balanced six people precariously atop six chairs twenty one feet up in the air without safety lines, astounding audiences with their bravery and dexterity.
THE PEKING ACROBATS have also made their way onto the silver screen – company members were featured in Steven Soderbergh’s hit film Ocean’s Eleven playing alongside Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
Studio Two: The Early Beatles Tribute
2 Union St.
Littleton, NH
Studio Two is a headlining Beatles tribute band that focuses on the most exciting, energetic period of The Beatles -- the early years (1962-1966). Choosing from a catalog of songs from their club and touring performances, Studio Two captures all of the excitement and danceable 50's and 60's Rock 'n' Roll songs The Beatles helped popularize. All of this is done in period correct attire and equipment. You will be transported in time!
For more information about Studio Two, check out their website and Facebook page.
"Best Tribute Band" ~ Editors of NH Magazine
"Studio Two are one of the most exciting Beatle bands out there today" ~ Cha Chi Host of Breakfast With The Beatles
"Voted Number One Beatles Tribute show in New England" ~ 100.7 WZLX
Sunday, March 29, 12:55 pm
Tuesday, April 7, 7:00 pm
Despite each of their families being merciless enemies, Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love. The rivalry between the two families will cost Mercutio’s life, causing Romeo a desire of vengeance for the loss of his friend.
The star-crossed lovers’ tragic fate inspired Prokofiev’s remarkable cinematic score, from the delicate theme of Juliet to the ominous Dance of the Knights. Bolshoi stars Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov wholly embody the two eternal lovers in Alexei Ratmansky’s stunning evocation of love at first sight.
David Bromberg Quintet
Sizzling and smoldering blues with his peerless band
Saturday, April 4, 7:00 pm
Tickets: $48, $38, $28, $15. Students free
Save 20% when you buy by March 5. Discount is automatically reflected when you choose your seats.
For Americana music godfather, David Bromberg, it all began with the blues. Bromberg’s incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and includes – but is not limited to – his adventures with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, and music and life lessons from seminal blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, who claimed the young Bromberg as a son.
A musician’s musician, Bromberg’s mastery of several stringed instruments (guitar, fiddle, Dobro, mandolin), and multiple styles is legendary, leading Dr. John to declare him an American icon. Bromberg’s many other collaborations constitute a Who’s Who in music: Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Tom Paxton, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Sha Na Na, John Prine, Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, Ringo Starr, The Eagles, Commander Cody, Country Joe McDonald, Leon Redbone and many others.
Bromberg’s guitar work remains a marvel; amped electric lead – both slide and fretted – and delicately powerful acoustic fingerpicking propel these songs with the same force that made him the go-to guy for acts ranging from the Eagles to Link Wray to Phoebe Snow. This is a man who can go full-on Chicago gutbucket with “You Don’t Have to Go” (a Bromberg original), then slay with the jazz inflections of Ray Charles’ “A Fool for You,” rendered here intimately solo.
Although Bromberg points out he’s not the same guitarist he was before his two decades away from performing and recording. “I play differently,” he says. “I can’t play as fast, but playing slower gives me more time to think about what I’m doing.”
“He’s always able to plug into the emotion of a song,” fellow multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell says. “He’s incredibly inventive as a player. Sometimes restrictions can be good.”
Bromberg’s vocals cover a broad range: impassioned, vibrato-laden testifying; pew-jumping soul shouts; soft, confident, crooning; and, of course, his peerless raconteur chops (particularly in “You Been A Good Old Wagon”).
“When I first started,” Bromberg says, “singing was something I did between guitar solos. But during the period I did so little performing, I took some voice lessons, and now, I know more what I’m doing. I love singing now. Love it.”
Campbell was impressed at Bromberg’s newfound vocal chops, too. “He is a better vocalist than ever,” he says. “He’s strong, and present. None of the songs (on his new blues album) took more than three takes. And he was able to take the old folk song ‘900 Miles’ [a “railroad song” made famous by Odetta and Woody Guthrie], and turn it into an electric blues that’s a real high point.”
Although he remains the proprietor of the beloved David Bromberg Fine Violins in Wilmington, Delaware – “I love my shop,” he says – Bromberg makes time to tour with his quintet. As ever, he brings his characteristic devotional intensity to the music, invigorating his surprise third act with the same passion he felt as a teen, spinning those blues 78s, just before the road called.
Comics on a Mission
Latchis Theatre
The Hatch returns this April 4th with Comics on a Mission featuring the brilliant Maeve Higgins, Jordan Carlos, Erin Jackson and others. Humorist, and Hatch co-founder Tom Bodett and a clown car full of talent come together to benefit the HatchSpace woodworking school and community workshop in Brattleboro.
The HatchSpace mission to teach and preserve the skills and traditions of craft while celebrating the joy of simply making things is a welcome tonic for the endless fever dream news cycle we seem trapped in. Get your tickets now for a night of good fun and do-gooderism. Priced to assist your generosity at $60, $40, and $25.
At the Latchis Gallery space you can browse the amazing hand-crafted furniture and wooden studio art produced by HatchSpace members and supporters. Raffle and auction items will be on display beginning February 1st.
Tanglewood Marionettes
Wednesday, April 8, 10:30 am & 1:00 pm
Founded in 1993, Tanglewood Marionettes is a nationally touring marionette theater based in New England. Large, beautifully hand-crafted marionettes, colorful sets, and integrated lighting and sound create a fully immersive theatrical experience. Our highly skilled puppeteers have spent many years perfecting their art, delighting audiences of all ages as they bring our repertoire of classic tales to life. We are the recipients of two UNIMA awards, puppetry's highest honor, for our productions An Arabian Adventure and The Dragon King.
Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
Saturday, April 11, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, April 18, 12:55 pm
Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her 16th Live in HD transmission, taking on the soaring title diva of Puccini’s grand melodrama. Bertrand de Billy conducts Sir David McVicar’s evocative production, with tenor Brian Jagde as Tosca’s impassioned lover, Cavaradossi, and baritone Michael Volle as the sinister Scarpia.
Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night - Austin Scelzo & Angelica Jara
Saturday, April 11, 7:00 pm
As always, Catamount Arts Bluegrass Night will be hosted by Vermont's favorite bluegrass band, Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing. This month's special guests will be Austin Scelzo and Angelica Jara.
Austin Scelzo & Angelico Jara are both music teachers from the Waterbury CT area whose performances showcase a mastery of both bluegrass and traditional duet fiddle tunes.
Moira Smiley - The Voice is a Traveler
Singing workshop and concert.
Sunday, April 19, 4:00 pm
Workshop starts at 1:00 pm
1:00 pm Workshop only - $25 all
4:00 pm Concert only - Adults - $15, Students - $5
Workshop and Concert - $30 all
Moira Smiley ~ Singing workshop and concert “The Voice Is A Traveler”Themes of real and metaphorical border crossings – hopeful immigrants, exiles in mourning, or each of us seeking belonging and empathy – are the backbone of this show. Moira Smiley’s performances bring elegance and grit to folk-songs, original and ancient. Expect soul-stirring arrangements of Anglo-Celtic ballads, American spirituals, European folk-laments and sharp, poignant original songs that call effortlessly upon the audience to whisper, clap, or sing along. Moira plays plain-spoken accompaniment on banjo, accordion, body/hand percussion and piano. Performing with her small ensemble, Moira can inspire ANY room – anywhere – to sing!
Van Kuijk Quartet
Violin, Violin, Viola, Cello
Saturday, April 25, 2020 - 7:00 pm
"Style, energy, and a sense of risk...these four young Frenchmen made the music smile" — The Guardian
These gifted Parisians come to St. Johnsbury after a stop at Carnegie Hall. We welcome spring and wind up the season on a very high note, with Mozart, Bartók, and Schumann.
Maria Stuarda (Gaetano Donizetti)
Saturday, May 9, 12:55 pm
Encore - Saturday, May 16, 12:55 pm
A pseudo-historical opera about Mary, Queen of Scots, and her bitter rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I, Donizetti’s drama thrills with intense stand-offs and impressive vocal displays. Soprano Diana Damrau and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton square off as two of history’s most formidable monarchs, with Maurizio Benini conducting.
Sylvia Berry
Sunday, May 17, 4:00 pm
Sylvia will present an all-Beethoven program celebrating the 250 anniversary of his birth on the instrument of his time, a Viennese fortepiano modeled after one built in 1795. The program will include Beethoven piano sonatas, “fun” Bagatelles and a few duets. An incredible opportunity to hear Beethoven’s piano music as it was meant to be heard.
The Welkin
a new play by Lucy Kirkwood
Thursday, May 21, 7:00 pm
Encore - Thursday, May 28, 7:00 pm
One life in the hands of 12 women.
Rural England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, 21-year-old Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder.
When Sally claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.
James Macdonald (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Funny Cow) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls, Mr. Selfridge) in this bold and gripping thriller from Tony-nominated writer Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, Skins). Broadcast live from the National Theatre in London.
Gamelan Sulukala
Plainfield’s own Javanese Gamelan Orchestra
Sunday, June 7, 4:00 pm
Also, back by popular demand after performing elsewhere last year, Gamelan Sulukala will present a program of music by 20 and 21 century composers and is dedicated to American Gamelan icon Barbara Benary (1946-2019).
Summersong 2020
A weekend of music and merriment
Friday, August 28 - Sunday, August 30
See schedule below
Whitehill Farm
East Ryegate, VT
Tickets: Early-Bird Special (ends March 19th) $125, Full Price: $150
After purchasing your ticket, please fill out the registration form found HERE.
Weekend retreat includes a weekend of fun, ritual, instruction, food, and drink provided by Will and Lynn. Primitive housing provided for free! Commuting is optional.
A magical, musical retreat in the mountains of Vermont! Lynn and Will Rowan will lead a gentle weekend of singing with dancing, storytelling, drumming, and ritual in the beautiful hills of northern Vermont! No music reading skills required, just a willingness to open to music, community, and nature. The weekend will include music from harmony singing traditions around the world. We will also sing rounds, chants, and songs of solidarity to celebrate the earth, reinforce our interconnectedness, and heal our hearts in these challenging times. Friday and Saturday we will make a procession up the hill with bagpipes and drums to honor the sun in song, then light our evening fire for stories, music, and merriment. Please bring musical instruments if you have them! The weekend will culminate in a Sunday afternoon community concert by Lynn & Will and the Summersong Singers. Join kindred spirits, friends new and old, and music-lovers and celebrate summer’s end with us!
Meals and accommodations
The traditional farmyard barn where we will be rehearsing has a common sleeping area upstairs. Participants may alternately bring tents to camp onsite or choose to commute. There are no onsite showers, but there is swimming nearby in a stream and pond. All participants will take part in the daily chores of the camp including cooking our communal meals, cleaning up after meals, and keeping our space tidy, helping build our community for the weekend.
The weekend will be held at Whitehill Farm, located in the southern most point of the Northeast Kingdom. The Farm was a traditional dairy farm and we continue to pasture heifers to this day. The homestead continues to maintain 40 acres, most of which are pasture, but there is a 3 acre parcel of cedars and five acres of sugar maples that are tapped each year. There are outstanding views from the top of this traditionally rugged property where you can take in the White Mountains and the Connecticut River. The property also has a small stream and a neighboring farm yard pond where we can cool off each day.
10-Adult
Camp is not geared towards children under 10. Participants aged 10-11 should be accompanied by an adult or older sibling. People aged 12 and up can attend independently.
For more information, please contact Heather Alger: Heather.L.Alger@gmail.com
Rough Schedule
4-5:00 - Arrivals
5:00 - Opening
6:00 - Dinner
6:30 - Dinner Cleanup
7:00 - Opening Circle/Singing down the Sun
8:00 - Evening Fire
8:00 - Breakfast prep
8:30 - Breakfast
9:00 Breakfast cleanup
9:30 Morning Singing
12:00 - Lunch Prep
12:30 - Lunch
1:30 - Lunch cleanup
2:00 - Afternoon singing/dancing
4:30 - Dinner prep
7:00 - Singing down the Sun
9:00 - Breakfast cleanup
9:30 - Morning Singing
12:45 - Lunch clean-up
1:15 - Concert prep
2:00 - Closing Circle
3-4 - Concert
4-5 - Final Clean-up / Departures
Will Rowan
Will was raised in a community where folk music and dance played an important role in bringing people together to celebrate. He fell in love with ensemble singing while touring with Village Harmony, learning from master singers and dancers at home and abroad. He studied music composition and ethnomusicology at Marlboro College, winning awards in choral composition and publishing several pieces. He also holds a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from the Bard College Conservatory. Will is a multi-instrumentalist, playing banjo, piano, accordion, bagpipes, and percussion. With his sensitive style and years of cross-cultural teaching experience from international tours with Northern Harmony, Will is now a sought after song leader, teaching Village Harmony camps in the US and Lithuania.
Lynn Rowan
Lynn has dedicated her professional life to the study of vocal performance in its many and varied forms and has performed and taught workshops, lessons and lead choirs in singing for the past decade. These days she spends most of her time performing with her vocal band, Windborne, focusing on songs of social justice. Having grown up immersed in the folk communities of Vermont and discovering harmony singing traditions of many cultures through Village Harmony (which she now teaches for), her work is deeply rooted in and influenced by nature, history, and folklore of not only her own home, but also rich traditions from all over the world. Lynn's teaching style is clear, warm, and encouraging.
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Joe Mirabello
Joe Mirabello is currently a senior environment artist at 38 Studios. Over the past half decade Joe Mirabello has been able to wear many hats in the industry, focusing primarily as an environment artist, but also creating occasional character art, concept art, and helping out as a technical artist. He has contributed work to indie games, mass market novels, military/government contractors and Smithsonian documentaries. Throughout his career he has tried to give back as much as possible to the art community through lectures, tutorials, and helping moderate GameArtisans.org and the Dominance War, and Unearthly Challenge game art contests.
www.30lives.com.
Create a Futuristic Animated Computer Screen Shader in the Unreal 3 Editor
The Unreal 3 Editor is a powerful game development tool that ships free with most Unreal 3 games (Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, Roboblitz). It's quickly...
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What is social work?
Consultant social workers
Work for Frontline
Local authority partnerships
Radio 4 – World At One feature
by Admin | Oct 17, 2013 | News Article, In The Media
BBC Radio 4’s World At One has run a feature on Frontline’s new graduate programme for children’s social work. Journalist Andrew Bomford visited the Frontline stand at a careers fair in Manchester and spoke to students who were...
Why it’s so important to provide extra support for care leavers at Christmas
Why I decided not to give up pushing for change
Let’s return to the foundations of social care: serving families, not the system
New model for children’s social care launches
Charity calls for more men in social work on International Men’s Day
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Blowing Up: BigHeadHanna Reimagines Rihanna’s Head Abnormally Large, and It’s Hilarious
Filed to:Rihanna
Rihanna attends the Met Costume Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018, in New York City.
Photo: Jason Kempin (Getty Images)
“Hey, Big Head ... ”
I swear, I will never again hear those words without thinking of my new favorite Instagram tribute account, BigHeadHanna. Since 2016, a 19-year old Italian member of Rih’s Navy simply known as “Lucia” has devoted her spare time to using PicsArt to alter pics of her idol, Rihanna, to resemble a Bratz doll. The results are surprisingly entertaining.
Now, why Lucia would want to do this is anyone’s guess, but she’s definitely a devoted fan, as she told online magazine Babe: “The thing I like to do is to put some Rihanna music on, and then start doing my edits.” And apparently, her dedication has paid off—with a follow from Rihanna herself (Lucia has marked the date, June 4, 2017, in her bio).
“That’s the best notification I could ever receive in my whole life,” she told Babe. “I still think she sees all my pictures.”
We’d be lying if we said we didn’t go down a bit of a wormhole looking at all of Lucia’s big-headed reinterpretations of our favorite bad gyal. It was both a welcome chuckle in the middle of an otherwise busy workday, and weirdly meditative.
Of course, Lucia’s not the only Instagram user altering the looks of her faves; Beyoncé fan page Fattyonce reimagines Queen Bey as a plus-sized goddess, saying, “Beyoncé reigns on us all, no matter her shape.”
True ... though I think we all know Bey works pretty hard on that bod, especially after three kids. No word on if she’s a fan of her far-thicker alter ego, but since no cease and desist orders seem to have reached the Fattyonce page, we’re guessing the Queen is taking it in the body-positive spirit with which it was intended.
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Yikes, Yeezy: Japanese Fabric Company Sues Kanye West for More Than $600,000
Filed to:Yeezy Shenanigans
Kanye West poses at the opening night of the new musical ‘The Cher Show’ on Broadway on Dec. 3, 2018, in New York City.
Photo: Bruce Glikas (FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Everyone knows a pair of Yeezys aren’t cheap, but Japanese company Toki Sen-I Co. alleges namesake and founder Kanye West is. The knitted-fabric producers are suing West and his company for $600,000, claiming the rapper and designer committed fraud by creating a fake entity to cheat them out of payment for an order.
In court documents obtained by TMZ, West and Yeezy Apparel, LLC. are accused of defaulting on a longtime relationship with Toki Sen-I Co. after placing a June 2018 order for over 50,000 yards of various fleece fabrics at $10.81 a yard—and not paying the $624,051 bill, plus subsequent storage.
The company says it began working with West and Yeezy Apparel in 2015, and had a productive and paid-on-time relationship with the label until the order in question. One can only assume that’s why they continued with production after West failed to provide a down payment, as requested.
Toki Sen-I claims West later refused to pay for the completed order or to accept one of several payment plans offered. The company tried to recoup their losses by reselling the order, but the fabric was too specific to the Yeezy brand.
Now, the company not only wants to be paid in full but is alleging that Yeezy Apparel is a fraud altogether.
“The company also claims Kanye’s company, Yeezy Apparel, is a ‘shell’ and a ‘sham’ without capital assets or member interest,” reports The Blast, who also obtained documents. “They believe Kanye operates Yeezy Apparel to prevent himself from being personally liable for anything.”
Representatives for West have yet to respond to requests for comment.
Yeezy Taught Him: A Theory on How the Yeezy Mauve’s Poor Sales May Have Rescued Kanye From the Sunken Place
GQ Asks: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Yeezy?
Pre-Yeezy: Complex Magazine Unpacks Kanye's First Fashion Label, Pastelle
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Home Arts & Culture The hegemony of mercantile class and commodification of faith
The hegemony of mercantile class and commodification of faith
Haider Ali questions the role of South’s elite class in running community organizations and marginalization of GBC
Women artisans at work at Ciqam project, at Altit Fort Complex, Hunza.
By Haider Ali
Shakespeare in his two classic masterpieces Hamlet and Merchant of Venice has exposed the aristocracy and upper classes’ corruption, immorality, their oppressive behaviour towards the middle and lower classes, their victimization, exploitation, and commodification of the poor through rituals.
The characters and the themes in the two plays have amazing similarities to the Pakistani settings and the hegemony of its 2% ruling clique – the feudal lords, capitalist, religious mafia, civil and military bureaucracy – on resources and wealth.
Altit Fort.
According to Abrams “in any historical era, the dominant ideology embodies, and serves to legitimize and perpetuate, the interests of the dominant economic and social class”. The upper-class constructs ideologies which are beneficial to themselves and then they spread these ideologies among the lower class to make them oppressed and obedient.
In this backdrop, one can easily understand the misuse of religion or authority by elite classes for their interest, especially in Gilgit-Baltistan’s context.
The mercantile elite from Karachi and their cronies in Gilgit-Baltistan are the “gentile Venetians” as Marx used for the rising capitalist and mercantile classes of the early 19th century.
The mercantile class has been manipulating the local indigenous practices by imposing a certain system of divine practices and business that only serves their interest through which they control resources, institutions, and minds of people to perpetuate their hegemony. The AKDN institutions are the best example of this hegemonic social, cultural, economic system to control and exploit people in Gilgit-Baltistan and around the world.
The poor performance of AKDN institutions indicates the decline and decay in the organization due to its top-down model and the dominance of a certain mercantile class who have turned it into a tool for amassing wealth through exploiting and dispossessing the poor communities of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral.
Altit Fort is one of the few attractions that come into one’s mind when thinking of visiting Hunza. But there are some other attractions which have enhanced the Altit Fort’s importance and grabbed the attention of international and national media. If you search Hunza on social media, you can surely end up staring at pictures or videos of Kha Basi Royal Garden, the iconic views from Kha Basi Café (KBC), the Altit Fort, the all women-run carpentry workshop of Ciqam, the Kha Basi Residence (KBR) and or the Leef Laarsen Music Centre (LLMC).
The Altit Fort Complex (AFC) is the flagship project of the Aga Khan Cultural Services Pakistan (AKCS-P), an organ of the AKDN. Ciqam is a subsidiary project of the AKCSP that is fighting to gain administrative and financial autonomy from its parent body.
This article seeks to highlight the impending challenges to these projects because of their uniqueness, inclusiveness and women empowerment.
Aqeela Bano gives briefing to Norwegian official.
However, the traditional patriarchal tribal society, the ruling elite of Hunza and the mercantile elite feel threatened from these initiatives and have been conspiring to either control these initiatives and grab their assets worth millions of rupees or remove the brain behind these successful projects of emancipation and women empowerment.
Ironically, Safiullah Beg, the AKCS-P’s senior manager and the man behind the organisation’s success stories has been unceremoniously shown the door after serving for 16 years. He was in-charge of the AFC and initiated such exemplary pro-poor and pro-women projects as Ciqam, KBC, KBR, and LLMC.
These projects are run predominantly by women not only as workers but also in the decision-makers. LLMC teaches folk music to young boys and girls from low-income and working-class households.
Local women take keen interest in wooden kitchen utensils made by women carpenters of Ciqam project.
Ciqam, the jewel in the crown of AKCSP, has been portrayed as a role model for women empowerment in international and national media. Its carpentry workshop, construction, and field survey departments are managed and run by women.
KBC utilizes local organic products and employs women from low-income households. Altit Fort Museum is also dominated by female guides. Even in KBR, all departments from housekeeping to reservations are run by female employees.
Apart from employing low-income and vulnerable members of the community, the projects also contribute a lot to the local community in terms of research work, infrastructure development, and revenue generation.
Mr Baig is also the pioneer of an independent community-run power project and a collective plantation project in his native village of Ahmedabad, Hunza. A well-read person, he discusses with young people the development theories or the philosophies of Althusser, Habermas, Zizek, and Badiou.
His abrupt removal has come at a very crucial time. Since he was in line to replace the incumbent AKCSP CEO Col (retd) Salman Beg after his retirement which is overdue. Col Beg at the age of 67 years has been holding the position for the last 22 years in violation of rules.
Students learning music at Leif Laarsen Music School at Altit Fort Complex, Hunza.
Secondly, the autonomy of Ciqam was to be negotiated around this time of the year. It’s the assets the women employees have created through their hard work and with the financial assistance of Norwegian embassy which has invested over Rs200 million on Ciqam and the powerful lobby in AKDN wants to grab all the assets by making Ciqam an NGO. Similarly, AKCSP chairman is holding the post for the last 25 years.
The hegemony of the mercantile class
The move by the mercantile elite is an attempt to stifle the voice of the marginalized in their structure. The powerful elite has turned the AKDN into a top-down and extractive institution where the CEO’s earn more than Rs1 million salary while the low-rung employees do not even get anything near to minimum wage of Rs15,000. In addition, they have been using AKDN as a tool for the expansion of their personal business empires.
Some of the bigwigs are now grabbing land in Hunza and depriving the small traders and hoteliers of their livelihood with the help of the bureaucracy to exploit the community.
Women artisans building a wall.
Mr Baig was one of the few people in AKDN who used to raise voice against this on all levels and they had been trying to get him out of their way for quite some time.
Take a look at the Baltit Fort Museum. All of its revenues are swallowed by the elite mercantile class and the community of Karimabad receives nothing. On the other hand, more than 150 people earn their livelihoods from Altit Fort Complex and Ciqam while the community also gets a financial share.
These observations are based on my firsthand information and experience while working as an intern at AKCSP last summer and my frequent visits to the Complex and Ciqam.
Patriarchal mindset
I noticed and heard the venom and hatred for Ciqam from some patriarchal tribal mindset upper middle-class elements of the surrounding community who deem the project a threat to their “honor” and instigating young people to spread poisonous propaganda against it and harassment of the female workers. That’s what patriarchy does.
The business tycoons from Karachi since day one have created their hegemony and monopoly in the AKDN through nepotism and corruption, misusing the regional councils to target progressive and pro-people employees in AKDN.
It is need of the hour to question and debate the role of a certain class and their hegemony in institutions which have literally crippled the social and political life of the communities of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral (GBC) making their minds numb. Anyone criticizing them is immediately branded as an enemy of progress, religion and/or “an agent”. There is also a fear of being targeted among the communities due to the general security situation in the country, which is to some extent well founded. However, the elite class are doing immense harm not only to the Ismailis of GBC but also antagonizing other communities. So it is necessary to unmask them.
This is a wake-up call for the communities of GBC, as they are exploited in the name of development. There is a need for all communities of GBC to build real bridges among each other and resist the neoliberal capitalist agenda of hegemony.
Two women carpenters
In a mountainous area like Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral, the land is a scarce resource. The indigenous people of GBC lack access to credit and other facilities for the purpose of using their land for entrepreneurial purposes. The outsiders use their contacts and influence local so-called community leader and use them as frontmen for land purchases. It is not uncommon for this unholy money-faith nexus to create discord between local communities and antagonise them in the region. Through conspiracy theories, they instill fear among the people. The large-scale purchases of land by owners of PC hotel in Mominabad village, Zuraiz Lashari on the lakeside of Ayeenabad and a businessman from Karachi for building a hotel in Sost, have been procured through their influence on the institutions.
The issue of land is nothing less than an existential threat to the locals of GBC. Therefore, this process of “accumulation through dispossession”, and commodification of the poor under the garb of religion should be resisted and debunked if we want to maintain our egalitarian society and identity and pro-poor development in the region. One of the keys is to break the capitalist hegemony of Khojas and outsiders over the institutions and resources.
Haider Ali is a student of Sociology at Forman Christian College, Lahore. He is interested in development, tourism studies and political anthropology in the context of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. He can be contacted at: jugo.buluk@gmail.com
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US Senate warned against ‘useless vapourware garbage’ bitcoins
Finance Finance News US Senate warned against ‘useless vapourware garbage’ bitcoins
10:57pm, Oct 17, 2018
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain are "useless" according to economist Nouriel Roubini. Photo: AAP
Killian Plastow
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain have come under fire from a prominent American economist, who told a US Senate banking committee the technologies were the reserve of “scammers, swindlers, criminals [and] charlatans”.
New York University professor of economics Nouriel Roubini testified before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Community Affairs that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin represented a financial bubble “like you have not seen in any history of financial bubbles”.
Mr Roubini, colloquially known as ‘Dr Doom’ for his uncanny ability to predict financial crises (including the GFC a decade ago), took particular aim at ‘alt-coins’.
Alt-coins refers to digital currency launched in the wake of the better-known Bitcoin, which famously reached a height of $US19,783 ($25,717) before crashing back down to its current price, almost 70 per cent less.
Nouriel ‘Dr Doom’ Roubini has warned against cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
“A 70 per cent capital loss was a ‘good’ deal compared to thousands of alt-coins, otherwise better known as sh-tcoins, that have lost on average 95 per cent of their value since the peak,” Mr Roubini said.
“Actually calling this useless vapourware garbage a “sh-tcoin” is a grave insult to manure that is a most useful, precious and productive good as a fertiliser in agriculture.”
Many of these digital coins have been set up simply as a con to take the hard-earned dollars of enthusiastic but under-educated investors, Mr Roubini said.
But Mr Roubini’s fears extend beyond cryptocurrency “bloodbath” to the underlying infrastructure, known as the blockchain, which he styled as the “new refuge of the crypto scoundrels”.
Jian Chan, the Australia lead for Blockchain firm NEM Foundation, told The New Daily that blockchains are ‘distributed ledgers’ that securely track data while making multiple records of that data and its movements to create a single source of information about the data in question.
That data can take multiple forms too. Most commonly it’s in the form of cryptocurrencies, and each time a cryptocurrency coin changes hands it takes a record of where it’s been, while also leaving a record of where it’s been with the previous point, or ‘block’, on the chain.
Essentially, every time data changes hands or moves, multiple copies of the transaction are made and any attempt to tamper with the transaction can be instantly spotted and stopped.
Scoundrel’s refuge or consumer tool?
In his testimony, Mr Roubini said blockchain has so far offered only “one failing and imploding” application in the form of cryptocurrency trading, and is nothing more than a “glorified spreadsheet”, but Mr Chan disagrees.
Blockchain serves more as an operating system that many other programs can be built off, including supply chain management, he said.
For example, Japanese Kobe beef manufacturers can use blockchains to track the distribution of their beef, and consumers can use that same information to make sure what they’re buying is authentic.
Mr Chan said some businesses are already looking to use blockchains to help consumers track the manufacturing of their products and avoid buying products made using child labour.
It’s something that the Commonwealth Bank has already been experimenting with, announcing in July it had successfully used a blockchain network to track 17 tonnes of almonds that were shipped from Victoria to Hamburg, Germany.
“We believe that blockchain can help our partners reduce the burden of administration on their businesses and enable them to deliver best-in-class services to their customers,” Commonwealth Bank managing director of industrials and logistics in client coverage Chris Scougall said of the experiment.
Mr Chan said these cases threw doubt on Mr Roubini’s claims, adding that blockchain will serve a role in people’s day-to-day lives in the same way that the internet and EFTPOS do, but what that role might be is yet to be seen.
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Why You Might Have Been Skipped on an American Airlines Airport Upgrade List
JT Genter
For airline elites, there’s no more exhilarating — or frustrating — aspect of flying than upgrades. The elation of getting that upgrade at the gate for the 16 hour Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Hong Kong (HKG) flight. Or, the futility of seeing yourself as #72 on the upgrade list.
There might be no worse frustration than being skipped over on the upgrade list — especially when it’s for one of the airline’s longest international flights. But, that’s exactly what happened to TPG reader and TPG Lounge member Andrew Manuel before his Los Angeles (LAX) to Hong Kong (HKG) flight:
How in the world does this happen?!? #2 on the upgrade list and four people below me gets it?!? Asked the gate agent and he was not responsive at all. So I guess the gate agent can circumvent the prioritization of upgrades? Never seen anything like this before.
Andrew asked how this could happen, so let’s take a look.
Upgrade List Order
First, some background on how the upgrade list is ordered. With the advent of Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQD) and the airline’s understandable push to maximize revenue, American Airlines reconfigured its upgrade list in May 2017.
Before this change, upgrade lists were sorted by elite status with the tie-breaker being the date/time of upgrade request.
Now, it doesn’t matter when you request an upgrade; AA’s upgrade lists are now ordered by: elite status, then type of upgrade (systemwide/mileage before 500-mile) and ticket type (purchased before award) and finally using EQD for the past 12 months as a tie-breaker.
So, all Concierge Key elites will be listed ahead of Executive Platinum elites and on down the list. Within each group, all of the systemwide and mileage upgrade requests come before 500-mile upgrade requests. Within the 500-mile upgrade request section, paid tickets are prioritized before award tickets (now free for Executive Platinum and Concierge Key elites). Finally, EQDs are the final practical tie-breaker.
Reasons you may have been skipped
1. You weren’t skipped, AA just combines two upgrade lists. This is what happened in Andrew’s case. I checked with American Airlines, which looked into Andrew’s specific flight to make sure everything was above board. Side note: as an AA Executive Platinum member myself, I was pleasantly surprised to find how seriously the airline took this upgrade priority concern.
Here’s what happened: The Los Angeles (LAX) to Hong Kong (HKG) flight is operated by a three-cabin 777-300ER aircraft. Both the economy-to-business and business-to-first upgrade requests appear on the same list, ordered according to the same rules. #4, 6, 8 and 9 all were upgrading from a different cabin.
This scenario is going to be a potential issue on any flight operated by American Airlines’ two different three-cabin aircraft: Boeing 777-300ER (used on premier international routes) and Airbus A321T (used on certain transcontinental routes: LAX-MIA, LAX-JFK and JFK-SFO).
The simple solution would be to have separate upgrade lists. While a spokesperson agreed that this would be very customer-friendly change, the airline’s IT department is backlogged with more pressing items. Unfortunately, separate upgrade lists aren’t on the horizon.
And, unfortunately, it can get worse before it gets better. American Airlines is leading the US carriers with its rollout of premium economy, with 63 aircraft scheduled to have the product by year end. If the airline introduces economy to premium economy upgrades, this upgrade list confusion will quickly become the new normal, rather than a one-off.
2. Not enough seats for traveling companions to be upgraded together. My wife Katie and I have been on the short end of this scenario. With our Executive Platinum statuses landing us #1 and #2 on the upgrade list, there was just one first class seat up for grabs for a flight. The gate agent skipped over both of us and upgraded #3 — without checking whether we wouldn’t mind being split up for the flight.
3. You were on the upgrade list for an award flight (Gold, Platinum and Platinum Pro elites only). While Executive Platinum and Concierge Key elites can now get free upgrades on award tickets, other elite members don’t get this perk. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to talk a kind (or poorly-trained) phone or check-in agent into adding you. But, if the gate agent catches it, you might be skipped.
4. You’re not at the gate at boarding. For last-minute gate upgrades, I’ve experienced where gate agents will simply yell out those on the upgrade list. When we stepped forward, we were processed — rather than the gate agent processing the upgrades in the system. Presumably those that weren’t at the gate at boarding would be skipped.
5. Gate agents acting… improperly. Yes, airport upgrades are done manually, so gate agents have say over who gets upgraded and who doesn’t. So, it’s possible that a gate agent went out of order to help someone with a sob story. However, make sure to check that there isn’t another reason before reaching out to American Airlines Customer Relations with a complaint.
Outdated skipping scenarios
1. You were added to the upgrade list on an award flight (Executive Platinum elites only). Now that AA Executive Platinum members get free upgrades on award flights, you should no longer be skipped over for being on the upgrade list improperly. Before this perk was added in early 2017, I was flying on an award ticket and listed as #1 on an upgrade list. The gate agent caught that I was on an award ticket and skipped over me, upgrading the next four passengers on the list.
2. Upgrading non-elite travelers with their elite companion. In the past, airport upgrade lists were ordered “every man for himself.” So, a top-tier elite could be traveling with a low-tier elite spouse. One would be up at the top of the list and the other would be down the list. Gate agents noticing this situation would upgrade both together.
Now, I’ve confirmed with American Airlines that this bug has been worked out. Traveling companions on the same record locator are automatically added to the airport upgrade list based on the upgrade priority of the highest-priority traveler. If you’re on separate record locators, you’re going to have to contact AA reservations to link the two record locators together.
Andrew’s situation sure looked sketchy, so his anger is certainly understandable. Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare situation… and it’s not going away anytime soon either. Hopefully this article shed light on why you might be — or might have been — skipped on an American Airlines upgrade list.
Have you been skipped on an upgrade list — especially for a reason other than those listed here? Sound off below.
JT Genter is a digital nomad who travels full-time while covering American Airlines (Executive Platinum), IHG (Spire Ambassador) and anything points & miles. He's flown 63 airlines and more than 804k miles since 2017.
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Delta Flash Sale: Domestic Awards From 10,000 SkyMiles Round-Trip
Brendan Dorsey
Ever since it launched its SkyMiles Deals page, Delta has consistently offered some pretty great sales on award tickets. This time, it’s offering discounted domestic flights with pricing starting at just 10,000 miles round-trip. Departures are available to and from cities like Atlanta (ATL), Boston (BOS), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA), New York (LGA), San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA) and more.
While Delta doesn’t have an award chart, most of these rates are much lower than normal — transcon flights are going for as little as 17,000 miles round-trip and one-ways are going for half that. If you’re short on miles, remember that you can instantly transfer American Express Membership Rewards points into your SkyMiles account at 1:1 ratio.
You’ll need to book flights by tomorrow, Aug. 15, to take advantage of the sale, with departures available from Sept. 15 through Nov. 15. While Delta’s only advertising select cities, it appears to be available from almost everywhere Delta flies.
Airline: Delta
Routes: Flights to/from ATL/AUS/BOS/CVG/FLL/JFK/LAX/MIA/PWM/PBI/PDX/SAN/SEA/SFO/SLC/TPA and more
Cost: From 10,000 miles plus taxes/fees starting at $11 round-trip. One-way flights are pricing at half of the round-trip price.
Book by: August 15, 2018
Dates: September 15 – November 15, 2018
Restrictions: Terms note that a Saturday night stay is required, but this restriction isn’t being applied in practice.
Pay Taxes and Fees With: The Platinum Card from American Express (5x on airfare), Chase Sapphire Reserve, American Express® Gold Card, Citi Prestige (3x on airfare plus excellent trip delay insurance) or Chase Sapphire Preferred (2x on travel)
New York (LGA) to Boston (BOS) for 10,000 miles + $11 round-trip:
Seattle (SEA) to Portland (PDX) for 11,000 miles + $11 round-trip:
Newark (EWR) to Miami (MIA) for 11,500 miles + $11 round-trip:
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Atlanta (ATL) to Austin (AUS) for 16,000 miles + $11 round-trip:
Newark (EWR) to San Francisco (SFO) for 17,000 miles + $11 round-trip:
Boston (BOS) to San Francisco (SFO) for 18,000 miles + $11 round-trip:
Boston (BOS) to Los Angeles (LAX) for 18,500 miles + $11 round-trip:
Although you won’t be able to earn a Delta credit card welcome bonus quick enough to take advantage of this particular discount round, consider applying for a Delta card for the next time the carrier has a sale. Right now, the Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express comes with a welcome bonus of 30,000 bonus miles after you use your new Card to make $1,000 in purchases within your first 3 months and a $50 Statement Credit after you make a Delta purchase with your new Card within your first 3 months. Terms Apply.
If you have a business, the Platinum Delta SkyMiles® Business Credit Card from American Express is offering 5,000 Medallion® Qualification Miles (MQMs) and 35,000 bonus miles after you spend $1,000 in purchases on your new Card in your first 3 months and earn a $100 statement credit after you make a Delta purchase with your new Card within your first 3 months.
Featured image by Garth Pratt via Unsplash.
Brendan Dorsey is an Associate News Editor at TPG who covers nearly everything for TPG including aviation, credit cards, points, miles, ride-hailing services and more. He previously worked for TIME.
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The Research Loop
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#IrishMed Tweetchat – Patients and Caregivers Involvement in Research
AuthorThe Research LoopPosted on July 26, 2017 July 29, 2017 CategoriesUncategorized
The Research Loop made made its first tweetchat debut on #IrishMed last Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Dr. Liam Farrell from Ireland founded and moderates this tweetchat every Wednesday at 10pm BST and 5pm EST, bringing together an international group of patients, caregivers, providers, researchers, and many more to discuss a range of healthcare topics. For this tweetchat, Liam was kind enough to have me as the co-host to talk about patient and caregiver involvement in research.
Tweetchat Basics
If you’ve never done a tweetchat – here are the basics. They occur at a certain time (usually for 1 hour once a week). They follow a predetermined hashtag (here it was #IrishMed). And anyone is invited. People on twitter just click on the hashtag and they can follow along with the discussion. The moderator usually starts by greeting everyone and inviting them introduce themselves. And after that, the real fun begins as the moderator poses questions (usually labeled T1, T2, T3, and so on for Topic 1, Topic 2, etc). People respond with their thoughts on that topic (it helps if they start off with T1 or A1 (A for answer) so everyone can follow what they are responding to) and add the hashtag to keep the chat going. The time flies by and great connections are made along the way through interesting discussions.
#IrishMed Topics
Liam and I discussed what topics would elicit conversation beforehand and decided on the following:
T1. Do patients and caregivers read research and what do you do with the information?
T2. How can patients/caregivers get involved in research beyond just being study participants?
T3. What do you think holds patients/caregivers back from contributing to research?
T4. What programmes are available to expedite patient/caregiver involvement in research?
T5. Action points; How do we get more patients/caregivers engaged in research? What tools can we provide?
I thought these would be great questions to give an overview of the current state of patients and caregivers involvement in research including barriers to involvement and ideas to encourage involvement. For The Research Loop, it was a bit of a fact-finding mission to understand how better to empower patients and caregivers.
Liam posted these topics and some external links from The Research Loop resources on the IrishMed blog a few days before the tweetchat.
Pre-Show Video
Before the tweetchat, Liam, myself, and Annette McKinnon another patient involved in research in Canada recorded a short video giving some background on the subject. We discussed why Annette and I are interested in this area, patients having an impact on the types of research being done, where people can find research, the hazards and benefits of “expert” patients, and what we were looking forward to in the chat.
#IrishMed Chat – Patients and Caregiver Involvement in Research
The chat was a hit. Individuals from 4 continents and multiple countries engaged including South Africa, Britain, Ireland, Canada, America, and Australia. There were 117 participants reaching 7.249 million impressions (statistics can be found here via Symplur).
A lot of great insights were brought forth. You can read them by following the storify here.
You can also check out a full transcript via Liam’s storify here.
Thoughts after the chat:
#IrishMed is one of the most impressive tweetchats out there. I’m always taken away by the level of engagement and diversity that comes forth and this chat was no different. Just take a look at the graphic below to visualize the interactions that took place.
Marc Smith, NodeXL Social Media Network https://nodexlgraphgallery.org/
It seemed the tweetchat validated The Research Loop’s aims and confirmed many of the barriers The Research Loop is trying to overcome. Patients and Caregivers want to have a voice in research. They can and do engage in research. And they should be able to be even more involved at all stages and in all areas of research. It seems that for many on the chat, they started looking into research because of their own health issues or diagnoses. From there, they want to share and disseminate research.
However, there are often significant barriers to getting patients and caregivers involved. Among them, health literacy or not understanding research-specific language, inability to access articles behind paywalls, and lack of institutional support from researchers or funders of research. Patients and caregivers may need education and training and they also need to be valued, seen as partners, and feel empowered to contribute. Patients and caregivers need more opportunities to be invited to the table and to even know where to start getting involved. And even with opportunities, the practical issues that patients and caregivers face of time, money, well-being can all be a factor in whether they decide to contribute.
It seemed clear by the end that more educational materials are needed both for researchers to understand patient involvement and for patients and caregivers to understand the research process. It also seemed clear that patients and caregivers want to be more involved and want to find new ways to get involved with research.
Going Forward
Going forward, this information will help develop more resources on The Research Loop to continue our mission of empowerment in part through education. Resources on where to find research articles, the research process, how to read a research paper, how feedback from patients and caregivers can impact research, and other ways to get involved in research (beyond The Research Loop) were already live on The Research Loop site. And with the tweetchat in mind, there is a greater dedication to producing more resources – including a new infographic today to help patients and caregivers learn how to evaluate a research paper. By giving patients and caregivers these tools to help them engage in research confidently and effectively, The Research Loop will continue to elevate their voices. And as more patients and caregivers get involved in research, including reading more research, the more likely it is they will want to engage as I did with the researchers and submit feedback via the site.
Patient and caregiver engagement in all aspects of healthcare continues to grow. The knowledge individuals who have personal experience, and thus expertise, of healthcare and healthcare systems is invaluable. And if we can utilize that knowledge by inviting patients and caregivers to the table in research, the results will be extraordinary. That’s what The Research Loop aims to do – transform the research process with the patient and caregiver voice.
Note: this story was originally posted here.
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Environmental Club Holds Biweekly Meeting
Kristen Bosecker
Benita Orie, Staff Writer
As only a few students attend this week’s meeting, held in Ms. Michelle Fagan’s room, Environmental Club members pray this one begins their breakthrough. With only six avid members, the club seems to dwindle as the years go by. The door to the outside world slams shut, and the progression to a more energy-efficient school environment begins.
“Maybe you could go off the love for your environment,’’ Mrs. Fagan said as the club members discuss Valentine’s Day themes and projects.
The club plans to create massive red, pink and white heart-shaped posters to stick up around the school that encourage students to remember the environment even on the love-filled day.
Members pitched t-shirt designs, and arrived at a final decision.
“I’m thinking we should do a green comfort colors t-shirt with light blue or white writing on the front and back,” senior Saella Ware said. “I think that would look great!” Other members nod their heads in agreement.
Member recruitment remains a struggle for this particular club, but senior and club president, Saella Ware finds the determination to draw fresh faces to the weekly meetings by reviving their table at lunch enriched with a tri fold informational poster, flyers, and even some candy to seal the deal with curious students.
“There are so many students, especially freshman who are not involved in any clubs, so I want environmental to be a club where they can help change the environment of our school,” Ware said.
Strewn on the table are new and improved ideas, including “Hot Chocolate and Trash”, a semi social event which encourages members to pick up trash around the school or at a designated area, and enjoy cups of steaming hot chocolate afterward.
“It’s a special and easy way for members in the club to bond and help the environment at the same time,” Ware said.
Sitting at arm’s length from one another, club members discuss a plan to place recycling bins on each floor of Legacy high school, a major project revolving around the idea that students can throw away their plastic materials in the bins instead of the trash, therefore enhancing the environmental awareness in all of the school.
“We need more people involved in our club so if you guys know anyone that would like to join, please talk to them and tell them about environmental.” Ware said.
Flitters of laughter and jokes fill the room as members decide to boost the club through social media platforms. Twitter, a media outlet the club leaders plan to utilize to reach a wider range of people, helps to spread environmental awareness. This serves as a long term change, in addition to making weekly announcements and putting up posters.
“Thank you all for attending this week’s meeting, I hope we can put all of these ideas to into action.” Ware said. “Have a great day!”
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Desert Hot Springs, California, lies in the Coachella Valley, set in the desert shadow of the Transverse Ranges near Joshua Tree National Park. The burgeoning community gets its name from the geothermally heated groundwater associated with the San Andreas Fault. To ecologically attuned visitors and outdoor enthusiasts, the surrounding region’s mosaic of plant communities astounds with its diversity.
Ecological Geography
Desert Hot Springs lies at the crossroads of several ecological provinces, always a good recipe for biological diversity. It’s tucked into the northwestern lobe of California’s Colorado Desert, a subsection of the Sonoran Desert that sprawls across southeastern California, Baja California, Sonora and southern Arizona. Across the Little San Bernardino Mountains is the Mojave Desert, which lies mostly in California but extends into southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. Adding greatly to the region's ecological diversity are mountains that loom to impressive heights to the north and south of Desert Hot Springs, which sits in the San Gorgonio Pass between the Transverse Ranges to the north -- which include the Little San Bernardinos and the San Bernardino Mountains -- and the Peninsular Ranges, specifically the San Jacinto Mountains, to the south. The San Bernardino Mountains include 11,502-foot Mount San Gorgonio, Southern California’s tallest peak.
Notable Desert Plants
A stone's throw east from Desert Hot Springs lies one of the iconic landscapes of the Mojave Desert: Joshua Tree National Park, the perfect destination for botany buffs with its 750-plus species of native plants. The namesake Joshua tree is a huge, unmistakable yucca whose natural range almost perfectly describes the bounds of the Mojave. Joshua tree woodlands are most common along benches and slopes above desert lowlands, which are often cloaked in creosote-bush scrub. Creosote bush is among the most widespread plants of California’s drylands. Just as impressive as the Joshua tree is the California fan palm, a towering, massive-headed tree that bristles in otherworldly groves marking desert oases. You can visit stunning palm oases in Joshua Tree National Park and others widely scattered in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.
Big Morongo Canyon
Another fantastic place to sample the area’s desert ecosystems is Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, less than a half-hour’s drive north of Desert Hot Springs. Lying astride the Mojave-Colorado desert frontier, the preserve includes one of California’s largest riparian oases of Fremont cottonwood and willows that shoulder a fault-line creek in a defile, or valley, in the western Little San Bernardinos. Above the deep, shady tangles of the canyon bottom -- wooded with mesquite and alder alongside the cottonwood and willow -- you can gaze up to mountainsides clumped with Mojave yucca and creosote bush. Brief water flows from tributary washes sustain jungle thickets of catclaw, desert willow, mesquite and other desert shrubs.
Mountain Vegetation
The lofty height of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains in the hinterland of Desert Hot Springs produces a spectacular spectrum of plant communities. From foothills dominated by desert vegetation and scrub, the countryside looms into rich mixed-conifer woods quite similar to the timber stands of the Sierra Nevada. Widespread trees include white fir, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine and incense-cedar. On the very highest peaks, upper-elevation forests transition to timberline clusters of gnarled lodgepole pine, limber pine and Sierra juniper. The San Bernardino National Forest, which includes nearly 90,000 acres of old growth, provides outstanding opportunities to hike into the fragrant, rugged woods of these mountain islands, so strikingly different from the desert reaches at their feet.
A Natural History of California; Allan A. Schoenherr
National Park Service: Joshua Tree National Park -- Plants
A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Deserts of the Southwest; Peggy Larson
Bureau of Land Management: Big Morongo Canyon Preserve
Timberline: Mountain and Arctic Forest Frontiers; Stephen F. Arno, Ramona P. Hammerly
USDA Forest Service: San Bernardino National Forest -- About the Area
National Park Service: Joshua Tree National Park -- Joshua Trees
National Park Service: Joshua Tree National Park -- Fan Palm Oases
National Park Service: Joshua Tree National Park -- Plan Your Visit
Big Morongo Canyon Preserve: Visitor Information
USDA Forest Service: San Bernardino National Forest -- Heaps Peak Arboretum Day Use Area
Ethan Shaw is a writer and naturalist living in Oregon. He has written extensively on outdoor recreation, ecology and earth science for outlets such as Backpacker Magazine, the Bureau of Land Management and Atlas Obscura. Shaw holds a Bachelor of Science in wildlife ecology and a graduate certificate in geographic information systems from the University of Wisconsin.
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Battling trauma: Locals fear aftershocks will flatten buildings
Collapse of weak structures can add to death toll, says architect.
By Muhammad Irfan
Collapse of weak structures can add to death toll, says architect. PHOTO: REUTERS
MINGORA:
Two days after a devastating earthquake ripped through various parts of the country, a wave of panic spread through Swat. The catastrophe claimed 34 lives in the region and left 199 others wounded. Residents live in mortal fear of what lies ahead. The initial trauma has not yet been replaced by the pressing need to look ahead.
False sense of security
At first, nothing will strike you as out of the ordinary as you enter Malakand through Dargai check post. However, the effects of Monday’s earthquake are still tangible. Frequent aftershocks make people’s blood run cold with fear and they rush out of their homes towards open grounds. Security at check posts has also been tightened as high-ranking officials plan to visit the area following the earthquake.
Residents of Mingora – the main town of Swat and the business hub of Malakand Division – also find themselves on edge. A false sense of security has gripped the region. Although most of Mingora’s buildings have not been damaged or destroyed by the tremors, neither of them are safe. Many multi-storey buildings were constructed after the military operation without consulting architects, government officials or engineers. Locals fear aftershocks will flatten these buildings and result in massive casualties.
Shaukat Sharar, an architect in Swat, tells The Express Tribune all buildings in Makanbagh, Landi Kas, Qambar, Bypass, Green Chowk, Nishat Chowk and Fizza Gat were constructed without conducting a thorough land survey. “We live on the fault line and these buildings collapsing will lead to human losses,” he explains, pointing towards a plaza in Mingora.
“It is rumoured the building was constructed from poor-quality cement,” says Naveed Zada, a college lecturer. “Many people are trying to evacuate buildings in Grassy Ground, Green Chowk and Kanju Town.”
Shattered lives
Fazal Rabi, a comedian who has devoted his life to making people laugh, finds himself at a loss for words following the catastrophe. “With every aftershock, we run towards open grounds,” he says. “However, most of the grounds are crowded with people and there is often no space to accommodate more. As a result, we have no choice but to stay indoors and pray for our safety.”
Zarak, a businessman, says the earthquake has traumatised his children and they are often seen crying inconsolably during aftershocks.
The destruction wreaked by the earthquake has drawn attention to a series of unsustainable practices which residents have failed to bring under control.
Ihsan Khan, a landlord from Khwazakhela, tells The Express Tribune the people of Swat Valley are to blame for the destruction wreaked by the natural disaster. “Poor urban and rural planning and deforestation are the reasons for the vast level of destruction,” he adds.
According to Ihsan, the foundation of houses constructed across the valley cannot withstand earthquakes.
Karim Shah, a resident of Bahrain Bazaar who runs a garment shop, claims most hotels and shops are built on the edge of Swat River.
“There are huge cracks behind our shops,” he says. “Hiding these cracks from tourists is difficult. The district administration should visit the area and evacuate people and tourists.”
Sigh of relief
Abdullah, an official of the district government, says he is surprised that an earthquake of such a high magnitude did not wreak more damage.
“We were spared from a major catastrophe” he says. “We would not be able to tackle such a disaster. We don’t have the equipment or facilities to assist victims at this stage.
“People should know, that they are on their own,” he adds.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2015.
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Claude & Nathan Miller's exploration of family ties, I'M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE Interview with the co-filmmaker
I'M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE is a collaborative first for Claude Miller, who has brought in his son Nathan as co-director/
writer. It is also yet another Miller movie (Class Trip, Alias Betty, La Petite Lili, A Secret) that gets just about every-
thing right and yet seems bereft of any highly noticeable directorial stamp (this is a compliment, by the way). Instead the story is simply told in the most appropriate manner possible so that its meaning and applications to our world can be seen.
What I love about Miller's movies is that, while they don't over-explain or make their characters and situations too simple, they always open up the world to us in new and different ways (often rather cracked ways), making us piece together the shards as best we can. In this latest endeavor, a based-on-truth tale of an adopted boy who, as a young man, at last reconnects with his birth mom, the Millers (at left: père above and fils below) give us the facts of the matter, melding past and present to create full characters and a rich story easily followed yet fraught with possibilities.
Miller and his son tackle these possibilities with the director's brand of tacit skill, making us aware that, though the human condition is vast and unknowable, its exploration is always worth our trouble. I find Miller to be a non-judgmental director in the best way: He lays it all out and lets you make your own call, which, by the end of his films, is no simple matter. Miller always makes it clear that in real life blame and approbation are not so easily or evenly bestowed.
One of those torn-from-the-headlines tales that have you asking, "How can people do such things?" even as the news media blares its hasty judgement, in the Millers' hands, the movie refrains from giving you any sensationalism early on, and instead tracks the story beginning-to-end -- thus answering some of our emotional and psychological questions, as well as the simple one of What happened next? As in so many off Miller's movies, the connections are many and vital, but how difficult they often are to untangle.
In the lead role, young Vincent Rottiers (above, also seen to fine effect another film that really should be released here, Xavier Gianolli's In the Beginning) gives the kind of performance that deservedly wins awards. Full of subtle, quicksilver changes as he searches for identity, mother, companionship and love, this actor never makes a false step and should have a long and full career.
As his birth mother, Sophie Cattani is also excellent -- warm, slutty, selfish and finally as surprising as her son. In the roles of the adoptive parents, Christine Citti (below, right) and Yves Verhoeven (below, left) make us feel their situation and pain as something not just unfortunate but terribly unfair.
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (90 minutes, from Strand Releasing) opens in New York City on Friday, September 2, at The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center -- followed by a national roll out.
TrustMovies met with the film's co-writer and co-director Nathan Miller during the 2010 Rendez-vous with French Cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center -- where the film made its U.S. debut. At the time isi film had no U.S. distribution secured, but after in the year and a half since, it has found an outlet and can be seen at last. In the following exchange, Nathan's words appear in standard type, and TM's in boldface
So you acted in your father's film, The Best Way? That's the first time I guess I saw you.
(Nathan laughs heartily) Yes. I was six years old.
How old are you now?
No.. Really? It was that long ago?
Don't tell me.
I just saw it for the first time on DVD. A friend of mind said, 'You've got to see this!"
That was my father's first film. His first long film.
Really? It holds up very well.
Yes-- it does not age badly.
You worked on the camera for The Petite Lili...
Yes, and for The Secret, and also Betty Fisher and Other Stories.
For me, your father's films --and now I can start to say your films -- I don't think that Claude Miller has any terribly pronouced visual style, yet for me his films get at the truth in a way that the films of not very many other directors can do. Truth is what everybody wants -- or claims to want -- to get at in film, whether it's a documentary or narrative. Directors want to get at it, but it is hard to do. But that's what I think your father, and maybe you....
No judgment. You have to have no judgment on your characters to find the truth of them.
Yes! And so you see things from various angles. From various people. So it is hard to be judgmental. That is so true of this film.
Yes, and that is funny. Becasue we love all the characters. We have no evil characters.
Even in Class Trip-- which is awful, what happens. My companion was so disturbed by that movie. And he stopped watching Alias Betty Fisher for that reason, too. Your films are disturbing in ways we usually don't get close to.
(Nathan nods. And then he and the translator confer)
For formal resons, this movie was not by Claude. This is because I was the only director on the set. Every decision, every camera direction, was only by me. Claude would sit behind the video monitor and he would look at everything I had done on it. And sometimes he would see something wrong for him, and we would discuss together. But nobody -- and I mean nobody -- heard his voice during this shoot.
So this then is your movie?
No. It is like -- you know you've got a big, big and fat car, but you never drive. And your father give you the key. But he...
Is sitting in the backseat?
Yes, and you drive...
When he had questions about something you did, did he win sometimes and you other times?
It was not a winning matter. We wrote the script together, and so we did not care of the formality of the camera -- the aesthetic. You don't care about the camera-- where to put it, how it moves. The only thing now Claude is interested for movies is the script, the actors and the editing. He don't care about the camera. He don't care about the movement. Of course: He do it. But he was so happy that I had done it! He never ask me, whay did you shoot like this? Why like that? The problem sometime is with the direction of acting, the feeling of seconds. (Ed's note: Perhaps he means the pacing. We should have asked.)
Has this always been true -- even in other movies?
Yes, always true. He don't want to know what I do with the second camera. He want me to do what I think is the best for him. He has his own camera. I am the master of the second camera.
This is something I didn't know about. Is the second camera there as a back-up?
No. As a compliment. Because I know him a lot. I work with him since I am 16 years old. For 24 years now. I know him, his taste. I know what he wants. We discover on the first movie we made together a video movie. Simple camera. No problem with lighting. The film was a success critically and it was popular, too: The Magicians's Room. Like a Dogma movie. A very strange movie. Claude loved the way he discovered during the editing what he didn't know: Look at the this shot -- look at that one! We discovered that the film finally was 50 % and 50% from both of us. So he never stopped this collaboration with me. The next job was Betty Fisher. And for that, I knew nothing. Never knew 35 millimeter Had to learn everything. Never had a 35 M camera on my shoulder. I do exactly the same thing. But I got into big problem with the lighting operator....
So maybe it is better to have no winning between us. I am now involved with the camera, and I just do the best I can. And I do it like I remember he do it. It is with two cameras every time. And I then I do it. This one (I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive) is a simple movie. No traveling, no movement. With two cameras, everything. So I make the shoot as I used to see it done by him. And I do this with the acting, too. But as you know, he was there. He was sitting in thre back seat. When you've got someone like that who is sititing in the back seat, you can take risks, you can drive faster. Because he has got his hand on the hand brake. But yet he never use that hand brake.
When you cast Vincent Rottiers, had the actor already done A la Origine?
He was just then coming off that shoot, which was running late on the shoot. So we wait for him.
He is going to be a very big star, I think.
I am sure. Yes, he is incredible! He start at age 13 and has already made 20 movies. And he is but 22 years old. But he is not famous at all and is a very quiet person. Very modest, discrete.
He fits well within your movie.
More than you can imagine! We had an incredible meeting. He is not a close friend of me. Maybe, during the shoot, we speak maybe 10 words. But duriing the shoot, he gives it all. I never had to ask him anything, you just look at him and he give you everything. Maybe twenty thousand times more than you can imagine.
So you leave that alone, and just let him work?
Yes. With Vincent it was always one shot. Maybe we make two, but the first one was always right.
How was the movie received in France?
Badly. Terribly.
The critical response was very good. But on the Wednesday, when it open...
Nobody came?
Nobody. Perhaps they thought it was too harsh, too hard. A very cerebral intellectual French movie. Maybe if I was not the director of it....
Maybe this is your Iraq movie?!
(He explodes with laughter, but then turns to the translator, who explains. The translator tells him what this means -- how nearly every American film about the middle east post 9/11 has done poorly at the Box-office. Then we talk about The Hurt Locker and all the critical response and Academy Awards-- and still no box-office.)
Well, perhaps we were not honest about what this movie was. You see the poster, right?
Yes. People don't go to the movies for the truth, do they?
The saddest thing was speaking to people after who loved the film, but they tell us: We did not know the movie was about this! Maybe we made a mistake about how we explained what the movie was?
Maybe the film will be better received where they don't know the story.
I agree with you but the press always want to tell the story and to talk a little bit too much.
I think so, too. In fact, if I could change anything about movie criticism in this country, it would be stop talking about the plot!
Oh, yes, but they always want the plot.
Even the trailers they make today --
They tell you everything!
Fortunately this was a small little movie....
That didn't cost too much to make?
But it was hard for me.
I'll bet. What's next for you?
Ah, a strange story. Pascale Ferran: He is a writer but he also directed Lady Chatterley a few years ago, with the writer Pierre Trividic. He came to me with a very strange story about Chateaubriand, a famous French writer during the beginning of the 19th Century. It is something completely different.
In the case of I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive, this was also something different for us. In this universe, the producer had asked us to direct it. So it is not a film that originated with me or Claude. It was brought to us, but it was not the kind of movie we would make at all. It is usually Claude who chooses the story. But this time, it was the producer. Jacques Audiard did not want to do it anymore, so it was brought to us. And that is why you see Jacques Audiard's name on the credit as producer.
When your father was here a few years ago with Class Trip or maybe Alias Betty, I asked a question from the audience, When are we going to get a Claude Miller retrospective? Richard Peña was on stage with Claude at the time, and Claude very subtly pointed to Richard and said, 'Ask him!' Maybe it is time.
There will be a retrospective of my father's work but it will be in Los Angeles, and it will include almost all of his movies. Maybe not all -- but many.
That's great; a real retrospective of his work. But in L.A. Not here.
But there should be no problem to arrange something here, too?
Well then, ask Richard Peña about this. Tell him there has been a second request for that retrospective!
(He laughs.)
Listen, Nathan, this has been a real pleasure, and what you have told me has been so interesting. I thank you so much for your time -- and for your movie!
All images above are from the film itself -- except the first below the poster of the two writers/directors.
Labels: Claude Miller, fact-based films, French film, I'M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE, Nathan Miller, under-sung filmmakers
Blue Serge: Joann Sfar's GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE opens at Film Forum
In the press notes for his movie GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE, writer/director/
cartoonist Joann Sfar tells us, "I obviously know Gainsbourg's 'real life' like the back of my hand. But I did not want to make a 'realistic' or 'documentary-like' film." Europeans and British -- of a certain age, at least -- will probably know the life of Serge Gainsbourg, the famous French singer, songwriter and provacateur of the 1960s and 70s, like the back of their hand, too. But Americans? Not so much.
TrustMovies, for instance, had heard and enjoyed a number of Gainsbourg's songs (many of them provocative, and in ways not only sexual, though that was a very large component of their and his success), and he knew of his relationship with British actress/model Jane Birkin and the offspring of that union, the fine actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. So he was prepared to have M. Sfar, shown at right, fill in a lot of blank spaces.
Immediately post-viewing, and for the week or two since spent mulling over the movie, most of those spaces remain open. I do, however, have a much stronger sense of the single thing that, according to the filmmaker, set Serge's life on its exhaustive course: the poor fellow's "ugly" mug face.
In a whirlwind of fact, fantasy and memory, Sfar juggles live action with some very smart animation, culminating in the creation of the single thing that most sets the movie apart, Gainsbourg's alter ego consisting of a puppet-like face atop a real body. This "double" (played well by the versatile Doug Jones of the Hellboy movies) follows our hero, acts as his sidekick, comments on his doings, and always manages to undercut him at prime moments.
As important as this character is to the film, you might think there would be an image of him somewhere in all the press materials or even the many sources for online photos (of which this movie has about as many as I have ever seen: one source offers you 63 photos from which to choose!). But, no. The powers-that-be are keeping Mr. Alter Ego a big secret visually. To get a gander at him, you'll have to see the movie.
(Update: I just finally found this photo, above, of Serge's double -- "The Mug" -- on GreenCine, along with an interesting review of the film by Vadim Rizov.) I wish the shot were taken at more distance, so you could see at a glance how well it combines the sense of animation with live action in a singe character.)
Meanwhile, here are a few other things you'll catch, as Gainsbourg meanders through its two-hour-two-minute running time. Sfar explores Serge's childhood as a Jew in pre/during/post WWII France. If the movie is to be believed -- and what the hell: we might as well! -- as a child, Gainsbourg was even more provocative: The scene in which he gets his Jewish "star" is a kind of Holocaust "classic" (above), while his meeting with the then-famous Fréhel (played and sung by Yolande Moreau, below, center) is cute and pungent.
The singer's relations with hot entertainers of the time, from Birkin (a wan Lucy Gordon) and Bardot (Laetitia Casta, below) to Juliette Gréco (Anna Mouglalis) are presented with occasional choice detail (Gréco's talking cat) and lots of camera caresses (Bardot), so we get a sense of glamour, fame and the spark between each pair but little more. It's all whirlwind visuals, impressive but shallow.
In the role of Gainsbourg, journeyman actor Eric Elmosnino, shown below, with 39 credits behind him, comes into his own in this role, giving a performance that stays within the somewhat narrow, psychologically-based range the director clearly wanted and yet manages to be memorable on its own. Elmosnino has the look, the charisma and even manages the sound of his real-life counterpart.
Clearly, M. Sfar did not want the kind of "this happened and then that happened" standard-form bio-pic, of which Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose is one of the finer examples. But has he managed to expand and better the form with his own style? I am not so sure. Via the character of "The Mug," he's created an alternative reality without much reality in it. His outdoor scenes, maybe due to budgetary reasons, feature few extras or traffic, thus calling attention to this lack, rather than to the lead characters on screen. And all the visual panache on display finally has the effect of giildng the lily, or in this case, the hothouse orchid.
As with so many movies devoted to musical celebrities, Gainsbourg, too, peaks in interest with the protagonist's early rise to fame, and then grows somewhat tiresome as our "hero," as usual, abuses himself, his family and his talent. Once we're over the charming, funny and -- as it's Serge -- provocative childhood years, we get to the main section devoted to -- surprise! -- the Gainsbourg variation on the usual musical biopic theme: sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. This is inevitable, of course. Yet despite Sfar's stylish surface and his use of the mug-faced "double" for psychological ballast, the movie is hollow.
The last section, featuring his work in the reggae realm (above), using the French National Anthem (a nice touch of completion, as La Marseillaise is also used to interesting effect in the early part of the film) turns out to annoy the French right wing. "Serge Gainsbourg stirs up antisemitism to keep the royalties rolling in," notes one angry critic. Ever the provocateur, in his last years, the fellow was still expanding his musical range, while sounding like a French Dylan, and looking a lot like Jean-Pierre Cassel.
As to the sub-title "A Heroic Life," after experiencing the movie, you may question the meaning of "hero." And yet -- if fighting one's own demons makes one heroic, why not? In that case, ladies and gentlemen, consider yourselves heroes. If this review sounds like a pan, I don't mean it to be. Serge Gainsbourg is simply too interesting a character whose life and times are bound to engage us -- if the film is at all well-done. While I wish this film were better, deeper, I am still pleased to have seen it. So may you be, if you have any interest in the man, his music and his life. If not, you might enjoy it purely for its look at and sound of France a half-century past.
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, from Music Box Films, opens this Wednesday, August 31, at Film Forum in New York, and in Los Angeles (at the NuArt) and Irvine,California (at Edwards' University Town Center). A national rollout will follow, and you can check all the cities, dates and theaters here.
Labels: bio-pics, celebrity culture, GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE, Joann Sfar, Serge Gainsbourg
Hillbilly hellions prove heavenly source of fun in Eli Craig's TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL
Movie clichés -- especially those in the slasher/horror/
hillbillies-in-the-woods genre -- get a delightful drumming from director, writer and sometimes actor (he plays the cameraman in this film) Eli Craig. In his first full-lenth venture as writer/director, he has gifted us with one of the funnier examples -- so much better than, say, Hobo with a Shotgun -- of a movie that wants to turn its genre on its head in some way; kick it in the pants, goose it into overdrive. With TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL, after a slow set-up, Mr. Craig succeeds surprisingly well.
The filmmaker, right, knows his genres and can thus make fun even as he gives his film what fans most want: blood, guts and kids in trouble. His ace-in-the-hole is the fact that he's simply made the usual villains into the heroes, while taking the ever present set of high-school or college kids from the nitwits they often are, into full-out certifiable bad-guy nut cases -- even if this is more accidental than not.
Though the movie, at 90 minutes, is still a bit too long, Craig has saved many of the best bits for the lengthy finale and denouement, so the laughs and fun do continue to build.
As usual among the lesser characters, characterization is minimal and the roles quickly dispensed with. But in his four leads, the filmmaker has cast well and drawn some very good performances, starting with that of Tyler Labine (above, left, as Dave), who, along with Alan Tudyk (above, right, as the titular Tucker) make great hillbilly fun (rather than simply making fun of hillbillies)
The inevitable lone girl who must go up against the bad guy(s) is here played by Katrina Bowden (above, center), and much of the film's sweetness and fun are provided by the very unusual relationship spawned between Bowden and Labine, who make a damned nice couple despite, well, you'll see (but you'll have to sit through the end credits to do it).
The real villain is given a nice spin by Jesse Moss (above, right, with Ms Bowden), who plays Chad, a fellow whose lineage provides the film with its single best laugh. Oh, yes, there's plenty of blood and guts along the way, as befits the genre, but most of it is done with humor, surprise and invention.
Opening theatrically via Magnet Releasing on September 30 (you can check the listing of theaters -- a lot of 'em -- across the country during October and November here), it is also available via VOD now. In fact, unless I am mistaken, this is the first film from Magnet/Magnolia that we critics have been asked to review during the week of its VOD release, rather than waiting a month until the theatrical release. So, whether you watch it at home now or in a theater later, you're hearing about it somewhat earlier than usual. Click the link above or consult your local TV reception-provider for the how-to-get-it-On-Demand details.
Labels: backwoods movies, comedies, Eli Craig, Slasher movies, TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL
Maryam Keshavarz's CIRCUMSTANCE: the Iranian "entitled" want some "freedom"
The wealthy family at the center of Maryam Keshavarz's quivering, queasy-making movie, CIRCUMSTANCE, would probably protest my use of the word entitled in the headline.And that's all right. (The entitled, after all, are those welfare queens and sick old seniors burying the U.S. deeper in debt, right?) The filmmaker herself, pictured below, might take umbrage, too, although I suspect she knows very well that her movie is mostly about Iran's entitled young people -- and their "friends" -- as they explore the limits of freedom in a fascist state enveloped by the burka.
How come our girls are not often seen in that partcular item of clothing? That's part of the entitlement. This is mostly all they know, and you can't blame a novice filmmaker for showing us what she knows -- particularly when it is this exotic to foreign eyes.
Once you get past the exoticism, however -- and this may be hard for some Americans and Western Europeans because it deals in forbidden sexuality (lesbianism!) in a Muslim country, and is handled with a good deal of artful flair -- you are left with a tale of youth under the thumb: of parent, brother, and government.
We've seen that tale told countless times on-screen, but because the Arab spring -- real or hyphed -- is so with us of late, the film often takes on an immediacy that is difficult to shake. Plus, the beautiful leading ladies (Nikohl Boosheri, above, left, and Sarah Kazemy, above, right), as well as the talented and broodingly hot young actor (Reza Sixo Safai, below), who essays the role of the brother, are all so visual-friendly, we could look at them till the cows come home.
Ms Keshavaz tell her small tale circumspectly and ripely. An exquisitely realized scene in the music room of a grand house sets the pace and place of the film quite beautifully. There is a visual rapture that the filmmaker brings to her treatment of, in particular, memory and attraction that makes her movie unusually vivid. Her camera lingers on the girls and their skin, at all angles, that is nearly soft, soft-core.
An interesting cultural/political conversation takes place among the kids in a videoroom in back of a barbershop, and later we see them "relaxing" at a rave. (Compare these kids with those Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows about Persian Cats.) The filmmaker allows us to see what repression does to the male of this culture, too, as the line "Give me you foot!" resonates on a level you would not have imagined possible.
At times the film seems to be asking the viewer, not to mention the culture here, to rethink what is sacred and what is profane. Brother Mehran, a kind of sick, avenging angel will no doubt stand in for what is "sacred" in fundamentalist mind but what is most profane in that of the humanist/feminist. In any case, the filmmaker clearly means him to be the villain of the year, and the actor more than rises to the occasion.
In both Mehran and his sister Atafeh (Ms Boosheri), the film finds its explicit critique of the entitled. Neither is good for anything much. Mehran, who might have made an acccomplished musician, moves from drug rehab into a sick, violent religious fervor, while Atafeh, fiery and disobedient,can do no more than finally subject her best friend and great love to a life of living hell.
Circumstance, from Roadside Attractions (running time 108 minutes) opened thus past Friday in the Los Angeles and New York City areas. Click here to see complete city and theater listings..
Labels: CIRCUMSTANCE, entitled Iranians, Iranian film, Islam and feminism, Islam and lesbianism, Maryam Keshavarz
Isabelle Huppert stuns in Jeanne Labrune's witty, thoughtful SPECIAL TREATMENT
"You've got good taste, for a hooker," notes an attitude-prone antiques dealer to the prostitute played by Isabelle Huppert in the unusual new film SPECIAL TREATMENT (Sans queue ni tête), which opened theatrically yesterday in Manhattan. Well, Ms Huppert would. She plays Alice Bergerac, a high-level hooker in a Paris seemingly filled with whores and shrinks -- in a movie that finds a surprising amount of common ground between the two professions, a fact that put The NY Times critic Stephen Holden's nose slightly out of joint. (The very idea, disparaging the work of the acolytes of Herr Freud!)
Well, more power to writer/director Jeanne Lebrune (shown at right) and co-writer Richard Debuisne for exploring the similarities between these pay-for-my-time-and-I'll-give-you-what-you-want/need professions. Their movie alternates scenes of shrinks (together or solo) with and without their "patients" and scenes of prostitutes with theirs. At one wittily filmed social gathering, the analysts compare rates, time periods (one bored fellow suggests five-minute sessions for much less money and -- he advises -- equal results.
What? Do these filmmakers imply that not every shrink has humanity's best interests at heart? Makes sense to me. Since we already know that not every whore has a heart of gold, why not look at the monetary, social and sexual interests of analysts?
The Times critic also takes Huppert to task for being, as fine an actress as she is, too old for the role. He ungenerously tells her her age, while neglecting to mention that she does not look it -- which, in this case, is the whole point. For her clients, she is role-playing, and doing a damned good job of it. (If TM were a fellow inclined to pay for sex, he's have no trouble dishing out the Euros to Huppert's Alice)
In the course of the movie, the actress gets the opportunity to don a number of fun outfits, wigs and (sort of) personalities, though -- as is often the case with this actress -- she remains aloof and almost obsessively self-composed. Which, of course, adds to her allure.
One shrink whom we meet, Xavier, seems particularly at wit's end, his marriage to his analyst wife imploding. Played by the wonderful actor Bouli Lanners (above, with Ms Huppert), of the under-seen El Dorado, this character manages to give Huppert's a run for the money in terms of sheer interest. By a dose of luck and circumstance, he connects with Alice, but the relationship does not offer either what they need.
Here the movie turns into something stronger and more edifying than we had expected, involving an analyst who actually knows what he is doing (played quite well with an intriguing reticence and humility by the co-screenwriter, M. Debuisne, below, left ,with M. Lanners).
What comes through most strongly in this very interesting and engaging movie is E.M. Forster's plea/suggestion: Only connect! Forster meant this on the emotional levvel, and this, of course, is what neither analysts nor prostitutes are able to do -- and supposedly should not do. And yet without this emotional connection to underpin what they are "giving," what worth are they? With it, however, they -- and their clients -- might, who knows, take on their share of the job of changing this sodden, hypocriticial world.
The great strength of Special Treatment is how wittily and subversively it upends what we think we know. The movie, from the wonderfully reliable First Run Feautres, opened yesterday in New York City at the Cinema Village. Click here then scroll down for other playdates, cities and theaters.
Labels: analysis, enforced prostitution, French cinema, Jeanne Labrune, Richard Debuisne, SPECIAL TREATMENT, therapy
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Fast Results from Las Vegas: Wilder Knocks out Ortiz Emphatically
Arne K. Lang
LAS VEGAS, NV — Tonight WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder made the 10th defense of the title he won in 2015 in a wide decision over Bermane Stiverne here at the MGM Grand Garden. In the opposite corner was former opponent Luis “King Kong” Ortiz whose only loss in 32 pro bouts came at the hands of the “Bronze Bomber.”
In common with the first meeting, the bout started slowly as both were wary of each other’s power. The first four rounds were very much a carbon of the first meeting. The pace picked up slightly in round five but yet there was no intimation of the thunderclap that would bring the fight to a sudden and dramatic conclusion. In fact, through the six completed rounds, Ortiz was ahead by two points on one of the cards and by four points on the others.
The moment of truth for Luis Ortiz came in the final minute of round seven when Wilder landed a straight right hand that hit Ortiz flush in the forehead. Down he went on his backside. It appeared that he beat the count by a fraction of a second but his legs were unsteady and referee Kenny Bayless wisely stopped the fight.
Wilder improved to 42-0-1 with his 41st knockout and built a strong case that he is the top dog of all the active heavyweights.
TV Undercard
In a bout for a vacant WBA 130-pound title, Leo Santa Cruz (37-1-1) became a title-holder in a fourth weight class with a unanimous decision over Tex-Mex challenger Miguel Flores (24-3). The scores were 115-112 and 117-110 twice. There were no knockdowns but Flores had a point deducted for holding in round eight.
There were no indelible moments, but things became a bit dicey for Santa Cruz in round 10 when an accidental clash of heads opened a gash on his left eyelid. After the fight, Santa Cruz stated that he hoped 2020 would bring a fight with Gervonta Davis and/or Gary Russell Jr. He would be willing to move to 135 to fight Gervonta, or so he said.
In a good action fight fought at close quarters, Brandon Figueroa and Julio Ceja battled to a 12-round draw. At stake was Figueroa’s WBA super bantamweight title. However, Ceja came in four pounds overweight, so he could not claim the title if he had won.
The 22-year-old Figueroa, from Weslaco, Texas, remained undefeated at 20-0-1. His older brother Omar Figueroa Jr., a former WBC lightweight title-holder, suffered his first pro loss in this building four months ago. Mexico’s Ceja, who came in having lost three of his previous five, declined to 32-4-1.
In a mild upset, Mexico’s Eduardo Ramirez (23-2-3, 10 KOs) scored a fourth-round stoppage of Leduan Barthelemy. A sweeping right hand followed by an overland left knocked Barthelemy on the seat of his pants near the end of the fourth round. He turned his back on the referee when he arose and the fight was waived off.
This was a rematch. They had previously fought to a draw. Ramirez was 2-2 in the interim. Leduan, the youngest of the three fighting Barthelemy brothers, fell to 15-1-1.
Other Bouts
In a welterweight contest, 17-year-old Vito Mielnicki Jr improved to 3-0 with a second- round stoppage of North Carolina’s Marklin Bailey (6-6). New Jersey’s Mielnicki, nicknamed White Magic, had knocked out his first two opponents in the opening round. Marklin had lost four straight coming in and while he had scant chance of winning when the fight was made, he got no break from referee Russell Mora who stopped it prematurely.
The Alejandro brothers from Dallas, 23-year-old Arnold (11-1) and 19-year-old Angel (8-0) had mixed results vs. their Filipino opponents. In a shocker, Arnold, a super featherweight, suffered his first pro loss when John Cermino (21-12-1, 11 KOs) unhinged him from his senses in the fifth round with a devastating right hand. The referee didn’t bother to count. Angel (8-0) fared better in a 6-round contest with Mark John Yap (30-15), winning a unanimous decision.
Cruiserweight Marsellos Wilder, a former Arena League football standout and the younger brother of Deontay, was knocked out for the second time in seven pro fights. Dustin Long, a 37-year-old Tennessean, turned the trick with a sweeping left hook in the fourth round. Long improved to 3-1-2.
Twenty-year-old Brownsville welterweight Omar Juarez improved to 6-0 with a sixth-round stoppage of Michigan’s Kevin Shacks (3-5-3). Juarez had Shacks down twice in the first round but the Michigander lasted into the sixth.
In a battle of southpaws, LA-based Ukrainian Viktor Slavinskyi (11-0-1) won a six-round decision over Alejandro Hermosillo (11-2-1). The scores were 60-54, 59-55, and 58-56.
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Jeison Rosario’s Upset Crowns This Week’s Edition of HITS and MISSES
Kelsey McCarson
There’s was plenty of quality boxing action available for consumption this weekend in the U.S., particularly on Saturday evening because of the competing cards put forth by the PBC on FOX and Top Rank on ESPN crews that have become chief rivals over the last year.
But what were the biggest HITS and MISSES seen during all the action? That’s what you’re here to find out.
HIT – Jeison Rosario’s Stunning Upset for two 154-pound Titles
Nobody expected Rosario to dethrone unified junior middleweight champion Julian Williams on Saturday night at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, but the massive underdog overcame the situation anyway to vault himself to the top of the junior middleweight division. The thing that saved Rosario was his stunning power. He appeared to be out-boxed by Williams early in the fight, but that changed just as soon as it became apparent Williams was slinging only his fists while Rosario was working with sledgehammers. Now the division has become more crowded than ever at the top with all roads amazingly leading to Rosario, the little known 24-year-old from the Dominican Republic who now owns the WBA and IBF titles.
MISS – Chris Colbert’s Fail to Impress
Junior lightweight prospect Chris Colbert was given a great chance by the PBC to impress fight fans on national television on the undercard of Williams-Rosario, but the talented 23-year-old didn’t make the most of the opportunity. Sure, Colbert was taking a step up in competition by taking on former world titleholder Jezreel Corrales for a vacant interim belt, but Colbert mostly came across as a talented fighter who just doesn’t seem quite capable of putting it all together yet. Colbert won the fight, but it wasn’t interesting or noteworthy in any way. Judging by how the PBC has worked in the past, he’ll get plenty more chances to shine, but I’m not sure anyone but the people who stand to gain monetarily from the fighter’s success will be looking forward to it.
HIT – Eleider Alvarez’s Epic KO of Michael Seals
Former light heavyweight titleholder Alvarez scored the early leader for knockout of the year against Seals in the main event at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. The fight was fairly lackluster until the explosive ending in the seventh round. It was an important victory for Alvarez, who was coming off losing his title to Sergey Kovalev via decision last February. Alvarez is 35, so it was imperative for him to get back to action and remind people he’s still a viable contender in the 175-pound ranks. And there’s no better way to do that in boxing than by thunderous knockout.
MISS – Felix Verdejo’s Fresh Start Starts Stale
Verdejo is still only 26 years old, but after defeating Manuel Rojas in a lightweight bout at Turning Stone, the once highly regarded prospect doesn’t appear to be any closer today than he was yesterday to living up to the tremendous promise he once possessed. To be completely fair to Verdejo, it was only his first fight under new trainer Ismael Salas and the fighter still has time on his side. Still, there appears to be plenty of work to do if Verdejo is ever to become a world champion. In fact, he didn’t look all that materially different from the fighter who was knocked out in 2018.
HIT – Floyd Mayweather Wins Prestigious BWAA Award
I honestly had some concern that Mayweather wouldn’t win the BWAA’s Fighter of the Decade award before it was announced on Friday via press release. After all, Mayweather lost the previous decade’s top honor to Manny Pacquiao in 2010, and Sports Illustrated had just named Andre Ward its Fighter of the Decade winner the week prior. It’s only one person’s opinion, of course, but I think there would have been something wrong with Mayweather not picking up the honor at least once in the last two decades. After all, he’s quite easily the generation’s best overall fighter and he’s transcended the sport to mainstream celebrity status, too. Congrats to Mayweather for winning the well-deserved honor.
Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp / TGB Promotions
South African Trailblazer Peter Mathebula Dead at Age 67
Peter Mathebula wasn’t a great fighter. He suffered nine losses during his 45-bout career. He was stopped five times. But Mathebula, who died yesterday (Jan. 18) at age 67, was a historically important fighter. He was the first black South African to win a world title. He was the first South African boxer of any color to win a world title on foreign soil. His predecessors, bantamweights Vic Toweel and Arnold Taylor, won their titles in Johannesburg. Mathebula won his in Los Angeles.
Mathebula took the WBA flyweight title on a split decision from Korea’s Tae-Shik Kim on Dec. 12, 1980 at LA’s Olympic Auditorium. The fight was originally headed to Seoul but Mathebula was denied a visa.
In those days, South Korea barred tourists from South Africa as a protest against that country’s policy of apartheid. Mathebula was a victim of apartheid, but that made no difference as the ban was a blanket ban, covering all South Africans, regardless of color.
Olympic Auditorium matchmaker Don Fraser acquired the orphanded fight. Southern California had a large Korean population and Fraser thought the fight would go over big with this demographic.
The fabled Olympic Auditorium was noted for raucous SRO crowds. But not on this particular night. The crowd was overwhelmingly Korean-American, but there weren’t more than 3,000 in attendance. Kim vs. Mathebula didn’t resonate with the Olympic Auditorium regulars.
The fight was very close but most thought the decision was fair. The Korean started fast, wrote LA Times ringside reporter Mark Heisler, but Mathebula fought his way back into the fight in the middle rounds and won the 14th and 15th stanzas on his card, sufficient he thought to secure the win.
The victory made Mathebula a big star in South Africa. His purse for the fight with Tae-Shik Kim was only $7,500 (approximately $23,500 in today’s dollars) but he made up for it in endorsements. He appeared in ads for automobiles, Old Buck Gin, Bostonian shoes and a line of splashy clothes according to Joseph Lelyveld, the New York Times man on the scene.
Mathebula’s celebrityhood crossed racial lines. Newspapers that took little cognizance of goings-on in the black community showered Mathebula with a copious amount of ink. When he defended his title against Argentina’s Santos Laciar, it was front page news in white and black newspapers.
Mathebula opposed Laciar a mere 13 weeks after winning his title in Los Angeles. The match was held in Soweto’s Orlando Stadium, a facility built to house the Pirates, Soweto’s all-black soccer team. Three years earlier, South Africa had legalized interracial sporting events but few whites dared venture into Soweto which was ground zero for anti-apartheid demonstrations.
Despite the great esteem in which Mathebula was held, the fight wasn’t a sellout. A local black nationalist organization launched a campaign to boycott the fight on the grounds that the government, which paid to set up Mathebula in a fancy hotel and paid for his motorcades, was using international mixed-race sporting events as a propaganda tool, an early illustration of what has come to be called “sportswashing.”
Peter Mathebula couldn’t catch a break and that may have impacted his performance against the Argentine. It was woeful. Laciar knocked him down in the fifth and then bull-rushed him out of the ring (the ref called it a push) and the bout was stopped in the eighth with Mathebula complaining that his vision was compromised.
Before the year was out, Mathebula lost twice more. Fighting on hostile turf in Venezuela, he was stopped twice by Betulio Gonzalez, first in the 10th and then in the sixth. A three-time world title-holder, Gonzalez had a great career but he was approaching his 32nd birthday, old for a flyweight, and his best days were behind him.
In the span of less than 10 full months, Peter Mathebula went from the penthouse to the proverbial outhouse, but with the passage of time his people remembered his historic achievement in Los Angeles and pretty much forgot the slew of disappointments that quickly followed. The word “legend” suffuses reports of his death in South African papers.
Mathebula reportedly had multiple health issues and spent the last three weeks of his life in Leratong Hospital in the province of Gauteng, not far from the all-black township where he was born. May he rest in rest in peace.
Ringside in Verona: Alvarez Capsizes Seals Plus Undercard Results
Matt Andrzejewski
VERONA, NY — The main event of an ESPN televised card at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, NY between light heavyweight contenders Eleider Alvarez (25-1, 13 KO’s) and Michael Seals (24-3, 18 KO’s) started with a whimper but ended with a bang. After six-plus rounds of lackadaisical action, Alvarez scored a stunning sensational one punch knockout just before the end of the seventh round of their scheduled ten round fight.
The first three rounds saw more clinches than punches landed. Seals seemed to be looking to land one perfect punch and in doing so barely unleashed any punches. Alvarez, for his part, was not very active in these rounds but certainly moved his hands more and landed more than Seals.
In round four, Seals came out much more aggressive and had his best round of the fight. But in the fifth, Seals went back to looking for that one punch and Alvarez took back control of the action. Toward the end of the round, Alvarez staggered Seals with a right hand.
Alvarez continued to be in control of the fight in rounds six and seven by simply moving his hands more. And then towards the end of round seven, Alvarez connected with a picture perfect overhand right that sent Seals crashing to the canvas. Referee Danny Schiavone did not reach a full 10-count before waiving the fight off.
For Alvarez, this was a big bounce-back win after his loss to Sergey Kovalev in their light heavyweight title rematch last February. With the light heavyweight division flush with talent, it seems Alvarez is in prime position to get a big opportunity his next time out.
In the co-feature, lightweight contender Felix Verdejo (26-1, 16 KO’s) put on a workmanlike effort in winning a wide ten round unanimous decision against Manuel Rey Rojas (18-4, 5 KO’s). While Verdejo was in complete control of the contest from the opening bell, the performance certainly lacked sizzle and may raise even more questions on the potential of the once can’t-miss prospect.
Verdejo utilized a very patient approach throughout the night working behind the left jab. While the jab was effective, Verdejo only occasionally looked to unleash power punches behind that jab. Reyes, for his part, played mostly defense keeping a very tight guard and looking to selectively counter Verdejo’s jab.
Verdejo’s defense, which had been criticized in the past, looked better but still showed some leaks. In the fifth round, Reyes landed a sharp right hand flush on the jaw of Verdejo that seemed to momentarily get Verdejo’s attention. And in the ninth, Reyes landed a hard right that snapped Verdejo’s head back. If Reyes could punch harder, either of those two rights may have altered the course of the fight.
But aside from those brief moments from Reyes, Verdejo dictated all the action. He easily out-worked and out-landed the mostly defensive minded Reyes. In the end it is a win for Verdejo and he can proceed forward towards what he hopes will be an eventual title shot in the lightweight division.
In a bizarre heavyweight fight between two former 2004 Olympians, Devin Vargas (22-6, 9 KO’s) was awarded a disqualification victory in the eighth and final round against Victor Bisbal (23-5, 17 KO’s). Bisbal scored a knockdown in round two with a left hook but was deducted two points in round four for various infractions. Aside from the knockdown round, Vargas seemed to out-hustle and out-land Bisbal. Ahead on all three scorecards (67-63 twice and 66 -64) entering the final round, Vargas absorbed a low blow from Bisbal. At this point, referee Michael Ortega decided to disqualify Bisbal.
Abraham Nova (18-0, 14 KO’s) scored a one-sided fourth-round TKO of tough veteran Pedro Navarette (30-25-3, 19 KO’s) in a lightweight contest that was scheduled for eight rounds. Nova scored knockdowns in rounds two, three and four before the fight was waived off.
Knockout out artist Jonathan Guzman (24-1, 23 KO’s) rose from the canvas to score a fourth-round knockout of Rodolfo Hernandez (30-10-1, 28 KO’s) in a 122-pound slugfest. The heavily favored Guzman scored two knockdowns with body shots in the opening stanza and appeared on his way to an easy win. But Hernandez flipped the script in round three with a hard right hand just before the bell sounded that put Guzman on the canvas and nearly out. The two went toe to toe in the fourth when a vicious left hook to the body from Guzman put Hernandez down and this time out for good.
In a battle of former world title challengers, Freddie Roach trained Christopher Diaz (25-2, 16 KO’s) scored a wide eight round unanimous against Adeilson Dos Santos (19-8, 15 KO’s) in a featherweight contest. Diaz dominated the fight from the opening bell and hurt Dos Santos on a few occasions but ultimately had to settle for the decision victory.
The opening fight of the night saw heavyweight prospect Jared Anderson (3-0, 3 KO’s) easily dispatch Andrew Satterfield (5-4, 3 KO’s) in the first round of their scheduled four round fight. Anderson scored two knockdowns in what was a dominant performance.
Photo credit: Mikey Williams for Top Rank
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A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty ofMoreA real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. Composed between 1863 and 1875, the sixty-three often outrageous sketches in Sketches, New and Old contain, for instance, a piece about the difficulty of getting a pocket watch repaired properly- complaints about barbers and office bores- and satirical comments on bureaucrats, courts of law, the profession of journalism, the claims of science, and the workings of government. In Mark Twains hands, all these potentially dry and dull topics bristle with vitality and interest. What fascinates Twain, Lee Smith writes in her introduction, is how people react to the things that happen to them. Twain lets them speak in their own voices by and large, in a chorus ranging from high-flown oratory to the plain speech of working people.... It seems generally true that the more elevated the speech, the likelier that person is to be an idiot- words of wisdom and common sense are invariably voiced by the common man--or woman. The most profound and moving sketch in this whole collection Smith writes, is one told by a freed slave. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches in this volume are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.
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Sam Farmer: Rams' usually explosive offense implodes against surging Steelers
By Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp drops a pass as Pittsburgh Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpratrick defends in the third quarter on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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Los Angeles Rams cornerback Troy Hill can't make the tackle on Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Diontae Johnson in the fourth quarter on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Pittsburgh Steelers receiver James Washington, left, celebrtates his touchdown catch with Diontae Johnson against the Los Angeles Rams in the first quarter on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Joe Haden intercepts a pass intended for Los Angeles Rams tight end Tyler Higbee in the third quarter on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Los Angeles Rams receiver Josh Reynolds has the ball knocked away in the end zone on fourth down late in the fourth quarter against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Los Angeles Rams linebacker Dante Fowler Jr. returns a fumble for a touchdown as Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph is handled by Clay Matthews on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Pittsburgh Steelers receiver James Washington catches a touchdown pass in front of Los Angeles Rams cornerback Troy Hill in the first quarter on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff fumbles the ball as he is hit by a Pittsburgh Steelers defender on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Steelers scored a touchdown on the play. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Steelers paid homage Sunday to the winners of Super Bowl XIV, with thousands of fans cheering their aging heroes who shuffled onto Heinz Field at halftime.
The Los Angeles Rams, meanwhile, held a different kind of Super Bowl reunion.
They brought back their Super Bowl LIII offense.
That team that mustered three points against the New England Patriots in February made an unwelcome return at the most inopportune of times.
With their season all but hanging in the balance, the Rams - among the NFL's most explosive offensive teams since 2017 - had a field goal and squandered a defensive effort that included a fumble return for a touchdown and a safety.
The Rams' offense has gone 18 consecutive possessions without reaching the end zone.
Foundational cracks have formed in this team, starting with the revolving door of an offensive line, which, for instance, has cycled through six players at left guard. Those might be anonymous hulks up front, but when that chain snaps, so does the rest of the offense.
"That's a lot, especially when you're on the road," tackle Andrew Whitworth said. "You're changing the mechanisms of how you do things, how you snap the ball, who tells the center it's time to snap it, who looks back, that's changed.
"But the reality is, you find a way. It's NFL football. Nobody feels sorry for you. We've got some guys down, and are possibly going to be down for a little bit, and we're going to have to find out who can play, who's ready to play, and go forward."
The path ahead isn't pretty. The Rams have lost four of six games, and their two victories in that stretch came against Atlanta and Cincinnati, teams that are a combined 2-16.
Coming up, they have home games against Chicago and Baltimore, both of whom can make life tough on quarterbacks. The Rams play Arizona twice in their final five games, but also have a stretch against Seattle, Dallas and San Francisco that would seriously challenge a team that was actually on a roll.
If this Pittsburgh game was a measuring stick, the Steelers cracked it over the Rams' heads, especially with the unseasoned Mason Rudolph at quarterback and star running back James Conner watching in street clothes. It was a game the Rams should have won.
The Rams' Jared Goff, who wasn't sacked the last two games, was taken down four times Sunday and hit several more. The Rams punted eight times, had four turnovers and one turnover on downs.
Pittsburgh didn't give up a third- or fourth-down conversion in the first half, something the smothering Steelers hadn't achieved in two years.
"I think anytime you're one for 13 on third downs, you're never going to give yourself a chance to stay on the field," said coach Sean McVay, whose team was actually one for 14. "We had some self-inflicted wounds, some penalties. I think it was a collaboration of everybody can be better, and we have to go back and look at the tape."
Alternatively, they could burn it. And they might want to once they catch a glimpse of safety Minkah Fitzpatrick's touchdown against them. What appeared to be an incomplete pass by Goff was ruled a fumble and Fitzpatrick scooped up the loose ball and returned it for a 43-yard touchdown.
"Once I see a replay, I'll let you know," Goff said when asked about the play, "but it felt like I threw it."
Even more vexing to some Rams, a similar play by Rudolph later in the game was ruled an incompletion and not a fumble.
Rams receiver Cooper Kupp, who came into Week 10 averaging seven catches per game, was shut out in that department - four targets, zero receptions.
"They did a really good job," Kupp said of the Steelers. "On any given play, you aren't always going to get the exact look you want. You're going to have to be able to solve problems. As an offense, it's on all of us to find a way to create space, get open and make a play.
"At the end of the day, we just have to execute."
For the Rams, the end of the day could be far sooner than they'd hoped.
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Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates.
Othman Ainoon, Nem Yun Boo, Yuang Hong Yu, Soon Keng Cheong, Noor Hamidah Hussin, Jee Hiang Lim
We performed DNA analysis on cord blood samples of 128 Chinese male neonates diagnosed as G6PD deficiency in Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia by a combination PCR-restriction enzyme digest technique, Single Stranded Conformation Polymorphism analysis and DNA sequencing. We found 10 different G6PD-deficient mutations exist. The two commonest alleles were G6PD Canton 1376 G>T (42.3%) and Kaiping 1388 G>A (39.4%) followed by G6PD Gaohe 592 G>A (7.0%), Chinese-5 1024 C>T, Nankang 517 T>C (1.5%), Mahidol 487 G>A (1.6%), Chatham 1003 G>T (0.8%), Union 1360 C>T (0.8%), Viangchan 871 G>A (0.8%) and Quing Yang 392 G>T (0.8%). Sixty eight percent (88/125) neonates in this study had neonatal jaundice and 29.7% developed hyperbilirubinemia >250 micromol/l. The incidence of hyperbilirubinemia >250 micromol/l was higher in G6PD Kaiping (43.8%) than G6PD Canton (22%) (p< 0.05). There was no significant difference in the incidence of neonatal jaundice, mean serum bilirubin, mean age for peak serum bilirubin, percentage of babies requiring phototherapy and mean duration of phototherapy between the two major variants. None of the 88 neonates required exchange transfusion. In conclusion we have completely characterized the molecular defects of a group of Chinese G6PD deficiency in Malaysia. The mutation distribution reflects the original genetic pool and limited ethnic admixture with indigenous Malays.
The Malaysian journal of pathology
Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase
Neonatal Jaundice
Hyperbilirubinemia
Fetal Blood
Ainoon, O., Boo, N. Y., Yu, Y. H., Cheong, S. K., Hussin, N. H., & Lim, J. H. (2004). Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates. The Malaysian journal of pathology, 26(2), 89-98.
Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates. / Ainoon, Othman; Boo, Nem Yun; Yu, Yuang Hong; Cheong, Soon Keng; Hussin, Noor Hamidah; Lim, Jee Hiang.
In: The Malaysian journal of pathology, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2004, p. 89-98.
Ainoon, O, Boo, NY, Yu, YH, Cheong, SK, Hussin, NH & Lim, JH 2004, 'Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates.', The Malaysian journal of pathology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 89-98.
Ainoon O, Boo NY, Yu YH, Cheong SK, Hussin NH, Lim JH. Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates. The Malaysian journal of pathology. 2004;26(2):89-98.
Ainoon, Othman ; Boo, Nem Yun ; Yu, Yuang Hong ; Cheong, Soon Keng ; Hussin, Noor Hamidah ; Lim, Jee Hiang. / Complete molecular characterisation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a group of Malaysian Chinese neonates. In: The Malaysian journal of pathology. 2004 ; Vol. 26, No. 2. pp. 89-98.
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Essay, Journalism, mass media and communication
radio 1 report
(a)Public Service Radio Policy Report (group) (4,500 words). This will be produced by you and use (e.g. BBC Trust documents, newspaper articles, BBC station programme
policies and service reviews; additional readings). The report is worth 60% of the marks.
in that first section your group should highlight distinctive programme provision and intended outcomes in a range of important BBC national radio stations and also
what BBC local radio stations, as types of station, are intended to achieve. You should write about (BBC Radio 1). The selection of station you examine in part one of
the report should give a good overview of the range of audiences and types of programing intended by the BBC to fulfil the public purposes of BBC radio. These
constitute its overall radio policy. write about what it aims for, and if it pleases the audiences or not. write about their programs.
All essays should reference station policy, play lists (where relevant) and specific programmes whilst making their arguments. Each essay is concerned with the public
purposes of BBC radio stations and the cultural programming supporting those public purposes
2.How fully and completely does [name of UK BBC national / local radio station] provide access to culture, music (where relevant) and public service inspired ideas
specified in its service remit?
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A randomized phase IIb trial of anethole dithiolethione in smokers with bronchial dysplasia
Stephen Lam, Calum MacAulay, Jean C. Le Riche, Yulia Dyachkova, Andy Coldman, Martial Guillaud, Ernest Hawk, Marie Odile Christen, Adi F. Gazdar
Hamon Center For Therapeutic Oncology
Background: Results from preclinical studies have suggested that the organosulfur compound anethole dithiolethione (ADT) may be an effective chemopreventive agent for lung cancer. We conducted a phase IIb study to determine the effects of ADT in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. Methods: One hundred twelve current and former smokers with a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years and at least one site of bronchial dysplasia identified by an autofluorescence bronchoscopy-directed biopsy were randomly assigned to receive placebo or ADT at 25 mg orally thrice daily for 6 months. Each subject then underwent a follow-up bronchoscopy-directed biopsy. We used changes in histopathologic grade and nuclear morphometry index (MI) as the primary and secondary end point biomarkers, respectively. Chisquare tests with continuity correction were used to compare response rates on a lesion- and person-specific basis between the two study groups. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results: One hundred one subjects had a follow-up bronchoscopy. In the lesion-specific analysis, progression rate of pre-existing dysplastic lesions by two or more grades and/or the appearance of new lesions was statistically significantly lower in the ADT group (8%) than in the placebo group (17%) (P<.001; difference = 9%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 4% to 15%). In the person-specific analysis, the disease progression rate was statistically significantly lower in the ADT group (32%) than in the placebo group (59%) (P = .013; difference = 27%, 95% CI = 6% to 48%). The two treatment groups did not differ statistically significantly in terms of nuclear MI. Among individuals with an abnormal nuclear MI before treatment (29 in the ADT group and 25 in the placebo group), the progression rate in the ADT group (41%) was substantially lower than that in the placebo group (60%), although the difference was not statistically significant (P = .28; difference = 19%, 95% CI = -11% to 49%). Adverse events were mostly minor gastrointestinal symptoms that resolved with dose reduction or discontinuation of the medication. Conclusion: Our results suggest that, in smokers, ADT is a potentially efficacious chemoprevention agent for lung cancer.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
anethole
Chemoprevention
Lam, S., MacAulay, C., Le Riche, J. C., Dyachkova, Y., Coldman, A., Guillaud, M., ... Gazdar, A. F. (2002). A randomized phase IIb trial of anethole dithiolethione in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 94(13), 1001-1009.
A randomized phase IIb trial of anethole dithiolethione in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. / Lam, Stephen; MacAulay, Calum; Le Riche, Jean C.; Dyachkova, Yulia; Coldman, Andy; Guillaud, Martial; Hawk, Ernest; Christen, Marie Odile; Gazdar, Adi F.
In: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 13, 03.07.2002, p. 1001-1009.
Lam, S, MacAulay, C, Le Riche, JC, Dyachkova, Y, Coldman, A, Guillaud, M, Hawk, E, Christen, MO & Gazdar, AF 2002, 'A randomized phase IIb trial of anethole dithiolethione in smokers with bronchial dysplasia', Journal of the National Cancer Institute, vol. 94, no. 13, pp. 1001-1009.
Lam S, MacAulay C, Le Riche JC, Dyachkova Y, Coldman A, Guillaud M et al. A randomized phase IIb trial of anethole dithiolethione in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2002 Jul 3;94(13):1001-1009.
Lam, Stephen ; MacAulay, Calum ; Le Riche, Jean C. ; Dyachkova, Yulia ; Coldman, Andy ; Guillaud, Martial ; Hawk, Ernest ; Christen, Marie Odile ; Gazdar, Adi F. / A randomized phase IIb trial of anethole dithiolethione in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. In: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2002 ; Vol. 94, No. 13. pp. 1001-1009.
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AU - Gazdar, Adi F.
N2 - Background: Results from preclinical studies have suggested that the organosulfur compound anethole dithiolethione (ADT) may be an effective chemopreventive agent for lung cancer. We conducted a phase IIb study to determine the effects of ADT in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. Methods: One hundred twelve current and former smokers with a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years and at least one site of bronchial dysplasia identified by an autofluorescence bronchoscopy-directed biopsy were randomly assigned to receive placebo or ADT at 25 mg orally thrice daily for 6 months. Each subject then underwent a follow-up bronchoscopy-directed biopsy. We used changes in histopathologic grade and nuclear morphometry index (MI) as the primary and secondary end point biomarkers, respectively. Chisquare tests with continuity correction were used to compare response rates on a lesion- and person-specific basis between the two study groups. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results: One hundred one subjects had a follow-up bronchoscopy. In the lesion-specific analysis, progression rate of pre-existing dysplastic lesions by two or more grades and/or the appearance of new lesions was statistically significantly lower in the ADT group (8%) than in the placebo group (17%) (P<.001; difference = 9%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 4% to 15%). In the person-specific analysis, the disease progression rate was statistically significantly lower in the ADT group (32%) than in the placebo group (59%) (P = .013; difference = 27%, 95% CI = 6% to 48%). The two treatment groups did not differ statistically significantly in terms of nuclear MI. Among individuals with an abnormal nuclear MI before treatment (29 in the ADT group and 25 in the placebo group), the progression rate in the ADT group (41%) was substantially lower than that in the placebo group (60%), although the difference was not statistically significant (P = .28; difference = 19%, 95% CI = -11% to 49%). Adverse events were mostly minor gastrointestinal symptoms that resolved with dose reduction or discontinuation of the medication. Conclusion: Our results suggest that, in smokers, ADT is a potentially efficacious chemoprevention agent for lung cancer.
AB - Background: Results from preclinical studies have suggested that the organosulfur compound anethole dithiolethione (ADT) may be an effective chemopreventive agent for lung cancer. We conducted a phase IIb study to determine the effects of ADT in smokers with bronchial dysplasia. Methods: One hundred twelve current and former smokers with a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years and at least one site of bronchial dysplasia identified by an autofluorescence bronchoscopy-directed biopsy were randomly assigned to receive placebo or ADT at 25 mg orally thrice daily for 6 months. Each subject then underwent a follow-up bronchoscopy-directed biopsy. We used changes in histopathologic grade and nuclear morphometry index (MI) as the primary and secondary end point biomarkers, respectively. Chisquare tests with continuity correction were used to compare response rates on a lesion- and person-specific basis between the two study groups. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results: One hundred one subjects had a follow-up bronchoscopy. In the lesion-specific analysis, progression rate of pre-existing dysplastic lesions by two or more grades and/or the appearance of new lesions was statistically significantly lower in the ADT group (8%) than in the placebo group (17%) (P<.001; difference = 9%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 4% to 15%). In the person-specific analysis, the disease progression rate was statistically significantly lower in the ADT group (32%) than in the placebo group (59%) (P = .013; difference = 27%, 95% CI = 6% to 48%). The two treatment groups did not differ statistically significantly in terms of nuclear MI. Among individuals with an abnormal nuclear MI before treatment (29 in the ADT group and 25 in the placebo group), the progression rate in the ADT group (41%) was substantially lower than that in the placebo group (60%), although the difference was not statistically significant (P = .28; difference = 19%, 95% CI = -11% to 49%). Adverse events were mostly minor gastrointestinal symptoms that resolved with dose reduction or discontinuation of the medication. Conclusion: Our results suggest that, in smokers, ADT is a potentially efficacious chemoprevention agent for lung cancer.
JO - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
JF - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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MyoD cannot compensate for the absence of myogenin during skeletal muscle differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells
Anita Myer, Eric N. Olson, William H. Klein
Myogenin (-/-) mice display severe skeletal muscle defects despite expressing normal levels of MyoD. The failure of MyoD to compensate for myogenin could be explained by distinctions in protein function or by differences in patterns of gene expression. To distinguish between these two possibilities, we compared the abilities of constitutively expressed myogenin and MyoD to support muscle differentiation in embryoid bodies made from myogenin (-/-) ES cells. Differentiated embryoid bodies from wild-type embryonic stem (ES) cells made extensive skeletal muscle, but embryoid bodies from myogenin (-/-) ES cells had greatly attenuated muscle-forming capacity. The inability of myogenin (-/-) ES cells to generate muscle was independent of endogenous MyoD expression. Skeletal muscle was restored in myogenin (-/-) ES cells by constitutive expression of myogenin. In contrast, constitutive expression of MyoD resulted in only marginal enhancement of skeletal muscle, although myocyte numbers greatly increased. The results indicated that constitutive expression of MyoD led to enhanced myogenic commitment of myogenin (-/-) cells but also indicated that committed cells were impaired in their ability to form muscle sheets without myogenin. Thus, despite their relatedness, myogenin's role in muscle formation is distinct from that of MyoD, and the distinction cannot be explained merely by differences in their expression properties.
https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.2000.9985
Myogenin
Embryoid Bodies
Somatotypes
bHLH transcription factors
ES cell differentiation
MyoD
Skeletal muscle formation
Myer, A., Olson, E. N., & Klein, W. H. (2001). MyoD cannot compensate for the absence of myogenin during skeletal muscle differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells. Developmental Biology, 229(2), 340-350. https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.2000.9985
MyoD cannot compensate for the absence of myogenin during skeletal muscle differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells. / Myer, Anita; Olson, Eric N.; Klein, William H.
In: Developmental Biology, Vol. 229, No. 2, 15.01.2001, p. 340-350.
Myer, A, Olson, EN & Klein, WH 2001, 'MyoD cannot compensate for the absence of myogenin during skeletal muscle differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells', Developmental Biology, vol. 229, no. 2, pp. 340-350. https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.2000.9985
Myer A, Olson EN, Klein WH. MyoD cannot compensate for the absence of myogenin during skeletal muscle differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells. Developmental Biology. 2001 Jan 15;229(2):340-350. https://doi.org/10.1006/dbio.2000.9985
Myer, Anita ; Olson, Eric N. ; Klein, William H. / MyoD cannot compensate for the absence of myogenin during skeletal muscle differentiation in murine embryonic stem cells. In: Developmental Biology. 2001 ; Vol. 229, No. 2. pp. 340-350.
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Planning Application Consultation 23 May
Capital Plan Hybrid Planning Application Public Consultation Drop In 23 May 2018
We are hosting a drop-in consultation to seek your views on our plans for the development of the University of Warwick campus over the next three to five years.
Wednesday 23 May 2018 – 3pm to 7pm
Felden Building, Arden Conference Centre, Westwood Campus, Kirby Corner Road, CV4 8AH
Parking: Car park 13, next to the Tennis Centre, Westwood Campus
Map: interactive and printable maps of campus available here.
Our plans comprise nine projects which are expected to be delivered over the next 5 years, including a new Faculty of Arts building, a facility for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, accommodation for up to 1,000 students, and new car parking. We propose combining these into a single “hybrid” planning application including detailed and outline proposals and a revised travel plan, which will be submitted to Coventry City Council this spring. We would like to share more information with you and hear your views on these plans.
In the longer term we are updating our current masterplan, which has been in place since 2009. This will be developed during 2018, and we will consult with local residents as the process develops.
Information on the proposals will be available shortly after the event at on our community pages here. If you cannot attend the event, but would like further information, please contact us at CPHA-Warwick at turley dot co dot uk or on 0121 233 0902.
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The Vinyl Dialogues Blog
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While sitting around killing time, people watching and shooting the breeze before the Frankie Valli concert Saturday night, Feb. 9, at the Hard Rock Casino in Atlantic City, it occurred to me that we were about to witness a quintessential New Jersey event.
Here was the original Jersey Boy performing at a casino in the state’s premiere entertainment town, a town in which he’s played for nearly 60 years. It’s as classic a scene as the Rat Pack playing the Sands in Las Vegas in the early 1960s. If you’re gonna see Frankie Valli live — especially for the first time like we were — what better place than at a casino in Atlantic City, N.J.?
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Ozzie Kicks Off PDC with Azure-Focused Keynote
By Michael Desmond
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie this morning kicked off Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference (PDC09) in Los Angeles with a keynote that focused heavily on Windows Azure and cloud computing.
Ozzie's presentation was a high-level pitch for Windows Azure and Microsoft's unified development message, with an occasional plug for Windows 7 as a superior client for enabling compelling user experience.
Ozzie revealed that Windows Azure will officially go to production on Jan. 1, 2010. The service will be available for one month on a no-fee basis while Microsoft works through initial deployment assessment. Microsoft will start billing for Windows Azure access on Feb. 1, Ozzie said.
He stressed that Microsoft was working to provide a single, cohesive platform for developing applications on-premise and on the cloud, and both Ozzie and Bob Muglia, Microsoft's president of the Server and Tools Business whose own presentation followed Ozzie's, talked at length about migrating existing Windows Server applications to Windows Azure.
"We at Microsoft have one simple strategy -- that is to focus on leverage and seamlessness in everything we do," Ozzie said.
Muglia added, "Microsoft is focusing on taking the investments you made in your existing environment in Windows Server and moving that forward."
Ozzie pointed out the long list of improvements to Windows Azure since the initial CTP was released at PDC08 last year. He noted the reformulation of SQL Azure, the geo-replication of storage across paired Azure datacenters, the creation of the container datacenter model, and the introduction of Azure X drive.
Ozzie seemed particularly enthused about a newly announced project, code-named "Dallas," which promises to give Windows Azure developers the ability to uniquely explore, manipulate and present data stored on public and private sources.
"Dallas makes the whole world of data better than the sum of its parts by creating a uniform discovery mechanism for data, a uniform binding and access mechanism for data, a uniform way of exposing trial data sets for developers, a uniform licensing model so data from multiple providers can be easily joined and recombined," Ozzie explained. "By delivering data as a service, our aspiration is that Dallas might catalyze a whole new wave of remixing and experimentation by developers."
Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell provided a demo showing how developers can use the Dallas Service Explorer to look at different classes of data in data feed, and preview the data to visualize it. In the demo, Campbell showed how Dallas can invoke Microsoft's PowerPivot add-in for Excel to render and manipulate data. He then went on to use drag-and-drop tools to build a quick Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) datagrid app to render out a custom dataset.
Ozzie also hinted at a number of new product announcements to come at the show, for instance mentioning a presentation on Wednesday by Scott Guthrie, vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, that Ozzie said would address the next version of Silverlight.
He also gave a nod to Microsoft's struggling mobile platform, noting that it would be addressed at the next MIX Conference in 2010. "You'll hear about developing apps for the next generation of our Windows phone," Ozzie said.
Muglia followed Ozzie with a more nuts-and-bolts presentation on Windows Azure, including a number of detailed demos that highlighted newly announced features and spotlighted the opportunity for developers to migrate their on-premise .NET code to public and private Windows Azure cloud environments.
He also announced work on project "Sydney," expected to go into beta next year, which will enable customers to connect servers inside the datacenter with cloud services running inside of Azure.
Additionally, Muglia announced the beta of Application Fabric, a new application server for Windows Server that Muglia said extends the familiar IIS environment to provide a platform for highly available, scaled-out, middle-tier services like Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services.
"The idea is that this creates an infrastructure, a very easy-to-manage infrastructure, where we will do that failover for you, we will keep the system highly available, and we will do the balance between those things, so you can build your applications in a straightforward way," Muglia explained. "In addition to middle-tier services like workflow and WCF, we'll also provide a database cache which is an important part of speeding up and providing better performance for the applications you are building."
The database cache will be provided in the App Fabric beta for Windows Azure, which Muglia said will be available next year.
Muglia also announced that Windows Identity Foundation has gone to the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) stage, and that Go Live licenses are available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.
Michael Desmond is an editor and writer for 1105 Media's Enterprise Computing Group.
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HOW CAN USA CLAIM NSA SPYING AIMED AT TERRORISTS WHEN NATIONS LEADERS DATA COLLECTED?
From Glenn Greenwald: ” [Is] there any doubt at all that the US government repeatedly tried to mislead the world when insisting that this system of suspicionless surveillance was motivated by an attempt to protect Americans from The Terrorists™? Our reporting has revealed spying on conferences designed to negotiate economic agreements, the Organization of American States, oil companies, ministries that oversee mines and energy resources, the democratically elected leaders of allied states, and entire populations in those states….” (Link to story below)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government?CMP=ema_follow
SNOWDEN NSA DOCUMENTS CONTAIN SECRETS ON COOPERATION BETWEEN COUNTRIES, USA REVEALS
From the Washington Post — ”The notifications come as the Obama administration is scrambling to placate allies after allegations that the NSA has spied on foreign leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The reports have forced the administration to play down operations targeting friends while also attempting to preserve other programs that depend on provisional partners. In either case, trust in the United States may be compromised….” (Link to story below)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/officials-alert-foreign-services-that-snowden-has-documents-on-their-cooperation-with-us/2013/10/24/930ea85c-3b3e-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html
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30 MILLION LIVE IN SLAVERY WORLDWIDE, HALF IN INDIA
Walk Free Foundation report: “The countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery were Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Moldova, Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia and Gabon. Moldova — once part of the Soviet Union — was the only European nation in the top 10 …” (link to AFP story below)
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CHINESE DISSIDENT URGES STRONG EMPHASIS ON UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS
From the Princetonian — “[Chen Guangcheng’s] plan includes establishing a database of human rights violators, increasing international funding for software that breaks down firewalls as a means to promote internet freedom, encouraging nations to demand that the Chinese government end religious persecution and the “one-child policy,” forming an inter-parliamentary body on human rights, calling on legal experts to publicly support human rights lawyers in China and asking American citizens to contact their representatives in support of these measures…” (Link below)
http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2013/10/chinese-dissident-chen-guangcheng-advocates-universal-human-rights/
NSA LEAKS REPORTER TO LAUNCH INDEPENDENT NEWS VENTURE
From report: “Glenn Greenwald, an American living in Brazil, said the new project will be “a very well-funded…very substantial new media outlet.” He added that “my role, aside from reporting and writing for it, is to create the entire journalism unit from the ground up by recruiting the journalists and editors who share the same journalistic ethos and shaping the whole thing – but especially the political journalism part – in the image of the journalism I respect most,” he told BuzzFeed.” (Link below) …
http://rt.com/news/greenwald-guardian-news-project-242/
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AN EPITAPH FOR MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM – ‘WE SUBMITTED TO THE STATE’
From investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian:
“Like many people, I’ve spent years writing and speaking about the lethal power-subservient pathologies plaguing establishment journalism in the west. But this morning, I feel a bit like all of that was wasted time and energy, because this new column by career British journalist Chris Blackhurst – an executive with and, until a few months ago, the editor of the UK daily calling itself “The Independent” – contains a headline that says everything that needs to be said about the sickly state of establishment journalism:
“In other words, if the government tells me I shouldn’t publish something, who am I as a journalist to disobey? Put that on the tombstone of western establishment journalism. It perfectly encapsulates the death spiral of large journalistic outlets…” (Link below)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/14/independent-epitaph-establishment-journalism
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NSA HARVESTS MILLIONS OF EMAIL, INSTANT MESSAGING CONTACT LISTS GLOBALLY
From the Washington Post: “During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250 million a year. Each day, the presentation said, the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the inbox displays of Web-based e-mail accounts. The collection depends on secret arrangements with foreign telecommunications companies or allied intelligence services in control of facilities that direct traffic along the Internet’s main data routes….” (Link below) …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?hpid=z1
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Service As An Act Of Prayer
By Philippa Boyes / July 11, 2019
This article originally appeared in The New York Jewish Week on July 9, 2019
By Jeremy Nicholson, 2018-19 Repair the World Harlem Fellow
Every Wednesday, at 3:30 p.m., the quaint and quiet basement of All Souls’ Episcopal Church on St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem comes alive. Knives are put to use, pots boil, ovens warm in the background as friends and acquaintances, old and new, chatter. In the next five hours, a meal for up to 100 people will be prepared, served, put away, and by the end of the night, the basement returns to its sleepy state.
US College Graduates Take Up Faith-Based Service
This story originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on May 31, 2018.
By Dan Lothian
From New York City to Los Angeles, college graduates are signing up for faith-based service before hitting the job market. Faith service groups are often more trusted in inner city communities, have ties to well-established leaders, and have a built-in network of local supporters. “I’m really not taking a year off, I’m taking a year on,” says Miriam Lipschutz, a volunteer growing fresh produce at the Jewish non-profit organization Repair the World.
Service organization, Heinz College form partnership
By Philippa Boyes / February 5, 2018
This article originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 5, 2018.
Participants in a Jewish-based community-service project will be eligible for financial and other aid in enrolling in graduate studies in public policy and related fields at Carnegie Mellon University. The organization Repair the World and CMU’S H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy recently announced the initiative. The college offers numerous master’s and doctoral degree programs in policy and information-related fields.
The Well & JN’s 36 Under 36: AARON APPEL
By Philippa Boyes / January 30, 2018
This article originally appeared in the Jewish News on January 30, 2018.
A native of Troy, Aaron Appel coordinates volunteer engagement and grant writing at the nonprofit Brilliant Detroit, which focuses on creating “kid success neighborhoods” in the city. This work builds off his background in youth engagement and community organizing, which he developed as a student at Oberlin College, as a housing advocate in Philadelphia, as a fellow with Repair the World: Detroit and as the treasurer of Auntie Na’s House — a grassroots community center on the west side of Detroit.
Carnegie Mellon Pledges Partnership and Support for Repair the World Fellows
This post originally appeared on eJewish Philanthropy on January 28, 2018.
By EJP
Repair the World and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have initiated a strategic partnership to support alumni of Repair the World Communities fellowship who choose to pursue a degree in one of the 25 unique programs in CMU’s H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Repair fellowship alumni will receive financial support and more than usual flexibility in timing their start of the program, if they are accepted.
Carnegie Mellon offers scholarships to Repair the World participants
This post originally appeared on TribLive.Com on January 27, 2018.
By Matthew Santoni
Carnegie Mellon University is partnering with a Jewish community-service organization to offer scholarships in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Participants in New York-based Repair the World’s fellowship program will be eligible for a merit-based scholarship of at least 30 percent of their tuition in the college’s 25 degree programs, and will get options for deferred admission and waived admission fees. Similar to some AmeriCorps programs, Repair the World fellows get a $600-per-month living stipend and insurance in exchange for a year-long commitment to service at non-profit organizations in New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit or Miami, with a focus on issues of hunger and education. Pittsburgh partners include 412 Food Rescue, Grow Pittsburgh, Homewood Children’s Village and Just Harvest.
A Pie Sale for Repair the World!
By Leah Koenig / November 1, 2017
Laura Bratkowski is a Pittsburgh-based pastry chef who, until recently, had never heard of Repair the World. But last spring, the executive chef at Spoon (the restaurant where Bratowski works) was featured at one of Repair the World’s Chef Series dinners. Excited by what she saw, Bratowski offered to raise money for Repair the World by doing what she does best: baking.
This Thanksgiving, Bratkowski – who trained at the French Culinary Institute and previously worked for Momofuku Milk Bar in New York City – will prepare hundreds of pies to grace local Pittsburgh residents’ holiday tables. All of the proceeds from sales will go to Repair the World’s work. Bratkowski took a few minutes in between planning the pie sale (not to mention working full time as a pastry chef) to share what inspired her to support Repair the World’s work. Check it out and order your pies here!
This sounds like such a lovely project – how did it come about?
I first heard about Repair the World when the executive chef at my restaurant was featured at a dinner event they did in Pittsburgh. I went in expecting some fancy china and champagne dinner, but that wasn’t what I saw. Everything was served buffet style, and people had showed up to hear someone speak about food waste. It was very real, and it was clear that people were there for the right reasons – it inspired me.
In my line of work as a pastry chef, we work crazy hours and you don’t often hear a lot about people giving back to their community. I wanted to do something to help support Repair the World’s work. So I called them up and said, “Count me in for a Thanksgiving pie sale.”
What types of pies are you making?
We are selling all the classics – pumpkin, pecan, and apple. And one of my very good friends at Gluuteny has offered to make gluten free and dairy free versions of the pies. Our goal is to sell 300 pies in total. Spoon graciously offered to let me run the whole operation out of their kitchen, and I’m working with local grocers and 412 Food Rescue to get some donated ingredients.
How can people help out?
We have volunteers coming in along the process – anybody who wants to take part is more than welcome. If they want to come bake, great! If they want to help get the pies packaged and ready for pickup, wonderful. If they just want to purchase and eat pies, that works too!
Do you have a personal connection to Jewish tradition?
No, I was raised Catholic. But to me it doesn’t matter – Jewish, Catholic, whatever – as long as your heart is in the right place. Honestly, I just fell in love with the people at Repair the World. There is nothing fake about them – they are genuine and they deserve somebody to recognize the good that they do.
How can people order pies?
Repair the World set up an order form, so people can choose what they want. The cutoff day to order is November 17, and then we start baking on the 19th. Pie pickup will be on November 22 at Repair the World’s Pittsburgh location.
Coming Home: Reflections on the Jewish Multiracial Network Retreat
By fellows / May 24, 2017
The following post is by Rebekkah (Bekkah) Scharf, food justice fellow with Repair the World: Philadelphia. Bekkah identifies as a SF-born Hapa and Jewish Chinese-American; she attended the University of California: Santa Cruz, and is member of Kol Tzedek Synagogue in West Philadelphia.
“It is beautiful and rare to have Jewish spaces where I walk through the door and think: I belong.” Sabrina Sojourner is a Chazzan, chaplain, and attendee of the 18th annual Jewish Multiracial Network (JMN) family retreat on May 12th-15th.
I felt a sense of relief wash over me, filling every pore of my skin, every braciole in my lungs, and a lump in my throat, as her words resonated with me and every other person in the space. It was a breath of fresh air: I had found my people.
In August I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Philadelphia, yet to find a space where Jews of Color and patrilineal Jews like myself, felt welcome. I had met Tamara Fish, the current president of JMN, at the Repair the World: Service Matters conference last year. According to Fish, JMN “is the only grassroots Jew of Color organizing group run by Jews of Color, whose demographics range from every permutation of family imaginable, both progressive and traditional from renewal, and everything in-between.” Several months later, she encouraged me to attend their family retreat.
I did not only feel welcome, but celebrated. I did not only feel comfortable, but like a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I discovered something critically important missing in my life, something I had recently heard of, but never seen with my own eyes: a thriving, multi-ethnic, intergenerational Jewish community. And a space where I was allowed–no– empowered, to unravel, reflect, discuss, and most importantly, celebrate our shared experiences, with 70 other Jews of Color and white allies, of all ages.
I davened, studied, and learned with young adults, parents, teens, kids, and entire families, Orthodox and progressive alike. African, African American, Filipino American, Chinese American, and Latinx American Jews, LGBQ Jews, from six months to elderly, were in attendance. Traditional and progressive Shabbat services were held on Friday night and Saturday morning, where we counted the Omer and read from the Torah.
I hugged babies and played with the children, shared, listened, and met people who now feel like family. I exchanged stories and life experiences with other Jews of Color and their families, most of whom I had just met that weekend.
I grieved, raw, emotionally, and unexpectedly, with people who truly understood, grateful for every single moment, the Shehecheyanu playing in my head like a broken record.
As Rabbi Mira Rivera, the first Jew of Color at Jewish Theological Seminary to be ordained (two years ago), said afterwards: “The community we have here is every rabbi’s dream.” Rivera is a Chaplain Fellow at DOROT in New York City, and teaches Jews of Color, allies and co-conspirators through Harlem Hevruta.
When we gathered for Shabbat dinner, it indeed felt like a dream come true. For the first time in my life, I was surrounded by people who looked like me, families that looked like mine, and children running around and playing together, like it were any other Shabbat. I had to remind myself that it was real, that I there as well, not an outsider looking in.
Together we sang a nigun as we lit the candles, parents held their children’s heads and said the brucha, and Rabbi Mira and Sabrina Sojourner raised the tallit over their heads and called for the children to gather underneath. We sang and celebrated the children, their beautiful faces. We celebrated each other, in their presence our unity, together, as a people. Our skin colors a spectrum, our families all shapes and sizes, our children, smiles, joy and unquestioned belonging.
It was overwhelmingly…normal.
It was perfect.
It was feeling that I could not put into words, until a song returned to my memory: Hinei ma tov uma naim shevet achim gam yachad.
“How good and pleasant it is for people to sit together in unity.” How precious was is to celebrate every single person in the room, exactly as they are, white, Black, AAPI,Latinx, and mixed. Orthodox and progressive, Jews by choice and by birth, patrilineal and matrilineal, single and coupled, families and individuals, young and old.
The babies, clueless to the miracle surrounding them, the children, who will not begin to comprehend the sacredness of this space, until they are years older.
And the teens, parents, and young adults like myself, who do know, savoring every note, laugh, smile, and clap, holding every moment tight in our hearts.
Knowing of the looks, actions, questioning, and isolation to come, subtle and unsubtle, as they always have, in which remembering this moment will keep us grounded in our very sanity.
And knowing that we are loved, belonged, and matter. And I know this because I was there, taking it in all at once, living in the moment.
And in that moment, I felt me.
I felt holy.
I felt everything.
I felt home.
A special shout-out to Chava Shervington, Tamara Fish, Sabrina Sojourner, Rabbi Mira Rivera, all of the JMN leaders, organizers and volunteers, and everyone else who made the 18th annual JMN retreat possible. Thank you for helping create such a meaningful and transformative experience for so many individuals and families seeking a brave, inclusive space, for the past 18 years. Thank you to the many individuals not mentioned here, who offered your listening ears and hearts, genuine selves, support, trust, friendship, and open arms.
Repair the World People: Pablo Baeza of Nationalities Service Center
By Leah Koenig / April 5, 2017
In the month leading up to Passover, Repair the World is sharing stories that highlight the on-the-ground ways our fellows, volunteers, and partner organizations serve in solidarity to turn the tables on racial injustice. Today, meet Pablo Baeza who works for the pioneering immigrant and refugee support organization, Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia. Then, join our Passover campaign and help us serve in solidarity by hosting and volunteering. Together we can #ActNowForRacialJustice.
Since the 1920s, Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia has helped immigrants and refugees arriving in America start productive lives in their new home. From picking up families from the airport and getting them settled, to helping them navigate school enrollment, acquiring State IDs, English language classes, and job placement, NSC has served as an anchor for tens of thousands of newcomers.
The immigrants and refugees that NSC works with have come from all over the world – from Vietnam, Burma, and Bhutan, Ukraine and Ethiopia, and a recent influx of Syrians and people from sub-Saharan Africa. Many of them, said NSC volunteer coordinator, Pablo Baeza, are people who’ve fled war and religious or political persecution in their homelands. Some are survivors of torture and trauma. All seek a safe home to raise their families and live in peace.
Unfortunately, the current Administration’s unsupportive stance on immigration has changed the pace of NSC’s work. “Before Inauguration Day, we had 71 people arrive in January alone,” Baeza said. But the number of arrivals has since dropped dramatically. Meanwhile, some families that expected loved ones to arrive shortly after they did have been gravely disappointed.
Repair the World at Facing Race: A National Conference
By Leah Koenig / November 21, 2016
Last week, Repair the World traveled to Atlanta, Georgia for Facing Race: A National Conference. The two-day gathering is the largest multi-ethnic, intergenerational conference on racial justice. We went there to learn. To be challenged and grow. To connect. And we also went to share what we have learned along the way about being strong allies to social justice movements.
The Facing Race conference was packed with opportunities to learn from some of the movement’s greatest voices (Roxanne Gay and Jose Antonio Vargas were the keynote speakers) and people of color fighting every day, year after year, for human dignity and justice. And the schedule was likewise filled with diverse and inspiring programs, from breakout sessions about raising funds for racial justice and advancing immigrants’ rights, to an art gallery featuring social justice-themed works.
Throughout the two-day conference, Repair the World convened a cohort of students, educators, organizers, and leaders for a conference-within-a-conference. We were honored to have the opportunity to discuss organizing Jewish communities around racial justice with people who have been doing the work for decades. In addition to learning more about the campaigns and movements that one can get involved with, members of the Repair the World cohort explored how Jewish ritual, tradition, and texts can inform and deepen their work.
Through moments of storytelling, song, reflection, and celebration, including a #TurntheTables Shabbat dinner for 100 people, Repair the World aimed to create a space within the already powerful conference, where Jews of all backgrounds and people engaged with the Jewish community could seek out ways to act and serve together.
We were tremendously moved by the Facing Race conference itself, and by the passion and vulnerability of the people who joined us for this powerful experience. And we loved seeing how moved our participants were by each other. One participant, Meg Sullivan, who works as a Director of Programs and Community Engagement at JCC Harlem captured it perfectly when she said, “I feel so honored to have gotten to attend the conference and as part of this amazing delegation. I see overwhelming amounts of work to be done but also concrete steps forward. I have new language to continue asking questions. Perhaps most importantly, I feel my relationship with allyship has been totally transformed.”
(Photo credit: Brian Palmer)
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2019-20 Italian Serie A TIM Season Kicks Off Exclusively on ESPN+ and ESPN
BY: Mac Nwulu
For the second straight season, ESPN+ and ESPN are the exclusive presenter of Italy’s Serie A TIM – one of the world’s top soccer leagues – in the United States. ESPN+ will feature more than 340 matches throughout the 2019-20 season, which kicks off Saturday, Aug. 24, at 11:50 a.m. ET exclusively on ESPN+ with live streaming of Parma vs. Serie A champions Juventus, featuring five-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo.
Throughout the 2019-20 Serie A season (August-May), ESPN+ will stream an average of nine matches each week. One of ESPN’s linear television networks – ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNEWS – will carry a Serie A Tim Match of the Week, while some 40 matches will also be televised in Spanish on ESPN Deportes. Additionally, ESPN+ will feature one-hour season preview and review programs, weekly preview and highlight shows and a Serie A TIM Goals of the Week program.
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Top 12 Things To Do In Jeddah
If one is ever fascinated by the lavish kingship of the Arabian Nights, Jeddah will represent you with the perfect modern version of the same. Jeddah is the largest urban center and commercial capital of Saudi Arabia. It is situated on the west coast of Arabia and happens to be the largest port on the Red Sea. It is among the UNESCO World Heritage sites and is the gateway to the Holy centers of Islamic pilgrimage-Mecca & Medina. With a perfect blend of rich history, culture, art, heritage, supreme urban stature, and exclusive tourism hallmarks, Jeddah certainly accounts to be the perfect holiday destination! The top 12 things from the bucket list follow:
Al-Shallal Theme Park
The largest theme park of a multi-millionaire franchise, the Al-Shallal theme park is one complete amusement park. There is a spacious ice-skating rink and also a roller skating rink. The Amazon safari ride with artificial forest, wildlife and light, and sound effects is the eye-catcher. The real like theme makes it iconic, all the more with real lagoon and a waterfall. The park also has party rooms, game arcade, eateries and spectacular European village theme area and Red-Indian village theme area.
Al-Shallal Theme Park, Jeddah – by alshallal.com.sa
Fakieh Aquarium Jeddah
Located at the heart of the city, the aquarium forms a major site for tourist attraction, especially for kids. Once inside, one will certainly feel under the ocean with a wide range of colorful fishes, corals, and sea creatures. The most attractive part here is the dolphin show, which will certainly infuse a lively feeling. There are penguins, which is certainly the most striking feature among other aquariums around the world.
Fakieh Aquarium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, By Fakieh Aquarium, Ten Thousand Strangers, commons.wikimedia
Jeddah Corniche
Jeddah Corniche or the popular Jeddah waterfront is a 30 km coastal resort area with coastal roads, recreation areas and civic sculptures. The largest fountain in the world, King Fahd’s fountain is located here. The famous Al-Rahmah mosque with unique Arabic architecture is also a place of tourist interest located at Jeddah cornice. The entire area is studded with features like restaurants, cultural center, blossoming garden, and dancing fountains. The recent renovation plans include the construction of a massive Ferris wheel like the London eye.
Jeddah Corniche, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, By Sammy Six, flickr.com
Floating Mosque, Masjid Al-Rahma
One of the popular mosques in a city of numerous mosques, Masjid-Al-Rahma is the only mosque standing on the sea. It creates a stunning ambiance around the Corniche, with a prayer space comprising a serene open waterfront. It is the emblem of Arabic architecture with domes and ‘minars’(towers). The mosque stands apart with its picturesque during the sunset and high tide on a full moon night when it seems to be on a floating state.
Floating Mosque, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, By AnonymousTraveller, pixabay.com
King Fahd’s Fountain
It is also known as the Jeddah Fountain. Built-in the early 1980s, it was donated to the city by King Fahd. The fountain reaches to maximum of 800-1000 ft height and hence is the tallest fountain of the world. The water used is channelized from the Red sea and rushed up with a speed of 233 mph. A popular tourist attraction, the Jeddah Fountain is visible from the entire city and is illuminated by 500 spotlights to give a majestic night view.
King Fahd’s Fountain, Jeddah, Saudi Arbia, by Mghamdi commons.wikimedia
Al-Balad, Jeddah
It is the old historic town area located within Jeddah. It stands out from the supreme urban Jeddah due to its old architecture and antiquity. The shops here are simple and cheap, unlike modern Jeddah, mostly inhabited by indigenous people and inhabitants in an ancestral manner. The Government has undertaken extensive measures for the preservation of the ethnicity and antiquity of the place. UNESCO acknowledges it to be amongst World Heritage sites and is certainly a worthy destination.
Al-Balad, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, By Tahir mq, commons.wikimedia (1)
Nasseef House
It is one of the most popular historic buildings located in Al-Badad. At present, it is a center of culture, a museum with special exhibits and a vocational center for historians. It was build in the late 19th century and was initially a governor’s house and a merchant’s club. Later it became a library to the governor with more than 1500 hundred books. The house has a unique architecture with 106 rooms. The visitors will surely be mesmerized with the artwork and the beautiful Arabic calligraphy with influences from Ottoman-Turks.
Nasseef House, jeddah,Saudi Arabian by Sammy Sixflickr.com
Beit Al Balad
It is a traditional museum in Jeddah, well acclaimed for its Hejazi architecture. The historic building shines with its own glory amidst the modern Jeddah city. It was built in the early twentieth century and was operative as the British Headquarters in Jeddah before the Second World War. Later, it was transformed into a museum showcasing Jeddah’s modern history. It has valuable photographs, articles, maps, housing artifacts and ephemeras. If one is inclined to modern history, this place is a must-visit.
Beit Al Balad, Jeddah,Saudi arabia by Tahir mq commons.wikimedia
The Globe Roundabout
It is located near the Roshan Mall and Seafront, the roundabout is a perfect example of Urban architecture. It is made of glass and steel. The globe lights up during the night, offering a magnificent view in the night backdrop. One must choose to take a halt during a drive through the city and experience this sapphire glowing globe during the night (and grab a few selfies!)
The Globe Roundabout, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, By Tahir mq, commons.wikimedia
Bab Jadid Jeddah
It is one of the great architectural remains from the Mamluk era. Hussain Al-Kurdi, The Mamluk prince started fortifying Jeddah with walls, fortresses, and towers (with canons) to resist the Portuguese invaders. Bab Jadid is one of the iconic gates of the fortress supplemented with towers and was guarded with canons during its use. However, the wall was brought down during the urbanization of Jeddah, but the iconic gates were kept to mark their historical importance and to impart a classic look to urban Jeddah
Bab Jadid Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, By Tahir mq, commons.wikimedia
Al Tayebat International City
The Al Tayebat International City is an exquisite confluence of modern and ancient Arabic culture, art and architecture. The museum located here has fabulous Arabic village models. The supreme furnishing and authentic textile crafts add to the interest of tourists. Amazing exhibitors and alongside eateries further makes it a complete tourist spot. One cannot miss out on this place to grab a pure essence of art besides the lavish lifestyles of wealthy Arabs
Al Tayebat International City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Aditya Prabaswaraflickr.com
The Red Sea Mall
It is the largest and the most iconic mall in urban Jeddah. It is a house of almost all international and national brands. You name it and it’s all present here; clothes, shoes, bags, accessories, home decor, gift items, jewelry and so on. There is something or the other be it a kid or an adult. There are fine restaurants and food outlets along with a large food court to satisfy the appetite of tourists of all ages and tastes. Many cultural events are also organized here.
The Red Sea Mall, Jeddah, saudi arbia by Tahir mqcommons.wikimedia
Just So You Know:
Jeddah is Saudi Arabia’s resort city and is a Global Beta City acknowledged by Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network.
Being a center for traders and sailors, the history of Jeddah lies way back and beyond Alexander-The great.
It has been the major seat of Islamic Caliphates and houses of over 1300 mosques.
Due to the huge number of tourists, the Saudi Government has initiated “Saudi Seasons” comprising exclusive tourism packages and high-level tourism activities at specific times of the year.
Jeddah has a tropical arid type of climate. The average temperature during winter lies between 22-23˚C (70-71˚F), and summers are hot with an average temperature around 36 ˚C (92 ˚F). Dust storms and winter thunderstorms are common (hence plan your trip as per the weather reports!).
Get Some Culture:
The most important cultural aspect lies in the holy Hajj. Jeddah has been hosting it since the 7th century where millions of Muslim pilgrims from all over the world visit the city to start the auspicious journey to Mecca.
Jeddah hosts an annual International book fair called Jeddah international book fair during December which is the hotspot for book lovers.
Jeddah has recently started hosting the annual Red Sea International Film Festival, which is good news for tourists inclined to international cinema.
During ‘Saudi Seasons”, Jeddah is flooded with Cultural events and entertainment ventures spanning around King Abdullah Sports City, Al-Hamra Corniche and the Jeddah waterfront.
Grab A Bite:
Mataam Al Sharq is one of the highest-rated restaurants for fine family dining, famous for its Mediterranean and Lebanese cuisine.
Toki happens to be a popular fine-dining destination with classy interior decor. The authentic Asian and Chinese cuisine served here are highly acclaimed.
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WPTavern: Disconnect From Technology at Camp Press September 23-24 in Seminole, OK
Readers may remember in 2015, we highlighted Camp Press, a conference devoted to disconnecting from technology to focus on strengthening bonds that encourage collaboration within the community.
Mendel Kurland, who has spent the better part of two years organizing the event, announced that Camp Press will take place September 23-24, at Fry Lake in Seminole, OK. The event is a collaboration between Kurland, Aaron D. Campbell, and Christen Campbell
Accommodations include tents, cabins, and RV hookups. Camp Press will take place on Camp Campbell, a plot of land owned by Campbell and his wife. Available activities include hiking, Geo-Caching, swimming, canoeing, fishing, sports, and more.
A Lake Where Attendees Can Chill Out
“Many of us spend a lot of time online, but it’s the time we spend offline and disconnected one-on-one that’s often most important,” Kurland said.
“Those one-on-one connections create lifelong bonds that lead to building better businesses, partnerships, and strategy. Camp Press is about fortifying those in-person bonds.”
Kurland chose to host the event at Camp Campbell based on its size, number of available activities, and its remoteness.
“It’s centrally located in the US, and remote enough to achieve the goal of disconnection. Additionally, Aaron’s family is pretty great too as it’s their land.”
The nearest major airport is an hour away in Oklahoma City so renting a vehicle is recommended. Alternatively, attendees can coordinate rides through the #camp-press-rides channel on the Geek Adventures Slack team. Invitations to join the Slack group are emailed after registering for the event.
There is internet connectivity on the property, but it’s for emergencies and can only be used by staff. There are places in and around the Camp Press area for those who need to check-in with family.
General admission tickets to attend the event are $100 each but if you purchase them before April 14th, they’re $85. There are also tickets available for reserved cabins for 10 people, a shared cabin, and RV hookups.
General admission tickets include the following amenities:
Free tent camping
Other camping options with add-on (if available)
Full Camp Press event + service day (starting Thursday)
Event t-shirt
Fire starting supplies
Field and water activities
Daily ice service
Kurland wants the event to maintain a brand-free feeling and is asking for sponsors to adhere to a set of atypical guidelines. The guidelines state that sponsors may not wear branded gear and that advertising must be hand-made on-site.
“We realize these guidelines aren’t for everyone, but we’re looking for creativity rather than corporate branding for these sponsorships,” Kurland said.
Sponsorship levels range from $1,500 to $3,000 and offer various perks.
Those interested in attending are encouraged to review the event’s Code of Conduct, which is unique compared to an event held in a physical building. For example, it has a guideline for leaving no trace:
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
You don’t have to be involved with WordPress to attend the event. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the official Camp Press site.
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Matt: On React and WordPress Big companies like to bury unpleasant news on Fridays: A few weeks ago, Facebook announced they have decided to dig in on their patent clause addition to the React license, even after Apache had said it’s no longer allowed for Apache.org projects. In their words, removing the patent clause would […]
WPTavern: First WordCamp Dublin Set for October 14-15
WPTavern: First WordCamp Dublin Set for October 14-15 photo credit: Ireland.com Following up on the success of WordCamp Belfast last October, the WordPress community in Dublin will be hosting its first WordCamp October 14-15. Both camps began the early stages of planning last year and the two communities have shared some of the same organizers […]
WPTavern: GitHub Partners with Facebook to Release Atom-IDE
Posted 14/09/2017 in 3:12 am by Sarah Gooding
WPTavern: GitHub Partners with Facebook to Release Atom-IDE GitHub announced the launch of Atom-IDE this week, a new set of packages that extend its open source JavaScript-powered code editor to include IDE-like functionality. This first release includes packages that support TypeScript, Flow, JavaScript, Java, C#, and PHP. “The start of this journey includes smarter context-aware […]
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Long Island Medium
Long Island Medium - Season 4 Episode 14
Gomo
Follows Theresa Caputo, a normal mom from New York who balances a full family life with her ability to communicate with the dead. Each episode will show how this gift impacts her life and the lives of those around her.
Actor: Theresa Caputo
Episode: 14/169 eps
Season 1 - Long Island Medium
1 "No Turning Off"
"We are introduced to Theresa and her family. She finds it very hard to \"turn off\" her gift and her daughter bets her she can't make it through a family BBQ without reading all of their guests."
2 "Driving Me Nuts"
3 "Spirit Release"
4 "This Isn't Working"
5 "Theresa's Upgrade"
6 "Reconnecting"
7 "Blessing & A Curse"
8 "Theresa Explains It All"
9 "Sailing with Spirits"
"Theresa does a group reading for passengers aboard a cruise ship. Later, Theresa's husband has a big surprise for her."
1 "Meeting the Parents"
"In the second-season premiere, Victoria hopes that her mother's abilities can take a night off when her boyfriend and his parents come for dinner."
2 "Drumming and Healing"
"With her busy schedule weighing on her, Theresa decides to host a drumming circle at the house to 're-ground' herself, and invites her spiritual healer Pat, who helped Theresa realize she was a medium."
3 "Losing It"
4 "Poor Petey"
5 "Christmas Spirit"
6 "Spirit Al Dente"
7 "Car Crazy"
8 "Just Like Me"
9 "Wheelin' & Dealin'"
10 "Long Island Romance"
11 "Bellies & Babies"
12 "Apply Yourself"
13 "Uneasy"
14 "Spirit and the City"
1 "Homecoming"
2 "A Medium Surprise"
3 "Help Me"
4 "The Princess and Her Prom"
5 "The Flying Larrys"
6 "My Keys Now"
7 "Beach Bonding"
8 "The Graduate"
9 "The Family Photo"
10 "Joe Skeptic"
11 "FAQ"
12 "Never Before Seen"
14 "Theresa and the Tent"
15 "Halloween Spirit"
16 "Hello College"
1 "Missing My Princess"
2 "Theresa In Training"
3 "The Royal Flush"
"When the Caputo's decide to redo their bathroom, Larry becomes overwhelmed with the task; Theresa experiences a spirit that leaves her in shock."
4 "Sandy Spirit"
5 "The Gambler"
6 "Why Me"
7 "Louie's Lost"
8 "The Medium Matchmaker"
9 "Girls Night In"
"Theresa invites her friends over for a girls' night; a man hears an incredible message from his dad."
10 "Spirits on the Slopes"
11 "Bouffants and Bingo"
"Theresa amazes her dad at bingo, and helps a local organization with a group reading. Later, three kids hear incredible messages during a reading with Theresa."
12 "The Pincushion"
"Theresa takes Larry to acupuncture to help him quit smoking; a woman and her daughter are spooked by noises occurring in their house."
13 "Once Upon A Dream"
"After having a dream about her husband cheating on her, Theresa coerces Larry & their son to take dance lessons with her. Also, a woman hears a message from her deceased husband that no one else would know."
14 "The Patient"
"Long Island Medium: The Patient Theresa is in total disarray after a mole removed from her foot is being tested for melanoma. Plus, a couple hears from their deceased child in one of Theresa\u2019s most powerful group readings."
15 "Unseen"
16 "On the Road Chicago"
17 "Special Behind the Read 2"
18 "Gluten Free V"
"Victoria claims she is allergic to gluten; Theresa thinks she is over-dramatic; a man hears validations from his wife than no one else would know."
19 "Momma's Boy"
"Theresa's son wants to get his motorcycle license; a woman hears details from an incident in her past."
20 "Spirit Left Behind"
"Theresa does a private reading in her father's house and he feels there was a spirit left behind; Theresa reads her dad for the first time and is dumfounded."
21 "Diving Right In"
"Theresa wants to add a swimming pool to the house construction; a spirit appears like she has never seen before."
22 "When There's a Will..."
"The kids react to Theresa and Larry making a will; spirits show up in a spin class; Theresa meets with a suffering young boy."
24 "Bunny Love"
"Theresa's husband rescues a bunny from the wild; a woman hears from her young daughter."
26 "Revisited"
"Visiting past clients affected by her messages; new messages that will help them continue to heal."
27 "Unseen 2"
"Special readings never seen before; a skeptical man hears a message from his dad; a surprise in Philadelphia leaves a woman breathless."
28 "Back to Normal"
"Larry Jr. has yet to decide if he will move out; Theresa encounters a furious woman in a reading."
29 "Christmas at the Caputo's"
"A meatball competition between Theresa and her mother-in-law."
30 "On the Road: Florida"
"Theresa heads down South to surprise unsuspecting fans with readings; a mother hears from her daughter who died tragically; a woman needs to know if her husband is still with her."
31 "On the Road: Chicago"
"Theresa and her husband see the sights of Chicago and shock people with readings."
2 "Dog eat dog summer"
"Larry and Theresa visit the oil company where they met; Theresa reads the woman who works there."
3 "Back to My Roots"
"Theresa goes to a genealogist to learn about her family history; a message from a spirit."
4 "Don't Give Up Your Day Job"
"After a trip to the barbershop with Larry, Theresa decides to enroll in beauty school."
5 "Getting the Band Back Together"
"Theresa's old folk group gets back together to perform; reconnecting a man with his mother."
6 "On the Road: Texas"
"Big surprises and big moments as Theresa surprises fans with readings in Texas."
1 "Celebrity Spirit"
"In the season premiere, Theresa reads for celebrities, including Jim Parsons, who connects with an old friend, and Susan Lucci, who is stunned by the messages she received. Also: Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her mother are overcome by emotion; and Katie Lowes comes to Theresa's house for a private reading."
2 "Spirit in Paradise: Snowbirds"
"The Caputos go to Florida to see if it's the right place for them in the winter. Meanwhile, Theresa tries a new hair salon and channels the brother of another customer; comforts a family dealing with the death of their son; and holds a group meeting that includes a woman whose best friend was shot and killed."
3 "Spirit in Paradise: The Son Also Visits...
"Larry Jr. visits Theresa in Florida while his father is out of town and takes his mom on a series of adventures, including riding a Jet Ski. Later, Theresa surprises a class at a dance studio with a group reading; and a man interrupts his workout on the beach so Theresa can talk to his mom on the phone."
13 "Surprise In Disguise"
14 "Before the Wedding"
"Bells are ringing in this special episode as Theresa conducts readings surrounding upcoming weddings. A man surprises his fiancee with a reading from Theresa, who hopes to connect with the father she is heartbroken will not walk her down the aisle."
15 "Before the Baby"
"Expectant moms get readings before they give birth, including one who connects with her father, whom she believes answered her prayers to get pregnant after a miscarriage. Later, Theresa helps a woman whose father died on Thanksgiving; and another whose younger brother passed away after a series of illnesses stemming from a tick bite."
16 "Was It My Fault?"
"In the first half of a combined season finale, people who blame themselves for the loss of loved ones are connected with the departed."
17 "Healing the Anger"
"Theresa helps people who are angry over the death of loved ones, including a man who wished his brother was dead the night before he overdosed."
1 "Star Studded Spirit"
"In the season premiere, Theresa gives readings to celebrities, including Rosie O'Donnell, Mo'Nique, Billy Gardell and Ta'Rhonda Jones."
2 "I Now Pronounce You..."
"Theresa is asked to officiate a wedding for two people who met at one of her group readings, and Larry is asked to be their best man. Before heading to Los Angeles for the ceremony, Theresa surprises a woman on Wall Street with a reading."
3 "There's A Lump"
"Fashion maven Carson Kressley gets a reading with Theresa. Theresa also channels a woman who died in a brutal murder, and does her first \"automatic writing\" in a decade. Nerves are frayed when Theresa's routine mammogram gives rise to some concern."
4 "The Biopsy is Back"
"Theresa does a group reading for people in law enforcement, and reunites a man with the son who was accidentally shot. Later, waiting for the results of her biopsy has Theresa so on edge that she cancels a reading for the first time in 6 years."
5 "An MRI For Larry"
"While in Los Angeles, Theresa does a reading for \"Scandal\" star Guillermo Diaz. Theresa also channels for a woman who believes she has the gift as well."
6 "Beauty School Drop-In"
"Theresa reads teenage triplets who suffered a tragic lost. And at a group reading, Theresa channels a man who lost many friends while serving in the military. Then, Victoria shocks the entire family when she announces she's dropping out of school."
7 "Victoria's Test"
"Theresa gives a reading to a skeptical father that lost his son. Later, a transgender woman discovers how much support she's getting from the other side. And Victoria, who recently dropped out of college for beauty school uses her family as guinea pigs."
8 "Is the Gift Real?"
"At a group reading, Theresa brings closure to a man who has been tortured by his son's death. Then, Theresa gets a brain scan while she's channeling, in the hopes doctors can tell her what goes on in her head when she's channeling spirit"
9 "Panic Attack"
10 "The Spirits of Hollywood"
"It's a star-studded season finale with \"Don't Be Tardy's\" Kim Zolciak-Biermann and the Buffalo Bills' Kroy Biermann, \"Parks & Recreation's\" Jim O'Heir \"The Goldbergs\" , Wendi McClendon-Covey and \"Young & Hungry\" star Kym Whitley all getting readings."
Season 10 - Long Island Medium
1 "Reading the Stars"
"It's the season premiere, and Theresa is giving emotional readings to some shocked celebrities. Television icon Kelsey Grammer, \"This Is Us\" breakout Chrissy Metz, \"The Biggest Loser\" trainer Bob Harper and Sugar Ray front man Mark McGrath."
2 "50 is the New 35"
3 "Freezing Theresa"
"\"Shark Tank\" shark Barbara Corcoran gets a reading with Theresa. At a fundraiser, Theresa channels an accident victim for the distraught police officer who couldn't save him. Theresa reads a man while she's inside a cryogenic freezing chamber."
4 "Theresa Crashes Victoria's Date"
5 "Southern Fried Spirit"
1 "The Breaking Point"
"In an emotional 2-hour season premiere, Theresa goes to Fire Island and conducts one of the most powerful group readings of her life. Later, Theresa and Larry confront their issues have a devastating conversation about the future of their marriage."
2 "Episode 2"
4 "Theresa on Tour"
"Theresa hits the road on a cross-country tour, delivering healing messages in numerous cities; as the end of the tour nears, going home weighs heavy on her mind."
5 "Living Apart"
"Theresa experiences her first dose of life living apart from Larry as she spends time with her kids and father. Theresa gives a special gift to skeptical newlyweds channeling both of their fathers who died before their wedding."
6 "Star-Crossed Spirits"
"Theresa gives readings to Melissa Etheridge, Tituss Burgess, Robert Patrick, Jillian Michaels, Marilu Henner, Kate Walsh, and Buddy Valastro."
1 "A Year of Separation"
"Theresa adjusts as she and Larry get closer to divorce; a skeptic turns when his dad is channeled; Theresa's mother is introduced for the first time; the family thinks Larry Jr. will pop the question at a party for his girlfriend."
2 "Readings and Renovations"
"Theresa reads one of the construction workers in her home; in a group reading, she changes the mind of a skeptic who lost his son in a car accident; with Larry living in Los Angeles, Theresa makes an effort to spend time with her family."
3 "An Accident on Tour"
"Theresa is sidelined after an accident severely injures her, but that doesn't stop her from conducting readings at her doctor's office and right after surgery; now housebound, she has to open her home for group readings for the first time in years."
4 "Weight-Shaming Victoria"
"Theresa sees a doctor about ongoing health issues; Victoria is harassed online for gaining weight; she surprises a bachelorette party with a group reading; a mom seeks closure from the death of her 11-year-old daughter in a car accident."
Rich Kids Go Skint
Beach Hunters
Man at Arms: Art of War
Trailer: Long Island Medium
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MDOT Closes Ramps Along I-75 For Year-Long Construction Project
March 15, 2019 - 10:15 am
TROY (WWJ) - Multiple ramps along I-75 in Oakland County are now closed and will remain shut down through the construction season.
The Michigan Department of transportation said ramps along the southbound side of the freeway -- including both ramps to Big Beaver, Rochester Road and eastbound 14 Mile -- were closed to traffic Friday morning and will remain that way for the duration of the 2019 construction season.
On Saturday, starting at 8:30 a.m., two lanes of southbound I-75 traffic will be shifted to the right using the right shoulder as a travel lane. This traffic shift will remain in place through the construction season.
Then starting at 9 a.m. Monday, March 18, crews will begin closing the northbound lanes and ramps for the construction season. The northbound traffic will be shifted over to the southbound lanes. Two lanes will be open in each direction with a temporary concrete barrier separating northbound and southbound traffic. Temporary exits will also be maintained for northbound traffic at 14 Mile Road, Rochester Road, Big Beaver Road and Corporate Drive.
The work was scheduled to begin earlier this month, but weather delayed the start. It's a part of a complete reconstruction project that will go into next year.
The entire I-75 modernization project involves rebuilding approximately 18 miles of pavement, replacing bridges, adding a HOV lane in each direction, and bringing the freeway up to current design standards from north of 8 Mile Road to South Boulevard.
Know before you go! Keep it tuned to WWJ Newsradio 950 for the latest from the roads during traffic and weather, every 10 minutes on the 8s. >>LISTEN LIVE!
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Too Many Holes in the Boat: Western Michigan Loses Cotton Bowl
Getty Images Ron Jenkins
Unfortunately the fairy tale season for Western ended by getting bit by a Badger. The Western Michigan University Broncos lost to the University of Wisconsin Badgers 24-16 in this year's Cotton Bowl.
The Broncos started off really slow with the Badgers taking it right down the field to score touchdowns on their first two possessions but then the defense kicked in and started to play.
32 Unforgettable Cotton Bowl Images
They fought their way back but in a game breaking mistake their quarterback Zach Terrell threw an interception that he will never forget. On their own 3 yard line, he tossed the ball into triple coverage and the pass was intercepted at the 10 yard line. Wisconsin then scored to go up 14 and they never looked backed.
Congratulations to our WMU Broncos for a great season, ending up with 13 wins and now 1 loss.
Maybe a undefeated season will come in the new season. But will the new season feature head coach PJ Fleck? While some reports have him staying in Kalamazoo with a lengthy contract extension, a new rumor has surfaced that he'll be lured away by the University of Minnesota.
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2003 mods, 2009 mods, DOS mods,
Operation: Elimination
Registered Wolfenstein
Operation: Elimination is a mod for registered Wolfenstein made by Kyle Albert. Made in 2003, it only received a wide release in August 2009.
The mod features a seamless level flow that includes 15 regular levels and 3 secret levels. A new mini-boss is added (chaingun guard), rocket sentries, and a variety of new sounds and graphics. The influence of BJ Rowan is, as with Kyle's other mods, quite obvious.
Genesis Edit
Initially, the mod was announced on May 5, 2002 as Operation: Murder Hitler, and a series of screenshots were posted.
On March 3, 2003 the mod was announced on the Dome in a series of screenshots and list of coding changes. Sadly this was its only activity before its 2009 release.
From obscurity to release Edit
Kyle's coding skills improved quite a lot in 2003 and 2004, and being a fan of his older mods, Thomas Weiling asked Kyle to do the coding for his mod Project Wolfgeist. During this time, Thomas eventually got Kyle to send him the then-unreleased Operation: Elimination. At this time, early 2005, the mod had long been finished and remained unreleased simply because Kyle felt embarrassed about how old it felt compared to the scene now in awe of End of Destiny.
Thomas held on to the mod for a long time, and even e-mailed it to Brian Lowe later in 2005, but for some reason it was not posted on the Dome. In August 2009, after rediscovering it in his collection, Thomas finally got Brian to upload it on the Dome.
In early 2004, Kyle started to put together what would eventually become Operation: Todpfad. Perhaps this was also a contributing factor as to why Operation: Elimination got put on the backburner.
Download Operation: Elimination at The Wolfenstein 3D Vault
News at the Dome: JUL/AUG 2009 MAR/APR 2003
Youtube videos: Lingyan203 Diehardwolferrr
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WMU News
Bin there, done that — student's research optimizes recycling
Contact: Erin Flynn
Joshua Turske led a research project for Newell Brands, determining the best placement of recycling centers to reduce waste.
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Joshua Turske's behavioral analysis research project is garbage. And he's proud of it.
The psychology graduate student immersed himself in recycling habits for a full year, conducting research for Newell Brands and its Rubbermaid Commercial Products brand.
"People don't traditionally view psychologists as the ones running these programs," says Turske.
The study, which Newell Brands Associate Brand Manager Catie Cartee believes to be among the first of its kind, could give the company a leg up in the commercial products recycling arena.
"It gives us much more credibility because the study was developed and executed by a third party," Cartee says. "The partnership we have with Western Michigan University is very valuable, being a research-focused campus. The reputation of Western is something we wanted to capitalize on."
Turske's passion for sustainability initially piqued his interest in the project.
"When I found that there was a call for researchers to actually use the skills I've developed through graduate school to make an impact on the sustainable world," Turske says, "that was a big pull."
Newell, which has a location in WMU's Business Technology and Research Park, wanted data to support the optimum placement of recycling centers in a building.
"We wanted to see which placement and quantity of recycling centers would yield the highest recycling rates and lowest contamination rates," says Cartee.
The research also had a practical application on campus. Lu DeBoef, working in WMU's Office for Sustainability at the time, wanted to identify ways to limit contamination.
"If the recycling is contaminated, you have to throw it out," says DeBoef, who now works in WMU's Facilities Management Department as recycling and sustainability program manager. "I needed to know what was being correctly recycled, what was incorrectly recycled, and what was being thrown away."
Turske and his team of researchers spent a year digging through trash to examine recycling habits in Wood Hall.
Turske developed four research questions to explore during the study:
What type of recycling label is better: text- or image-based?
What number of pods lead to optimum recycling?
What is the optimum placement of pods?
Which type of container material produces the best results?
He and his team of more than a dozen student researchers began their work in the summer of 2017, examining recycling bins inside Wood Hall.
"Wood Hall is unique. We looked at the first and second floors and they're almost identical. So, it made for a good research control," says Turske. "If the layout was different, it would be a confounder in the data, which would mean we couldn't make as strong of statements."
Strong research, it turns out, also produces strong odors. In order to find out what people were tossing into bins, Turske and his team had to sift through trash, piece by piece, and document it. The team worked closely with custodians, who essentially became researchers themselves. They would gather the waste from pods throughout the building and dump it onto the loading dock in clusters.
"Every day we would sort through everything to rate it for accuracy. You lost your sense of smell, which was good," Turske laughs. "It made it easier to sort."
Sometimes the trash told a story.
"You could tell when someone had a really bad test because all of their notes would be in the paper bins."
In addition to documenting the contents of bins, Turske and his team shifted the placement of recycling pods throughout the building every couple of weeks.
"At 11 p.m., we would physically move the bins ourselves on chairs," recalls Turske. "We were only questioned by the cops once, who were really confused about what we were doing."
The research team documented the number of pods per floor during each phase, as well as their location in respect to entries and exits and the type of recycling prompt used (text or images).
The year-long project turned into a much larger undertaking than Turske expected. A small price to pay for solid research.
"It's not always clean, but it's fulfilling," Turske says. "Because being able to see every phase of this project…you could see the science unfold in front of you, which was very validating."
The Findings
Turske's team found recycling centers placed near exits yielded the best results.
One of the main findings of Turske's study involved signage placed near recycling centers. Data showed people were more likely to recycle—and do so correctly—when a sign above the bins featured pictures rather than just text to demonstrate what people could dispose of in the containers.
"If you're in a hurry and don't have time to read the text, you'll just throw something away," says Turske. "The pictures are a little larger. You can see them from afar and kind of preemptively know what's supposed to go where and recycle more efficiently."
"We found making recycling easier makes people want to do the behavior more, which is great."
Another aspect of the study analyzed the number of bins needed to maximize recycling efforts and efficiency, something important to both Rubbermaid Commercial Products and WMU.
"We found that when we had six bins (per floor), trash started to accumulate in the bathrooms and classrooms, which is not good for custodians because it takes time out of their day to clean," says Turske. "It also makes Western look bad if trash is everywhere."
The team found no difference between the amount of waste captured by nine or 12 bins, determining the smaller number to be the "sweet spot" for recycling.
They also learned bins placed near entrances and exits were most effective, and that the material Rubbermaid Commercial Products uses for its bins also decreased recycling contamination.
"People wanted to interact with the RCP bins more due to the fact that they looked nicer, they seemed sleeker and were more uniform," says Turske. "They said they would actually feel bad if they didn't recycle properly."
The Takeaways
Turske, left, and Lu DeBoef, right, are now going through buildings on campus to assess recycle cluster placement.
Turske presented his findings at Newell Brands, Commercial and Consumer Solutions divisional headquarters in North Carolina.
Newell plans to use Turske's project to train its field team.
"Oftentimes, distributor partners come to us and ask us, 'My customer wants to implement a (recycling) program. What do they need?'" says Cartee. "This helps us give a more educated, data-based answer."
"It was truly a win-win all the way around," says Bob Miller, associate vice president for community outreach at WMU. "The company got some valuable data that they can use in product development and also in marketing. The University got an opportunity to save some money, but also got a product that is working, and it's adding to our sustainability."
Turske's research is prompting change on WMU's campus. He and DeBoef have been going through buildings and assessing recycle cluster placement.
"Streamlining recycle containers saves money by reducing container liners and custodial time," says DeBoef.
The University also started replacing text-based recycling prompts with signage featuring pictures, which the research showed was more effective.
"It was a great project," says DeBoef. "It brought a lot of awareness, I think, to recycling."
Miller says projects like this also demonstrate to other companies the value of the Business Technology and Research Park.
"It's not that this initiative is simply related to the University or that you'll have an opportunity for collaboration," says Miller. "You will be located on the campus of a major research university. That speaks to the culture of your company. You can promote that you are very interested in being cutting edge. It's huge."
It's also huge for students like Turske, who are working on landing a job after graduation.
"Being able to take a project like this…build this entire project, see it through to fruition and then present it in front of executives was a great experience that not a lot of students get to have," says Turske.
For more WMU news, arts and events, visit WMU News online.
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Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs) [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
Artist: Beth Gibbons
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1. I. Lento-Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
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Domino is extremely proud to present Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) _performed by Beth Gibbons and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki. The performance took place at The National Opera Grand Theater in Warsaw on November 29th 2014, and was part of an evening of programming that also featured Jonny Greenwood's (Radiohead) 48 Responses To Polymorphia and the world premiere of Bryce Dessner's (The National) Réponse Lutosławski. Following an invitation to collaborate at the concert, Beth Gibbons undertook an intense preparation process, including tackling the challenge of learning the original text (and the emotional weight it carries) without speaking the mother language. Typical to Beth though - the elusive yet iconic frontwoman of one of the most important British bands of the last two decades - the challenge was met and exceeded. Her performance alongside the maestro Krzysztof Penderecki has been hailed as triumphant, as you can see and hear on this release.
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ELEPHANTS AND ISLANDS
An 18-Day Service Learning Program
Dates: June 12 – June 29, 2020 LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Arrive: Los Angeles, CA
Depart: Los Angeles, CA
Grade 9th, 10th, 11th &12th
*Airfare for group flight from Los Angeles additional
Vietnam / Cambodia Project Clean Water
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Australia & Fiji Island Village Initiative
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Let the Sights, Sounds, and Flavors of Thailand Sink in as the “Land of Smiles” Welcomes You
Explore Ancient Temples and Chat With Buddhist Monks About Thailand’s National Religion
Lead a Camp for Children in an Ethnic Minority and Help Safeguard their Hill Tribe from Landslides
Maintain a Reserve for Wild Elephants and Catch a Glimpse of These Creatures From Your Jungle Treehouse
Create your own Pad Thai, Curry, Spring Rolls, and Sticky Rice in a Cooking Class Dedicated to Thai Flavor Traditions
Take a Mud Bath with the Largest Land Mammal, Then Keep the Elephants Happy With Plenty of Hand-Fed Watermelon
Earn Your SCUBA Certification while Diving Brilliant Coral Reefs on a Private Island
Spotlight Community Service Project
Highland Minority Community Service
Ethnic Minorities have long been marginalized in the hills and along the borders of Thailand. In the Karen Hill Tribe we visit, mass deforestation destabilized the hillside, causing yearly mudslides in the rainy season, which are both destructive and dangerous and have taken the lives of multiple community members. In our time there, we’ve shored up the hillside with a retaining wall, and started improvements on the kindergarten classroom, which was badly damaged in a slide. While we continue to improve the community’s infrastructure, we also provide a 3-day educational camp for the children where they are thrilled to learn about other cultures, a lesson rarely delivered in remote hill tribes. In this time, the students also learn about personal hygiene and the importance of hand washing and dental care.
The Land of Smiles welcomes you to experience the best of Thailand. Sit with saffron-robed monks in ancient, golden temples in the moated city of Chiang Mai. Make an impact on a Karen Hill Tribe as you help rebuild a Kindergarten classroom and provide an educational and fun day-camp for the Hill Tribe children. Zipline through the lush northern hills, learn to make your own curries, pad Thai, spring rolls, and sticky rice at a cooking class, and shop at the colorful local markets. Learn what makes elephants such an integral part of Thai culture and work with conservationists to secure their future. Walk with these gentle giants through their natural environment, take a mud bath with elephants in a sanctuary, and watch for wild elephants traipsing through the eco-reserve and wildlife corridor you call home. Journey south to explore Thailand’s beautiful beaches. Earn your PADI SCUBA certification by day, and by night enjoy the serenity of an island private to you and all of your new friends, bonded now through endless adventures in Thailand.
Chiang Mai: The Northern Rose
This ancient city, surrounded by a moat and filled with over 300 temples, is known as the Northern Rose of Thailand, and dates back to the 13th century. Full of colorful markets, rich foods you’ll only find in Northern Thailand, women in long tube skirts and monks in saffron robes, Chiang Mai is the perfect start for understanding the richness of Thailand. Here, you’ll speak directly with monks to understand Thailand’s main religion, Buddhism. You’ll scour markets for the best ingredients to use in a traditional Thai cooking class where you’ll make and enjoy Pad Thai, curries, sticky rice, spring rolls, and more. You’ll head into the hills for an exhilirating zipline and a majestic stroll through Wat Prathat Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai’s most sacred temple.
Northern Highlands: Village Hill Tribe Service
In the northern and border regions of Thailand, various tribes still live in small communities where they have managed to retain their own language, customs, mode of dress, and spiritual beliefs. We’ll head to a remote village in the hills of Doi Suthep to meet with a Karen tribe we’ve called family for the past 7 years. We’ll continue ARCC’s work renovating a Kindergarten classroom once destroyed by a landslide, and provide a day-camp for the children in the community. We’ll teach them good hand-washing and dental care techniques, and they’ll teach us how to plant and harvest rice in the beautiful paddies that surround this special place.
Kanchanaburi: Elephant Jungles
Just 100 years ago, Thailand was home to over 300,000 wild elephants. Now, fewer than 4000 roam in ever-dwindling patches of jungle. Habitat and food loss, as well as the popularity of trekking camps, are to blame for these numbers, but many local conservationists are working to create solutions to save elephants, a national symbol in Thailand. We’re here to help. Our elephant conservation journey begins at a respected nature preserve and wildlife corridor tucked away in lush forest. With the help of scientists and conservationists, we build dams, create natural salt-licks in the jungle, and plant trees. We spot wild elephants from the tree house, and even spend a day playing with elephants in a no-ride sanctuary that protects captive elephants while they live out their lives free from chains. We leave with a good understanding of Thailand’s struggle to maintain wild elephant populations while taking care of captive populations.
Reefs teeming with exotic fish and soft corals lure us to Koh Nang Yuan, a small island kept private at night for only those staying in its inviting bungalows. In the island’s warm, crystal clear waters, we become PADI Certified Open Water Divers, or upgrade to PADI Advanced Open Water Divers. (All students wishing to SCUBA dive must pass a thorough diving physical and cannot have used an inhaler or suffered from asthma in the past three years. For those not wishing or unable to dive, alternative water activities are available.) We soak up the island sun and enjoy new friendships on the most beautiful beaches of Thailand.
Bangkok: Ancient Meets Modern
Before final goodbyes, explore one of Southeast Asia’s largest cities, where ancient traditions meet modern skyscrapers. Little old ladies sell noodles from carts in colorful markets while speed boats shuttle men and women to business districts along the Chao Phraya river. Practice Thailand’s martial art, Muay Thai, then enjoy a traditional Thai massage. Spend your final night on a chartered boat enjoying your last Thai tastes while floating past the sparkling Grand Palace, Wat Pho, and the Rama VIII bridge. Leave with an understanding for why Thailand is the “Land of Smiles.”
“This trip is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I wish I could do it again right now. Between the things I learned, the friends I made and the places I went, I can’t think of any better way to spend my summer.”
— Emma VL., Katonah, NY, ARCC Student
“The Thailand trip gives you great opportunities to learn more about yourself while helping others. It really gives you a look into different perspectives of the culture here.”
— Chelsea W., Haddonfield, NJ, ARCC Student
“I really like the people on this trip. The people are what make a trip and ARCC always has good people applying to it.”
— Hunter B., NYC, NY, ARCC Student
“The ARCC trip opened my eyes to the diversity and adventure that await in new countries. The language and social barriers are easily – and quickly – torn down. It’s life changing.”
— Kelsey H., Reno, NV, ARCC Student
“The people were so unbelievably great that I enjoyed every moment. The leaders, the kids were great and I am so happy I came on this trip. I really enjoyed the community service and EVERYTHING. It was outstanding.”
— Benny G., ARCC Student
Group Journal Excerpts
Below you will find several Group Journal excerpts, written by ARCC students during their summer program with ARCC:
Culture in Thailand!
After a rustic night of stargazing at the orphanage, we were happy to learn we had a half an hour more of sleep the following day. In the morning, we boarded the “tuk-tuk party bus” which drove us two hours to spend a refreshing night with Buddhist monks. On the way, we stopped off at…Read more
English Teaching in Kanchanaburi
We may not be experts in Thai, but yesterday we helped 100 kids to become experts in English! We are here at the orphanage and enjoying our second English service project. We had games, postcard making, and even a limbo contest with all the students from the orphanage and surrounding school. Read more Today we…Read more
Each program has a specific packing list that has been designed to fit the program’s activities, length, climate and cultural differences. Please click here to view the Thailand: Hill Tribe Impact packing list.
What is the weather like in Thailand?
Most of Thailand, with the exception of the mountainous regions in the north, can be described as hot and humid. Day-time temperatures in the summer months usually fall in the mid-80’s, with an average humidity of 66% to 82%. In the northern hill-country temperatures can fall into the 50’s, and it can get quite chilly in the evenings. Though it is not the rainy season during our summer program, it can rain frequently throughout the month of July in the regions we visit.
ARCC has been operating programs in Thailand for many years, and we have built close relationships with a variety of individuals, small communities and organizations who enjoy hosting ARCC student groups. On this program, we spend time living and working in a remote hill tribe village. The specific service projects that each group will work on depend on what is most needed in the community at the time. Projects could include building a bamboo bridge for safe access to the school in wet season, a village meeting house, a playground, or making renovations to a school. We also participate in an elephant service project at a nature preserve and elephant sanctuary and teach English to local schoolchildren.
What kind of health precautions should I take before traveling to Thailand?
Thailand is a relatively clean and safe place to travel. However, ARCC does recommend that you take some health precautions before your trip to Thailand. When you enroll in the program, you will receive more complete information on pertinent travel vaccinations and immunizations. Please also refer to the Traveler’s Health section of the CDC website. Our leaders carry a full first aid kit, and are all certified Wilderness First Responders (WFR).
Where will we sleep?
During this program we sleep in a variety of accommodations: small hotels, a community center, dorm style bungalows, a monastery and overnight trains.
What is the transportation like once we are in Thailand?
We use a variety of transportation on the Thailand: Hill Tribe Impact program. We travel by train in overnight sleeper coaches and by private busses.
We will have the opportunity to sample traditional Thailand cuisine such as noodles (like Pad Thai), curries, springs rolls and fresh fruits. We will also be taking a cooking class to learn how to cook all of our favorite dishes!
For Thailand: Hill Tribe Impact, ARCC recommends that you bring an additional $150 of spending money. You should bring this money in the form of cash (small bills are best) and also bring an ATM/debit card with you. Thailand uses the “baht” as currency and there are approximately 32 Thai baht to every US $1.
As with any international program, we strongly recommend talking to your bank about its international withdrawal policies to avoid any surprise fees or card cancellations.
Yes, all students traveling to Thailand need to have a valid passport. Please make sure the passport expiration date is at least six months after you travel. Passport applications are available at the post office. If you do not already have a passport, you should apply for one as soon as you enroll in this adventure. It normally takes six weeks to process a passport application.
No. US and Canadian citizens do not need a visa for this program (unless you plan on staying in Thailand before or after the program).
What is the time difference between Thailand and the USA?
All of Thailand falls within a single time zone. While on your program in Thailand, the time will be 11 hours later than New York (Eastern Time), 12 hours later than Chicago (Central Time), and 14 hours later than San Francisco (Pacific Time).
Do I really need to bring a backpack, or can I bring a rolling suitcase on this program?
Although you will not be doing traditional backpacking on this program, it is important that you bring a backpack as your main piece of luggage. During the program the group will be navigating through airports, on and off buses, up and down stairways, and taking short hikes on unpaved paths. The group will be able to move much more efficiently if everyone is carrying their belongings on their back.
What kinds of goods and supplies can we bring to donate for the people we meet?
We have the chance to live amongst some people who have the very basics for survival. With education being a tool to better their lives, basic school supplies are welcomed with open arms. Pens, pencils, notepads, and books are widely accepted. Soccer balls are also an incredible way to cross the cultural border and share smiles. Because of limited space on our vehicles ARCC would ask that every person to bring no more than a gym bag of goods to donate.
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Pre-Roll Ads as Talent Contest? The Longer You Don’t Skip, the More Votes These Musicians Get
Extra Gum creates a modern twist on The Gong Show
By Amy Corr
Sydney-based punk-pop quartet Rackett was one of 16 acts chosen for Extra's Support Acts contest.
Extra Gum is making the medium the message with Extra Support Acts, a campaign that turns YouTube pre-roll ads into a platform that gives 16 emerging Australian music acts a significant audience boost and a chance to perform live on a major stage.
From now to Sept. 30, YouTube pre-roll ads viewed before any 5 Seconds of Summer, Alison Wonderland, The Rubens and 360 videos feature one of the budding artists. The project allows these major acts to help boost the next generation of Aussie up-and-comers.
Musicians typically accustomed to a few thousands of views may now see a big jump in exposure, as audiences vote with their attention and interaction.
Think of the approval process as a digital version of “The Gong Show.” The longer one watches, the greater that vote counts. Not a fan? Stop watching, but that will ding that artist’s score. The top four acts with the most engagement, based on an algorithm tracking views, likes and shares, will perform at Universal Music Australia’s (UMA) Aria showcase this November.
The campaign was a collaborative effort between Clemenger BBDO Sydney, MediaCom, UMA, Bring (UMA’s in-house agency) and YouTube. Coinciding with the pre-roll ads are additional social media content and traditional OOH advertising to promote the effort further.
“This is a brilliant example of how you can innovate and change the way you partner with platforms like YouTube – building reach and using real music discovery data to bring the idea to life,” said Dan Connor, head of strategy and planning at MediaCom.
Though this campaign is awesomely Australian, its global scope allows the world to see the breadth and depth of new talent bubbling up from a nation with a rich and impressive musical history—and we’ll give you a head start here:
Don’t miss Brandweek, coming up September 23-25 in Palm Springs. No panels, no sales pitches—just three days of interactive discussion, problem-solving, entertainment and networking. Learn more here.
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Amazon Fire TV Stick review
Amazon is taking on the world with the new, low-priced, do-everything Amazon Fire TV stick. But how good is it in reality?
Max Parker
If you thought the Chromecast was an impressive piece of tech, you need to take a look at Amazon’s latest entry into its Fire TV line, the Fire TV Stick. It features the same dongle-like look of Google’s streamer, but gives you more power, an actual user-interface and a fantastic little remote. Oh, and it only costs £35.
There are so many ways to make your dumb TV into a smart one. You could plump for Apple’s recently discounted Apple TV, Google’s Nexus Player or one of Roku’s bevy of streaming boxes. But, even at their cheapest, these devices will set you back more than £50. If you want something truly affordable, you need to a streaming stick.
This idea was first introduced by Google. The brand’s diminutive Chromecast plugged directly into the HDMI port on the back of your TV and let you beam content directly from supported apps. It was great, but it lacked a UI of any kind and completely relied on you having a phone or tablet handy.
Roku then released the Streaming Stick. A similar proposition, but with the familiar Roku UI and remote. Again, it was great. But after time it began to get really slow. There just wasn’t enough grunt in that purple dongle.
So, can Amazon’s Fire Stick finally perfect the streaming stick formula? Let’s find out.
Looks and set-up
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick is a simple looking thing. Imagine a matte-black USB stick or less curvaceous Chromecast and that’s it. There’s a Micro-USB port on the side for power, Amazon recommends you use the included power brick, and there’s a handy HDMI extender in the box too.
You plug the unit into an HDMI port on your TV, the USB cable in the mains and you’re all set.
Set-up is straightforward and just a case of connecting to your home network, inputting your Amazon log-in details and downloading any apps you want from the Amazon App Store.
One particularly cool feature Amazon has added is the ability to join ‘Portal Networks’. This means you can take the Fire TV Stick and jump onto the Wifi, without the internal log-in pages standing in your way. If you’re a regular hotel hopper, this could mean a saviour from bad TV and overly expensive PPV movies.
Plenty of power
Unlike the Roku Streaming Stick or Google Chromecast, the Fire TV stick has plenty of grunt under the hood. There’s a dual core processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB internal storage, plus dual-band Wifi for hopping onto those faster networks.
You’ll notice this extra power as soon as you boot the stick up. It’s fast. Scrolling through menus, opening up apps and loading up video is done at a brisk pace and there’s barely any noticeable lag. Yes, it doesn’t quite match up to the Fire TV, which the double the RAM and a quad-core processor, but you probably won’t notice the difference unless you have both devices side by side.
This slight drop in power from the original Fire TV box means that you won’t be able to play those really graphically intense games, instead you’re stuck with far more casual titles, like Crossy Road and Tetris. But, if you’re mainly going to be using this as a media streamer, that’s a non-issue.
We think Amazon has got it right when it comes to the user-interface. It’s not as flashy as Google TV, but it is easier to get around and less ‘in your face’. It’s also far better than the boring, vastly aged UI on the Apple TV, though that’s hardly saying anything.
Along the top you’ve got quick access to some of Amazon’s promoted Prime shows, while clicking down the side will take into more specific categories. TV shows, Films and Apps, for instance. It’s definitely a text light, picture heavy interface and its easy to jump into separate apps, which we’ll get more into later.
The main issue is that the entire homescreen revolves around Amazon services. Adverts and artwork for Prime shows are everywhere, which is fine if you’re subscriber, but less so if you’ve decided to put all your streaming eggs in the Netflix basket.
Our other major quibble comes with the search function. Unlike its bigger brother, the Fire TV stick doesn’t come with a nifty voice reading remote (you can buy it for an extra £25, but that’s just bonkers considering the price of the stick) so all your searching is done via the on-screen keyboard. That’s fine, but the issue is that search functionality is limited. Results will only appear for content from Amazon, not from other services you have installed like Netflix and BBC iPlayer. That’s a shame, as universal search is a killer feature that we love on the Roku.
Let’s just get this out the way first, the Fire TV Stick supports Netflix. So you’re not entirely restricted to Amazon’s streaming service.
If you subscribe to both services, even better. Amazon Prime has come a long way recently and it’s producing some really rather fantastic shows. Its last ‘Pilot Season’ threw up a couple of gems including a remake of the criminally under-rated Sky One show ‘Mad Dogs’ and a take on Philip K Dick’s ‘The Man in the High Castle’. You should also check out Bosch, a classy and incredibly well shot Police drama/thriller.
Along with these two streaming big boys you’ve got access to BBC iPlayer, 5 on Demand, Spotify for your tunes along with Vimeo and Vevo. There’s a full featured Plex app too, plus one for WWE’s new Network.
It is missing some big ones though. You don’t get a fully featured YouTube app and ITV Player, All 4 and Sky’s Now TV are all M.I.A. That last one is a big disappointment, as having access to Now TV would make this a real option for cord cutters.
Support for multiple streaming services would be rather pointless if the video quality they produced was poor, but thankfully the Fire TV Stick impresses here too.
Prime and Netflix videos look ace, coming through at 1080p you’d probably expect as much. Amazon also manages to keep buffering on Prime and Instant Video streams to a minimum, thanks to some nifty software tweaking called ASAP.
iPlayer looks adequate, though you’ll need to manually alter the settings to HD every time and 5 on Demand looks fairly mediocre. But, we’re sure we can live with SD stream of Home and Away or Neighbours anyway.
Remote and app
Alongside the Stick itself, you also get a rather excellent little remote. For, you know, controlling the thing.
It’s a thin black controller with a clicky directional pad and an assortment of other buttons. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from a media streamer remote, but we always prefer to have a remote than be without.
You can also use Amazon’s Fire TV app, available from Google Play, Amazon’s own Android store and the iOS App Store, as a virtual controller. Using the app is fine, scrolling with the touchscreen is a little more clumsy than with the physical remote but at least you can use your phone’s keyboard for text entry.
The app also lets you use voice control, which is accurate and responsive, but restricted to Amazon’s own content.
There’s a lot to like about Amazon’s Fire TV Stick.
It’s small, portable, powerful and really cheap. At £35 this is the best way to easily turn any old HDTV into a smart one.
There’s also plenty of support for other streaming services, but you’re not going to get the most out of it unless you enrol yourself into Amazon’s ecosystem.
That’s the sticking point though, if you don’t plan on becoming a Prime member you’re really not going to get most out of this device. But, that’s what Amazon wants. It’s able to sell this device so cheap because it hopes you’ll throw an extra £79 a year at it for all the Prime benefits.
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Would we recommend this over a Chromecast or Roku Streaming Stick? Yes. We might even recommend it over a fully fledged streaming box, but that’s only because we’re still searching the perfect all-one-solution. Everything we’ve tried so far has a downside, either it doesn’t support Amazon Prime Instant Video, it doesn’t serve each service equally or the app selection is limited.
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World Bank announces two new appointments
By Bretton Woods Project
…The World Bank has previously faced criticism from civil society organisations (CSOs) about the hiring process for members of the Inspection Panel. Kindra Mohr of US-based CSO Accountability Counsel noted that, “The legitimacy and independence of the Panel are closely tied to this hiring process. Given that the Bank’s Board is currently considering how to expand the Panel’s ‘toolkit’ and enhance its ability to address community concerns, the Bank’s leadership should also update this hiring practice to ensure that the Panel is independent in both perception and reality, reflecting best practice at other international financial institutions.”
It Takes Consultation to Help a Village
By Rachel Cernansky, New York Times
…This relatively simple step — consulting the people who would benefit from the project — is overlooked in a vast majority of overseas philanthropic and development projects, whether they are led by large institutions like OPIC or the World Bank or even small nonprofits. “People are well intentioned, but a little bit of good intention with a lot of money can do a lot of harm,” said Natalie Bridgeman-Fields, a human rights lawyer. Her organization, Accountability Counsel, works with communities in developing countries to file grievances in an effort to hold large institutions like OPIC accountable when their projects bring harm rather than improvement to the people to be served…
The Business of Giving Visits the Offices of Accountability Counsel
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To truly invest in changing lives and preventing human rights violations, the EBRD must ensure that its independent accountability office can conduct rigorous investigations into allegations of abuse in financed projects – and hold itself accountable.
Living next door to 17 million chickens: ‘We want a normal life’
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Ukrainian villagers living in the shadow of Europe’s biggest chicken farm are fighting back – not just against the company but the development banks funding it.
The World Bank Should Stop Dodging Accountability
By Komala Ramachandra, Human Rights Watch
In another case from India, tea workers alleged labor rights abuses, in violation of international law and the IFC’s own rules, on IFC-funded tea plantations. Tea workers also appealed to the CAO, which found numerous shortcomings in IFC’s assessment of risks associated with child labor, fair compensation, and freedom of association. They also found IFC wasn’t providing a way out of poverty for workers, contrary to its goal of alleviating poverty. But local civil society say that little has changed for tea workers in the nine years since IFC invested in the tea plantations.
Do No Harm: Accountability for impact investing
By Natalie Bridgeman Fields, Accountability Counsel, for Stanford Law School
Impact Investment can be hard to get right and easy to get wrong. How can they avoid the unintended consequences for their investments? Impact investors seek social change and sustainability. Yet for investments in areas with weak rule of law, local conflicts can undermine both financial and impact returns and unintended consequences can harm the very people and environments that investors are trying to help. What tools do investors have to understand the local context and address conflicts? New and emerging tools are needed. Accountability Counsel, a global legal advocacy nonprofit, partnered with Stanford Law School’s Law and Policy Lab to investigate these tools and develop guidelines for adoption. This interview with Accountability Counsel founder and Executive Director Natalie Bridgeman Fields describes the tools needed for effective philanthropy.
Tea garden deaths on the rise in World Bank-funded plantations, claim local NGOs
By Tora Agarwala, The Indian Express
The first complaint about the conditions in the APPL-run plantations to the CAO was filed in February 2013. In November, 2016, the CAO released its findings — and in response, the IFC formulated an action plan based on its 2014 audit by independent NGO Solidaridad. As part of this plan called Project Unnati, the body has set certain goals to improve the living and working conditions of the workers by 2017. The complainants, however, feel that none of the promises have been met. “The World Bank has utterly failed to exercise its leverage to address the CAO’s damning findings,” said Anirudha Nagar, South Asia Director of Accountability Counsel, a supporting organisation. “While APPL management lines their pockets, the Bank should be providing funding and ensuring budgets are appropriately directed towards the health and safety of workers in the face of preventable deaths. The Bank is not being the honest, neutral broker it holds itself out to be.”
Rights Denied In The Name Of Development: The ‘World Bank Approach’ In Assam Tea Gardens
By Richu Sanil, Youth Ki Awaaz
The tea gardens under scanner are those of the Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL) which is the second largest producer and supplier of tea in India, with 25 plantations spread across the states of Assam and West Bengal and employing around 30,000 workers. APPL is owned by Tata Global Beverages, Tata Investment Corporation, tea workers, and the International Finance Corporation( IFC, private sector side of the World Bank Group). A new submission to the World Bank’s accountability office by community-based civil society organizations, Promotion and Advancement of Justice, Harmony and Rights of Adivasis (PAJHRA) and People’s Action for Development (PAD), with the assistance of US-based human rights advocacy group Accountability Counsel, underlines the continuing neglect of workers’ rights by the international body.
The IFC’s worker shareholder failure
By Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel, in Livemint
Almost exactly nine years ago, on 27 April 2009, the World Bank’s private sector arm—the International Finance Corporation (IFC)—invested in Amalgamated Plantations Pvt. Ltd (APPL), which has 25 tea plantations in Assam and West Bengal. The IFC owns 16% of APPL, while tea workers themselves, some 16,500 of them, own 9% equity. The Tata Group retains a majority 66% stake through Tata Global Beverages and Tata Investment Corp. Ltd. The IFC predicted that the worker share ownership programme would “empower employees by making them stronger stakeholders”. The hope was that the IFC’s social and labour standards would help improve labour conditions, and the investment would support over 155,000 people that live and work on the plantations.
Indian workers dying on World Bank-backed tea plantations, say campaigners
By Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation News
The IFC and Tata Global Beverages in 2009 set up Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL), which is partly owned by workers and was intended to end labor abuses on plantations previously run by Tata in the northeastern state of Assam. “Nine years on, we hear of tea workers who have died following work-related accidents, prolonged exposure to hazardous pesticides and lack of adequate medical care,” said Wilfred Topno of People’s Action for Development. After the 2016 investigation, the IFC said it was working with APPL to improve conditions. But in their complaint to the CAO, the advocacy groups said not enough has been done. “The World Bank has utterly failed to exercise its leverage to address the CAO’s damning findings,” said Anirudha Nagar, of the Accountability Counsel.
Impact investors must set up ‘accountability tools,’ experts say
By Sophie Edwards, Devex
The impact investing community needs to create innovative accountability tools to deal with high-risk environments and ensure their investments are delivering positive social and environmental impacts. This was the message delivered by Natalie Bridgeman Fields, founder and executive director of Accountability Counsel, and Gayle Peterson, director of social finance and impact investing programs at Saïd Business School, during a side event held as part of the Skoll World Forum in Oxford on Thursday.
Spring Meetings 2018 Preamble: Despite favourable growth trends, World Bank and IMF’s attempts to tackle debt and inequality remain elusive
The potential perils of privileging the private sector were highlighted by a recent UK National Audit Office report on public-private partnerships (PPPs), which probed the fiscal cost of PPPs, and a December report by Belgium-based CSO Counter Balance, which stressed the social and environmental risks of the Bank’s push for mega-infrastructure projects. Indeed, Natalie Bridgeman Fields of US-based CSO Accountability Counsel argued in a February Devex op-ed that the Bank’s private-sector promotion, “will be a setup that harms the poor and vulnerable and widens the wealth and equity gap.”
Community watches over creek’s turtles
By Mexico News Daily
In 2010, Grupo Comexhidro wanted to build a small hydroelectric power plant on Sal creek, and cleared a one-kilometer stretch of shoreline to do so. But according to residents of Santa Úrsula the company did not consult with them and little information regarding the project was made public. With the support of several non-governmental organizations, including the international Accountability Counsel, residents halted the project.
What a new U.S. development finance institution needs to succeed
By Kindra Mohr & Brian McWalters, Accountability Counsel, in Devex
Last week, a bipartisan group of senators and representatives introduced the Better Utilization of Investment Leading to Development (BUILD) Act, which, if enacted, would create a new agency called the United States International Development Finance Corporation. The IDFC would absorb the Overseas Private Investment Corporation — the U.S. development finance institution that encourages American businesses to invest in developing countries by providing businesses with loans or insurance — as well as several functions currently performed by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The bill could likely receive White House support as the administration similarly called for a new DFI in its 2019 budget proposal.
Support for new US development finance bill, even as some details are questioned
By Adva Saldinger, Devex
The bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday proposing the creation of a new United States development finance corporation could be a landmark piece of legislation, altering the U.S. development landscape for years or decades to come. The new DFC needs strong environmental and social policies and a strong accountability mechanism, said Stephanie Amoako, a policy associate at Accountability Counsel. The legislation should make clear whether OPIC’s office of accountability will continue as the mechanism for registering grievances or whether a new independent accountability mechanism will be created according to international best practices, she said.
World Bank refinancing of Uganda’s Bujagali hydropower scheme under the spotlight
“The request for refinancing presents an important opportunity to finally achieve resolution on a number of these outstanding issues … we urge the World Bank Group to take this important opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to accountability and ensure access to remedy for project-affected peoples,” said a letter sent to World Bank chiefs earlier this month which was signed by more than 20 local and international NGOs, including the Accountability Counsel, Bank Information Center, Bretton Woods Project, Friends of the Earth US, and International Rivers.
Jim Kim’s World Bank is a setup for the poor
By Natalie Bridgeman Fields, Accountability Counsel, in Devex
Addressing harm caused by bank projects, promoting inclusion of vulnerable groups, and ensuring accountability should be Kim’s most urgent priority. Once these fundamental problems are addressed, the bank can better meet its own objectives and deliver value to the private sector as it too looks to create impact.
China Moves Toward Accountability for Overseas Financing
By Natalie Bridgeman Fields, Accountability Counsel, in The Diplomat
As the U.S. government retreats from leadership on climate, the Chinese are stepping up, both with new “green” policies and a leading role in finance, at home and abroad. This shift has notable implications for the millions of people affected by Chinese overseas investment in dams, mines, and pipelines.
The Human Rights Ripple Effect
By New Media Advocacy Project
Human rights successes are hard-won, require the coordinated efforts of many people working in solidarity — often across backgrounds, sectors, and even international borders—and are often overlooked by mainstream media, which focuses on the disastrous here, now, and clickable.
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NCCPAP names 2017-2018 board
By Daniel Hood
November 28, 2017, 6:07 p.m. EST
At its national conference in Dallas, the National Conference of CPA Practitioners installed its officers and directors for 2017-2018.
Stephen Mankowski of Mankowski Associates CPA in Hatboro, Pa., will serve as president, while Neil Fishman of Fishman Associates CPAs in Boynton Beach, Fla., will serve as executive vice president.
Installed as vice presidents were Frank Gallo, of Gallo & Co. CPAs, in Jericho, N.Y.; Stephen Palmerio, of Stephen L. Palmerio CPA, in Broomall, Pa.; and Mark Stewart, of Feldstein & Stewart CPAs, in New City, N.Y.; while Stuart Lang, of G.R. Reid Associates, in Woodbury, N.Y., was named treasurer; Barry Zalk, of Barry D. Zalk CPA, in Huntington, N.Y., was named secretary; and Sandra Johnson, of Sandra G. Johnson CPA, in Bellmore, N.Y., was named immediate past president.
NCCPAP also named a number of directors: Scott Cheslowitz, Mary Duff, Aaron Futterman, Robert Gaines, Kenneth Hauptman, Donald Ingram, Lynne Marcus, David Rothfeld and Sanford Zinman
NCCPAP is a membership organization for CPAs across the country, offering a forum for education, networking, and community impact, as well as advocating for its members and client with regulators and legislators, including state tax authorities and the Internal Revenue Service. It has multiple chapters in states nationwide.
For more information, visit www.NCCPAP.org.
Daniel Hood
Editor-in-chief, Accounting Today
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Eva Mendes Thankful Daughter's Birth Distracted Her From 'Tough' Loss of Brother
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Carlos, the older brother of the 'Hitch' actress, passed away from cancer in 2016 just 12 days before the birth of Amada Lee, her daughter with partner Ryan Gosling.
AceShowbiz - Eva Mendes has opened up about the "tough" experience of losing her brother Carlos just 12 days before the birth of her daughter, Amada Lee.
The 45-year-old actress' older brother passed away after a battle with cancer back in 2016, and the "Ghost Rider" star is thankful she had her baby to distract her from the tragedy.
"It's so tough. Thank God I had my baby; it was a week after he passed," the star told People. "So there was something to move forward. There was poetry to it all".
Eva still has great memories of her brother, revealing her used to "roast" family members at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
"Of course, I miss him incredibly, and that's an understatement, but I'm holding on to that tradition," Eva added. "I'm so happy that he gave me that. I don't think I could carry it on the way he did, but those are some fun memories because he would really get raw".
The "Hitch" actress, who also shares daughter Esmeralda, five, with husband Ryan Gosling, plans to continue the holiday tradition when she and her family head to her sister's house for Thanksgiving later this month.
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Daredevil and Spider-Man form a shaky alliance with not one, but two Punishers when Frank Castle and his killer-in-training Rachel Cole-Alves nearly kill the Man Without Fear in an attempt to obtain the Omega Drive. In a last-ditch effort to end Megacrime's manhunt, Daredevil convinces the heroes to attack the rival crime families, drawing them in to witness the drive's destruction while turning its secrets over to the Avengers. But the plan goes pear-shaped and Daredevil's life hangs in the balance when one hero betrays the group in exchange for the power to bring the international criminal network to its knees! Plus, Matt Murdock enjoys a first date with Assistant D.A. Kirsten McDuffie - until the Black Spectre shows up looking for the drive! Collecting DAREDEVIL (2011) #11-15, AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #6 and PUNISHER (2011) #10.
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Abeles and Hoffman, P.C. Announces New Staff Accountant
Abeles and Hoffman, P.C. is pleased to announce the addition of Tricia Ewald to their professional team.
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“I am thrilled to have Tricia joining the firm,” said Ron Abeles, CPA, President and Shareholder of Abeles and Hoffman, P.C. “She is a great fit for our team, and I know that our clients are going to love her.”
In 2010, Ewald graduated from Franklin University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She is currently enrolled at Southern New Hampshire University, where she is pursuing a Master of Accounting degree. Raised in Jamesport, Missouri, Ewald currently lives in St. Louis. She and her husband, Brett, have three children, Bradley, Kaitlynn, and Alexandra.
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A relaxation method for one dimensional traveling waves of singular and nonlocal equations
Analysis of a scalar nonlocal peridynamic model with a sign changing kernel
July 2013, 18(5): 1439-1458. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.1439
Dynamics of a limit cycle oscillator with extended delay feedback
Ben Niu 1, and Weihua Jiang 2,
Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China
Received July 2012 Revised November 2012 Published March 2013
Investigating limit cycle oscillator with extended delay feedback is an efficient way to understand the dynamics of a global coupled ensemble or a large system with periodic oscillation. The stability and bifurcation of the arisen neutral equation are obtained. Stability switches and Hopf bifurcations appear when delay passes through a sequence of critical values. Global continuation of Hopf bifurcating periodic solutions and double--Hopf bifurcation are studied. With the help of the unfolding system near double--Hopf bifurcation obtained by using method of normal forms, quasiperiodic oscillations are found. The number of the coexisted periodic solutions is estimated. Finally, some numerical simulations are carried out.
Keywords: Extended delay feedback, quasiperiodic solution., double Hopf bifurcation, limit cycle oscillator, neutral type.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 34K18, 34K40, 37G0.
Citation: Ben Niu, Weihua Jiang. Dynamics of a limit cycle oscillator with extended delay feedback. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2013, 18 (5) : 1439-1458. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2013.18.1439
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Google's new Sound Amplifier app will help you hear better
Sound Amplifier will boost the sounds you want to hear and filter out background noise.
Sound Amplifier will help boost important sounds such as a person's voice while filtering out background noise.
It is available on Android phones running Marshmallow and above.
Sound Amplifier can now be easily launched from the home screen.
Google is continuing on its mission to make the world more accessible to people using their Android phone. The latest innovation is set to help those with hearing loss with the Sound Amplifier app.
By using Sound Amplifier, users who have some hearing loss can help boost the audio of their surroundings on Android phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above, allowing you to tune out crowd noise and better hear the sounds you want or need to hear, such as the person you're having lunch with in a crowded restaurant or a professor in a large lecture hall.
To accomplish this, Google made use of its machine learning capabilities and analyzed thousands of sounds to determine how best to isolate the important ones. It also sorted through publicly available hearing studies to determine how people hear and then created simple controls in the app to customize and enhance how you hear in different environments.
The new UI makes it easier than ever to make adjustments and visualize how those adjustments are being applied. Along with enhancing the UI of the Sound Amplifier app, Google has also made it quicker to launch by making the shortcut available on the home screen. No longer will you have to dig through the settings in order to launch it.
If you'd like to try it out for yourself or know someone who could use it, Sound Amplifier is available for free on Google Play on Android phones running Marshmallow and above.
Google's making phones more accessible to people with speech and hearing impairments
MOAR STORAGE
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Available from January 30
BlackBerry Priv makes its official debut in India
Bla1ze 3 years ago 22
At an event held at the Oberoi in New Delhi, BlackBerry India Managing Director Narendra Nayak and Damian Tay Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Product Management at BlackBerry introduced the company's first Android-powered smartphone to the market which will be available in stores across India starting January 30th, with a price tag of Rs. 62,990.
Cha-Ching
Android has reportedly generated $31 billion in revenue
Dan Thorp-Lancaster 4 years ago 43
According to a new report, Google's Android operating system has generated a total of $31 billion in revenue over its lifetime.
ANDROID ON SCREENS
Elo releases new Android-powered module for signage
Rich Edmonds 4 years ago 3
Elo has announced a new Android-powered Elo Computer Module accessory, which can be used with the company's 32- to 70-inch digital signage displays as an all-in-one solution for both content delivery and hardware management.
welcome to Android Central
Get a new Android phone or tablet? We're here to help!
Russell Holly 4 years ago 52
If you found a new Android-powered phone or tablet under your Christmas Tree this year, there's a good chance you're looking for all kinds of new information to help get to know your new hardware. Let up give you a hand!
Be together
The latest TV commercial for Android is the oddest one yet
John Callaham 4 years ago 58
Google's latest TV commercial promoting Android may be its strangest one yet, at it shows fingers dressed up as all kinds of humans. The theme of the holiday ad is that, like fingerprints, each person is unique but it's always better when people work together.
Merge, fold, combine
Chrome being folded into Android could be Google's best bet
Andrew Martonik 4 years ago 119
If you've followed the story of Google's concurrent management of both Android and Chrome OS, you've likely wondered how (or even if) their paths may converge at some point in the future. A report out of the Wall Street Journal claims that convergence may be little more than a year away, and I think it makes a lot of sense.
Chromedroid?
Chrome OS rumored to be folded into Android in 2017
Dan Thorp-Lancaster 4 years ago 109
Google is planning to fold Chrome OS into Android sometime in 2017, unifying the two operating systems under one banner, according to a new report.
Yo where you going?
Voice-activated ‘Hey Cortana’ comes to Android devices
Daniel Rubino 4 years ago 50
Microsoft is bringing the voice-activated Hey Cortana to Android with their latest beta release. However, it's not nearly as good as it is on Windows Phone.
reforged, refined, and oh so fluffy
The Android 6.0 Marshmallow review
Russell Holly 4 years ago 248
The latest version of Android is all about refining the massive visual overhauls of Lollipop, and the end result is a cleaner, stronger Android for all.
BlackBerry officially announces the BlackBerry Priv
As part of its Q2 Fiscal 2016 results, BlackBerry also took the time today make its plans to launch the BlackBerry Priv, which will run Android with BlackBerry security, official. Although the information lacks specifics surrounding the actual launch of the device, the confirmation of its existence was needed given all the leaks recently. Today, I am confirming our plans to launch...
Bye Google Now
Hands-on with the public beta of Cortana on Android
Mark Guim 4 years ago 54
Cortana for Android was released as a public beta earlier today. I installed it on the LG G4 to see how it works. Is it better on Android compared to Windows Phone? Go watch our hands-on video to find out.
BUG SPLATTING
Google offers up to $8,000 in latest bug hunter program
Google has launched a new Android bug hunting program by which the company is offering rewards of up to $8,000 for those who can bring to light any security vulnerabilities in the mobile OS.
Grain of salt, folks
BlackBerry reportedly may use Android on new device
BlackBerry is reportedly considering a switch to Android for an upcoming smartphone—a radical move that could indicate a larger strategy shift away from BlackBerry 10.
Good Guy Google
Google wants to help you pick out a phone
Google has launched a new website that aims to help you pick out your next phone after answer just a few questions about how you plan to use it.
Android is Android is Android
Jerry Hildenbrand 4 years ago 139
Android means a few different things — but in the end it's all good! You see the word Android used a lot on the Internet, and it gets used interchangeably for a few different things. I'm not even talking about robots (though some Androids could be running on Android), I'm talking about the mobile platform we all love. And TV set-top boxes. And laptops. Pretty much everything except...
More partnerships
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Microsoft has revealed that Dell and 10 more OEMs will install Office apps, along with Skype and OneDrive, on their own Android products later in 2015. This new agreement is a follow up to Microsoft and Samsung's announcement earlier today that those same apps will be pre-installed on some of Samsung's Android tablets. While Dell has released PCs, laptops and tablets with...
Your app on any screen
Google launches example app for developers
Joseph Keller 4 years ago 18
Google has released a new Android example app for applications meant for multiple form factors and screen sizes. The sample app, called Universal Music Player, uses a number of new features from Android 5.0 Lollipop, and offers guidance to developers for getting their apps to work well and look good on multiple screen sizes, including phones, Android Wear devices, and Android Auto...
The new Android commercial has lots of handshakes
Google has been busy marketing Android with a series of TV ads, including some very entertaining ones with cute animals doing naturally cute things with each other. The latest Android commercial takes a different tack, with lots of handshakes, high-fives, fist bumps and more between two or more people Google's new slogan for Android is "Be together. Not the same" and this new...
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So you just got a new Android smartphone
Andrew Martonik 5 years ago 23
You've got the new phone, now we're going to show you how to get up and running So, you just got a new Android smartphone — that's pretty exciting! But once the initial awe of this new gadget wears off, you realize you actually need to use that phone. For those of us who read (and write for) Android Central regularly a new phone isn't such a big deal, but if you've just received your...
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Need help with your new Android device? We're on it! It's that time of year when we tend to get new stuff. As in new Android stuff. New phones. New tablets. New watches. New ... well, pretty much anything and everything these days either runs Android or can connect to it somehow. (And if it doesn't, you probably don't want it!) And whenever there's new stuff, there will be questions....
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Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: the all-rounders face off
Authored by: Gary Marshall Sep 3, 2015
The Moto 360 was, to many, the first really desirable Android Wear watch, so its successor has a lot to live up to. The Moto 360 (2015), officially known as the Moto 360 2, has iPhone compatibility and better specs, but is it a better device? Let’s find out in our Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison.
Moto 360 (2015) review [hands on]
Moto 360 (2014) review
Motorola has made small improvements to last year's Moto 360 design. / © ANDROIDPIT
Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: design and build quality
The original Moto 360 impressed us in a lot of ways. Its metal construction looked and felt good, its circular design meant it didn’t look weird on your wrist, it wasn’t so large that smaller owners appeared to have dinner plates strapped to their wrists and it was well made too. But it wasn’t perfect. It was (and is) far too thick, the screen wasn’t fully circular, and its wristband started to show signs of wear awfully quickly.
The Moto 360 (2015) is a good-looking smartwatch. / © ANDROIDPIT
The Moto 360 (2015) is actually three different watches. There’s one for men, one for women and a GPS-enabled Sport version. The new strap mounts make attaching bands easier and more attractive, and the new 42mm version is a lot less chunky-looking than the 46 mm (which is the same size as the original 360).
This time you can specify the color of the bezel: silver, gold or black for men and solver, gold or rose gold for women. Otherwise it looks much the same as before, including the blank space at the bottom of the watch face. That’s where the light sensor lives.
We haven’t really talked about the Sport here because so far Motorola has just shown us a dummy version. The face is embedded in a silicone strap and looks much less premium than the rest of the Moto 360 range.
Motorola brings Moto Maker to its smartwatch. That's a smart move. © Motorola
Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: display
The 2014 Moto 360 has a 1.56-inch LCD behind Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It delivers a resolution of 320 x 290 at a pixel density of 205 ppi. In our review we called it “dismal”: it’s noticeably jaggy and the picture quality is poor.
Two sizes, three models and lots of customisation. Hello, Moto. / © Motorola
The Moto 360 2 has a better display, but if you were hoping for AMOLED you’ll be disappointed: it’s better than before, but it’s still an LCD. It’s 1.56 inches delivering 360 x 330 at 233 ppi in the 46mm model – a slight improvement on the original – and 1.37 inches delivering 360 x 325 at 263 ppi in the 42mm model.
One subtle change is the way the display works. In the original, the display wasn’t on all the time – but in the second generation it is, although you can disable the 'ambient mode' display if you wish.
The display is better, but it's still an LCD. / © Motorola
Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: processor and storage
Unlike most of the first wave of Android Wear watches the Moto 360 didn’t have a Snapdragon 400 processor; it had an older, single core Texas Instruments processor, which perhaps explains the fairly sluggish performance. It’s the same processor Motorola was using in its MOTOACTV watch four years ago. It comes with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage.
This time around it’s a quad-core Snapdragon clocked at 1.2 GHz, and trust us, it’s a vast improvement that means the Moto is no longer a laggard. As before there’s 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage.
Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: software
The Moto 360 runs Android Wear with some custom and pretty tasteful watch faces. So does the Moto 360 (2105), and Android Wear 1.3 can now connect it to an iPhone – although you won’t be able to communicate with Apple apps such as Health. The original Moto 360 apparently works with iPhones too.
The Sport model has GPS. / © Motorola
Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: battery
Of all the things about the Moto 360, the 320 mAh battery was the most disappointing – it took a software update before we could get a full day out of it, before that the watch would run out of puff after around 12 hours. That’s not ideal if you go to work and stay out past 6pm.
Will the Moto 360 2 do better? Motorola says yes. There’s a 300 mAh battery in the 42mm model and a 400 mAh battery in the 46mm model, and while the smaller watch has a smaller battery than last year’s Moto 360 Motorola claims that both devices will last for up to a day with ambient mode on. With it off, you’ll get up to two days with the larger Moto and 1.5 days with the smaller one.
Both generations support wireless charging, but the Moto 360 2 can’t use the original Moto 360’s charging dock.
As before, the Moto 360 (2nd gen) charges wirelessly, but you can't use the first gen's dock. / © Motorola
Moto 360 (2015) vs Moto 360 comparison: early verdict
So far, so good: the Moto 360 (2015) is a vast improvement over the original. Now the bad news. It’s more expensive. The original Moto 360 had a SSRP of US$250 (and is currently on sale for around US$150), but the new one starts at US$300 and can cost up to US$450 if you want the most expensive band and color options. That’ll come down as retailers start discounting, but on launch it’s a big price hike.
Is it worth it? We’re still not entirely sold on the proportions – side-on it looks massive in a way the Apple Watch, for example, doesn’t – and we don’t like the black gap at the bottom of the otherwise circular face, but those are personal preferences. Motorola’s emphasis on personalization is smart and the Moto 360 2 looks particularly good in silver or rose gold with a leather strap. It isn’t cheap, but it certainly isn’t nasty either. Most importantly, it's a huge improvement on the original, so if you're choosing between the two watches, this is the one we'd plump for.
What do you think? Has Motorola made a must-wear Moto? Let us know in the comments.
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What Your Dog Hears When You Speak
Categories: Blogs
Do you know how smart your dog really is?
Dog owners communicate with their pets in many ways, especially during the training of a puppy or younger dog. It should come as no surprise that rewarding good behavior and giving positive reinforcement goes a long way in the teaching/training process of a dog. Now, a new study shows that when talking to your dog, it’s not just what you say but how you say it, that matters.
Hungarian researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest studied the brain activity of 13 dogs who were trained to lie still in an fMRI brain scan machine. Dog trainers praised the dogs in both a neutral voice and with a higher intonation or ‘praise’ voice while monitoring the reward system of their brains. They also gave the dogs words they did not know in both normal and ‘praise’ intonations.
The scans showed that the dog’s reward center was activated only when the trainers used praise words in a praising voice. This demonstrates that the dogs used both sides of their brains to understand the words and to interpret the emotion behind them as concluded in the journal Science.
“[Dogs] not only tell apart what we say and how we say it, but they can also combine the two, for a correct interpretation of what those words really meant,” says lead researcher Attila Andics. “This is very similar to what human brains do.”
This can lead to important improvements and better success when training a new dog or puppy:
Praise often and authentically
Reward the good things your puppy does in a ‘praise’ intonation
Dogs will repeat good/rewarded behavior so as to get praise and a positive response from their owners
It’s just the latest in studies proving that dogs are uniquely and specifically in tune with human emotion and behavior and that they are as in touch with us as we are with them. They do feel a lot of human-like emotions, perhaps more than we give them credit for.
Another new study published in Current Biology shows that dogs can distinguish between angry and happy human faces and expressions.
The study, conducted at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, shows that a non-human animal is able to make this distinction in a species other than its own.
“Our study demonstrates that dogs can distinguish angry and happy expressions in humans, they can tell that these two expressions have different meanings, and they can do this not only for people they know well but even for faces they have never seen before,” says Ludwig Huber, the senior author and head of the research group.
Furthermore, in an article published in The Atlantic, researcher Paul Zak found that dogs are capable of feeling real affection.
Zak studied the levels of oxytocin (the hormone associated with love and bonding) in a dog when it interacted with another animal and found that the dog’s hormone level increased 48 percent, indicating that dogs are capable of feeling affection and/or love. Read more here.
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TuneIn: MLB Radio, Music, Sports & Podcasts 22.3
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Home / Publications / Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112) / Executive Summary / Specific secrecy offences
Secrecy Laws and Open Government in Australia (ALRC Report 112)
Focus of the recommendations
A new general offence
Specific secrecy offences
Administrative duties, practices and procedures
List of Recommendations
1. Introduction to the Inquiry
Process of reform
Overview of this Report
Stop press—legislation recently introduced into Parliament
2. Secrecy in the Context of Open Government
From secrecy to open government
Current trends in open government
Balancing secrecy, freedom of expression and open government
3. Overview of Current Secrecy Laws
Duties of confidentiality and loyalty and fidelity
Specific statutory secrecy provisions
General criminal offences
4. Framework for Reform
The need for statutory secrecy provisions
Criminal, civil or administrative provisions
A harm-based approach
5. General Secrecy Offence: Harm to Public Interests
What should be included in the general secrecy offence?
What should not be included in the general secrecy offence?
6. General Secrecy Offence: Elements
Whose conduct should be regulated?
What conduct should be regulated?
What information should be protected?
Fault elements
Initial and subsequent disclosures
7. General Secrecy Offence: Exceptions and Penalties
Exceptions and defences
Which exceptions and defences should be expressly included?
Which exceptions and defences should not be expressly included?
8. The Role of Specific Secrecy Offences
When are secrecy offences warranted?
Express requirement of harm
Protecting categories of information
ALRC’s views
9. Specific Secrecy Offences: Elements
Subsequent disclosure offences
10. Authorised Disclosure Provisions
Authorised disclosure provisions
Interaction with the exceptions in the general secrecy offence
Exceptions in specific secrecy offences
Override provisions
11. Specific Secrecy Offences: Review and Guidance
Reviewing specific secrecy offences
Policy guidance and drafting directions
12. Administrative Obligations in the Australian Public Service
Prejudice to the effective working of government
Information communicated in confidence
Processes for dealing with breaches
13. Regulating Beyond the Australian Public Service
Commonwealth employees outside the APS
Former Commonwealth employees
Persons outside Commonwealth employment
14. Frameworks for Effective Information Handling
Commonwealth information-handling manuals
Agency-specific policies and guidelines
Lawful and reasonable employer directions
Information and communication technology systems
15. A Culture of Effective Information Handling
Individual Commonwealth employees
Australian Government agencies
16. Interactions with Other Laws
Parliamentary privilege
The ALRC considers that the new general secrecy offence should not be the only criminal provision regulating the unauthorised disclosure of government information. There is still a need for specific secrecy offences tailored to the needs of particular agencies or to the protection of certain kinds of information. In the interests of consistency and simplification, the ALRC recommends a set of principles to guide the creation of new offences and the review of existing offences.
The key principle is that specific secrecy offences should only be enacted where necessary to protect a public interest of sufficient importance to justify the imposition of a criminal sanction. As a general rule, the ALRC considers that the best way to ensure this is to include an express requirement that the unauthorised disclosure of information caused, or was likely or intended to cause, harm to a specified public interest.
The ALRC recognises, however, that, in very limited circumstances, this may not always be the most effective way to address the harm caused by the disclosure of some kinds of information. For example, specific secrecy offences prohibiting the disclosure of information obtained or generated by intelligence agencies—without the need to prove harm in every case—are justified by the sensitive nature of the information and the special duties and responsibilities of officers and others who work in and with such agencies.
Further, in very limited cases, and where the category of information protected is narrowly defined, regulatory agencies—such as taxation and social security, and corporate regulators—may also be able to justify specific secrecy offences that do not include an express harm requirement. This is because the public interest harmed by the unauthorised disclosure of information held by such agencies—that is, harm to the relationship of trust between the government and individuals that is integral to effective regulatory systems and the provision of government services—is not concrete enough to prove beyond reasonable doubt in a criminal prosecution.
The ALRC has also developed other best practice principles in relation to specific secrecy offences, including that such offences should:
differ in significant and justifiable ways from the recommended general secrecy offence;
not extend to conduct other than the disclosure of information—such as making a record of, receiving, or possessing information—unless such conduct would cause, or is likely or intended to cause, harm to an essential public interest; and
specify penalties that reflect the seriousness of the potential harm caused by the unauthorised conduct and the criminal culpability of the offender.
While the primary focus of secrecy offences is to prohibit the disclosure of information, many secrecy provisions also include exceptions that set out the circumstances in which the disclosure of information is permitted. Such provisions often reflect the need for the government to share information. The ALRC also makes recommendations to ensure that specific secrecy offences are framed to facilitate appropriate information sharing, and are responsive to whole of government needs.
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Shipley prevails in Women's Western Amateur final
see also: Women's Western Amateur Championship, Prestwick Country Club, Sarah Shipley Rankings
Sarah Shipley (WWGA/Twitter photo)
Sarah Shipley defeated Antonia Matte, 5 and 3, Saturday in the championship match at the 119th Women’s Western Amateur at Royal Melbourne Country Club.
Shipley, of Hastings, Mich., opened the final match with birdies on Nos. 1 and 2 to take a quick 2-up advantage and never lost a hole. She went 3 up with a birdie on the par-3 eighth and 4 up with a par to close out the front nine. Shipley finished the match by halving the next five holes.
Shipley played steady all week, and once she got to match play, she said she felt confident.
“I’ve always liked match play,” said Shipley, 21. “I’ve been playing really well the last couple weeks. I just won the [Women’s] Golf Association of Michigan Championship, which gave me more confidence.”
Shipley, a University of Kentucky senior, said her approach shots were consistent and she was rolling the ball well on the greens.
“My putting worked for me today, thankfully,” Shipley said. “I like the course a lot; I’m comfortable out here.”
Shipley has plans to turn pro in the future, but for now, she said she’s excited for her senior year at Kentucky.
“I am looking forward to seeing what our team can do this year,” she said.
Matte, of Santiago, Chile, played well in both of her Saturday matches. The high school junior said she felt like she was mentally prepared, but she didn’t make as many putts as Shipley.
“I had a good mentality today,” Matte said. “I played good, only the putter was not working.”
Matte, 16, said she plans to continue playing in international amateur events.
“I’m going to the Junior Optimist in Miami and the Chile Championship,” Matte said.
Shipley and Matte outlasted opponents from 30 states and 12 countries to reach the championship match. Matte defeated Brooke Tyree of Sulphur, Louisiana, 4 and 3 in the semifinals while Shipley overcame Maria Bohorquez of Bogota, Columbia, 2 and 1.
Shipley’s win earns her an automatic exemption into the 120th Women’s Western Amateur set for Prestwick Country Club in Frankfort, Illinois, July 20-25, 2020.
Article by Women's Western Golf Association
Results: Women's Western Amateur
Win Sarah Shipley Hastings, MI 700
Runner-up Antonia Matte Chile 500
Semifinals Maria Bohorquez Colombia 400
Semifinals Brooke Tyree Sulphur, LA 400
Quarterfinals Caroline Wrigley Wexford, PA 300
View full results for Women's Western Amateur
ABOUT THE Women's Western Amateur
Held without interruption since 1901, the Women's Western Amateur has one of the most storied histories of any major amateur golf event. 36 holes of stroke play qualifying determines 32 players for match play. Matches consist of 18 holes each until the final match which is 36 holes.
Entries are open to amateur girls and women who 1) have an up- to-date 18-hole USGA Handicap Index not to exceed 7.4 under the USGA Handicap System, or a state or international equivalent handicap system, and 2) are members of a properly organized golf club or women’s golf group that is a current WWGA member.
Awards: W. A. Alexander Cup – Champion; ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias Memorial Trophy – Finalist; Margaret Lenz Trophy – Medalist; Medals - Champion, Finalist, Semifinalists and Quarterfinalists.
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Search the Database of Japanese American Evacuees (Record Group 210)
Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro. Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers. Clem Albers, Arcadia, CA, April 5, 1942. (Photo No. 210-G-3B-414)
About the WRA Records
What you need to know before you start
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About the War Relocation Authority
The WRA collected personal descriptive information on all individuals who were evacuated from their homes and relocated to one of 10 relocation centers during World War II. They used this information to support their management of the evacuees and the relocation centers.
What you will find in these records:
In these records, one can find the following information about each individual:
assembly center
relocation project to which assigned
birthplace of parents
occupation of father
foreign residence
public assistance or pensions
physical defects
age, sex, and marital status
year and place of birth
alien registration number and/or Social Security number
whether the evacuee attended Japanese language school
highest grade completed
Read more about the records of the WRA
(Click on the Title for a description.)
What You Need to Know Before You Start Research in War Relocation Authority (WRA) Records (RG 210):
Before you can effectively find a person in the WRA records using the online search in the Access to Archival Databases (AAD), you need to know:
The name of the evacuee (all names used while at center). Some evacuees are listed by their Japanese name, others by their English name. Most younger internees had both English and Japanese names.
Note: If the person was born in a relocation center, proceed to the
WRA Evacuee Case File Request, provide us with the requested information, and mail it to the address listed on the form.
Search for the person in the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Records using the Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
Go to AAD, at http://www.archives.gov/aad/.
Click on "World War II."
Click on the "Search" button next to the file name under "Records About Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II."
Enter the name of the person you are looking for in the box under "Search this file", and click on "Search". Or you can enter other criteria below, in the boxes in the "Enter Values" column, such as year of birth.
If a record is found for a search under that name, click on "View Record" to determine if it's the right person.
If you don't know the name of the head of family or you find too many people with the same name:
You can sort the search results by "last permanent address", by clicking on the arrow just below the column name. You can also sort by "individual number". The individual number groups family members together. (For more information, see the FAQs.)
You can search the 1930 Census if you know a family member's name who had been born before 1930. Once you find that person in 1930, it may lead you to the head of household who accompanied the person in the evacuation.
Result 1: You find an entry in AAD for the person
If you find your person here, write down the:
Name of the evacuee (include all names used while in a center)
Name of the War Relocation Authority center (project)
Then proceed to Next Steps below.
Result 2: Not found
In this case, you can proceed to search the WWII Alien Enemy Case Files
To illustrate the above, we will search for 2 individuals in AAD who we believe were relocated.
First we look for Eitaro Baba.
Go to AAD, at http://www.archives.gov/aad/
Click on "World War II"
Enter Eitaro Baba (the name of the person you are looking for), into the search box, and click on "Search."
You will then see a screen that says "Display Partial Results." In this case, one record was found for a person named Eitaro Baba. Click on "View Record" to see the full record.
You will now see the full results. You should print a copy of this page. To order copies of this file, you must write down:
Proceed to Next Steps
Next we look for Choichi Ito.
Go to AAD at http://www.archives.gov/aad/
Enter Choichi Ito (the name of the person you are looking for), into the search box, and click on "Search."
The search results show no finding of Choichi Ito.
You may wish to select the link to "View the FAQs" for more information.
We proceed to looking for him in Record Group 60, using the National Archives Catalog.
Check the index to the WWII Alien Enemy Detention and Internment Case Files
You may also wish to search other WWII records in AAD.
If you found the person in AAD, you can:
Place an order to receive a case file.
Proceed to the Index to the "World War II Alien Enemy Detention and Internment Case Files" to see if this person had an Alien Enemy Hearing.
If you did not find the person in AAD:
For more information about this database of evacuees, see our FAQs.
If you have any questions or for more information, contact us:
By e-mail: https://www.archives.gov/contact
Research Paths
Check Records Online:
AAD Database of Japanese American Evacuees
(War Relocation Authority, RG 210)
Catalog Index to the WWII Alien Enemy Detention and Internment Case Files
(Department of Justice, RG 60)
Catalog Compensation and Reparations: Index to the Redress Case Files
Catalog Public Hearings and Testimonies
(Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, RG 220)
Catalog Military Records
(Office of the Provost Marshal General, RG 389, and US Army Defense Commands, RG 499)
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An expansion of the plant – one of the biggest car manufacturing facilities in the UK – comes amid growing worries over a slowdown in UK industry and the prospects of a double dip recession in the wider economy. JLR’s Land Rover plant in Halewood is at full capacity producing the new Range Rover Evoque and growing the factory will allow the company to keep up with surging demand for its products.
Sources familiar with the situation say the company is exploring plans to double the size of the plant by developing on surrounding land. This will represent an investment of around £100m, although the proposals are thought to be at a relatively early stage. The premium car maker has already confirmed it is building a £355m engine plant in Wolverhampton and is redeveloping its factory in Solihull. It has hired thousands of new employees over the last 12 months to launch new models, including for the Evoque at Halewood last year.
The release of the Evoque, nicknamed the “Baby Range Rover”, has sparked another stage of expansion for JLR. Its sales are up 30pc year-on-year. It is understood the company is on course to post new record profits for the 2012 financial year and could even make £1.5bn.
JLR employees were called into work over Christmas to work a special shift to help keep up with demand. An expansion of Halewood, which employs 3,000 people at present, will take the UK another step towards producing a record number of cars. The country produced 1.9m cars a year in its manufacturing heyday in the early 1970s.
However, it could break that annual record within five to 10 years following £4bn of investment in the last 12 months from car makers such as Toyota, BMW and JLR. JLR has enjoyed a remarkable turnaround since seeking loan guarantees from the Labour Government in 2009. Demand for its premium cars in emerging markets led to JLR posting record profits of £1.1bn in the year to March 31, 2011.
Under chief executive Ralf Speth and Indian parent Tata, JLR is investing more than £1bn a year into research and development. It wants to launch 40 new vehicles in the next five years, including a Jaguar sports car and a new Land Rover Defender. The company is in talks with Chinese car maker Chery about a joint venture that would allow JLR to open manufacturing facilities in China for the domestic market. The car maker is also exploring how it can work more closely with British schools in order to boost the number of engineering graduates.
A spokesman for JLR said: “JLR has not made any announcements about Halewood and we do not comment on speculation about possible future plans.”
Despite the global economic uncertainty, a new survey from General Electric says 71pc of high-tech manufacturers in Britain are forecasting their business will grow in 2012.
Out of more than 350 businesses questioned, a quarter said their business will grow by more than 10pc. The manufacturers said this is due to demand from emerging markets, the helpful exchange rate and internal improvements in products and services.
The growth predictions have been made despite only 15pc of manufacturers being positive about the UK economy. Also, 26pc said bank finance remained either “impossible to obtain, or obtainable only on unacceptable terms”.
Mark Elborne, chief executive of GE UK, said: “These figures demonstrate UK high-tech manufacturing is still a growth story and can play a pivotal role in turning round the UK’s economy. It is encouraging to see that a good proportion of these firms are expecting significant growth in the next 12 months. However, we need to ensure conditions are right to help them grow and take advantages of the opportunities on offer.”
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3 January 2012 at 6.53 pm
Great news – hopefully some of the recently laid off agency staff will be taken on again.
If the Indians can get it right, why can’t the Chinese?
fly on the wall says:
The Indians bought a viable business that was producing cars for a good wedge of dosh…the Chinese bought an almost derelict factory and a badge for a pittance…I think they are starting a bit further back but they will catch up.
Well done JLR
jonathan carling says:
@KC – or why couldn’t Ford?
Excellent news – shows what can be done if you research your market and then provide the right products, at the right price, in the right place etc – the five Ps and all that. Well done JLR.
Doubtless the comments section will be full of the usual “wasn’t like this in my day”, “can’t stand the Evoque – bloody rubbish”, “it started life as the ADO104” etc etc.
It’s also interesting to see the MSM still desperate to talk us into another recession despite many indicators pointing the other way. S*d the lot of ’em.
francis brett says:
@4 i bet ford are choked out of thier heads having dropped a clanger like this and punting off PAG.
David Dawson says:
I work just down the road from Halewood at one of JLR’s suppliers.
I heard my employer’s owner today talking about a possible 1500 new jobs at Halewood. He also mentioned a Jaguar sports car with impressive performance figures – speed and mpg.
It seems the redundancies mentioned a few days ago on AROnline were of undesirable agency workers. Any texts advising of redundancy had been sent by the agency as opposed to JLR.
Well i think they had to dispose of PAG, to keep their heads above water. It’s probably the main reason Ford were the only manufacturer that didn’t need a government bail out. Basically because they’d sold off a load of assets to generate cash.
I think Ford and JLR gained a lot from each other though, JLR the investment, and Ford the technology, certainly their safety, Styling and Build quality of Fords improved after their ownership of Jag & Volvo.
3 January 2012 at 10.23 pm
Its a bit ironic. During the boom years of the 2000s, Dagenham, Luton and Longbridge all bit the dust whilst Halewood itself only survived by the skin of its teeth. Now here we are in the depths of a never ending recession with the Euro about to go belly up and the US almost defaulting on its debt yet JLR are in a position to double the size of Halewood! – and thats on top of the new Wolverhampton engine plant. Wonderful news!
Another interesting thought. When Austin Rover was still very much a going concern in the mid 80s, its model range, including Jaguar just before it was sold off consisted of 10 model ranges – Mini, Metro, Maestro, Montego, Rover 200, Rover 800, Range Rover, Defender, XJ and XJS. It operated out of 5 factories – Longbridge, Cowley, Solihull, Browns Lane and Castle Bromwich. Todays Jaguar Landrover/BMW Mini operations also have between them 10 model ranges – MINI, XF, XJ, XK, Defender, Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Discovery, Freelander and Evoque. It operates out of 4 factories – Halewood, Castle Bromwich, Solihull and Cowley. But in the 80s cars like the Maestro and Montego struggled to sell in the UK never mind in the rest of Europe and never went near the US or China, whilst the factories where starved of investment and operated at a fraction of their capacity. Todays cars sell at a premium all over the world with production capacity bursting at the seams. The good old days? I think not!
Engineer says:
4 January 2012 at 8.37 am
It good to see JLR are helping to promote Engineering in Education. The lack of young engineers is a real problem that needs to be quickly adressed if the UK wants to keep its bouyant car industry.
I run an auto R&D company (JLR is one of my clients) and recruitment of young people with the right educaton and experience is hard.
bangernomic gav says:
Car manufacturing is booming as the rest of the economy struggles, this is a natural consequence of a floating exchange rate, I suspect FIAT isn’t doing quite so well.
So Britain’s car manufacturing might surpass it’s previous early 70s peak, but surely by any rational measure we’re doing much better now. Not one of our car plants turns out cheap cars and we produce plenty of very expensive ones, surely an XJ is worth substantially more than a mini was 40 years ago or a Hyundai i10 is today.
Compare this to the car factory about a mile away in the late 70s (the Triumph factory at Speke)
Chalk and Cheese
Kevin Steele says:
It is ironic that just over 10 years ago Halewood was still churning out Ford Escorts for Mr Average by the thousand, now it is making premium products that the whole world wants to buy. A great British success story (for once!)
David 3500 says:
This is great news for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and I wish them all the best for ongoing success as I am a genuine supporter, particularly of Land Rover’s products.
To answer some of the previous comments about why JLR is so successful today and the Austin Rover Group of the 1980s wasn’t, JLR is actually producing cars that it is very confident customers will actually want to go out and buy. This is as a result of extensive market research and appraisal of the competition, and upping its game in terms of investing in new technology and raising its quality standards. JLR has also got its cost base under control so that it does not need to ‘pile them high’ in order to make a profit.
Thanks to this approach JLR is now making profits – big profits – while its owner is investing heavily in the company too; two factors that the Austin Rover Group was regularly deprived of. The fact that JLR has three assembly plants and is rumoured to be looking to expand one and updating another, suggests that it is operating the right number in relation to the number of ranges being offered and the total volume produced. Thankfully this is in complete constrast to a factory such as Longbridge that, in the 1980s, was too large and under-utilised in relation to the number of vehicles being produced.
Good luck to JLR and it shows why the British buying public should be rightly proud, and hopefully supportive, of British manufacturing success.
@David 3500, couldn’t agree more.
A shame that in the 80’s Austin Rover didn’t close either Cowley or Longbridge and consolidate production to one plant, easier to run, easier to afford.
dolomitefan says:
Super news. hey should work in partnership with Dyson who have often paticipated in school/college activities. Imagine a Dyson inspired car!
I think this also confirms what a mistake the Government made in 1968 burdening the successful Leyland with the lame duck BMC. The remnants of British Leyland that are now so succesful are very closely aligned in terms of market position to the original Leyland – Rover/Landrover/Triumph. Premium cars sold very profitably across the world.
Chris C says:
Design attractive product that customers want and is right for the market – it sells. Simples.
Trouble is that both JLR and Aston Martin are reaping the benefits of styling/engineering started by Ford – I hope they can continue the progress.
Also, last time Land Rover had an unexpected sales boom (Discovery) quality suffered as suppliers and manufacturing facilities struggled to cope with the unexpected/unplanned demand – I hope they don’t make the same mistakes.
AndrewP says:
If the exquisite build quality of my X-Type is anything to go by the plant and workers deserve their success.
DeLorean's Accountant says:
IMO, Jaguar was hemmed in by being part of Ford. it had Aston Martin above them for £70k + sport and touring cars and it had Volvo below them for smaller upmarket family cars. Ford also thought that Jaguar should be retro but the C, D & E Types were not retro in their day and nor should thay have ben under Ford. Granted, Ford gave Jaguar the ability to make the XJ & XK aluminium but that’s almost a poisoned challice. The on-cost of the Al monocoque will bite into profits. That’s why XF is a steel body on a steel S-Type floor pan.
Mikey C says:
The success of JLR makes you wonder what would have happened if BL had concentrated on JRT back in the 70s, producing SD2 and Lynx, expanding the LR/RR range earlier, and chopped one of Longbridge or Cowley instead?
Andrew P – I recall that at the time Halewood went over to Jaguar, productivity and build quality were very good, which is why Ford were keen not to close the plant, as if Ford had kept it, it would have probably produced somnething like the C-Max.
Moving Freelander 2 there was a sensible decision too, as it’s far more suited for such volume work then Solihull, and with its productivity and quality probably ‘deserved’ the work more…
“It operated out of 5 factories – Longbridge, Cowley, Solihull, Browns Lane and Castle Bromwich.”
More than that, they’re just the car assembly plants. They also had a plant in Swindon (now BMW’s) which made body pressings. There was also a plant in wales that made small parts (originally used for making J40’s) and the SU carburetter plant (owned by BL) i’m pretty sure there were other smaller satelite plants too.
BMW now use at least 3 sites in the UK for Mini production. Hams Hall (engines), Cowley (assembly), Swindon (pressings) and arguably Dagenham (diesel engine supply). there is presumably a gearbox plant somewhere too.
“Imagine a Dyson inspired car!”
You mean Plastic, Made in Taiwan, limited capacity and breaks down a lot?
alexscott says:
@jonathan carling, ford are too idealistic and are too big to be seroiusly organised. they work to a very tight model for parts and service and organisation ideal processes and structures and if it (any number of things and processes) dont fit that model then they wont have it. JLR on the other hand look seriously like they can adapt, and adpat quickly and now individually it seems. in other words. ford are too big to be flexible and too big pay close attention to all parts of the (larger) buisness. have you seen the Yankee ford truck that looks marginally like the range rover?, and and have you noticed that all the ford vehciles and a bunch or land rovers all have very similar styled interiors . if the parts arent the same they sure look they they were styled in the same room interstingly though if you want a replacement part for a Ford like a heater fans speed controller or something…they are stupidly expensive.
“have you seen the Yankee ford truck that looks marginally like the range rover?, and and have you noticed that all the ford vehciles and a bunch or land rovers all have very similar styled interiors ”
I would imagine that’s just born from Ford training many of JLR’s designers. Some of Ford’s then upcoming designers would have been promoted and transfered to PAG, naturally they’re going to design in the style of their former mentors.
24 Dennis:
Unfortunately, BMW closed their UK gearbox facility at Midland Gears. They used to manufacture gearboxes for the MINI and Rover; when Rover moved their source of supply abroad, the factory became uneconomic and it was closed. MINI gearboxes are now sourced from Getrag.
“Unfortunately, BMW closed their UK gearbox facility at Midland Gears.”
AKA the Longbridge Gearbox unit. Where are the Getrag boxes made though?
Richard B says:
Friend of mine works for Mini dealer; he said Mini use Toyota engines in some of their line up… at one time they were all Toyota engines. I wonder what is correct then??
The first generation DIESELs used the Toyota Yaris engine.
The first generation PETROL cars with the 1.6 used the Tritec unit imported from brazil, basically the Chrysler Neon engine.
The second generation Mini’s (2006 on) use PSA/Ford HDi Diesel engines usually built at Dagenham.
As well as BMW/PSA Petrol engines made in Ham’s Hall.
They don’t currently use any Toyota engines that i know of.
10 January 2012 at 5.40 am
29 and 31.
The Getrag units are built in France.
BMW haven’t used any Toyota engines since the demise of the R50 diesel in 2006.
The R56 MINI (2006 onwards) used the Ford/PSA diesel until very recently, when it was changed to a version of BMW’s own 4 cylinder diesel.
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Christine Upton –otherwise known as the person who sips, samples and spiels with locals all over the world to curate Trafalgar’s exclusive Be My Guest experiences shares her stories from breaking bread with Poppy Salinger in the south of France to sampling home-grown wines in a castle in Tuscany, it’s these truly authentic moments that keep guests travelling with Trafalgar year on year.
Trafalgar’s Be My Guest programme started back in 2009 in Sorrento, Italy with Mama Esposito and her delicious limoncello. The entire concept was introduced as a way of ensuring that Trafalgar trips had experiences in which guests could interact with local people – a chance to not only see the destination through a locals’ lens, but to help support small businesses and keep local traditions alive. It was Mama Esposito’s warm nature and openheartedness that set the precedent for the Trafalgar-exclusive experiences for years to come, Christine explains.
“When I was a Travel Director in the 1980s people were always asking ‘Oh can’t we go inside that house?’ ‘What do people do?’ ‘What time do they get up in the morning?’. That curiosity is now satisfied by the Be My Guest experience.”
With every host that Trafalgar works with, there’s a different story to tell. Take Poppy Salinger, owner of an upmarket Bed and Breakfast near Luberon in the south of France and the widow of Pierre Salinger, the personal advisor to John F. Kennedy (and later to Bobby). Poppy shares many wonderful stories with guests about the people she’s met over the years – not only the Kennedys, but noted personalities like Ava Gardner – which makes for a unique and exciting glimpse into her world.
“All of the places that are outstanding are not because of a terrific view or fantastic food or anything like that, they are outstanding because the host is warm, welcoming and really happy to be working with us.”
It’s not just the rich stories of the Be My Guest hosts, but their real warmth that makes you feel instantly welcome. Italians, for example, have a history of hosting – it is embedded in the very essence of their culture with agriturismos, which is essentially a farm designed to accommodate guests for a meal or to stay. Similarly, in France there is a system that has been in existence for years known as table d’hôte whereby you stay and have dinner with your hosts. It’s this willingness to open their homes that is felt by all guests – not to mention it’s a positive step in combating over-tourism. Locals want you there and have everything set up to cater to your needs, Christine explains.
“…Italians are very open just as the Irish are. Both are very keen to do this sort of thing, they enjoy meeting people from all over the world…they are very open, warm, inviting and enjoy having people to come and stay with them.”
On every Be My Guest experience, you have exclusive access to locations that are brimming with history and jam-packed with character as distinctive as their hosts. Castello del Trebbio, a Be My Guest site in Tuscany, Italy was built in 1184 by the noble Florentine family known as ‘Pazzi’. In 1478, within the castle’s very walls, an infamous plot took place to kill members of the rival ‘Medici’ family. Guests can pay homage to the story of the conspiracy in the ‘Conspiracy Room’ over a glass of local Chianti. The rich tapestry of Castello del Trebbio’s history is felt throughout the estate, from its rustic farmhouse villas down to the way wine is produced in line with the stars. It’s homes like this that makes Be My Guest so special, Christine explains.
“The host at Castello del Trebbio [a 12th Century castle] near Florence is totally committed to producing all of the food on the estate. They produce their wine in line with the stars.”
Not only do guests have the chance to explore historical sites like Castello del Trebbio, but the hosts themselves have a chance to explore other walks of life. Many of the hosts have never travelled in their lives, and will never get the opportunity to – thanks to Be My Guest, the world is brought to them. Christine tells of a host in Groningen, Holland whereby his son now lives on a dairy farm in Australia. With every Australian Trafalgar guest who visits his property, he can pass on messages to his son. In many ways, this is just one example of how Be My Guest experiences are helping the world stay connected.
A huge thank you to Christine Upton for sharing her insider knowledge on the world of Be My Guest. To join an exclusive Be My Guest experience with Trafalgar, take a look at our trips here.
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Home calls archive The Contemporary British Painting Prize – Now Open
The Contemporary British Painting Prize – Now Open
Deadline: Sunday 1 May 2016.
Run by artists for artists.
The Contemporary British Painting Prize, a new art prize run by artists for artists is launched this February. It has been devised by Contemporary British Painting, a fast growing artists’ organisation that curates collective painting exhibitions in national and international museums and galleries.
“The Contemporary British Painting Prize has been devised to discover great artists working in paint in the UK today and to exhibit their work across the country. There is a cash award, but what sets this prize apart from the others is an emphasis on genuine career advancement through critical discourse and public exhibition.” Robert Priseman, Artist and Founder
The winning artist will receive:
An intimate five painting solo exhibition at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery (May – June 2017) Swindon’s permanent collection includes painting by Gillian Ayres, Howard Hodgkin, Tony Bevan, William Turnbull, Roger Hilton, Lisa Milroy, Ivon Hitchens, John Hoyland and David Bomberg.
A critical essay on their work by Paul O’Kane, a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art and regular contributor to Art Monthly.
£2,000 purchase prize of their work which will then enter the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting.
Participation in The Contemporary British Painting Prize: Group Show, a painting show specially curated ‘peer to peer’. In this first year the group show will be held at: The Riverside Gallery, Richmond Museum, London (10 September – 22 October 2016) and then at Huddersfield Art Gallery (5 November – 22 January 2017). Huddersfield’s collection includes one of Britain’s top 10 paintings – Francis Bacon’s Figure Study II as well as paintings by Atkinson Grimshaw, Frank Auerbach, L.S. Lowrey, Walter Sickert, Joan Eardley, Elizabeth Frink and Ian McKeever.
Contemporary British Painting Prize Timetable
8 February – Prize opens
1 May – Applications close
30 May – Shortlist announced of 15 artists.
10 September – 22 October Shortlisted artists exhibit at The Contemporary British Painting Prize: Group Show at Richmond Museum
10 September – Prize winner announced at Group Show Private View
5 November – 22 January 2017 Group show moves to Huddersfield Art Gallery
May-June 2017 – Prize winner’s solo show at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
The entry process is simple and online. Artists complete a form and upload a selection of 5 images (these should be j-pegs, ideally no greater than 1MB each in size) of their more recent work (along with detail shots, so that the selectors can correctly understand the use of medium and ground) and a statement which outlines their practice. The form is at www.contemporarybritishpainting.com. The competition is open to all painters working in Britain except the members of Contemporary British Painting and the friends and family of the museums where the exhibitions are to be held. The deadline for entry is 1 May 2016 and the fee is £15 plus a £1 admin fee. Terms and Conditions are on the site.
First Round Judging – Artists.
The first round of submissions are assessed by a group of practising painters who include Simon Burton, Nathan Eastwood, Terry Greene, Susie Hamilton, Matthew Krishanu and Freya Purdue. From the initial submissions 15 artists will be invited to bring a single original work selected by the panel to help form The Contemporary British Painting Prize: Group Show.
Second Round Judging – Writers and Curators
A panel of critics and curators then select a Prize Winner from the exhibited artists, with the winner being announced on the afternoon of the Private View, on Saturday 10th September between 11am – 1pm.
The Prize Winner selection panel judges include: Michael Peppiatt (author of the award-winning book Francis Bacon: In Your Blood, 2015 owner and publisher of Art International 1985-1995 and since 2010 board member of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome), Amanda Geitner (Senior Curator of the Sainsbury Centre, 1998-2015 and Director East Anglian Art Fund), Paul O’Kane, Grant Scanlan (Huddersfield Art Gallery) and Sophie Cummings (Curator of Swindon Museum and Gallery).
About Contemporary British Painting
Established in 2013 by Robert Priseman in partnership with Simon Carter, Contemporary British Painting seeks to explore and promote current trends in British painting through group exhibitions, talks, publications and an art prize. Since 2013 they have also orchestrated the donation of over £1 million worth of paintings by British artists to art museums across the UK and USA and an exchange programme with artists in China.
www.contemporarybritishpainting.com
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2020 Alfa Romeo Stelvio vs. 2020 Nissan Murano
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When descending a steep, off-road slope, the Stelvio’s standard Hill Descent Control allows you to creep down safely. The Murano doesn’t offer Hill Descent Control.
Both the Stelvio and the Murano have standard driver and passenger frontal airbags, front side-impact airbags, driver and front passenger knee airbags, side-impact head airbags, front seatbelt pretensioners, height adjustable front shoulder belts, plastic fuel tanks, four-wheel antilock brakes, traction control, electronic stability systems to prevent skidding, crash mitigating brakes, daytime running lights, rearview cameras, available all-wheel drive, lane departure warning systems, blind spot warning systems, front parking sensors, rear cross-path warning and driver alert monitors.
The Stelvio comes with a full 4-year/50,000-mile basic warranty, which covers the entire truck and includes 24-hour roadside assistance. The Murano’s 3-year/36,000-mile basic warranty expires 1 year and 14,000 miles sooner.
The engine in the Stelvio has a single overhead cam for simplicity. The engine in the Murano has dual overhead cams, which add to the number of moving parts and the complexity of the cylinder heads.
The Murano’s redline is at 6600 RPM, which causes more engine wear, and a greater chance of a catastrophic engine failure. The Stelvio has a 5500 RPM redline.
The battery on the Stelvio is in the trunk, which protects it from hot underhood temperatures that can degrade battery life. By keeping the Stelvio’s battery 20 to 30 degrees cooler, its life is increased by years. The Murano’s battery is in the hot engine compartment.
The Stelvio’s 2.0 turbo 4 cyl. produces 20 more horsepower (280 vs. 260) and 66 lbs.-ft. more torque (306 vs. 240) than the Murano’s 3.5 DOHC V6.
As tested in Car and Driver the Alfa Romeo Stelvio is faster than the Nissan Murano:
Zero to 30 MPH
Zero to 100 MPH
5 to 60 MPH Rolling Start
Passing 30 to 50 MPH
Quarter Mile
Speed in 1/4 Mile
On the EPA test cycle the Stelvio gets better fuel mileage than the Murano:
2.0 turbo 4 cyl./Auto 8-Spd.
3.5 V6/Auto
In heavy traffic or at stoplights the Stelvio’s engine automatically turns off when the vehicle is stopped, saving fuel and reducing pollution. The engine is automatically restarted when the driver gets ready to move again. (Start/Stop isn’t accounted in present EPA fuel mileage tests.) The Murano doesn’t offer an automatic engine start/stop system.
For better stopping power the Stelvio’s brake rotors are larger than those on the Murano:
For better traction, the Stelvio’s optional tires are larger than the largest tires available on the Murano (255/45R20 vs. 235/65R18).
The Stelvio’s standard tires provide better handling because they have a lower 60 series profile (height to width ratio) that provides a stiffer sidewall than the Murano’s standard 65 series tires. The Stelvio’s optional tires have a lower 45 series profile than the Murano SL/Platinum’s 55 series tires.
The Stelvio offers an optional driver-adjustable suspension system. It allows the driver to choose between an extra-supple ride, reducing fatigue on long trips, or a sport setting, which allows maximum control for tricky roads or off-road. The Murano’s suspension doesn’t offer adjustable shock absorbers.
The Stelvio’s front to rear weight distribution is more even (50% to 50%) than the Murano’s (58.9% to 41.1%). This gives the Stelvio more stable handling and braking.
The Stelvio AWD handles at .84 G’s, while the Murano Platinum AWD pulls only .81 G’s of cornering force in a Car and Driver skidpad test.
The Stelvio Ti AWD executes Motor Trend’s “Figure Eight” maneuver quicker than the Murano Platinum AWD (26.9 seconds @ .67 average G’s vs. 27.8 seconds @ .64 average G’s).
For greater off-road capability the Stelvio has a 1.2 inches greater minimum ground clearance than the Murano (8.1 vs. 6.9 inches), allowing the Stelvio to travel over rougher terrain without being stopped or damaged.
The Stelvio is 8.2 inches shorter than the Murano, making the Stelvio easier to handle, maneuver and park in tight spaces.
As tested by Car and Driver while under full throttle, the interior of the Stelvio AWD is quieter than the Murano Platinum AWD (72 vs. 75 dB).
A low lift-over cargo hatch design makes loading and unloading the Stelvio easier. The Stelvio’s cargo hatch lift-over height is 28.5 inches, while the Murano’s liftover is 30.7 inches.
The Stelvio’s standard towing capacity is much higher than the Murano’s (3000 vs. 1500 pounds).
The engine in the Stelvio is mounted longitudinally (North-South), instead of sideways, as in the Murano. This makes it easier to service and maintain, because there are no rear spark plugs and the accessory belts are in front.
The Stelvio has a maintenance free battery for long life without checking the battery’s water level. The Murano doesn’t have a maintenance free battery, so the water level in the battery’s cells must be checked often to prevent damage.
The Stelvio’s power parking brake sets with one touch and releases with one touch or automatically. The Murano’s parking brake has to released manually.
The power windows standard on both the Stelvio and the Murano have locks to prevent small children from operating them. When the lock on the Stelvio is engaged the driver can still operate all of the windows, for instance to close one opened by a child. The Murano prevents the driver from operating the other windows just as it does the other passengers.
The Stelvio’s front and rear power windows all open or close fully with one touch of the switches, making it more convenient at drive-up windows and toll booths, or when talking with someone outside the car. The Murano’s rear power window switches have to be held the entire time to open or close them fully.
The Stelvio’s rain-sensitive wipers adjust their speed and turn on and off automatically based on the amount of rainfall on the windshield. This allows the driver to concentrate on driving without constantly adjusting the wipers. The Murano S’ standard manually variable intermittent wipers have to be constantly adjusted. The Murano SV/SL/Platinum’s intermittent wipers change speed with vehicle speed, but can’t turn on and off or change speed based on changing rainfall.
Heated windshield washer nozzles are optional on the Stelvio to prevent washer fluid and nozzles from freezing and help continue to keep the windshield clear in sub-freezing temperatures. The Murano doesn’t offer heated windshield washer nozzles.
In poor weather, headlights can lose their effectiveness as grime builds up on their lenses. This can reduce visibility without the driver realizing. The Stelvio offers available headlight washers to keep headlight output high. The Murano doesn’t offer headlight washers.
To help drivers see further while navigating curves, the Stelvio has standard adaptive headlights to illuminate around corners automatically by reading vehicle speed and steering wheel angle. The Murano doesn’t offer cornering lights.
The Stelvio’s standard outside mirrors include heating elements to clear off the mirrors for better visibility. Nissan only offers heated mirrors on the Murano SV/SL/Platinum.
The Stelvio offers optional automatic dimming rear and side view mirrors which automatically darken quickly when headlights shine on them, keeping following vehicles from blinding or distracting the driver. The Murano offers an automatic rear view mirror, but its side mirrors don’t dim.
The Stelvio offers an optional 115-volt a/c outlet in the cargo area, allowing you to recharge a laptop or run small household appliances without special adapters that can break or get misplaced. The Murano doesn’t offer a house-current electrical outlet.
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In early November 2018, two Ashton residents launched "Love Ashton". It's Facebook group for anyone interested in the latest Ashton community news & events, and for chatting about all things Ashton-on-Ribble.
They soon spotted the need for some community action, and so got together with neighbours and launched "Spruce Up Your Street".
This initiative gives Ashton residents the opportunity to seek the help of a volunteer group to help them tidy up a nearby grot spot.
With the advice and support of "Let's Grow Preston" the action group tackled their first project alongside the Space Centre. See them in action below.
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A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. More Details »
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Michael Finnell, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
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Susan Burgess
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Billy says he bought a comic at Dr. Fantasy's. Dr. Fantasy is a nickname for Executive Producer Frank Marshall.
Snow on the underside of branches.
Gizmo: Bye Billy.
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Honestly, seeing Gremlins in the theater was the best way to see it ever. Glad to have bought tickets for it.
Noah B
My ultimate Christmas movie!
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Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Reviews
A horror-comedy about cute little Christmas toy/pets who turn into murderous monsters wreaking havoc on a Norman Rockwellian town. There's a moral there someplace.
Gremlins was hailed as another E.T. It's not. It's in a different tradition. At the level of Serious Film Criticism, it's a meditation on the myths in our movies: Christmas, families, monsters, retail stores, movies, boogeymen. At the level of Pop Movie-going, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés. But don't go if you still believe in Santa Claus.
It's as if Dante sought so hard to parrot his producer that he wound up parodying, and all involved should have known better. There's a current of menace to Dante's work that sets him apart from Spielberg, and a measure of innocence in Spielberg's quite apart from anything Dante has done. [8 June 1984, p.1]
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A Glimpse of Evil
Psychic Eye Mysteries, Book 8
By: Victoria Laurie
Narrated by: Elizabeth Michaels
Series: Psychic Eye Mysteries, Book 8
Categories: Crime & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye
Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. But her insight failed her when she didn't foresee the death of one of her clients - or that the lead investigator for the case is the gorgeous blind date she just met. Now, with the police suspicious of her abilities and a killer on the loose, Abby's future looks more uncertain than ever.
Entertaining and easy to listen to
By Caroline on 26-02-15
What's a Ghoul to Do?
A Ghost Hunter Mystery
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. will have to quell the clamor-and listen for a voice with the answers...
Murder at the Mill
The Mill, Book 1
By: M. B. Shaw
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
The first in a new crime series from M. B. Shaw, pen name of best-selling author Tilly Bagshawe. Murder at the Mill introduces listeners to portrait painter and amateur sleuth Iris Grey, who sees the truths of others while struggling to find her own way. Grey arrives at The Mill in Hampshire, commissioned to paint a portrait of Dominic Wetherby, a celebrated author. She quickly finds herself drawn into a world of village gossip, romantic intrigue, buried secrets and murder.
Very good story line.
By JM Manington on 18-12-17
Louisiana Longshot
A Miss Fortune Mystery, Book 1
By: Jana DeLeon
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
It was a hell of a long shot.... CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever - in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price placed on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off-grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element.
don't mess with the wrinklies they're certainly not old in the head
By Fleetwoodboy on 12-05-16
Trouble in Mudbug
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Scientist Maryse Robicheaux thought that a lot of her problems had gone away with her mother-in-law's death. The woman was rude, pushy, manipulative and used her considerable wealth to run herd over the entire town of Mudbug, Louisiana. Unfortunately, death doesn't slow down Helena one bit. DEA Agent Luc LeJeune is wondering what his undercover assignment investigating the sexy scientist has gotten him into - especially as it seems someone wants her dead.
By Liz1873 on 28-01-18
Bad to the Crone
A Spell's Angels Cozy Mystery, Book 1
By: Amanda M. Lee
Narrated by: Meghan Kelly
Scout Randall is more than a witch on a motorcycle. She’s more than the magic she wields. She’s also a woman with a secret past that she can’t remember...a sarcastic wonder who acts before she thinks. The one thing Scout knows with absolute certainty is that she’s got a purpose in life...and that purpose is fighting evil. That’s why she joined the Spell’s Angels, a biker group with offices all across the world.
By Mrs. Casilda A. Slattery on 20-10-19
Professional psychic Abigail Cooper is about to discover that some cold cases are better off dead....
As the FBI's newest civilian profiler, Abby Cooper is using her powers of intuition to help solve a backlog of the bureau's cold cases. But when she's the only one who's convinced that several separate cold cases are related, she'll have to call on every intuitive bone in her body before she's the one put on ice.
©2010 Victoria Laurie (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Fated for Felony
A Grave Prediction
great read
loved it, great characters, brilliant plot with a lot of twists and turns. highly recommended
Daylaha
The best yet
I really enjoyed this book and I think it might be the best in the series so far. The plot changes in the book seems natural. Abby is also growing up more. I look forward to the next book.
These books just keep getting better and better! The Narrator is perfect and does exactly what I think "Abby" would actually sound like (if she were real) After buying and listening to the 1st book, I loved it so much that I bought the whole series and I must say, there are NO Regrets! It'st a delightful way to spend time in traffic, doing chores or stopping for a break at work. My Spirit Guides are telling me "Read or listen to everything she writes, you WON'T be disappointed" Can't wait to start on the new book "Vision Impossible" it's getting great reviews already!
Sandie Herron
The gang moves to Austin, one by one
It's almost too much to believe that Abby and her FBI boyfriend Dutch would both find jobs in the same FBI office in Texas as opposed to Michigan AND be followed individually by home contractor Dave, Dutch's old best friend from the police department, while Candace preceded them there and had already bought her condo as had Bryce, Dutch and Abby's boss. They all arrived separately but coincidentally for all different reasons.
It felt a lot like old home month, but the office was a new environment for Abby. She was working with the cold case squad, and by weeks' end had reached the group's goal for the year! Abby didn't do that alone nor did she claim to. However, her boss Bryce, also Candace's boyfriend although they both were too unsteady to admit that, changed the group's methodology in that same first week.
Bryce immediately saw the value in Abby's skills. He had her prepare a lecture/lesson for the squad to show and teach her intuitive ways. No one showed up. However, they all went the following week when she taught them how to gain access to their own feelings. With the interactive fashion of "show and teach," the group was much more enthusiastic.
Candace and Abby began working a case of three missing and likely dead pre-teen girls. It became entangled in a dangerous accident, distraught friends, and an ex military man. A group back at the squad was working another case that Abby also felt was at some turning point at the same time. The excitement and anxiety ratcheted up and up.
I can only tell you that the solution caught the eye of several higher ups who want Abby to save her country. How? I think we have to read onward to find the answer.
Lolasark
I love this series. I think the ridiculous & often foolish things that Abby & Candace sometimes do make them that much more endearing because, let's face it, we all do stupid stuff once in as while. The only complaint I had, was that we didn't see enough of Eggy & Tuttle... their little nose bumping, barking, and snuggling as so much to their life at home. Hope we see more of them soon😊
Paranormaly Yours
Abby show's them how it's done!
A Glimpse of Evil takes us into the hearts and minds of the three main characters, Abby, Dutch, and Candace. In this latest adventure, it's a deeper look into their relationship connections, along with their crime fighting.
Abby and Dutch arrive in Texas looking forward to their new jobs, but also the new life they will be building together. Candace, having already settled in Texas, greets them both with open arms, and a hand full of her new love interest. I'm not going to name Candace's new boy toy because I don't want to spoil the surprise for you!
Abby was not at all expecting her new job as an FBI Profiler to consist of pushing papers. When she arrives in the office, she is instructed to "audit" cold case files to see which ones are viable to continue with and which ones are not. Abby of course is, yet again, met with non-believers of her abilities in the office and will not be taken seriously until she "proves" herself to them. People are such jerks sometimes! Abby turns the table on her assignment and creates her own audit system, which she is then brought into Agent Harrison's office to explain. After a lengthy discussion about the new audit, Harrison agrees, and Dutch and Abby proceed to close three cases on their first day!
Candace is setting up camp as well, with a new condo, car, and applying for her P.I. license for Texas. She is happy as a clam with her new bow until one thing leads to another and the fighting begins! Abby and Dutch face some shaky ground as well that has Dutch really taking stock of his life and his future with Abby. Having everyone in turmoil throughout the book had me very unsure of how things would turn out! Abby and Dutch are so meant for each other, I was rooting for them big time! Listening to one conversation between Abby and Dutch, that brought Dutch to tears, had me in tears! Getting everyone to open up about their true feelings and get on the same page felt like it was never going to happen, and all of this while they are working cases that have one of them pointing a gun straight at Abby once again.
This book has been such an eye opener for me on how the relationship between the characters has evolved since this series started. I love the direction the books have taken everyone, especially Abby. You will not be disappointed with the surprise nuggets in this chapter, and there are more than one ;)
Narrator Review:
This is eight audiobooks now for me, same series, same narrator and Elizabeth Michaels is Abby Cooper! I can't imagine anyone else, nor do I want to. Elizabeth fits the bill perfectly and I wouldn't change her for the world! Great job Elizabeth!!
Light, fun, engaging. Great series. New location, new job, same fun Abby. Another wonderful addition to the series.
Terrible reader
Would you try another book from Victoria Laurie and/or Elizabeth Michaels?
The narrator cannot pronounce words correctly to save her live. For instance, one of the most annoying mispronunciations for me is cavalry. She keeps pronouncing it as Calvary. When you want help don't ask for a biblical location! Her voice is also nasal and she sounds like an old woman. If I didn't like the series I could never put up with her.
Tanea Greco
Great Storyline!
I loved how the story developed and the ending was most beautiful. I just wish the narrator was better at using different voices.
David A
This is a really good series. Interesting characters. Good mysteries. I'm already listening to the earlier books a second time.
Water Lilly
Always interesting and fun!
I listen to a lot of audible books as I work and when I am doing chores - I have enjoyed every one of her books so far!
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series
By: Edgar H. Schein
Narrated by: Milton Bagby
Categories: Business, Leadership & Management
Organizational Culture and Leadership, Fifth Edition
By: Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. Author Edgar Schein is the 'father' of organizational culture, world-renowned for his expertise and research in the field; in this book, he analyzes and illustrates through cases the abstract concept of culture and shows its importance to the management of organizational change.
The Infinite Game
How Great Businesses Achieve Long-lasting Success
By: Simon Sinek
Narrated by: Simon Sinek
The New York Times best-selling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite game or the infinite game? In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great business achieve long-lasting success. He finds that building long-term value and healthy, enduring growth - that playing the infinite game - is the only thing that matters to your business.
Can't wait for the next book.
By Lauris on 13-01-20
The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
By: Daniel H. Pink
Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink
A book that will change how you think and transform how you live.Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people – at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world.
Essential motivational theory reading
By Elizabeth on 17-04-11
Communicate with Confidence, Influence and Authority
By: Caroline Goyder
Narrated by: Caroline Goyder
Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don't? The secret to their success can be summed up in one word: gravitas. In this revolutionary new book, leading voice coach and speaker Caroline Goyder reveals how to speak so others will listen. Through simple techniques to build your natural gravitas, you will learn how to express yourself clearly, with passion and confidence, to persuade, influence and engage listeners. By being grounded in your values and capabilities, you will gain the authority needed to make people sit up and pay attention.
This book can change your life.
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success
By: Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
Narrated by: Jim Dethmer
You'll never see leadership the same way again after reading this book. These 15 commitments are a distillation of decades of work with CEOs and other leaders. They are radical or provocative for many. They have been game changers for us and for our clients. We trust they will be for you too. Our experience is that unconscious leadership is not sustainable. It won't work for you, your team, or your organization in the long term.
By: Ray Dalio
Narrated by: Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb
Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past 40 years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
A life changing boom
By Thomas Sichel on 30-09-17
Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization and change. This updated edition focuses on today's business realities. Edgar Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.
©2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Key takeaway - culture a set of shared assumptions
This is a must read for a culture change enthusiast or transformation leader. Culture Island is a useful technique/tool.
What did you like best about this story?
References to many real life situations
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Culture Island
Probably skip the audiobook for a text copy
While this book is the classic on organizational culture, it's also incredibly verbose and tedious. There's value here, but a 100 page version with another 300+ pages of examples linked to it would be a lot more useful. There were also a huge number of really dated examples (pre technology, companies were mainly dead dinosaurs like DEC), which is because the book is in 4th edition and only lightly revised.
I also listened on audible, rather than reading, which made it extra-tedious. (Textbook pricing for the printed or e-book, single credit for the audiobook, so...). I'd recommend reading this as an e-book instead. I generally really like audiobooks, but there are some books for which they're not particularly suited.
I'd probably give it 5 stars as the canonical book on an important topic, except for being vastly too long and pretty tedious.
I need the abridged version
I listen to a lot of leadership and management books and so was looking forward to this based on the strong reviews. However, as one who reads in order to use the insights and practices in my work, I need books that get to the point a little faster. In addition, I listen while on my bike commute, so if things are dragging, I find myself thinking about other things.
This book was just too slow and as I am about 5 hours in, I think I will pass this back and maybe read it when I am retired.
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast!
Edgar Schein is the leading theorist on organizational culture and process consultation, and this book is the standard bearer for understanding organizational culture and how to change it. The book is divided into five parts: defining organizational culture and leadership, discussing dimensions of organizational culture, outlining the leadership role in building and developing culture, outlining how leaders can manage culture change, and discussing new leadership roles that are evolving into today's organizations. He makes a critical point that if leaders are not proactive about managing their organizations' culture, that culture will ultimately manage them. As is often quoted in organization development circles, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast!" He also outlines the steps leaders can take to conduct their own cultural analysis. While the book is intended to be academic and is fairly dense, the organizational stories Schein uses throughout the book as illustrative examples add life to the book. A great resource for any organizational leader!
Where does Organizational Culture and Leadership rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It is in the top five.
Who was your favorite character and why?
No it did not, nor would I as you need time to apply and process the concepts.
It would have been nice to have access to the book in an ebook format that reads the text.
Mauro Locarnini
The foundational book on Organizational Culture
If you could sum up Organizational Culture and Leadership in three words, what would they be?
Although it is lacking a bit more of intercultural awareness and a less step by step and more holographic approach, that are needed for nowadays business environment it is a still an outstanding introduction to the complex world of organizational culture.I would say that any organizational culture practitioner must read it!
Great insights to leaders
Really learned a lot from this book. The content, though often containing suggestions for practitioners was nevertheless easy to understand and useful to the layman leader (my own position). I highly recommend this book to practicing or aspiring leaders.
Beryl Bellman
Praise for Schein's Classic Work
Would you listen to Organizational Culture and Leadership again? Why?
I was glad to see Organizational Culture and Leadership on Audible as I have assigned this book to both upper division and graduate level courses on organizational communications.
The order of the chapters makes no sense
Either I missed something or he began to define his term "culture islands" near the end of the book after he'd been using it all along. Loved his other book "Humble Inquiry" though.
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Feature May 1, 2009 by Claire Newman
Designed To Make Emissions Testing Easier, Removing Ways To Cheat
Did you know that modern vehicles are really high-tech and automotive technology has changed over the years?
That statement usually makes technicians roll their eyeballs. No one knows better than technicians do just how advanced vehicles have become. And really, it’s not as if the people who spend their days working with vehicles haven’t figured this out yet.
The constant quest for better fuel economy and lower emissions has made engineers come up with incredible ways to make simple things very complicated, and technicians are sometimes left to clean up the aftermath of the engineers’ decisions, often by being as clever and skillful as the engineers themselves.
On that note, there’s another change coming down the pipes that technicians need to be aware of — Permanent DTCs. Starting with certain 2009 vehicles, and mandatory for all 2010 model year vehicles (and there’s already some of these on Canadian roads), this new type of DTC is being phased in to meet new American emission legislation.
Permanent DTCs are designed to stop dishonest folks from cheating on emission tests by just clearing the codes when the vehicle has an emission-related fault, without fixing the problem and allowing the vehicle to leave the shop without a proper fix. So the idea behind the technology is indeed noble.
But there’s one hitch. Permanent DTCs aren’t cleared in the usual way, with a scan tool or in some cases by disconnecting the battery. They have a unique way to clear them, and they’re already giving technicians a few headaches.
Permanent DTCs can only be cleared by proving to the computer that the problem has been fixed and the condition is not returning. And since emission programs and legislation are already causing more than enough headaches for Canadian shop owners and technicians, it’s important to understand how these new DTCs work to prevent problems and misdiagnosis.
Here’s a quick look at DTCs in 2009 and beyond:
Current DTCs
This type of DTC isn’t new, and these are still almost always the best kinds to deal with. What is new is quite often these used to be made up of a letter, followed by four numbers. Now the first digit is still a letter, but quite often letters are mixed-in with the four numbers that follow that prefix. Whichever way the DTC is constructed, the DTC will set when a problem is happening — making it much easier to diagnose and repair the cause of the recorded problem. Oneand two-trip (or more) detection logic still applies, meaning the code may not set the first time the fault happens. But the bottom line about current DTCs is the computer received an input that wasn’t within what its programming says is normal, and it’s made a note of it to help fix the problem — and whatever the problem was, it’s still happening right then. These can still be cleared in the usual way, but they’ll likely return quickly if the problem is not fixed.
History DTCs
These are readings that were out of parameter before, but aren’t out of range now. After a certain number of “clean” trips — trips when a fault doesn’t reoccur — a “current” DTC will become a “history” DTC. These can still be cleared in the usual way, after the data is recorded and you’re sure you won’t need it. The important thing here is not to erase information that could speed up diagnosis.
Pending DTCs
These are DTCs that were out of parameter once, but need to be out of parameter again before the MIL light comes on. Sometimes the problem was just a glitch, sometimes it’s something more serious. The important thing to understand is the cause of the pending DTC needs to be investigated further.
Permanent DTCs
These are the new, emission-related DTCs that can’t be cleared from the ECM or TCM until the computer knows for sure that the problem was fixed. This usually involves performing a Universal Trip Drive Pattern exactly as described, but there are other ways, such as performing a dedicated monitor cycle. Permanent DTCs first appeared on certain 2009 vehicles, and are being legislated on 2010 vehicles. As with any new technology, the “glitches” may need to be worked out in the field, so reading the repair manual and TSBs are important steps before beginning diagnosis.
Universal Trip Drive Pattern
So, how to clear a Permanent DTC? By performing a Universal Trip Drive Pattern that meets the strict criteria in the repair manual, to prove to the computer that the fault has indeed been repaired and no one is trying to cheat on an emissions test. After performing this Drive Pattern, if the code doesn’t clear it’s usually because the strict criteria were not followed exactly. It’s a pain, but that’s the way it goes.
Typically, this Universal Trip Drive Pattern starts off by clearing all the DTCs so that only the Permanent DTC remains (always refer to service information for applicable information and procedures).
Then turn the ignition ON, start the vehicle and let it idle for at least 30 seconds. Then, without cycling the key, drive the vehicle for at least five minutes at more than 40 km/h. Then (again without cycling the key) let the vehicle idle for at least 30 seconds before shutting it OFF. The whole drive cycle must take at least 10 minutes. After performing a Universal Trip Drive Pattern, the computer clears the code, since it’s “seen” that the problem is fixed and not reoccurring. Sounds simple enough, and most problems have apparently come from not performing the Universal Trip Drive Pattern correctly, but time will tell if these new DTCs will be problematic.
Dedicated monitor cycle
If you’d rather not perform a Universal Trip Drive Pattern, performing three dedicated monitor cycles will also clear a permanent DTC. This way takes more time and some research, but it works and it’s always good to know more than one way to get things done.
To clear the Permanent DTC using a dedicated monitor cycle, start by repairing the fault that caused the DTC in the first place. Then clear all the codes except for the permanent DTC (if it were that easy, there’d be no problems), and make sure the Permanent DTC is the only one left.
Then look up the details for that specific monitor drive cycle in the repair manual, and road test the vehicle under those conditions — three separate times. You’ll need to complete three of these cycles (from cold start if applicable) to successfully clear the code. After the monitor runs three times with no problems the code will clear and you’ll be happy (confirm this, though).
Changing technology is nothing new, and Permanent DTC legislation is nothing you can’t handle. A diagnostic trouble code is still, in its simplest form, a sign that an input to the computer wasn’t within the range of what the computer’s been told is acceptable. The basics are still the same, even if the repair strategy changed a bit.
Understanding what’s going on, performing the monitor drive cycle exactly as the repair manual directs, and remembering that the driving force behind this change is a fairer testing process (and ultimately lower pollution levels) will hopefully make this new technology easier to deal with. Because we all know that even more changes will be arriving shortly.
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8 Comments » for Taking A First Look At Permanent DTCs
Ken L says:
Great description of the codes. Recommend you re-order the descriptions to the sequence they occur in: Pending, current, permenant, historic.
How do I perform a Trip Cycle ‘A’ procedure and Trip Cycle ‘B’ procedure on a 2012 Nissan Xterra Pro 4X 4.0L automatic?
Dario Enrique Altamirano says:
Great article. I did a dumb thing and tried to start my car with the fuel pump fuse pulled out. Then when I went to start my car, it gave me some permanent DTCs. I was very worried until I came across this article. It’s very well written too. Thanks again.
Definitley a good read and advice. Thank you for posting, as im still learning the new OBD2
John Patrick Saathoff says:
Thank you! Very well written and easy to understand.
Argentin Filsaime says:
Thank you so much for this article! It’s very well written, methodical and informative. I was dumb founded when I saw a permanent code on my scanner. This article really help me to understand what it it is. I thought working on helicopters was bad, but the new technology in today’s car is unbeleivable. Thanks again for the education.
How do you clear Historic DTC’S? Do you just clear the code with a scan tool?
Is there a law that states you cannot clear an emission related code until you fix it ?
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What is synchronous replication?
In synchronous replication, all committed data at the primary location also exists simultaneously at the remote location. When a piece of data is being written to a disk at the primary location, it must also be written (replicated) at the secondary (remote) location, and the secondary location must acknowledge that it has received and written that piece of data. Only then, the next piece of data can be written to the primary location, replicated to the secondary location, and so on.
The result is two identical copies of data, in real time, which is ideal for rapid disaster recovery and the highest application availability. However, synchronous replication has two important limitations: cost and distance. To sustain synchronous replication, the organization needs to invest in, maintain, and staff two data centers (the primary, production site and the secondary, disaster recovery site). The organization must also maintain extremely fast and costly communication lines between the two sites. Because synchronous replication is costly, this topology is unaffordable for many organizations.
The second limitation of synchronous replication is that the primary and secondary locations must be close to each other in order to minimize latency when moving the data between the primary and DR sites. The maximum distance between the two sites is usually around 45 miles. This means that in case of a large, regional disaster, it is possible that both data centers will be hit; in this case, data will be lost, and application downtime is assured.
Why does the distance between data centers matter in a synchronous replication topology?
The distance between the primary and the secondary sites impacts performance in synchronous replication environments. The larger the distance, the higher the latency, and the longer it takes data to transfer (i.e., replicate) from the primary location to the secondary one. This delay brings the primary site’s applications to a halt because the primary site cannot write new information until it receives confirmation from the secondary site that the previous piece of data has been committed at the secondary site.
What is asynchronous replication?
Asynchronous replication was introduced to overcome the distance limitations of synchronous replication. In asynchronous replication, committed data on the primary site does not have to be confirmed when it is committed on the secondary site. Instead, as the primary site is writing data, it’s also asynchronously “pushing” data to the secondary site, (that is, without waiting for confirmation that the data has been committed at the secondary site). This technology enables organizations to place the secondary data center at any distance, even hundreds or thousands of miles away from the primary data center. In addition, asynchronous replication does not require the high-bandwidth lines that synchronous replication requires, which significantly reduces costs.
The challenge with asynchronous replication is that due to the distance between the two sites and the usually lower bandwidth of the communication lines between the two data centers, there is an inherent lag between the data that exists at the primary site, and what has been replicated and confirmed on the secondary site. Peaks in application throughput, fluctuations of communication lines bandwidth, and additional elements affect this lag. When a disaster strikes at the primary location, that data lag will be lost, because it hasn’t yet been transferred to and committed at the secondary site. Data loss is assured in this scenario, which results in application inconsistency, protracted recovery times, extended application downtime, and other risks that are often untenable for mission-critical applications.
How can Axxana’s Phoenix bridge the gap between asynchronous and synchronous replication?
Axxana’s Phoenix Black Box and PhoenixOS™ technology provide a new breed of data protection and application continuity—regardless of replication topology—by enabling zero data loss and zero transaction loss when replicating data across any geographical distance, any communication medium, and any application, middleware, or system. To learn more about moving beyond the synchronous vs. asynchronous binary, read here.
Axxana’s Phoenix
What is the Axxana Phoenix system?
The Axxana Phoenix system provides zero-data-loss recovery and continuous application availability, over unlimited distances and at a fraction of the cost of traditional replication solutions. Axxana’s Phoenix does not require replication over costly communication lines; even IP lines will suffice. The system, installed at the primary data center, is a sturdy data protection appliance that is capable of withstanding extreme conditions and surviving any type of disaster—without losing data. Axxana’s Phoenix combines concepts used in aviation flight data recorders (black boxes) with Axxana’s special-purpose continuous availability operating system, called PhoenixOS™, to effectively transform asynchronous replication into synchronous replication. It provides 100% data protection, full application consistency, the fastest recovery times, and continuous application availability.
How does Axxana’s Phoenix guarantee zero loss and continuous availability?
The Phoenix Black Box, installed at the primary data center, maintains a protected, synchronous copy of all the at-risk, not yet replicated, and in-transit information between replication cycles. In other words, the box is a disaster-proof storage and compute device that securely holds the data lag (i.e., the data that hasn’t yet been replicated to the remote DR site), automatically detects a disaster, and then transmits the protected data lag to the remote site as needed for DR purposes.
Combining the replicated data at the remote site with the protected data lag at the Black Box provides a full, complete copy of the data (with zero data loss) and full data consistency across applications. This copy is identical to the data that existed at the primary site exactly when the disaster struck.
What are my recovery options?
Recovery can be done using the following methods:
Over an existing WAN (if the disaster is local and the WAN is intact)
By downloading the transaction data to a laptop and transferring it over a nearby, operational WAN to the remote site
By transferring the encrypted transaction data via a secure VPN over a cellular network, using a fully protected modem and antennas for broadcasting the transaction data
By extracting the flash disks from the Phoenix Black Box and transferring them to the remote site
Can I choose which applications will be protected by Axxana’s Phoenix?
Yes. You can choose which applications or databases Axxana’s Phoenix will protect. Click here to learn more about how Axxana’s Phoenix can protect your business.
Can I trust the cellular network in case of disaster?
Based on several studies, the cellular network is the most resilient communications network in the case of a disaster. In a number of disasters (including 9/11 and recent hurricanes), the cellular network remained active while other networks were down. To maintain resilience and high availability, cellular providers deploy a mesh of multiple base stations and cells with an overlap between them to provide maximum coverage in case one resource is down. Carriers also use mobile base stations called “cells on wheels” (COWs) that are deployed in case of regional disasters.
How does Axxana’s Phoenix secure data when transferring it?
The data that is transferred to the remote site following a disaster is mutually authenticated and strongly encrypted. We use your own VPN to deliver the data to your DR site, and we adapt our solution to your strictest security policies and practices. Axxana’s Phoenix has been deployed and is in production at leading financial institutions around the world.
What are the product testing certifications?
Axxana’s Phoenix Black Box was tested and certified to make sure it can survive any disaster. To find out more, read here or watch our video.
Axxana’s Phoenix has been rigorously tested and has passed the stringent requirements set by multiple resilience specs, including the aviation black box specifications as well as ISO-834 for withstanding direct flames and fires.
How will Axxana’s Phoenix reduce our expenses and save us money?
Some organizations tolerate some data loss in order to avoid the capital expenditures and ongoing operational costs of maintaining a topology that can ensure zero data loss and continuous application availability. Axxana’s Phoenix eliminates compromise by providing cloud-based and on-premises solutions that can meet the organization’s data loss and recovery time objectives (RTO) without requiring investment in additional data centers or using high-cost communication lines. The Phoenix comes with a huge ROI that continues to pay off year after year, even as data volumes grow. Click here to read more about ROI and Phoenix solutions.
Does Axxana offer a solution for cloud-based services?
Phoenix supports the full range of cloud services models—including private, public, and hybrid clouds and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)—while providing capabilities that are impossible to achieve with cloud services alone. These capabilities include zero data loss at any distance, near-zero recovery time, significantly lower latency, and the continuous application availability.
Click to here to read more about Axxana’s Phoenix solutions for the cloud.
When using Axxana’s Phoenix, how does RPO = 0 affect application availability when recovering from a disaster?
In many organizations, the decision to fail over may take a few hours. Before they can fail over, recovery teams must first determine whether data loss occurred, reconcile missing data, restore applications to full consistency, and more. In this scenario, recovery time objectives (RTO) can easily veer off track, thereby jeopardizing application uptime, service level agreements, and compliance.
By contrast, when disaster strikes an application protected by Axxana’s Phoenix, the organization can go immediately to fail over because Phoenix guarantees zero data loss (i.e., RPO = 0) in any disaster. Because RPO = 0, the organization does not have to waste time determining whether data loss occurred, nor does it have to perform time-consuming reconciliation steps. Full application consistency is guaranteed. In the event of disaster, Axxana’s Phoenix automatically detects the disaster and begins transferring yet-to-be replicated data to the disaster recovery site immediately. Organizations achieve the fastest recovery possible, thereby ensuring the highest application availability.
The Phoenix for Oracle
What is the unique value proposition for the Phoenix for Oracle?
Axxana uniquely provides continuous application availability by guaranteeing zero transaction loss and therefore full application consistency with the shortest time to application failover after a disaster. The solution protects your Oracle applications (SAP, Oracle E-Business, CRM, and more) running on any platform and utilizing any replication solution or infrastructure.
Please click here to learn more about Phoenix for Oracle.
Which common applications does Axxana’s Phoenix for Oracle support?
Phoenix for Oracle supports all applications, including ERP, CRM, E-Business Suite, SAP, and more.
Can Phoenix for Oracle support any operating system or storage?
Phoenix for Oracle supports any storage and any replication solution, including Data Guard, Active Data Guard Far Sync, and the following operating systems: Windows, Linux, and major Unix systems.
Does Axxana’s Phoenix support Oracle RAC and ASM?
Yes. Axxana’s Phoenix supports RAC and ASM, as well as other operating system clusters.
Does installation of Phoenix for Oracle require any changes to my current environment?
No. Phoenix for Oracle does not require any changes to your current Oracle environment. Phoenix works with any storage, any replication, and any network. The installation is seamless (plug-and-play) and therefore does not affect production in any way.
What is the added value when combining Data Guard with the Axxana Phoenix solution?
Axxana’s Phoenix for Oracle enhances Data Guard protection modes and recovery level, bringing it to zero transaction loss and the fastest application recovery when using either Data Guard’s Maximum Availability or Maximum Performance protection mode.
Using either of these modes together with Phoenix for Oracle provides the benefits of maximum protection without compromising on distance or latency and performance. Additionally, it provides full protection and continuous application availability during rolling disasters by protecting yet-to-be-replicated data (i.e., the data lag) inside Axxana’s Phoenix Black Box for as long as needed when the link between sites is down.
Why should I use Phoenix for Oracle Far Sync?
Enterprises are increasingly moving from a three-data-center topology to a two-data-center topology in order to simplify operations and reduce costs; however most vendors have not figured out how to help their customers achieve zero data loss and continuous application availability in a two-data-center environment when data centers are geographically distant from one another. Phoenix for Oracle Far Sync combines Oracle Active Data Guard Far Sync with Axxana’s Phoenix system to solve this challenge. The best-of-breed solution ensures zero data loss and continuous application availability in any data center topology and in any disaster scenario, including regional and rolling disasters. It’s the only industry solution that can do so. Read here for more information.
Does Oracle or Axxana support Phoenix?
Axxana is a recognized Oracle Partner Network member. Axxana supports the product directly.
What interfaces or protocols does the Phoenix for Oracle product support?
Phoenix for Oracle currently supports the following interfaces:
SAN/FC and iSCSI, NAS/NFS, and Exadata/IB.
What is Axxana?
Axxana bridges the gap between current replication techniques. It is the first solution to enable complete failover with zero data loss and continuous application availability across any geographical distance, while utilizing any type of communication lines and achieving significant bandwidth savings over traditional solutions. Axxana developed its ground-breaking Phoenix Black Box and PhoenixOS™ and offers a number of cloud-based and on-premises solutions for continuous application availability, fast recovery, and maximum uptime. We currently support Oracle environments utilizing any storage and any replication system.
Where is Axxana located?
We are headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, USA with R&D in Tel-Aviv, Israel. We also have offices and representatives in a growing number of locations in Europe and Asia Pacific.
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Ayusri Health has always given due emphasis on the Research & Development as we believe that it forms the backbone of our company. Our R&D unit is focused on development of safe and effective products for human use. The department works towards adherence to the stringent level of quality and meet specifications as laid down by the international standards. Our products are continuously evolved by our R&D team. The company conducts primary research for years before introducing the products to the consumers.
Our R&D department is manned by erudite scientists and doctors. We are equipped with the latest technology equipments. All our products are researched rigorously at our R&D unit before they are released for commercial production. Under the able guidance of our Chairman Mr. Mahabir Prasad Agarwala and his vast experience in Ayurveda, our R&D team comprising of experienced Doctor of Medicine (Ayurveda) supported by BAMS, M. Pharama etc is working everyday to come up with new formulations. The products developed by Ayusri Health Product Limited are an outcome of blend of traditional knowledge combined with modern scientific research. The latest technology equipments ensure that the products maintain their international standard, safety and efficacy.
The untiring efforts of our R&D team have lead to the development of around 350 unique formulations effective for various ailments.
Compatibility testing of active plant ingredients to establish synergy, antagonism with reference to a particular biological activity.
Development of appropriate dosage forms which are stable and convenient to administer. aroma and health benefits.
Stability studies of finished products to establish their shelf life
Conducting scale up trials to produce standard operating procedures for commercial production
We strongly believe that Research and Development is a continuous, on going and never ending process. Our innovative approach of integrating traditional knowledge with modern science incorporates the best research and cutting edge technology for delivering genuine, effective, safe and consistent products.
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