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Home » News » Croatian tourism promo videos win at the 40th Telly Awards in America
Croatian tourism promo videos win at the 40th Telly Awards in America
Dubrovnik Riviera promo video team
22 May 2019 – There has been more success for Croatian tourism promo videos abroad, this time at the prestigious Telly Awards in America on Tuesday.
There was double success for Zagreb’s BALDUČI FILM and producer Spomenka Saraga at the 40th Annual Telly Awards with two of promo videos winning awards in the Travel/Tourism category.
‘Dubrovnik Riviera’, a promo video for the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Board won first place and a Gold medal.
The four-minute video, which features authentic gastronomy, magical island beaches, natural beauty, food and wine, sport and recreation, entertainment, and cultural and historical heritage of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, was directed by Herve Tirmarche and filmed by Jalil Armijo.
Dubrovnik Riviera video team
‘Visit Lika’, a tourism promo video showing off Croatia’s Lika-Senj County won second place and a silver medal at the awards. The promo video, which showcases places in the county like Brinje, Perušić, Otočac and Gacka, Smiljan, Gospic, Senj, Karlobag, Vrhovine, and Zrće, was directed by 3-time Emmy award-winner Bobby Grubić.
The Telly Awards each year shows off the best works filmed for television and other media. More than 12,000 entries from more than 50 countries from 5 continents were received this year, and the winners of Telly Awards were works from some of the most prestigious advertising agencies, television stations, production houses and publishers around the world. It was an honour for BALDUČI FILM to be included in such company.
(Visit Lika)
“When we received an email yesterday morning that we were shortlisted for prizes and that the winners would be announced later in the day, we were very happy. Regardless if the films won prizes or not, just being shortlisted was satisfying. But when we received a new email and link in the evening, and saw that the film ‘Dubrovnik Riviera’ won Gold, we were delighted. Reading further to see the other winners, we saw that ‘Visit Lika’ won second place and we were over the moon with happiness. Every award makes us happy, and we hope that our clients who put trust in us are also happy,” said producer Spomenka Saraga.
The Telly Awards
The Telly Awards are judged by members of the Council, consisting of over 200 members of active professionals from various fields of television and marketing.
Filming Visit Lika
So far, ‘Dubrovnik Riviera’ and ‘Visit Lika’ have won several awards in Japan, New York, Las Vegas and at ITB in Munich.
You can watch ‘Dubrovnik Riviera’ here.
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Desert Sun male athlete of the year: Palm Springs dual threat Damion Loman
He was good on the gridiron and great on the track, Palm Springs' Damion Loman is our male athlete of the year
Desert Sun male athlete of the year: Palm Springs dual threat Damion Loman He was good on the gridiron and great on the track, Palm Springs' Damion Loman is our male athlete of the year Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://www.desertsun.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/06/28/desert-sun-male-athlete-year-damion-loman-palm-springs/1437507001/
Shad Powers, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 9:24 a.m. PT June 28, 2019 | Updated 9:37 a.m. PT June 28, 2019
The Palm Springs High School football field and the track around it have been home for Damion Loman for the last four years.
Few people have been able to cover him as a wide receiver, and few people have been able to run as fast or leap as far as him on the track.
He's an impressive athlete who just finished an impressive high school career. Impressive that is to most people, but maybe not some members of his family.
"My mom (Pamela) ran track in high school, and she swears to this day that she can still beat me," Loman said with a laugh. "She's always saying 'You don't know how fast I am.' And I'm always like 'The track is open any time you want to race me.'"
It doesn't stop there.
"And my older brother Dion, he swears that he can beat me at everything," Loman said, noting that his brother (Dion Toliver) was a Division I athlete playing football at Tulsa. "He swears he's faster than me. He swears he can lock me up on the football field because he was a defensive back, and I just say 'but you still haven't put the cleats on, let's go.' "
Familial disrespect aside, Loman did enough to impress us, and for his success on both the track and the football field, Loman has earned the distinction of The Desert Sun's Male Athlete of the Year.
Desert Sun male athlete of the year Damion Loman
Damion Loman was an outstanding track and football star for Palm Springs High School, June 18, 2019. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun
Damion Loman wins the long jump during the Desert Empire League track championships at Palm Desert High School, April 23, 2019. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun
Palm Springs' Damion Loman completes a pass to him for a first down against Rancho Mirage on Friday, October 12, 2018 in Palm Springs. Richard Lui/The Desert Sun
Palm Springs' Damion Loman runs up the sideline during the first half of the game against Tustin in Palm Springs on Friday, September 7, 2018. Taya Gray/ Special to The Desert Sun
Damian Loman competes in the long jump at Cathedral City High School, Thursday, April 5, 2018. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Damion Loman guards the ball while getting tackled. La Quinta defeats Palm Springs, 38-14. Brandon Magpantay
Damion Loman unable to catch the ball. Kaiser scores 35 points during the second half to finish off Palm Springs with the final score of 56-12. Brandon Magpantay
Damion Lee wins the final leg of the boys 4x100 meter relay for Palm Springs in the DVL Track Finals, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Damion Lee of Palm Springs anchors the boys' 4 x 100 relay for Palm Springs over La Quinta, April 27, 2017. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun
Damion Loman of Palm Springs competes in the long jump at La Quinta, April 27, 2017. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun
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Just like his career at Palm Springs High School, Loman's success during his senior season started in football but was hammered home during track and field season.
Loman, who possesses the classic wide receiver skill set of blazing speed, height and good hands, was always a threat for the Indians' football team. Despite not being in a pass-happy offense, Loman still amassed 705 yards on 35 catches. That's more than 20 yards per reception, and this is on a team that only averaged 135 passing yards a game. He also was used in all 10 games as a defensive back, and carried the ball 10 times out of the backfield.
The rest of the coaches in the Desert Empire League named Loman one of the three receivers on the all-league first team.
Loman didn't hesitate when reflecting on his favorite moment of the gridiron season. It happened Oct. 12, and it was emotional. After spending that day at his uncle's funeral, Loman had the best game of his life in the team's Ramon Road Rivalry meeting against Rancho Mirage.
"I remember I didn't go to school that day but went to the funeral for my Uncle Joe," Loman said. "I wasn't the closest to him, but it still stuck with me, and you kind of think about everything you've done with him and time you spent.
"It humbled me throughout that day and then at night I was really focused," he said. "Every game, I get on a knee and make a prayer to stay healthy, have my best game possible and to have fun. On that day, I said the same stuff and added that I wanted to do it for my Uncle Joe."
When the dust settled on that game, a 21-12 Indians win, Loman had 195 yards receiving and two touchdowns.
"I was really proud of that, and to do it in what was the first version of our rivalry with Rancho Mirage ... that was something special," Loman said.
While Loman's football season was good, his track and field season was great.
A sprinter and a jumper for the Indians, it was Loman's long-jumping skills that sent him soaring to the top of our list.
Damion Loman was an outstanding track and football star for Palm Springs High School, June 18, 2019. (Photo: Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun)
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He won the Desert Empire League title with a season-best leap of 22 feet, 8 inches in the finals. He then validated that with his postseason performance. He qualified for and then won the CIF-SS Division 3 title in the long jump with a leap of 22-4. That effort qualified him for the Masters Meet.
As the only desert boys' track and field athlete to make the prestigious Masters meet which is a combination of the top long jumpers across all divisions in the Southern Section, Loman finished 10th overall with a leap of 21-11.
So his favorite track moment of the season had to be that personal-best leap at the DEL meet, or winning the Division 3 title, right?
"Nope, it was that 10.98," Loman said, remembering the time he broke the 11-second mark in the 100-meter dash during a league meet, a smile creeping onto his face even months later as he thought about it. "Even though my primary event is jumping, when I ran that, I blew my own mind and kind of everybody else's mind, too -- my parents, my grandfather, they were all proud of me."
Loman never broke 11 seconds before or since, but he did finish second in the DEL meet with a time of 11.11, behind only Xavier Prep's Jace MacConnell.
Despite his exploits on the field and track, his coaches point to off-the-field attributes when asked what makes Loman special.
"Damion is an unselfish player and will do whatever is needed for the team to be successful," said Palm Springs football coach Dan Murphy, appreciating Loman's humbleness. "He took as much pride in his blocking as he did in his receiving skills."
Track coach Randy Small pointed to Loman's internal drive.
"To become a special athlete, one must commit themselves and he really did," Small said. "I believe he did not miss a practice this year, and for a senior, that's saying something. He really took it upon himself this year that he wanted to get noticed by colleges in track, so he worked hard every day to achieve his goal. And that's where that CIF championship came from."
The track postseason was a whirlwind time for Loman. The day before he won the Division 3 title, he signed his letter of intent to continue his track and field exploits at the Division I level at UC Riverside.
That was a major moment for Loman, who developed a love for sports by watching his older brothers play at the college level.
"I wanted to get to college by any means necessary, football or track, because that scholarship is very important because we're not the wealthiest family around, so that was a blessing," Loman said. "It's pretty cool to be able to say I'm a college athlete, I'm still settling into that."
As a freshman, Loman never would have imagined that it would be track and field that would be his ticket to college. He was sure football would be his primary sport. He didn't even run track as a freshman, playing just football and basketball, but his sophomore year, he stopped shooting hoops and decided to run track to stay in shape.
He had done the jumping events a little bit in middle school at the John Carlos youth track meets at Palm Springs.
"I remembered kind of liking it, and they had me do the jumps back then, so I decided to try that as a sophomore and it just kind of clicked," he said. "I watched my brothers play football, and I wanted to be just like them, I remember I saw Dion play for Tulsa against the Oklahoma Sooners. It was really motivating, so for me to be going to college for a sport, but not football is kinda surprising, something I wouldn't have ever thought would happen."
It's been quite a four-year athletic run for Loman at Palm Springs High School. He's accomplished a lot in the red and black.
Now if he could only beat his mom in a race, he'd really have something to brag about.
Shad Powers is a sports columnist for The Desert Sun. Reach him at shad.powers@desertsun.com.
Others in contention: This was a difficult year to separate and pick our top boys' athlete. There was no runaway winner or obvious choice. We had some record-breaking football performances, as we considered Donny Fitzgerald of Coachella Valley for his gaudy numbers as the Arabs quarterback coupled with his effort on the track and field team. Jordan Garcia became the first 2,000-yard rusher in Palm Desert history, which put him in the mix. What about Xavier Prep baseball pitcher Seth Mattox who put his team on his back and won the only boys' CIF-SS team title this school year in the desert. La Quinta's Raen Reyes was a beast in cross country and track, and other individual sport standouts like Troy Mantanona of Palm Desert wrestling, Chris Wardrup of Palm Desert golf and Cody Meyer of Palm Springs swimming all got into the conversation, but in the end it was Loman's combination of being our top track and field athlete and a first-team all-league football player and earning a Division I scholarship that put him over the top.
Top boys' athletes for 2018-19 season
Football: MVP: Jordan Garcia, Palm Desert; Offense: Donny Fitzgerald, Coachella Valley; Defense: Marcel Honore, Palm Desert
Water polo: Justin Wickstrand, Xavier Prep
Cross country: Esahi Bravo, Indio
Soccer: Jorddy Baez, Rancho Mirage
Wrestling: Troy Mantanona, Palm Desert
Basketball: Damien King, Palm Springs
Tennis: Michael Cabacungan, Palm Springs
Golf: Chris Wardrup, Palm Desert
Baseball: Seth Mattox, Xavier Prep
Swimming: Cody Meyer, Palm Springs
Track and field: Damion Loman, Palm Springs
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New York State 2018 Budget Stays Tuned To Tourism
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Dec. 30, 2017, 5:08 a.m. | By: Staff Report
The New York State 2018 Budget reaffirms its commitment to improving tourism in state through funding and promotional initiatives.
Uber and Lyft Operate Upstate
A significant move was to enable ride share companies to operate throughout the state. While such companies, like Uber and Lyft operated in New York City, they are now operational upstate as well.
The FY 2018 Budget authorizes Transportation Network Companies (TNC), such as Uber and Lyft, to operate across New York and creates uniform licensing standards. The Department of Motor Vehicles will have broad oversight of rideshare companies and will ensure compliance with all laws, rules, and regulations required as part of a TNC’s operational license.
According to the state’s website, TNC companies will be required to maintain minimum insurance coverage levels of $1.25 million while a TNC driver is traveling to pick up a passenger and until the drop-off is completed. The state will also establish minimum standards to ensure passenger safety, including mandatory background checks, ongoing monitoring for traffic safety, anti-discrimination protections, and zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policies.
The Budget also establishes a statewide task force to study and deliver recommendations on accessibility needs to protect and provide transportation to vulnerable populations. Necessary workers' compensation coverage will be provided to rideshare drivers through enhancements to the Black Car Fund. (The New York Black Car Fund is a Operators injury compensation fund. Providing Workers' Compensation insurance to Black Car operators in the state of New York. http://www.nybcf.org/.) A statewide board will be established to review the impact of this newly authorized industry across the state.
The Empire State Trail
The New York State 2018 Budget has committed $200 million to complete the Hudson River Valley Greenway and Erie Canalway trails and creates the Empire State Trail, the largest state multi-use trail in the nation. The 750-mile trail will provide new opportunities for hiking and biking along scenic vistas and through charming, historic communities, driving tourism and economic activity across New York. The Empire State Trail will span the state, from the New York Harbor up through the Adirondack Mountains to the Canadian border – and from the shores of Lake Erie along the historic Erie Canal to the heart of the Capital Region.
In another move - not directly related to tourism but of consequence nonetheless - is the move in the New York State 2018 Budget to protect drinking water under the Clean Water Infrastructure Act.
To ensure that New Yorkers have access to clean water, the Budget initiates the $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act. This investment will protect public health, safeguard the environment, and preserve the state’s water resources. These funds will help local governments address water emergencies, pay for local infrastructure construction projects, underwrite land acquisition for source water protection, and investigate and mitigate emerging contaminants in drinking water. These projects will improve the quality and safety of municipal drinking water distribution, filtration systems, and wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Initiatives such as the Clean Water Infrastructure Act will go a long way to promote tourism especially to attract younger and environmentally savvy millennials and eco-aware travelers.
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Testimony of The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District Regarding the Draft Basin-wide Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management of Overappropriated Portions of the Platte River Basin in Nebraska
The basin-wide integrated management plan (IMP) should be a plan that manages basin-wide integrated water resources uses, that provides basin-wide direction to those particular individual NRDs whose hydrologically connected ground water uses are having significant adverse impacts beyond the boundaries of the NRD, that resolves conflicts between ground water uses and surface water appropriations located in different locations throughout the state, and that protects the rights of senior appropriators. Unfortunately, the basin-wide integrated management plan being proposed by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Platte River natural resources districts (NRDs) fails to accomplish any of these objectives.
The Platte River is the most important river system in Nebraska. The Platte River basin in Nebraska stretches from the Nebraska Panhandle in the west to the Missouri River in the east; and encompasses more than half of the area of the state. More surface water irrigation, more groundwater irrigation, and more hydropower production takes place in the Platte River basin than in any other basin in Nebraska. The Platte River and its tributaries are the source of water for Nebraska’s largest irrigation district, The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District (Central); Nebraska’s largest power plant, Nebraska Public Power District’s Gerald Gentleman Station; Nebraska’s largest reservoir, Lake McConaughy; and municipal wellfields for four of Nebraska’s five largest cities, Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, and Kearney. Some of the state’s most important recreation areas rely on water from, or are otherwise associated with, the North Platte River and Platte River; including Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Sutherland Reservoir, Johnson Lake, Two Rivers State Recreation Area, Platte River State Park, and Eugene T. Mahoney State Park. The Platte River has been identified by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and several environmental organizations as being important to certain threatened or endangered species; including the whooping crane, the interior least tern, the northern Great Plains piping plover, and the pallid sturgeon.
Platte River water users in one location often rely on a water supply that originates in another part of the basin. Frequently, the source and the use are so far removed that they may not occur within a single NRD, or even within adjacent NRDs. Similarly, new water uses in one part of the basin can impact other users far from where the new use occurs, including across NRD boundaries.
In Nebraska, integrated management plans are the statutory scheme developed for resolving conflicts between ground water users and surface water appropriators. Where a fully appropriated or overappropriated basin is contained within a single NRD, or where conflicts between groundwater users and surface water appropriators are contained within a single NRD, an individual IMP for the NRD in question may be all that is required. However, where a fully appropriated or overappropriated basin encompasses multiple NRDs, or where conflicts exist between groundwater uses in one NRD and surface water appropriators in another NRD, a basin-wide IMP is needed in addition to the individual NRD IMPs.
Unfortunately, in cases where groundwater uses within an NRD are interfering with the water supplies of surface water users outside of that NRD, it is virtually impossible for the injured surface water users to obtain proper relief by bringing their complaint to the NRD where the groundwater use is occurring. It should not be a surprise to anyone to find that the NRD in question always seems to view the local groundwater uses as more reasonable or more important as compared to the injured surface water use that takes place somewhere far removed from their local area. In these cases where water uses within an NRD are causing harm outside the NRD, integrated water management decisions are a basin-wide concern, and should be made at a basin-wide level.
Consider the case of ground water uses in the North Platte NRD depleting the water supply of the North Platte River to the detriment of The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District and related downstream uses. Central’s facilities consist of Lake McConaughy, Supply Canal, and Irrigation System, located along the North Platte River and Platte River downstream from the North Platte NRD. Central’s system and water supply provides numerous benefits, including: deliveries to over 100,000 acres of land that irrigate directly from Central’s system, located primarily in Gosper, Phelps, and Kearney Counties; irrigation storage water for an additional 100,000 acres on 11 other canal systems in Lincoln, Dawson, Keith, Garden, and Morrill Counties; hydropower generation at Central’s Kingsley, Jeffrey, Johnson No. 1 and Johnson No. 2 hydropower plants; hydropower generation or cooling water for Nebraska Public Power District’s North Platte Hydro, Gerald Gentleman Station, and Canaday Steam Plant; recreation at numerous reservoirs, including Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Jeffrey Lake, Midway Lake, Gallagher Canyon Reservoir, Plum Creek Canyon Reservoir, Johnson Lake, and Elwood Reservoir; aquifer recharge in accordance with underground storage appropriations to more than 1,000,000 acres in Gosper, Phelps, Kearney, Lincoln, Dawson, and Frontier Counties; return flows to the Platte River; an Environmental Account for use for threatened and endangered species on the Platte River; flow contributions to the Republican River that provide a credit for Nebraska under the Republican River Compact; and wintertime open water for bald eagle feeding. Central operates in accordance with appropriations granted by the State of Nebraska, contracts with customers, and a hydropower license from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Lake McConaughy, which stores North Platte River streamflow, is critical to Central’s operations and the many benefits listed above.
Pumping from wells in the North Platte NRD is depleting the North Platte River streamflow at a current rate of over 125,000 acre-feet per year, and the amount continues to grow. As a matter of comparison, this is equal to 14 percent of the normal inflow into Lake McConaughy, 23 percent of the inflow into Lake McConaughy during the current drought, 139 percent of Central’s normal average irrigation deliveries, and 287 percent of Central’s average irrigation deliveries during the current drought. As a result of the depletions caused by pumping in the North Platte NRD, Lake McConaughy contents, irrigation deliveries, hydropower generation, cooling water availability, water levels for recreation, aquifer recharge, Platte River return flows, Environmental Account contributions, flows to the Republican River basin, and open water for eagles have all been reduced. It is addressing these streamflow depletions and the resultant adverse impacts which should be the focus of the integrated management plan for the North Platte NRD.
When Central has brought these concerns to the North Platte NRD, the results have been disappointing. Of course, this is exactly what might be expected. Ultimately, Central is asking the locally elected directors of the North Platte NRD to accept painful reductions in water use for their constituents, their communities, and in some cases themselves, for the protection of uses that take place outside of their local area, and in some cases hundreds of miles away. Instead of determining an amount of use that would be likely to protect water supplies for existing downstream users, they question the value of those downstream uses as compared to their own local uses. The many beneficial downstream uses; such as instream flows, aquifer recharge, or Republican River contributions; are looked on by them as unimportant, unnecessary, or even wasteful. Whereas proper management of limited resources dictates that water use should be reduced where the supply is least able to support the use; they instead argue that the lower rates of precipitation in their area are justification for greater amounts of use. Notwithstanding significant amounts of information given to them regarding the adverse impacts of pumping within their NRD, they claim that there is no evidence of any harm to downstream users.
One of the purposes of the basin-wide IMP, then, should be this: to identify those NRDs within the overappropriated basin in which ground water uses are significantly interfering with water uses outside of those NRDs, and to determine an amount of use or depletions that may be made within those NRDs that would reasonably be expected to significantly reduce or eliminate the adverse impacts outside those NRDs. The amount of allowed use or depletions having been determined by the basin-wide IMP, it would then be left to the individual NRD IMP, and the decisions of the local NRD, to determine by what means those use or depletion objectives might be achieved; whether it be by allocation, retirements, interference agreements, or any other means.
In the case of the Platte River, Central believes the area where ground water uses are significantly adversely impacting basin-wide surface water uses is the North Platte NRD. This is not to say that ground water uses in other parts of the designated overappropriated area do not have any adverse impacts on surface water uses, but those impacts pale in comparison to the consequences of overuse in the North Platte NRD. Indeed, the adverse impacts caused by ground water uses in the North Platte NRD alone are so great that, had they never occurred, it is conceivable that other portions of the basin could perhaps only be fully appropriated rather than overappropriated.
Central believes that the basin-wide plan should be used to set basin-wide or state-wide policy regarding the balancing of competing water uses and make an effort to resolve conflicts already known to exist, as was part of the intent of the legislature in passing the Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act. Central believes that the basin-wide plan should identify an amount of allowable ground water use or an amount of allowable depletions to streamflow for the North Platte NRD, and that the allowable use or depletions should vary with variations in river flow (with greater uses or depletions allowed when river flows are at or above normal, and significantly reduced uses or depletions allowed when river flows are below normal), and that any remaining impacts to appropriators be otherwise mitigated or compensated. Central also believes that the rights of senior appropriators should be respected; ideally by preventing or reducing interference to those appropriations; or ultimately, to the extent that the State of Nebraska and the NRDs conclude that as a matter of policy it is best that water resources be reallocated from senior appropriators to junior ground water users, then those impacted appropriators should be appropriately compensated.
Unfortunately, this is not the approach that has been taken by the DNR and the NRDs. The basin-wide IMP as proposed does little more than restate existing statutes related to returning to 1997 conditions, to the point that one wonders what value the basin-wide IMP has at all. The plan does not give basin-wide or state-wide guidance on appropriate amounts of water use or depletions. There is nothing in the basin-wide IMP that attempts to resolve those conflicts between ground water users and surface water appropriators that are already known to exist. The basin-wide plan fails to respect the rights of senior appropriators.
Testimony of The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District Regarding the Draft Integrated Management Plan for the North Platte Natural Resources District
The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District’s facilities consist of Lake McConaughy, Supply Canal, and Irrigation System, along the North Platte and Platte Rivers downstream from the North Platte Natural Resources District. Central’s system and water supply provides numerous benefits, including: deliveries to over 100,000 acres of land that irrigate directly from Central’s system, located primarily in Gosper, Phelps, and Kearney Counties; irrigation storage water for an additional 100,000 acres on 11 other canal systems in Lincoln, Dawson, Keith, Garden, and Morrill Counties; hydropower generation at Central’s Kingsley, Jeffrey, Johnson No. 1 and Johnson No. 2 hydropower plants; hydropower generation or cooling water for Nebraska Public Power District’s North Platte Hydro, Gerald Gentleman Station, and Canaday Steam Plant; recreation at numerous reservoirs, including Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Jeffrey Lake, Midway Lake, Gallagher Canyon Reservoir, Plum Creek Canyon Reservoir, Johnson Lake, and Elwood Reservoir; aquifer recharge in accordance with underground storage appropriations to more than 1,000,000 acres in Gosper, Phelps, Kearney, Lincoln, Dawson, and Frontier Counties; return flows to the Platte River; an Environmental Account for use for threatened and endangered species on the Platte River; flow contributions to the Republican River that provide a credit for Nebraska under the Republican River Compact; and wintertime open water for bald eagle feeding. Central operates in accordance with appropriations granted by the State of Nebraska, contracts with customers, and a hydropower license from the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Though Central has a number of direct-flow appropriations for irrigation and hydropower production, because of the very junior priority dates of those appropriations, storage water in Lake McConaughy is critical to Central’s operations and the many benefits just listed. Lake McConaughy relies almost exclusively on the marginal flows of the North Platte River; particularly that streamflow originating within the North Platte NRD as a result of the movement of water from the aquifer to the river and its tributaries. In the original case of Nebraska vs. Wyoming, consideration had been given to the question of whether or not a part of the water supply then in question should be assigned to downstream interests; with the Special Master ultimately determining that it would not be necessary for the specific reason that it was expected that downstream interests would be able to rely on these marginal flows of the North Platte River, and be able to store such flows in Lake McConaughy.
The proposed IMP fails to respect the rights of prior appropriators. With rare exception, hydrologically connected wells in the North Platte NRD, and their depletions to streamflow, are junior in time to most appropriations within and downstream from the North Platte NRD. The IMP should include goals, objectives, or actions that would protect the rights of senior appropriators. Through the IMP, the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources and the North Platte NRD should quantify impacts to senior appropriations, quantify amounts of use reasonably expected to avoid impacts to senior appropriations, manage well uses in a way that avoid or reduces impacts to senior appropriators, provide replacement water for impacts that are not avoided, enter into interference agreements with senior appropriations, or compensate senior appropriators for impacts to their water supply.
The proposed IMP fails to resolve conflicts between ground water uses and surface water appropriators. According to § 46-703 of the Nebraska Ground Water Management and Protection Act, it is the intent of the legislature that the DNR and NRDs identify and implement management solutions to such conflicts. In no other NRD in the Platte River basin is conflict between ground water and surface water uses more apparent than in the North Platte NRD. Surface water users on Pumpkin Creek are currently in litigation against well owners in that watershed for drying up that stream, and Central has raised similar complaints about the impacts of those wells as part of those proceedings. Central has previously brought a complaint against hydrologically connected wells located upstream from Lake McConaughy. Streams, ponds, and wetlands within the North Platte NRD are drying up. The many downstream uses that are being hurt by North Platte NRD streamflow depletions have been described earlier in this testimony. Notwithstanding all of this, the draft IMP does not identify any management activities that would resolve these conflicts. The draft IMP does contain some reference near the end to a process in the Basin-Wide IMP whereby aggrieved parties can supposedly bring a complaint and have the conflict addressed through changes to the IMP; but since the conflicts within the North Platte NRD are already well known and yet are not addressed, it seems questionable to expect that those same conflicts raised again in the future will be given any different treatment, which is no treatment at all.
The proposed IMP significantly underestimates streamflow depletions caused by wells in the North Platte NRD. The IMP uses results from certain Cooperative Hydrology Study models for estimates of streamflow depletions. COHYST is a major, collaborative, multi-year effort to improve our understanding of Platte River basin hydrology in Nebraska. Central supports this effort, and is one of the many COHYST Sponsors. However, the current COHYST models are known to have a number of limitations or other problems that make it inappropriate for them to be used for estimating streamflow depletions at this time. Problems with these models include such things as not including any impacts associated with supplemental or co-mingled wells, projecting depletions based only on average rather than variable water supplies and uses, reliance on a so-called “recharge bump” that artificially adds water to the system and masks the impacts of well development, and lacking a proper streamflow calibration. These problems are not new; they have been known to the COHYST members, including the North Platte NRD and the DNR, for quite some time. And the consequences of these model deficiencies are not insignificant. Indeed, when Central hired an outside modeling expert to incorporate changes into the models to address these same identified issues, the results were quite dramatic. The result was an estimate of depletions now at a rate in excess of 125,000 acre-feet per year, approximately four times greater than the approximately 32,000 acre-foot estimate reported by the Nebraska Association of Resources Districts in 2007 based on the COHYST models in their current flawed form. The obligation to use the best available science is not satisfied simply by using the newest models available, but requires also that deficiencies and limitations in those models be acknowledged and accommodated. The DNR and NRD should modify the COHYST models to address these issues before using the depletion estimates in the IMP; should adjust the model results to account for the known model deficiencies; or should adopt some other methodology instead of, or in addition to, the models for estimating depletions.
The proposed IMP overestimates offsets resulting from surface water retirements in the North Platte NRD. Under the draft IMP, there is a total and immediate offset credit given for discontinued use of surface water or co-mingled irrigation, such as may occur through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, the Environmental Quality Incentive Program, the Agricultural Water Resources Enhancement Program, or the Platt Basin Habitat Enhancement Program. Such a crediting for these reduced surface water uses is completely inappropriate. First of all, it is improper to assume that all retired surface water uses would have had a full supply of water to begin with, because many surface water users could have a limited available supply from natural flow or storage water from time to time. Indeed, water-short irrigators are among those most likely to sign up for such irrigation-idling programs, and there certainly is no logic at all in assuming a one-hundred percent surface water use for those lands that have seen the need to install a supplemental or co-mingled well. Additionally, it is simply not true that the forgone surface water use, whatever amount it may be, will just remain in the river to serve as an offset for some other depletion. More likely, the unused water will instead be used by remaining irrigators of the same irrigation canal, be diverted by the next water-short appropriator in order of priority, or retained in upstream storage for use at some future date. Any offset credits for surface water retirements should be limited to those appropriations that actually go through a transfer in accordance with surface water statutes, or that amount of water that the DNR can actually determine to be in the river at the appropriate time and location after adjusting for actual available supply and ultimate disposition of the unused water.
The IMP improperly focuses on averages in the estimation of depletions and offsets; failing to take into consideration hydrologic variations from season-to-season and year-to-year. Timing of water availability is critically important in the Platte River. Water supplies in the Platte River system are highly variable. The amount of water used by wells, and consequently depleted from the stream, goes up and down in relation to supply. In other words, as growing-season precipitation or surface water supplies available for North Platte NRD water users decrease, the amount of well pumping and depletions to streamflow increase. Likewise, as precipitation or surface water supplies decrease, the harm caused to other users by streamflow depletions is increased. Unfortunately, the IMP only estimates depletions, and therefore only identifies a need for offsets, in terms of annual averages. The consequence is that in times of shortage, such as the current drought, the estimated average streamflow depletion is greatly understating the amount of depletion that is actually occuring, and if only the average offset is provided, there would exist in reality a significant actual depletion that is not being offset. Conversely, when there is plenty of water available in the system, the actual depletion and the need for offset may be less than the average estimate. However, providing the additional offset during this time of plenty very likely does not make up for under-offsetting during the drier times, as the users injured during the dry times may be different from, or have little need for, the additional offset at that time. Another problem with the use of the depletion and offset estimates is that they are annual. Just as water supplies and demands vary from year to year, so it is also true that they vary from season to season. Streamflow in the irrigation season most often goes first to satisfy irrigation before other demands, whereas streamflow in the non-irrigation season most often goes first to satisfy demands for storage and power generation. Depletions and offsets in the irrigation season and non-irrigation season have different consequences to different appropriations, and a contribution of flow in one season does not necessarily suffice to offset for a depletion in another. Nontheless, the IMP contains no seasonal breakdown of the depletion and offset estimates. The IMP should provide variable estimates for depletions and offsets, according to variations in hydrologic conditions and time of year, instead of just estimates based on annual averages.
The proposed IMP fails to recognize and appropriately manage for variability in the water supply. When water supplies run short, most water uses are curtailed. As mentioned previously, water supplies in the Platte River system are highly variable, with times of plenty and times of shortage. In times of shortage, surface water uses are reduced in conjunction with reductions in supply. For example, in the current drought, Central’s total hydropower production has been reduced by 57 percent, with discretionary releases of storage water for hydropower production having been eliminated altogether; Central’s irrigators have had their delivery allocation cut by at least 53 percent for the last 5 years, and by 63 percent in 3 of the last 5 years; Central has ceased use of Elwood Reservoir; and Central has reduced the amount of water made available to other irrigation districts. Also during this time, recreational users have had to endure lower water levels at Lake McConaughy and several other reservoirs, contributions to the Environmental Account have been reduced, and recharge in the Tri-Basin NRD and flow contributions to the Republican River basin have been diminished. By contrast, during times of shortage, such as the current drought, the amount of water used by wells in the North Platte NRD increases substantially; right at the time when the water supply, and other users are dependent on that same water supply, can least afford for that increase to occur. It may be that a 14-inch allocation, such as that contained in the draft IMP, is suitable when there is ample water in the Platte River system; but this use should be significantly curtailed, perhaps by as much as fifty percent, when North Platte River flows are below normal. And it should not be assumed that the system would not respond in time for such a reduction to provide substantive streamflow benefits. Modeling results using the modified models, as described earlier, show that a substantial reduction in streamflow depletions occurs in as little as five years from the onset of reduced pumping. Because most droughts often continue for several years; and because Lake McConaughy and other reservoirs have the ability to sustain downstream users for the first several years of a drought; restrictions on well pumping within the North Platte NRD at the onset of a drought will reduce streamflow depletions within time to be of benefit to the water-short system. The IMP should contain mechanisms designed to reduce well water use during times of shortage, such as reducing by half the allocation or that number of irrigated acres at times when North Platte River flows drop below 800,000 acre-feet per year.
Along with this testimony, Central also submits the following items:
Exhibit 1; “Analysis of Depletions to the North Platte River”, 2009, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC; giving results of water budget and groundwater modeling analyses; describing adjustments made to the COHYST models to address previously identified issues with those models; estimating streamflow depletions caused by wells in the North Platte NRD; and also estimating reductions in streamflow depletions that can be achieved through reductions in pumping.
Exhibit 2; “Water Rights Audit”, 2008, by The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District; summarizing Central’s appropriations for storage, irrigation, power production, underground storage, and the Environmental Account.
Exhibit 3; “A Report of Preliminary Findings from A Study of Hydrologically Connected Ground and Surface Water and its Contribution to Conflicts between Ground Water Users and Surface Water Appropriators in the North Platte Natural Resources District”, 2004, by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources.
Exhibit 4; “Ground Water and Surface Water A Single Resource”, 1998, by the United State Geological Survey.
Exhibit 5; “An Analysis of the 14-Inch Ground Water Allocation in the Pumpkin Creek Basin”, 2008, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC.
Exhibit 6; “Evaluation of the Pumpkin Creek Ground Water Allocation by the North Platte NRD”, 2008, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC.
Exhibit 7; “Adverse Effects of Pumpkin Creek Groundwater Pumping on Central District Water Uses”, 2009, by Michael Drain; report prepared for use in the case of Spear T Ranch, Inc. versus Melvin G. Knaub, et. al.; the adverse effects described in the report as caused by pumping in the Pumpkin Creek basin are likewise caused by stream depletions throughout the North Platte NRD.
Exhibit 8; “Expert Disclosures in Spear T Ranch, Inc. Versus Melvin G. Knaub, Et. Al. Case No. CI03-16”, 2009, by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC.
Exhibit 9; “Streamflow Declines Caused by Groundwater Development in Pumpkin Creek Basin”, 2002, by Michael Drain.
Exhibit 10; A 2009 letter from Lytle Water Solutions, LLC describing known issues regarding the COHYST models and evaluating the assumption in the draft IMP that surface-water and co-mingled retirements result in a 100 percent and instantaneous offset to streamflow depletions.
Exhibit 11; Various documents referenced by the 2009 letter from Lytle Water Solutions, LLC
Analysis of Depletions to the North Platte River prepared by Lytle Water Solutions, LLC
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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
Note: The following information was provided to The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources
FACT SHEET from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Farm Service Agency
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the State of Nebraska launched a $158 million Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) agreement for the Platte-Republican Resources Area. The Platte-Republican CREP will reduce irrigation water use, improve water quality, and enhance wildlife habitat through establishment of vegetative cover. Saving water will also replenish streams, rivers and reservoirs, and enhance wildlife.
CREP uses federal and state resources to safeguard environmentally sensitive land through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Land enrolled in CRP is planted primarily to grasses and trees to improve water and soil quality and wildlife habitat. CRP was authorized by the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended. CREP provides rental payments and other financial incentives to encourage producers to enroll voluntarily in 10- to 15-year CRP contracts.
The Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP will significantly reduce the consumptive use of water for irrigation and the amount of agricultural chemicals and sediment entering waters of the state from agricultural lands and transportation corridors. The reduction of ground and surface water use and of non-point source contaminants, through establishment of permanent vegetative cover, will also enhance associated wildlife habitat, both terrestrial and aquatic.
The goals of the Platte-Republican CREP are to:
• Reduce the application of water for cropland irrigation in the priority area by 125,000 acre-feet annually from current irrigated usage levels.
• Increase surface and ground-water retention by a target amount of 85,000 acre-feet of water annually within priority area reservoirs, groundwater tables and streams.
• Provide up to 15,000 additional acres of conservation buffers and restored wetlands.
• Reduce the application of commonly used triazine products on crops by approximately 93,000 pounds annually.
• Reduce leaching of nitrate compounds into project area streams and groundwater by 5,900,000 pounds annually.
• Reduce the agricultural application of phosphate products by farmers by approximately 2,440,000 pounds annually, when fully enrolled, from existing application rates in the priority area.
• Assist community public water supplies (surface and groundwater) by reducing nitrogen and phosphorus levels from agricultural activities.
• Provide educational assistance to project priority area irrigators to develop a more efficient use of applied water, nutrients, and herbicides.
• Provide up to 85,000 additional acres of native grassland habitat for wildlife in the priority area, increasing the populations of pheasants and other ground nesting birds by 25 percent in the area.
• Reduce the total consumption of fossil fuels for irrigation by 350,000 gallons and electricity use by 10 million kilowatt hours.
The expected combined federal and state obligation is approximately $158 million for optional 10- to 15-year contracts with $122 million coming from FSA and $36 million from Nebraska. This does not include any costs that may be borne by producers.
Eligible Areas and Eligibility Requirements
The project area includes the Platte and Republican Rivers and their tributaries in southern and western Nebraska. Producers who are located in the project area and meet the eligibility requirements identified for the Nebraska CREP may be eligible. To find out if your operation is located within the project area, contact your local FSA office.
To be eligible for CREP, the applicant must also satisfy the basic eligibility criteria for CRP.
Irrigated and non-irrigated cropland may be eligible for enrollment. For irrigated cropland to be eligible it must meet land eligibility requirements:
• Cropland that has been cropped 4 out of the 6 years, in 1996-2001.
• Cropland that is physically and legally capable of being planted in a normal manner to an agricultural commodity and capable of being irrigated when offered for enrollment.
• A Nebraska State Water Use Contract is entered into between the producer and the State of Nebraska covering the irrigated cropland acres.
For non-irrigated (dryland) cropland to be eligible for enrollment, the land must meet the above eligibility requirements and be a center-pivot corner enrolled with the adjacent irrigated center-pivot cropland area.
Approved Conservation Practices
The following conservation practices may be eligible for land enrolled into the Nebraska Platte-Republican CREP:
• CP2 – Establishment of Permanent Native Grasses;
• CP4D – Permanent Wildlife Habitat;
• CP21 – Filter Strips;
• CP22 – Riparian Buffer;
• CP23 – Wetland Restoration;
• CP23A – Wetland Restoration, Non-Floodplain;
• CP25 – Rare and Declining Habitat.
Acreage Limitations
For the Platte-Republican CREP, enrollment is permitted for up to 100,000 acres of eligible cropland. Cropland and conservation practice limitations are:
• CP2, CP4D, and CP25: up to 85,000 acres;
• CP21 and CP22: up to 10,000 acres;
• CP23 and CP23A: up to 5,000 acres.
For the Republican River Basin Area, up to 50,000 acres may be enrolled.
For the Platte River Basin Area, up to 50,000 acres may be enrolled as follows:
• Up to 40,000 acres may be enrolled in the designated area below lake McConaughy.
• Up to 10,000 acres may be enrolled in the designated area above Lake McConaughy.
For the Platte River Basin Area, the 10,000 acres are further divided as:
• Up to 5,000 acres, served solely by groundwater wells, may be enrolled.
• Up to 5,000 acres, served by either groundwater wells and/or surface water allocation, may be enrolled.
Sign-up and Contract Duration
Sign-up for the CREP will be announced later by the state and will continue until enrollment goals are attained, or through Dec. 31, 2007, whichever comes first. Land enrolled in the program remains under contract for a period of 10 to 15 years, as specified in the contract.
Applicants must generally have owned or operated the land for at least 12 months prior to enrollment. Persons with an existing CRP contract or an approved offer with a contract pending are ineligible for CREP until that contract expires.
CREP Payments
Nebraska CREP participants may be eligible for the following payments from USDA:
• Annual rental payments based on irrigated rental rates for each eligible enrolled irrigated acre in which a State Water Use Contract has already been secured.
• Annual rental payments based on dryland cropland rental rates for each eligible enrolled dryland crop acre.
• Cost-share payments for 50 percent of the eligible reimbursable costs for establishment of approved conservation practices.
• A one-time Signing Incentive Payment of $10 for each eligible acre enrolled for each full year of the contract for practices CP21 and CP22. For example, 10-year CRP contract would receive $100/ acre payment.
• A one-time Practice Incentive Payment equal to 40 percent of the total eligible cost of practice installation for practices CP21 and CP22.
• A one-time incentive payment equal to 25 percent of the cost of restoring the hydrology of the site for practices CP23 and CP23A.
CREP and CRP
CREP is not the only option that farmers may select to enhance their land; applicants may still enroll in the general CRP or continuous CRP. However, CREP provides additional benefits not available through the general and/or continuous CRP.
For more information on the Nebraska CREP, contact your local FSA office. Additional information is also available on FSA’s Web site at: www.fsa.usda.gov.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Farm Service Agency
1. What is the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program?
The Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) is a Federal-State natural resource conservation program that addresses State and nationally significant agricultural-related environmental problems. Under CREP, program participants receive financial incentives from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to voluntarily enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in contracts of 10 to 15 years. Participants remove cropland and marginal pastureland from agricultural production and convert the land to native grasses, trees and other vegetation. CRP is authorized by the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended.
2. What is the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP?
The Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP will help farmers conserve water quantity of the designated rivers and streams, reduce the consumptive use of surface and subsurface irrigation water, and enhance water quality and wildlife habitat by establishing permanent vegetative cover to reduce agricultural chemical and sediment runoff.
3. What are the potential benefits of the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP?
The Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP will significantly reduce the amount of consumptive water use for irrigation and the amount of agricultural chemicals and sediment entering the state’s waters. The reduction of ground and surface water use and of non-point source contaminants, through establishment of permanent vegetative cover, will also enhance associated wildlife habitat, both terrestrial and aquatic.
4. What are the goals?
The goals of the Nebraska Platte- Republican Resources Area CREP are to:
• Increase surface and ground- water retention by a target amount of 85,000 acre-feet of water annually within priority area reservoirs, groundwater tables and streams.
• Provide up to 85,000 additional acres of native grassland habitat for wildlife in the priority area, increasing the populations of pheasants and other ground-nesting birds by 25 percent in the area.
• Reduce the application of triazine products by approximately 93,000 pounds annually.
• Reduce the application of phosphate products by approximately 2,440,000 pounds annually.
• Protect community public water supplies (surface and groundwater) by reducing nitrogen and phosphorus levels from agricultural activities.
5. What are eligible areas and land eligibility requirements?
Landowners can offer for enrollment in CREP eligible cropland adjacent to waterways within the Platte-Republican Resources Area.
To be eligible, cropland must meet cropping history criteria and be physically and legally capable of being cropped in a normal manner.
Persons who have acreage under an existing CRP contract or an approved offer with a contract pending are ineligible for CREP on that acreage until that contract expires. Other requirements will also apply. Interested producers should contact their local FSA county office for specific information regarding their eligibility for CREP.
With regard to the Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP, irrigated and non-irrigated land may be eligible for enrollment. For irrigated land to be eligible, it must be:
• Irrigated cropland that has been cropped (a minimum of ½ acre foot/year) 4 out of the 6 years, 1996-2001;
• Irrigated cropland that is physically and legally capable of being irrigated in a normal manner when offered for enrollment; and
• A Nebraska State Water Use Contract is entered into between the producer and the State of Nebraska covering the irrigated cropland acres. USDA does not control, regulate or impact water rights.
For non-irrigated (dryland) cropland to be eligible for enrollment, the land must be a center-pivot corner enrolled with the adjacent irrigated center-pivot cropland area.
To find out if your operation is located within the project area, contact your local FSA office.
6. When is the sign-up and how long does land remain under contract?
Sign-up for the CREP will begin April 4, 2005, and will continue until enrollment goals are met, or through December 31, 2007, whichever comes first.
Land enrolled in the program remains under contract for a period of 10 to 15 years, as specified in the contract.
7. What conservation measures are approved for the CREP?
To better serve program goals, the following CRP conservation practices are approved for the Nebraska Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP:
• CP2 – Establishment of Permanent Native Grasses
• CP4D – Permanent Wildlife Habitat
• CP21 – Filter Strips
• CP22 – Riparian Buffer
• CP23 – Wetland Restoration
• CP23A – Wetland Restoration, Non-Floodplain
• CP25 – Rare and Declining Habitat
8. What payments is FSA offering?
Subject to contract terms and certain limitations, Platte-Republican Resources Area CREP participants will be eligible for the following types of FSA payments:
• Annual rental payments based on irrigated rental rates for each eligible enrolled irrigated acre in which a State Water Use Contract has been secured.
• A one-time Signing Incentive Payment of $10 for each eligible acre enrolled for each full year of the contract for practices CP21 and CP22. A 10-year contract would receive $100 per acre.
9. What is the cost of the program?
The total cost over a 15-year period is estimated at $158 million, with FSA contributing $122 million and the Nebraska and local partners funding $36 million. The $158 million does not include any costs that may be assumed by producers.
10. Can I still enroll in general CRP and continuous sign-up CRP?
Yes. CREP is another option under CRP that farmers may select to enhance their land; applicants may still enroll eligible land in the general CRP or continuous sign-up CRP. However, CREP provides additional benefits not available through the general and/or continuous sign-up. For instance, CREP payments are at a higher effective rate.
11. Can I hay or graze my CREP land?
Haying and grazing are not permitted during the CRP contract period unless FSA allows them for emergency or managed haying and grazing purposes, if applicable, under normal CRP rules.
12. The Nebraska Platte-Republican CREP encompasses what areas?
Seven Natural Resource Districts and portions of two river basins with a portion of the following 22 counties: Buffalo, Franklin, Gosper, Kearney, Nuckolls, Sioux, Chase, Frontier, Harlan, Keith, Phelps, Webster, Dawson, Furnas, Hayes, Lincoln, Red Willow, Dundy, Garden, Hitchcock, Morrill, and Scotts Bluff.
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[toggle_item title=”Cooperative Programs for Water Management” active=”true”]Man can do little to alter the water cycle — that endless process of precipitation, evaporation, and condensation — so our primary supply of available water is firmly more or less fixed. But we can manage and conserve water as it becomes available.
Water’s value is well understood in Nebraska, as are the consequences of inadequate supplies. Since agriculture in Nebraska requires a large amount of water, several Chlorophyll meteragencies with water management responsibilities have developed programs and services to help improve the efficiency with which our water resources are utilized.
The following are some of the programs and services available to agricultural water users in the Central District’s area designed to help protect and extend our water supply.
• The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District
• Tri-Basin Natural Resources District
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative Extension
• U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
On-Farm Demonstrations:
• Irrigation management – When and how much water to apply; determining the amount of water stored in the soil.
• Nutrient management – Use of chlorophyll meters, fertigation, and split applications of nutrients.
• Quality of runoff water – Analysis of runoff water for the presence of pesticides and nutrients.
Irrigation Scheduling:
• Weather stations gathering data on water use by agricultural crops and lawns.Low-pressure sprinkler
• Water use broadcasts on area television stations and crop water use hotline (308) 995-8581.
Irrigation Well and Gated Pipe Measurements with Ultrasonic Flow Meters:
• Determine flow rates through gated pipe and system losses from leaky gates and gaskets.
Irrigation System Evaluations:
• Delivery systems.
• Center pivot evaluations.
Educational Services:
• Nitrogen certification program.Ultrasonic flow meter
• Pesticide certification program.
• Demonstration site field days.
• “Water Jamboree” for school children.
• “Conservation Days” for area 7th and 8th grade students.
Center Pivot Chemigation Inspections:
Agency Support —
• Irrigation inventory of irrigated acres, types of systems, number of pivots, surge valves, reuse pits, wells, etc., in Kearney, Phelps and Gosper Counties.
• Area agronomists/crop consultants serve as a source of information for local agencies to develop and analyze trends, budgets, and cost-share needs.
Financial Assistance for Irrigation Conservation Practices provided through:
• Tri-Basin Natural Resources District’s Nebraska Soil & Water Conservation Program.Pivot pump site
• Farm Service Agency’s Agricultural Conservation Program.
• Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Great Plains Conservation Program.
• The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District’s Conservation Policies.
Partial funding for these services provided by:
• Clean Water Act — Environmental Protection Agency 319 Grant.
• Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund Grant.
• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Challenge Grant.
For more information about Cooperative Water Management Programs in the Central District’s area, contact any of the above agencies or CNPPID Conservation Director Marcia Trompke at (308) 995-8601.
Notice to Central District Employees
The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District’s Group Health Plan, Flexible Spending Plan and Medicare Supplement Plan
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW PROTECTED MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT EMPLOYEES MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW EMPLOYEES CAN GAIN ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
1. The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District’s Group Health Plan, Flexible Spending Plan and Medicare Supplement Plan (Central District’s Group Health Plans) is permitted to make uses and disclosures of protected health information for treatment, payment and health care operations, as described in the following examples:
a. For treatment – Authorization for treatments not specifically covered in the Hospital/Medical and Dental Benefit Plan.
b. For payment – Claim status assistance.
c. For health care operations – Eligibility or Enrollment/Termination Purposes.
2. The Central District’s Group Health Plans are permitted or required, under specific circumstances, to use or disclose protected health information without the individual’s written authorization. If a use or disclosure for any purpose prescribed in the Privacy Regulation is prohibited or materially limited by other applicable State law, the description of such use or disclosure must reflect the more stringent law.
3. Other uses and disclosures will be made only with the Individual’s written authorization, and the individual may revoke such authorization.
4. The Central District’s Group Health Plans may disclose protected health information to the sponsor of the Plan.
5. The Individual has the following rights regarding protected health information:
a. The right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of protected health information. The Central District’s Group Health Plans are not required to agree to a requested restriction, however.
b. The right to receive confidential communications of protected health information, as applicable.
c. The right to inspect and copy protected health information, as provided in the Privacy Regulation.
d. The right to amend protected health information, as provided in the Privacy Regulation.
e. The right to receive an accounting of disclosures of protected health information.
f. The right to obtain a paper copy of the Notice from the covered entity upon request. This right extends to an individual who has agreed to receive the Notice electronically.
6. The Central District’s Group Health Plans are required by law to maintain the privacy of protected health information and to provide individuals with notice of its legal duties and Privacy practices with respect to protected health information.
7. The Central District’s Group Health Plans are required to abide by the terms of the Notice currently in effect.
8. The Central District’s Group Health Plans reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice. The new Notice provisions will be effective for all protected health information that it maintains.
9. The Central District’s Group Health Plans will provide individuals with a revised Notice by posting it on the Web site and making copies available via interoffice mail.
10. Individuals may complain to the Central District’s Group Health Plans and to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, without fear of retaliation by the organization, if they believe their privacy rights have been violated. A brief description of how the individual may file a complaint follows:
When a privacy violation is discovered, an individual must file a written report with the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District’s complaint officer. A report form can be obtained by contacting the complaint officer. The report, and any action taken, will be documented and appropriately filed with the privacy manual.
11. The Central District’s Group Health Plans’ contact person for matters relating to complaints is:
Assistant Controller
415 Lincoln Street
12. This Notice is first in effect on April 14, 2004.
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Honesty is the Best Policy: FCC Imposes $1.7 Million Fine for Submitting Misleading Information in Inmate Calling Services Deal
By Steve Augustino & Bradford Currier on November 1, 2017
Posted in Enforcement, Investigations & Audits, Federal & State Regulatory
Stressing the importance of receiving truthful and accurate information, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) reached a $1.7 million settlement with inmate calling services provider Securus Technologies, Inc. and related entities (“Securus”) to resolve allegations that Securus submitted misleading information to the FCC in support of a pending transfer of control. Although the settlement cleared the way for the transfer’s approval, the FCC held up the deal for months while it investigated statements made by Securus representatives. As a result, the FCC’s action supports the adage that “haste often makes waste” in telecommunications-related deals and that submitting misleading information to the FCC can come with significant consequences.
NTIA Suggests Steps to Expedite Executive Review of Applications for Section 214 and Submarine Cable Act Authority; FCC Seeks Comment
By Chip Yorkgitis & Denise Smith on May 15, 2016
Posted in Federal & State Regulatory, International Markets & Team Telecom
The “Team Telecom” review process of applications involving foreign ownership has long endured a reputation for excessive length and opacity. It appears change may be on the horizon. The National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) filed a letter (NTIA Letter) on May 10, 2016 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) requesting the Commission require applicants for certain authorizations, including international 214 authorizations and transfers, section 310 license ownership rulings, submarine cable landing licenses and satellite earth station authorizations, submit additional information and certifications with their applications. NTIA asserts that submitting this information and certifications upfront will streamline the Executive Branch agency review process. Today, those reviews are undertaken by the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Defense, Commerce, State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and United States Trade Representative (Team Telecom).
In response to the NTIA Letter, the Commission released a Public Notice late last week seeking comments on NTIA’s request. The Commission suggested that any comments received would inform the Commission’s planned formal rulemaking proceeding. The FCC seeks comments on or before Monday, May 23, 2016.
O’Rielly Paints Team Telecom As an “Inextricable Black Hole” for Applicants, but Will His Call for Reform Fare Better?
By Chip Yorkgitis & Denise Smith on October 5, 2015
On October 1, Chairman Wheeler announced that he has circulated a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking among his fellow Commissioners that would seek comment on simplifying the FCC’s foreign ownership approval process for broadcast licensees “by extending the streamlining rules and procedures that currently apply to other classes of licensees to broadcast licensees.” Certainly, the broadcasting community would welcome an updating of the filing and approval process to allow FCC review of applications to proceed on a more streamlined basis. But, unfortunately, FCC review is only part of the story when there is foreign ownership, and it is quite often the smaller part for many FCC authorization holders, which frustrates, at the end of the day, the Chairman’s goal of better adapting the filing and review process to the current business environment.
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2015 FNB JOBURG ART FAIR
Khanyisile Mbongwa
Cape Town based Khanyisile Mbongwa is an award winning performance and installation artist and curator. She uses movement, poetry, sculpture and collaborative photography to unpack issues around the identity of place, gender and racial politics. Her series of photographs, Strange Fruit (2015) interrogate the legacy of lynching and how black bodies in contemporary culture continue to be institutionally lynched. By putting her body in front of the lens she re- enacts and moves to the words of Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit.
Uminkelo Oshusuwe (The Burnt Offering) 8 (2014) is one from a series of ten works. Having been brought up surrounded by biblical and religious imagery, religion instinctively became integral to Mbongwa’s practice. However, the Christian religion has historically rejected the black body (the Story of Cush) and doubly so for the black female body. Further to this, in biblical terms, the ritual of ‘offerings’ can also only be performed by men. Yet black women still describe themselves in the image of Christ even if racism and sexism denies them that right. For missionaries, women were key to converting other cultures to ‘civilized’ Christian societies. Uminkelo Oshusuwe (The Burnt Offering) stems from Mbongwa’s fraught relationship with religion and attempts to unpack these dualistic ideologies.
In 2006 Khanyisile Mbongwa was amongst the founding members of Gugulective. She has since exhibited and performed in and around Cape Town and Johannesburg, in Berlin, Spain, Pakistan, Scotland, Hamburg, New York, Switzerland and Sri Lanka. In 2014 she interned at GIPCA under the supervision of Jay Pather, curated the PreLIFE talks and assisted with the general running of Life Art Festival. In 2014 she won the Africa Centre - Artist In Residency Laureate and took up residency at JIWAR in Spain in 2015. Mbongwa was the Special Guest at Liste Art Fair Basel 2015.
As part of Cape Town Art Week, Mbongwa curated a collaborative performance piece titled ‘My Body Is Not An Apology’ with Buhlebezwe Siwani and Thando Doni. In 2013, she curated ‘Demonstrations: Performing Being Black’ at Brundyn+ Gallery, a two part exhibition that focused on photography, installation pieces and performances in township public spaces. In 2012, together with the late Unathi Sigenu, she won the MTN New Contemporary Artist Award. In 2010 she had a solo experimental exhibition at Blank Project Space entitled ‘Ndizakuyivula Ibhayibile’
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Feature | Stents | February 22, 2019| Dave Fornell, Editor
FDA Clears Biotronik Orsiro Stent That Outperforms Xience
Two-year results show superiority over the Xience stent with lower clinical event rates
A comparison of stent strut thickness between the Orsiro stent, pictured, and the market-leading stents on the U.S. and European markets. Vendors have been working toward reducing strut thickness to help improve overall clinical outcomes. Orsiro is now the smallest strut stent available on the market.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Biotronik Orsiro drug-eluting coronary stent (DES) system. Orsiro is the first ultrathin, bioresorbable polymer-coated DES to outperform the current clinical standard Abbott Xience DES. The U.S. FDA cleared the stent in February 2019.
February 22, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Biotronik Orsiro drug-eluting stent (DES) system. Orsiro is the first ultrathin, bioresorbable polymer-coated DES to outperform the current clinical standard Abbott Xience DES.[1]
"This was the first time that an alternative drug-eluting stent demonstrated superiority to the Xience stent," said David Kandzari, M.D., Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta. He served as the U.S. principal investigator in the stent's BIOFLOW-V FDA pivotal trial. "Orsiro has set a new standard for safety and efficacy clinical endpoints, including statistically lower target lesion revascularization and target vessel myocardial infarction (MI) rates. BIOFLOW-V data are the best clinical outcomes witnessed with modern DES. It was largely thought that efficacy findings were unsurpassable, but Orsiro proves we can further reduce event rates with meaningful innovation."
Kandzari said the stent showed superiority in the composite endpoints in the BIOFLOW-V Trial. He said Orsiro had excellent clinical performance, demonstrating significantly lower rates for target lesion failure (TLF) and target vessel myocardial infarction (MI) at 12 months in comparison to Xience in a large, complex patient population (n=1,344). At two years, treatment with Orsiro further improved event rates in comparison to Xience, including a significant reduction in target lesion revascularization (TLR) and spontaneous MI.
Points of Difference With the Orsiro Stent
The cobalt chromium metal stent uses a bio-absorbable drug-carrier polymer coating. This dissolves after the vessel wall heals and it finishes elution of its sirolimus antiproliferative drug, turning the Orsiro into a bare metal stent after it has had time to endothelialize and become part of the vessel wall. This technology may help reduce the need for long-term dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), which has been a request cardiologists have asked for in next-generation stent technologies.
The Orsiro stent also has the thinnest struts of any DES on the U.S. market at 60 microns. By comparison, the Xience is 81 microns, Boston Scientific's Synergy is 74 microns and the Medtronic Resolute Onyx is 81 microns. Vendors have been steadily working toward thinner devices to prevent blood flow disruption inside the vessel, while at the same time maintaining radial strength and preventing strut fractures.
"There is an emerging body of evidence that would support a lower incidence of myocardial infarction and stent thrombosis events with an ultrasound-thin strut stent. These findings are supported in the BIOFLOW-V Trial with a large body of evidence," Kandzari explained.
Two-year Results Show Superiority to Xience
The two-year results from the BIOFLOW-V Trial were presented at the 2018 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference last fall and published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.[2] Data show a 37 percent lower TLF rate in favor of Orsiro (7.5 vs. 11.9 percent TLF rate, p-value=0.015), a 47 percent lower ischemia-driven TLR rate, and a 70 percent lower rate of spontaneous MI (landmark analysis 31 days to two years follow-up).
"There was a significant reduction in target vessel revascularization favoring the Orsiro stent and a statistically significant — and clinically meaningful — reduction in the occurrence of late and very late stent thrombosis," Kandzari said.
He explained the two-year data also suggests a lower incidence of very late stent thrombosis events, which Kandzari said is an issue with the current generation of DES. This will be a key area monitored in subsequent follow-up of patients with the Orsiro stent.
Watch a VIDEO interview with Dr. Kandzari about this stent.
Orsiro Stent Details, Specifications
The stent is indicated for use in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. The cobalt chromium metal stent elutes the antiproliferative drug sirolimus via BIOlute, Biotronik's bioabsorbable poly-L-lactide (PLLA) polymer coating. Beneath the bioabsorbable layer is the company's proBIO, a passive amorphous silicon carbide coating on the bare metal surface, designed to reduce nickel ion release. The company said the Orsiro stent system provides ultrathin stent struts without compromising radial strength, and a low crossing profile for easier lesion cross in complex PCI.
The Orsiro is available in 52 sizes, ranging from 2.25 to 4 mm in diameter. It comes in lengths up to 40 mm, the longest now available in the United States.
The strut thickness varies depending on the diameter of the stent. The 2.25 - 3 mm stents are 60 μm (0.0024 in). The 3.5 - 4 mm are 80 μm (0.0031 in).
Orsiro has an FDA indication for improving coronary luminal diameter in patients, including those with diabetes mellitus, with symptomatic heart disease, stable angina, unstable angina, non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, or documented silent ischemia due to atherosclerotic lesions in the native coronary arteries with a reference vessel diameter of 2.25 to 4 mm and lesion length of ≤ 36 mm.
Kandzari said operators who have used the stent extensively outside the U.S. have claimed it is one of the most deliverable stents they have used and it performs well in tortuous vessels.
Orsiro received European CE marking in 2011 and has been used to treat more than 1 million patients worldwide to date, Biotronik said. Orsiro is now commercially available in the U.S.
Overcoming Commoditization in the DES Market
Biotronik hopes the new stent's clinical data showing its outperformance compared to the current market standard-of-care Xience stent will enable the company to move beyond the current commoditization of stents.
Prior to the presentation of the Spirit IV Trial data for the Xience, there was fierce competition in the stent market based on the latest clinical data to show which vendor had built the device with the best clinical outcomes. However, stent technology improved to a point where adverse events only occur in a small number of patients, so to power a trial large enough to show superiority of any device would be extremely expensive. The current generation DES on the U.S. market, including Xience, have comparable outcomes within a couple percentage points of each other, so the market in recent years has become largely based around price rather than clinical data.
"We are realizing the best outcomes we have ever observed with drug-eluting stents on the market today, which is making it incrementally more difficult to demonstrate a potential difference, much less superiority. The introduction of the Xience was breakthrough in many ways in efficacy and safety measures. While it seems it would be difficult to supersed that, it appears that to date in the BIOFLOW-V trial, we have demonstrated superiority across both safety and efficacy measures," Kandzari explained.
"The FDA approval of Orsiro changes the dynamic of what had become a highly commoditized DES market," said Ryan Walters, president at Biotronik Inc. "We designed Orsiro for use even in challenging cases with features that make it unlike any other DES in the world. Hospital administrators now have available a DES that shows improved clinical event rates, and interventionalists can rely on Orsiro's deliverability to treat complex lesions and challenging subgroups to achieve unprecedented patient outcomes."
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1. Kandzari D et al. Ultrathin, bioresorbable polymer sirolimus-eluting stents versus thin, durable polymer everolimus-eluting stents in patients undergoing coronary revascularisation (BIOFLOW V): a randomised trial. The Lancet 390.10105 (2017): 843-1852.
2. David E. Kandzari, Jacques J. Koolen, Gheorghe Doros, et al. Ultrathin Bioresorbable Polymer Sirolimus-Eluting Stents Versus Thin Durable Polymer Everolimus-Eluting Stents. JACC. Volume 72, Issue 25, December 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.019
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Home / Visit Decorex International / NEWS / Cutting Edge Augmented Reality Technology At Decorex
Render for Run For The Hills’ Design Encounter room, designed for a stylish, environmentally-conscious, 5 year old
Decorex International unveils innovative augmented reality technology behind its boundarypushing installation Design Encounter.
Developed in collaboration with John Allsopp Studio, Central Saint Martins and Catalyst VR, in response to the challenge of creating a personalised experience for visitors of the show. It brings interiors to life using storytelling and AR.
The installation takes visitors through a series of interconnected rooms, created by six acclaimed interior designers, which they are invited to explore and react to by identifying items that they like.
The experience is made possible with the free and purpose-built Decorex Design Encounter app. By placing phone cameras directly in front of items visitors are able to access extra information on the designers, products and suppliers, while AR ‘likes’ allows them to log preferences.
All the while users are building a personality profile that will be translated into and revealed to them as an AR visual spectacle at the end of the journey. Images of this can then be shared on Instagram and other social channels.
John Allsopp, director of John Allsopp Studio:
“Fifteen years ago, social media brought us the concept of the up-vote, or ‘like’ - on screen. Decorex Design Encounter 2019 takes us into a new paradigm, from the flat screen into the three dimensions of the real world. This opens up possibilities for fusing bricks and mortar environments with digital tools for discovery, cataloguing, interactive communities and e-commerce - for the world of interiors and beyond.”
Design Encounter dining room concept by Zachary Pulman Design Studio which blurs the line between furniture and sculpture
Laura Loonstein, UK business development manager for Catalyst VR, comments on the use of AR within retail and marketing environments:
“Using AR on a product is like telling a story and enhancing it visually and interactively. It’s a digital narrative that creates depth, insight and enhances the brand experience in a playful, creative and innovative way.
AR is a blended marketing experience and an exciting opportunity to add interactivity within a retail environment. An example that’s already possible could be placing a light in an interior setting, customising it, and ordering it directly through the application. AR’s seamless integration with print or website advertising also makes it an appealing promotional tool; it is both fun and useful and stands out in a retail environment. Augmented treasure hunts for example can now happen as visitors walk through a space searching for image targets that trigger an AR experience. Or perhaps the AR in that same location could be a set of floating directions that help you navigate the space.
If it sounds Harry Potter-esque that’s because it’s exactly what it alludes to, the possibility of experiencing content in a way never seen before.”
What is augmented reality
Augmented Reality is an interactive experience of a real-world environment. It is a new way to relay information by applying a ‘digital layer’ including graphics, text and 3D animations to the real world, which is viewed through a mobile device or headset. You can make the already visible come alive, as if by magic, employing the latest visualisation technology and quite literally augmenting what you see.
Interior designers behind the room concepts
Among the selected design studios is Natalia Miyar Atelier, one of House & Garden’s Top 100 Interior Designers, which specialises in luxury residential projects worldwide. Joining it is Sam Todhunter Design, another of House & Garden’s prestigious Top 100, whose residential projects are recognised the world over for their fusion of luxurious eclecticism and glamorous twists on traditional design.
Sella Concept, a specialist in retail, hospitality and office interiors that has worked on spaces for clients including Google and Netflix also takes part, as does the multidisciplinary Run for the Hills – the creative design house whose interiors include musician Ellie Goulding’s home, Kricket White City and the new Tivoli cinema, bar and café in Bath.
Zachary Pulman Design Studio a specialist in leisure hospitality, including the emerging trend of socialising and boasts clients such as Nike, Puma and Swingers, will also design a space. Also, in the line-up is exciting new practice These White Walls, which has recently completed its first project, an elegant design for acclaimed chef Ollie Dabbous’ Mayfair restaurant, Hide.
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Pepper Spray Frequently Asked Questions
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Pepper Spray, Mace & Tear Gas
Purchase pepper spray and tear gas, by Pepper Shot™, Mace™ and Wildfire™ to protect yourself and your family. In addition to causing an attacker pain, self-defense sprays swell the mucous membranes, which makes breathing difficult, and swells the veins in the eyes, causing the eyes to close. These effects last 20-30 minutes and cause no permanent damage. Here you'll find the most commonly asked questions about defense sprays.
What is Pepper Spray?
Pepper Spray is an aerosol spray used for self-defense. Pepper Spray is a defense spray.
Pepper spray consists of a concentrated agent injected into a canister and dispersed, or sprayed, by aerosol.
The concentrated agent is Oleoresin Capsicum. Oleoresin Capsicum is extracted from chili peppers and is the chemical that gives peppers their hot quality. That is why it is called pepper spray. Also, Oleoresin Capsicum is known as “OC” for short. That is why pepper spray is commonly referred to as OC pepper spray.
What is Mace?
Just as many people mistakenly refer to tissue paper as “Kleenex” or refer to a photocopy as a “Xerox,” many people refer to defense sprays as “Mace.”
Mace is a brand name that carries a registered trademark owned by Mace Security International (MSI). MSI originally marketed a particular tear gas self defense spray. Today, Mace brand defense sprays either contain OC pepper, tear gas or both.
What is Tear Gas?
There are three major chemicals used as tear gases:
1. CS
2. CN
3. CR
The first two are CS and CN, short for orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile and chloroacetophenone, respectively.
A third, code named CR (dibenz(b,f)-1,4-oxazepin), has not come into civilian use.
Both CS and CN tear gas are synthesized chemicals known as lachrymators. A lachrymator is a substance that produces profuse tearing.
At standard temperature and pressure, these chemicals are actually white crystals with fairly low vapor pressures, not gasses, and they are not very soluble in water. In order to disperse them, they are suspended in a liquid carrier and aerosolized.
Pepper Spray vs. Tear Gas
Pepper spray is not tear gas. Tear gas is not pepper spray.
Pepper spray is a defense spray. Tear gas can be used as a defense spray.
Two important differences between pepper spray and tear gas are:
1. Tear gas is an irritant, and therefore its effectiveness relies mainly on pain compliance.
Pepper spray is an inflammatory agent. The response to contact with pepper spray is involuntary which makes pepper spray a very effective weapon against drug or alcohol impaired assailants or animals that may not respond to pain.
As Doug Lamb writes in “Tactical Use of Defense Sprays” - When a person is sprayed with OC pepper spray, two things happen instantly. First, the person’s eyes clamp shut, hard. Not only that, but if that person does manage to force his eyes open, the person still cannot see because the OC dilates the capillaries and causes temporary blindness. Second, an immediate fit of uncontrollable coughing doubles the person over because the OC causes instant inflammation of the breathing tissues, restricting all but life support breathing. An assailant who is sprayed with OC stops what he is doing and stops what he is thinking – period. This is true even for those who are drunk, on drugs, or psychotic.
2. Tear gas has a high level of toxicity. OC pepper spray is totally non-toxic.
We Recommend the Booklet “Tactical Use of Defense Sprays”.
The "Tactical Use of Defense Sprays", gives pointers on choosing a defense spray, how to carry it, how to shoot it, what to do about multiple assailants, date rape protection, using defense sprays against guns and knives, home tactical use and much, much more about the realities of protecting yourself with defense sprays. Written by nationally recognized self-defense expert Doug Lamb.
Are All Pepper Sprays the Same?
No, all pepper sprays are not the same.
Pepper sprays are rated in two ways: Percentage of Oleoresin Capsicum in the agent itself, and the “hotness” of the spray, which is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU’s).
The percentage of OC has nothing to do with the SHU rating, and vice versa.
One of the biggest misconceptions about pepper spray is that the higher the OC percentage, the hotter and more effective the spray. In most cases, this could not be further from the truth. The best, fastest incapacitating pepper sprays in the world are from 2% to 10% OC. The lighter the fluid, the faster is penetrates the membranes.
So, the percentage of OC is important, but even more important is the SHU rating, as the percentage has nothing to do with the actual SHU rating or “hotness” of the spray.
A pepper spray with 2,000,000 SHU’s is twice as hot as a pepper spray with 1,000,000 SHU’s.
By the way, 2,000,000 SHU’s is a substantial rating for an effective pepper spray.
The Physical Effects of Pepper Spray
Pepper Spray has four physiological effects that may be experienced:
1. Eyes – tearing, involuntary closing or complete closing due to dilation of the eye capillaries. Eyes will appear red/bloodshot for 30 to 60 minutes. People wearing eyeglasses or contact lenses will be equally affected.
2. Respiratory System – immediate inflammation, including swelling of the throat lining which can restrict the airway size. Respiratory functions return to normal within 10 to 45 minutes. The airway will be open enough to allow for sufficient oxygen flow for survival. Due to the reduced airway flow, the person will probably not receive enough oxygen to continue fighting or other sustained physical exertion. Temporary paralysis of the larynx. Uncontrollable coughing, retching, and gasping for air with a gagging sensation in the throat.
3. Effect on the skin: inflammation of the exposed skin with a burning sensation.
4. Effects on muscle coordination: pepper spray exposure may cause a person to lose balance due to the effe ct of pepper spray on vision.
How Can I Be Sure My Pepper Spray Will Work When I Need It?
You should get in the habit of testing your defense spray every 90 days. To do this first go outside and determine which direction the wind is blowing. Remember to always stand upwind from the direction you are spraying. Depress the firing mechanism for ½ second. This test should be performed upon purchase and every 90 days after that. Be aware that every time you test your spray you reduce the contents of the canister. If you are using a key chain model and you test regularly you will need to replace the unit every couple of years if you follow the recommended testing procedure above.
How Long Will My Pepper Spray Last?
Most pepper sprays have an expiration date stamped on the canister, usually 2 to 4 years from the time of manufacture.
Although the spray life is indefinite it does start to lose potency over time. Any use of the spray beyond the expiration date is highly inadvisable. We strongly advise you to replace your pepper spray long before the expiration date! That way you are always assured of the potency of the spray.
Take your old one to a safe place and target practice with it. Become familiar with how far it will spray, how to unlock it, etc. When practicing with your defensive spray, be aware of air movements and wind patterns and be very careful not to contaminate yourself.
How is Pepper Spray Made?
Pepper spray is derived from hot peppers. The oils are extracted from the hot peppers using a high-pressure process. This process leaves you with the active ingredient in pepper spray known as Oleoresin Capsicum, or “OC.” OC is a reddish-orange, oily liquid, insoluble in water. The pure pepper extract is then diluted with an inert ingredient that reduces the “hotness” of the extract to get it down to a usable level for pepper spray.
The History of Pepper Spray
Oleoresin capsicum spray was developed at the University of Georgia by Professor James H. Jenkins and Dr. Frank Hayes, D.V.M., in 1960. That formula under the brand name Halt Animal Repellent was first sold in 1963. Like tear gas, oleoresin capsicum (OC) is non-lethal and induces temporary incapacitation with no known long-term effects. In 1989 the Firearms Training Unit (FTU) of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, completed three years of intensive research on OC, following which the FBI authorized the use of OC for its special agents and SWAT teams. In addition, OC has proven effective against domestic and wild animals without endangering the animals or the environment. OC, in proper dispensing systems, has been successfully used to stop grizzly bear attacks in Alaska and pit bull dog attacks in California and Texas. The US Postal Service also issues OC to its letter carriers and animal control facilities also issue animal repellent to its officers to protect them from dog bites.
The History of Scoville Heat Units (SHU’s)
Scoville Heat Units (SHU's) is the measurement of the “hotness” of pepper.
All types of chili peppers, including green peppers, jalapeños, and habaneros, all contain an unusually powerful compound found in no other plant, an alkaloid called capsaicin.
Capsaicin is the horticultural term for the genus that chili peppers are classified. A single drop of tasteless and odorless capsaicin in 100,000 drops of water is very noticeable. In fact, capsaicin can be detected by humans at one part per million.
In 1912, pharmacologist Wilbur Scoville developed a standard for measuring the power of capsaicin: the Scoville Organaleptic Test.
Scoville measured exact weights of chili peppers and dissolved the capsaicin in alcohol. This solution was then diluted with sugar water until it was no longer detectable to the human palate. A panel of five taste testers would taste the solution and three of them had to agree before a value was assigned. If, for example, it took 1,000 parts of water to one part of capsaicin, it was said to have 1,000 Scoville Heat Units.
This method was useful for calculating the temperature of peppers used in many pharmaceutical products such has heat rubs. Today, high-performance liquid chromatography is used to measure the capsaicin content in peppers. It measures capsaicin levels in parts per million which is then converted to Scoville Heat Units (SHU’s). The pepper scale ranges from zero Scoville Heat Units for a bell pepper to 5,000 or so SHU’s for a jalapeño, to a whopping 200,000 to 300,000 SHU’s for a habanero. Pure capsaicin is 15,000,000 SHU’s.
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In the Overtuin
Dutch songs with music and English translation !
Dutch children's songs
Dutch folk songs
Dutch chansons
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Website Dutch pop, folk and children's songs
This unique website with translated Dutch children's songs, folk songs and chansons is a part of the Dutch website In de Overtuin.
In 2008 the first 80 Dutch children's songs were translated in English. In 2016-2018 also folk songs and pop songs were translated and more children's songs were added. Also information about meaning, age and origins was added to every song.
The website In de Overtuin includes three other domains (in Dutch):
• Over 500 Dutch children's songs:
www.kinderliedjes.overtuin.net
• Over 200 Dutch traditional folk songs:
www.volksliedjes.overtuin.net
• Over 3000 songtexts Dutch and English popular songs:
songteksten.overtuin.net
The section Dutch songs with English translation, was created by Rozemarijn van Leeuwen (the Netherlands).
Rozemarijn ('rosemary') has a master in Dutch language and literature. She worked over three years at the Dutch Folk Songs Archive (project Dutch Song Database) at the Meertens Research Institute (KNAW), Amsterdam.
The other creator of In the Overtuin and responsible for the content is Marijke, who is a teacher for the primary school. She got her musical education from the famous musical pedagogue Renske Nieweg.
For questions about Dutch songs from Holland
mail to: berichtje[at]rozemarijnonline.net
or click on: berichtje[at]rozemarijnonline.net
(change [at] in the sign @ by hand!).
Or leave a message in my Guestbook.
Didn't find the song you were looking for ?
Check the Dutch Folk Song Database.
English translations of the songs were made by R. van Leeuwen. It's a simple line by line, sometimes word by word translation. The rhyme disappeared, but most translations fit (more or less) on the original music and can be sung.
The sheet music was made by R. van Leeuwen (concerning the sheets with a green title and a reference to overtuin.net). Used program: Finale Notepad.
The simple recordings of the melodies (mp3) were made by R. van Leeuwen. Used program: Audiocorder. In 2009 most mp3's were replaced by midi's. Used program: Finale Notepad.
Please don't publish (digital or in print) without permission.
© translation R. van Leeuwen (2007, 2016-18)
© sheet music R. van Leeuwen (2009, 2015-16)
© music recordings R. van Leeuwen (2009, 2015)
See the page: Copyright.
Depending the browser and the operating system of your computer, you can choose to click on 'Play music' or on 'or click here'.
You also can click 'Play music' while holding CommandKey (AppleKey).
The original Dutch website contains over 500 well-known traditional children's songs, nursery rhymes and lullabies. This is the complete collection I learned in my childhood, 1970's and 1980's, at home and at school. The songs I didn't know as a child and recent songs can not be found on my website.
The most famous and popular traditional children's songs are translated in English. All these children's songs are still known and sung frequently today in the Netherlands.
The folk songs are all the traditional songs from the oral tradition that Marijke and me combined knew and/or could sing. Marijke learned many songs during her musical education and I learned some medieval songs during my study and some more songs during my time at the Song Database (besides the songs I learned from my mother and grandmother).
In my professional life I did research on children's songs and folk songs for 3 1/2 years. The Dutch Song Database gives 19160 hits if you search on the word 'kinderlied' (children's song). So many more songs, versions and variants exists. This database however only gives the first lines of a song and seldom gives complete lyrics and music.
All texts and melodies on my websites are checked, compared to songtexts in print, on the official copyright website, and in the Dutch Song Database and are as accurate as possible - but of course variants, sometime several, do exist in traditional songs and folk songs.
'In the Overtuin'
The name of this website, the 'overtuin', means 'garden on the other side of the road' or 'across the road'. In old days, country houses sometimes were situated along the road (on the front-side) and had a big front garden on the other side of the road.
This was also the case in a small village in the district the Achterhoek (the far east of the Netherlands, in the province Gelderland). Afterwards, houses were built in the site of the garden. The name of that street still is the 'Overtuin'.
Because we did sing all the children's songs, folk songs and popular songs while living in that street, we called our website 'In the Overtuin'.
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URL: https://www.dutchsongs.overtuin.net
Content: Dutch songs with music and English translations.
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Visit our Dutch websites with Dutch songtexts:
About 500 Dutch children's songs:
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Over 3000 Dutch and English songtexts
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Trump administration reverses elephant trophy ban, sparking outrage
US President Donald Trump's administration has decided to allow hunters to import the body parts of African elephants killed for sport. Conservation groups have decried the move, saying it won't aid conservation efforts.
Big-game hunters will now be allowed to import the body parts of elephants they've killed from two African countries, the Trump administration announced on Thursday, arguing that the money generated from wealthy trophy hunters would help the species.
Read more: Poachers target endangered animals in protected areas, study finds
The US Fish and Wildlife Service said it would allow the import of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia through 2018, saying the move "will enhance the survival of the species in the wild."
They argued that the ban reversal will raise money for conservation programs from hunters who pay to shoot them, noting that Zambia and Zimbabwe made changes to their elephant conservation efforts since the ban was implemented.
"Legal, well-regulated sport hunting as part of a sound management program can benefit certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve those species and by putting much-needed revenue back into conservation," the agency said in a statement.
Read more: Elephant riding is a dark side of tourism
Thursday's move reverses a 2014 ban imposed by former US President Barack Obama's administration which blocked the importation of elephant tusks and hides from animals killed for sport.
African elephant populations dropped by some 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, according to a report last year.
Namibia — Access for elephants
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Outrage over 'bizarre' ban reversal
Conservation groups quickly responded to the ban reversal, criticizing not only the Trump administration's reasoning, but also their timing.
Zimbabwe was plunged into political uncertainty this week after the country's longtime President Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the country's army.
Read more: Vietnam seizes tons of elephant tusks 'originating from South Africa'
"With tanks in the streets, whoever is actually running the Zimbabwe government just can't be trusted to protect elephants from slaughter by poachers," said Tanya Sanerib, a lawyer with the advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity, who called the timing "bizarre."
Poaching takes a toll on elephants
Dwindling numbers
A century ago, 10 million elephants were roaming across Africa - today, there are an estimated 450,000 to 700,000 African elephants and between 35,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants. Since elephant numbers have dropped by 62 percent over the last decade, conservationists fear they could be almost extinct in the next 10 years.
Killed for their ivory tusks
Every day, around 100 African elephants are killed for their tusks, which end up being sold mainly on the Asian market. In the past five years, Chinese demand for ivory has gone up, which fueled poaching even more. In July, customs officials at Zurich airport seized 262 kilograms (578 pounds) of ivory chopped up and hidden in eight suitcases during a random search on three Chinese passengers.
Conflict fueled by ivory sales
Wildlife trafficking has been estimated to be the third biggest illegal business after drug and human trafficking. Illegal ivory boosts all kind of conflicts across the continent. For example, insurgent groups like Al-Shabab, the Lord's Resistance Army and Boko Haram buy weapons by handing in elephant tusks. A pound of ivory sells for about $1,000 (903 euros) on the Chinese black market.
Coexisting with elephants
Despite a ban on international ivory trade, elephants are still being targeted in large numbers. Organizations like SOS Elephants say it's crucial to teach local communities about why elephants are important for Africa's ecosystem and how they can make a living through ecotourism and coexisting farming techniques instead.
In addition to poaching, elephants are also struggling with dwindling habitat. Human populations have vastly increased since the turn of the century, meaning there's less space for elephants: Forests have been cleared and turned into land for crops or livestock. And some of the animals have been captured, trained and used for activities such as illegal logging.
Silver lining?
At the end of July 2015, US President Barack Obama announced plans to effectively ban most ivory trade in the United States and to add new restrictions when it could be exported. The US is the second biggest market for ivory after China which has also pledged to clamp down on ivory trade on its domestic markets.
Author: Claudia Garcia
Other opponents of the ban took to social media to voice their outrage, with many noting that Trump's eldest sons are avid big-game hunters. They frequently posed for pictures with the animals they've killed during hunts, including one of Donald Jr. holding the cut-off tail of a slain elephant.
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former US President Bill Clinton, said the move was "infuriating" and that it "will increase poaching."
The African elephant, the world's largest land mammal, has been classified as "threatened" under the US Endangered Species Act since 1979.
Read more: Risky business: On the trail of poachers in Zimbabwe
In June, the Trump administration removed long-standing protections for grizzly bears near Yellowstone National Park, potentially allowing for them to be hunted.
China clamps down on ivory trade
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Elephant numbers have dropped by more than 60 percent over the last decade due to habitat loss and poaching. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory and meat. (12.08.2015)
Related Subjects Threatened and endangered species, Donald Trump
Keywords USA, Donald Trump, US Fish and Wildlife Service, elephant, endangered species, hunting, Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia
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Killing endangered species to save them? Trophy hunters lobby at CITES 27.08.2019
As conservationists and campaigners thrash out wildlife trade rules, a debate rages over whether trophy hunting helps or hinders the protection of endangered species.
CITES: Elephant ivory ban upheld, but legal loopholes remain 23.08.2019
The CITES wildlife summit voted down proposals for one-off ivory sales. But with loopholes continuing to drive elephant poaching, the exctinct woolly mammoth could help protect the endangered animals.
Wildlife conference mulls loosening restrictions on ivory trade 17.08.2019
Nations are set to discuss more than 50 proposals regarding the protection of endangered species. Topics on the table include loosening restrictions on ivory trade and regulating mammoth ivory.
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Chandigarh Housing, Indian Residential Building
Published by David McManus updated on July 3, 2018
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Housing in Chandigarh, India : Marble Arch
Chandigarh Building – design by Morphogenesis architects
Marble Arch, Chandigarh
Design: Morphogenesis, architects
Morphogenesis completes Group Housing in Chandigarh
Marble Arch is a housing development located in Chandigarh on a 5.4 acre site along the periphery of the city. The project’s objective is to develop a new prototype for housing in Chandigarh as an entity to address issues of liveability, spatial configuration, environmental and social issues, while shifting away from the archetypal morphology of high specification residential modules and equipment crammed into an undersized apartment. The clients brief called for the generation of maximum built-up area for residential accommodation within the imposed controls and yet construct a favorable communal environment.
photographs : Andre J Fanthome
The spatial planning is generated by creating a pedestrian field for the apartments in the centre of the site by isolating all vehicular movement to the periphery. The pedestrian field is then laid out with strips of defined functions of residential facilities, services, and recreation areas flowing from the east to the west, which allows all apartments to be developed in alignment with optimum north-south orientation to allow for natural daylight and ventilation. The built volumes of the residential strips are sculpted with a play of volumes to provide terraces/open areas at all levels and generate an interface with the open areas. The service areas of all apartments are kept along the service strip which gets broken up into service courtyards. As per the development control norms, Basement Parking is contained within the building periphery, dictating the configuration of the development in the form of linear strips.
The development has been configured as a set of 9 blocks of 5 storeys each with 4 apartments to a level with service courtyards straddled as buffers within- 168 units which are a combination of 3/ 4 bedroom apartments, and penthouses on the top floors. Along with these dwelling units, ancillary facilities like a health club, gymnasium, amphitheatre, swimming pool, tot lots, basketball court, and social activity spaces are provided within the development.Each block within the development has an atrium lobby to provide a sense of community. Given the fact that this is a low-rise development, the opportunity to provide terraces on each level to be able to establish a relationship with the ground level has been fully utilized. A unique Scale is achieved with regards to contemporary housing in Chandigarh which establishes a crucial relationship between heights, the distance between any 2 blocks and the landscape.
The design employs the use of grids being superimposed on the entire scheme both in the case of buildings, where it gets subdivided to generate spaces within the apartments as well as onto the landscape by way of pedestrian linkages and green areas.
About Morphogenesis
Morphogenesis is recognized globally as one of the leading Architecture firms from India. Founded in 1996, the firm is based out of New Delhi and is a collective offering specialized services in Architecture, Interior design, masterplanning , Urban design, Landscape design and Environmental design consultancy. At Morphogenesis, we understand that we are working in an environment with limited resources. Hence, design is viewed as a process that is a resultant of different stimuli, ranging from climatic conditions, financial and market forces, globalization, local conditions, prevalent traditions and technologies, and the community. It is this all-inclusive nature of design with a unique focus on passive and low energy architecture that we believe, will define the new emergent Indian architecture.
The work of the practice has been exhibited at various locations globally including Urban Islands (Sydney), Timeless @ Experimenta Design Festival (Lisbon), The Urban Habitat Summit at India Habitat Centre (New Delhi), Gallerie ROM (Oslo) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (London). The practice has been the recipient of over 30 international and national awards and accolades including the Best Learning Building- World Architecture Festival Awards (Barcelona), Green Good Design™ Award- The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum (European Union), FuturArc Green Leadership Award (Singapore), The Architectural Review Cityscape Awards, Indian Institute of Interior Designers- MK Award and the JIIA (Indian Institute of Architects) Award for excellence in architecture amongst others. The work of the practice has also been extensively published in over 100 national publications such as The Times of India, India Today, The Hindustan Times, Business Standard etc. as well as numerous international publications including some recent publications in Financial Times (UK), The New York times (USA), Wallpaper (UK), Domus (Italy), The Guardian (UK), etc.
Early projects such as the Corporate Office for Apollo Tyres (2000) and The Uttorayon Township, Siliguri (2006) won the studio international acclaim and approbation during the initial years. More recent realized projects including Pearl Academy of Fashion- Jaipur (2008), Corporate Office for India Glycols- Noida (2009), and the Factory and Offices for the DS Group (2011) amongst others have won numerous national and international honors. Current and upcoming projects in progress or on-site include a 50 Acre University for JRE Group of Institutes- Greater Noida, a large Commercial Complex in Gurgaon, comprising of 150m high office towers aims to redefine the morphology of Tall buildings in Gurgaon, a 40 acre Luxury Eco-Resort in the backwaters of Kerala, a master plan for 1000-acre Beachfront Township, Gujarat and a 25 Acre Resort for The Lalit Group in Dehradun etc.
Projects range across varied typologies, climate and scale (from the earliest works to the most recent ones) demonstrating the design philosophy of Morphogenesis, where every project is examined from first principles; consistently dispelling preconceived notions of typology, identity, and imageability. Morphogenesis believes that every project should establish itself as a benchmark for innovative building design while successfully dispelling the myth that Green design entails higher cost.
Housing in Chandigarh – Building Information
Client: Uppal Group Housing
Year of Completion: 2010/11
Built-up Area: 430,000 sqft
Climate: Composite
Housing in Chandigarh images / information from Morphogenesis
Housing in Chandigarh design : Morphogenesis
Location:Chandigarh, India’
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Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh
Design: Le Corbusier architect
photo © SM Dhami
Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh – 1 Aug 2017
Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh One of Twelve Recipients of Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern Grants.
Disha Electrical and Lighting Store
Design: Studio Ardete, architects
photo : Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Disha Electrical and Lighting Store in Chandigarh – 3 Aug 2016
Chandigarh Unbuilt Competition
image courtesy of architects
Chandigarh Unbuilt Competition – 10 Aug 2015
Morphogenesis – Indian Building Selection
India Glycols Corporate Office, Noida, India
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India Glycols Corporate Office
Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur
Pearl Academy of Fashion Jaipur
Swabhumi Hotel & Cultural Complex, Kolkata, India
Swabhumi Hotel Kolkata
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Chandigarh Housing
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Deeplinks Blog by Wendy Seltzer | June 8, 2004
Notes from Day Two of WIPO Meetings on the Draft Broadcasting Treaty
Notes from the World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights meeting, day 2, 8 June 2004. Impressionistic transcript by Cory Doctorow (cory@eff.org), Wendy Seltzer (wendy@eff.org) and David Tannenbaum (davidt@public-domain.org) Public-domain dedication: On June 8, 2004, Cory Doctorow, Wendy Seltzer and David Tannebaum (The Authors) dedicated to...
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Easy Way to Lift Plywood to the Second Floor
Wesley Tucker
Wesley Tucker is a lifelong southerner whose politics are objective, whose sports are many and whose avocations range from aviation to anthropology to history and all forms of media. With a master's degree in mass communications from the University of South Carolina College of Journalism, Tucker has been a writer for more than 30 years, with work ranging from news reports to feature stories.
Plywood in various thicknesses is an essential material in modern residential and commercial building. Used for flooring, walls, ceilings and custom designed appointments in all rooms, plywood is a versatile, strong and relatively inexpensive building material. When building multilevel structures, however, comes the task of moving plywood from the ground up to the second floor. When a blueprint may call for 100 sheets or more of 4-by-8 foot 1/2-inch plywood, the job becomes very daunting. There are ways, though, to accelerate getting all those sheets up to where the nail gun is waiting.
Precut
The easiest way to reduce the amount of work in moving plywood to the second floor is to precut the sheets to smaller sizes on the ground floor. This means moving smaller, lighter pieces. Although it may seem like getting one big sheet up the stairs will take less time, moving two lighter pieces causes less strain and can be just as quick. After all, if a worker has to stop halfway and catch his breath, then the large piece isn't moving. What's more, usually a worker can make the additional trips faster than a carpenter or framer can get each piece installed. So the wood moves easier and the job stays on schedule.
Another advantage of precutting is having the saw and work area in a safer operating location than right next to the installation site. This not only keeps everyone working safer, it eliminates problems with sawdust and getting power up to an unfinished section of the new building.
If there is an open space in the wall of the second floor, then fashioning a quick hoist with a pulley and rope can move a lot of plywood quickly. Just like attaching a scaffold, add a 2-by-4 or 4-by-4 inch boom reinforced with a truss piece of 2-by-4 inch lumber at a 30-degree angle. On the end of the 4-by-4 inch piece, attach with a "U" bolt a pulley large enough to handle 1/2-inch rope. A tension grapple (closes when pulled, opens when released) can grab a whole sheet of plywood and lift it to the second floor very efficiently. Again, it keeps workers moving doing many light jobs repeatedly instead of one heavy difficult job once.
If you need to move just a few sheets of plywood to the second floor and want to avoid the interior stairs, a makeshift ramp can do the job well. Just lay an extension ladder against the exterior wall and have it lead to an opening large enough for the 4-foot-tall sheet. Drop a line with a tension hook, grab the sheet and pull it up the inclined ladder. This works well for moving 5 or 10 sheets quickly. It also avoids errant plywood corners from damaging newly installed wallboard in the stairwell.
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The final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register, was held at Drake University on Jan. 14. Even though most Drake students were unable to attend the debate, candidates and student groups hosted multiple watch parties in and around the campus.
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Champions are crowned on the badminton court
Rachel Cameron and Finlay Jack win national badminton titles
CHAMPIONS were crowned on the badminton court, with Finlay Jack and Rachel Cameron both celebrating success.
The U15/U19 Scottish National Junior Championships took place over the weekend at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, near Motherwell.
North Berwick’s Jack, and Cameron, of Musselburgh, were among the East Lothian entrants.
Jack was competing in the younger age group and was victorious alongside Matthew Waring in the under-15 boys’ doubles.
The duo started with a 21-12, 21-17 win over Richard Adams and Ross Macartney.
The following day saw a semi-final clash with Harry Bent and Theo Johnston, with Jack and Waring winning 21-16, 21-18.
Finally, they defeated the number one seeds Evan Kenny and Josh Taylor, 21-19, 21-13 in the final.
Jack was also in action in the singles and mixed doubles.
In the singles, he lost 21-17, 16-21, 14-21 to Lewis Coghill in the quarter-finals, who would go on to lose in the final to Waring.
Meanwhile, in the mixed doubles, he teamed up with Sophie Barrie and denied his boys’ doubles partner a clean sweep. Jack and Barrie won 21-19, 17,21, 21-9 before defeating Harry Bent and Iona Muir 21-7, 21-15.
They came unstuck in the semi-finals, losing a three-set thriller, 17-21, 21-14, 20-22, to Noah Sarvesvaran and Vibha Raman.
Meanwhile, Cameron teamed with Rachel Andrew to take the under-19s girls’ doubles.
The duo began the tournament with a comfortable 21-3, 21-4 victory over Erin Bailey and Abbie Brooks before coming through against Jodie Harris and Erin Waddell 21-13, 21-18. In the final, they were up against the number one seeds of Alice Campbell and Rachel Sugden but won 21-19, 21-18.
In the mixed doubles, Cameron teamed up with Calvin Chan and enjoyed a first-round win 21-19, 21-15 over Angus Meldrum and Abbie Brooks.
They then came up against Callum Smith and Erin Waddell, the number two seeds, who won 21-15, 17-21, 21-16.
Finally, Cameron reached the semi-finals of the under-19s girls’ singles with a 21-9, 17-21, 21-9 win over Erin Waddell and a 21-10, 21-12 win over Jodie Harris. However, she was knocked out by Eilidh McCallister, who won 23-12, 21-19.
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These New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Posters Are Lame, But People Will Freak Out Anyway
What could they mean?
I will finish what you've started. #KyloRen #TheForceAwakens
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Some of the main cast members of Star Wars: The Force Awakens just surprised fans by sharing new character posters on social media. Oh, things are about to go nuts in Star Wars fandom world. But take even a cursory glance at these posters–they're lame. Each image is a close-up headshot of each actor with some cheesy graphics not unlike the VHS cover of Face/Off. They're all covering one-half of their face. Leia's has a striking resemblance to late-'90s Star Trek: Voyager. Comparatively, the trailers for the film are tasteful and stunning in their own right. And compared to the vintage posters, and even the posters from the prequel series, these are pretty bad. These look like they were made specifically for a 7-11 collector's cup. And yet, people will still go mad for them.
Already, people on the Star Wars Reddit page are brainstorming what the eye-covering theme is:
"Exactly. Its bothering me. I guess instead of cutting off hands now we're losing eyes?"
Oh, and don't even get started on Carrie Fisher's caption: "Oh Luke, don't ask for the moon, we have the force,"which people are already comparing to the "That's no moon quote."
Redditors are also analyzing the shit out of each character's weapon:
"Rey's poster is amazing. Who's hilt is that? Reminds me of Darth Maul'sEdit: I know its her staff but she must have scavanged it from somewhere to build it. I doubt she even knows that its a lightsaber."
Again, there's no Luke Skywalker (where could he be!!??). Check them out below and try to figure out what the dimensions of each character's head has to do with the relative radius of each planet he/she is from:
Oh Luke, don’t ask for the moon, we have the force. #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/TBOCASFsy0
— Carrie Fisher (@carrieffisher) November 4, 2015
As promised! Sneaky gift! The official FINN poster for Star Wars! #HeHasSomethingToFightFor #TheForceAwakens pic.twitter.com/UXHmzNxXZC
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) November 4, 2015
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Etihad Airways showcases hospitality at Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai
Mumbai, INDIA – Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, once again showcased its hospitality at Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai as part of an ongoing partnership as the preferred airline of the global fashion industry.
Fashion designers and stars of film and TV were welcomed to the airline’s dedicated activation area at JioGardens, venue for the five-day Summer 2018 season of fashion events, where visitors signed up to Runway to Runway – Etihad’s exclusive travel loyalty programmefor the fashion industry. Visitors also had an opportunity to enter a social media competition to win Business Class tickets to New York Fashion Week in September.
Designers Tarun Tahiliani, Payal Singhal, Gaurang Shah of Raw Mango, and Nikhil Mehra of Shantanu and Nikhil, Australian-Indian actress Pallavi Sharda, Australian celebrity chef Sarah Todd, and renowned blogger Malini Agarwal of Miss Malini, fame were among the visitors to Etihad Airways’ popular exhibit area.
This was the airline’s fourth participation at Lakmé Fashion Week over the past 18 months, further strengthening its presence alongside the world’s most revered luxury brands.
Neerja Bhatia, Etihad Airways Vice President Indian Subcontinent, said: “Lakmé Fashion Week is an iconic event on the Mumbai social calendar. Once again, Etihad Airways was delighted to extend its support to a vibrant sector of India’s manufacturing industry and to India’s commercial centre of Mumbai where Etihad flies three-times-a-day from our Abu Dhabi hub. This season we were also excited to connect our visitors to Lakmé Fashion Week with another fashion capital, New York, through a popular social media competition.”
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In 2016, Etihad Airways struck a comprehensive global agreement with sports, events and talent management company WME | IMG, to become a long-term partner of the fashion industry.
Mumbai was the latest stop in Etihad Airways’ global fashion sponsorship. The Abu Dhabi-based airline supports 17 fashion week events worldwide every year.
Etihad Airways connects Mumbai and a further 10 cities across India with flights to the fashion capitals of the world – New York, London, Paris and Milan – via its Abu Dhabi gateway.
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Scout Clean Energy Announces Completion of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) for the Three Waters Wind Farm
JACKSON COUNTY, Minn., June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Scout Clean Energy ("Scout"), is pleased to announce the completion of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) for the purchase of 200 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy from the Three Waters Wind Farm ("Three Waters") in Jackson County, Minnesota.
The project calls for the installation of up to 71 2.82 MW GE wind turbines to be located across approximately 45,000 acres in Jackson County.
"We are excited to announce our agreement with Minnesota Municipal Power Agency to purchase power from the Three Waters Wind Farm," said Michael Rucker, CEO and founder of Scout Clean Energy. "MMPA has agreed to purchase the entire capacity that will be generated by the Three Waters Wind Farm. The project distinguishes MMPA as a renewable energy leader in Minnesota."
"This purchase of renewable energy contributes to MMPA's renewable portfolio and reduces MMPA's carbon footprint in a cost-effective manner," said Oncu Er, Chief Operating Officer of Avant Energy, Inc., MMPA's management partner.
The project is expected to begin construction in 2021 with an anticipated in-service date of late 2021. Three Waters is being developed and will be owned and operated by Scout Clean Energy. Scout is a portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners a leading private equity infrastructure fund.
"The agreement with MMPA for the Three Waters Wind Farm is an important step for the project," explained Rucker. "We hope that working together we will help bring this economic benefit to Jackson County."
About Minnesota Municipal Power Agency
The Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) provides wholesale electricity to twelve member communities, which in turn deliver and sell power to their residential and business customers. Members include municipal utilities in Anoka, Arlington, Brownton, Buffalo, Chaska, East Grand Forks, Elk River, Le Sueur, North St. Paul, Olivia, Shakopee, and Winthrop. MMPA's management partner is Avant Energy, a Minneapolis-based energy management company and an innovative supplier of energy project development, management, trading, consulting, and utility operations services.
About Scout Clean Energy
Scout Clean Energy is a renewable energy development company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Scout is developing a 2,400 MW portfolio of wind energy projects across 10 US states. Scout is an owner-operator with expertise in all aspects of wind development, permitting, power marketing, finance, construction and asset management. Scout is a portfolio company of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners.
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About Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is a specialist investment manager focused exclusively on lower carbon and renewable energy infrastructure investment and operational asset management in the US, UK and Australia. Quinbrook is led and managed by a senior team of power industry professionals who have collectively invested over US$ 17 billion in energy infrastructure assets since the early 1990's, representing over 30GW of power supply capacity. Quinbrook's investment and asset management team has offices in Houston, London, Jersey, and the Gold Coast of Australia. Quinbrook has completed multiple investments in both utility and distributed scale wind power, gas fired power reserve and 'smart grid' projects in the US, UK and Australia and currently manages Cape Byron Power (www.capebyronpower.com), one of Australia's largest base-load 100% renewable power generators.
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Abdu the Traveller
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi; The Lay of the Higher Law
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1924. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [6], 7-135, [1] pp. Green blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the front board. A Near Fine book with a bit of age darkening to the spine. More
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
New York: Random House [1983], 1983. First printing. Hardcover. 145 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Angelou's fourth book of Poetry. A very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1971], 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 56 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good+ book with moderate traces of foxing to the top of the textblock and mild age toning to the boards in a Very Good+ dust jacket with..... More
Auden, W.H
Collected Longer Poems
New York: Random House, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $7.50 on front flap of jacket. The companion volume to Collected Shorter Poems. Book plate on front paste down; age toning, fading, and a few tiny holes to spine panel, traces of edge wear. More
Auden, W.H.
Thank You, Fog
New York: Random House (1974), 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 59 pp. Price of $6.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes the final poems that Auden wrote between 1972 and 1973, and two lyrics he wrote for a musical; the book was published posthumously. A Very near Fine book in a...... More
Berry, Wendell
Collected Poems: 1957-1982
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. 268 pp. Price of $16.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An attractive copy of this collection of over two-hundred poems from the prolific American author and poet. A very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket..... More
Berryman, John
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest; 308 Dream Songs
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1968), 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 317 pp. Bound in dark blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, pink topstain. Price of $6.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Stefanik A 16.I.a. Winner of the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize. An attractive..... More
Collected Poems; Enlarged Edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v, [1], vii-xv, [1], xvii-xli, [3], 1-366, [6] pp. Bound in light green cloth with gilt title blocked in dark green on the front board with two bells stamped in gilt and author's name in dark green, gilt..... More
Brautigan, Richard
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
New York: Laurel Edition (1973), 1973. First edition thus. Paperback. 108 pp. Price of 95 cents on the front cover. A collection of short poems from Brautigan, the first Laurel paperback edition. A Near Fine book with minor rubbing to the front cover and age toning to the pageblock. More
Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
New York: A Laurel Book (1973), 1973. First edition thus. Paperback. 85 pp. Price of 95 cents on the front cover. A collection of short poems from Brautigan, the first Laurel paperback edition. A Very Good+ book with minor wear to the covers and moderate age toning to the pageblock..... More
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Poems; Last Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with a Memorial by Theodore Tilton; Essays on the Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets From the Last London Edition, Corrected by the Author.
New York: James Miller, 1862, 1863. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. Small 8vo. [5], 384 [6]; [5], 408; [4], 400; [1] page of ads, [9], 242, [3] pages of advertisements in the rear, [3]; [9], 233, [1], [6] pages of advertisements, [1] pp. Includes a steel-engraved frontispiece of the author..... More
Browning, Robert
The Poems of Robert Browning
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1979], 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 299 pp. Bound in brown leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with brown silk pastedowns and endpapers. Selected, edited, and introduced by C. Day Lewis. Illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. A very..... More
Dangling in the Tournefortia
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First printing. Paperback. 281 pp. Krumhansl 71a. Near Fine with some faint hints of foxing to textblock. More
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain
New York: Harper Collins (2004), 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 297 pp. Price of $27.50 on front flap of jacket. Edited by John Martin. An attractive copy of this posthumous collection of previously unpublished poems. A very near Fine book with a tiny tear to cloth on the heel of the..... More
Going Modern
Fremont, CA: Ruddy Duck Press [1984], 1984. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. 4to. [2], 1-9, [5] pp. Green wraps printed in black. Illustrated with a few drawings by Bukowski and a photograph of the author. "Going Modern" comprises volume 3, number 2 of a special chapbook issue of Oro Madre magazine published..... More
On Cats
New York: Ecco/Harper Collins [2015], 2015. First printing. Hardcover. 118 pp. Price of $25.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Abel Debritto. Includes a few photoraphs of Bukowski's cats and Bukowski with his cats. More
The Roominghouse Madrigals
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First printing. Paperback. 256 pp. Krumhansl 108a. Near Fine with a few tiny spots of discoloration and a bit of very light edge wear. More
Slouching Toward Nirvana; New Poems
New York: Ecco, 2005. Sixth Printing. Paperback. 270 pp. Edited by John Martin. A beautiful copy of this posthumous collection. More
Byron, Lord (George Gordon Byron)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; A Romannt
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird (Successor to E.L. Carey), 1856. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 3-339, [1], 24 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Quarter-bound in fine-grain calf over marbled boards, marbled textblock, endpapers, and pastedowns. Spine has four raised bands and a dark brown morocco label with gilt lettering. Illustrated..... More
Byron, Lord (George Gordon)
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron; Complete in One Volume
New York: R. Martin, ca. 1855. Later printing. Hardcover. Large 4vo. [3], 6-829 pp. Full brown leather with gilt decorations and lettering on the boards and spine, all edges gilt. Gilt portrait of Byron embossed on the front board, three of the Muses embossed in gilt on the rear board..... More
Carver, Raymond
A New Path to the Waterfall
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 122 pp. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. A posthumously published collection of poems Carver wrote shortly before his untimely death. More
New York: Random House, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 140 pp. Price of $13.95 on front flap of jacket. More
Where Water Comes Together With Other Water
New York: Random House (1985), 1985. First printing. Hardcover. 130 pp. Price of $13.95 on front flap of jacket. The first collection of Carver's poetry to be published by a large mainstream publisher. Just about Fine with a few faint hints of foxing to the endpapers and pastedowns in a...... More
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge
New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. Reprint. Hardcover. 680 pp. Bound in green cloth, 8vo. The title and publisher are denoted on a leather band in gold on the spine. With memoir, notes, etc. Includes a contemporary typewritten copy of a poem by Michael Field, published in the magazine..... More
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Living With a Colostomy After Colon Cancer
A colostomy is necessary for some people with colon cancer. Knowing what to expect and how to adjust will help you recover more quickly following the surgery.
Marijke Vroomen-Durning, RN
Medically Reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH
If you have colon cancer, you may have surgery as part of your treatment. In a certain number of patients, colon cancer treatment could mean having an ostomy, either a colostomy or an ileostomy, says Durado Brooks, MD, MPH, director, prostate and colorectal cancer of the American Cancer Society. This is done to create an alternate means of removing waste from the body.
A colostomy may be done if the colon cancer has damaged part of the colon (also called the large intestine or bowel) to the point that it can't do its job of filtering out fluids. In that case, the surgeon would make an opening in the abdomen to which the large intestine is connected, called a stoma, and the large intestine would then empty waste to the outside through the stoma into an externally attached collection bag, called a pouch.
For those who do have this colon cancer treatment, most colostomies are temporary. This means that the bowel will be reattached later, removing the colostomy. Whether permanent or temporary, a colostomy may seem very overwhelming at first. Adjusting to life with a colostomy is easy for some people, not so easy for others.
“Once you get used to it, everything is okay,” says Adrian Vaughan, of Toronto, Canada. The 73-year-old had his surgery in August , and although he says he’d rather not have had it, “it’s a life-saver.” He is looking forward to the reversal sometime in the future.
Colon Cancer Treatment: Living With a Colostomy
Life with a colostomy is not much different than before colon cancer surgery. You still can work, play, and enjoy life. Whom you tell about it is entirely up to you. It’s very unlikely anyone will find out unless you tell them.
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Diet and enjoying your food. If you’re concerned about diet, chances are you need not worry. There usually isn’t a specific colostomy diet, but some people may find that certain foods produce more gas or bloating than others. Usually it takes a bit of trial and error to find what works for you and what doesn’t. Vaughan says that he must avoid large pieces of raw fruits and corn to avoid blocking the colostomy opening.
Personal care. Once a colostomy has healed, there’s no reason not to bathe or shower as you like. If you use moisturizing creams and lotions, don’t use these around the pouch area, as this may affect how it adheres. Dry the area well after bathing.
Work and play. Although it’s best to check with your doctor, there are few things that you can no longer do. Usually, heavy lifting and rough contact sports are discouraged.
Clothing. Whether you’re a fashionista or someone who just likes to be comfortable, a colostomy shouldn’t affect what you wear. For comfort, you may want to avoid belts or waistbands right at the stoma level or tight bands just above. But if a piece of clothing is comfortable and you like it, go ahead and wear it.
Traveling. Traveling is something that people may worry about. As long as you’re healthy and you have plenty of supplies in your carry-on bag (don’t pack them in checked luggage!) there’s no reason why you can’t travel the world. If you irrigate your colostomy and you’re in a country where water isn’t safe to drink from the tap, don’t use it to irrigate. The contaminated water will be going straight into your gut if you do. Use bottled or boiled water instead.
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Sexual activity. Another concern for many with new colostomies is sexual activity. Regaining your sexual self may feel a bit difficult for some people. Don’t rush yourself, talk to your partner, ask for advice from your ostomy nurse, and be creative. Your pouch or bag can be hidden with sexy clothing or lingerie, if this is a worry.
Adjusting to a colostomy may seem overwhelming at first, but it usually becomes second nature. Remind yourself that this part of a successful colon cancer treatment may add many years to your life — hopefully a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life. As Vaughan says, “I expected it and got used to managing it.”
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As the riders made their way up steep Lawrence Street, they were greeted with the cheers thousands of spectators and a cacophony of cowbells. Much of the city came to a standstill on Sunday for the Launceston Cycling Festival, with more than 150 competitors taking part across the cycling and running events. Centred around picturesque City Park, the surrounding streets were closed to anyone not riding on two wheels. Cycling Tasmania executive officer Collin Burns said the world-class event was great for the state. "This event started in 2002, so we've nearly been running for 20 years," he said. "When it first started they specifically went and got Tour de France riders. There were the five Australian riders who had rode the previous year and they brought them down here to immediately build the profile of the event. "You can't do this in Melbourne or Sydney. You can't be shutting a whole block for a day for a big street party with bike racing." RELATED STORIES Mr Burns said the event had earned a reputation has having a "good crit" and being a big party. "Most of the professional riders have been here for a week [for the Tour of Tasmania] and this is their last day," he said. "They've done their professional tour, they've done a fun [criterium], hopefully they win a bit of money and have a great day." The party-like atmosphere of the festival was aided by the excitement of the crowds and more importantly the loud dinging of cowbells. "It's a bit of a Euro thing," he said. "It creates some noise and excitement on the hill, a good atmosphere." The prize pool of about $20,000 was a major drawcard for competitors, with equal prize money awarded to both men and women. "We had the national road champion here, Sarah Gigante, and the national criterium champion Brenton Jones here too, so two of the best riders in Australia here. Plus, our own pro-rider Nathan Earle," Mr Burns said. "We've got our juniors involved, the women involved, the masters, the elite riders. And with the Tour of Tasmania [earlier in the week], it makes it so sustainable. "It's really great for Launceston. Hobart have tried, but they can't do it. Launceston and the North is the home of cycling in Tassie." City of Launceston mayor Albert van Zetten said the festival was a perfect event with large economic benefits for the city. The event was live streamed online, with last year's race exceeding 25,000 viewers from across the globe.
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World-class Launceston Cycling Festival attracts thousands
Kasey Wilkins
Pictures: Phillip Biggs
As the riders made their way up steep Lawrence Street, they were greeted with the cheers thousands of spectators and a cacophony of cowbells.
Much of the city came to a standstill on Sunday for the Launceston Cycling Festival, with more than 150 competitors taking part across the cycling and running events.
Centred around picturesque City Park, the surrounding streets were closed to anyone not riding on two wheels.
Cycling Tasmania executive officer Collin Burns said the world-class event was great for the state.
"This event started in 2002, so we've nearly been running for 20 years," he said.
"When it first started they specifically went and got Tour de France riders. There were the five Australian riders who had rode the previous year and they brought them down here to immediately build the profile of the event.
"You can't do this in Melbourne or Sydney. You can't be shutting a whole block for a day for a big street party with bike racing."
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Mr Burns said the event had earned a reputation has having a "good crit" and being a big party.
"Most of the professional riders have been here for a week [for the Tour of Tasmania] and this is their last day," he said.
"They've done their professional tour, they've done a fun [criterium], hopefully they win a bit of money and have a great day."
The party-like atmosphere of the festival was aided by the excitement of the crowds and more importantly the loud dinging of cowbells.
"It's a bit of a Euro thing," he said. "It creates some noise and excitement on the hill, a good atmosphere."
The prize pool of about $20,000 was a major drawcard for competitors, with equal prize money awarded to both men and women.
"We had the national road champion here, Sarah Gigante, and the national criterium champion Brenton Jones here too, so two of the best riders in Australia here. Plus, our own pro-rider Nathan Earle," Mr Burns said.
"We've got our juniors involved, the women involved, the masters, the elite riders. And with the Tour of Tasmania [earlier in the week], it makes it so sustainable.
"It's really great for Launceston. Hobart have tried, but they can't do it. Launceston and the North is the home of cycling in Tassie."
City of Launceston mayor Albert van Zetten said the festival was a perfect event with large economic benefits for the city.
The event was live streamed online, with last year's race exceeding 25,000 viewers from across the globe.
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Wincobank street named after Sheffield legend Brendan Ingle
on 23rd November 2018 at 3:37 pm
A Sheffield street in Wincobank has been named after beloved boxing trainer and local hero Brendan Ingle MBE after he passed away last May.
Brendan dedicated his time to helping disadvantage children by providing a safe space for them in his renowned Wincobank gym. He strived to aid the children in achieving their full potential despite their difficult surroundings and allowed them to flourish through his support. Along with his community work he is known for coaching boxers such as Prince Naseen Hamed to world title honours.
His death was a tragic loss to the Sheffield community and the city council has decided to honour his hard work accordingly. A street near his boxing gym has been renamed in his memory along with plans for a new statue and public square at Meadowhall to further honour his legacy.
Brendan’s niece, Roisin Ingle tweeted in response “So proud of my Uncle Brendan who died last May. A street near his boxing gym has been named after him. He devoted his life to giving young disadvantaged kids opportunities & support because he knew they were more than the circumstances of their birth. Thank you @SheffCouncil”
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Fond du Lac police arrest man after standoff
The man reportedly choked a woman while his kids were also in the apartment with him, according to police.
Fond du Lac police arrest man after standoff The man reportedly choked a woman while his kids were also in the apartment with him, according to police. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: http://fondul.ac/2HUoWnQ
Doug Raflik, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:05 p.m. CT Feb. 28, 2018 | Updated 8:41 a.m. CT March 1, 2018
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FOND DU LAC – Fond du Lac police took a man into custody Wednesday evening after a report of a domestic situation at the Maplewood Commons apartment complex on the city’s south side.
The woman managed to get away and the police rushed in to get two children out of the apartment, according to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter that was at the scene.
Shortly after the children were removed, the man came out of the apartment but did not immediately comply to police orders.
After a brief standoff, he eventually did as the police instructed and was taken into custody.
Information on the woman's condition was not immediately available.
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Vauxhall reveals first ever electric Corsa
As part of the PACE! strategic plan, Vauxhall’s Corsa-e and Grandland X PHEV will lead the British brand’s electric charge this year. Two more all-electric models will follow in 2020, including the successor to the Mokka X SUV and Vivaro van. All models are vital to Vauxhall’s ongoing reduction of CO2.
Modern multi-energy platforms play key role
By 2024, Vauxhall will have an electrified version of every model in its range. A key role is played by the shared multi-energy platforms. They make it possible to offer various propulsion systems on a common platform.
A sales sensation since 1993
Corsa has been Vauxhall’s best-selling car for many years, with over 2.1 million Corsas sold in the UK since it launched in 1993. The British buying public are familiar with its name and looks, and have a fondness for its compact dimensions and interior packaging. Corsa is just as popular in Europe with over 13.5 million sold.
The Corsa-e has 209 mile range that can be extended by up to 40 per cent in Eco mode. The battery can be charged to 80 per cent capacity in 30 minutes at a rapid-charge station.
With 136hp and 260Nm of torque from the electric propulsion system, the Corsa-e sprints from 0-31mph in just 2.8 seconds.
Corsa-e drivers can choose from three drive modes: Normal, Eco and Sport. In Normal mode, the 50kWh battery allows a driving range of 209 miles according to WLTP. Sport alters responsiveness and delivers more performance, which result in a moderate loss in driving range of around 10 per cent. In “Eco”, the Corsa-e becomes a long-distance runner. All the car’s systems and the electric drive are adjusted for maximum energy efficiency, without significant detrimental effect on comfort. Compared with “Sport”, range is increased by up to 40 per cent.
In order to further improve efficiency, the Corsa-e features a regenerative braking system to recover the energy produced under braking or deceleration. This excess kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy and either used immediately or stored in the battery. The driver can choose between two levels. At the lower level, the Corsa-e’s deceleration is similar to the engine-braking of a conventional car. At the highest level of energy recuperation, the drag torque of the electric motor is much higher.
Driver Assistance Systems and Infotainment
The Corsa-e is a pioneer in every way thanks to its advanced technologies, driver assistance systems and connectivity, which are more familiar to premium car drivers.
Numerous camera and radar-based assistance systems enable safer, more relaxed driving. The new Corsa’s infotainment systems up to and including the Multimedia Navi Pro are available with a 10-inch colour touchscreen. They are compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
Numerous advanced driver assistance systems, which enable safer, more relaxed driving, are based on camera and optional radar technology.
Traffic Sign Recognition detects signs (including LED signs) via the front camera. If the car is equipped with the navigation system, the system can use the speed limit in the map database to display the speed limit in the Driver Info Centre.
Lane Keep Assist (a Corsa-first) applies gradual corrective steering and makes the driver’s seat vibrate if the car leaves its lane unintentionally. The system gives an additional Lane Departure Warning in the Driver Info Centre.
Side Blind Spot Alert uses ultrasonic sensors in the front and rear bumpers to alert the driver to the presence of moving objects in the blind spots either side and to the rear of the car. A warning symbol lights up in the corresponding exterior mirror.
The Corsa-e also offers two emergency braking systems:
Camera-based automatic emergency braking is activated if a collision threatens at speeds between 3mph and 25mph. Up to 18mph the car can be brought to a standstill. Between 30 and 52mph the car’s speed decreases by up to 13mph. The front camera can identify vehicles and pedestrians.
Camera and radar-based automatic emergency braking in an emergency reduces the car’s speed by up to 31mph in order to avoid or reduce the force of a collision. Depending on the speed, the system can identify vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles and motorbikes.
Drowsiness Detection warns the driver, via audio and visual signals at three levels, to take a break after two hours of driving at speeds higher than 40mph. The system can alert the driver to the need for a break at any time if it detects that the car is behaving dangerously, e.g. swerving.
The Corsa-e helps the driver into and out of parking spaces by various means:
Parking pilots for the rear, and front plus rear.
Panorama Rear View Camera: additional parking assistance; increases rearward visibility by up to 180 per cent, enabling drivers to see traffic approaching from the right or left.
The new Corsa’s infotainment ranges from the Multimedia Radio and Multimedia Navi with 7-inch colour touchscreen, to the top-of-the-range Multimedia Navi Pro with 10-inch colour touchscreen. Angled slightly toward the driver, each system is positioned for optimum ergonomics in the clearly arranged instrument panel.
The Multimedia systems are compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay and feature control via integrated voice recognition.
They also offer the new Vauxhall Connect telematics service. With helpful functions, such as Live Navigation with real-time traffic information, key vehicle data checking via an app, direct connection with roadside assistance and emergency call, the driver and passengers enjoy additional peace of mind. Help can be reached within seconds via the red button. If the seatbelt tensioners or the airbags are deployed, the emergency call is activated automatically.
The “Open & Start” keyless locking and start system (with anti-theft protection) recognises the driver via smart device. The engine is switched on a via the start button in the instrument panel.
Vauxhall’s all-new fifth generation Corsa is close to the end of development, primed to become the most efficient Corsa ever after undergoing extensive testing and tuning.
Vauxhall engineers have used the long polar winters in Swedish Lapland for intensive testing on frozen lakes and on snow-covered roads. Pre-production cars have been lapping the test tracks at the test centre for handling tuning, and the car has undergone electrical tests in the laboratory.
Customers can look forward to a more dynamic Corsa when sales start this summer, delivering the typical Vauxhall balance between sportiness and comfort. Thanks to lightweight engineering, the all-new Corsa’s weight has been reduced by more than 10 per cent compared with the outgoing model. Vauxhall will also offer the Corsa for the first time as a battery electric vehicle when the car goes on sale later this year.
Winter testing in the most extreme conditions
Vauxhall engineers have been testing the next-generation Corsa for months in Swedish Lapland, around 40km south of the Arctic Circle. Experts from the chassis control department have been using the harsh extremes of the environment to put the car through extensive chassis tuning programmes for balanced handling and comfort, as well as refining electronic stability, traction control and anti-lock brake systems on slippery surfaces – working in temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius. The control functions of the new Corsa must function reliably regardless of ice, snow, slush or asphalt, with any level of grip.
The new Corsa offers high levels of safety, comfort and driving dynamics, under the guidance of the test engineers who strike a balance between the ‘fun-to-drive’ qualities expected of the Vauxhall brand, with the limits and functionality set by the Electronic Stability Program (ESP) system. Vauxhall engineers will repeatedly lap the uniquely designed handling course – using both the oval and special surfaces – to continually optimise the control systems.
Testing with camouflaged cars began in Swedish Lapland last November. From January to March, the ice on the frozen lakes was around one metre thick, so that the test cars, snow-ploughs and water sprinklers could drive on them. During the long polar nights, the engineers benefitted from the Vauxhall lighting technology, as customers will with the road-ready car.
The all-new Corsa has also undergone round-the-clock laboratory testing to check for electrical compatibility, as the new Vauxhall Corsa is packed with highly advanced electronic equipment.
The Corsa has also undergone round-the-clock laboratory testing to prove its electrical durability. The new model is equipped with a raft of highly advanced electrical systems, including the latest generation ESP and an all-new infotainment hub.
Electric Pioneer: Vauxhall Ampera First Electric Car Suitable For Everyday Use
Vauxhall/Opel pursued the development of battery-powered vehicles and presented the innovative Flextreme Concept at the 2007 IAA in Frankfurt, which featured the Voltec extended-range electric propulsion. The Flextreme GT/E Concept, presented at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, illustrated how this drive concept can also be integrated into a mid-size car.
The electric drive with range extender reached series production in 2011 in the Vauxhall Ampera, the first electric car for four people fully suitable for everyday use and travel. The energy for distances between 24 miles and 50 miles (depending on driving conditions) was supplied by the 16kWh lithium-ion battery, which fed the 150hp electric motor. Whenever the battery charge level reached a defined minimum, the 86hp petrol engine switched on automatically and drove a generator to power the electric motor. This type of continuous energy supply ensures carefree driving – without a charging station and with ranges of several hundred miles. The Ampera was ahead of its time and was awarded the European Car of the Year 2012 title.
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Lilly firms up Adimab R&D alliance, bringing its Ab platform in-house
Jul 19, 2017 8:24am
Yeast-based platform has proved popular with biopharma customers.
Eli Lilly likes what it sees in Adimab's antibody R&D platform, opting to roll it out at sites in San Diego and New York to help its antibody discovery and optimization activities.
The big pharma group has been putting Adimab's technology through its paces since 2010, but the new technology transfer deal represents a step up in their collaboration, and adds another big pharma partner to Adimab's growing stable.
New Hampshire-based Adimab's chief executive Tillman Gerngross said the deal with Lilly is a prime example of its strategy—starting out with small collaborations to showcase its technology and then broadening the relationship, either doing partner-funded discovery or transferring the platform for internal use.
"Lilly has a strong foundation in protein-based therapeutics and excellent R&D capabilities," he commented. "We are delighted to see our platform in the hands of such a competent team."
Adimab has a yeast cell-based platform for discovering and producing antibodies that it says is faster and easier than conventional techniques such as phage display technology or making antibodies in animal systems.
Using the technology yeasts are generated which express full-length antibodies on their surfaces, and it can take as little as eight weeks to go from an antigen of interest to fully-characterized and targeted antibodies, according to the biotech. Lilly says the system has already given it "several undisclosed therapeutic candidates."
Lilly will be able to use the platform without restriction across any therapeutic area, and would also get exclusive rights to a custom human antibody library.
Adimab's platform has already been taken in-house by Merck, Novo Nordisk, Biogen and GlaxoSmithKline, and is being used in R&D programs at a couple of dozen other biopharma firms, including Celgene, Roche, Sanofi, Novartis, Gilead and Pfizer. The new deal with Lilly will bring the number of R&D sites using it to seven, said the company.
Lilly and Adimab aren't disclosing financial details of the agreement, but said the biotech would receive an upfront fee, milestone payments and royalties on any future product sales.
"We believe that adding the Adimab platform to our existing portfolio of capabilities is an important step for Lilly as we work to quickly and efficiently develop solutions that will make a positive impact on people's lives," said the big pharma's senior VP for biotechnology and immunology research, Thomas Bumol.
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Delta vs. Wye System Comparison
The following is a discussion about the general benefits of Delta power distribution systems vs. the more widely used Wye systems (most of the Western United States is Wye, except for some older systems such as in San Francisco).
Delta systems produce approximately 1/100th the amount of ground current of Wye systems. Because of this, EHS persons generally do much better in Delta served areas (unless, of course, there are nearby powerful wireless transmitters). I have noticed ground current in certain areas (my symptoms would not abate even sleeping in an outside shed that was not wired). In retrospect, they were Wye areas.
The following are thoughts on the advantages of Delta over Wye from an electrical engineer colleague who has many decades of experience in this arena. I also encourage you to read this paper published by the IEEE on the dangers of WYE distribution systems.
“I don’t know of a book which clearly explains Delta vs Wye in terms of magnetic fields and ground current. Power engineers just accept what is and have been indoctrinated into two big mistakes: 1. Magnetic fields are harmless. 2. The amount of current in the earth for Wye is minimal. One textbook I read on power distribution did in fact confirm that for a megawatt power plant, about 25% of the total current is returning through earth and aquifer, by measuring the current flowing on a big coolant pipe to the cooling pond.
Delta does not distribute a neutral; it is derived only on the secondary side of the transformer. The distribution lines are not hard grounded, they are floating relative to ground. The customer (secondary) side of the transformer is grounded, but due to the marvel of transformer isolation, NO current flows between your transformer and any other except on the primary side.
Every transformer creates in effect a little independent power station, with no motive for electrons to flow between them.
In Wye, the transformer isolation is VIOLATED by connecting the distribution neutral wire to the secondary neutral. The neutral is connected to earth all along the line, every few poles, and at every junction box or transformer. This causes the earth, water mains, gas mains, and aquifers to become alternate neutral paths. This is called multipoint grounding. By connecting the distribution neutral around the transformer with a wire they call the “ground tie”, every transformer no longer provides isolation.
The Wye system grounding practice is a fundamental violation of basic engineering principles. It came from copying lightning damage prevention methods developed for Edison’s DC distribution system, back when insulation quality in motors was so poor that voltage transients on the line would ruin the very expensive motors. They didn’t have much in the way of lighting or surge technology, so they “hard grounded” one wire all over the place (multipoint grounding). This primative and bone headed practice was then applied in Wye distribution, which was made RMS voltage compatible (110V) with all the (DC) lighting and appliances of the era. Some early distribution was Delta, the thinking man’s approach, but when the Rural Electrification Authority was given to the Department of Agriculture, they sadly they adopted the WYE system.
Once humans adopt an approach that is widely applied, they never seem to question it.”
My colleague continues to explain how Wye systems could be made safer to human health:
“There is nothing wrong with Wye distribution per se, it is only the typical multipoint, hard grounding practice that is seriously flawed. There is in fact a corrected version of Wye known as uni-grounded Wye, which is sometimes used in transitional areas between Wye and Delta. It is only the grounding practice of typical Wye distribution that is problematic, and in fact, to correct this problem all you have to do is remove the “ground tie” at each transformer, and cut all of the grounding connections for the neutral on the distribution, leaving only one, though the rest could be connected through lightning suppressors if desired. Neutral voltage on the distribution line may rise too much in more badly overloaded phases, but this can be corrected by simply adding a 1:1 isolation transformer and starting over with a new single ground point on the secondary side.
There is no major expense or conversion needed to fix the Wye system grounding problem, this could be done fairly quickly, neighborhood by neighborhood, a line at a time. Cutting the ground tie and grounds at poles would suffice.
There are others issues to be addressed as well, such as not allowing water and gas mains to carry current, even between houses that share transformers. But by and large, most of America could easily have magnetic fields reduced to 1/100th of the present levels with no major infrastructure costs. But alas, the power companies, emboldened through their hugely funded EPRI cigarette science, refuse to accept magnetic fields are problematic to health.”
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Enabling the smart-energy future
European Utility Week 2019, taking place in Paris, from 12–14 November, is the meeting point for key players in the Smart Energy sector, where the latest developments in the transition to a fully integrated, low-carbon energy ecosystem will be revealed and discussed. Analog Devices (ADI), on stand Q130 in the Utility Week Exhibition, will showcase the special expertise its technologies can contribute in areas such as smart metering, power quality analysis, and energy storage.
MeasureWare revolutionises precision measurement
Analog Devices has announced the release of MeasureWare, a plug and play suite of hardware measurement kits and software studio tools to help fulfil the growing need for precision measurement across multiple industries including precision agriculture, machine health monitoring, electrochemistry and other areas requiring precise measurement.
Analog Devices launches industrial connectivity solutions
Drawing on a decades-long heritage of expertise in analogue, mixed-signal and digital semiconductor technology, Analog Devices (ADI) will launch an industry-first portfolio of Industrial Ethernet solutions at SPS 2019 to address communication challenges within Industry 4.0, Smart Factories, and the digital transformation.
Steer by wire steering angle and torque sensor
An innovative approach to steering angle and torque measurement.
Enabling security in the connected world of Industry 4.0
Analog Devices will once again have a noteworthy presence at the Hannover Fair (Hannover Messe), with demonstrations and speaking engagements focussing on the key issues of concern to visitors to this premier event for all aspects of industrial and automation technology.
Industrial automation solutions to help accelerate Industry 4.0
A broad range of solutions within its advanced Industry 4.0 roadmap has been announced by Analog Devices (ADI), aimed at helping industrial equipment OEMs accelerate their path to Industry 4.0. These new solutions hope to deliver next-generation flexibility, connectivity, and efficiency for today’s existing factory infrastructure.
Enabling technology for Industry 4.0 at Hannover
Analog Devices will be participating in the 2018 Hannover Messe Fair, and highlights will include the company’s first demonstration in Europe of the precision RADAR sensing technology it obtained with its recent acquisition of Symeo, and the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to vibration analysis and machine health monitoring.
IC with integrated diagnostics monitors meter health
Analog Devices has introduced the first metering IC that includes mSure diagnostics technology enabling direct and noninvasive monitoring of electric meter accuracy and faults in real-time. mSure-enabled meters, combined with a cloud analytics service, provide utility companies with real-time data and actionable insights to protect revenue from tampering, manage field resources more effectively, cut equipment cost, and improve customer service.
Single chip switch reduces size and power of deterministic Ethernet
A Real-time Ethernet, Multi-protocol (REM) switch chip has been introduced by Analog Devices, (ADI) as a part of its new generation of high performance, deterministic Ethernet connectivity solutions for connected motion and Intelligent Factory applications. The fido5000, developed by ADI’s Deterministic Ethernet Technology Group (formally Innovasic), reduces board size and power consumption while improving Ethernet performance at the node under any network load condition.
Low noise MEMS accelerometers target condition monitoring
Two high frequency, low noise MEMS accelerometers designed specifically for industrial condition monitoring applications have been announced by Analog Devices. The ADXL1001 and ADXL1002 MEMS accelerometers deliver the high resolution vibration measurements necessary for early detection of bearing faults and other common causes of machine failure.
Active learning modules focus on improving education
Two active learning modules have been announced by Analog Devices that help introduce students and enthusiasts to electrical engineering concepts in a cost effective, easy-to-use, hands-on environment. The ADALM2000 Active Learning Module allows students to design and test analogue circuits in real-time, utilising the power of traditional lab equipment made available with graphical application software.
Digital isolation certification to enable design in hazardous areas
The availability of the industry’s only certified Intrinsically Safe (IS) digital isolators based on IEC 60079-11:2011 standards, has been announced by Analog Devices. The 4-channel ADuM144x series digital isolators with iCoupler technology are suited for designing electrical equipment for use in hazardous areas.
Collaboration to improve reliability of smart substation
Analog Devices (ADI) has announced a collaboration with the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) to improve reliability of smart substations, the 'nerve centres' of modern electrical grids. New electronics and sensor technologies are enabling resilient and flexible grids to meet the evolving needs of how energy is generated, distributed and consumed. The Analog Devices CEPRI team will engage in joint laboratory and field research to drive innovations advancing the reliability of smart substations.
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Evolution at Work: Reducing the Pain of “Going Teal”
December 7, 2018 Alia Aurami
By Alia Aurami for Enlivening Edge Magazine
What if there’s a simple, easy, clear answer to why so many attempts to move an organization into Teal or Next-Stage organizational practices fail? And what if acting on that answer is challenging, sometimes painful, and always satisfying and joyful? Do you want to know the answer? And would you act on it?
That’s my main takeaway from my recent 2 1/2 day introductory immersion into the Language of Spaces program offered by Evolution at Work. E@W is a small, new, self-organized enterprise with Partners who include some of the pioneers of Holacracy® and of encode.org.
Oh, you want to know the answer? The answer is that structures, procedures, and processes are one thing, and people are another. People with all their old and current values, beliefs, habits, motives, hangups, resistances, fears, and triggers, are supposed to carry out new, unfamiliar prescribed/described structures, procedures, and processes. Guess what? It doesn’t all work out as predicted.
Who gets the blame? Often the structures, processes and procedures “failed.” “They aren’t workable.” “They’re just hype or bandwagon.”
Maybe nothing failed. Maybe there was just a mismatch. Maybe functioning well in certain structures, processes, and procedures requires certain values, skills, and capacities that some of the people there don’t have enough of yet.
For example, if a person hasn’t developed self-responsibility, self-starting, and teamwork, then self-management isn’t a system that will “work” for them.
How is it that such a mismatch can arise? Structures, processes, and procedures are developed within and for a worldview, and worldviews go through stages of maturation/development. Very often, some of the people asked to engage in and use those structures, processes, and procedure don’t have that worldview, including its capacities. The people are less mature, if you will.
The good news is that those who are ready can grow/mature/develop into it. Not learn, not choose. Maturation is built from experience and inner work.
That’s where I see Language of Spaces coming into the Next-Stage/Teal Organizations scene. LOS is not unique in addressing the need for certain personal and interpersonal skills and capacities in Teal settings; I estimate fully a third or more of the 830 articles EE Magazine has ever published, mention or address that need.
LOS is however, uniquely addressing the need, with powerful, deceptively simple (beyond complexity, built on it) capacity-developing programs, both introductory and coaching-certification levels (as well as one-on-one coaching, single or multi-day public or in-house workshops.)
The first of the four core capacities for functioning well, for thriving, in the environment of a Teal or next-stage organization, that E@W has identified, they call “Differentiation and Integration.” It’s explained in this article. The other three—Aligning Personal and Organization Purpose, Developing Inner Leadership, and Self-Realization (accessing inner wisdom)—are planned future articles.
The introductory workshop included powerful experiential exercises, obviously carefully chosen and designed, to give us a taste of what each capacity feels like in operation and also while it’s developing. The associated knowledge-frameworks were described in ways easy to relate to and understand, and clearly the tip of the iceberg of what could be learned in longer studies, such as the coaching-certification program.
For the introductory workshop I attended, there was also a rich, amazing “conference in the hallways.” Participants were generously sharing their wisdom and experiences around each others’ challenges, integrating with the learnings of the day. Clarity, inspiration, and breakthroughs abounded. Participants were in touch with their colleagues at work who implemented suggestions that very day, and we heard reports of satisfying, encouraging progress and results. Many of us were absorbing the consciousness-expansion going on, and were significantly re-orienting and revising our approaches to our situations in innovating next-stage organizations.
If news about this approach feels like a breath of fresh air in your situation, I can recommend exploring further, evolutionatwork.org. The effects of even this short exposure to their insights are going to continue to unfold and enliven my own work.
Alia Aurami: Within Enlivening Edge, I energize a variety of roles to express my sacred life mission: to amplify our human capacity for living, working, and relating within shared higher consciousness. That optimizes the chances of success of transformative changes, by operationalizing collective and spiritual intelligence to help organizations be efficient and effective. I delight in creating and amplifying synergistic connections toward all that!
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December 12, 2018 Andrew MacDonald Reply
I especially liked the “conference in the halls” mention. Isn’t that how it often is, that the good stuff comes from spontaneous chemistry between people that couldn’t be predicted or imagined beforehand.
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In planning and sizing of hybrid energy systems the conflicting objectives cost and performance are to be optimised simultaneously via a multi-objective optimisation process [1-2].
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Security threat intelligence
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Systemic risk modelling and market microstructure utilizing Hawkes processes and dynamic network approaches. Hawkes processes are a family of stochastic models to arrival of events in which the occurrence of any event would increase the intensity of further events occurring soon after.
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The aim of this project is to develop novel modelling and algorithmic solutions for the optimisation problem by drawing from existing research in the fields of optimisation and network theory.
Explaining Income Volatility and Risk Management Decisions on Irish Dairy Farms
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Dairy farming is a growing sector within Irish agriculture with approximately 16,100 specialist dairy farms engaging in milk production.
Fully-Funded Doctoral Studentship in Discovering Equations from Data in Biotechnology and Biotherapeutics
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Top men's qualifier seeds advance to Ios 1 star Main Draw
Martin Pihera of the Czech Republic tries to save the ball in the deciding match against Sweden in the qualifiers of the 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour One Star event in Ios.
Ios, Greece, June 14, 2019 - The top two seeds of the men's Qualification Tournament at the 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 1 star event at the stunning location of Mylopotas Beach on the Cycladic island of Ios advanced Friday to the 16-team Main Draw of the tournament which begins Saturday morning.
No. 1 seeds Marcel Myslivecek / Martin Pihera of the Czech Republic edged Sweden's Jakob Molin / Christofer Lewin 2-1 (21-13, 23-25, 15-10) and second-seeded Florian Gosselin / Jeremy Silvestre of France shut out Dimitris Apostolou / Sotiris Siapanis of Cyprus 2-0 (21-19, 21-15) in their deciding matches.
But third-seeded Andrey Bolgov / Vladislav Ermilov of Russia were knocked out by the second Czech team of Jindrich Weiss / Donovan Dzavoronok 2-0 (21-15, 21-13).
Joining the three in making the Main Draw were Norway's Daniel Bergerud / Lars Tveit Retterholt who beat Russia's Daniil Kuvichka / Anton Kislytsyn 2-1 (18-21, 21-18, 15-13).
Leading the pack in the men's Main Draw are Russia's Maxim Sivolap / Artem Yarzutkin, seeded No. 1.
They are playing in their 19th FIVB World Tour event, including a gold medal finish at the Kampong Speu One Star tournament earlier this year. In their last appearance before coming to Ios, the Russians picked up the silver medal at the Baden One Star event last week after losing in the final to Austria's Clemens Doppler / Alexander Horst.
Toms Smedins / Haralds Regza of Latvia are the 2nd seeded side in the 16-team Main Draw in Ios, with Yu Koshikawa / Jumpei Ikeda of Japan entering at No. 3.
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Additional History Flashcards
What year was the grandfather clause considered unconstitutional?
What are the two crucial phases in an election?
Getting nominated and getting elected.
Where people more likely to vote a straight party ticket in the past?
In the typical presidential race the winner gets less than 55 percent of the two-party vote; in the typical House race, the _______ wins with over 60 percent of the vote.
Incumbent.
What is the most obvious way in which presidential and congressional races differ?
What was the presidential race with the narrowest margin between the winner and loser in this century?
What is a position issue?
An issue in which rival candidates have opposing views on a question that divides voters.
What is a straight ticket?
Voting for candidates who are all of the same party.
What is a split ticket?
Voting for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election.
What is an office-bloc ballot?
A ballot listing all candidates of a given office under the name of that office; also called a "Massachusetts" ballot.
What is ballot is sometimes referred to as a Massachusetts ballot?
An office-bloc ballot.
What is a meeting of party delegates held every four years?
National convention.
What is an incumbent?
Someone already holding elective office.
What is malapportionment?
Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts so that they are unequal in population.
What is gerrymandering?
Drawing the boundaries of legislative districts in bizarre or unusual shapes to favor one party.
What is a sophomore surge?
An increase in the votes congressional candidates usually get when they first run for reelection.
Who is the only person to have served as vice president and president without being elected?
Gerald Ford.
Can people give as much money as they want to a presidential candidate?
Did the Bipartisan Campaign finanace Reform Act of 2002 shift influence away from business and unions and toward the media?
How much of the vote goes to the candidates of the two main parties?
At least 80%.
What factor makes a difference in the presidential race?
Party affiliation.
If it were only a matter of party identification, who would always win the presidency?
The democrats.
Who votes more?
Republicans.
Does representative government require voters to be well informed about issues?
What is something that has changed in campaigning?
The advent of primary elections.
There have been 12 presidential elections since 1952. How many times has power switched between the republican and democratic parties?
Where was the first national political convention?
Baltimore.
What is a political party?
A group that seeks to elect candidates to public office.
Republican party faction of the 1890s to the 1910s, composed of reformers who opposed patronage describes what?
Mugwumps and progressives
A critical or realignment period.
Periods when a major, lasting shift occurs in the popular coalition supporting one or both parties.
Delegates who run party affairs between national conventions.
National committee.
A meeting of party delegates held every four years.
A party committee in Congress that provides funds to members and would-be members.
Congressional campaign committee.
Day-to-day party manager elected by the national committee.
National chairman.
Party leaders and elected officials who become delegates to the national convention w/o having to run in primaries or caucuses.
Superdelegates.
A party organization that recruits members by dispensing patronage.
Political machine.
A party that values principled stands on issues above all else.
Ideological party.
The social rewards that lead people to join political organizations.
Solidary incentives.
Examples of solidary incentives.
Status, sense of pleasure, companionship.
A local or state political party that is largely supported by another organization in the community.
Sponsored party.
The political support provided to a candidate on the basis of personal popularity and networks.
Personal following.
An electoral system with 2 dominant parties that compete in national elections.
Two-party system.
An electoral system in which the winner is the person who gets the most votes, even if he or she doest not receive a majority.
Plurality system.
Parties seeking a single policy, usually revealed by their names, and avoiding other issues.
One-issue parties.
What voting system is used in almost all American elections?
A meeting of party members to select delegates backing one or another primary candidate.
Caucus.
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Additional Geography Flashcards
What are individual features of the Earth's surface called?
What are the three sections of the inside of the Earth?
The inner core is ___________________
and the outer core is ________________.
solid;
melted, liquid metal
How thick is the mantle?
What is the most studied layer of the Earth?
What is the theory that the crust is not an unbroken shell but is made up of moving plates or huge slabs of rock?
What are the three types of earthquakes?
Those that:
pull apart
push against each other
slide past one another
What is a crack in the Earth's crust called?
a fault
What are huge waves caused by undersea earhtquakes?
What is caused when magma breaks through the crust as lava?
What are the two types of volcanoes? Describe each.
1) cone-shaped: fiery burst of ashes and rock
2) flat: slow lava flows
What is the breaking of surface rocks by water, chemicals, and frost?
What is the wearing away of the surface by water, wind, and ice?
What are high peaks with steep or rugged slopes?
What are lower, more rounded peaks?
What is a high, flat area that rises above the land around it?
What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land?
What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides?
What is a narrow body of water between two pieces of land?
What is the air surrounding the earth?
What is the atmosphere made up of?
99% nitrogen and oxygen
What three things does the atmosphere do for us?
1) screens out dangerous rays from the sun
2) reflects some heat back into space
3) holds in enough heat to make life possible
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Minister wants more mediation in family justice system
Date:20 SEP 2010
Minister Jonathan Djanogly has said that more use should be made of mediation as an alternative to using courts in civil and family justice disputes.
Writing in the September issue of the Government Gazette, the junior justice minister said: "All too often court has been seen as the first, rather than the last, resort for dealing with disputes. We want to encourage people in disputes to play a greater role in resolving them themselves, in both civil and family issues."
Addressing the issue of mediation in the family justice system the minister said: "Particularly in relation to family cases where decisions about contact and residency of children are being made, we must ask whether a court is the most appropriate setting. I firmly believe that we need to look at the role mediators can play, so that more families can sit down and come to agreements without the cost and disruption often caused by lengthy court cases. Our evidence shows that mediation can be quicker, cheaper and provide better outcomes than going to court."
"By working closely with dispute resolution providers, the judiciary and the legal profession, we have the opportunity to pave the way for reform," the minister concluded.
Mediation is one option being looked at for the Government in the Family Justice Review chaired by David Norgrove. The review was announced as part of the cross-government Families and Relationships Green Paper, published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families in January.
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Subsidy, deregulation, liberalization: Nigerian English’s Most Abused Terms
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
The Buhari government’s battle to strangulate the masses through petrol price increase and other infernal neo-liberal policies is being fought on both the existential and semantic planes. Like past governments, this government is deploying intentional obfuscation, evasions, and outright prevarications to pollute national discourse and disguise the uncomfortable truth of its war on the poor. This column will lay bare some of these linguistic deceptions.
Some people may wonder why, since last week, I have been concerned with uncovering the deceit in the political language of this government instead of writing about everyday grammar and usage. Well, learning to read between the lines, not just on the lines, is an even more useful skill than mastery of the mechanics of language.
As eminent American linguist William D. Lutz once said, “There is more to being an effective consumer of language than just expressing dismay at dangling modifiers, faulty subject and verb agreement, or questionable usage. All who use language should be concerned whether statements and facts agree, whether language is, in Orwell's words 'largely the defense of the indefensible' and whether language 'is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.'"
Devious, manipulative language by government has real material consequences. It can literally kill. We are already seeing the prelude to that in Nigeria. People have been so thoroughly manipulated by the doublespeak of this government that they are even willing to commit self-immolation in defense of government’s oppression of them.
In 1975, an American linguist by the name of Terrence P. Moran wrote a thoughtful, widely cited linguistic essay on a scientific experiment conducted on rats. In the experiment, a group of rats was deliberately starved for an extended period. After the period of the starvation, the rats were divided into two groups. The first group was fed with a sugar-and-water solution, and the other group was fed with a mere non-nourishing-saccharine solution. Both groups felt “satisfied” after being fed, although saccharine solution doesn’t nourish. The saccharine-fed rats merely experienced an illusion of satisfaction. As you would expect, the rats fed on saccharine all died while the ones fed on sugar and water lived and thrived.
“This experiment suggests certain analogies between the environments created for rats by the scientists and the environments created for us humans by language and the various mass media of communication. Like the saccharine environment, an environment created or infiltrated by doublespeak provides the appearance of nourishment and the promise of survival, but the appearance is illusionary and the promise false,” Morgan wrote.
Can you find parallels between the experiment on rats—and Morgan’s profound extrapolation from it—and the current situation in Nigeria? If you haven’t, let me help. Government first engendered a deliberate, cripplingly severe artificial scarcity of petrol for weeks. During this period, petrol prices went through the roof. People got habituated to the scarcity and to the extortionate prices. Just then, government made the products available and increased the official price, which is significantly lower than the extortionate prices of the scarcity period, yet way higher than the price in the pre-scarcity period.
This created a sensation of relief for everybody. But, as it is true of the experiment with the rats, there are basically two groups of Nigerians: the wealthy and the poor. The sensation of satisfaction that the poor felt—and still feel— in the aftermath of the availability of petrol, which caused some of them, especially in the north, to demonstrate in favor of “petrol subsidy removal,” is false and illusory. It is mere suspended animation created by government propaganda and wily manipulation of language with the aid of the mass media. To quote Morgan, “an environment created or infiltrated by doublespeak provides the appearance of nourishment and the promise of survival, but the appearance is illusionary and the promise false.”
Wait and see what will happen to the poor, helpless people who have not only internalized their oppression but are defending and celebrating it. Marxists call this false consciousness.
The demonization of “subsidy”
One of the biggest linguistic casualties in this undeclared but nonetheless noxious war on the poor is the term “subsidy.” Government propaganda has gone on rhetorical overdrive to demonize the word, to make it into what American scholar Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr called a “devil term.” (Weaver later said, "A society's health or declension was mirrored in how it used language.")
When you demonize a good word, strip it of all its approbatory associations, you prepare uncritical minds to accept actions that are inimical to their interests. In their book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky perceptively show how the ruling elite in the United States contort the English language to blackmail the poor. Institutional benefits for the poor are ridiculed, and terms like “social welfare” are now invariably said with a tone of disapproval. But welfare packages to the rich and the powerful are called “bailouts” and have a tone approval about them.
As they pointed out, in democracies “when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force and when the voice of the people can be heard, ... you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda. Manufacture of consent. Creation of necessary illusions.”
Just like the American ruling elite have used the media to demonize “welfare,” the Nigerian ruling elite is launching a sustained, all-out linguistic attack on subsidy.
But what’s wrong with subsidy? At its root, subsidy, derived from Anglo-Norman French subsidie (ultimately from Latin subsidium), means “assistance.” In modern usage, it means “a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.” According to Investopia.com, “subsidy is usually given to remove some type of burden and is often considered to be in the interest of the public.” What’s wrong with that?
Up until this year, “subsidy” was a positive word in Nigeria. In fact, during the 2012 mass revolt against petrol price increase, a protester in Kano inscribed this pithy, profound words on the back of his shirt: “Subsidy is my soul.” Of course, subsidy is the soul of poor, struggling people. Without it many of them will simply wither and die. This is true not just in Nigeria but all over the world. Every government in the world, especially in the West, subsidizes basic goods, including petrol and agriculture products. As I pointed out in a previous article, America spends more than $10 billion yearly to subsidize petrol for its citizens and another $20 billion to subsidize agriculture, in addition to sundry economic liberties for its citizens. The European Union also spends billions on subsidies.
One of the sneaky ways this government tries to hoodwink people into thinking that subsidy is bad for them is to associate it with corruption. But that’s a false association. There is nothing in subsidies in and of themselves that makes them corrupt. Corruption in subsidy is failure of government. Government has a responsibility to ensure that corruption is curbed in the administration of subsidies so that poor people who are the intended beneficiaries of the subsidies aren’t robbed of them. Any government, not least one government that derives the social and moral basis of its legitimacy from its anti-corruption credentials, that can’t eliminate corruption and ensure that people who need subsidies get them, has no reason to exist.
Based on the fuzzy, fraudulent association of subsidies with corruption, the federal government announced late last week that it has removed subsidies on fertilizers. It later “clarified” that it will only remove the subsidies after it has “met farmers` conditions of prompt availability and affordability of the commodity." Same difference.
After fertilizer subsidies, other subsidies will follow, and the World Bank/IMF dream of “rolling back the state” in Third World countries would be complete--at least in Nigeria. But what is being rolled back is the obligation of the state to its citizens, not the privileges the ruling elite enjoy.
Since the political elite consume more than 80 percent of the state’s resources, what would their reason for being be? How about the subsidies they enjoy? Who will roll those back? Why do poor people have to suffer because of the corruption of the rich? Why does the government that has sworn to protect all citizens say it’s incapable of fighting elite corruption that stands in the way of delivering help to people who need it?
Deregulation/Liberalization: When Channels TV asked Ibe Kachikwu to explain to Nigerians what exactly the government was doing with its petrol price hike, he was caught flatfooted. "I try not to get into the semantics of deregulation or no deregulation but the reality is that we are liberalizing.” Steady, Kackikwu, whoa there! Whoa!
It was French philosopher Voltaire who once said, “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.” Kachikwu can’t define his terms, doesn’t know if what government is doing is “deregulation or no deregulation,” but he is certain that they are “liberalizing.” Talk of obfuscation.
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Shares of Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP), a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider for professional installers and do-it-yourself consumers, are up 8% as of 3:25 p.m. EDT Tuesday after a strong second-quarter result. In fact, the company's strong earnings result even boosted the share price of its competitors: AutoZone, Inc. (NYSE:AZO) popped more than 5% during early afternoon trading, and O'Reilly Automotive (NASDAQ:ORLY) also logged a smaller 3% gain.
Advance reported a 2.8% sales increase to $2.33 billion, which topped analysts' estimates looking for $2.27 billion. The top-line result was driven by a 2.8% increase in same-store sales, which topped estimates for only 0.1% growth. Adjusted earnings per share checked in at $1.97, well ahead of analysts' estimates calling for $1.86 per share.
President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Greco said the following in a press release:
Our relentless focus on strengthening our Customer Value Proposition while embracing an owner's mindset on cost and cash resulted in improved sales and profit performance in the second quarter. I am encouraged by the progress our team made during the first half of 2018 and confident in our ability to drive growth throughout the balance of 2018.
Management also raised its full-year revenue guidance to a range of $9.3 billion to $9.5 billion thanks to the strong start to 2018 and noted that industry demand continues to improve. Advance also announced a new share repurchase program authorized for $600 million, with plans to return $100 million to $200 million to shareholders through buybacks during the second half of 2018. You could argue that share buybacks aren't the best use of capital -- Advance isn't cheap, trading at a price-to-earnings ratio near 23 times -- but between rising same-store sales, profits that topped estimates, and increased full-year guidance, there was plenty for investors to like about Advance's second quarter.
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Thailand: Drop Defamation Charges Against Human Rights Defenders Opposing Gold Mine
End the use of defamation, judicial harassment to silence critics
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(Bangkok, March 30, 2016)—Gold-mining company Tungkum Ltd. should immediately and unconditionally drop all defamation-related charges against six human rights defenders allegedly involved in erecting anti-gold-mining signs in Thailand’s Loei Province, Fortify Rights said today. The six human rights defenders are core members of the Khon Rak Ban Kerd Group (KRBKG)—a community-based group committed to defending the local environment from negative impacts of the gold mine.
The Loei Provincial Court is expected to deliver a verdict this morning in a civil defamation case brought by Tungkum Ltd. against the six KRBKG members for erecting signs at the Na Nong Bong village entrance gate and along the main road within the village, calling for the closure of the controversial mine and rehabilitation of the local environment.
Tungkum Ltd. is seeking 50 million Thai Baht ($1.4 million) in compensation from the six KRBKG members for alleged damage to the company’s reputation.
“The company is on a legal rampage to silence its critics,” said Amy Smith, Executive Director of Fortify Rights. “If Tungkum Ltd. is truly concerned about its reputation, it should re-think its business and legal strategy and drop these charges.”
The six villagers charged in this case are Mr. Surapun Rujichaiyavat, Ms. Viron Rujichaiyavat, Mr. Konglai Phakmee, Mr. Samai Phakmee, Ms. Pornthip Hongchai, and Ms. Mon Khunna, who are living in communities surrounding the Tungkum Ltd. open-pit copper-gold mine.
On March 10, the company dropped a separate criminal defamation complaint against Surapun Rujichaiyavat, who was accused of harming the company’s reputation by allegedly posting on Facebook a petition letter demanding an investigation into the legality of the mining concession and transport of ore from the mine site. In that case, Surapun Rujichaiyavat faced up to one-year imprisonment or a fine of up to 20,000 Thai Baht (US $5,600) under Section 326 of the Thai Criminal Code as well as up to five years’ imprisonment or a fine of up to 100,000 Thai Baht (US $2,810) under the Computer Crime Act.
“These lawsuits are not an individual matter, but a public matter, and everyone in our community has been affected,” Surapun Rujichaiyavat told Fortify Rights.
Villagers from six communities surrounding the mine formed KRBKG in 2007 to advocate for a clean environment and to oppose the mining operation. On March 7, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand honored women of the KRBKG with a prestigious women human rights defenders award for their role in bringing much-needed attention to critical human rights problems in Thailand.
KRBKG members exercised their right to freedom of opinion and expression by erecting anti-mining signs within the village in Loei Province, and these actions constitute the legitimate work of human rights defenders, which Thailand has a duty to protect, Fortify Rights said.
Fortify Rights also called on the Government of Thailand to decriminalize defamation. Under international law, criminal penalties, and particularly imprisonment, are considered disproportionate forms of punishment for defamation. In Thailand, defamation laws tend to effectively restrict legitimate forms of speech, violating the right to freedom of expression and infringing on other fundamental rights.
Tungkum Ltd. has brought at least 19 criminal and civil lawsuits against 33 members of the KRBKG and other villagers in the past seven years, including the six members awaiting today’s verdict. Through these lawsuits, the company has sought 320 million Thai Baht (US$9 million) from villagers in Loei. Currently, eight criminal and civil cases involving at least 25 villagers are pending.
Most recently, the company filed criminal defamation complaints against a 15-year-old Thai schoolgirl and the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS). On March 21, the Bangkok Criminal Court postponed the merit hearing in the Thai PBS case to May 30, 2016.
In 2015, the Central Bankruptcy Court in Thailand ordered Tungkum Ltd. to undergo a “business rehabilitation process.” In February 2016, Tongkah Harbour—the parent company of Tungkum Ltd.—announced plans to begin mining operations in Laos and Myanmar.
“Businesses have a responsibility to promote and protect human rights,” said Amy Smith, Executive Director of Fortify Rights. “The company should drop all unwarranted charges against human rights defenders and end this outrageous legal campaign against fundamental freedoms, which is ultimately harmful to Thailand.”
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The new scripts India is playing to
This Week: Haresh Chawla on the digital trends to watch for in 2019, interview with Kishore Mahbubani, Bitcoin, business models and more
Haresh Chawla
Dec 17, 2018 7:12a.m.
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My readers often ask me how do I put a framework to my writings. The secret lies in spending so many years in the media business. Here’s what I’ve learnt, and why.
It was 1989, and I had just started my job as a salesman, walking the streets of Mumbai, selling PCs which probably had less computing power than the microwave sitting in your kitchen today! I took some heady risks with my career and am fortunate to have spent the better part of 30 years “midwifing” new businesses. The ventures spanned across television, print, music, movies, the web and more—virtually every media business except radio! From tiny one-room, five-people outfits that built a new web service to mass entertainment channels that reached over two-thirds of all Indian households every night. At last count, there were about 60 of them—about half are thriving, the rest failures. I call it “midwifing” because the credit belongs entirely to the teams that dug into the ground and built the business. I merely provided the resources and some of the conviction. Media is about execution. Anyone can have great ideas.
Consumers hold your success in their hands
The media business is brutal. Success and failure are instant, and unpredictable. If your product fails to meet the mark, it means sudden death. No amount of cajoling will make a viewer watch, a reader read, a listener listen. Customers don’t care how hard you worked to write a piece of music, or how difficult it was to shoot. How much time and effort you spent doesn’t matter. Or if your last creation was a hit, or you are a debutante. They are simply enthralled by it or they reject it. There is no second chance, no cash-backs you can offer.
In that sense, it’s the truest, purest business. It is just you and the consumer, and nothing in between. What you did yesterday doesn’t matter. There are no moats. The cameras, the studios, the actors… all are equally accessible to everyone. You can craft a blockbuster in Rs 20 crore or deliver a disastrous flop after blowing Rs 200 crore. Quite simply, the narrative you have in your mind, the one that appears crystal clear and a winner to you, is not what the customer sees. There is nowhere to hide. Failure is personal.
Know the script that’s playing
Thus when I sit back and think about the differentiator, I realise it’s the script—that’s all that matters. The singular difference is the idea, the script and how you execute it. And does it resonate with your consumer. I mean “script” in the broadest sense of the word. It’s the how and the what—that makes all the elements come together into creating a hit.
We can see the scripts playing out in companies. In sectors. In markets. You can see the scripts of consumers as they go through life changes. India is the verdant ground of changing narratives and new scripts are being written everyday. I call it “compression”—we are packing into a decade or two what Western societies underwent in five. China went through the same, but few lessons translate since we have a different operating system in our economy.
As technology destroys the barriers and moats businesses construct around themselves, success lies in whether you can see the script that’s playing out, and whether you can walk lock-step with it. Or can you craft a new tune? The fact that your brand is 50 years old, or that you have 5,000 salesmen won’t matter. The smartphone is bringing your business down to a few pixels and your challenger is just a swipe away.
Success can blind you to emerging realities
Your current revenues are a lagging indicator, and they fool you into thinking you are safe. Growth and size fooled Nokia, Blackberry and the venerable “best-managed-company-in-the-world”, GE, into believing they were invincible. We all know how that played out.
We stand on the cusp of change in India, as an overwhelming digital tsunami will hit every single business in the country. What matters is how you script your business. Every search and every experience will first begin on a 4x5-inch screen. How you script things from thereon will be the difference between relevance and oblivion.
Watching for scripts is a habit I am cultivating. And you can see them everywhere. On the hoardings on the streets, in the jokes that standup comics tell, in the idle conversation with the Uber driver, or a kind word to the Zomato delivery boy. In the changing stories in movies. In the newspapers as you read about the struggles and tribulations of Indian businesses. The scripts are in the air around us. We just need to be curious enough and keep an open mind.
Every day that a board meeting in a large business concludes how something cannot be done, there are two youngsters sitting somewhere waiting to prove them wrong. The ultimate danger a leader poses to himself or herself is to cultivate an inflexible mind. Success-induced myopia is a chronic affliction for CEOs.
To begin your 2019, I’ve compiled some of the key scripts and narratives I am seeing in the market. Have a read, and please do join in with your thoughts—tag them with #Trends2019.
Here’s wishing you a great 2019.
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Trendspotting: The shape of all things digital in 2019
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How cheap bandwidth and smartphones together with micropayents will affect tectonic shifts in telecom, TV and Bollywood, retail, banking and more. (By Haresh Chawla. Read Time: 12 mins)
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Haresh Chawla is currently a Partner at True North (formerly India Value Fund Advisors). True North is one of India's most experienced and respected private equity funds, with over $1.5 billion under management. At True North, he focuses on investments in the food and consumer sectors where he identifies and helps transform mid-size businesses.
He is best known though for his leadership in transforming the Network18 Group into a formidable media network. Under his watch as Founding CEO, Network 18 became India's fastest growing Media and Entertainment network.
In his dual leadership roles at Network18 and Viacom18, he built a media conglomerate that reached over 300 million households across platforms including television, print, films, mobile and internet.
His career at Network18 spanned 12 years, and he grew revenues from $3 million in 1999 to $500 million in 2012. He transformed the company from a TV production house to India's leading multi-media house with over 11 TV channels including Colors, CNBC-TV18, CNN IBN, MTV India and Nick India. He forged joint ventures and long-term partnerships with the world's largest media companies including NBC (Comcast), CNN, Viacom, Forbes, A&E Networks.
Haresh has also been keenly engaged in the consumer internet revolution in India from the early nineties. He is credited with building India's largest most well-known internet businesses like Moneycontrol, Bookmyshow, Yatra, Firstpost and Homeshop18. He continues as a successful investor and mentor to several internet and consumer start-ups today.
Earlier, Haresh has been part of founding teams at the HCL Comnet; ABCL, where he set up the Film Distribution Business, and at the Times of India Group where he launched Times Music.
Haresh holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Master's degree in Business Management from IIM Calcutta. He lives with his wife and two children in Mumbai.
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Astronomers Solve Mystery of Black Hole Jets
By Clara Moskowitz, | Space.com
While we may never know what it looks like inside a black hole, astronomers recently obtained one of the closest views yet.
The sighting allowed scientists to confirm theories about how these giant cosmic sinkholes spew out jets of particles travelling at nearly the speed of light.
Ever since the first observations of these powerful jets, which are among the brightest objects seen in the universe, astronomers have wondered what causes the particles to accelerate to such great speeds.
• Click here to watch a computer animation of the black hole spewing out its jets.
A leading hypothesis suggested the black hole's gigantic mass distorts space and time around it, twisting magnetic field lines into a coil that propels material outward.
Now researchers have observed a jet during a period of extreme outburst and found evidence that streams of particles wind a corkscrew path away from the black hole, as the leading hypothesis predicts.
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"We got an unprecedented view of the inner portion of one of these jets and gained information that's very important to understanding how these tremendous particle accelerators work," said Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher, who led the research team.
The results of the study are detailed in the April 24 issue of the journal Nature.
The team studied a galaxy called BL Lacertae (BL Lac), about 950 million light years from Earth, with a central black hole containing 200 million times the mass of our Sun.
Since this supermassive black hole's jets are pointing nearly straight at us, it is called a blazar (a quasar is often thought to be the same as a blazar, except its jets are pointed away from us).
The new observations, taken by the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, along with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and a number of optical telescopes, show material moving outward along a spiral channel, as the scientists expected.
These data support the suggestion that twisted magnetic field lines are creating the jet plumes.
Material in the center of the galaxy, such as nearby stars and gas, gets pulled in by the black hole's overwhelming gravity and forms a disk orbiting around the core (the material's inertia keeps it spiraling in a disk rather than falling straight into the black hole).
The distorted magnetic field lines seem to pull charged particles off the disk and cause them to gush outward at nearly the speed of light.
"We knew that material was falling in to these regions, and we knew that there were outbursts coming out," said University of Michigan astronomer Hugh Aller, who worked on the new study. "What's really been a mystery was that we could see there were these really high-energy particles, but we didn't know how they were created, how they were accelerated.
"It turns out that the model matches the data. We can actually see the particles gaining velocity as they are accelerated along this magnetic field."
The astronomers also observed evidence of another phenomenon predicted by the leading hypothesis — that a flare would be produced when material spewing out in the jets hit a shock wave beyond the core of the black hole.
"That behavior is exactly what we saw," Marscher said.
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Sarmad Khoosat says being pressurised to stop release of 'Zindagi Tamasha'
Sarmad Khoosat. Photo: File
Filmmaker Sarmad Khoosat on Thursday drew Prime Minister Imran Khan's attention towards hurdles being created in the release of his upcoming film Zindagi Tamasha.
Taking to Twitter, Khoosat shared an open letter addressed to the prime minister and others concerned.
He wrote, "24th of January was set as the release date. However, a 'complaint' was registered against the writer, the producer and myself, based on assumptions made from the two and a half minute long trailer,".
Khoosat further said, "As a law-abiding citizen and with full conviction that there is nothing offensive or malicious in the film, in response I submitted the film for another review to the censor board. It was cleared once again with a few cuts to appease the complainants. I launched the promotional campaign and now, just a week before the film's release, another attempt is being made by the some group to stop the release of the film and this time they are hell-bent on using pressurising tactics".
"I am bringing this to your notice not just because my team and I are being bullied and pressurised but also because this series of episodes undermines a state institution like the Central Board of Film Censors and strips it of its authority and stature. The space for rational and artistic thinking and expression must not be annexed by a few troublemakers for their political ends but I fear this is what will happen if we buckle under this time. Sincerely, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat," read Khoosat's letter.
Directed and co-produced by Sarmad along with his sister Kanwal Khoosat, Zindagi Tamasha is a bilingual movie, which has been shot in the beautiful city of Lahore.
Written by Nirmal Bano, a fresh graduate from NCA, it features model turned actress Eman Suleman, Samiya Mumtaz, Arif Hasan and Ali Qureshi in pivotal roles, while Sarmad will have a special appearance in the upcoming film.
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Who said I'd lied?
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Who said I'd lied to her?
Who said lied I'd to her?
Those who have lied...
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- But you said... - I lied.
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I lied.
The... the guy who lied?
he lied too.
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You said that and you lied!
Your granny lied. I'd rather be shiny
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All the Way (2016)
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ALF (1986) - S01E21 Family
The "boy who cried wolf"... lied.
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I lied about who you are.
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Analysis FT Markets video
How sneaker fans are cashing in on the $2bn resale market for limited edition trainers
The FT meets the key players and influencers in the obsessive world of sneaker resale, where trainers like those from Nike Air Jordan and Adidas Yeezy can make a fortune for entrepreneurs that treat shoes like stocks on platforms including StockX
Directed, filmed and edited by Donell Newkirk; additional camera Ben Marino, Willie Garrett Newkirk; original soundtrack by Dirty Blonde, Donell Newkirk
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JOE LAPUMA: The reselling aspect of sneaker culture has changed everything
PJ TUCKER: I think, now, is the biggest time for sneakers in maybe it's ever been.
JOHN KERNAN: There's people taking money. And rather investing in a traditional asset classic stock or bond, they're buying sneakers. And they're investing in that sneaker. And they're selling it on an exchange later.
UPSCALE: There is a lot of money to be made in this game. You could make 50 grand in a weekend, man. I've seen people do it.
JOHN KERNAN: We estimate that there's over $2 billion in gross market value overall. Footwear being resold, we think StockX is the leader in this market with gross market value north of $1 billion.
JOSH LUBER: We connect buyers and sellers the same way that the world's stock markets connect buyers and sellers.
SCOTT CUTLER: Just like Apple doesn't trade at the same price every single day in the market, nor does a particular sneaker trade for the same price from day-to-day.
JOE LAPUMA: Some people's closets, you look at it, and it's stock portfolio.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: There's some shoes I love so much, I got 41 pairs of the same exact shoes.
WILLIAM DEBORD: Resell's all about product allocation. It's all about who can get it and where you sending it that the person is willing to pay you more.
JOHN KERNAN: We think this market can grow from $2 billion to $6 billion in a relatively short time period.
[DING]
[? JOE LAPUMA: ?] These days, sneakers are more like stocks than your average trainers. Prices up and down like Wall Street, some experts buy the sneaker resale market at over $2 billion. And it could be $6 billion by 2025.
[MUSIC - KIRKO BANGZ, "DRANK IN MY CUP"]
(SINGING) Uh, got this drank in my cup. Oh, I fill that cup, I fill that cup.
[? JOE LAPUMA: ?] We're going to take a deep look at the industry, show you who and what is making it move.
(SINGING) Is it lost, baby, tell me what you plan on it.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: I had lost a job and something that I enjoy doing. And I was just trying to find another job, and I figured selling sneakers would hold me over until I found that other job. Well, that other job never came. And we wind up opening this bank account, get a little $2,500 lot of credit line. And the day I signed the lease to my store, I had $40 to my name.
So in four years, it jumps from $40 to 20 million in sales to 2019. We wind up teaming up with American Eagle, and I sell part of my business to American Eagle. And I got Urban Necessities inside American Eagle.
JOHN KERNAN: There's ultimately some companies here that are earning very good economic returns on facilitating these exchanges. And I think you're seeing investors look at these businesses very seriously.
UPSCALE: ComplexCon, 6:00 AM right now. There's literally nobody here yet. I will be the first person to purchase the Safari Pack that is coming out-- three new different shoes, should be very profitable. They cost around, I think, $230, retail-- should be able to sell for about $600.
Let's see how many we could get. We're also going to be heading to Chinatown market. Converses are going to be $100. Should be able to sell those for about $400 to $500. But yeah, I can't really disclose how I'm here so early. But shout out to the plug. Thank you.
JOSH LUBER: The amount of money you can make is essentially unlimited.
JOHN KERNAN: And there are sneaker resellers that we've seen, they're earning several hundred thousand dollars a year.
JOSH LUBER: The way to make the most money is if you can acquire these shoes at retail.
JIMMY: We find out where is it going to release? Who has the shoe? What retailers? How limited is the shoe? And if we possibly get it before anybody else, we are the ones that create the market.
UPSCALE: There's this thing called "backdoor" now. Backdoor is pretty much getting a shoe early from a retailer or somewhere like that or someone that works inside.
JOSH LUBER: The chances of any average person being able to buy a pair of the shoes that are highly coveted is effectively zero.
PJ TUCKER: I have no idea how kids get on there. On the resell, it's like, yo, what are y'all doing? It's crazy.
[MUSIC - DIRTY BLONDE, "DEMONS"]
(SINGING) Demons in my heart, surrounded. But they'll never take me. Drowning, you're my lifeline. I'm drowning. You're my lifeline, baby.
UPSCALE: Buyers reach out to us. It's because they know the shoe is going to go up in value, and you know what the hype is about, especially now with all the marketing that's going on with social media and stuff like that. We're tracking the markets, let's say the StockXes, the GOATs, eBay, and we're trying to compete with their prices. We try to buy every pair that comes out of the store.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
[? CONVENTION WORKER: ?] Get your ticket.
UPSCALE: Thank you.
[? CONVENTION WORKER: ?] Remember, you guys heard me already?
UPSCALE: Chinatown market. Number one, going to be getting these Chucks.
[? CONVENTION WORKER: ?] Are y'all ready?
UPSCALE: Hey, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, right now we're getting the Chinatown market UV Chucks. They actually change colours, pretty dope shoe, $100 retail. What's going on, man?
CASHIER: What can I do for you?
UPSCALE: I'll take a size 10 high. So I just got a size 10, high, in the Converses, a very, very dope shoe. As you can see, retail is $100 on the shoe. Should be reselling for about $500, $600. If you have a lot of capital, you're able to hold onto them, and then eventually they'll end up going up, stuff like that. This is the shoe right here. You want to flash the UV light? They change colours.
DYLAN ARYVAND: I'm Dylan Aryvand, I'm 13 years old, and I started reselling when I was eight years old.
INTERVIEWER: How much money do you think you've made since you started reselling, if you could estimate?
DYLAN ARYVAND: Probably in the five digits. I mostly sell on StockX, Goat, and the Sneaker Con app.
SCOTT CUTLER: We have a marketplace of buyers that come to our sites and look for the most sought after sneakers. Those buyers have the opportunity to either buy it at its market clearing price, or to be able to set a price at which they are willing to buy that item. On the other side of the marketplace, we have a really dynamic marketplace of sellers. Consumers, individuals, businesses, brands that are essentially selling that same product, and also choosing a price at which they want to sell at.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: I think it's great, because it's become the Kelly Blue Book of sneakers, and now everybody has a fair guideline that everybody has to try to abide by. Because although you might be able to get someone to justify your added expense or different price, this polices what is essentially like the wild, wild west.
JIMMY: If you think the sneaker business is worth $1 billion, just imagine what the counterfeit sneaker business is worth.
UPSCALE: The counterfeit business is insane right now. Literally, you see every single shoe being counterfeited, and they sell. People in the streets are wearing them, and you can't really tell. We literally only buy from stores.
SCOTT CUTLER: The only thing that can really sell on our platform is somebody that has bought and held a shoe that's in perfect condition, that we then authenticate to the buyer.
JOSH LUBER: Seller sends it to us, we authenticate it, and make sure not only that it's real, but it's the right size, the right condition, it is what it's supposed to be. And then we send it to the buyer.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: StockX, I love y'all, for real. Love y'all. They changed the whole way I operate.
UPSCALE: We end up finding a way to get multiples of these shoes. It's literally crazy the way we get it, but we get a lot of numbers in there.
[MUSIC - DIRTY BLONDE, "WOAH VICKY"]
(SINGING) I've been my pack, baby. Virgin Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow, that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors, [MUTED] around and crash, baby. I do the dash, baby.
UPSCALE: These are some of the purchases that we made. A lot of Converse, these were pretty much the two sneakers of the event that are actually profitable. Yeah, I ended up getting a lot of pairs. Yeah, this was pretty crazy, I ain't even gonna lie, especially for being by myself. None of my team is out here, so I literally did all of this by myself. $870 off Converses, that's pretty good. That's good, right there.
[? JIMMY (ON PHONE): ?] Yo, where you at?
UPSCALE: I'm at the hotel. Yeah, I'm at the hotel.
[? JIMMY (ON PHONE): ?] Yo, go back to ComplexCon.
UPSCALE: I'm going back right now. There's going to be a stash, right?
[? JIMMY (ON PHONE): ?] Yeah, go back there now. Hurry up.
UPSCALE: All right, I'm coming now. I'm coming now.
(SINGING) I don't want no drama.
UPSCALE: They're allowed? No?
(SINGING) Don't put up with no [MUTED] drama. I got the heat of a [MUTED] conner. And you keep the heat while I keep you hotter.
UPSCALE: Where's he got-- where's that?
SUBJECT: Where's parking lot 41?
UPSCALE: I don't know. Wait, let me think. Where the [BLEEP] is that at?
JAYSSE LOPEZ: Through Sneaker Con, I've been able to-- I've come to every single show for the last four years. And in the last two, three years, I've probably spent $10, $11 mill buying shoes. Now keep in mind, I started with $40.
WILLIAM DEBORD: We just wanted to come together and start, create a place where resellers could come together with buyers and just buy, sell, and trade.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: This is the only industry in the entire world with anything that has to do with buying, selling, trading a good that accepts all walks of life. Certain retail, you walk into the store, the second you walk into the store, no matter what-- It don't matter how you dress, it don't matter how educated you are. The second that stereotype hits and you ask for something in that store, they're not going to help you, bro. They not. That happens to me all day long, it's the reason why I dress this way. And more women need more shots.
CUSTOMER: You guys got any other? Other than the zebras, y'all got any other size? I can't find them in the size right here.
JOHN KERNAN: It's a young, male-dominated marketplace at this point. That's not to say women won't, and girls won't become more active in this marketplace. Nike, Adidas, Jordan, they're making great shoes for girls too, and women, and I think that women are a major focus inside Nike in particular.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: That's where the influencers need to go, because those are the people that are going to get more support than the athlete. The days of the athlete being the influencers, those are, that's becoming extinct.
UPSCALE: The way a shoe builds hype or goes from a $200 to a $1,000 shoe or anything like that, I would say first, it's going to be social media.
JOE LAPUMA: The roll-out plans that brands are doing now, and the competition between the major brands to make sure that their endorsers are doing something different to launch a product is just adding hype to this stuff.
UPSCALE: Once the everyday human sees these people wear these shoes, they want the shoe. And that's when the resell comes in, because you can't purchase these shoes, and that's where we come in, because we're going to be the people that have the shoes.
WILLIAM DEBORD: Right now, the reason that a lot of kids, especially the really, really young kids are able to do this, is because everything went digital.
UPSCALE: So the stash, you literally have to run to a location and scan everything with your phone, and that gives you the chance to purchase the shoe. Let's get it. Let's go, let's go. You know what time is it.
JOHN KERNAN: Resellers are making the most money out of this, for sure, right now. The manufacturers, they're ultimately earning, like I said, halo benefits. The hype and the buzz that's getting created in resale is 100% filtering back into the primary markets.
PJ TUCKER: It's going to be interesting to see how the companies start to try to monetize. You see now, they're putting out more pairs, flooding the market with it.
JOSH LUBER: The real business is ultimately working with brands to become an alternate retail channel, to literally IPO products into existence, where brands can release products at a true market value as opposed to this very antiquated concept today, of retail price.
JOHN KERNAN: These limited edition scarce Nike, Jordan, Yeezy, Adidas sneakers are a form of creative self-expression for a demographic, these Gen-Z, millennial consumers that are really obsessed with being unique and differentiated.
PJ TUCKER: There's no shortage of fans, of people that want this stuff now.
JOE LAPUMA: Everyone is always waiting for the sneaker bubble to burst, and I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.
DYLAN ARYVAND: My love for sneakers will never go away.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: I think I'll forever be tied to Sneaker Con.
UPSCALE: There is a lot of money to be made in this game.
JAYSSE LOPEZ: There's thousands, if not millions of transactions happening online per day. It's nowhere near a bubble, bro.
JOE LAPUMA: I think that as StockX or Stadium Goods get these evaluations, all it does is make people who want to invest money in soaring markets more aware.
JOSH LUBER: We think this is, kind of for lack of a less cliche way of saying it, a truly revolutionary form of commerce. This doesn't exist outside of the actual stock market. And we think that this is, not only will it exist in 10 years, but this is logically how these certain products should be sold.
JOE LAPUMA: Our parents may not have been paying attention to, this Jordan is coming out, or this AirMax is coming out. But when they read something in the Financial Times, or something else that there is a billion dollar industry on the secondary market of sneakers, that's something that they're paying attention to, and it's opened up the eyeballs, it's opened up sneaker culture to the masses.
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Jason Alexander Reveals Secret behind His Hair Restoration
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After sporting thinning hair for a couple of decades, Jason Alexander’s thatch suddenly started looking denser and thicker. This left people wondering whether the George Costanza of Seinfeld has undergone surgical hair transplant or he has started getting his hair back naturally in his 50s, something that has never happened before in the history of mankind. Are you also curious to know the truth behind Alexander’s mysterious hair? Continue reading…
The Seinfeld Star uses Twitter to Explain his Hair Restoration
While a vast majority of George Contanza’s fans and critics was convinced that the 55-year-old American comedian has had hair transplant, Costanza used Twitter to share his story. On his twitter @IJasonAlexander, the American actor and comedian revealed that he started losing hair during his teenage – when he was just 17. However, he was grateful to Androgenic Alopecia, as it was bald head that helped him start his acting career with a character of an older man.
But overtime, it was the baldness that started becoming a bit of professional issue, as his bald scalp started reflecting stage lights and thus becoming a distraction for not only him and his tea, but also his audience. So after discussing with his wife, Alexander decided to put some hair back on. But the couple was not in favor of getting a surgical hair transplant. So the Seinfeld star went for a hairpiece. Costanza also revealed that he had his hairpiece specially designed by a designer, with an aim to restore a look of a guy who has just started losing his hair from the frontal part.
Hairpiece or Hair Transplant, which one is better
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You're Fired? Carrie Prejean Awaiting Verdict Over Provocative Pictures
By Hollie McKay, | Fox News
You're Fired? Carrie Prejean Awaiting Verdict Over Provocative Pictures | Miss USA Host Billy Bush Thinks Carrie Prejean Will 'Resign' | Aubrey O’Day Drops F-bomb on Paris Hilton’s BFF, Brittny Gastineau Freaks Out Over Swine Flu and What Bites Vanessa Minnillo in the Butt?
When Carrie Prejean returned from the Miss USA pageant in Sin City two weeks ago, the 21-year-old surely had no idea that so many "sins" of her own would surface.
The California representative was slammed for voicing her traditional views on marriage during the live telecast. Later, it emerged that state pageant officials had paid for her breast implants just prior to the competition. On Monday, scandalous snaps taken of Prejean in her underwear hit the Web.
Then on Wednesday, the gossip site TMZ said a source close to Prejean sent them four (highly graphic) photos of Carrie Prejean, causing another stir within the Miss California community.
"I'm absolutely stunned. This completely changes things for us. Yesterday, we thought she had explained things accurately. We need to revisit this issue with her," Miss California co-chair Keith Lewis told Tarts in a statement Wednesday.
So could these photos (taken several years prior to the high-profile pageant) cost her the crown and the chance to become Miss USA if the current titleholder, Kirsten Dalton, goes on to become Miss Universe?
Pop Tarts obtained an official contract signed by Prejean before competing in the state pageant preliminary last year which indicates that the beauty queen may have violated the rules & regulations as her state representative. By signing the contract, Prejean agreed to "conduct activities in life according to the highest moral standards" and understood that "appearing in public or permitting myself to be photographed in the state of partial nudity or in the nude constitutes a violation of this provision (that includes photographs that may have appeared on MySpace or Facebook)."
RELATED: Click here to see the contract.
Donald Trump, co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization, refused to comment on the current controversy although according to insiders he is investigating the issue and taking it very seriously -- although this definitely isn’t the first time the Donald has been slapped with a snap-related scandal.
In December 2006, former Miss Nevada Katie Rees was dethroned when pictures of her performing intimate acts and simulating oral sex were leaked. However in 2006, Miss Universe Australia Erin McNaught was still allowed to compete despite having posed topless for men’s magazine "Zoo Weekly" in 2004.
An inside source told Tarts that California's pageant directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler met behind closed doors on Tuesday and are expected to make an announcement with regards to Prejean's fate on Wednesday.
However at this stage, Prejean herself has no plans to surrender her sash.
"Carrie will continue to be doing what she's doing," her rep told Tarts on Tuesday afternoon. "She is taking this week off to make some plans and take some meetings but as of right now nothing has changed."
The San Diego native also feels that the release of the pictures is yet another attempt to discredit her strong Christian values.
"I am a Christian and I am a model. Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos," Prejean said in a statement. "The photos of me taken as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid website that openly mocks me for me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect and I will never claim to be perfect."
However it seems the nudie pics may not be the only term the blonde beauty breached. According to the contract, she also agreed that the state pageant directors have "exclusive right and control over all personal appearances" related to her regal role and despite numerous requests from Moakler and Lewis not to continue talking to the press about the issue, Prejean spoke out to various media outlets.
"Carrie is going to have to stop doing the press circuit about how great it is she used the First Amendment and her First Right, and really sit down with these people that she’s hurt," Moakler told Tarts last week.
Miss USA Host Billy Bush Thinks Carrie Prejean Will 'Resign'
Billy Bush has been hosting beauty pageants for quite some time now, but we’re assuming (thanks to Carrie Prejean’s controversial response to Perez Hilton’s question on gay marriage) that he hasn’t experienced any quite as tumultuous as 2009’s Miss USA crowning.
"I think Miss California answered very honestly, she was true to herself and to her beliefs," Bush told Tarts at Sunday’s Lollipop Theater Network’s Game Day on Sunday. "But I’m amazed at where she's gone with it. She's sort of found a new crusade."
And ultimately, Bush believes that "new crusade" of speaking out for her belief in traditional marriage could cost her the Miss California crown.
"Since Miss USA, there has been no phone calls between the California organization and her. I think she’s gone," he added. "Ultimately my guess is that she'll resign because why be Miss California when you've got a bigger platform and a bigger audience? So I think she's going to do that."
Aubrey O’Day Drops F-Bomb on Paris Hilton’s BFF, Brittny Gastineau Freaks Out Over Swine Flu and What Bites Vanessa Minnillo in the Butt?
Former "Danity Kane" diva Aubrey O’Day isn’t one to mince words, and she certainly wasn’t taking any false friendliness from Paris Hilton’s former BFF Brittny Flickinger at Monster Energy Drink’s 4th Annual Music Saves Lives event at the Key Club in West Hollywood on Thursday. Apparently there has been a bit of bad blood between the girls before, stemming from this year’s Sundance Film Festival when Hilton reportedly ditched Flickinger and instead partied and pranced all week with O’Day.
We’re told the songstress was sitting at a table with E! correspondent Ashlan Gorse and celeb jeweler Pascal Mouawad when Flickinger came up to say hello …
"You are the b*tch that was talking sh*t on me, I saw your video on youtube," O’Day snarled. "F*ck off and get lost!’" Ouch.
Earlier in the night Flickinger bopped around at the Catch Boutique launch and told Tarts that she and her "BFF" Paris haven’t spoken in months just because "they are both two busy with their careers." Right. Also at the party was Brittny Gastineau, who had only just calmed down from her swine flu scare.
"I just was in Mexico for Kourtney Kardashian's birthday but I spoke to my doctor today and it's just a flu and most people don't know that 40,000 Americans die from the flu every year -- so it’s just the flu," she explained. "Everyone is freaking out, and I understand because I was freaking out before. I was twittering about it, I’m obsessed with twitter and I was twittering "omg swine flu am I gonna die?" But then I called my doctor today and he said don’t worry you're fine."
Well, we hope considering we were standing next to her … Vanessa Minnillo also made a party appearance and gave us a useful tip to getting bikini-ready.
"There is no way to get ready for summer, it always sneaks up and bites you in the butt," she said, adding that she doesn’t diet and tries to workout as often as possible.
Hollie McKay has a been a Fox News Digital staff reporter since 2007. She has extensively reported from war zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, and Latin America investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the world. Follow her on Twitter.
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AAA Games Losing Player Base – Kojima
Hideo Kojima is certainly no stranger of speaking his mind on the video game industry. Now it looks like the Metal Gear Solid creator believes that big AAA title video games are no longer keeping interest for gamers.
“We’ve seen a phenomenon around the world,” Kojima said. “Young people are losing interest in high-end games and focusing on mobile and social titles, especially in Japan.”
Speaking to GamesTM, Kojima talked about the loss of interest for AAA title video games. There has been a big move for the mobile platform with smartphones and tablets flooded onto the market. After all, Nintendo has been considering the market for app created video games. Though to see that the mobile market is now making an impact, at least in Kojima’s eyes, it’s a bit surprising. According to Kojima, the next two Metal Gear Solid titles known as Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, has been made in part of showing off that AAA games are still relevant.
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will be available this March 18th on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 along with other platforms. As for Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain, expected release date will be sometime 2015. Do you agree with Kojima’s comment or do you feel the AAA games are still highly relevant and played today?
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The solar thermal power system collects the thermal energy in solar radiation and uses at high or low temperature. The low temperature applications include water and space heating for commercial and residential buildings.1 Producing electricity using the steam-turbine-driven electrical generator is a high temperature application discussed in this chapter.
The technology of generating electrical power using the solar thermal energy has been demonstrated at commercial scale. The research and development funding have primarily come from the government, with active participation of some electric utility companies.
Figure 9-1 is a schematic of a large-scale solar thermal power station developed, designed, built, tested, and operated with the U.S. Department of Energy funding. In this plant, the solar energy is collected by thousands of sun-tracking mirrors, called heliostats, that reflect the sun's energy to a single receiver atop a centrally located tower. The enormous amount of energy focused on the receiver is used to generate high temperature to melt a salt. The hot molten salt is stored in a storage tank, and is used, when needed, to generate steam and drive the turbine generator. After generating the steam, the used molten salt at low temperature is returned to the cold salt storage tank. From here it is pumped to the receiver tower to get heated again for the next thermal cycle. The usable energy extracted during such a thermal cycle depends on the working temperatures. The maximum ther-modynamic conversion efficiency that can be theoretically achieved with the hot side temperature Thot and the cold side temperature Tcold is given by the Carnot cycle efficiency, which is as follows:
Thot n carnot where the temperatures are in absolute scale. The higher the hot side working temperature and lower the cold side exhaust temperature, the higher the plant efficiency of converting the captured solar energy into electricity. The hot side temperature Thot , however, is limited by the properties of the working medium. The cold side temperature Tcold is largely determined by the cooling method and the environment available to dissipate the exhaust heat.
Solar thermal power plant schematic for generating electricity.
A major benefit of this scheme is that it incorporates the thermal energy storage for duration in hours with no degradation in performance, or longer with some degradation. This feature makes the technology capable of producing high-value electricity for meeting peak demands. Moreover, compared to the solar photovoltaic, the solar thermal system is economical, as it eliminates the costly semiconductor cells.
9.1 Energy Collection
The solar thermal energy is collected by concentrators. Three alternative configurations of the concentrators are shown in Figure 9-2. Their main features and applications are as follows:
9.1.1 Parabolic Trough
The parabolic trough system is by far the most commercially matured of the three technologies. It focuses the sunlight on a glass-encapsulated tube running along the focal line of the collector. The tube carries heat absorbing liquid, usually oil, which in turn, heats water to generate steam. More than 350 MW of parabolic trough capacity is operating in the California Mojave
Alternative thermal energy collection technologies.
Desert and is connected to the Southern California Edison's utility grid. This is more than 90 percent of the world's solar thermal capacity at present.
9.1.2 Central Receiver
In the central receiver system, an array of field mirrors focus the sunlight on the central receiver mounted on a tower. To focus the sun on the central receiver at all times, each heliostat is mounted on the dual-axis suntracker to seek position in the sky that is midway between the receiver and the sun. Compared to the parabolic trough, this technology produces higher concentration, and hence, higher temperature working medium, usually a salt. Consequently, it yields higher Carnot efficiency, and is well suited for utility scale power plants in tens or hundreds of megawatt capacity.
9.1.3 Parabolic Dish
The parabolic dish tracks the sun to focus heat, which drives a sterling heat engine-generator unit. This technology has applications in relatively small capacity (tens of kW) due the size of available engines and wind loads on
Comparison of Alternative Solar Thermal Power System Technologies
Solar Concentration
Thermodynamic
(x Suns)
on the Hot Side
Cycle Efficiency
Parabolic Trough
300-500°C
Central Receiver
500-1000°C
Dish Receiver with
the dish collectors. Because of their small size, it is more modular than other solar thermal power systems, and can be assembled in a few hundred kW to few MW capacities. This technology is particularly attractive for small stand-alone remote applications.
The three alternative solar thermal technologies are compared in Table 9-1.
9.2 Solar II Power Plant
The central receiver technology with power tower is getting new development thrust in the U.S.A. as having a higher potential of generating lower cost electricity at large scale. An experimental 10 MWe power plant using this technology has been built and commissioned in 1996 by the Department of Energy in partnership with the Solar II Consortium of private investors led by the Southern California Edison, the second largest electrical utility company in the U.S.A. It is connected to the grid, and has enough capacity to power 10,000 homes. The plant is designed to operate commercially for 25 to 30 years. Figure 9-3 is the site photograph of this plant located east of Barstow, California. It uses some components of Solar I plant, which was built and operated at the site using the central receiver power tower technology. The Solar I plant, however, generated steam directly to drive the generator without the thermal storage feature of the Solar II plant.
Solar II central receiver (Figure 9-4) was developed by the Sandia National Laboratory. It raises the salt temperature to 1,050°F. The most important feature of the Solar II design is its innovative energy collection and the storage system. It uses a salt that has excellent heat retention and heat transfer properties. The heated salt can be used immediately to generate steam and electric power. Or, it can be stored for use during cloudy periods or after the sun goes down to meet the evening load demand on the utility grid. Because of this unique energy storage feature, the power generation is decoupled from the energy collection. For electrical utility, this storage capability is crucial in that the energy is collected when available, and is used to generate high-value electricity when it is most needed. The salt selected by
Solar II plant site view. (Source: U.S. Department of Energy.)
the Sandia laboratory for this plant is sodium and potassium nitrate which works as a single phase liquid, and is colorless and odorless. In addition to having the needed thermal properties up to the operating temperature of 1,050°F, it is inexpensive and safe.
Tables 9-2 and 9-3 give the technical design features of the experimental Solar II power plant. The operating experience to date indicates the overall plant capacity factor of 20 percent, and the overall thermal to electrical conversion efficiency of 16 percent. It is estimated that 23 percent overall efficiency can be achieved in a commercial plant design using this technology.
9.3 Synchronous Generator
The electromechanical energy conversion in the solar thermal power system is accomplished by the synchronous machine, which runs at a constant speed to produce 60 Hz electricity. This power is then directly used to meet the local loads, and/or to feed the utility grid lines.
The electromagnetic features of the synchronous machine are shown in Figure 9-5. The stator is made of conductors placed in slots of magnetic iron
Experimental 1,050°F thermal receiver tower for Solar II power plant. (Source: DOE/Sandia National Laboratory.)
laminations. The stator conductors are connected in three phase coils. The rotor consists of magnetic poles created by the field coils carrying direct current. The rotor is driven by steam turbine to create a rotating magnetic field. Because of this rotation, the rotor field coils use slip rings and carbon brushes to supply DC power from a stationary source.
The stator conductors are wound in three groups, connected in three-phase configuration. Under the rotating magnetic field of the rotor, the three phase coils generate AC voltages that are 120 electrical degrees out of phase with each other. If the electromagnetic structure of the machine has p pole pairs, and it is required to generate electricity at frequency f, then the rotor must rotate at N revolution per minute given by the following:
The synchronous machine must operate at this constant speed to generate power at the specified frequency. In a stand-alone solar thermal system, small speed variations could be tolerated within the frequency tolerance band of the AC system. If the generator is connected to the grid, it must be synchronous with the grid frequency, and must operate exactly at the grid frequency at all times. Once synchronized, such a machine has inherent tendency to remain
Solar II Design Features
Thermal Storage System
• Mojave Desert in California
• 1,949 feet above sea level
• 7.5 kWh/m2-day annual average daily insolation
• Reused from Solar I plant
• 277 feet to top of the receiver
Heliostats
91 percent reflectivity
• 81,000 m2 total reflective surface
• Can operate in winds up to 35 mph
New for Solar II plant
Supplier Rockwell
42.2 MW thermal power rating
Average flux 429 suns (429 kW/m2)
Peak flux 800 suns
24 panels, 32 tubes per panel
20 feet tall and 16.6 feet diameter
0.8125 inch tube OD
0.049 inch tube wall thickness
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• Two new 231,000 gallon storage tanks, 38 ft ID
• Cold tank carbon steel, 25.8 ft high, 9 inch insulation
• Hot tank 304 stainless steel, 27.5 ft high,
18 inches insulation
• 3 hours of storage at rated turbine output
Nitrate salt — Chilean Nitrate
• Melting temperature 430°F
• Decomposing temperature 1,100°F
• Energy storage density two thirds of water
• Density two times that of water
• Salt inventory 3.3 million pounds
• Supplier ABB Lummus
• New salt-in-shell superheater
• New slat-in-tube kettle boiler
• New salt-in-shell preheater
Turbine-Generator
• Supplier General Electric Company
• Refurbished from Solar I plant
(Source: U.S. Department of Energy and Southern California Edison Company.2)
Solar II Operating Features
Electrical Power Generator
Hot salt temperature 1,050°F
Cold salt temperature 550°F
Steam temperature 1,000°F
Steam pressure 1,450 psi
Receiver salt flow rate 800,000 lbs/hour
Steam generator flow rate 660,000 lbs/hour
Capacity 10 MWe Capacity factor 20% Overall solar-electric efficiency 16% Cost of conversion from Solar I $40 M
(Source: U.S. Department of Energy and Southern California Edison Company.)
Cross section view of the synchronous generator.
in synchronism. However, a large sudden disturbance such as a step load can force the machine out of the synchronism, as discussed in Section 9.3.4.
9.3.1 Equivalent Electrical Circuit
The equivalent electricity circuit of the synchronous machine can be represented by a source of alternating voltage E and an internal series resistance Rs and reactance Xs representing the stator winding. The resistance, being much smaller than the reactance, can be ignored to reduce the equivalent circuit to a simple form shown in Figure 9-6. If the machine is supplying the load current I lagging the terminal voltage V by phase angle it must internally generate the voltage E, which is the phasor sum of the terminal voltage and the internal voltage drop IXs. The phase angle between the V and E is called the power angle 8. At zero power output, load current is zero and so is the IXs vector, making V and E in phase having zero power angle. Physically, the power angle represents the angle by which the rotor position lags the stator-induced rotating magnetic field. The output power can be
Equivalent electrical circuit and phasor diagram of synchronous machine.
increased by increasing the power angle up to a certain limit, beyond which the rotor would no longer follow the stator field and will step out of the synchronous mode of operation. In the nonsynchronous mode, it cannot produce steady power.
9.3.2 Excitation Methods
The synchronous machine excitation system must be designed to produce the required magnetic field which is controllable to control the voltage and the reactive power of the system. In modern high power machines, Xs can be around 1.5 units of the base impedance of the machine. With reactance of this order, the phasor diagram of Figure 9-6 can show that the rotor filed excitation required at rated load (100 percent load at 0.8 lagging power factor) is more than twice that at no load with the same terminal voltage. The excitation system has the corresponding current and voltage ratings, with capability of varying the voltage over a wide range of 1 to 3 or even more without undue saturation in the magnetic circuit. The excitation power, primarily to overcome the rotor winding I2R loss, ranges from V2 to 1 percent of the generator rating. Most excitation systems operate at 200 to 1,000 Vdc.
For large machines, three types of excitation systems — DC, AC and static — are possible. In the DC system, a suitably designed DC generator supplies the main field winding excitation through conventional slip rings and brushes. Due to low reliability and high maintenance requirement, the conventional DC machine is seldom used in the synchronous machine excitation system.
Most utility scale generators use the AC excitation system shown in Figure 9-7. The main exciter is excited by a pilot exciter. The AC output of a permanent magnet pilot exciter is converted into DC by a floor standing rectifier and supplied to the main exciter through slip rings. The main exciter's AC output is converted into DC by means of phase controlled rectifiers, whose firing angle is changed in response to the terminal voltage variations. After filtering the ripples, this direct current is fed to the synchronous generator field winding.
An alternative scheme is the static excitation, as opposed to the dynamic excitation described in the preceding paragraph. In the static excitation
AC excitation system for synchronous generator.
scheme, the controlled DC voltage is obtained from a suitable stationary AC source rectified and filtered. The DC voltage is then fed to the main field winding through slip rings. This excitation scheme has a fast dynamic response and is more reliable because it has no rotating exciters.
The excitation control system modeling for analytical studies must be carefully done as it forms a multiple feedback control system that can become unstable. The IEEE has developed industry standards for modeling the excitation systems. The model enters nonlinear ly due to magnetic saturation present in all practical designs. The stability can be improved by supplementing the main control signal by auxiliary signals such as speed and power.
9.3.3 Electrical Power Output
The electrical power output of the synchronous machine is as follows:
Using the phasor diagram of Figure 9-6, the current can be expressed as follows:
jXs jXs jXs
The real part of this current is Ireal =
This part, when multiplied with the terminal voltage V gives the output power:
v VE
Power versus power angle of round rotor and salient pole synchronous machine.
The output power versus the power angle is a sine curve shown by the solid line in Figure 9-8, having the maximum value at 8 = 90°. The maximum power that can be generated by the machine is therefore:
max Xs
Some synchronous machine rotors have magnetic saliency in the pole structure. The saliency produces a small reluctance torque superimposed on the main torque, modifying the power angle curve as shown by the dotted line.
The electromechanical torque required at the shaft to produce this power is the power divided by the angular velocity of the rotor. That is as follows:
VE toXs sin 8
The torque also has the maximum limit corresponding to the maximum power limit, and is given as follows:
max rnXs
9.3.4 Transient Stability Limit
The maximum power limit just described is called the steady state stability limit. Any loading beyond this value will cause the rotor to lose synchronism, and hence, the power generation capability. The steady state limit must not
Load step transient and stability limit of synchronous machine.
be exceeded under any condition, including those that can be encountered during transients. For example, if a sudden load step is applied to the machine initially operating in a steady state at load power angle (Figure 9-9), the rotor power angle would increase from to 82 corresponding to the new load that it must supply. This takes some time depending on the electromechanical inertia of the machine. No matter how short or long it takes, the rotor inertia and the electromagnetic restraining torque will set the rotor in a mass-spring type of oscillatory mode, swinging the rotor power angle beyond its new steady state value. If the power angle exceeds 90° during this swing, the machine stability and the power generation are lost. For this reason, the machine can be loaded only to the extent that even under the worst-case step load, planned or accidental, or during all possible faults, the power angle swing will remain below 90° with sufficient margin. This limit on loading the machine is called the transient stability limit.
Equation 9-5 shows that the stability limit at given voltages can be increased by designing the machine with low synchronous reactance Xs, which is largely made of the stator armature reaction component.
9.4 Commercial Power Plants
The commercial power plants using the solar thermal system are being explored in a few hundred MWe capacity. Based on the Solar II power plant operating experience, the design studies made by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy have estimated the
Comparison of 10 MWe Solar II and 100 MWe Prototype Design
Solar II Plant 10 MWe
Commercial Plant 100 MWe
Mirror reflectivity
Field efficiency
Mirror cleanliness
Receiver efficiency
Storage efficiency
Electromechanical conversion efficiency of generator
Auxiliary components efficiency
Overall solar-to-electric conversion efficiency
performance parameters that are achievable for a 100 MWe commercial plant. Table 9-4 summarizes these estimates and compares with those achieved in the 10 MWe experimental Solar II power plant. The 100 MWe prototype design shows that the overall solar to electric efficiency of 23 percent can be achieved in a commercial plant using the existing technology. For comparison, the conventional coal thermal plants typically operate at 40 percent conversion efficiency, and the photovoltaic power systems have the overall solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 8 to 10 percent with amorphous silicon and 15 to 20 percent with crystalline silicon technologies.
Major conclusions of the studies to date are the following:
1. First plants as large as 100-200 MWe are possible to design and build based on the demonstrated technology to date. Future plants could be larger.
2. The plant capacity factors up to 65 percent are possible, including outage.
3. Fifteen percent annual average solar-to-electric conversion efficiency is achievable.
4. The energy storage feature of the technology makes possible to meet the peak demand on the utility lines.
5. Leveled energy cost is estimated to be 6 to 7 cents per kWh.
6. A 100 MWe plant with a capacity factor of 40 percent requires 1.5 square miles of land.
7. The capital cost of $2,000 per kWe capacity for first few commercial plants and less for future plants.
8. A comparable combined cycle gas turbine plant would cost $1,000 kWe, which includes no fuel cost.
9. Solar-fossil hybrids are the next step in development of this technology.
Compared to the pv and wind power, the solar thermal power technology is less modular. Its economical size is estimated to be in the 100 to 300 MWe range. The cost studies at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have shown that a commercially designed utility-scale power plant using the central receiver power tower can produce electricity at a cost of 6 to 11 cents per kWh.
In other countries, the low temperature solar thermal power finds growing applications. The high temperature applications, however, have yet to develop on a large scale. An integrated combined cycle 40 MWe solar thermal with 100 MWe gas turbine power plant is proposed at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India. According to the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency, India has the target to install 150 MWe solar thermal and photovoltaic capacity by the year 2002, and 1,500 MWe by 2012.
1. Mancini, T. 1994. "Solar thermal power today and tomorrow," Mechanical Engineering, publication of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, August 1994.
2. Southern California Edison Company. 1995. Technology Report No. 14, Irwindale, CA, Fall 1995.
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A L'ARME! VII Day 2
Friday, August 02, 2019 Concert Review No comments
By Martin Schray
August 1, 2019, Berlin
The A L'armé! Festival has always had acts that have a tendency to play very long, which can be a real challenge for the audience. I remember Steamboat Switzerland in 2013 or Caspar Brötzmann /Alexandre Babel / Massimo Pupillo in 2017, whom, frankly speaking, both missed the point to end their performances in due time. This year Practical Music (Oscar Hoogland, Jasper Stadhouders and Christian Lillinger) were the ones, opening with a two-hour long sound installation. However, in contrast to the other bands just mentioned, the sheer length of their set was part of the artistic concept and it really worked.
Practical Music
For the festival organizers it was obvious that the project, which was originally conceived as a one-off at Amsterdam's October Meeting 2016 at the Bimhuis, must be continued. Equipped with a whole army of sound-making devices like turntables, slot machine, analogue synth, electric clavichord, megaphones, tape recorders, intonarumori, sirens (Hoogland), electric, acoustic and bass guitars, mandoline and kologo (Stadhouders) and drums, percussion and piano (Lillinger) they just opened the festival when the audience was allowed to enter the location. The transition from the private to the artistic was to take place immediately, which had the effect that the musicians, some of whom walked through the hall playing music, almost collided with the incoming spectators. When Hoogland and Stadhouders circled the stage with bells and string instruments, it had something of the beginning of a proclamation on a medieval fair. The performance character of the festival already became clear here (it was to be continued with the next act). The artistic character, however, was at the centre, as far as the music was concerned, it mainly was about generating sounds, there were hardly recognizable structures, the whole thing was rather collage-like, a permanent coming and going on stage, a conglomeration of noises: bird chirping, bicycle bells, sirens, flutes, moans, muezzin calls, etc. It was like a huge painting that came to life and everyone was part of it.
Tristan Honsinger’s Hopscotch
Practical Music started with a performance-like show, and Tristan Honsinger’s Hopscotch was a real one. What makes Honsinger's work unique and really special is his idea of combining music and theatre in an unprecedented way that he describes as “making music and theatre one“. This sounds quite simple, but for Honsinger it has been the core of his work throughout his whole career. Apparently he has been influenced by Samuel Beckett's and Eugène Ionescu’s theatre of the absurd and his work with Cecil Taylor, who integrated dance and poetry to his music. Honsinger, however, also seems to have a weak spot for dadaist poetry. Hopscotch, the name of his A L'armé! project, derives from the children's jumping game and brought together some of the best musicians of the Berlin Echtzeit network. e.g. Tobias Delius, Axel Dörner and Antonio Borghini (among others). The musicians were augmented by lots of special guests such as the Japanese Butoh heroine Hisako Horikawa, tap dancer Mano Hiroki and a chef. In general, it was like a collaboration of David Lynch, Robert Wilson and the ICP Orchestra, as to music it was reminiscent of Alfred Schnittke’s polystylistic approach, there was swing, free jazz, new classical music all-in-one. The audience liked it a lot.
Hanna Schörken/Rieko Okuda
What followed was a double concert with Rieko Okuda/Hanna Schörken on the one hand and Super Jazz Sandwich on the other. According to the liner notes of the festival Hanna Schörken (voice) and Rieko Okuda (piano) presented their very own freedom of speech between the impressionist aesthetics of new music and the expressive spirit of free jazz. The music of the duo was completely improvised, Schörken is obviously informed by Phil Minton and Iréne Aebi, while Okada seems to have listened to Cecil Taylor, Howard Riley and Marilyn Crispell a lot. Schörken gurgled, hissed, panted and snapped, which Okuda sometimes counteracted with tender passages as well as with wild runs.
Super Jazz Sandwich
Finally, Super Jazz Sandwich delivered a real contrast. Trumpeter Flavio Zanuttini, saxophonist Florian Walter and drummer Simon Camatta tried to combine freely improvised music with more traditional varieties of jazz, which resulted in a DIY punk jazz aesthetic reminding me of the Flying Luttenbachers or John Zorn’s early Ornette Coleman projects. For their new program, they tried to turn the psychological concept of the Enneagram, a nine-step model of personality description and development, into music. Their music reached from structured improvisation to game-pieces to complex compositions, which was both funny and intellectually challenging. It was a very postmodern approach that quoted a lot of styles and philosophies, once (in a game piece) they even quoted Sam Rivers’ conducting technique. Nothing new, but great fun.
Els Vandeweyer/DJ Illvibe/Hamid Drake feat. Real Geizt/Splidttercrist
The evening was closed by Els Vandeweyer/DJ Illvibe/Hamid Drake feat. Real Geizt/Splidttercrist.
The set referred to Anguish’s show the night before trying to integrate hiphop into a free jazz surrounding. For this, according to the liner notes, marimba, vibraphone, metal plates, drums, record players, and voice boxes had to be turned inside out. Belgian vibraphonist Els Vandeweyer, American drummer Hamid Drake, turntablist DJ Illvibe (for those who don’t know: he’s Alexander von Schlippenbach’s son) and rapper Real Geizt / Splidttercrist tried to explore unknown territories. Visually, this was interesting, since Real Geizt (German for real spirit) actually appeared like a ghost (see the picture). Musically Vandeweyer, DJ Illvibe and Drake worked together very nicely, with Vandeweyer even playing blues riffs on the marimba in the beginning, which created an fascinating groove. When Real Geizt conjured himself, there was a different spirit, since he seemed to me like a comic version of hiphop, rather contributing some kind of poetry than real hiphop. This was foiled by DJ Illvibe’s beats and Drake’s grooves.
All in all a very challenging and exciting day of music.
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Readers may recall that I reported on 12 December 2018 that our colleagues at Stamford Bridge had recognised four perpetrators of racial abuse aimed primarily at Manchester City player Raheem Sterling earlier that month.
Well, the new season gets under way on a very positive note as it now transpires that up to six people were involved, five of which have received temporary bans from the Club for between one and two years. The key individual involved has received a lifetime ban from the stadium.
The Crown Prosecution Service failed to back up the Safety Team at Chelsea declaring “lack of evidence”, but our colleagues seemingly found enough evidence for them to take the maximum possible action in their bid to rid Chelsea of this and to send out a clear message to anyone who decides that racial abuse of footballers in the future will not be tolerated. Chelsea’s action on this incident, I’m sure you will agree has been exceptional and should be applauded by all of us.
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We love our teleseryes in all forms and languages. There’s just something about the drama, the love triangles and the sawi-inducing declarations of affection that keep us peering at our television—or smartphone—screens.
And while there are a few older ones that have become classics in their own right, we can’t help but stay tuned to some of the current Korean Dramas.
Starring Sung Hoon and Song Ji-eun
Cha Jin-wook and Lee Yoo-mi meet at a resort. After a series of misunderstandings, Jin-wook’s playful personality charms Yoo-mi and the two end up spending the night together. In the morning, Yoo-mi is gone and Jin-wook is perplexed and angry, despite his party-boy lifestyle.
Three years later, the two meet again as Yoo-mi works as a nutritionist in the cafeteria where Jin-wook works. After some time, Yoo-mi admits to remembering Jin-wook and he asks her why she left. What happens next, you'll have to see for yourself.
Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon
Starring Park Bo-young, Park Hyung-sik and Ji Soo.
Do Bong-Soon was born with superhuman strength, which is a trait that she inherited along with the other women in her family. She desperately wants to be the opposite and be an elegant lady instead, which her crush, police officer In Guk-Doo, prefers. But because of her strength, Bong-Soon gets a job in a similar field—a bodyguard to Ahn Min-Hyuk, the CEO of a gaming company.
After a series of kidnapping cases break in Bong-Soon's district, she seeks the help of Guk-Doo to control her strength and use it for good. Will Guk-Doo see beyond Bong-Soon's super strength and fall so deeply in love?
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Shin Joon-young and Noh Eul were classmates in their younger years, but had to be separated when they became teenagers. Noh Eul had a tough childhood and grew up to be a documentary producer. Meanwhile, Shin Joon-young became a successful actor and singer.
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The Mummy Demastered Review
William Murphy October 24, 2017 No Comments Switch
The Mummy Demastered shouldn’t be good. It’s essentially a movie tie-in game to a failed Tom Cruise blockbuster (I’ve not seen the film). But unlike most movie-based games, The Mummy Demastered has soul, identity, and the nerve to echo one of the greatest side-scrolling adventures of all time – Metroid 2. While your nameless military soldier (or soldiers, as you’ll find out) is no match for Samus Aran, The Mummy Demastered turns out to be a fully capable Metroidvania game with a twist of its own. This is our Mummy Demastered review for the Nintendo Switch.
You see, every time you die in the Mummy Demastered, you leave behind your corpse to be controlled by the Mummy, and to get what you were carrying back with your new soldier, you first have to defeat your dead former self. This actually proves way more difficult than I expected, as your fresh new recruit doesn’t have the weapons your predecessor had. In fact, one of the game’s greatest strengths is also one of its biggest annoyances and difficulties. Die with a lot of tools in the wrong place, and you may just want to start over if the game’s early on. This is something I did when I was killed in a room that’s filled with flying dangerous bats right after getting grenades and an automatic assault rifle. Yeah… ouch.
In this way, TMD is kind of a roguelike Metroid, and it works surprisingly well. The 16-bit visuals and soundtrack are nostalgic fuel for childhood memories of SNES binging, and the challenge is welcome in an age of games that tend to let you get away with anything. Mind you, there’s no game-over here, so while you might have a hard time with your dead brethren and their beefed up ammo, it’s never really out of reach to get your gear back and pick up where you left off. It’s the wrinkle of fighting your dead self that makes the Mummy Demastered a bit like Grasshopper’s LET IT DIE, and I kind of dig it.
Controls can be a bit wonky at times, as you only have six directions of shooting, and I would have rather had the full range of movement afforded by the joystick on the Switch. Aiming, ergo, suffers at times, and the difficulty becomes in lining up that upper-diagonal shot just right. If there’s any “bad” decision in the design, I’d lay it on this. But it is true to the era’s controls.
The Mummy Demastered is probably going to be, like all of WayForward’s games, a bit of a niche and cult classic. It’s a movie tie-in that shouldn’t be good, but is. I have no idea how it got made, but I’m super glad it did. And honestly, I now will probably rent the Tom Cruise movie. It won’t be as fun as the game, but it does have Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll, so there’s that. The Mummy Demastered is out today on PS4, PC, XB1, and the Switch. It’s $20, and that feels about right for the 10 or so hours you’ll get from this throwback adventure.
Note: Our copy was provided by WayForward for Switch.
Tags: Mummy Demastered, review, switch
Solid 16-bit art and sound
Great death-rebirth mechanic
Captures the spirit of Metroid
Controls are wonky
A little bland with monsters
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The Mummy Demastered centers around an ancient evil that has risen. It's up to you to once again save humanity. You'll find 16-bit retro graphics as you fight your way through hordes of undead in a non-linear, action-packed adventure.You'll explore, tombs, forests, abandoned tunnels and the terrifying streets of London. This is shoot-em-up action meets exploration-based adventuring at its best.
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XCOM 3: Everything We Want To See
07 November 2019 | 58 comments | By Chris J Capel
XCOM 2 was a tough but extremely fun entry in the series, and we're already looking forward to XCOM 3, which is certainly in development at Firaxis.
But what can we expect from the next XCOM game? The final DLC expansion is out so XCOM 3 is presumably on its way, but what do we want from it?
Classic 'Invasion' Angle
When people think of XCOM, they think of a secret organisation fighting off alien invasions. This is why XCOM: Enemy Unknown and X-Com: UFO Defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown are the most popular games in the series, and similar titles like Xenonauts do well too. While we appreciate Firaxis trying to do something different with turning XCOM into an underground resistance force against a successful invasion, watching the invasion slowly build up from a couple of flying saucers and Men In Black is part of the charm of XCOM - and we'd like to see it back.
We're long overdue for a remake of the proper X-Com sequel - Terror From The Deep, an invasion rising from under the sea. The original game is beloved for being somehow more tense and terrifying than the first X-Com, and having battles in undersea environments and bases would make for some interesting encounters. While X-Com creator Julian Gollop's Phoenix Point is exploring some of these ideas, the ending to XCOM 2 teases that XCOM 3 will indeed be Terror From The Deep - there's even a nod to the original game's hand-reaching-out cover (see picture above).
New Enemy Types
This should be a given, frankly - but we're not just referring to more enemy types, which XCOM 2 gladly provided. We mean a complete overhaul of enemies, as the old set are getting rather predictable now. Basing XCOM 3 around Terror From The Deep would help a lot with this. We want to be surprised by opponents again, and give the design team a challenge - the soldiers in XCOM 2 were just boring, and the roided-up Sectoids were no fun anymore. Completely new enemies please!
Full Destructible Terrain
This is something that Phoenix Point is boasting and, from what we've played, it's a total game-changer that creates some truly epic encounters. It's one thing having a huge spider-boss to fight - it's quite another knowing she can charge forward and destroy all the cover between you. There's some amount of terrain destruction in XCOM so far, but it doesn't go far enough - we're talking total building destruction, with giant bosses blowing up the place, that sort of thing. Fully destructible maps could really turn the next XCOM from "just another game" to "XCOM 3" and we'd love to see it - and after Phoenix Point we strongly suspect we wouldn't accept anything less.
Fix The Aiming
If there's one thing the XCOM series gets universal criticism for, it's the bizarre aiming system that can see 95% Hit Chance shots at point blank range completely miss. While we're not eager for Firaxis to completely scrap it, especially as similar games like XCOM-with-spies Phantom Doctrine tried to do something different and messed it up entirely, but something absolutely does need to be done to fix the aiming system as it's a constant joke - like Christian Bale's Batman voice in The Dark Knight Rises. Something not based on random percentages, perhaps?
These are a few of the things we'd like to see in XCOM 3, whether it's titled Terror From The Deep or something else. What would you guys like to see? Let us know in the comments below!
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Markus Dravs interview - June 2008
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Miloco Interview, June 2008
With Coldplay's fourth album banging on the frontdoor ferociously, we thought - just before the storm prevailed - we'd sneak a quick interview in with one of the masterminds behind the album tipped to turn this remarkable band into an outright timeless one. Step up Viva La Vida's co-producer Markus Dravs, for tales of pussy cats, ponys, Hollywood cowardice, and the Arcade Fire's preferable Hungarian choirs...
MILC: So how are things, Markus?
Markus: Beautiful.....
MILC: With the release of Coldplay's fourth album imminent, we trust the production of the album has been keeping you fairly occupied of late. How long were you all working on the record for?
Markus: I suppose close to a year - but considering that we have about 25 songs finished and mixed and we had some long breaks it doesn't feel as such a long time - especially, since a lot of the songs were written during the project and we spent a lot of time trying different arrangements with the whole band constantly playing before actually recording them.
MILC: You were co-producing with the great Brian Eno on this one. Where were you working on the sessions?
Markus: Sessions were split between London, Barcelona and New York. The main reason for this was to keep the recording environment fresh and inspiring. Also, it's really interesting how you listen with different ears, when spending time in a different culture/city.
MILC: What were your initial feelings when it emerged that you had the opportunity to take the gig? How much consideration was there on your part before agreeing to do the album?
Markus: Chris called me one night out of the blue and asked if I was prepared to come and "stretch" them. When, after meeting them, I realized that they had great enthusiasm and genuinely wanted me to be one of their Boot-Camp captains, I took it as a huge compliment and agreed to spend a week or so in the studio with them ... nearly a year later ...
MILC: Can we expect any different angles with the new Coldplay record, ie. have you and Brian been taking the band's sound in a different direction from their first three albums?
Markus: I do feel that the band has developed and broadened their sound. They were/are very interested in experimenting with new sound-scapes and energies, which when you have great songs as well as, is a great environment to work in as producer.
MILC: At the start of the project, did you outline any particular objectives to follow once work got underway, in terms of sounds and vibes you wanted to achieve? If so, have they been stuck to?
Markus: It was always essential to everyone involved, that the record should evolve from the whole band playing live and the fact that a song should be explored in the room, from within the band and not assembled in the computer. So we spend a lot of time playing around with tempos, arrangements, lyrics - tightening up performances - or simply just "jamming".
MILC: Could you tell us about any particular pieces of kit which were particularly popular during sessions, and have as a result been making regular appearances on the record, especially any equipment which you've got your hands on during your sessions at Miloco?
Markus: The absence of the rule book and pre-conceptions of what you should do rather than what feels right and is fun ... (both in respect of the sessions and Miloco)
MILC: I've found some interesting bits of info on the band's blog regarding your good self. They've been posting that during sessions you were particularly good at driving everyone to the point of exhaustion but not beyond. You must have quite a knack of knowing the exact cut-off point...
Markus: Well, I guess you just have to keep listening to a band's performance and when you realise that the song is not improving by trying it another way, or replaying it, it's time to move on, or go for a walk - another good sign is when a musician picks up a baseball bat and starts running towards you...
MILC: I was intrigued to read your studio working-style being likened to "a big cat in a zoo, prowling around the room; a heavy-weight boxer with a paintbrush", compared to Brian Eno - "a benevolent schoolmaster with the unquestioning respect of his charges, sat behind his laptop at the back of the control room". Would you say there is good logic in these comparisons?
Markus: Well... they did ask me to come in and basically give them a hard time ... so that's what they got !!! As far as Brian is concerned, he is "a benevolent schoolmaster with the unquestioning respect of his charges"
MILC: This, of course, is not the first time you have worked alongside Brian, but how would you compare the working relationship and methods you both share today with say that of 1993 when working on Nervenet? Has it always been the big cat and the benevolent schoolmaster?
Markus: Brian and I have always enjoyed a very direct approach as far as communication is concerned, there's always been an openness right from the beginning of our working relationship. However, on projects like NerveNet (since you mentioned it) of course the buck would stop with him - it was/is his record after all - when it's just me and Brian working by ourselves it's more like two pussies - no big cats - no prowling. Loads of purring though...
MILC: Much of the credits across your CV (particularly on your numerous Bjork credits) illustrate 'electronic sounds' as being quite the specialty. Would you say your background working alongside Brian all these years has had a large part to play in the high-demand for your production skills in this area?
Markus: I've always enjoyed experimenting with sounds and textures. That was what got me into the studio in the first place. As Brian was and is a huge inspiration to me (as producer and person in general) I feel extremely honoured in working along side him and immensely appreciate all the time he invested in showing me new techniques and sharing his views and experiences with me. So, I would say that he had a big part in my development.
MILC: Certainly one of the many great electronic-orientated artists you have worked with over the last few years has been Emilie Simon, when mixing her soundtrack to La Marche de l'empereur. After the award-winning success and acclaim of the original version, were you surprised by Hollywood's decision to introduce a new orchestral soundtrack for the English-language re-make, The March of the Penguins?
Markus: I do feel they chickened out a bit ... Hollywood eyh?? Mind you, even in the original version, the music has been mixed so low compared to the dialogue (between penguins??? - what the f**k) anyway - if you want a good audio visual experience - put on the dvd, turn down the volume on your telly and listen to the soundtrack cd. Aaaahh - now all you'll need to complete the experience would be ice-cubes in the shape of popcorn and you're there (with the penguins)...
MILC: Whilst vaguely on the subject of North America, we simply can't waste the opportunity to ask you a bit about the great Neon Bible album by Canada's Arcade Fire, which you were of course hugely involved in. You were quoted as saying that you found the band's full-on live analogue recording tendencies to be something of a rarity these days. Do you find that sort of gung-ho tracking approach exciting or just plain manic, especially considering the size of the band?
Markus: It's completely manic which makes it extremely exciting at the same time!! I love working with bands that make you run for it - never a dull moment -
MILC: The album was made all over North America and Europe. What was behind the drastic changes in geographic locations?
Markus: The album was mainly recorded in the band's own studio near Montreal with a lot of location recordings (mostly huge organs in churches) - and then Win and Regine went to Budapest to work with an Eastern European orchestra and choir...
MILC: The type of tracking methods you worked with during Neon Bible are no doubt becoming a fading tradition due to the ever-increasing prominence of digital technology in the studio. We often like to hear the various opinions from producers and engineers over the increasing trends towards digital in the modern recording industry. What do you feel are the advantages and disadvantages of the digital studio age?
Markus: The main advantage to me was always about the sound of analogue tape, but with ever improving converters and higher sample rates, the gap is definitely closing (maybe not quite closed yet though). I do love the advantages of working on computers, the trick is not to over-do-it though - never blame the computer if a recording feels sterile - blame the operator - Both Arcade Fire and Coldplay were tracked to analogue tape first - I do think there still is a slight advantage in the sound of analogue tape, especially when pumping the signal on. Another advantage is that you work a bit more committed in terms of what takes or tracks to erase/record over. It forces you to make decisions and I like decisions ...
MILC: We hear you have your own Amek-based studio on Merseyside. Do you like to take your projects up there wherever possible, or does it have more of a specific use for certain specific parts to your work?
Markus: editing, programming, writing... mixing, watching my daughter's new dance routines ...
MILC: You've of course used a few of Miloco's studios down in London, the most recent being The Yard in Highbury and Musikbox in Kentish Town. We hope the sessions went well, could you tell us a bit about what you've enjoyed about working in our studios?
Markus: Courtesy of Nick, Vicki and the amazing studio wizardry of Adrian Breakspear as well as my knob twiddling mate Ruadhri Cushnan the sessions went extremely well - always good to be back - Miloco sets a great environment for being able to focus and forgetting the world around you - happy days - also... Adrian worked out how to poach eggs in a microwave: slightly butter some heavily toasted rye-bread, served with a bucket of coffee ... Normally I offer to pay for my studio amigos to go and learn the art of foot massage, but in Adrian's case I did feel I shouldn't push for too much of a good thing - between his breakfast making and his Ninja-studio skills, he's ever so close to being perfect ... in fact ...
MILC: Is there anything you feel Miloco can offer which other studios can't necessarily?
Markus: A pretty good footy team (I believe) and I love the fact that you have so many different rooms (why do you not own a pitch by the way?). So, you can move effortlessly from studio to studio, depending what suits you best at that point in the project - especially with the new addition of the amazing El cortijo - I'm so glad about having had the chance to spend (a lot of) time out there, working on Homogenic (Bjork) ...
In keeping with Miloco traditions, we just had to put in a few half-baked questions, so here we go...
MILC: What track would one currently find at the top of your iPod's 'most played' list?
Markus: Ludacris "Stand up"
MILC: What is the worst behaviour you have ever witnessed in a recording studio?
Markus: I don't think I've witnessed what people would call really bad behaviour. Sure, sometimes you witness unusual episodes, but I prefer calling these "creative tension" or "passion fuelled expression"
MILC: What was the last time you lost your temper with someone and what did they do?
Markus: I don't lose my temper - or maybe my temper has been lost for a while.
MILC: Which film is better - Marche de l'empereur or The March of the Penguins?
Markus: Depends on the viewer - soundtrack wise, Marche de l'empereur - Emillie (Simon) created an amazing collection of songs for this film
MILC: You get a call from any artist of your choice to request your services on their next record. Which artist would you choose to call you?
Markus: Johnny Cash
MILC: Similarly, only this time involving time-machines, which record in history would you most have liked to have a production credit on?
Markus: Can't really answer this as if I name a record I love, it would mean that everyone involved did a pretty good job ... so ...
MILC: Last but not least, if it weren't a career in music, what would it be a career in?
Markus: Pony Trainer.
Markus Dravs was talking to Milc in the June of 2008. If you would like to contact Markus, he'd love to hear from you. Email markusdravs AT mac.com
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MacKinnon ups goal streak to 4, Avalanche beat Sabres 6-1
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Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon (29) celebrates his goal with teammates Gabriel Landeskog (92) and Vladislav Kamenev (91) during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
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Buffalo Sabres goalie Carter Hutton (40) stops Colorado Avalanche forward Alexander Kerfoot (13) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Buffalo Sabres defenseman Nathan Beaulieu (82) celebrates his goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Colorado Avalanche forwards Tyson Jost (17) and Nathan MacKinnon (29) celebrate a goal during the first period of the team's NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
Colorado Avalanche forwards Tyson Jost (17) and Nathan MacKinnon (29) celebrate a goal during the first period of the team's NHL hockey game against the Buffalo Sabres, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Buffalo N.Y. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Nathan MacKinnon shrugged off his hot start with the Colorado Avalanche this season by suggesting he can be better.
“It’s nice for sure. I think I can play better than I am,” MacKinnon said after scoring twice in a 6-1 rout of the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night. “I’m just putting it in right now but I think, overall, it hasn’t been the easiest year so far.”
Coach Josh Bednar agrees with his player, who has five goals and extended his season-opening scoring streak to four games.
“I feel like he’s just kind of starting to hit his stride,” Bednar said, before turning his attention to the Avalanche’s top line rounded out by Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog.
“If they continue to work the way they’re working, and do the right things and pay attention to the process, it’s going to come for them,” he added.
Tyson Jost and Colin Wilson scored power-play goals 2:25 apart in a first period in which the Avalanche built a 3-0 lead on Carl Soderberg’s goal with 3:30 left.
MacKinnon scored his first of the game 28 seconds after Buffalo’s Nathan Beaulieu cut Colorado’s lead to 3-1 late in the second period.
MacKinnon and Alexander Kerfoot then scored breakaway goals in the final five minutes as Colorado improved to 3-1 and bounced back from a 5-2 loss at Columbus.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 30 shots to improve to 3-0. And Mackinnon matched the Colorado franchise record for a goal streak to open a season, set by John Mitchell three years ago.
Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin , the first overall draft pick this summer, got his first career point with an assist on Beaulieu’s goal.
Otherwise, very little went right for Buffalo (2-2), which squandered a chance to match last season’s team-best three-game winning streak.
Whatever momentum the Sabres attempted to generate were dashed with 22 second left in the first period when Kyle Okposo’s goal was disallowed following a coaching challenge for goalie interference.
Officials determined Okposo interfered with Varlamov when he crashed into the crease to convert Jack Eichel’s pass. After redirecting the pass, Okposo backed into the goalie, forcing Varlamov to lift his right pad and allowing the puck to sneak in beneath it.
“I knew it was going to be probably a 50-50 one,” Okposo said. “I don’t think me being there really affected it. But they did. And that’s how it goes.”
Okposo was more frustrated over how Buffalo started the game.
“I think it would’ve been nice to get out of there 3-1, but we deserved to be down 3-0,” he said. “We didn’t play well in the first period. Like, it was bad.”
Buffalo’s bad breaks were compounded after Beaulieu scored.
MacKinnon scored to regain Colorado’s three-goal edge after a Sabres clearing attempt got caught up referee Francis Charron’s skate. The puck dribbled to Rantanen, who fed a pass through the crease to a wide-open MacKinnon.
“Last game we started out a little bit sloppy so it was something we emphasized before the game,” Wilson said. “We answered the bell there and stayed in our mindset the whole game.”
Colorado converted 2 of 4 power-play opportunities, while Buffalo went 0 for 7. … Avalanche C Vladislav Kamenev made his season debut. Acquired from Nashville in a three-team trade in November, he missed 50 games after breaking his arm in his Avalanche debut. … Sabres LW Johan Larsson made his season debut since sustaining a lower body injury during the preseason. D Zach Bogosian (lower body) was placed on injured reserve. … Sabres G Carter Hutton had 24 saves.
Avalanche: Return home to play Calgary Flames on Saturday, before heading east for four-game road trip.
Sabres: Open five-game road trip at Arizona on Saturday.
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Three searches conducted in northern Oconto County for missing Appleton man Nicholas Hietpas
Hietpas, 22, was reported missing to Appleton Police on April 1. His white German Shepard named Samantha may be with him.
Three searches conducted in northern Oconto County for missing Appleton man Nicholas Hietpas Hietpas, 22, was reported missing to Appleton Police on April 1. His white German Shepard named Samantha may be with him. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/oconto-county/2019/04/25/three-searches-conducted-northern-oconto-county-missing-appleton-man-nicholas-hietpas/3576120002/
Kent Tempus, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 1:48 p.m. CT April 25, 2019 | Updated 3:10 p.m. CT April 25, 2019
Nicholas Hietpas of Appleton, seen in this photo with his dog Samantha, has been missing since April 1. His car was found in northern Oconto County. (Photo: Family photo)
OCONTO – Deputies conducted three searches for an Appleton man last week after finding his car in northern Oconto County, Sheriff Todd Skarban said.
No clues to the whereabouts of 22-year-old Nicholas Hietpas were found.
Hietpas' parents reported him missing to Appleton police on April 1. "The last contact they had with him was the 1st," Appleton officer Meghan Cash said in an email to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin.
His white German Shepard named Samantha may be with him.
His black 2012 Ford Fusion was found on a forest road in the town of Doty on April 18 by an ATV rider, Skarban said.
The vehicle was less than a quarter mile off State 64 on the road, which turns back onto Shadow Lake Road. A tarp and other gear were outside the car.
“It looked like it had been there for some time,” Skarban said. “There was some snow on it, apparently from the snow that fell April 11.”
Three deputies checked the immediate area until dark. Deputies returned with search dogs on April 19 and 20 and searched a wider area.
Skarban said he understood that Hietpas was an avid hiker.
“We don’t know if it's a mental health issue, or if he’s lost, but if you walk in any direction, you can hit a road," he said.
A few tips were received after the sheriff’s office asked the public for help in locating Hietpas. The tips were shared with Appleton police.
“We’re working with them and trying to bring him home, hopefully safe,” Skarban said.
Anyone with information about Hietpas or his whereabouts is asked to contact the Oconto County Sheriff’s Office at 920-834-6900.
RELATED: Heavy rains flood Oconto sites, prompt city to pump untreated water into river
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Subject: Organizations' Newsletter - March 17, 2017
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ORGANIZATIONS' NEWSLETTER
News and Opportunities for the Cultural Nonprofits and
Creative Businesses of Fairfield County, CT
The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is a nonprofit service organization that supports its members through unified marketing, capacity building, professional development, and advocacy services. This newsletter is sent to all who request it - but we ask that, if you are not a member, you explore membership benefits and consider joining this community of more than 500 individuals and organizations. Sign up here
"We are disappointed [by the President's budget blueprint] because we see our funding actively making a difference with individuals of all ages in thousands of communities, large, small, urban and rural, and in every Congressional District in the nation."
Jane Chu, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
❖ Jennifer Bangser Leaves the Cultural Alliance
❖ Creative Spaces: Report Out (and check the videos!)
❖ Progressive Gallery Tour: Southport - March 23
❖ Cultivating Collectors - March 30
❖ Looking for Space or Have Space to Rent? Check out SpaceFinder Connecticut
❖ WELCOME NEW MEMBERS: Margaret Bodell, Colorblends House and Spring Gardens, Ewald Suzuki Guitar Method, Town of Stratford
+ List of all Members by Town
❖ News from Beardsley Zoo, Bridgeport Public Library, Bruce Museum, CT Trust for Historic Preservation, The Klein, Norwalk Historical Society, Silvermine Arts Center, Stamford Symphony, Westport Historical Society and Westport Woman's Club
❖ The Trump Budget: Statement from NEA
❖ National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: Fact v. Fiction
❖ National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: Five Essential Arts Arguments
❖ CT On the M.O.V.E. March Needs Arts Representatives - March 26
❖ CT Places Coalition: Advocacy Rally, Hartford - March 29
❖ CT Office of the Arts: Project Grants - March 22
❖ CT Office of the Arts: Regional Initiative Grants - March 22
❖ Fairfield County SCORE: Copyright Basics - March 20
❖ Aldrich Museum Summer Institute: Text + Context - June 27-30
❖ Aldrich Museum: Education Programs Assistant
❖ Bruce Museum: Membership Manager; Also Communications Director
❖ Judy Dworin Performance project: Director of Community Engagement
❖ Philip Johnson Glass House: Visitor Center/Design Store Associate
Jobs Previously Listed and Still Available (scroll down)
OPPORTUNITIES CALENDAR
Deadlines and Dates to Remember
JENNIFER BANGSER LEAVES CULTURAL ALLIANCE
We are sorry to announce that Jennifer Bangser, our Director of Marketing and Public Relations, has moved on. We wish her all the best in her future career. Marketing and FCBuzz-related questions, for the time being, should be addressed to David Green: david@culturalalliancefc.org.
CREATIVE SPACES MEETING REPORT NOW AVAILABLE
A complete 23-page report and a 5-page executive summary are now available on the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County's Creative Spaces for the Creative Economy conference. Video recordings of each of the sessions, and presenters' slides are also available. Key findings are being taken up by working groups. Email David Green to be kept up-to-date on working-group meetings.
PROGRESSIVE GALLERY TOUR: SOUTHPORT - MARCH 23
Come join us for the 6th stop on our Progressive Gallery Tour 2016-17 at Southport Galleries. Join owner Sissy Biggers, director Jennifer Cargill, and curator Philip Eliasoph, in this century-old worn-with-time historic space, nestled within Southport’s picturesque village. Enjoy Kim Romero’s current show, Prelude to Spring: Emerging Color: "visually tactile and painterly pieces that illicit feelings and emotional triggers," together with the work of Katy Ferrarone, a Singapore-based contemporary artist who grew up in Fairfield County, with her Mind Maps series: each canvas a "reflection of fleeting thoughts, a map where her mind travels in the moment." Find out more and register here.
CULTIVATING COLLECTORS KICKS OFF MARCH 30
The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is partnering with the Silvermine Arts Center to produce a series of events on the theme of Cultivating Collectors. Recognizing the need to develop and cultivate art collectors in our area, and to help further establish the credibility of Fairfield County as a strong arts and cultural community where art is created, discussed, enjoyed, bought and sold, we are co-producing a series of panel discussions, culminating in an art fair in the late spring. The series kicks off March 30 at Silvermine with a State of the Union panel review of the state of the business of art collecting and art sales locally and nationally with a panel of local gallerists: Fernando Luis Alvarez, Fred Giampietro, and Amy Simon. The panel will be moderated by Martha Lewis, artist, curator-in-residence at New Haven's Institute Library, educator and radio host. Aimed at fellow gallerists, collectors and artists, the discussion will review the field, recent developments, the challenges and issues of working locally versus in New York, nationally and internationally. Register here. Free to all.
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MARGARET BODELL
Margaret Bodell is a nationally recognized consultant specializing in placemaking and creative economy initiatives, especially involving people who have few outlets for expression and/or contribution to their local communities. She was selected as one of the top 20 executive leaders in the arts attending the leadership forum held in Sundance, Utah, hosted by Robert Redford and Americans for the Arts in 2014. Margaret is known in the northeast region for initiating and managing Project Storefronts for the City of New Haven, which became a national model for space reuse, and which was awarded the first Creative Economy Award in 2011 by the New England Foundation for the Arts as well as an award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. With the CT Office of the Arts, she co-authored a winning 2013-2014 Artplace grant for $500,000—the only state-wide grant awarded by the organization—for CreateHereNow, a statewide space reuse program that emphasized mentoring community leadership and space reactivation in thirteen cities and towns in the State of Connecticut. Margaret’s background includes pioneering work in the field of engagement in the arts for persons of all abilities. She consults on the development of studios, galleries and creative social venture businesses nationwide. Her projects include Pure Vision Arts (NYC), LAND Gallery (Brooklyn), GROW Arts (Chicago); Uarts (CT), East Street Arts (CT) and, currently, SoCCA Southington Community Cultural Arts (CT) a new model art center specializing in "all access" opportunities for persons to create and earn income. Margaret’s current project as a community based artist won a REGI Grant from the Office of the Arts, through the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County. Save the Singers is a community-mending project exploring the history of textiles in Fairfield County, and refurbishes vintage Singer sewing machines—bringing back the history, craft and cultural contributions. See Margaret's collaborative website, her Facebook page and Twitter feed.
COLORBLENDS HOUSE
AND SPRING GARDEN
A Creative Business Member
Owner: Tim Schipper
Manager: Jackie Barrett
The Colorblends House & Spring Garden is open to the public at 893 Clinton Ave, Bridgeport, from April 1 through mid-May, with a stunning display of spring flowers and a pop-up gallery of art by Fairfield County artists. COLORBLENDS is a third-generation wholesale bulb merchant offering top-sized flowerbulbs directly to professionals and ambitious residential gardeners. Schipper & Company started in the Netherlands in 1912. Cornelis Schipper brought the company to the United States after World War II, taking Dutch bulbs from customer to customer in his business coupe. His son, Tim, carries on the family tradition. What's new are Colorblends: pre-blended mixtures of tulips that combine varieties for "a jaw-dropping, car-stopping" spring display. In 2013, Tim bought this 1903 house on Clinton Ave and started restoring it to its former glory. Built for Albert S. Wells, general superintendent of the Bridgeport Malleable Iron Company, and set among other beautiful houses in the Stratfield historic district in Bridgeport, the house has also served as architects' offices, and a doctor's home. From April 1, the House, where Michael J. Clocks is artist in residence, will be open, featuring the works of ten Fairfield County artists. The spring garden is located on the south side of the house and occupies about half an acre. More than 40,000 flowerbulbs have been planted since fall 2014. These plantings, the handiwork of Dutch designer Jacqueline van der Kloet in collaboration with COLORBLENDS, are designed to show what is possible with bulbs. The garden also shows how you can attract birds, bees and other wildlife to your yard. See website, Facebook page and Twitter feed.
EWALD SUZUKI
Annalisa Ewald has been teaching classical guitar to young children in Fairfield County for over twenty years. She has been a Suzuki Association of the Americas guitar teacher since 1997. She offers her Ewald Suzuki Guitar Method of Suzuki classical guitar lessons at St. Paul's on the Green, 60 East Avenue, Norwalk and has just opened her second studio in Stamford at Gordon Fine Arts, at the Stamford Town Center mall. Suzuki, for those who don’t know, is a disciplined yet enjoyable method involving parent, child and teacher in a cooperative musical journey. Children learn to play guitar in a supportive environment that enhances lifeskills as they master the guitar and become musicians. Annalisa’s performance degree in classical guitar was earned at Bard College, with studies at the San Francisco Conservatory and St. John's College, Annapolis. As a performer, Annalisa is admired for "her crisp imagery and crafting of sonic landscapes," and her CD, Annalise Ewald Live at the Factory Underground reached No. 8 on Billboard's Traditional Classical chart. See Annalisa's personal and business websites, her Facebook and Twitter feed.
TOWN OF STRATFORD
Mayor: John A. Harkins
Founded by English Puritans in 1639 as Pequonnocke, the Town of Stratford had changed its name by 1643 to honor the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon. By the time of the 2010 census, it had a population of 51,384. It has a long history in in aviation, the military, and theater. Located on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River it has long viewed its waterfront as an important natural resource, with the deep water harbor of neighboring Bridgeport providing docking and terminal facilities for domestic and overseas shipping and ferry passenger service to Long Island. Stratford’s long association with the aviation industry started in 1939, when Russian immigrant, Igor Sikorsky, successfully flew the first helicopter at his Stratford-based aircraft plant. More than a half-century later, Sikorsky Aircraft, the world's leading helicopter manufacturer, still designs and produces state-of-the art military and commercial helicopters at its factory on Stratford's north side. Stratford is host to a variety of cultural attractions from the soon-to-be-revitalized Shakespeare Theatre to Boothe Memorial Park, a municipally-owned park and museum, showcasing an assortment of architecturally-unique structures and vast collection of Americana. Stratford has nine properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The diversity of Stratford's natural resources is as rich as its cultural heritage, ranging from the 250-acre, town-owned Roosevelt Forest to the Great Meadows Salt Marsh, one of the largest unditched salt marshes remaining in New England and now a portion of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge. See the Town's website, Facebook page and Twitter feed.
❖ See a List by Town of all Organization and Creative Business Members: here
❖ See a List by Town of Artist Members: here
ROUND-UP OF MEMBERS' NEWS
CONNECTICUT'S BEARDSLEY ZOO has received a $5,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation to support the Zoo’s teen program, Explorers. The program is designed to inspire and motivate teens looking for a hands-on Zoo experience. The Explorers investigate zoo careers, from greenhouseman to zoo director, including animal care, development and marketing, and visitor services. Open to teenagers ages 14-18, members attend career workshops, take part in job shadows, develop a public presentation, and create a year-end project. CONGRATULATIONS!
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY (BPL) welcomes back Bernadette Baldino. Growing up in Bridgeport's Italian working-class North End, Bernadette worked at BPL for 27 years, working her way up the ranks to become Assistant City Librarian for the system. She then moved to direct the Easton Public Library, in 1995, just as it was taking on a new building. She now returns to BPL as Interim City Librarian. We wish her the best. Read more...
The BRUCE MUSEUM will recognize the contributions of 9 distinguished figures in the art world at 8th annual Icon Awards in the Arts ceremony on April 6. The Museum is honoring two NYC Artists, Richard Haas and Philip Pearlstein; art collectors, Rick and Monica Segal; art historian, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann; leader of the art trade: David P. Tunick; museum professional, Joseph J. Rishel; and patrons of the arts: Deborah and Alan Simon. The benefit event will be held at the Belle Haven Club in Greenwich. The public is invited to attend and enjoy a cocktail reception at 5:30 pm followed by the awards ceremony at 6:30 pm. Reservations may be made here.
The CT TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION is holding its annual awards ceremony in two locations across the state. First, at the Keeney Cultural Center in Wethersfield, and then at our own PEQUOT LIBRARY on Thurs. April 13, 6-7:30pm (preceded by a reception with cash bar, at 5:30pm). Winners will be announced at the ceremony. You can reserve your tickets here.
THE KLEIN is adding another dimension to its Footsteps of Peace concert April 28, honoring civil rights leader and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, with an essay contest for middle-school and high-school students. Students write a 1-page essay on: "What does freedom really mean to you, and how can we get there as a country and as a society?" Prizes of a $100 scholarship + a pair of tickets + showcasing their essay during the concert will be awarded (2 to the middle schoolers and 2 to the high-school winners). Essays should be sent by April 7 to: laurence@theklein.org.
NORWALK HISTORICAL SOCIETY mailed more then 100 cards to the non-profit group, Cards for Hospitalized Kids, to be distributed to hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses across the nation. The uplifting cards for children suffering from life-threatening illnesses were created at the Society's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event Sun. Jan. 15, 2017 at the Society's Museum building. Two classes from Rowayton Elementary School also participated in the event.
As SILVERMINE ARTS CENTER moves towards its 100th anniversary, it is taking stock, reflecting on and celebrating current Guild members who helped shape what Silvermine is today. Complementing its current exhibition, The Legacy of Silvermine: Artists, Art, and Community, Silvermine hosts a panel discussion, Artist: Creator, Director, Producer, (click for details) this Sun. March 19, 2pm. The discussion is modeled on the Institute for Visual Artists, Silvermine’s influential lecture series that ran from 1985 to 2002 and became an essential program for curators, artists, and teachers in the region. Read More...
The STAMFORD SYMPHONY has announced Our Next Maestro, its 2017-2018 Audition Season. Six Music Director finalists were chosen from nearly 200 worldwide applicants who will conducting the Symphony through the next season. The conductors are (in order of appearance): Lidiya Yankovskaya (Boston New Music Festival), Daniel Hege (Wichita Symphony), Eckehard Stier (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra), David Lockington (Modesto and Pasadena Symphonies), Paul Watkins (English Chamber Orchestra), Rei Hotoda, (Utah Symphony).
The WESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY is proud to announce receipt of an Award of Merit from the Connecticut League of Historical Organizations, for its educational program Exploring Westport History at the Wheeler House. The program is an annual field trip for all third graders in the Westport public schools. Students are guided through four learning centers to strengthen their visual literacy and critical thinking skills through careful observation of historic spaces and objects. "Winning the merit award was validation for all the hard work and determination everyone at WHS is putting forward," said Education and Programming Director, Nicole Carpenter.
WESTPORT WOMAN'S CLUB (WWC) has a long tradition of partnering with local artists to generate sales for the artists and funds for local scholarships. WWC is again preparing for its Art Show Fundraiser (April 29-30) featuring multiple works by 14 artists (including many CAFC members). This year’s show is dedicated to the memory of recently deceased legendary local artist Naiad Einsel. The WWC is also celebrating its 110th Anniversary. The show is curated by Miggs Burroughs, and is chaired by Jo Luscombe (both seen to the right).
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THE TRUMP BUDGET
Statement from National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu
Yesterday we learned that the President's FY 2018 budget blueprint proposes the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. We are disappointed because we see our funding actively making a difference with individuals of all ages in thousands of communities, large, small, urban and rural, and in every Congressional District in the nation.
We understand that the President's budget request is a first step in a very long budget process; as part of that process we are working with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prepare information they have requested. At this time, the NEA continues to operate as usual and will do so until a new budget is enacted by Congress.
We expect this news to be an active topic of discussion among individuals and organizations that advocate for the arts. As a federal government agency, the NEA cannot engage in advocacy, either directly or indirectly. We will, however, continue our practice of educating about the NEA's vital role in serving our nation's communities.
FACT V. FICTION
A vigorous democracy periodically debates the role of government and the ways the public sector can best support the prosperity and well-being of its citizens. When those questions turn to the role of government in supporting the arts, make sure the discussion is fueled by the facts!
Fiction: Eliminating the arts will help the government balance its budget.
Fact: The arts return $22.3 billion in revenue to federal, state, county and municipal governments. A strong arts sector makes it easier for our government to balance its books.
Fiction: Cutting government arts programs will save a lot of money.
Fact: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) receives a mere 0.004% of the total federal budget, less than 1/2 of one hundredth of one percent. Appropriations to state arts agencies constitute just 0.04% of state general funds expenditures, less than one half of one tenth of one percent. Arts cuts will harm communities without achieving real savings.
Fiction: All Republicans want to cut the arts.
Fact: The last time a Republican President occupied the White House (2001-2008), federal appropriations to the NEA increased by $40 million. Republicans held the majority in both houses of Congress for four of those eight years. Support for the arts is pan-partisan. Republicans and Democrats alike have track records of supporting the arts because they know it's wise economic policy and is popular with constituents.
Fiction: Government support for the arts primarily benefits the urban elite.
Fact: Government arts support ensures that rural communities and low-income groups get their fair share of the educational and economic benefits offered by the arts. 40% of NEA-supported activities take place in high-poverty neighborhoods. While 15% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, more than 25% of all state arts agency grants go to these communities. Government arts funding reaches every U.S. congressional district and most state House and Senate districts, too.
Fiction: Arts organizations are dependent on public dollars.
Fact: Government funding is typically a small slice of the funding pie. For instance, funding from state arts agencies composes only 2.1% of total grantee revenue (source: NASAA analysis of annual statistical reports). However, these small investments pack a big punch: arts organizations use public dollars to generate earned income, secure private contributions and leverage local matching funds. Every $1 of NEA support leverages $9 in matching funds.
Fiction: The private sector will fill in if government arts funding is cut.
Fact: A solely private funding model would leave many American communities behind. Philanthropic giving in the United States is geographically disproportional: rural areas receive only 5.5% of all grant making, a figure that has declined over time. It takes a mixture of both public and private funds to realize the full power of the arts for all Americans.
FIVE ESSENTIAL ARTS ARGUMENTS
In addition to their intrinsic impacts, the arts produce positive community outcomes across the United States. Here are five timely reasons that public support for the arts is a good deal for citizens and for government.
1. The arts enrich the American economy. Small businesses, individual entrepreneurs and innovators are the heart and soul of the American economy. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis affirms that creative enterprises are a significant part of that equation. Arts and cultural production are growing, providing jobs and tax revenue and generating goods and services in demand by the public. As America enters a new era of international relationships, it's important to note that creative products generate a trade surplus. The United States exports more arts and cultural products and services than it imports, and that's positive for job growth and our nation's overall economy.
2. The arts offer solutions for rural America. Many rural communities were slow to rebound (or haven't yet recovered) from the recession. Arts based economic development strategies offer potent, sustainable advantages while preserving the heritage of rural communities. State arts agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) make substantial investments in rural areas, boost the capacity of rural communities to improve their futures and help rural leaders pioneer the next generation of rural development solutions.
3. The arts offer cost-effective health treatments that work. Arts-integrated treatments produce positive clinical outcomes for our active-duty military and veteran populations. The arts help other patient groups, including older Americans, to recover more quickly from procedures, require shorter hospitalizations, take fewer medications, and maintain their mental, physical and social well-being.
4. The arts improve schooling.
Research proves that the arts raise academic achievement because they teach creative thinking, analytical reasoning, effective communication and collaborative work. These competencies pave the way to student success in school, in the workplace and in life.
5. The arts offer a net gain for government. State arts agencies and the NEA operate with modest financial resources, lean staffs and as little red tape as possible. They also are highly responsive to citizens, involving the public in agency oversight, planning and funding decisions. In return, the arts yield $22.3 billion in revenue to federal, state, county and municipal governments. Federal arts funding leverages $9 in matching funds for every $1 granted.
CT ON THE M.O.V.E.
WESTPORT MARCH
NEEDS ARTISTS
DefenDemocracy, a grassroots organization founded by Westport women in the spirit of the women who marched exactly 104 years ago in Westport for equal rights as men, hopes to gather people from across Southern Fairfield County “to illuminate issues that compromise our democratic institutions, from healthcare to immigration to environmental protection to freedom of the press.” Senator Chris Murphy is the keynote speaker, with others to be announced. The CT on the M.O.V.E. (Mobilize, Organize, Vocalize, Energize) march takes place on Sunday, March 26th at noon, starting at Jesup Green (next to the lower parking lot at the library) and ending at the Veteran's Green in front of Westport Town Hall. All are welcome and encouraged to bring their voices. Most institutions under attack from the current administration are represented (environment, press, legal rights, women's rights, immigration, etc). There is now a call for artists, ready to speak out about the threat to arts funding, to join the march. Bring signs and banners (they make them fast at Staples). Questions: 203-858-9967
STAND UP FOR HISTORY, PRESERVATION & HUMANITIES
On Wed. March 29, let your state legislator hear your voice as members of Connecticut's heritage, preservation and library community come together for a day of advocacy training, updates on the state budget, visits to legislators, and a Pop Up Exhibit featuring 30+ displays from museums, historical societies, libraries, archives, preservation groups and so much more. Activities include a morning advocacy workshop presented by the New England Museum Association, an afternoon legislative briefing, followed by legislative visits, exhibits and a call to action. The CT Places Coalition believes that the erosion of state investment in humanities, libraries, museums, history, and preservation organizations is a direct threat to what makes our state an attractive place to live and work. We believe that continued public investment in these places is fundamental to Connecticut’s quality of life and economic competitiveness. This year’s Advocacy Day will be presented in partnership with the New England Museum Association. To learn more and to register, click here.
Project Grants: $5,000 to $15,000 for planning and implementation of arts-based projects for CT audiences that engages at least one Connecticut artist. Application Guidelines available here.
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REGIONAL INITIATIVE
Regional Initiative (REGI) Grants: $1,000-$4,000 for small arts-based projects to engage community matter, increasing access to the arts and engaging at least one CT artist
Application Guidelines available here.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY SCORE
SCORE (formerly the Service Corps of Retired Executives) "Counselors to America's Small Business," is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1964 dedicated to entrepreneur education. The Fairfield County Chapter has 95 volunteer professionals with a broad mix of executive and small business experience. Volunteers include currently employed and retired executives, business owners and community leaders. On Monday March 20, SCORE presents: Copyright Basics for Artists, Photographers and Other Creative Types, a free SCORE Small Business Workshop co-sponsored by Ferguson Library, Stamford. It takes place at the Harry Bennett Branch of Ferguson Library, 115 Vine Road,6-8pm. Cliff Ennico, a nationally recognized authority on the legal problems of small business, best known as the former host of PBS MONEYHUNT, will cover the following points:
● What is copyright, and why is it important?
● What must you do to claim a copyright?
● Can I use someone else's copyrighted work without permission?
● Am I protected when I post work online?
● What should I do if I see someone has copied my work without permission?
Free registration required. Register here.
ALDRICH MUSEUM
TEXT + CONTEXT
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum together with Fairfield University offers a professional development opportunity for K-12 Educators and Creative Professionals: Text and Context: Teaching and Learning through Contemporary Art and the Written Word. It will be held June 27-30, from 10-3pm at The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield. Participants will "investigate the exhibitions on view at The Aldrich as session leaders draw from the ideas posed by contemporary artists, exploring research, data- and text-based work in the galleries, and leading activities and conversations that question our roles as both introspective observers of, and critical commentators about, society and ourselves." The program will make connections between creativity and learning, and strengthen visual literacy skills and inquiry based teaching methods. Educators will have the opportunity to recharge their imaginations through a range of participatory art-making and writing activities. For more information and to register, click here.
EDUCATION PROGRAMS ASSISTANT
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum seeks an Education Programs Assistant (Assistant) to support the Programs and Education Department in developing and delivering innovative, enriching, and creative strategies for engagement with Pre-K through 12 students and educators, college and university students and educators, and teens. Expanding outreach to these audiences is a critical role for the Assistant. In addition, the Assistant will provide as-needed help with family and adult audience development and programs, and will have the opportunity to generate ideas and content in the programs listed below, as well as across the department. The Assistant will lead gallery tours and programs for students and teachers; will support the efforts to develop exhibition-based tools and resources for teacher and student learning; identify and communicate with teen audiences; and research and support college and university relationships and partnerships. The Assistant will manage The Studio, the Museum’s multi-purpose program and art-making space, including but not limited to developing innovative hands-on projects for visitors of all ages, overseeing materials inventory, and coordinating use of The Studio with colleagues. Resume, writing sample, and 2 professional references should be sent to tmoore@aldrichart.org with the subject line Education Programs Assistant. For full job description, click here.
The Bruce Museum seeks a Membership Manager who reports to the Development Manager/Donor Relations Manager and is responsible for leading the Membership Program through a wide range of acquisition and retention plans, including:
manage operations/correspondence
compile monthly renewal, upgrade and conversion reports
create text for all membership collateral material
create/implement strategic membership acquisition opportunities
address all concerns/questions of members with efficiency and sensitivity
oversee stewardship responsibilities for members
oversee design/implementation of retention/conversion strategies and strategic plan for new member recruitment initiatives
represent membership interests with other staff/volunteers and alignment with Museum programming
design Founding Member programs tied to institutional growth
manage/maintain accurate membership records, including timely acknowledgements, revenue reports, mailing lists, member lists and other reports as needed
oversee Robert Bruce Circle membership activities and assist with Corporate Leadership Council, including event management
oversee membership events.
Qualifications include: Degree in Arts Administration, Art History, Museum Studies, and/or other liberal arts discipline preferred; 5+ years of museum or non-profit experience working with all levels of donors; experience in fundraising and organizing special events; strong interest in the arts preferred. For further qualifications and application instructions, click here.
JUDY DWORIN PERFORMANCE PROJECT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The Judy Dworin Performance Project [JDPP] seeks qualified applicants for the position of Director of Community Engagement. This position will work closely with JDPP Executive Director, Associate Artistic Director and other members of JDPP's close-knit, action-oriented staff to deepen existing relationships as well as help identify new partners, program participants, and opportunities for financial support of JDPP's three programmatic offerings – Bridging Boundaries, Moving Matters! and The Ensemble. The Director of Community Engagement will expand JDPP's ability to meet its strategic goals, particularly around broadening its visibility, reach and program impact across diverse communities to increase understanding of social issues, build community, and inspire action through the arts. The position will focus on meeting four goals: 1) raising the organization's visibility regionally and beyond as a catalyst for social change; 2) engaging more people and organizations in the agency's mission; 3) expanding the impact of JDPP's arts outreach programs and providing tools and training to bring its residency model to additional schools and prisons; and 4) laying the foundation for organizational and financial stability. For complete job description, click here. A reliable car is a must. Salary range is commensurate with experience. Full-time, 40 hours per week. EOE.
DESIGN STORE ASSOCIATE
The Philip Johnson Glass House seeks a Visitor Center/Design Store Associate. Reporting directly to the Manager of the Store, interacting closely with the Business Manager and the Manager of Interpretation & Education. This post is responsible for providing initial orientation and excellent client service for all visitors before and after tours, programs, and events and is required to provide interpretation and understanding of design objects in the carefully curated Design Store. Processing retail sales and completing ticket transactions in person and on the phone in a courteous and professional manor. Candidate must demonstrate a collaborative, positive, supportive spirit, while working with all staff members to provide a seamless, warm, welcoming experience for all visitors that exceeds expectations. Other duties include: daily opening and closing of register and Visitor Center; maintenance of visual displays, ensure all supplies and inventory is well stocked keeping store neat and orderly at all times. Some lifting is required for restocking; communicating with Design Store manager when products are running low; provide assistance during special events and exhibitions. Part-time, seasonal position between 16-32 hours weekly. Requires availability Thurs-Mon from mid/late April through early December, including weekends, holidays, and some evenings. Ideal candidate will have: a degree in an arts related field, i.e. art history, architecture, design, museum studies; outstanding verbal communication skills and ability to work in a fast paced environment with flexibility and poise; xperience with computers and POS systems; experience working in a professional retail or museum environment; and must possess a valid driver's license. Send resume and cover letter to dbaharian@theglasshouse.org.
Jobs Previously Listed and Still Available
browngrotta arts: Media/Marketing/Gallery Assistant Internship
The Bruce Museum: Coordinator of Interpretive Services and Audience Engagement
The Bruce Museum: Director of Marketing and Communications NEW LISTING JUST IN!
Greenwich Arts Council: Executive Director
Ives Concert Park, Technical and Facilities Manager
Pequot Library: Director of Development.
Shubert Theatre, New Haven: Director of Operations & Facilities
Wadsworth Atheneum: Donor Relations Manager
Westport Country Playhouse: Development Fellow
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March 22: COA: Project Grants: Application Deadline
March 22: COA: Regional Initiative Grants (REGI): Application Deadline
March 20-21: Arts Advocacy Day, Washington DC
March 23: Progressive Gallery Tour: Southport, 6-8pm
March 23: Cultivating Collectors Series: State of the Union panel: Silvermine, 6-8pm
March 26: CT On the M.O.V.E. March: Westport Jesup Green, Noon. 203-858-9967
March 29: CT Places Coalition Advocacy Training Day: State Capitol
April c5: USArtists International: Application Deadline for Tours 7/1/17-6/30/18
April 13: NEA Challenge America Fast-Track Award Application Deadline
May c4: CT Governor's Conference on Tourism
May 18: SHPO Conference, Preservation in a Changing Environment - UConn, Storrs
June 8-9: New England Foundation for the Arts: CCX Conference, New London
June 27-30: Aldrich Museum Summer Institute: Text+Context
The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is a 501(c)(3) organization. We are very grateful for the support of our individual and organization members, our individual donors and the following organizations.
Organizations' Newsletter - March 17, 2017
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awaii health officials are pushing a bill that could give community health centers nearly $20 million to help thousands of Medicaid patients with chronic conditions improve their health.
House Bill 1161 proposes to take advantage of a 9-to-1 match program for federal money available through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
The bill would give health centers the state backing needed to apply for the federal money. The funds would be used to target patients with multiple complex diseases under Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income residents.
Community health centers have pledged to invest $2 million to draw down $18 million in federal dollars to expand so-called Medicaid health homes in which providers coordinate all primary, acute, behavioral health and long-term care services for patients in low-income communities across the islands.
The state would need to invest at least $1 million for administrative costs. The measure is now in the Senate Ways and Means Committee but has yet to receive a hearing.
"At little cost to the budget, this bill provides an opportunity to bring health care resources to areas of our state with extremely high need," said Dr. Robert Hirokawa, chief executive officer of the Hawaii Primary Care Association, representing the state's 14 federally qualified health centers. "We feel the health home model of care has a long-term potential to save millions of dollars in Medicaid."
Community health centers serve one-fourth of the state's Medicaid population, including the uninsured and underinsured, many of whom have multiple chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and mental health problems.
The health centers are seeking to establish statewide the team-based model to provide integrated services to not only improve health outcomes, but reduce hospital admissions and expensive emergency room visits that on average cost about $1,300.
Across the nation, the team approach has been proven to improve health, lower medical costs and increase patient satisfaction, health centers say.
By reducing long-term Medicaid costs, the model also has the potential to alleviate some of the state's budget problems, Hirokawa added.
"Improving the health of these patients is critical," he said. "Just as critical is reducing health care costs for the entire state, which has been one of our goals for years. That's why health centers are willing to invest their own resources to help make this happen."
Richard Bettini, president and CEO of the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, said the money is crucial to improve the health of the state's most vulnerable low-income population and keep programs operating.
"Attracting $18 million in new funds into Hawaii's lowest-income communities will have multiple benefits," Bettini said. "In addition to providing more resources at the community level to address complex medical conditions, this initiative will save jobs in our community and create new opportunities to address preventable costs in health care. Without these funds, we will see cuts in preventive and community services by midyear 2015."
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Should L.A. Clippers Boycott Playoffs?
View Poll Results: Should the L.A. Clippers boycott the rest of the NBA playoffs?
Only if the Golden State Warriors also agree to the boycott.
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Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling made international news when a recording of a racist rant with his girlfriend Vanessa Stiviano surfaced on TMZ.com. Since then, he has been condemned by everyone from NBA legends Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson (who Sterling specifically singled out) to President Barack Obama and the Rev. Al Sharpton. In addition, several have called for the Clippers to boycott the rest of the playoffs as a sign of solidarity and protest — including an appeal by Miami star Lebron James. What do YOU think?
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Re: Should L.A. Clippers Boycott Playoffs?
Donald Sterling has to give up all his championships.
Donald Sterling can't be a racist. He's banging a woman of color.
May 7th, 2014, 11:00 PM #4
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/e...rts%3Aansfox11
What in tarnation is Dodger Blue talkin' about?
It's a right and not a privilege to own a NBA team.
Do you believe in Magic? I heard that he's holier than thou.
June 3rd, 2014, 10:01 PM #7
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/b...l?id=261719221
Is this a fetish,sexist, or racist?
lensperson
Into all this mix is tossed the Steve Balmer factor.
Paul Allen already has his team so the other old softie has to get his team.
All that screaming will go down well like the monkey dance.
Dude must have just smoked some high grade redmond crack to appear on stage like that.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald...231100454.html
Don't you just love rich people who don't want to pay taxes?
August 6th, 2014, 10:06 PM #10
https://music.yahoo.com/news/kiss-ge...040040689.html
Lick it up!
August 22nd, 2014, 11:09 PM #11
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/v-stiviano...142000454.html
Did Donald Sterling watch the Clippers basketball team take a shower?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_7067534.html
The wife of former Clippers owner Donald Sterling is owed $2.6 million by a woman her husband showered with gifts, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Richard Fruin Jr. awarded Shelly Sterling money that was community property from six decades of marriage that was secretly spent buying V. Stiviano a house, a Ferrari and other luxury gifts.
Too bad for Ms. Stiviano, she's lost some of her glory... well, cash that is. She should have concentrated her efforts in Hawaii, which is not a community property state.
Now run along and play, but don’t get into trouble.
April 15th, 2015, 09:48 PM #13
Originally Posted by Amati
Give her the money. She had to have sex with Donald Sterling.
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Groin strain vs. hernia pain: How to tell the difference
The pain is similar, but hernias often create a telltale lump beneath the skin.
If you're an active person, you may attribute pain in the lower abdomen or groin to a muscle strain, especially if you experienced that kind of injury when you were younger.
Once you're older, it's more likely that groin pain is the result of a hernia — abdominal fat or part of the intestine poking through a hole in the abdominal wall. "In the vast majority of older adults, it's usually a hernia," says Dr. David Berger, a colorectal and gastrointestinal surgeon at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Recovering from a serious fall can take a while. Rearranging the house is an easy way to prevent falls. Top causes of falls at home include floor clutter, slippery bathrooms, throw rugs, and electrical cords. Fixing these issues can go a long way to avoiding falls.
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Breast CancerAdvanced Stages
She Was Far Too Young To Die: Maryam Mirzakhani
PJ HamelPatient Expert July 18, 2017
Another woman died of breast cancer this week.
Just 40 years old, Maryam Mirzakhani was initially diagnosed four years ago. The cancer became metastatic, spreading to her bones, and she passed away July 15, 2017.
Over 40,000 women will die of breast cancer in America this year. Each one is special to someone: a child, a spouse, a mother, or a sister. Most are mourned; some by few, others by countless friends and colleagues and loved ones.
Mirzakhani rests in the latter category. People all over the world have been shattered by her death, expressing their grief in official statements and via social media.
Because Mirzakhani, in a life cut far too short, was a celebrity: not in sports, film, or fashion, but in the rarefied world of theoretical mathematics.
For those who gladly left math behind after high school, understand that Mirzakhani didn’t truck with numbers: her field was the dynamics and geometry of complex surfaces. Simply put — very simply put — Mirzakhani studied curved surfaces (think balloons) and trajectories (think billiards).
Her work was so astonishingly brilliant that three years ago, in 2014, she became the first woman ever to win the Fields Medal, the math community’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Recovering from her first bout of chemo when she learned of the award, she worried she wouldn’t be able to attend the ceremonies. But, like so many breast cancer survivors, she powered past chemo’s side effects and traveled to Seoul, South Korea to receive her medal — awarded for “outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.”
I can’t pretend to understand what Mirzakhani did on a professional level: what she studied (and taught as a Stanford professor), the dreams she had for future work. Yet I feel I understand her journey as a woman: the daughter of Iranian parents, far from home in a graduate program at Harvard. A young wife and mother balancing family and job in California.
A breast cancer survivor. And then its victim.
So I join the thousands of people who feel sorrow at Mirzakhani’s death. I deeply regret the loss of future contributions she would doubtless have made to the world of theoretical mathematics; you don’t have to understand genius to mourn its passing, especially when a brilliant light is extinguished far too soon.
But I feel even sadder about the manner of Mirzakhani’s passing: breast cancer. Fewer than 5 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer are under age 40: why did she have to be one of them? Only about 17 percent of breast cancer survivors die from the disease. Why did that data set have to include Mirzakhani?
None of us survivors want to draw the short straw. At some point, Mirzakhani realized that’s exactly what she’d done.
Yet she continued to move forward with her life — her work, her family, cancer treatment — demonstrating the indomitable spirit of breast cancer survivors right up to the end.
For this, I bear witness to this remarkable woman today.
Mirzakhani leaves her husband, Stanford computer science professor Jan Vondrak, and a 6-year-old daughter, Anahita.
PJ Hamel
PJ Hamel is senior digital content editor and food writer at King Arthur Flour, and a James Beard award-winning author. A 16-year breast cancer survivor, her passion is helping women through this devastating disease. She manages a large and active online survivor support network based at her local hospital and shares her wisdom and experience with the greater community via HealthCentral.com.
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Living with a mental illness can smother your motivation; it can peel away the layers of life’s possible pleasures; and melt away the wonders of love. Mental Illness can isolate your existence and exclude you from having friendships, lost before they have even began.
At Hear Us, all our staff and volunteers know these feelings and adverse emotions as we have walked the same path. That is why Hear Us make; not just one small step, but we take one giant leap for all our vulnerable communities’ needs and hopes.
Hear Us actively makes contact with over 3500 people suffering the anguish of metal distress each year. Our Linkworking Project supports those that feel that are without a voice, or an opinion, into having their voice and issues heard. We help them to receive respect during crisis and despair and we help them to navigate their chosen path through mental health services on their journey to recovery.
Your donations to Hear Us would help to support and help empower people who are suffering metal illness, many have learning difficulties and many are susceptible and struggle with addiction problems. These people are Croydon’s most vulnerable people in our community; and our society is being pulled apart for the benefit and gains of the selfish few; whilst failing to give support to those in need and deep desperation.
New welfare reforms, particularly Universal Credit, are driving people further into poverty. Our Welfare benefits project support people with mental illness to make claims for disability benefits, and we support them to assessments and where necessary, we represent them at appeals and tribunals.
Hear Us continue to represent and act as the voice of people that use the local mental health services in Croydon to service providers and commissioners; actively campaigning with service users on issues raised by users themselves. To advance education about mental health for the public benefit in Croydon and surrounding areas with the object of creating awareness and reducing the stigma attached to mental health
Each donation helps Hear Us to support people with mental illnesses live a healthier lifestyles and an improved wellbeing. You can give to Hear Us in a number of ways:
You can make a secure online payment to Hear Us through our website; www.hear-us.org/donate and click on the CAF Charities Aid Foundation Logo.
If your employer has a Payroll Giving scheme, simply nominate Hear Us as your chosen charity, and make a tax-free donation each month.
You can also make a donation in memory of a loved one or leave Hear Us a gift in your will.
Please be assured, any money we receive goes directly towards helping people with mental illness live more fulfilling lives. If you would like more information, please have a look at our latest annual report and accounts. Other ways to raise money for Hear Us would be through holding or taking part in a Community fund-raising event, such as the London Marathon or less tiring would be having Tea and Cakes parties to raise money.
We would like to thank you for all your support – it makes all the difference to someone suffering the isolation of mental distress.
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Experts weigh in on salient issues around emerging threats and security tech
RSA Conference unveiled expert insights into salient issues around emerging threats and security technologies.
Based on industry observations and interactions with partners and customers across the region, experts share their thoughts on four hotly contested statements that impact regional businesses in 2019.
It is possible for a cybersecurity solution to be completely unhackable?
The adoption of fraud detection and prevention solutions, including multifactor authentication and biometric solutions have been on the rise in Asia.
According to Grand View Research, the Asia Pacific market will witness the fastest growth rate from 2018-2025, as a result the increasing emphasis on personal data security, stringent regulatory compliances, and increased investments in connected devices and cloud technologies.
While such solutions buffer against attacks, experts caution that businesses need to do more than just ensure that technologies are in place.
“The reality is, biometrics also brings with it some caveats and new risks, including privacy concerns around how ‘Personal Identifiable Information’ is collected, shared and secured as this data can also be a target for cybercriminals.
“As biometric technologies depend on probabilities and confidence scores, there are also risks that the systems can be spoofed by say, a photo. Therefore, it is always best for biometrics to work in conjunction with other security measures,” explained Vicky Ray, Principal Researcher, Unit 42 Threat Intelligence, Asia Pacific.
An executive advisor of a Fortune 100 company and member of the RSAC Program Committee shared similar sentiments. “We have seen security ‘silver bullets’ come and go over the years – it used to be biometrics and now, vendors are praising AI as the ultimate cyber defense weapon.
“Unfortunately, the one constant is that hackers will resolve to targeting the weakest link – people. While biometrics are good as another layer of security, they are but just an additional layer of security. If hackers can convince people to do something that they should not do, no technology will help,” he explains.
When IoT devices are embedded with security vulnerabilities, it puts users at risk
The opportunities that the Internet of Things phenomenon has driven across businesses and industries have been almost unparalleled, as ubiquitous connected devices provide key physical data, unlocking further business insights via the cloud.
Yet, they have also turned into security concerns with the emergence of DDoS attacks and a rising number of internet security breaches launched against servers.
Experts warn that this is a valid concern, and that more needs to be done in order to protect end users. Sunil Varkey, CTO and Security Strategist, Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, Symantec, said, “Even as IoT adoption is in a rapid phase and may soon touch our everyday lives, security needs to be accounted for.
Currently, it is not a major consideration in the development lifecycle. As such, most security practitioners are not yet familiar with security protocols for IoT, and that needs to change. Else, any exploit on the vulnerabilities or misconfigurations could lead to a huge impact on safety.”
Srinivas Bhattiprolu, Senior Director-Solutions and Services, Asia Pacific-Japan, Nokia, elaborated on how threat vectors could potentially take advantage of IoT devices, explaining that lateral movements to compromise assets within the security perimeter has been on the rise.
“In order to secure an end-to-end IoT system, it is necessary to clearly understand the vulnerabilities and exploits associated with specific components as well as of the system as a whole,” he explained.
Critical infrastructure owners should create separate networks to move essential operations off the internet
In recent years, governments and organizations across the APJ region have begun the introduction of separate networks, and have even cut off internet connection from employee devices in order to prevent potential leaks from e-mails and shared documents.
The Singapore government’s move in May 2017 is one such example in a move to prevent attackers from tapping the internet to plant malware in work devices. As for whether this is essential, experts share differing views.
“The challenges that security professionals have been facing with legacy systems is their complexity and lack of security by design, which necessitate off-network operations. This is still a common practice as it reduces critical systems exposure, providing mitigating controls, by limiting potential cyber-attacks through segregation,” explained Magda Lilia Chelly, Managing Director at Responsible Cyber Pte Ltd.
Varkey however pointed out the increasing challenge of this practice. “While isolation and separation of network segments were an active defense strategy when systems and information were well within defined perimeters and enterprise networks, this might not be enough to solve challenges anymore. This is because heterogeneous multi-cloud environments see users having multiple IT personas.”
“Beyond segregation, owners and operators of critical infrastructure should make sure their systems are properly secure, patched, updated and monitored. It is too easy for an individual today to go on one of several search engines and easily find misconfigured or unpatched critical systems,” continued Varkey.
AI-powered systems are self-sustaining and secure by design
According to market research firm, Reportlinker, the Asia Pacific region is expected to be the largest AI cybersecurity market, as a result of the high adoption of advanced technologies like IoT, big data and cloud computing. As for its ability to keep out attacks, experts warn that AI has both exacerbated advances in cybersecurity solutions and threats of cybercrime.
“We have seen recent AI deployments across cyber security solutions, where companies claim that they can detect attacks faster using the technology. Academic research proves a success rate between 85% and 99% – this all depends on the implementation, algorithms and data,” Chelly explained.
“In order for AI to be successful, it requires the appropriate data input. If the data input is manipulated, or biased, new security concerns can emerge very quickly. The data inputs, and their integrity and availability present a crucial element for the AI technology,” she continued.
Grand View Research
Insider attacks still far more difficult to detect and prevent than external cyber attacks
Why identity is the foundation of security
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X Games Austin 2014:
Henkel and Loctite Sponsor “Rookie of the Year” in X Games Debut of Off-Road Truck Racing
At X Games Austin, June 5-8, pro-snowboarder and Winter X Games gold medalist Nick Baumgartner will trade in his board for four wheels and a track as he fights for gold in Off Road Stadium Super Truck Racing, an event making its debut in the June 2014 X Games. Sponsored by Henkel Corporation and Loctite® brand adhesives and sealants, Baumgartner will race off jumps, through crossovers and around tight corners in his No. 12 Loctite® Stadium Super Truck, hoping to bring home another X Games gold. Baumgartner relies upon Loctite® adhesives and sealants to keep his truck together, reliable and competitive, and to help ensure his personal safety as he executes hundreds of dangerous racing maneuvers.
Baumgartner specifically calls out Loctite® 243 and 263 Threadlockers for keeping suspension parts in place “when things have to stay on the truck,” Loctite® 598 RTV Silicone Gasket Maker for anywhere a gasket needs to be replaced or repaired, Loctite® 609 Retaining Compound for press fits or slip fits on the steering rack, and Loctite® 561 Thread Sealant Stick to secure radiator and brake caliper fittings. All these materials have Baumgartner’s stamp of approval to perform dependably at exceptionally fast speeds in extreme racing conditions.
“Loctite® is the perfect teammate for the X Games,” said Baumgartner. “I am so thankful to Henkel and the Loctite® products team. Without their support I would not be living my dreams and competing to be the best in a truck by flying around corners at 100 mph with 20 other vehicles.”
Baumgartner, who started off-road truck racing in 2011, earned “Rookie of the Year” status after finishing third in his first race and then, within weeks of getting behind the wheel, taking first at Crandon International Off Road Raceway (“The Big House”). He finished the season atop the leader board in second place with five wins, impressing fans, sponsors and TORC officials. In 2012, Baumgartner moved into Pro Lite racing and finished sixth in the points standings. 2013 posed a new challenge when Baumgartner was given the opportunity to race in Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Truck Series. Landing on the podium in both TORC and SST, Baumgartner stood amongst the best off-road drivers on the planet.
“Nick’s enthusiasm and commitment to success make him a great ambassador for Henkel and the Loctite® brand of adhesives and sealants,” said Mike Shannahan, general industrial marketing director for Henkel Corporation, North America. “We are proud to support Nick as he competes in the Stadium Super Truck race in this year’s X Games Austin. Nick’s aggressive style, combined with the high performance and reliability of the Loctite® products he uses on his race truck, will make him a dominant force in the upcoming X Games event."
Seeding and racing events will all take place on Sunday, June 8, with a practice session scheduled for Friday, June 6. For additional information on Nick Baumgartner, go to www.nickbaumgartner.com. For more information on Henkel’s sponsorships, visit www.henkelna.com/xgames.
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Fender Adds Two Guitars, Two Basses to Pawn Shop Series
Fender has added four new models to its Pawn Shop Series, which the company calls a line of "guitars that never were but should have been.”
There's the Pawn Shop ’70s Strat Deluxe, Pawn Shop Super-Sonic, Pawn Shop Mustang Bass and Pawn Shop Bass VI.
The Pawn Shop ’70s Strat Deluxe is one of the most unusual takes ever on the world’s most archetypal electric guitar, with a pronounced 1970s style and vibe. For tonal versatility, its alder body houses a Telecaster single-coil neck pickup and an Enforcer humbucking bridge pickup with a smaller Wide Range chrome cover.
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Other distinctive features include a "U"-shaped maple neck with 22 medium jumbo frets, 9.5" radius and "bullet" truss rod; four-ply white pearloid pickguard; three-way blade pickup switching and two Jazz Bass control knobs (master volume, master tone); ’70s-style hard-tail Stratocaster bridge and vintage-style "F" tuners. Available in 2-Color Sunburst, Black and Vintage White.
The Pawn Shop Super-Sonic model resurrects an unusual, short-lived and increasingly collectible ancestor of the late 1990s, the Squier Vista Series Super-Sonic guitar. Very little about the Pawn Shop Super-Sonic isn’t highly distinctive—from its diminutive offset "reverse" body (resembling an upside-down Jazzmaster or Jaguar) and upside-down headstock to its short scale (24") and dual canted Atomic humbucking pickups (only the bridge pickup was canted on the original Squier models).
Then there are the controls — neck pickup volume and bridge pickup volume only (no tone control), which are reverse-wired like the Squier original, meaning that the bridge pickup volume is the one closest to the bridge and the neck pickup volume is the one farthest from it.
Other features include a "C"-shaped maple neck with "bullet"-style truss rod, 9.5"-radius rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets, three-way toggle pickup switching and dual Jazz Bass control knobs, three-ply parchment pickguard, vintage-style synchronized tremolo bridge, vintage-style tuners and new Super-Sonic four-bolt neck plate. Available in Apple Red Flake, Dark Gun Metal Flake and Sunfire Orange Flake.
With its racing stripe (305) and short scale (30-inch), the new Pawn Shop Mustang Bass authentically evokes the original "competition" Mustang Bass of the early 1970s. This time, though, you get the huge bass sound of a single humbucking pickup (the original had a single-coil pickup) and several classic Fender finish options.
Other features include an alder body, "C"-shaped maple neck, 9.5"-radius rosewood fingerboard with 19 medium jumbo frets, four-ply white pearloid pickguard, two Jazz Bass control knobs (volume, tone) and a string-through-body bridge with four adjustable saddles. Available in 3-color Sunburst, Candy Apple Red with Olympic White stripe and Olympic White with stripe.
The Pawn Shop Bass VI marks the return of a historic Fender instrument, the Fender Bass Guitar (also known as the Bass VI). This updated version of the baritone classic features the short scale (30-inch) and is armed with Special Design Hot Jaguar single-coil neck and middle pickups and a powerful JZHB humbucking bridge pickup.
Other features include a "C"-shaped maple neck with 9.5"-radius rosewood fingerboard and 21 medium jumbo frets, five-way pickup switching, four-ply tortoiseshell pickguard (3-Color Sunburst and Black models) and three-ply parchment pickguard (Candy Apple Red model), two Jazz Bass control knobs (master volume, master tone), vintage-style adjustable six-saddle bridge with "floating" tremolo tailpiece, and vintage-style tuners. Available in 3-Color Sunburst, Black and Candy Apple Red.
For more information, go to fender.com.
Fender Guitars
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Pipe Dream: Artist Jeff Ritzmann's Villanizer Guitar Is a Steampunk Sensation
By Chris Gill 2012-09-07T12:20:14Z
Like Most Guitar players who came of age during the Eighties, artist Jeff Ritzmann always dreamed of owning an extravagant custom guitar like George Lynch’s Skull and Bones or Eddie Van Halen’s Dragon, but the price was always out of reach.
That desire stayed with Ritzmann until 2006, when the cover of Iron Maiden’s A Matter of Life and Death album inspired him to build a guitar that looks like a tank. He did it, he says, by modifying an off-the-shelf guitar “beyond all reasonable comprehension.”
“I started looking into gears, rail bars and rivets,” says Ritzmann, who now customizes guitars for his own company, Thunder Eagle Guitars (thundereagleguitars.com).
“Somebody mentioned a video game called BioShock, so I checked it out and loved its combination of heavy metal and steampunk aesthetics. I wondered if you could have a guitar in that world, what would it look like? I looked for the most weapon-like guitar I could fi nd and chose the Jackson Rhoads. I think you could kill somebody with one of those. It looks like a combination of a ray gun and a razor blade.”
The result of that inspiration was the Villanizer, a guitar that looks like something Jules Verne would have conceived if he were a heavy metal fan. Featuring embedded layers of gears, rust and an extended body wing affixed to the body with welded pipes, the guitar is a steampunk/sci-fi fantasy come to life. The pipes are both aesthetically and acoustically pleasing, enhancing the guitar’s tone.
Ritzmann sold his first Villanizer on eBay for $2,700, and since then he’s made two more, although none of the three were the same. The Villanizer has become an underground art sensation, incorporated into other artists’ 3-D modeling scenes and even tattoo designs.
“I never thought I’d get known in the art world for making a guitar,” Ritzmann says. “I was hoping it would be for a painting or my animation, but it was the thing I least expected. It’s humbling as hell.”
Photo: Donna Feldman Lasky, www.shootbar.com
Jeff Ritzmann
Thunder Eagle Guitars
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Sheikh Khalid Bin Sultan laid to rest at Al Jubail Cemetery
Al Jubail Cemetery in Sharjah.
The Royal Court of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah said that the funeral prayers for Sheikh Khalid held at 9.00am on Wednesday at the King Faisal Mosque in Sharjah. Sheikh Sultan will accept condolences at the Al Badi Palace after the Zuhr prayer on Wednesday for three days.
Sheikh Khalid passed away on July 1 in London.
The royal court has announced a three-day mourning in Sharjah.
Sharjah UAE Funeral Royal
UAE royal passes away, Sharjah Ruler performs funeral prayer
The Ruler of Sharjah and sheikhs headed for Jubail Cemetery where the body of Sheikha Mariam Bint Sultan Al Suwaidi was laid to rest.
Video: Sharjah Ruler's son Sheikh Khalid Bin Sultan laid to rest at Al Jubail Cemetery
The UAE is in an official three-day mourning period since Tuesday; flags flew at half-mast.
Sharjah Ruler receives condolences from Kings, Presidents and leaders of Arab and Islamic countries on death of his son
Sheikh Sultan received condolences from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia.
Sultan’s order on debtor husband helps Emirati woman
His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, responded to a complaint sent by an Emirati woman to the Direct Line programme in which she talked about her deteriorating financial situation as a result of debts and arrest of her husband.
Unexploded WWII bomb disrupts Cologne rail, ship traffic
The discovery of World War II bombs is not uncommon in Germany. Construction workers stumbled upon the 500-kilogramme (1,100-pound) bomb on the right bank of the Rhine river on Monday evening, city officials said.
Prince Harry rejoins Meghan, Archie in Canada
It published a photo of him wearing a blue beanie and jeans with a backpack over his shoulders after slipping out a back staircase, escorted by security.
Fire kills 11 people in Siberian village
The fire broke out in a single-story wooden building rented by an unnamed Chinese company and used as a dormitory for the sawmill workers, local authorities said. Firefighters battled the blaze for more than two hours.
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Our franchisees’ stories
Tami Shaffer
Franchise of the Lafayette, CA
I’m Tami, and I’m the owner of Gymboree Play & Music of Lafayette. I took over my site in June 2018, and I’ve loved it ever since! My journey to ownership is very similar to many other Gymboree owners – I started out as a Gymboree mom! All 3 of my children did the Gymboree program and I just adored it.
So why did this work for me? Well, I loved getting to know families and chatting with new parents. This is an environment where we can really build community, and that’s an integral component of how I run my business. I really believe in what Gymboree does and I know that it has helped me in raising confident and curious children.
Hillary Flowers
Franchisee of Oakland, CA
Hillary Flowers of Oakland, California is making a difference at Gymboree Play & Music of Oakland. She remains very excited since taking over ownership last summer,but she has known the benefits of playbased learning for many years. Ever since stepping into the Lakeshore Avenue site 9 years ago, the first-hand experience of infant and toddler exploration was experienced. She now finds herself the new owner of the Oakland location on Lakeshore Avenue, excited and honored to be delivering Play, Art, and Music classes to Gymboree families every day!
She and her family are thrilled about this new adventure and truly believe the changes will make Gymboree Play & Music of Oakland all the more special!
Franchise of the Lafayette, DC
Gymboree Play & Music is not a business; it’s a lifestyle. As a Gymboree parent, some of our family’s most precious memories were at DC Gymboree. The opportunity to work for the Gymboree Play and Music came at a time in my life when I was traveling extensively for work and wanted to spend more time with family. My wife got an email from the current Gymboree owner and forwarded it to me. The owner informed us that they were selling the franchise and encouraged me to explore the opportunity.
Discovery Day in San Francisco was informative and fun. I was very impressed by the values of the organization and the dedication of its loyal team. I am thrilled with my decision to become a Franchisee. Gymboree has given me a fantastic challenge and rewarded me with personal flexibility and financial profitability. If you care about early childhood education and are willing to roll up your sleeves, then come join Team Gymbo!!
Lindsey White
Franchisee of Clarksville, TN
The first time I visited a Gymboree Franchise, I was in the military, and a first-time mom in a foreign country and desperate to meet other mothers and find a place that met my infant son’s abilities. That very first visit hooked me.
The following summer, my son and I visited TN and I lamented to my mother about how we missed Gymboree – the activities and the “mommy-comradery.” Jokingly she responded, “Well, you need to just open one, I guess!” And although it started as a joke, soon after her comment I began discussions with Gymboree HQ. I was already a believer in the company, I knew I couldn’t be the only one in town seeking a safe place in which to play with and educate their little one.
In 2018, my new adventure as a Franchisee began.While I had military experience and a business degree to fall back on,this was still new territory and I was grateful for the in-depth introduction and preparation I received from the Corporate Office.Meeting like-minded Franchisees and members of the company with years of institutional knowledge, furthered my commitment to see Gymboree succeed in Clarksville, TN.
Rachelle Birnbaum
Franchisee of Las Vegas, NV
As an active mother of two kids with an entrepreneurial spirit, I could not imagine a more perfect business than Gymboree Play & Music. Being a Gymboree Play & Music franchisee has given me the work-life balance that fits me and my family.
I’ve been a franchise holder for about 12 years, and I have had the privilege of being a part of thousands of families’ lives as they entrust our program to provide the best early childhood development, classes. When I first started, I was eager and I felt it would be fun to run a business that was beneficial for kids. Each day at Gymboree Play & Music brings a new and exciting adventure. Children are delighted to explore and engage with friends and instructors; parents are proud and excited to witness their little ones’ accomplishments. Lasting friendships and connections are formed within our community right here on our play floor. Being a part of these special moments has made “work” at Gymboree Play & Music never feel like work at all.
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A. Scott Berg's new haircut (updated January 2020)
Everything you need to know about his shocking new style.
First of all, how do you like his new haircut? Vote right here:
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A. Scott Berg has had many different haircuts in recent years. He became famous as a great biographer. Nevertheless, the Biographer, journalist is especially known for his special public appearances and his likable character. Rumors and gossip about the 71-year old's hairstyle are continously featured in celebrity magazines and tabloids. Check out A. Scott Berg's classic hairstyles in the image box below:
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Author: Pete Green
Are you looking for the perfect Christmas present for a sailor? Here we look at 10 of the most interesting practical and indispensable knick-knacks that even the most gadget-happy yachtie in your life may not yet have. Floating Key Fob - A must for anyone who spends time around the water, this is a quick and cheap stocking filler. The simplest...
Whether you've been cooped up all day, need to walk the ship's dog, or fancy a well earned pint, here's a run-down of some anchorages with a walk to eight of the finest pubs around Falmouth and the Helford. A few of these walks are tide dependent, if the tides are fully neap you will have access all day, the exception...
Halcyon Yachts are pleased to announce that we will be running another Yacht Delivery Skipper's Development Week in April 2020. It is an intensive course that will focus on giving the students essential skills and knowledge in preparation to work as a yacht delivery skipper. The instructor for the course is one of our senior yacht delivery skippers. The course will...
We're pleased to announce the launch of our new online crew clothing store. It might be that we have the smartest yacht delivery crew around! Due to the popularity of our crew clothing, our T-shirts and hoodies are now available to buy online. We have T-shirts available to fit both men and women in a variety of sizes. We also have a hoodie...
Yacht Delivery Skipper Heads North
One of our yacht delivery skippers has recently fallen in love with sailing in the Arctic Circle. Although it is not a place we typically think of when planning our summer cruise, Michele is now on a mission to share his passion with like-minded sailors. Michele was first inspired when he joined a 2-month expedition in 2018. He sailed from Cowes...
Top Ten Yachts We Have Delivered
When I talk to people about yacht delivery, they often ask, "What is your favourite type of yacht?" or "What has been your best yacht delivery ever?" These are such hard questions to answer. With all the yachts we deliver, we develop a lasting fondness. As one of the leading yacht delivery companies in Europe, we are privileged to sail a...
Halcyon Yachts Team Up With Rooster Sailing
Rooster Sailing has offered our yacht delivery skippers and crew an exclusive discount on all of their products. Rooster Sailing supply technical sailing clothing and specialist chandlery items. They have an extensive range of wetsuits, wet weather gear, casual clothing and luggage. To find out more about Rooster Sailing then please visit their website: https://www.roostersailing.com/ Our yacht delivery skippers and crew can now...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Yacht Skippers
Becoming an excellent yacht skipper is not an easy task. Being a yacht skipper involves a wide and diverse range of skillsets. These skills take time to learn and very few people will master them all. At Halcyon Yachts we are lucky to have some of the best yacht delivery skippers in the industry. Our skippers have all gained numerous qualifications...
Halcyon Yachts Welcomes New Assistant Operations Manager
Halcyon Yachts welcomes Minka Armitage into the role of Assistant Operations Manager. Minka has an extensive background in the yachting and marine industry. She grew up in a seafaring household and started sailing from a young age. Minka has been enjoying cruising and racing yachts for over 25 years. During this time she has also undertaken a number of yacht deliveries. Before joining...
Halcyon Yachts team up with Freedom of Sleep
Freedom of Sleep has offered our yacht delivery skippers and crew an exclusive discount on their range of jackets. Freedom of Sleep makes high-quality mid-layer jackets, perfect for keeping you warm when you are out sailing. They are a relatively new brand and are focused on providing an ethical approach to their business. The jackets are insulated with 100% recycled material...
Plastic in our Ocean
What can we do? Plastic pollution is reaching epidemic proportions. Current estimates suggest that as much as 12.7 million tonnes of plastic ends up in our oceans every year. This equates to one truckload every minute. As a sailor and outdoor enthusiast, I find it disgraceful to see so much plastic in our oceans and on our beaches. The environment that we...
Top Ten Quotes about the Sea
There is something about the allure of the oceans that keeps sailors coming back for more. Whether we are on a long transatlantic yacht delivery or a short hop across the English Channel, being on the water provides us with a deep satisfaction that is hard to put into words. It is this feeling that fuels our passion and dedication...
Solent Swim – RNLI Fundraiser
Halcyon Yachts Skipper, Jeffrey Leigh-Jones, will be swimming across the Solent this November to raise money for the RNLI. The swim will be from Gosport to Ryde. Jeff has sailed across the Solent more times than he can remember. In order to gain a new perspective on the experience, he has decided to swim across. Already a serious challenge, Jeff has decided...
Skipper and Crew Awards 2018
It has been another incredible season for Halcyon Yachts! The year started with a few cold UK deliveries; there was even a yacht delivery back from the Baltic when we had to wait for the marina to thaw out before the yacht could be launched. Meanwhile, and further south, we had a catamaran sailing on delivery from Turkey to the Caymans...
Inspired by the Sea
From raging storms crashing on to bleak rocky headlands to tranquil bays with crystal clear water lapping over white sand, the beauty and mystery of our oceans have long fascinated artists far and wide. Carolyn Tyrer, a keen artist and sailor, is no exception. Carolyn says "My inspiration for painting the sea and boats comes from my love of sailing. The...
What is it like to crew for Halcyon Yachts?
It was a last-minute decision, but it was one that opened a whole new world to me. Before I knew it, I was on a yacht in Bermuda headed across the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Chichester, England. Three months later, I've got half a dozen Halcyon deliveries under my belt and the benefits of joining in with a yacht delivery...
Top 10 sailing destinations in the world
As a yacht delivery company, we deliver sailing yachts and motorboats to various destinations all over the world. One of the main reasons for people to have a yacht delivered is so that they can explore and experience a new region. Whether you are seeking a warmer climate, remote wilderness, cultural diversity, local cuisine, epic landscapes or incredible wildlife there...
Halcyon Yachts are pleased to present an exclusive opportunity to sail on board classic yacht Boleh. This two-day skippered charter will include a sail from Portsmouth to Cowes to coincide with Britain's most popular yacht race. With over 1,500 yachts racing around the Isle of Wight, it is an incredible sight and a truly magical experience. People from all over the...
Halcyon Yachts welcomes new Operations and Sales Manager
Halcyon Yachts welcomes Phil Wood into the role of Operations and Sales Manager. With over 25 years of experience in operations, sales, marketing, logistics and training, Phil brings a wide range of skills to the position. Phil has an extensive background in the marine industry both on and off the water. Phil is an MCA/RYA Yachtmaster Ocean and RYA Instructor and...
The delivery of a new Lagoon 42
Crossing Biscay is never a small undertaking. It is a notorious sea area, very open to large Atlantic swells and with steep underwater shelving, the sea can be turbulent at the best of times. We were asked to assist the proud new owner of a beautiful new Lagoon 42 with the passage from Les Sables d'Olonne to Lisbon. At Halcyon Yachts...
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ResMed’s Cerner connection
SAN DIEGO – ResMed last month announced a new agreement with one of the biggest names in health IT: Cerner. As part of the agreement, Cerner has designated ResMed’s Brightree Home Health and Hospice platform as its preferred solution for its electronic health record. Perhaps more wide-reaching, Cerner has also agreed to connect other ResMed digital health platforms, including those that support its more than 10 million connectable sleep apnea and respiratory care devices, to its EHR and HealtheIntent population health platforms. Raj Sodhi, president of ResMed’s SaaS business, explains why this is a game changer.
HME News: Our readers are HME providers, so the news about Cerner designating the home health platform as a preferred solution doesn’t directly impact them. However, does it potentially set the stage for Cerner to designate other Brightree platforms, such as DME/HME?
Raj Sodhi: It does. As part of this collaborative agreement, we plan to explore interoperability between Cerner’s Millennium EHR and HealtheIntent population health platforms and various ResMed data management programs, including Brightree HME, ResMed’s AirView and U-Sleep patient management solutions for sleep and respiratory care device users, Propeller’s digital health solution for COPD and asthma inhaler users, and others. Our objective for a Brightree HME–Cerner integration would be to automate the typically manual process of connecting hospitals with HMEs when patients need HME support through a hospital-to-home discharge process. The result would be a new electronic coordination between hospital and HME providers, which can ultimately translate into a better experience for the patient.
HME: What color can you add to how Cerner plans to use Brightree’s Home Health and Hospice platform?
Sodhi: Cerner is discontinuing its own home health solution at the end of 2020 and recommending that all agencies currently using it transition to Brightree’s. When Cerner decided to get out of the HHP software business, it sought out the best partner to transition their customers to—we’re pleased they chose us. This process is underway; Cerner is currently supporting clients through the transition. The result will be a better flow of patient data so caregivers can make better decisions and improve patient care, while aiding smoother transitions between acute and out-of-hospital care settings.
HME: I’m most interested in Cerner connecting with other ResMed platforms, including its connected sleep apnea and respiratory care devices.
Sodhi: An integrated solution would allow Cerner users to seamlessly access ResMed device data within Cerner’s EHR platform, enabling easier physician access to patient device data. This can lead to improved health outcomes, more engaged patients, and therefore, a higher likelihood of long-term adherence and resupply demand.
HME: Cerner is one of the big EHR vendors, but not the only one. Why align with one vendor? Does this arrangement prevent ResMed/Brightree from also partnering with, say, Epic?
Sodhi: This is not an exclusive agreement, and it does not prevent other EHR vendors from also designating ResMed’s Home Health and Hospice or other SaaS solutions as their preferred solution. What it represents is a significant opportunity for ResMed to help improve the home health and hospice experience for more patients and their loved ones, at a time when the demand for both services is on the rise. This is a big step towards our strategy of improving 250 million lives by 2025.
HME: What does it say that a vendor with the scope and reach of Cerner has acknowledged Brightree’s platform and ResMed’s connected devices?
Sodhi: We believe our collaborative agreement with Cerner is yet another significant endorsement of ResMed’s leadership in digital health and of the importance of pursuing interoperability—particularly between acute and out-of-hospital settings—to streamline and improve health care for millions. This agreement also underscores the high value that our Brightree HHP platform brings to patients and providers in the home health and hospice space.
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Bridge Over Roaring Waters
Would you work 14 hours, seven days a week, for 30 to 60 cents an hour, all the while hanging over a 1,000-foot granite gorge?
In 1929, you might have. Eighty men in Fremont County, Colorado, answered such a call for construction crews needed for the world’s highest suspension* bridge. The span would cross the Arkansas River’s nine-mile, sheer-granite gorge near Cañon City. It wasn’t the safest job in town, but with the Roaring Twenties fading to a whimper, Wall Street’s foundations crumbling, and the Great Depression creeping in, it was a paying job.
Photo of the Royal Gorge Bridge and canyon by Timothy Brown.
Once known as the Grand Canyon of the Rockies, the gorge bottlenecks the Arkansas River between 1,000-foot granite cliffs that close in to as little as 30 feet across. It was impassable to explorers like Lt. Zebulon Pike in 1806 as he followed the river into the massive canyon just west of a park-like rendezvous area later known as Cañon City. Others were also hindered by the shoreless river section, including Major Stephen Long in 1820 and John C. Fremont in the 1840s.
Long before, Mountain Utes wintered in the area as did occasional Spanish missionaries in the 1640s, fur trappers and mountain men of the 1700s and 1800s, and settlers in the 1850s-60s.
One hundred years after Pike’s account of the great canyon, President Theodore Roosevelt recognized the geological phenomenon and signed a congressional grant ceding what was by then recognized as the Royal Gorge plus 5,120 wildland acres to the city of Cañon City.
Twenty-three years later, bridge-building financier Lon P. Piper of San Antonio, Texas, and Chief Engineer George E. Cole of Houston, began the seemingly impossible project of spanning the gorge. O.F. Copes and Fred Rice served as construction superintendents on either side.
A Cañon City Daily Record article by Peggy Gair from May 17, 2013, recounts the construction, beginning with trenches dug on each rim of the gorge and two 150-foot fabricated-steel towers set into the granite. Two half-inch steel cables were lowered on either side and joined at the bottom of the gorge. The cable was pulled back up to the rim, and from this, workers pulled additional cables across the expanse – 4,200 galvanized No. 9 steel wires, Gair said, one at a time.
“Twenty-one hundred strands of this wire made up one giant cable for each side that holds up the deck of the bridge,” Gair wrote.
View of the cables from the North Rim as author drives across the bridge in 2011.
Collars were clamped around each massive cable prior to securing steel girders on the bridge deck. Wire fencing was attached to railings and 1,292 planks were laid. The bridge was roughly a quarter mile long (1,260 feet) and 18 feet wide. It still is.
Construction began on June 5, 1929 and was completed that November. An engineering feat in any decade.
According to historical records, there were no major accidents or fatal injuries during the bridge’s six-month construction period, despite its remarkable height. The bridge opened to the public on Dec. 8, 1929 with a toll of 75 cents per person. Cost of completion: $350,000, reportedly $100,000 over budget.
Old meets new at the North Rim reconstruction site following the 2013 wildfire.
The bridge is seen intact and unharmed in the background. Photo by author.
In June 2013, a wildfire tore through 3,000 acres in the area, including the 360-acre parkland hugging each end of the bridge that forms the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park. All but two buildings were destroyed when the fire leaped from the south rim of the canyon to the north. However, the bridge itself sustained only minor damage to a few wooden planks. The park and its exhibits were rebuilt over the next two years and officially re-opened in May 2015.
Look closely to see the hanging bridge holding
the railroad a thousand feet below. Photo by author.
Thanks to the construction of the famous hanging bridge that was anchored into the granite walls just above the same river section in 1879, a railroad travels the once impassable stretch. Serving as a passenger route in the 1880s and 90s, the railway later succumbed to alternate routes through the Rocky Mountains. The passenger line was discontinued in 1967, but the Royal Gorge Route Railway currently provides scenic trips through the gorge year-round.
Ninety years after the span was conquered, the Arkansas River still roars, and the bridge still stands. Mountain runoff during summer-rafting months sends category-4 and -5 rapids through the gorge, clearly audible from the bridge 1,000 feet above.
*The Royal Gorge bridge maintained its status as the World’s Highest Bridge for 70 years until the construction of the Liuguanghe Bridge in China in 2001. It remained the World’s Highest Suspension Bridge until the 2003 completion of the Beipan River Guanxing Highway Bridge in China.
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Connie R. April 17, 2019 at 6:05 AM
What a testament to human perseverance! I applaud those brave men who built those structures! Thanks for the post.
Davalyn Spencer April 17, 2019 at 7:56 AM
Thank you, Connie. The RGB is truly an amazing thing to see.
Linda Matchett April 17, 2019 at 6:53 AM
Wonderful post! I'm nervous on a ladder. There's no way I could do that job. Kudos to those who did. Thanks for sharing.
Oh yes, Linda. It's definitely an unusual experience walking (or driving) across that great span!
Great post! Very interesting and entertaining!
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India vs Australia: India’s predicted XI for 2nd T20I – Two changes expected
India vs Australia: Here’s a look at the predicted XI for the Indian cricket team for the second T20I against Australia in Bengaluru.
cricket Updated: Feb 27, 2019 08:35 IST
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Yuzvendra Chahal with teammates celebrating after hits the stumps to run out Australia's Marcus Stoinis.(AP)
It was a disappointing start to the T20I series for India as Glenn Maxwell scored a crucial half-century to guide Australia to a narrow three-wicket win in a thrilling last-ball finish at the first encounter on Sunday. Apart from KL Rahul and MS Dhoni, the India batsmen were unable to get going against the Australian pacers and when it came to the bowling department, almost all of them struggled with the exception of Jasprit Bumrah. With the morale taking a bit of a hit from the loss, the hosts will be looking to level things up in the second T20I in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Here’s a look at the predicted XI for the Indian team for the second T20I in Bengaluru -
It was not a good outing for Rohit Sharma in Visakhapatnam as he was dismissed for just five runs by Jason Behrendorff in the third over. However, with a great deal of experience under his belt, the Mumbai Indians skipper remains an integral part of the team and he will be raring to go in the second T20I encounter in Bengaluru.
The batting line-up faltered majorly in the first T20I encounter and with the exception of MS Dhoni and KL Rahul, there were no standout performances. As a result, Shikhar Dhawan can make a comeback to the side in order to bolster the batting and a good performance in Bengaluru can do wonders for his confidence.
KL Rahul was the standout performer for India with the bat and the half century did a ton of good for the opener who was making his comeback to the side after the Koffee with Karan controversy. With the third opener slot still open in the World Cup squad, Rahul performance in the series in the series will surely decide his fate.
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Virat Kohli got off to a good start, but couldn’t convert his score into a big one. While batting on 24, Kohli flicked a delivery from Adam Zampa straight to Nathan Coulter-Nile at long-on. The Indian captain struck three boundaries in his innings but considering his record his Australia, he will be looking to score big in Bengaluru.
When it comes to Pant’s T20I career, it has been a tale of hits and misses. In the first match, it was a miss as the youngster was undone by a brilliant piece of fielding by Behrendorff. When the Delhi batsman was batting on 3, he cut a delivery and started running with the shot, but Behrendorff dived, collected the ball and threw it to the keeper before Pant could come back to the crease. Pant is another member of the Indian cricket team who is fighting for a spot in the World Cup squad and he needs a standout performance in the next game to seal his fate.
MS Dhoni had to carry out his role of disaster manager yet again as he steadied the innings after India lost three wickets. While wickets continued to tumble on the other end, Dhoni kept his calm and he was the reason why India were able to bat for 20 overs in spite of a brilliant bowling performance by the Australian pacers.
Dinesh Karthik failed to make an impact and his chances of making it to the World Cup team are fading with every match. Karthik, who is not a part of the squad for the upcoming ODI series against Australia, managed just one run before being bowled out by Nathan Coulter-Nile and he needs a solid innings to revive his World Cup dreams.
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Yuzvendra Chahal
Yuzvendra Chahal was not quite effective for the Indian cricket team in Visakhapatnam and he ended with figures of 1/28 in his four overs. He did manage to trouble the Australia batsmen from time to time but his only wicket came in the 14th over when he dismissed Glenn Maxwell in the 14th over. However, the Indian team management would certainly hope for Chahal to take more responsibility in the absence of Kuldeep Yadav.
Mayank Markande
It was a great day for the young leg-spinner from Punjab as he made his international debut in the first T20I but things did not go according to plan. He was He was struck for two boundaries and a six during the course of the innings and although he did bowl well in his final over, he ended up conceding 31 runs in four overs.
Sidharth Kaul
With 14 runs needed in the last over and two tail enders at the crease, it was a perfect opportunity for Umesh Yadav to make himself the hero of the match. But, the Vidarbha pacer was unable to defend the total and as a result, the team management can give a chance to Sidharth Kaul in the second T20I to straighten the pace attack.
Jasprit Bumrah has established himself as the gold standard of death over bowling and the first T20I in Visakhapatnam was no different. he took two wickets in two balls in the penultimate over of the match and conceded just two runs to tilt the match in India’s favour but the hosts were unable to clinch the victory.
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Doddington Hall Donates Christmas Tree to Charity Event
The 400-year-old estate has gifted a Christmas tree to St Barnabas for almost two decades
Doddington Hall & Gardens has renewed its annual tradition of donating a Christmas tree to St Barnabas Hospice’s Light up a Life campaign, gifting an impressive Christmas tree for the 19th year in a row.
Grown organically on the Estate, and hand-selected by the St Barnabas team earlier in November, the ‘Tree of Life’ has now made the journey from Doddington Hall to uphill Lincoln, where it will stand outside The Lincoln Hotel throughout the Christmas period.
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Choosing the tree at Doddington Hall - Caroline Swindin (St B), Harry (Doddington) and Louise Cotton (St B) with the chosen tree (small)
St Barnabas is inviting people to dedicate a light on the tree in memory of their loved ones, including those who have been cared for by the Hospice over the years.
The 'Tree of Life' will be the focal point for this year’s Torchlight Procession, which takes place on November 26th.
Claire Birch, owner of Doddington Hall & Gardens, said:
“This is the 19th consecutive year that the Tree of Life has been sourced from Doddington Hall, a tradition that was started by my mother in the 1990s.
“We have been growing Christmas trees here in a natural woodland setting at Doddington Hall for over 60 years and we couldn’t be prouder that our Christmas tree plays such an important role in this special event.
“St Barnabas plays a vital role in the lives of many people in Lincolnshire. They do such a fantastic job of helping the community year round and Light up a Life is a truly special event during what can be a very difficult time of the year. It’s a privilege for us to see one of our trees play such an integral role for people who want to remember their loved ones over the Christmas period.”
Transporting the tree to the Bailgate from Doddington Hall
St Barnabas will be hosting its Torchlight Procession as part of the Light up a Life campaign, where participants will walk through uphill Lincoln carrying torches in memory of their loved ones.
After the procession, staff at Lincoln Cathedral will officially turn on the new lights, illuminating the Cathedral in yellow and blue to honour St Barnabas and their contribution to the community.
Louise Cotton, events fundraiser at St Barnabas Hospice, said:
“On behalf of the Hospice, I’d like to say a huge thank you to three incredible businesses at the heart of the community for coming together in support of St Barnabas. We are extremely grateful to Doddington Hall & Gardens, The Lincoln Hotel and Lincoln Cathedral for helping to make this year’s Torchlight Procession one to remember.
“The Tree of Life is an integral part of both the Torchlight Procession and our overall Light up a Life campaign, as it brings the community together in remembering loved ones at such a difficult time of year. Doddington Hall & Gardens’ commitment to our annual Light up a Life campaign is truly inspiring, and Lincoln simply would not look the same at Christmas without them.”
As well as the Tree of Life, Doddington Hall and Gardens also supplies Christmas trees to local schools and businesses each year. This year, over 100 trees have been purchased and deliveries have started to schools and organisations across Lincolnshire.
Putting up the tree at Lincoln Hotel
Members of the public who wish to dedicate a light on the 'Tree of Life' can do so at www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk/lual
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Christmas trees are available to buy from Doddington Hall from Saturday 23rd November. To find out more about Doddington Hall & Gardens, visit their website here. To order a Christmas tree for your school or business, please call 01522 812510 before Thursday 28th November.
Cover image: Tree of Life outside the Lincoln Hotel. Credit: Doddington Hall
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There are many prominent and great leaders in history, but the name of Martin Luther King Jr. comes first to our minds as he was a champion spokesperson who spoke against racism and discrimination against colored people. He was fondly called MLK and was an important figure in the history of U.S. Had this man been alive today, this planet would have been a peaceful place for all races. His untimely assassination made him bid adieu to this world that could have gained tremendously with his powerful oratory. A mascot of peace, MLK will always be missed.
7. Walt Disney
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Walt Disney has to definitely feature in this post that’s listing the top 15 historical figures that we wish were alive today. The master creator who brought to life Disney characters on the big screen has ruled the hearts of men, women, children for over many decades. His creations like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Ariel the mermaid and rest have inspired movie makers to make animations. Walt Disney is the man who metamorphosed the entertainment industry. If Disney was alive, he could have contributed tremendously towards entertaining children with classic cartoons and characters.
8. Albert Einstein
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The Father of Physics as the world knows him, Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist. This wizard was awarded the Nobel Prize for finding the theories of relativity in 1921. With his genius mind, the present generation would have conquered newer scientific heights that seem impossible now. Thee founder of E = mc2, an equation that is synonymous with this genius has inspired mathematicians all over the world to look at maths and science from a different perspective. Besides, Einstein also showed concepts relating to light’s movement and the relationship between matter and energy.
9. John Lennon
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Who among you is not a Beatles fan? We guess there isn’t a single soul out there who has not grown up or has been mesmerized with their classy rock numbers. Lennon was not only a member of this famed boy band, but was also an activist who propagated peace, and non violence. Because of his rebellious nature that we can see in his writings, John Lennon grew to be an enigma. Had this musician been alive today, he would have so much to contribute to world peace. Lennon dreamed of a world devoid of wars and hatred.
10. Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Issac Newton is regarded as a very prominent member among great historical figures of the world. He can be proclaimed as the Father of Science as he developed the law of gravity. If this man wouldn’t have discovered this law, we wouldn’t have succeeded in inventing many wonderful things associated with space and gravity. He brought about a scientific revolution when he published his book named Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in 1687. He also co developed Calculus. We sincerely wish he was alive today for showing us the path for greater scientific accomplishment.
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See How Modern Clutch Technology is Keeping Up with Our Horsepower Demands
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Today's crop of softer Homo sapiens really make things difficult for driveline engineers. As if getting a clutch to hold up behind an 800hp LS small-block isn't already challenging enough, today's enthusiasts demand a soft clutch pedal and smooth engagement to go along with immense grabbing power. Oh yeah, they also prefer the luxury of A/C, GPS, heated seats, kickin' stereos, and every power accessory in the book. This brutal combination of big horsepower, big weight, fragile drivers, and the stickiest tires mankind has ever produced should all but guarantee clutch failure. Miraculously, clutches haven't just survived—they've flourished.
Just 15 years ago, when Camaros still had 5.7L LS1s, smoking a clutch at just 500 hp wasn't that uncommon. These days, however, aftermarket clutch assemblies routinely endure twice that hp output despite the fact that fifth- and sixth-gen Camaros pack an extra 300-600 pounds of fat. Equally impressive are the stock-like levels of pedal pressure and smooth engagement that modern aftermarket clutches deliver. Largely responsible for this revolutionary jump in performance is the growing shift toward multi-disc clutch assemblies.
Doubling the surface area of friction material has a nice way of significantly increasing clutch bite. "The key to today's clutches is making them friendly enough for everyday driving while still being able to hold a ton of power. We do not sell 'heavy-pedal' clutches," Bob Scheid of McLeod Racing explains. "For our twin-disc clutches, we use a pressure plate that actually gives a softer pedal feel than stock. That is combined with very friendly disc materials and a strapped floater resulting in a clutch that holds up to 1,200 hp yet drives like a stock Honda."
Nevertheless, attributing all the progress in clutch performance to multi-disc technology is a bit shortsighted, as pressure plates, disc designs, and friction materials have evolved dramatically as well. "Initially, higher pressure plate loads and more advanced disc lining materials were sufficient solutions, as they increased friction coefficient while maintaining driveability. However, modern torque and weight factors, along with the streamlining of actuation components toward shorter-throw systems, have pushed us to expand multi-disc applications, increase clutch diameters as bellhousing dimensions allow, as well as develop new bolt-in hydraulics to improve clutch control and feel," David Norton of SPEC clutches explains.
Additionally, lesser-known variables such as gearing and tire diameter also affect the loads a clutch must endure. Determining which type of clutch works best in any given application requires making sense of all the available options, so we consulted with the leading clutch manufacturers in the industry to get the inside scoop.
Clamping Force
The relationship between pressure plate clamping force and a clutch's torque capacity is very simple to grasp. The more force the pressure plate exerts upon the disc, the better it will hold. What isn't quite as intuitive is how manufacturers can manipulate clamping force, and how that force affects the rest of the clutch system. "Clamping force is simply the amount of pressure squeezing the disc between the pressure plate and the flywheel. Clamp load can be increased by changing the diaphragm spring or moving the fulcrum point," Will Baty of Centerforce explains.
"The problem with a heavy diaphragm is that it decreases modulation control and it adds pressure throughout the entire system, not just on your left foot. When you depress the clutch pedal, the diaphragm pressure is directly applied to the flywheel, which pushes against the thrust bearing in the engine," Baty adds. "You are basically trying to push the crank out of the front of the block every time you depress the clutch pedal. The average OE 10.5-inch clutch takes about 400 pounds of pressure to operate, and changing the diaphragm in aftermarket applications can increase that number to 600-700 pounds. The other way to increase clamp load is to move the fulcrum point internally in the clutch. This increases the pressure but decreases the life of the clutch and will slow the release rate of the clutch as well."
Friction Material
Like most aspects of clutch design, finding the right balance between friction and slippage is a compromise that comes down to friction material and disc design. "Materials like metallics that have a higher coefficient of friction increase the holding capacity of the clutch as well as its ability to withstand heat under punishing conditions, such as at the dragstrip. We can keep the clamp load and pedal effort lower using these materials, but the trade-off comes in driveability, as they tend to engage more aggressively and chatter on takeoff," Mike Norcia of RAM Clutches reports.
Although high-friction discs increase torque-holding capacity, they also decrease clutch longevity. "It's a lot like comparing 60-grit sandpaper to 220-grit sandpaper. The 60-grit paper is aggressive and has excellent bite," says Will Baty of Centerforce. "It's going to work awesome for a short period of time, but the trade-off is something is going to wear out. The 220-grit paper is less aggressive so it won't wear out as fast, but since it doesn't have as much bite as the 60-grit paper it will require more clamp load to do the same job."
While terminology can vary from one manufacturer to the next, organic linings offer the least torque capacity and the smoothest engagement, while metallic linings offer the greatest torque capacity and the most aggressive engagement. In between those two extremes are materials like Kevlar and carbon, as well as ceramics that are a blended together from multiple compounds. "Organic clutches are common in OE applications. They have great driveability but do not like heat when used in extreme conditions," Jeff Neal of Quarter Master advises. "A sintered metallic friction material works very well in high-horsepower road racing applications thanks to its high heat capacity and coefficient of friction. Sintered iron is great for drag racing, as it can hold a ton of heat while the clutch is slipping and it won't weld to the floaters or pressure plate. Finally, carbon is the best of all worlds. It's very expensive, but it holds a lot of torque, works extremely well when hot, and it's also very driver friendly."
The numbers speak for themselves. "At the same pressure plate clamping load, going from our high-performance Stage 1 organic lining to a Stage 2 Kevlar represents a 15 percent increase in torque capacity," David Norton of SPEC reports. "Stepping up to a Stage 3 carbon-graphite semi-metallic represents a 36.5 percent increase in torque capacity. Our iron ST5 lining isn't suitable for street cars, but if offers a 93-percent increase in torque capacity, making it ideal for drag cars."
Disc Design
Moving away from a traditional full-face clutch disc to a puck-style design can increase torque capacity and heat resistance. "Although it sounds backwards, decreasing the friction material surface area through the use of pads or smaller facings actually increases the holding pressure in the clutch. This achieves more holding power, but at the expense of driveability, as these types of facings are generally metallic and engage more aggressively," Mike Norcia of RAM Clutches reveals. Simple physics dictates how a smaller facing increases clutch bite. According to Will Baty of Centerforce, it's all about psi. "Take your palm, and press it hard against your arm. Now use the same amount of force and press one finger into your arm. That increase in pressure demonstrates the difference between a full-face and a puck-style clutch."
In extreme racing applications, puck-style discs boast lower rotating mass and enhanced durability as well. "Puck-style discs are common in larger-diameter, high-performance aftermarket clutches where you need a sintered material for more torque holding capacity and heat dissipation," Quarter Master's Jeff Neal explains. "Puck-style disc designs for multi-plate clutches are a good choice with engines and drivetrain systems that are lightweight and exhibit high harmonics, as these types of combinations can cause solid-face discs to crack and fail."
Clutch Diameter
Increasing clutch diameter increases torque capacity, but the downside is greater rotating weight. Likewise, diameter is limited by the dimensions of the bellhousing. Depending on a car's intended use, rotating weight can be advantageous or detrimental. "Clutch diameter is critical for driveability, as it provides the mass and inertia necessary to get a car moving from a standstill. On the street, we want enough mass so the clutch does not have to be slipped excessively," Mike Norcia of RAM clutches remarks. "A lighter, smaller-diameter clutch is great for applications like autocross, where you want the motor to accelerate and decelerate quickly. However, we tend to stay away from this for cars that are predominantly street driven."
On the opposite end of the spectrum, in road racing and circle track applications, reducing rotating mass can net quicker lap times. "Clutch diameter is an important factor in both moment of inertia and torque-holding capacity. If your racing discipline allows you to run a smaller clutch diameter, it's advantageous for both acceleration and deceleration," says Jeff Neal of Quarter Master. "The lower rotating mass allows the engine to decelerate more quickly, which makes it possible to drive deeper into corners and brake more aggressively. That said, when you decrease your clutch size you'll need to add more friction discs to make up for the loss in surface area."
Twin-Disc Advantage
Without question, designing a clutch requires balancing a dizzying array of variables in order to reach the best possible balance between holding power, streetability, and longevity. However, the beauty of a multi-disc clutch is that it throws many of these compromises and trade-offs out the window. "Multi-disc clutches offer a higher holding capacity over single-disc assemblies, and in most cases, longer clutch life. You basically have two clutches in one," Will Baty of Centerforce explains. "Our DYAD twin-disc clutches have an average torque holding capacity of 1,300 lb-ft at the crank with excellent driver control. It feels like a stock clutch, but with way more holding capacity."
Not surprisingly, added performance comes with added costs. With twice as much hardware as a standard single-disc clutch, twin-disc units can cost twice the price, sometimes more. The obvious question is, at what point is a twin-disc clutch necessary, and when will a single-disc clutch suffice? "Any time you get above the 600hp range, you really should consider a twin-disc clutch," Bob Scheid of McLeod Racing advises. "For a single-disc to hold more power than that, it must be very aggressive and very tough on the leg. Why put up with that when you can use a twin-disc and get an easier pedal feel and smooth engagement? Twin-discs are no longer that race-only style of clutch. Even the OE's recognize their superior capabilities."
"We feel you can use a dual-disc clutch at any power level. The bonus of picking these units initially is that the customer's combination can grow in power output without having to continually upgrade the clutch every time a performance enhancement is made," Mike Norcia of RAM Clutches recommends. "Once you get to 500 hp, you are in the zone where your option is going to be using a more aggressively engaging single-disc unit or have the smooth engagement and good driveability of a dual-disc clutch."
01. In contrast to a single-disc clutch assembly, a twin-disc system adds a second disc and sandwiches a floater plate in between them. This gives both discs a pair of friction surfaces to interface with, thus doubling the surface area. RAM's Pro Street Dual clutch assemblies hold well over 1,000 hp.
02. Single-disc clutches can hold plenty of power when lined with a full-metallic facing. RAM's Level 4 Powergrip HD system will hold 650 hp. The tradeoff compared to a twin-disc system is more aggressive engagement.
03. Quarter Master's four decades of race-bred heritage encompasses active involvement in circle track competition ranging from NASCAR Sprint Cup to the local dirt track. Ideal for autocross and road racing applications, the company's Optimum-SR single-disc clutches for LS small-blocks are 50 percent lighter than stock and hold up to 700 hp.
04. Available for C5 Corvettes and fifth-gen Camaros, Quarter Master's racing heritage shines brightly in its stunningly beautiful Optimum-RR clutch system. Its super-small 7.25-inch diameter substantially decreases rotating weight, while triple discs provide prodigious holding power. The pressure plate and floaters are slotted for heat dissipation, and the clutch is fully rebuildable.
05. McLeod's RXT Street twin-clutch kits include a steel flywheel. While the company's RST Street twin-clutch kits bolt up to stock flywheels. Organic linings matched with a twin-disc arrangement allow for serious holding power with smooth engagement. Both systems employ a strapped floater to reduce noise.
06. Ceramic friction facing, such as the Miba lining used by McLeod, offer greater holding power than organic linings and better streetability than metallic linings. This makes them very popular in single-disc clutches that will see both street and occasional track use.
07. Centerforce's DYAD twin-disc clutch systems hold up to 1,300 lb-ft of torque, and are available for most Chevy applications. For ease of installation, the DYAD kit comes pre-assembled from the factory.
08. By using ball bearing fulcrum points on its pressure plates, Centerforce can decrease the overall internal friction that a standard clutch experiences. The resulting decrease in pedal effort allows increasing the release ratio and clamp load. This approach allows tailoring the clamp load and release ratios to the needs of each application.
09. Available with organic and metallic discs, SPEC's Super Twin clutch kit can hold between 700 and 1,500 lb-ft of torque. The unit is built from a rugged combination of billet aluminum and steel.
10. In the world of clutch friction materials, carbon offers the best properties of both organic and metallic linings. It provides plenty of holding power, resists heat, and yields smooth and progressive engagement.
11. By plumbing RAM's pedal height adjustment valve between the master and slave cylinders, the clutch engagement point can be adjusted down closer to the floor. Since many hydraulic clutch systems disengage as soon as the pedal is depressed, this valve puts some free play in the pedal travel, much like adjusting the cables in a mechanical release system.
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Remove This Item Author/s: Viktor Moskalenko
An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4
Ambitious Ideas and Powerful Weapons
Moskalenko’s previous and highly popular chess opening books were mainly written for the Black pieces. Now he presents an extremely powerful set of lines for White. The guiding principle of his 1.d4 repertoire is: be bold and put pressure on your opponent as early as possible.
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The Fabulous Budapest Gambit does not shower you with long computer-generated variations, but provides crystal-clear insights into the wide spectrum of this opening, explaining the plans for both White and Black. Moskalenko's lively style will infect you and encourage you to start playing this opening which is a great weapon at any level, from club player to grandmaster.
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Training with Moska is a based on the best instructive material Moskalenko collected while working with amateurs for three decades. The book covers a wide variety of aspects of the game and the more than 450 instructive positions are accessible for players of a wide range of strengths. If you have an ELO rating between 1400 and 2100, this book will help you make a big step forward.
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The Even More Flexible French
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The Even More Flexible French has largely the same structure as its predecessor, but the content is fully up-to-date on the latest theory. Moskalenko has found hundreds of improvements, alternatives, new ideas and fresh weapons that will delight and surprise the reader. The book contains a more or less complete French repertoire for Black. Yet Moskalenko also presents quite a few weapons and opportunities for White. The Ukrainian Grandmaster’s analysis is, as before, high-level, his touch has remained light and fresh.
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The widely-played Dutch Defence is a sharp choice. Black does not try to preserve a positional balance, but chooses to fight it out. No author is more qualified to explore new ideas in the Dutch than Viktor Moskalenko, a renowned champion of dynamic play. The Diamond Dutch is not a repertoire book. Moskalenko himself plays this chess opening with both colours and covers the entire spectrum for White as well as Black:
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Swarthmore students occupy fraternity after leak of disturbing documents
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Allyson Chiu, The Washington Post April 30, 2019
Swarthmore students occupy fraternity after leak of...
1of15See more fraternity sorority scandals that caused controversy on college campuses.Photo: Nick Oxford/AP
2of15University of Houston Sigma Chi chapter closes after hazing incident
The university announced in March 2015 that it had suspended both the fraternity and five of its members from campus for the alleged incident. The university had known about the allegations since January, but said it was unable to take action sooner because the Sigma Chi national chapter withheld information for "several weeks." (Full Story)Photo: Gary Coronado, Houston Chronicle
3of15University of Alabama's Alpha Phi criticized for all-white sorority video featuring bikinis, piggyback rides
The University of Alabama chapter of the Alpha Phi sorority faced criticism after their 2015 "rush week" video was released apparently showing an whitewashed sorority with no minority members, and playing up old stereotypes of sorority sisters. (Full Story)Photo: Alpha Phi
4of15Old Dominion's Sigma Nu frat suspended over 'daughter drop-off signs'
The signs were posted during Fall 2015 'welcome week,' and drew criticism from many on the campus for promoting "rape culture." (Full Story)
5of15University of Oklahoma: Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon were recorded singing a racist chant
The school's president severed ties with the fraternity and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered. Multiple students, including a native Texan, were expelled from the university. (Full Story)Photo: Nick Oxford, AP
6of15University of Texas' Phi Gamma Delta "Border Patrol" party, Feb. 7, 2015
The fraternity made headlines for hosting an alleged "border patrol" party at its house within spitting distance of the university campus. Party goers attending the bash wore ponchos, sombreros and construction gear, while others wore military camouflage outfits. The party also featured cutout boards of people in traditional Mexican garb, a bar painted to look like a Mexican flag and a giant cutout of Patrón tequila, according to The Daily Texan. No sanctions against the fraternity were filed. (Full Story)Photo: Julia Brouillette/The Daily Texan
7of15Syracuse University, hazing incident pushes initiate to severe frostbite
Three young men pledging the Nu Alpha Phi fraternity were taken to a city park and ordered to do exercises wearing hooded sweatshirts and no gloves for "failing to perform their daily duties," according to Syracuse police. After about 30 minutes, the pledges were given hand warmers and told to walk back to the frat house, according to police. One of the pledges experienced extreme pain in his hands and sought treatment at a hospital. Doctors say he will be able to keep his fingers, but with plenty of physical therapy in his future. (Full Story)
8of15Texas Tech University, Zeta Tau Alpha hosts a "Border Patrol" party
In October 2014, university officials were investigating racist photos posted to Gawker. The photos seemingly show members of the sorority dressed as stereotypical roles. (Full Story)Photo: Fechter, Joshua I, Courtesy of Gawker
9of15University of Virginia, possible sexual assault of a student
In late February 2015, the institution confirmed police were investigating a possible sexual assault after a woman was found unconscious in an off-campus apartment. The news came only a few weeks after a 2014 Rolling Stone article about an alleged fraternity house gang rape. It put the school in the national spotlight. Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia has denied any wrongdoing by its members. Rolling Stone later admitted discrepancies in its report. The university and the Department of Education reached an agreement over UVa's handling of the case in September 2015. (Full Story)Photo: Ryan M. Kelly, MBR
10of15Wesleyan University (Middleton, CT), nearly a dozen students hospitalized after taking Molly at a rave at a co-ed frat house
(From left) Zachary Kramer, Eric Lonergan, Rama Agha Al Nakib and Andrew Olson were charged with possessing and distributing the drug. (Full Story)Photo: Middletown Police Department/AP
11of15Brown University, Phi Kappa Psi accused of drugging two women
In late February 2015, the university reduced sanctions against the fraternity. The group was initially suspended for four years. But after a lab test was found to be inconclusive, Brown officials reduced the suspension to two-and-a-half years. No individuals were charged with sexual misconduct. Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, AP
12of15University of West Virginia, two members of Kappa Sigma arraigned on hazing charges tied to a student's 2014 death
Jordan Hankins and Richard Schwartz were charged with hazing and conspiracy to commit hazing. According to the criminal complaint, Schwartz gave the 19-year-old victim a bottle of liquor as part of an initiation ceremony. Hankins is accused of overseeing the event. Police were called to the house when the initiate was found unresponsive. He later died at the hospital. (Full Story)Photo: Bob Owen, San Antonio Express-News
13of15Yale University, Sigma Alpha Epsilon banned for sexual misconduct
A spokesman at the fraternity's national headquarters said its investigation found that two members made inappropriate comments about a female student. He said the fraternity does not condone demeaning language and it ordered sexual assault and harassment prevention training for all members.
14of15Arizona State University fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon "MLK Black Party"
The organization was under the microscope after some of its members were spotted promoting an "MLK Black Party", complete with racial stereotypes on Instagram.
15of1585 Yale fraternity members face trial in tailgating death
The families of two victims in the 2011 incident have named the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity as defendants. Members of the frat were allegedly delivering beer kegs to a tailgate party in a U-Haul truck prior to a Yale-Harvard game when the driver lost control of the vehicle and accelerated into a crowd of people, killing one and injuring two more. (Full Story)Photo: Bob Child
For two years, Maya Henry regularly spent time in Swarthmore College's two fraternity houses. Every week, the modest stone structures would transform into dens of drunken revelry as partygoers packed in sweaty rooms imbibed on cheap alcohol and danced the night away to a soundtrack of the latest Top 40 hits.
Henry, however, never attended those parties by choice. Henry had a job to do.
"Most days, my job was to prevent sexual violence and my job was to make sure that somebody wasn't going to get harmed," Henry, now a junior, told The Washington Post. The 20-year-old is a member of Swarthmore's SwatTeam, a student-led organization that works to ensure safety at public campus events where alcohol is served.
"I would sprint up the stairs that lead to the bedroom that's referred to as the 'rape attic' because I knew that there was only one woman up there and a bunch of fraternity brothers," Henry said.
The alleged reference to a "rape attic" is just one of the troubling details recently revealed about the culture within the selective Pennsylvania college's fraternities that was made public in internal documents leaked to two campus publications. Redacted versions of the documents, published earlier this month by the Phoenix and Voices, have since sparked fierce protests from students, including an ongoing sit-in that started Saturday on the campus located west of Philadelphia.
Over the weekend, the growing outcry prompted administrators to suspend all fraternity activity pending the results of an investigation.
The 116-page document reportedly came from the "historical archives" of Swarthmore's chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, which is not nationally affiliated, and contains meeting minutes and details of pledge tasks. The document features graphic descriptions of members' sexual encounters, including a reference to a "rape tunnel." It also describes their conversations about women, minority groups and sexual assault that were often peppered with offensive language, such as homophobic and racial slurs. The documents chronicle activities between 2010 and 2016, the Phoenix reported.
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"I absolutely condemn the language and actions described in the documents," wrote Swarthmore President Valerie Smith in a Monday statement. "What is contained within those pages is vulgar and deeply offensive to all of us. The racism, misogyny, and homophobia described within them is antithetical to the values of the College and violates the student code of conduct as well as basic decency."
But for many students, the contents of the documents were not surprising.
"It confirms people's experiences," Henry said. "It confirms the stories."
Henry said the document was difficult to read in its entirety because of how "disturbing" it was.
"It just made me remember the heightened anxiety I felt working there, trying to protect my fellow students and also trying to protect myself," Henry said.
A number of these experiences, which implicated Phi Kappa Psi as well as the college's other fraternity, Delta Upsilon, were published in a Tumblr blog that was launched earlier this month called "Why Swarthmore's Fraternities Must Go." Now, the page features more than 100 submissions from people whose identities were kept anonymous. In first- or second-hand accounts, writers described how they were allegedly assaulted at fraternity events or by members between 2015 and 2019. Other posts detailed instances in which members allegedly exhibited homophobic, racist and sexist behavior. (Names of fraternities and members were not included in the posts).
It wasn't long after the blog went up that the documents were leaked, Morgin Goldberg, a senior, told The Post.
"We realized that together it's actually a pretty damning account of fraternity violence and harm," said Goldberg, 22, one of the students who created the blog and helped organize the sit-in.
In a statement shared to Facebook earlier this month, current members of the Phi Kappa Psi chapter said they "wholeheartedly condemn the language in the 2013 and 2014 notes, as they are not representative of who we are today."
"All our current brothers were in high school and middle school at the time of these unofficial minutes, and none of us would have joined the organization had this been the standard when we arrived at Swarthmore," the statement said.
However, when Goldberg looked through the leaked files and compared them to the blog posts, which mention more recent events, she said, themes started to appear. Though jokes about a bedroom in the fraternity house known as the "rape attic" were from 2013, people are still writing about allegedly "getting assaulted in the rooms or seeing their friends get assaulted in the rooms," Goldberg said.
The fraternity has not directly addressed the allegations in the blog. A statement from Phi Kappa Psi's national headquarters said that while it has no affiliation with the group, "we were nevertheless shocked by their actions."
"From day one of their affiliation, members are taught to treat all people with dignity and respect," the statement said. Delta Upsilon did not respond to a request for comment late Monday.
Armed with the testimonials and the documents, Goldberg said she and other students took action earlier this month, demanding the college terminate its housing leases with the fraternities. Protests were held and meetings among administrators were disrupted. All the while, former members of both fraternities wrote op-eds in the Phoenix calling for the college to remove the chapters from campus. The college also has one sorority.
Similar demands have been made against the fraternities in the past, but "never manifested in actually getting rid of these frats," Goldberg said. Last year, a committee tasked with assessing campus culture recommended a moratorium be placed on the houses, which Smith decided not to impose.
When it became apparent to Goldberg and other student activists that their efforts this time around weren't yielding the results they wanted, she said they decided to push harder.
On Saturday, a group of about 50 students "rushed in" to the Phi Kappa Psi house, and soon the group grew to more than 100 people, Goldberg said. The students took over inside and occupied the lawn outside the house, hanging homemade banners that said, "CLOSE THE 'RAPE ATTIC.' TIME'S UP," and "END THE FRATS." While they did not storm Delta Upsilon, located next door, protesters hung up signs outside. One spray painted bedsheet read, "STILL A RAPE HAVEN."
"The sit-in really came after many different kinds of direct action that seemed like they were still not working even though we were putting all that we had on the table," Goldberg said. "The sit-in was our way to say, 'Actually, this space is ours.'"
Hours after the sit-in began, Smith announced the suspension of fraternity activities. She wrote that administrators had received unredacted copies of the files and were coordinating with an external investigator.
Henry said the documents were necessary to get people such as administrators, professors and those with friends in fraternities, to be "moved to do something."
"We had hard proof that somebody would take seriously," Henry said.
Despite the "win," Goldberg said students plan on staying put until the college meets all their demands, which aside from the lease termination, include dissolving both fraternities and reallocating the houses to groups that have been historically marginalized by the institutions.
The goal, Henry said, is to see the houses "get completely and radically transformed inside and out." Henry added that it has already been suggested that the buildings be turned into spaces for first generation students or minority women and non-binary students.
As of late Monday, a group of about 30 students were still inside the house and many planned to spend the night, Amal Haddad, a freshman involved in the protest, told The Post. The 18-year-old said the sit-in had drawn campus-wide support, with the exception of fraternity members.
"It's really been a community environment," she said. "It's really nice to see this space sort of looking like what it could be in the future."
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In U.S. House, Texas Republicans Grill Zuckerberg More On Whether Facebook Is Censoring Conservatives
“Why is Facebook censoring conservative bloggers such as Diamond and Silk?” U.S. Rep. Joe Barton asked the Facebook CEO Wednesday, continuing a line of questioning that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz began a day earlier
HALEY SAMSEL, The Texas Tribune
| Posted on April 11, 2018, 5:57 PM
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017.
On the second day Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before congressional lawmakers, two Texans followed in the footsteps of Sen. Ted Cruz in criticizing the social network for allegedly censoring conservative content.
A total of five Texans serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which convened Wednesday to question Zuckerberg in the wake of widespread criticism of Facebook’s response to an enormous data breach and concerns about the platform’s privacy controls. Those members include one Democrat, U.S. Rep. Gene Green of Houston, and four Republicans: U.S. Reps. Joe Barton of Ennis, Michael Burgess of Lewisville, Pete Olson of Sugar Land and Bill Flores of Bryan.
Following a high-stakes U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday, Wednesday’s affair was more muted in tone. But that did not stop Barton, the vice chairman of the committee, from accusing Zuckerberg of political censorship.
“Why is Facebook censoring conservative bloggers such as Diamond and Silk?” Barton asked early in the hearing, referring to popular pro-Trump bloggers who are also sisters. “Facebook called them ‘unsafe to the community.’ That is ludicrous. They hold conservative views. That isn’t unsafe.”
Zuckerberg conceded that in the case of the bloggers, “our team made an enforcement error, and we have already gotten in touch with them to reverse it.”
Barton’s question echoed Cruz’s line of questioning Tuesday, when the junior Texas senator accused Facebook of engaging in “bias and censorship,” citing a 2016 Gizmodo story that reported Facebook routinely suppressed some conservative news articles.
Several other Republican representatives, including Flores, quizzed Zuckerberg on how Facebook handles conservative content. Flores asked the CEO if he believed Facebook and other technology platforms should be “ideologically neutral.”
“I agree that we should be a platform for all ideas, that we should focus on that,” Zuckerberg said, echoing a similar response he gave to Cruz on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg’s appearances on Capitol Hill this week were spurred largely by a New York Times story reporting that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that did work for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, utilized data from 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users to inform its consulting work.
As a result, other Texas members grilled Zuckerberg about the strength of Facebook’s data security methods and the privacy controls afforded to American Facebook users.
Green pressed Zuckerberg to commit to giving Facebook users in the U.S. the same privacy controls and protections as those guaranteed to Europeans through the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The law, which will go into effect next month, regulates how European user data is collected and deleted at the user’s request. Facebook has committed to abiding by the law in Europe and offering similar privacy controls to Americans, a sentiment that Zuckerberg repeated Wednesday.
Olson asked how the Cambridge Analytica breach could have happened when a large portion of Facebook’s 27,000-strong workforce is dedicated to data security. Zuckerberg said the breach happened before “we ramped those programs up dramatically.”
“No amount of people that we can hire will be enough to review all of the content [on Facebook],” Zuckerberg said. He added that there’s only one solution – artificial technology – that could allow the company to properly address such a large challenge.
“We need to rely on and build sophisticated AI tools that can help us flag certain content,” he said.
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Former FCC attorney, Catherine Sandoval, receives the Donald H. McGannon and Everett C. Parker Awards
By Alisa Valentin
Catherine Sandoval, California Utilities Commissioner, professor of law at Santa Clara University, and a former FCC attorney, and Makani Themba, director of The DC-based Praxis Project, received the Donald H. McGannon and Everett C. Parker Awards, respectively, Oct. 7, at the 32nd Annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture. The event was held at the Newseum, Washington, DC, to mark the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Everett C. Parker;s filing of his groundbreaking petition with the FCC challenging the television license renewal of WLBT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, for its failure to cover events relevent to its Black viewers. The petition was the first to challenge FCC licensing of broadcast stations on grounds of racism. The event also featured remarks from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler who pledged to improve the rates of media ownership for people ocolor and women, and to maintain net neutrality for the Internet. Speeches and other aspects of the event were streamed live from www.newseum.org.
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#117-Ranked Denis Istomin Defeats 6-Times Champion Novak Djokovic In Australian Open Upset
The 30-year-old played the match of his life to hand Djokovic only his second defeat in 41 matches at Melbourne Park since 2011.
By Nick Mulvenney
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Uzbek journeyman Denis Istomin pulled off an Australian Open upset for the ages on Thursday when he sent Novak Djokovic tumbling out of the second round of the grand slam the Serbian has all but dominated for the last seven years.
The 30-year-old world number 117 played the match of his life to hand the six-times champion only his second defeat in 41 matches at Melbourne Park since 2011 with a 7-6(8) 5-7 2-6 7-6(5) 6-4 second-round win on Rod Laver Arena.
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Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin pulled off an Australian Open upset for the ages on Thursday when he sent Novak Djokovic tumbling out of the second round of the grand slam.
Istomin, playing in his trademark fluorescent yellow glasses and bandana, let out a huge roar when the 12-times grand slam champion Djokovic sent a service return long to end an enthralling contest after four hours and 50 minutes.
“All the credit to Denis for playing amazing, he deserved to win,” said reigning champion Djokovic after making his earliest exit at a grand slam since 2008.
“I was not pleased with my performance. It was just one of days when you don’t feel that great and the other player is really feeling the ball. That’s sport.”
Istomin, who needed to go to the Asia-Pacific qualifying tournament just to get a wildcard for his 11th Australian Open, was stunned by his own performance.
“First of all I feel sorry for Novak. I was playing so good today,” Istomin said in an on-court interview.
“So much emotion on my mind so I cannot hold it you know but I want to say thanks very much for coming to support me.”
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“All the credit to Denis for playing amazing, he deserved to win,” Djokovic sai.
To say the odds were stacked against the 117th-ranked Uzbek was an understatement.
Second seed Djokovic had won all five of their previous meetings, giving up just one set, and had lost to a player ranked outside the top 100 only once since 2010.
Istomin knew he would have to play the best tennis of his life to have even a chance of victory and he produced it in a captivating arm-wrestle of a contest.
Charging out of the gate, Istomin hit seven aces and 27 winners in the opener, taking the match to the world number two and prevailing when Djokovic hit a return long on his third set point in a 13-minute tiebreaker.
The onslaught continued in the second set, Istomin moving the Djokovic around the court and smashing winner after winner off his forehand.
Djokovic shouted in frustration, watched his first service success rate slide into the 60th percentile and called for the trainer after feeling a twinge in the back of his leg.
The tide looked to have turned, however, when the Serbian scrambled to save two set points in the second stanza before breaking the Uzbek immediately and serving out to even up the contest.
Djokovic whipped through the third set in a relatively rapid 45 minutes but Istomin, by now nursing his left thigh with an ice-pack at every changeover, would simply not fold.
“I mean it was tough, since third set I get cramping in my leg so I don’t know how I held on,” added Istomin, whose reward for the biggest win of his career is a third-round meeting with Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.
Going for everything, the former world number 33 grabbed an early break in the fourth and, even after Djokovic broke back, raced to a 5-1 lead in the tiebreaker before sealing the set to send the match into a decider.
The crowd were expecting the famed Djokovic fight back in the final set but it was Istomin who ripped a backhand down the line to take an early break before playing some dazzling tennis to beat back every Djokovic assault and claim a famous win.
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05/06/2015 03:07 pm ET Updated May 06, 2015
Another Use For Yik Yak On Campus? Cheating On Exams
Casey Fabris The Chronicle of Higher Education
TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Rob LEVER, US-IT-Internet-teen-trend A March 28, 2014 photo illustration shows the Google Play Store download page for an anonymous social networking app in Washington, DC. When a new social app Yik Yak swept into Auburn University, some of the coolest kids started posting comments on it. But no one knows who is making the comments, because the posts are anonymous. 'It spread pretty fast,' says Nickolaus Hines, a junior at the Alabama university. 'The majority of things are jokes or things which are obviously funny.' But Hines added that 'some of the things are pretty mean,' and that 'the ones about girls get taken off if the girls see them.' Yik Yak, which allows users to see posts in a radius up to eight kiolometers (five miles) is part of a flurry of new apps which offer new ways to interact anonymously in social networks. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
With new technologies come new ways to cheat. Yik Yak, the anonymous, location-based app that has been a hotbed of cyberbullying on college campuses, is also the newest tool for students seeking to cheat on exams.
J. Scott Christianson, an assistant teaching professor in the department of management at the University of Missouri at Columbia, has been monitoring Yik Yak recently to see what students are talking about.
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'Fantastic' tournament in honour of late Wolfreton teacher Mike Nicholson to become annual event
Mike Nicholson died in January at the age of 70
Hannah Robinson
A rugby tournament held in honour of a former teacher has plans to become an annual event.
Mike Nicholson was a much-loved faculty member at Wolfreton School for more than 30 years, working as a language teacher and going on to support students in athletics and music after his retirement.
He was a well-known race walker and even carried the Olympic Torch trough Beverley’s Saturday Market in 2012.
Sadly, Mr Nicholson died during a morning service at Beverley Minster on January 4, at the age of 70.
MUCH-LOVED: Mike Nicholson was a legend, according to his former students
On Friday night, former colleagues, students, and rugby players who had been influenced by Mr Nicholson gathered in Anlaby to raise money for several charities the teacher supported.
Emma Russell, 25, a former pupil of Mr Nicholson, said: “It was a great game and to see both teams come together in aid for a great teacher was fantastic.
Plan unveiled to remember popular teacher Mike Nicholson who died in church
“Mr Nicholson would have enjoyed the evening and it was very emotional at the end when speeches were made.
“The teams managed to raise £500 for different charities, and there are hopes to carry it on every year in honour of Mr Nicholson.”
A rugby tournament was held in honour of Mike Nicholson
The event, organised by Wolfreton teacher Kevin Marshall, was held at Hullensians RUFC in Springhead Lane, with the Hullensians team playing against the Wolfreton team.
Miss Russell said: “Everyone got involved and switched teams as Mr Nicholson was a fan of both.
“It was great to see so many teachers and ex pupils come together for this event.”
As well as this rugby tournament, members of Kingston upon Hull Athletics Club are fundraising for a bench in memory of Mr Nicholson.
Gregan Clarkson, a former student of Mr Nicholson, has set up a Crowdfunding page, which can be viewed here.
The club has currently raised £380 of the £3,000 target.
Emotional goodbyes to 'unique' teacher who influenced so many
Any donation is welcome towards the purchase of the memorial bench, which will be placed at Costello Stadium, where Mr Nicholson spent many hours coaching over the years.
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List of Global release dates for The Martian
Upcoming sci-fi blockbuster The Martian will be on cinema screens on October 2 in United States, September 30 in United Kingdom... The full list for most of the countries can be seen here:
Official trailers of the movie here
HD images from the movie trailers here
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HD images from Total Recall (1990) movie
By many the Total Recall of 1990, stared by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin and Sharon Stone and directed by Paul Verhoeven (known also for Starship Troopers, RoboCop, Basic Instinct and other movies), is being considered the best Mars movie ever, at least till The Martian will hit cinema screens. Here are some of the best HD images from Total Recall focusing on the Martian landscapes and human colony depicted in the movie (open link in new tab to view in full resolution).
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Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mars Colonization, Mars Colony, Mars independence, Mars Movie, Paul Verhoeven, Total Recall, Underground colony
Mars rover by Florent Lebrun
Picture of the Day 22/9/2015 - Rover in a Martian canyon by Canadian fantasy artist Florent Lebrun. More of his art here.
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Mars movie review - Red Planet (2000)
In the time we all are waiting for the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster The Martian I decided to watch again and review Red Planet (2000) - a sci-fi movie stared by Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss with quite similar plot (astronauts trying to survive and get off Mars) as the The Martian but undeservedly low scored by the most critics.
In the first part of 21st century humans have totally polluted Earth and now are remotely trying to terraform Mars to make it a second home for humanity. For 20 years everything seems to be going according to the plan - temperatures on Mars has been raised and dispatched algae has been starting to cover more and more of the planet introducing oxygen in its atmosphere. Suddenly all the algae vanishes and there is no other way but to send a manned mission to find out - why this is happening.
It is year 2056 and a crew of 6 is being sent to Mars aboard the "Mars-1" in the first manned mission to Mars. When they reach the orbit of Mars their ship is struck by a particle burst from an unexpectedly powerful Solar flare. In result the electronics of Mars-1 is fried and fire is spreading through all the ship. 5 of 6 crew members eject the ship with landing module but the only female - ship's captain Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss) - stays on Mars-1 to save the ship.
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Tags: Mars Exploration, Mars Mission, Mars Movie, Movie Review, Red Planet, Terraforming Mars
Mars outpost by Robert McCall
Picture of the Day 15/9/15 - "Another busy day on Mars" by classical space artist Robert McCall.
Tags: Mars Base, Mars Colonization, Mars Mission, Picture of the Day, Retro art, Robert McCall
Images from The last days on Mars movie
The horror sci-fi thriller "The last days on Mars" (2013) by itself with its zombie virus nonsense is a complete crap, but visually it's quite attractive. Here are some of the best images from the movie (Open link in new tab to view in full resolution):
Tags: Mars Base, Mars Colonization, Mars Movie, Mars Rover, Sandstorm, The Last Days on Mars
Mars lander over Valles Marineris by William Black
Picture of the Day 12/9/15 - A spacecraft entering Mars atmosphere over Valles Marineris by William Black.
More of his space concept art here.
Tags: Mars Exploration, Mars landscape, Picture of the Day, Spaceship, Valles Marineris, William Black
HD images from The Martian movie
The upcoming sci-fi movie "The Martian" is based on the novel by Andy Weir and is directed by Ridley Scott (known for Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Prometheus and countless other movies). The Martian will hit theaters mostly on early October 2015 (see full list of release dates here).
Plot in brief: "During a manned mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfold, the world comes together to root for Watney’s safe return."
More stuff from The Martian: ►Trailers ►Quotes ►Concept art
Some of the best images from the various trailers of The Martian (Open link in new tab to view in full resolution):
Tags: Andy Weir, Astronaut on Mars, Mars Base, Mars Mission, Mars Movie, Mars Rover, Matt Damon, Ridley Scott, Spaceship, The Martian
Mars game review - Red Faction: Guerrilla
Red Faction: Guerrilla (2009) is an open world (sandbox) third-person shooter game set in the universe of Red Faction computer game series. It details the events between original Red Faction and Red Faction: Origins TV movie (followed by Red Faction: Armageddon computer game) on a terraformed Mars in 2125.
The most unique and compelling feature of this game is the ability to destroy almost everything in the game world. And you can do this in a lot of ways - by crushing with your powerful sledgehammer or any type of transport, by shooting, by blowing up a charge or a chemical cistern and so on.
The story of Red Faction series is tied around the freedom fights of human colonists on Mars against an oppressive rule of Earth-based corporation - the plot line often used in Mars fiction. In the first game of the series - Red Faction set in 2075, 50 years before Guerrilla - Mars was liberated from the oppressive rule of Ultor corporation by revolutionary Martian miners (called "Red Faction") and its leader Parker (you can visit him as an old man next to his shack near a mohole in Badlands sector of Guerrilla). The allies of those fights - Earth Defense Force (EDF) - in last 50 years has become as ruthless as Ultor had been, for the interests of Earth's corporations pressing Martian society into forced labor. No wonder the Red Faction is revived. Unlike as in the original game where in open areas you should walk in a pressure suit, in Guerrilla the Mars is terraformed to the stage you can breath freely.
Tags: Game Review, Mars Colonization, Mars Game, Mars independence, Open world shooter, Red Faction, Terraforming Mars
Mars base model by Kevin Atkins
Some of the pictures of the Mars base model by Kevin Atkins which was exhibited at National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in Chicago May, 2010 (click to view in full resolution):
Tags: Kevin Atkins, Mars Base, Mars Colonization, Mars colony model, National Space Society
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The year in PGA Tour WAGS (2018): Clutch caddying, romantic proposals, and one super fancy gala
Richard Heathcote
Perhaps more than ever before, golfers and their significant others (AKA WAGs) were intertwined — and on display together — during this past year. Sure, there were the usual engagements, weddings, and babies, but there were also shared struggles, triumphs and viral moments that helped tell the story of the 2018 golf season. Let’s take a look back.
Of course, we start with Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky. There still were no wedding bells (At least, we didn’t get an invite), but the couple celebrated an important milestone:
Five years?! It feels like just yesterday when we started stalking following these two lovebirds. And after all this time, they're still dancing on boats and doing backflips into the water to get over tough losses in majors:
Paulina also celebrated a birthday milestone of her own:
And she had a meme of her go viral after she was spotted lurking in the background while DJ did an interview with CBS’ Amanda Balionis:
Which prompted Paulina and Balionis to team up for this funny response:
But it wasn’t all fun and games this year as those who follow Paulina particularly closely got quite a scare when she deleted from her popular Instagram account all photos that included Dustin. Like this, which was a good one of them swimming that's now in Internet heaven:
PHOTOS: DJ & Paulina through the years
Sigh. . . There were rumors their relationship was going to disappear as well — you could even bet on whether Paulina was going to be in Paris for the Ryder Cup — but things got smoothed over. And DJ resumed to his role of fi·an·cé/Paulina’s personal photographer:
Andrew Redington
Phew. Speaking of the Ryder Cup, how about this year’s gala turned into the WAG event of the millennium since it was staged at the Palace of Versailles. Here's a look at Team USA's crew:
And here's Team Europe:
Just a slight upgrade from the gala at the Mall of America in 2016. Although, to be fair to the MOA, it has more fast casual dining options than anywhere in the world. But yes, slightly less enticing selfie opportunities.
Anyway, besides that glamorous gala, there was a lot of same old, same old going on. Sergio Garcia and Angela Akins continued to sight-see:
Allison Stokke, Rickie Fowler's girlfriend, continued to train:
And Jena Sims, Brooks Koepka’s girlfriend, continued to act:
But Jena was seen most following her man's two major victories. First, Fox’s Joe Buck got her name right this time when her man won a second straight U.S. Open:
Streeter Lecka
Which led to the two turning up the PDA to borderline NSFW while on vacay celebrating the win:
And then there was Jena’s interaction with another major champ following Brooks’ victory at the PGA Championship that drew even more attention:
https://twitter.com/ClubProGuy/status/1028782146884915200
And thus, another WAGs meme was born. While we're on the topic of Tiger, Woods flashed some serious PDA with a girlfriend for the first time in years when he gave Erica Herman a big kiss after winning the Tour Championship:
Stan Badz
The celebratory smooches weren't always smooth, though. Aaron Wise’s somewhat awkward embrace with his girlfriend went viral after he won the AT&T Byron Nelson:
https://twitter.com/LifeOfTimReilly/status/998378481124806656
They’re young. They’ll get the hang of it.
But no one was as suave as Emiliano Grillo, who enlisted a plane to wish his wife happy birthday during the Wells Fargo:
Thanks for making the rest of us look bad, Emiliano.
RELATED: Meet the WAGs of the PGA Tour
On a much more somber note, Erin Walker revealed she had contracted Lyme disease like her husband, Jimmy. But Erin turned her news into a positive by speaking out about the illness:
And she continued to be a badass show jumper:
OK, we're back to fun stuff. We saw two of the game’s biggest stars get engaged. First, Rickie Fowler to Allison Stokke on a Hamptons beach (How romantic!):
And then Jon Rahm to Kelley Cahill. Unfortunately, Rahm didn’t have Justin Thomas to document the occasion like Rickie did, so here are a couple photos of the happy couple from that fancy Ryder Cup gala instead:
No word on if the wedding will be at the Palace of Versailles also. Talk about an expensive potential venue. . . Although, Rahm clearly spared no expense on the engagement ring, which he even played a role in designing. What a talented young lad. Golf.com’s Luke Kerr-Dineen got a good look at the gleaming rock boulder on Kelley's finger:
https://twitter.com/LukeKerrDineen/status/1068607143912357888
And how about some tour pro weddings in 2018? Smylie Kaufman became the first #SB2K member to take the plunge and he invited his Baker’s Bay boys to the big day:
Dustin Johnson’s brother and caddie, Austin, got married to Sam Maddox:
https://twitter.com/DJohnsonPGA/status/1067101648919699456
And Jordan Spieth tied the knot with high school sweetheart Annie Verret. The couple did a good job of keeping a tight lid on photos, but here’s a pre-wedding photo of guests:
And here’s a photo of Jordan and Annie (and Phil Mickelson) from the Ryder Cup:
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Sorry, there weren’t any trophy pics of Jordan and Annie this year because, well, planning a wedding and kicking out your roommates is a stressful time in a young man’s life.
By the way, that leaves Justin Thomas as the lone #SB2K member not engaged or married (No pressure, JT!). But he did help another couple get married during the Wells Fargo Championship:
It was during another tournament, the Wyndam Championship, when we thought a marriage might actually dissolve. C.T. Pan certainly didn’t give his wife much love for her caddying skills that week:
https://twitter.com/billsperos/status/1030917724153757697
Ouch. But the duo finished runner-up, matching Pan’s best career finish. And more importantly, they didn’t let work come between them:
Jared C. Tilton
And there were several winning WAG caddies as well. Chris Paisley and his wife, Keri, won on the European Tour:
https://twitter.com/EuropeanTour/status/952598329984274433
And Lee Westwood might enlist the help of girlfriend Helen Storey a lot more. After parting ways with longtime caddie Billy Foster, Westwood won his next start with Storey on the bag to break a five-year winless drought. Here's the lovely couple in their sweet matching UPS uniforms:
Warren Little
And speaking of a winless drought, Kate Rose’s co-owned horse (not pictured) entered some big races, but didn’t have the 2018 success of her husband, Justin, who claimed the FedEx Cup and reached No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking:
But Master Merion is still a Triple Crown-level name for a horse.
Finally, how about the year Andrew Johnston had? Beef didn't make the Ryder Cup and he didn't record a victory, but he won the love of Jodie Valencia — even with his trademark big beard:
And he followed the year's most bizarre display of PDA by popping the question successfully:
The photo booth images from that wedding are going to be a lot of fun.
RELATED: The year in PGA Tour WAGs (2017)
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Good Energy Solutions accepts “2019 Top Solar Contractor” Award at Solar Power International.
Solar Power Users Celebrate KCC Ruling.
KSNT Topeka News Read the full article…
Solar power users celebrate KCC ruling
Good Energy Solutions, Inc. Awarded “2019 Top Solar Contractor” and “Top 100 Commercial Contractor” by Solar Power World.
“With renewable energy expected to be the fastest-growing source of U.S. electricity generation for at least the next two years, local solar installer Good Energy Solutions is happy to be contributing to the country’s energy mix. Good Energy Solutions has been recognized by Solar Power World magazine for its installation efforts, achieving a rank of 264 out of 415 solar companies on the magazine’s 2019 Top Solar Contractors list, and a rank of 88 on the Top 100 Commercial Contractors List.”
Good Energy Solutions is Top 3 in “Best of Lawrence” for Electrical Services for 2nd year
“Good Energy Solutions is honored to have been selected by the people of Lawrence, KS and placed in the top 3 in the Electrical Services category in “Best of Lawrence”. The award is presented by the Lawrence Journal World and SunPower Publishing”
Kansas SBDC Recognizes Good Energy Solutions with Small Business of the Year Award.
Article Found In Thinking Bigger Magazine
“Good Energy Solutions of Lawrence was recognized as the University of Kansas Small Business Development Center’s Existing Business of the Year. Owner Kevin Good founded the alternative energy company in 2007 with an education component to his business to ensure well-informed consumers. Partnering with the Kansas SBDC to build on his own business skills has helped Good to earn a solid reputation in the energy business as well as continued growh and profit.”
Capitol Insider Podcast: Solar energy advocates displeased by KCC ruling
Andy Rondon of Good Energy Solutons speaks with Tim Carpenter of the Capitol Insider along with Dorothy Barnett, Executive dDirector of the Clean Energy Business Council and Matt Graham, a Kansas homeowner with solar.
Good Energy Solutions named in the Top 5 for Best of Lawrence 2019
“Good Energy Solutions named as a top 5 finalist for Electrical Services in Best of Lawrence. Top 3 Winners are announced in June by Lawrence Journal World and Sunflower Publishing. Winners are nominated and chosen by the people of Lawrence, Kansas.”
Salina Journal: Frustration of solar-power advocates fuels effort to reverse KCC ruling
“I joined the solar industry so that I could help make people’s lives better, not to make them uncomfortable in their own home. We have customers who now live on a fixed income and went solar in preparation for retirement so they could control their costs…” said Andy Rondon of Good Energy Solutions in response to the Demand Charge Rate Structure implemented by Westar for Kansas home owners with solar.
Good Energy Solutions is proud to have been a part of the remodel of the Lawrence Santa Fe Train Depot.
Adding a discrete solar array to the roof of the building helps reduce energy operations costs while respecting the historic preservation of the building.
Local Solar Professional, Michael Schumann Earns Industry’s Most Prestigious Certification™
“Michael Schumann, VP/Residential Solar Consultant at Good Energy Solutions has earned the solar industry’s leading recognition of technical sales expertise from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP®), and is now a NABCEP Certified PV Technical Sales Professional™”
Good Energy Solutions of Lawrence, Kansas Recognized as a 2018 Top Solar Contractor
“More than 10,600 megawatts of solar power were installed last year in the United States, and local installer Good Energy Solutions has been recognized by Solar Power World magazine for its contributions to the industry. Good Energy Solutions achieved a rank of 248 out of 450 solar companies on the magazine’s 2018 Top Solar Contractors list.”
Good Energy Solutions, Electrical Services is “Top 3 Best of Lawrence”
“Good Energy Solutions is honored to have been selected by the people of Lawrence, KS and placed in the top 3 for Electrical Services in “Best of Lawrence”. The award is presented by the Lawrence Journal World and SunPower Publishing.”
Local Solar Professional, Andy Rondon Earns Industry’s Most Prestigious Certification™
“Andy Rondon, Sales Manager/Technical Sales of Good Energy Solutions has earned the solar industry’s leading recognition of technical sales expertise from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP®), and is now a NABCEP Certified PV Technical Sales Professional™”
Good Energy Solutions Teams Up to Make Solar Power Educational Carts for Olathe West High School
Article Found In Solar Power World
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc, a Lawrence-based solar installer, has completed working with Olathe West High school students in the Green Tech Academy on their new solar educational carts. Installation Technician, Randy Heck, worked with students during the installation to educate them on installation as well as train them on monitoring solar production using their existing PV solar trainers.”
Clean Energy Project and Good Energy Solutions Facebook Live
“Andy Rondon of Good Energy Solutions speaks with Susie Fagan on CEPLive about clean energy in Kansas and explains distributed generation.”
Good Energy Solutions, Inc 10 Year Celebration
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc. celebrated 10 years of business with the community and customers last Saturday, April 7th. The event, open to the public, included demos on solar technology, LED lights, presentations from the Clean energy Business Council, and music by DJ Proof.”
1320 KLWN’s Lawrence Business Magazine Steven Hertzog Interviews Andy Rondon.
Andy Rondon, Sales Manager and Engineer for Good Energy Solutions is interviewed solar in kansas.
Listen to the Interview
Good Energy Solutions Receives the 25 Under 25® Award
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc, a local solar and efficiencies installer, received the 25 Under 25 Award® from Thinking Bigger Business Media at the 2018 Gala on Saturday evening. The Kansas City based award recognizes Good Energy Solutions as one of best small businesses in Kansas City. Out of 1,400 nominations, 25 businesses with fewer than 25 employees were selected to receive the award. Each winner has demonstrated financial strength, the ability to overcome adversity and challenges, and a commitment to the community and a powerful company vision.”
Recipient of the Lawrence Business Magazine 2018 Foundation Award
Local business growth is the foundation of the local economy. The Lawrence Business Magazine and Cadre Lawrence think it is important to celebrate those businesses. The Foundation Award was established to recognize growth in for-profit businesses, that are locally owned or locally franchised in Douglas County, and have been in business a minimum of three years prior.
Companies will be honored with the Foundation Award that have shown growth in employment by 20% or 20 people from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017.
Good Energy Solutions Named a SunPower Elite Dealer
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc., a Lawrence-based solar installation company, has been elevated to “SunPower Elite Dealer” status by SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), a leading solar technology and global energy services provider based in Silicon Valley, CA… Elite Dealers earn their status by achieving a 90 percent or greater customer satisfaction score on past installations and successfully completing two advanced certification courses.”
Good Energy Solutions, Inc Celebrates 10 Years of Business
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc., a Lawrence-based solar, energy efficiencies, and electrical services company celebrates 10 years of business in December and will celebrate with a ribbon cutting ceremony by the Lawrence Chamber Dec. 14th.”
25 Under 25® Selects Good Energy Solutions, Inc for 2018 Class of Honorees™
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc has just been recognized as one of Kansas City’s best small businesses. It’s one of the winners of the 2018 25 Under 25® Awards.™”
Local Solar Professional, David Vera Earns Industry’s Most Prestigious Certification™
“David Vera, Solar Installer at Good Energy Solutions has earned the solar industry’s leading recognition of installation expertise from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP®), and is now a NABCEP Certified PV Installation Professional™”
Good Energy Solutions, Inc. Awarded “2017 Top 500 Solar Contractors” by Solar Power World
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc., a Lawrence-based solar installer, has been ranked by Solar Power World, the solar industry’s leading business to business publication and source for technology, development and installation among the 2017 Top 500 Solar Contractors in the United States.”
“Paola family goes solar to save money, environment”
Article Found in The Miami County Republic, by John VanPelt
“PAOLA — A Paola resident had a decision to make two years ago for how to spend money he had saved. He could buy a car or he could put solar panels on his house. Jose Mateos chose to go solar.”
“Local Solar Professional, Michael Lee Earns Industry’s Most Prestigious Certification™”
“Michael Lee, Lead Solar Designer and Operations Manager of Good Energy Solutions has earned the solar industry’s leading recognition of installation expertise from the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP®), and is now a NABCEP Certified PV Installation Professional™”
“Good Energy Solutions Selected to Work on Westar’s 1.27 Megawatt Community Solar Site “
“Good Energy Solutions, a Lawrence-based solar installer, was selected to contribute to the installation of Westar Energy’s Community Solar Site. The 1.27 megawatt solar site is located near South Hutchinson, KS and consists of nearly 4,000 solar panels.”
“Good Energy Solutions Completes 100kW Solar Array on Fire Medical Station No.5 –The City of Lawrence Funded the Installation as Part of the Facilities Conservation Improvement Program (FCIP)”
“This past week Good Energy Solutions, a Lawrence-based solar installer, completed the installation of 338 solar panels on the roof of Fire Station No. 5 located at 1911 Stewart Ave in Lawrence, KS.”
100kW Solar Array on Fire Medical Station No. 5 in Lawrence, KS
This project is one of many funded by the City of Lawrence through the Facilities Conservation Improvement Program, an $11.3 million project to improve energy efficiency of dozens of city facilities. The City hired local firms 360 Energy Engineers to oversee the FCIP program, and Good Energy Solutions to design and install the solar array. (Video clip starts at 5:27)
“Good Energy Solutions Named a SunPower Commercial Dealer”
“Good Energy Solutions, a Lawrence-based solar installer, has been selected as a SunPower Commercial Dealer, joining a network of more than 1,800 solar companies worldwide that sell, install and service SunPower products.”
“Good Energy Solutions Gives Away a Solar Energy System to Van Go, Inc.”
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc., a Lawrence-based solar energy and electrical company, has awarded a solar energy system to Van Go, Inc., a non-profit organization located in Douglas County, KS as part of the Good Energy Solutions “Solar Giveaway” program.”
“Good Energy Solutions Offers to Give Away a Solar Energy System to a Non-Profit Organization in Douglas County, KS”
2016 BBB Integrity Award Winner – The Kansas Plains – Good Energy Solutions
The Better Business Bureau presents Good Energy Solutions with the “BBB Flame” as the recipient of the “2016 BBB Integrity Award”
“We are flattered to receive this prestigious award from the Better Business Bureau”, stated Kevin Good, President of Good Energy Solutions, Inc. “This honor represents the high quality of our employees and the ideals that we built our company’s foundation upon.”
Good Energy Solutions WINS the “2016 Integrity Award” from the Better Business Bureau.
“Good Energy Solutions, Inc. has been selected to receive the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Integrity Award at an award ceremony at its office in Lawrence, Kansas. The ceremony will take place on Monday, September 19, 2016 where Kevin Good, President and Owner of Good Energy Solutions, will accept the award.”
“Every Day is Earth Day at Good Energy Solutions”
“Employees of Good Energy Solutions pick up 10 bags of trash along the Burroughs Creek Trail and donates pallets to Haskel Indian Nations University. The pallets are repurposed for a Sustainable Food Composting Program as well as used in the Haskell Wetland Restoration for better accessibility.”
Good Energy Solutions is awarded “2016 Top 500 North American Solar Company” by Solar Power World.
Article Found In Lawrence Business Magazine
“Solar Power World, the industry’s leading source for technology, development and installation news, presents the “2016 Top 500 Solar Contractors list”. The list ranks applicants according to their influence in the industry in 2015.” Read full article…
Ranked #1 by SolarReviews “Top 13 Residential Solar Contractors in Douglas (County) for 2016”
See Press Release.
SolarReviews gives recognition to solar installers that record high levels of customer satisfaction. Results are based only on reviews of solar installers received in the last twelve months. SolarReviews provides data to the www.solarpowerworldonline.com Top Contractors List which awards solar installers based primarily on number of installations and employees. See the List
1320 KLWN’s Lawrence Business Magazine Steven Hertzog Interviews Kevin Good.
Kevin Good, President of Good Energy Solutions is interviewed about his background, development of Good Energy Solutions, and energy solutions for home and business owners. Learn how your business can save money and how you can put your roof to work through energy efficiencies and solar. Listen to the Interview
1320KLWN Cadre Lawrence Radio Interviews Kevin Good.
Recipients, including Good Energy Solutions, of the 2016 Foundation Award granted by Lawrence Business Magazine and Cadre Lawrence are interviewed about their business and business growth. “…You guys (are) generating income for our community, paying taxes in our community, and sourcing that income from other states…” Listen to the Interview (Interview begins at marker 22:05)
Recipient of the Lawrence Business Magazine 2016 Foundation Award.
Good Energy Solutions is proud to accept The 2016 Foundation Award. We are the first company to receive the award two years in a row.
2015 Holiday Letter by Good Energy Solutions President, Kevin Good.
A year in review and looking forward to 2016 (See Letter)
Partnership with The Climate and Energy Project.
Good Energy Solutions will donate a portion of the sale of a solar system back to the Climate and Energy Project when the buyer mentions CEP, “We are grateful to Kevin Good and Good Energy Solutions for their support.” (See Blog)
Good Energy Solutions President, Kevin Good accepts award for “Top 500 Solar Contractor” given by Solar Power World.
The award was presented at the Solar Power World Gala that kicked-off the Solar Power International (SPI) Tradeshow in Anaheim, CA. (See Press Release)
Article Found in Lawrence Business Magazine.
Good Energy Solutions is named one of the Top 500 Solar Contractors in the U.S. by Solar Power World.
Pittsburg State University: Solar panels provide power, education.
“Workers with Good Energy Solutions from Lawrence labored in the Kansas sun Wednesday on a project to capture some of that intense solar energy for Pittsburg State University’s Robert W. Plaster Center. The project was made possible by a grant from Westar Energy to both supply power and provide an educational opportunity on the PSU campus…” Read the full article…
Lawrence Journal World: “…solar panels installed at Prairie Park”
Lawrence Journal World sited the installation of Solar Panels by Good Energy Solutions at the Prairie Park nature center located at 2730 Harper. The project “was selected as part of a grant program sponsored by Westar Energy…include a kiosk where visitors can see how the solar panels work and how much energy they are producing…” Read the full article.
Kevin Good, President of Good Energy Solutions is interviewed by Conrad Kabus of “AGAM in Kansas”.
“Welcome to Farm Factor on AG am in Kansas. My name is Conrad Kabus. We recently caught up with several producers and consumers at the Kansas Energy Conference in Topeka, Kansas, including Good Energy Solutions” Read the interview here.
Pika Energy: “Pika to Showcase Hybrid Sytem at Mother Earth News fair in Kansas”
Good Energy Solutions named as a dealer for Pika Energy in this article, “…Pika is proud to be among the exhibitors, showcasing our products alongside our local dealer, Good Energy Solutions of Lawrence, KS. This will be a great opportunity to learn all about Pika’s wind-solar Hybrid System, the ideal solution for independent-minded, rural Americans who want to produce…” Read the full article.
Lawrence Journal World: “Lawrence Creates Makerspace to celebrate new solar power awning during Final Friday”
Lawrence Journal World sited the installation of a Solar Awning by Good Energy Solutions at the Lawrence Creates Makerspace. “Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. 9th St., will be combining art with science at “Art Under the Awning” at the building during Final Friday this week in celebration of its new solar power awning.” Read the article.
Pittsburgh State University: “Grant funds solar energy system for PSU’s Plaster Center”
Good Energy Solutions was sited “Thanks to a major grant from Westar Energy, solar panels will provide both energy and education at the Robert W. Plaster Center, now under construction at Pittsburg State University….Good Energy Solutions, a renewable energy company in Lawrence, Kan., will install the system.” Read the full article.
The Hutchinson News: “Hutch Company Installing State’s Largest Private Solar Array”
“Good Energy Solutions’ team leader Mark Merena speaks about the installation of solar panels above the BOLD, LLC. Office Shares warehouse on Fourth Avenue. The 768 panels will harvest 200 kilowatts and be the largest privately held solar array in Kansas” Read the full article.
About Good Energy Solutions
Good Energy Solutions, Inc. is a full service energy partner that is able to provide comprehensive consulting and services in electrical, renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy management in the central US region. Founded in 2007, Good Energy Solutions has earned a reputation of reliable service, expertise, and quality through commercial and residential installations of solar energy systems, energy storage and efficiency retrofits. Good Energy Solutions is “Energy with Integrity” and a SunPower Elite and Commercial Dealer. Read More about our team, mission, history, and commitment to quality.
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2019 End of Year Message from Kevin Good, Owner of Good Energy Solutions
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No More Maggots? Michigan to End Privatization of Prison Food
Gov. Rick Snyder announced Wednesday that the state will end a four-year experiment with privatizing its prison food service after years of maggots in food, smuggling by kitchen employees, kitchen workers having sex with inmates, inadequate staffing levels and other problems documented by the Free Press in a series of articles.
by Tribune News Service | February 9, 2018 AT 9:50 AM
By Paul Egan and Kathleen Gray
That was the only bombshell in a 2018-19 budget plan in which Snyder aimed to contain spending amid ongoing efforts by lawmakers to further cut taxes while making modest additional investments in education, roads and infrastructure, and public safety.
Maggots With a Side of Dirt? What Privatization Does to Prison Food Privatization May Be Worsening Inequality
Snyder's spending plan requires approval from the Legislature, where budget hearings begin next week.
Snyder announced the reversal of the state's prison privatization effort in presenting his $56.8-billion 2019 budget to joint appropriations committees of the Legislature.
Snyder, who spoke as union protesters from the Service Employees International Union gathered in the Capitol rotunda and tried to drown him out with chants of "Tricky Ricky," asked for $13.7 million to move back to state workers running the prison kitchens. Snyder called the privatization effort an area where "we haven't been successful."
"We've worked with a couple of different private vendors," Snyder said. "The benefits of continuing on that path don't outweigh the costs and we should transition back to doing it in-house."
The state's contract to feed about 40,000 to 43,000 prisoners at 33 facilities has been plagued with problems since it began in December 2013.
The Free Press, using Michigan's Freedom of Information Act, documented a litany of problems, including meal shortages, maggots in the kitchen, the smuggling of drugs and other contraband by kitchen employees, kitchen workers engaging in sex acts with prisoners and even attempting to hire one inmate to have another inmate assaulted.
Nick Ciaramitaro, legislative director for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25, whose members used to staff the prison kitchen, said many of the more than 300 former workers have moved on to other jobs or retired, but he expects there will be a core workforce available to train new hires.
"It was a shocker," Ciaramitaro said of Snyder's announcement.
"I give him credit. It's one thing to try something -- it's another thing to admit that it didn't work."
The state and Aramark Correctional Services of Philadelphia opted to end their $145.1-million contract about 18 months early in 2015 after the state balked at billing changes requested by Aramark. The state switched to a $158.8-million contract with Florida-based Trinity Services Group, but problems continued.
Corrections Department Director Heidi Washington said the state plans to bring about 350 state workers back into the prison kitchens when the Trinity contract expires July 31. The state and Trinity have mutually agreed to part ways after Trinity sought price increases, she said.
"While food service contracts achieved savings for taxpayers, the MDOC (Michigan Department of Corrections)determined that continued challenges with staffing vacancies, turnover, compliance with performance expectations, and a recent request by Trinity for additional funding warranted a return to state-run operations," Washington said in a news release.
Snyder said at a news conference that with projected price increases, using a contractor would cost "probably as much or more as what it would to do it ourselves." The privatization effort was worth trying, but "I don't think it turned out to be a good solution."
Lonnie Scott, executive director of the liberal group Progress Michigan, which has called for the cancellation of the contract for years, said "it's about time Snyder showed some common sense and took our advice."
Anita Lloyd, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Corrections Organization, representing corrections officers, said the union had maintained from the start the kitchen food contract and poor food quality presented security concerns.
Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said that of the $13.7 million Snyder requested for the food service change, only about $7 million is new money. Trinity wanted a $5.2-million annual increase in its contract, which meant savings from privatization would be reduced to less than $2 million a year, he said.
The agency will talk with 320 workers from Trinity and could hire some of them as state employees. The state will pay the workers $19 an hour, plus benefits. and they'll be represented by AFSCME, he said.
Other budget highlights include:
* Increases of $120 to $240 per pupil in the minimum foundation grant for K-12 schools, with most schools getting the $240 increase. The total increase for per-pupil funding is $312 million.
* An extra $25 million in funding for the Flint water crisis, with most of that going to replacement of lead service lines, but money for educational, nutritional and other services also included.
* An extra grant of up to $50 for each high school student enrolled in a career and technical training program.
* An increase of $29.8 million for universities, bringing total funding for operations to more than $1.5 billion -- an increase of 2%.
* An extra $175 million in general funding for roads. That's above the $150 million in general fund expenditures for roads called for in the 2015 road funding deal.
* The general fund remaining flat at about $10 billion, despite an inflation rate estimated at 1.9%.
* An additional 50 Michigan State Police troopers will be funded with $3.8 million in ongoing funding, and a $3.1-million one-time payment. Also, Snyder recommends $3 million to train 80 new troopers to replace troopers who are retiring.
* An allocation of $9.2 million for the Corrections Department to train more than 350 corrections officers -- again mostly to fill vacancies resulting from retirements.
* An extra $1.5 million for the Department of Natural Resources to fund 10 new conservation officers.
* A $600,000 investment for a Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Initiative to help reduce and eliminate sexual assault on college campuses.
In addition to the spending measures, Snyder included in his budget two major initiatives to increase revenue -- ones that he had earlier announced and acknowledged will be tough to get through the Republican-controlled Legislature in an an election year.
One is a major hike in state charges for dumping trash at landfill sites, which are mostly paid by haulers but passed on to consumers. Snyder wants to increase the state surcharge from 36 cents for every ton dumped to $4.75 -- raising $79 million a year for cleanup of contaminated sites and other environmental work. Snyder said the change would cost the typical family less than $5 a year.
Snyder also wants water customers to pay a $5 annual fee to pay for improvements to aging infrastructure and replace lead water lines. The proposed fee, which would begin at $1 in 2020 and be fully implemented in 2024, would raise $100 million a year.
"It's an election year and having to vote for a fee increase in an election year is difficult," Snyder said. "But I believe this is important for our citizens. Either now or later, we need to get it done."
Snyder said the budget "is exactly what we need to keep the state moving in a positive direction" and "by continuing our relentless support of areas like education, safety and transportation, we maximize the impact of the strategic initiatives we have implemented over the years."
Snyder, who is headed toward a potential showdown with lawmakers from both parties who want deeper personal income tax cuts than what he thinks the state can afford, added: "We need to ensure that the important work happening here in Michigan keeps accelerating."
Sen. Dave Hildenbrand, R-Lowell, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, asked Snyder following the budget presentation about a possible compromise on the size of the personal exemption for Michigan taxpayers. The Legislature is working on bills that would increase the exemption well beyond what Snyder has recommended.
"I want to do it in partnership with you," Snyder said. "How do we do (it) so we're not cutting out some critical programs like vests for troopers?"
Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint, described the budget as too little, too late.
"The governor is throwing pennies at our roads and schools and crossing his fingers that it makes up for his legacy of shortchanging Michiganders," Ananich said in a news release.
But state Rep. Fred Durhal, D-Detroit, called it "a pretty decent budget" for Snyder's last effort as a term-limited governor.
"I would be a proponent of putting money into the classroom and putting money into roads," Durhal told the Free Press. "Those are two of the major issues that folks in the communities want."
The budget did not include funding for Snyder's proposed "Marshall Plan" for talent, which he has not rolled out in detail but has referenced as a way to improve training for high-tech jobs such as ones that are in high demand in the information technology sector.
"The governor will be talking about the Marshall Plan and funding in the next few weeks," State Budget Office spokesman Kurt Weiss said.
(c)2018 the Detroit Free Press
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