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Muehlhan Certified Coatings at the New Oakland Bay Bridge
David Brockman stands near the top of the new Bay Bridge tower and drinks his coffee in a view of world- and locally famous landmarks from a dizzying perspective. The San Francisco skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Mount Tamalpais and Treasure Island are a sampling of the scenic stars visible from this perch some 464 feet above San Francisco Bay. This is a construction site that could sell admission tickets.
“There’s one thing with our work — you get to be in some pretty neat places sometimes,” said Brockman, who is chief executive officer for Fairfield-based Certified Coatings.
Certified Coatings through the years has done such things as paint the Space Needle in Seattle and the Lions Gate bridge in Vancouver. Now it has a painting project for the self-anchored suspension segment of the new eastern Bay Bridge span between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island.
Most of the steel parts come pre-painted white from China. Still, some parts can be painted only after assembly or have to be repainted. Certified Coatings is overseeing the painting of weld spots, the cable and the bridge deck suspension system.
James Brockman, David Brockman’s brother, is working on the project for Certified Coatings. He views the birth of this suspension bridge taking place before his eyes as something special, even compared to other jobs in the Certified Coatings resumé.
“We do some amazing projects, but this has to be the most amazing I’ve seen,” James Brockman said.
The Bay Bridge renovation got its impetus from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, when a top segment of the double-deck eastern span fell onto the lower segment. The state Department of Transportation looked for ways to strengthen the bridge. This included seismically retrofitting the western span near San Francisco and rebuilding the eastern span.
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The Abuser is available at a discounted price until the end of November.
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Perspective > theheart.org on Medscape > Heartfelt with Dr Melissa Walton-Shirley > American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2014 Scientific Sessions
Calcium Scoring: Justified!
Melissa Walton-Shirley
I fell in love with calcium scoring nearly a decade ago. In our office, it's become nearly as common a recommendation at a new patient visit as an echocardiogram. Today's presentation on the topic left me feeling all warm and fuzzy.
We finally got a real glimpse of the future of calcium scoring during a session at the American College of Cardiology 2014 Scientific Sessions . It seems it's been the right thing to do, but there are lingering questions. I found the comments provided by the panel that consisted of Drs Kim Williams, David May, and Harvey Hecht as compelling as the data. I hope more front-line providers, family practitioners, internists, and others will embrace it as well.
First, we learned from a Houston Methodist Hospital study that testing of asymptomatic individuals really has worth. Nearly 1000 patients deemed low risk by the Framingham calculator and a plain treadmill exam were tracked for seven years. Coronary calcium proved a far better predictor of risk. May then said, "Calcium scores are better predictors than routine exercise evaluation," and Hecht even more emphatically stated, "If you've thought about doing a stress test on someone with no symptoms, do a calcium score first. There is no such thing as a false-positive calcium score. It is 100% accurate for coronary atherosclerosis."
From Los Angeles BioMed at Harbour UCLA Medical Center came a fantastic 20-year study of nearly 5600 subjects. Mortality data was presented on no-, low-, moderate-, and high-calcium scores of those otherwise considered to be at low risk for heart disease. With an average follow-up period of 10 years, even patients with low calcium scores (1–99) were 50% more likely to die than patients with a calcium score of zero. Moderate scores (100–399) were associated with an 80% greater likelihood of dying, and high scores (above 400) were associated with a three-times-greater risk of dying as compared with patients with zero calcium. These patients had zero to one risk factor, including diabetes, hypertension, current smoking, family history, or diabetes. Ten percent of these "low-risk" patients had a severe burden of coronary artery calcium >400.
Again, the panel drove several points home. May said, "The significance of that observation period cannot be overstated. Should they have been tested with stress testing? Coronary artery calcium gives us a real measure of individuals they should be focusing on."
Hecht replied, "You can have zero or one risk factor and still have significant atherosclerosis. . . . and you are just as dead if you have five or zero risk factors. The key is to start therapy based on the amount of plaque you have." (My take was that we still don't know all of the risk factors, we don't recognize the patient has a risk factor, and obviously risk factors aren't equally weighted for everyone. Wonder how many of these zero-risk-factor patients would truly have passed a 75-g glucose challenge?).
Data from researchers at Johns Hopkins presented information from MESA . Of the 1850 patients studied, a zero calcium score in "middle age" or older is a sign of healthy vascular aging and a good predictor of longevity. Younger participants and those without multiple traditional risk factors were more likely to maintain a score of zero during a second scan 10 years later. A healthy lifestyle was the best predictor of risk in those individuals.
Finally, a research team from Mount Sinai St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York found some correlation between coronary calcium scores and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), which produces a 3-D image of the heart. A negative calcium score generally indicated a normal perfusion status, but scores of >400 were usually associated with ischemia.
I particularly appreciated this data because I too believe these tests are complementary. Here's a typical conversation in my office, and by all indications, after today's presentations, one I'll keep having throughout the years:
"I'd like you to have a calcium score. It's easy because it requires no IV and no dye. There is no need to get undressed unless you have metal in your clothing. Hold your breath for 15 seconds and they will take a photograph of your heart arteries. You are born with pink, glistening, supple arteries, but the ravages of time take their toll and cause inflammation that attracts calcium. Smoking, diabetes, hypertension, heredity, and illnesses like arthritis, psoriasis, or gout cause us difficulties. A ruptured appendix or diverticulitis likely adds to our calcium burden as well. We are born with a score of zero, and as we go through life, most of us gain calcium counts.
"Folks with a score of less than 100 have less risk of cardiac events than folks over 100, and the risk increases as the score increases. I have patients who range from zero to 9400."
I further clarify: "Calcium scoring isn't everything, and it isn't for everyone. It's not for people who have had a bypass surgery or a stent, and it's not for most people who've already had a heart attack. It's not for the typical young person. It's $99 out of pocket except during February; the hospital runs a special for $50. Radiation exposure is minimal, and it might save you from having to take statins for the rest of your life. It's difficult to have a heart attack with a calcium score of zero, but don't ever ignore symptoms. I've treated three smoking patients below the age of 20 with acute coronary syndrome. Their arteries were normal on cath, and I'll bet their calcium scores would have been too. I have one patient with a stent whose score is 67, but it was all in a single vessel. My patient with the highest calcium score didn't require CABG or PCI, so the results require a good history and physical for complete interpretation. Please bring your results with you the next time you come into the office. Your insurance company won't pay for it because our guidelines haven't acknowledged that it will save lots of money for unnecessary caths and stress testing . . . yet!"
I'm waiting for a calcium score now on a nice gentleman with the typical "nonspecific patchiness of tracer uptake" with "minimal reversibility in a single view" on his nuclear. Sometimes folks walk in the door with their studies already ordered by their family doctors. Pouring over the chart is like reading tea leaves, but having a calcium score is about as close to having a coronary crystal ball as anything (except this one really works). At 60, if he has a calcium score of zero, he won't get a prescription for a statin. He won't leave with a bottle of nitro, but he'll get the Mediterranean diet and a prescription for exercise and a recommendation to avoid sodium. I'll direct him to return about five years later for an office visit. If he has any calcium points, I'll prescribe aspirin, a statin, a stress exam, and depending on the outcome, a nitro prescription.
Medicine is every bit as much an art as it is a science. Lots of us have been practicing the art of calcium scoring for several years. Today we are practicing the science of medicine, and we'll keep doing it because now we are finally justified!
Cite this: Calcium Scoring: Justified! - Medscape - Mar 30, 2014.
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Social Media Impact On Youth Mental Health 'Worse for Girls'
Liam Davenport
Greater social media use is associated with depression among teenagers due to greater online harassment, poor self-esteem, greater body dissatisfaction and poor sleep quality, with girls disproportionately affected compared to boys, UK researchers have discovered.
Prof Yvonne Kelly, Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care, University College London, looked at data on almost 11,000 children aged 14 years, asking them about their online use and mental health.
The research, which was published online by the journal EClinicalMedicine on January 4th, revealed that girls used social media more than boys, as did children from one parent or low income households.
Girls were more likely to take part or be victims of online harassment than boys, to have poor quality sleep, and to have low self-esteem and body image dissatisfaction.
The results also showed that depression scores were more strongly related to social media scores in girls than boys, with scores 50% higher for girls who used social media for at least 5 hours per day versus those who used it for 1 to 3 hours per day.
Among boys, depression scores were 35% higher for those who used social media for at least 5 hours per day versus those with lower usage.
In a news release, Kelly said: "These findings are highly relevant to current policy development on guidelines for the safe use of social media and calls on industry to more tightly regulate hours of social media use for young people.
"Clinical, educational and family settings are all potential points of contact where young people could be encouraged and supported to reflect not only on their social media use, but also other aspects of their lives including on-line experiences and their sleep patterns."
She continued: "At home, families may want to reflect on when and where it's ok to be on social media and agree limits for time spent online.
"Curfews for use and the overnight removal of mobile devices from bedrooms might also be something to consider."
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Shirley Cramer, chief executive, Royal Society of Public Health, who was not involved in the study, commented: "This important new research confirms that we need to increase awareness and understanding amongst parents, schools and policy makers about the role of social media in our young people's mental health, particularly taking into account the increased risks for girls."
Kelly and colleagues point out that, while social media can be beneficial to young people by offering social support and the opportunity for greater knowledge, there is increasing evidence that it is associated with worse mental health.
This includes anxiety caused by online harassment and the sharing of materials potentially damaging to reputations and relationships, as well as the direct impact on sleep duration and quality from excessive use.
There has also been a great deal of debate over whether the plethora of manipulated images of idealised beauty on social media affect individuals' perception of their body image and their self-esteem.
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To investigate further, the team examined data on 10,904 children, including 5496 girls, from the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study, all of whom were interviewed at 14 years of age.
The participants completed questionnaires in private on social media use, mental health, online harassment, sleep, self-esteem, and body image.
In addition, their parents or carers answered questions on their socioeconomic circumstances, and the child's emotional difficulties, at 11 years of age.
The researchers found that girls were more likely than boys to use social media for ≥3 hours per day, at 43.1% versus 21.9%, while only 4.4% of girls did not use social media at all, compared with 10.2% of boys.
Girls in lower income and one parent households were more likely than any other group to use social media for ≥5 hours per day.
In contrast, girls and boys who had high internalising symptom scores at 11 years of age were more likely to not use social media at all, although girls in this category were also more likely to use social media for ≥5 hours per day.
Different for Girls
The team says that girls were more likely than boys to be involved in online harassment, whether as a victim or a perpetrator, at 38.7% versus 25.1%.
Girls were also more likely than boys to have low self-esteem, at 12.8% versus 8.9%, body weight dissatisfaction, at 78.2% versus 68.3%, and to be unhappy about their appearance, at 15.4% versus 11.8%.
Girls were more likely to report sleeping <7 hours per night than boys, at 13.4% versus 10.8%, and were more likely to report disrupted sleep either often, at 27.6% versus 20.2%, or most of the time, at 12.7% versus 7.4%.
Depression scores were higher in girls than boys, at a geometric mean score of 4.6 versus 2.5, and social media use was found to have a significantly greater association with depression scores in girls than in boys (p<0.001).
Regression analysis indicated that, compared with social media use of 1 to ≤3 hours per day, depression scores were 26% higher for girls and 21% higher for boys who used social media for 3 to <5 hours per day, and 50% for girls and 35% higher for boys who used social medial for ≥5 hours per day.
These results were explained primarily by poor sleep and online harassment, as well as lower self-esteem and greater body weight dissatisfaction, linked to increasing social media use, which affected both girls and boys.
The team writes: "Our results and those of others highlight the likely complexity of mechanisms at play.
"Future research using prospectively collected data from the same population sample with the use of repeated measures and the application of causal analyses will help to provide a more comprehensive picture of the relationship between social media use and young people's mental health."
They add: "Given the short- and long-term implications of having poor mental health, improving our understanding of underlying processes could help identify opportunities for interventions with benefits across the life course."
The study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
No conflicts of interest declared.
EClinicalMedicine 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2018.12.005.
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ASX-listed finance brokerage Mortgage Choice has hit back at high-profile allegations by many of its franchisees that its business model is pushing them to the brink, in the latest scandal against a well-known franchise network.
A group of franchisees alleged that Mortgage Choice was bleeding them dry and its policies had led to a culture of poor practice.
Mortgage Choice hit back at the franchisee claims about poor practices, but conceded that its remuneration model was in need of updating, which it is in the process of doing.
“Mortgage Choice strongly refutes allegations in the media that its current model encourages poor behaviour or practices. The company has robust compliance processes and credit policy controls in place that franchisees are required to adhere to,” the company said in a statement to the ASX.
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This process is being designed to “increase franchisee remuneration and reduce franchisee income volatility”.
“This change program has been the key priority for the business in 2018 and is expected to underpin the long-term sustainable growth of the Company and its existing franchisees, as well as to attract new, high quality businesses to the franchise network,” the statement said.
“Our franchise system introduced over 25 years ago was designed to allow mortgage brokers to own and grow their own small businesses with the support of a strong market brand and full‐service model which included business planning, marketing, IT, training and compliance.
“This was reflected in the remuneration structure which has been very effective, with hundreds of brokers who have successfully started, grown and sold their businesses and helped hundreds of thousands of customers over the years.”
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Our summer was jam-packed with new places. We hit 7 National Parks and 1 National Monument over three states. While they were not new states—we’d hit them all coming south the previous fall—we hit new regions of these states with only minor overlap.
From Lake Isabella in May, we put on about 2,000 miles in about 3 months, with the longest stay in any one place being 2 weeks in Lake Tahoe, and then about 3 weeks on Whidbey Island when we reached our northern terminus.
This was an incredible summer with lots of activities, beautiful sights, and good people. Here are some of the highlights!
Date Shakes, a Salty Sea, & the Last Free City
Travel Stage: After Joshua Tree, before San Diego area
Date Range: March 1 – 9, 2017
Summary: Palm Springs, Salton Sea, & Slab City – We finally get date shakes in Palm Springs before heading to the Salton Sea where we find beaches of salt-crusted fishbones. We continue on to Slab City, the remains of an old military base turned into an unregulated “boondocking” city.
After Joshua Tree we started aiming for further south. Our route was going to take us back thru Palm Springs and then south to circumnavigate the Salton Sea with a stop at Slab City before heading to the Anza Borrego Desert.
Christmas in Southern California
Travel Stage: After Pinnacles, Before Quartzsite
Date Range: December 14-26, 2016
Summary: We spend a few nights in Paso Robles at a winery before making our way to Ventura for Christmas! We visit with high school friends in Ventura and LA and enjoy the SoCal weather at Ventura Ranch KOA. We visit Griffith Park, Ventura Harbor, and of course, the BEACH!
We were getting pretty excited about getting down into Southern California. We had a couple of freezing nights where we were staying near Pinnacles National Park, and that was just about enough for us. (This full time travelling has sure made our cold tolerance low!) A nice, warm Christmas in SoCal sounded just lovely.
Travel Stage: Working our way south along the West Coast. After Portland, before Redwoods
Date Range: October 23 - November 6, 2016
Summary: Evergreen Aviation Museum, Waves, 101 Drive, Florence, Oregon Dunes, Coos Bay
We left Portland and started making our way at a diagonal southwest towards the coast, where we would catch Highway 101 and wind our way along the ocean.
Sunset on the Oregon Coast, near Lincoln City
One Year on the Road
On September 15, 2016 we celebrated our One Year Nomad-iversary!
It has been an amazing year. We feel like we have visited more places in this one year than we would have in our entire lifetimes if we hadn’t decided to take this leap of faith.
Travel Stage: After Glacier, heading for Whidbey Island on the Washington Coast
Date Range: September 3 - 17, 2016
Summary: We enter Eastern Washington near Spokane and continue on to the middle of the state to a town called Quincy. While at Quincy we tour Hanford and enjoy the Columbia River Valley.
We learned that “Eastern Washington” is considered everywhere from the Cascade Mountains to the eastern border with Idaho. I was surprised to find that most of this area is arid desert for as far as you can see…that is, until you reach any of the many reclamation project areas – areas where water from several mighty rivers that curve across the state is used to “make the desert bloom.”
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Travel Stage: After Yellowstone, heading north towards Glacier National Park
Date Range: August 16 - 18, 2016
Summary: We head to Missoula for a couple nights. We discover something wrong with the truck, and luckily Big Sky Brewing Company was there to help us take in the bad news ;)
Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyoming
Travel Stage: After Billings, MT on our way to Yellowstone
Date Range: July 19-21, 2016
Summary: After some research, we decide to head for the East Entrance to Yellowstone. We head for Cody, Wyoming and cross our fingers we can get into Buffalo Bill Cody State Park for some relief from the heat in the beautiful cool Reservoir created from the Shoshone River and the Buffalo Bill Dam.
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Why You Should Go To Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Travel Stage: First major stop out west
Summary: We camp at Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s North Unit and get our first taste of the Badlands, bison, and the beauty of the west.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is located in the badlands of western North Dakota. It is made up of 3 geographically separated parcels: the North Unit, the South Unit, and the Elkhorn Ranch Unit to total 70,446 acres. All three units are surrounded by the Little Missouri National Grassland, which is the largest grassland in the country at 1,033,271 acres.
Theodore Roosevelt started coming out to the North Dakota badlands long before he was president. This area was special to him, and he even tried his own hand at ranching here. The Elkhorn Ranch Unit was the site of his personal ranch. He loved this area and credits it with shaping him into the man and president he was, as well as inspiring his work with the National Parks and conservation.
Driving Thru North Dakota Oil Country
Travel Stage: Heading West!
Summary: We made it to Fargo to get gas and make a Costco run. Costco generously allowed us to overnight in their parking lot (not something Costcos usually do). We stop at a Passport America campground for some full-hookups and laundry before heading thru oil country to our first big stop “out west:” Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Crossing Wisconsin & Minnesota
Travel Stage: Heading West from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Summary: We speed across Wisconsin and Minnesota on our way “out west!” We overnighted in a Walmart in Superior, Wisconsin just across the river from Duluth, MN. We checked out the Duluth Museum and the downtown tourist area before continuing on across the state on highway 2 to a Harvest Host winery called Forestedge, narrowly missing some really bad storms!
Heading Out West – First Leg
Heading West! Overview of the Plan
When we first decided to do this adventure, we thought we would go west first. However, when our house didn’t sell until August, we changed plans and went Southeast instead.
Now we are doing it! We’ve gone through Michigan to visit all our friends and family we won’t see for a while, because we don’t know when we’ll be coming back. We’ve heard so much about the West but haven’t experienced it for ourselves…and it is so big. You could easily spend 2 years just traveling out West!
Yooper Time! - Houghton, MI
Travel Stage: After Pictured Rocks, before going West
Date Range: June 19 – July 10, 2016
Summary: We made it back to Cait’s hometown for Father’s Day! We stay for 3 weeks and during that time we soak up the summer fun the Keweenaw Peninsula has to offer. From boating the Portage Canal, to Fourth of July at Twin Lakes State Park, to playing tour guide for some RV friends who visited, we had an absolute blast! Couldn’t believe it when it was time to leave…and head West!
Back in The Beautiful Keweenaw
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By Ian Cushway, 29th November 2019
E-Type Buyer's Guide
How to catch the coolest cat of them all!
Believe it or not the popularity of the E-Type has waxed and waned over the years. Despite their huge desirability now, lots were given superficial makeovers by those wanting to make a fast buck in the ‘80s. So with this in mind you need to tread carefully when buying one. Take your eye off the ball and you'll be spending good money on a car that will probably need restoring all over again.
Certainly, E-Type values have rocketed in recent years but it's never too late to take the plunge. In fact, as we've launched our brand new E-Type catalogue, there's never been a better time than now to pursue your dream. Order your very own free E-Type catalogue today!
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Inevitably, you’ll be spending a significant sum on what's become a national treasure, so unless you become a walking E-type encyclopedia, we recommend roping in the help of a Jaguar specialist, or a knowledgeable existing owner when viewing cars for sale. However, here's some insider wisdom that will help you on your quest to sort the nuggets from the nails.
Decisions, decisions...
We all dream of owning an E-type, right? But which model? While the coupé with its unmistakable profile oozes style and sophistication, ignoring the wind-through-the-hair appeal of the roadster is just too much of a compromise for many.
There's always a premium to pay for the latter, though, especially if you hanker after something like a roadster flat floor Series 1 3.8 which are now the preserve of the classic car elite.
Then, you need to decide on what engine and era of E will satisfy your craving when it comes to owning what's undoubtedly the most instantly recognisable sports car of all time. Lots will depend on how much is in the coffers, but to recap there's the pure-looking Series 1, the heavily revised Series 2 (from 1968) with its raised one-piece bumpers, or the vastly different again Series 3 that followed in 1971. That's the one with the even bigger, chrome-barred air intake, more upright windscreen, flared arches and the V12 engine.
Oh, and let's not forget the 2+2, which made its debut in 1966. The Series 3 inherited its longer wheelbase and higher roofline from this model and while it’s not as pretty as the coupé, it adds a modicum of practicality, is more comfortable to drive and cheaper than the other cars.
Panel perfect?
Yes, it’s beautiful, but it still rusts and a proper restoration isn’t for the feint hearted. When buying, forget about everything else for a moment and focus on assessing the likely extent of any corrosion and – more importantly – the quality of previous restoration work. Apart from spotting paintwork imperfections, ripples and bubbling under the paint surface, the even-ness of panel gaps, seams and general panel alignment will provide a good clue as to what's been done in the past, and how well it's been executed. The forward hinged one-piece bonnet is a complex work of art and rusts around the seams, so pay it special attention – and the front valance is also prone to attack by tinworm. The tubular frame that the engine and suspension are mounted to can also rust from the inside, so look closely for signs of stress fractures. It's made of Reynolds 541 square section tubing and should be replaced rather than repaired. Climb underneath if you can and check where the radius arms meet the floorplan which is another rot spot which is often bodged. Other areas to check include the floorpans, door bottoms, rear suspension mountings and the boot floor. And if any of them need replacing then we stock a range of repair panels.
The E-type's straight six is long-lasting just as long as it's been looked after, so be wary of an unknown unit that’s bereft of history or documented evidence of recent servicing. Head gasket issues are common, so look for the tell-tale water stains on the block. We stock a range of gaskets. Meanwhile, any rattling will point to worn timing chains and tensioners. Beware though, they're not particularly straightforward to replace.
Otherwise, it’s a case of going through the usual checks with military precision; that means looking for evidence of wear like blue smoke, low oil pressure and worrying rattles, as well as signs of overheating, oil leaks (the main one to worry about being the rear ‘rope’ seal) and owners having ignored regular anti-freeze changes. If the coolant’s a muddy colour – be suspicious. Regarding oil pressure, it should be around 40psi at 3000rpm. Any lower, and chances are you will need a rebuild. Meanwhile, rough running could be down to worn diaphragms in one of the SU carbs which are a fiddle to adjust.
Get in gear
The unit on a 3.8 has no synchromesh and isn’t particularly nice to use. They can also become noisy and jump out of gear, in which case a replacement unit or rebuild will be required. From the 4.2, Jaguar’s own build ‘box was much better, and spares are more abundant. Replacing the clutch is a big job, as it involves removing the engine and gearbox which in turn involves whipping off the bonnet. The Borg Warner autos are robust, but check the kickdown and beware of any hesitation going up or down the cogs. The fluid should be bright red, not brown with a burnt smell when you sniff it.
There's a double wishbone arrangement at the front, with rack and pinion steering, and a complex independent set-up at the rear in a pressed steel cage mounted to the floorpan. Ideally, with each wheel off the ground, or with the car on a lift, check the condition of the wheel splines (wire wheels), the Metalastik steering rack mounts, wheel bearings and anti-roll bar bushes. Eyeball the steering rack gaiters for splits; any play in the column will be worn bearings. Also, check for play in the lower and upper wishbones and axle cage mounts at the rear, as well as leaks from the four rear dampers. Coil springs can snap as well, so here is our range of steering and suspension components.
Braking bad?
Here it's a case of ensuring an E pulls up straight without fuss and that the discs and pads aren't too worn. If they are, don't panic, we stock a range of replacement brake pads although you will need to drop the rear suspension to get to them which is a bit more involved. Oh, and if those inboard rear discs are contaminated by oil from a leaky diff you will need to replace them. The self-adjusting handbrake can also prove a problem if seized. Series I stoppers were never brilliant, so look upon any upgrades with glee.
If you’re spending big bucks, be sure to have done your homework first so you can be super picky about originality. Bear in mind, the seats and dash on a US import from a hot state will inevitably be looking a little frilly around the edges by now. The good news is that virtually everything in the way of trim is available so in theory it won't take long to tidy up a shabby looking E-type with interior bits missing. View our range of seat covers, carpets, trim and headlining.
Ah, the million-dollar question. Unsurprisingly the world’s sexiest car doesn’t come cheap. In a crude pecking order, early open top cars command the highest prices followed by the coupes, with 2+2s being the cheapest. That said, the Series I 2+2s still command good money, but the bargains can be found among the S2s & 3s, with examples fitted with auto boxes being at the bottom of the pile.
Rare flat floorpan cars with cowled headlamps will be well over £100,000 – and restored roadsters might be £150,000. A really nice Series 1 4.2 roadster won’t be far off this either now. However, if you can live with the less pure looks, the cheaper S2 is a good bet as they are nicer to drive with more comfortable seats, a nicer ‘box and better cooling. Tidy coupés begin at £60,000, while a topless version will demand a £20,000-£30,000 premium. A later V12 coupé might be as little as £35,000 but at that price it will need work. At the bottom of the pile a S2 2+2 can still be purchased for £30,000, with iffy cars with auto available from £20,000. Projects exist, but with the competition for parts you will still have to fork out at least £25,000 for a Series 2 barnfind. Dry state US imports make a lot of sense and can save on bodywork repairs, as long as you don't take their rust-free Californian provenance for granted. They could be from Louisiana & full of filler.
Whatever E you end up with, as long as you've bought wisely in the first place, you won't look back. And with such strong parts support, once you've got a good 'un it won't cost a king's ransom to keep.
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Always Discard Fascist Policies
by David Spies 3 min read15th Oct 20191 comment
The Setup:
Technical Flaws
I enjoy the game Secret Hitler. If you're unfamilliar with the game, the rules can be found here: https://secrethitler.com/assets/Secret_Hitler_Rules.pdf In this game, like in many social deception games, players love to make claims about what you should always or never do when playing. In general, I reject such claims since most pure strategies in hidden information games are exploitable. The true mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium for Secret Hitler inevitably will involve non-zero and non-100% probabilities for most actions.
Some examples of bad 100% policies that I've heard:
As president, if you pass two fascist policies to your chancellor, always claim you drew three fascist policies rather than going head-to-head against your chancellor.
Always assume presidents follow the above bullet point (and thus suspect only the chancellor when two players go head-to-head).
As Hitler, always play policies identically to a liberal unless it would cause the liberals to win the game immediately.
As a Fascist, if given the chance to view Hitler's party affiliation, always claim Hitler is liberal.
So with this in mind, I recognize that if I make the claim "as a liberal, Always Discard Fascist Policies", I'm placing a heavy burden of proof on myself. Nonetheless, I intend to prove that this is indeed always the optimal strategy.
However I need to make one assumption. I've never played with a group who rejected this assumption. But I'd be curious to hear if readers feel differently. The assumption is that liberal players always immediately and truthfully reveal all information they have available to them.
Imagine Alice and Bob are playing Secret Hitler. The group has approved Alice as president and Bob as chancellor. Alice is a liberal and does not concretely know Bob's party affiliation. Alice draws three tiles. Two are liberal policies and one is fascist. Alice has the option to either:
Discard the fascist tile and pass off the two liberal tiles to Bob, denying him any choice in what he does.
Discard one of the liberal tiles and allow Bob to select whether to play a liberal or fascist tile.
Since liberals always honestly reveal all information available to them, we know that Bob knows everything Alice claims to know. Therefore Bob's information is a superset of Alice's (or any liberal's) information.
Now we'll sample a random real number p in the range [0,1] which acts as Bob's source of randomness in case his optimal strategy is probabilistic.
We have two cases:
Based on Bob's information and p; the optimal Fascist strategy if Bob is a Fascist is to play a Liberal policy and avoid being found out.
Based on Bob's information and p; the optimal Fascist strategy if Bob is a Fascist is to (if possible) play a Fascist policy and go head-to-head against Alice.
In the first case, it doesn't matter what Alice does. Whether she hands Bob two liberal policies or a fascist and a liberal policy, Bob will play a liberal policy and the group gains no information about Bob (since anyone fascist or liberal would play a liberal policy in this case).
In the second case, Bob will play a fascist policy. However, by our assumption that we are in case 2, this is strictly worse for liberals (from Bob's perspective as a fascist and therefore from the liberals' perspective as well since their information is a subset of his) than if he had instead been forced to play a liberal policy.
After writing this, I realized there are two technical flaws in the above proof that I don't believe make a difference in practice. I'm curious how relevant readers think these are:
Alice does have one piece of information which Bob doesn't have. She knows that she drew two liberal policies and one fascist policy as opposed to two fascist and one liberal policy. If Bob's optimal strategy for some reason hinges on what Alice discarded and Alice knows this, this might be a reason for her to try to briefly fool him into thinking she discarded a fascist policy (the rules expressly forbid talking while a policy is being enacted). I don't see how this might be the case but I also can't prove that it never is.
(Only applies to games with at least 7 players; in <=6-player games, fascists strictly have at least as much information as liberals) Knowing what someone claims is not the same as knowing what they know. Alice knows that she is a liberal whereas Bob only knows that Alice claims to be a liberal. To see how this concretely could make a difference, imagine this is a game with >=7 players and Alice suspects Bob is Hitler and has managed to subtly convince Bob that she's a fellow fascist; Bob may play the fascist policy in hopes that Alice will back him up and claim to have drawn three fascist policies. I have not seen anything like this happen in practice and it certainly is not the case most of the time I get into arguments with people about what to discard in the 2L1F case. IME This argument comes up in <=6-player games as often as it comes up in larger games.
Now I recognize that in practice, most Secret Hitler players are not perfectly able to determine optimal strategy and therefore one might claim Alice is giving Bob the option with the hope that he'll "make a mistake" and reveal himself as Fascist when that was an inferior move. This could be the case if, for instance, Alice is a more experienced player than Bob. However, IME newer players almost universally tend to err the other way. That is, they hide and act as liberals even when the proper strategy calls for them to play a Fascist policy and risk outing themselves.
Furthermore, I've found that most players attach too much weight to the decisions the chancellor makes when given a choice. In other words they see a liberal policy come out and decide to trust the chancellor as a liberal even when that clearly would have been an optimal fascist strategy as well. This seems to be an instance of over-reliance on the representativeness heuristic. One way to avoid falling prey to this mistake is simply not to give them the choice in the first place.
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Yakov Chernikhov. Architectural Fantasies in Russian Constructivism
Dmitry S. Khmelnitsky
Testo Inglese.
Berlin, 2013; br., pp. 144, ill. b/n e col., tavv., cm 21x23.
(Khmelnitsky. 16).
collana: Khmelnitsky
ISBN: 3-86922-281-6 - EAN: 9783869222813
Soggetto: Architetti e Studi
Periodo: 1800-1960 (XIX-XX) Moderno
The fantastical oeuvre of one of the most important artists of Russian constructivism. This volume presents previously unpublished graphic works and personal documents of the famous Russian constructivist Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov (1889 -1951) from the archive of his son, Dmitry Yakovlevich Chernikhov, and from the archive of Sergei Tchoban. The typeface tables, drawings and sketches, as well as over one hundred ornaments shown here revealYakov Georgievich Chernikhov as an ingenious graphic artist and architect, as a passionate and highly committed teacher and, above all, as an ardent advocate of imagination as the creative force behind every creative process: a visionary niversal artist in the tradition of Italian Giovanni Piranesi and a forerunner of famous architects such as Bernard Tschumi or Zaha Hadid. With an introductory essay by the respected architectural historian, Dmitry Sergeyevich Khmelnitsky.
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Web Servers and Workflow From Testing to Production
How To › Web Design & Dev
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Jennifer Kyrnin
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Jennifer Kyrnin is a professional web developer who assists others in learning web design, HTML, CSS, and XML.
Working with a large site, with lots of people and pages maintaining it, you will come across various workflows to get from a web design paper prototype to the actual pages live on the internet. The workflow for a complex site can include many separate web servers and server locations. And each of these servers has a different purpose. This article will describe some of the more common servers in a complex website and how they are used.
Production Web Servers
This is the type of web server that most web designers are familiar with. A production server is a web server that hosts web pages and content that is ready for production. In other words, the content on a production web server is live on the internet or is ready to be delivered to the internet.
In a small company, the production server is where all the web pages live. Designers and developers test the pages either on their local machines or in hidden or password-protected areas on the live server. When a page is ready to go live it is simply moved into place on the production server, either by FTP from the local hard drive or by moving the files from the hidden directory to the live directory.
The workflow would be:
The designer builds the site on a local machine.
The designer tests site on a local machine.
The designer uploads the site to a hidden directory on a production server for more testing.
Approved designs are moved into the live (non-hidden) areas of the website.
For a small site, this is a perfectly acceptable workflow. And in fact, you can often see what a small site is doing by looking at files named things like:
index2.html
And inside directories named things like:
/new
As long as you remember that non-password protected areas like that can be found by search engines, posting updates to the production server is a good way to test new designs in a live environment without needing extra servers.
Testing Server or QA Server
Testing servers are a useful addition to a website workflow because they provide you with a way to test new pages and designs on a web server that is not visible to customers (and competitors). Testing servers are set up to be identical to the live site and usually have some sort of version control setup on them to make sure that any changes are recorded. Most testing servers are set up behind a corporate firewall so that only employees can see them. But they can also be set up with password protection outside a firewall.
A testing server is very useful for sites that use a lot of dynamic content, programming, or CGIs. This is because unless you have a server and database set up on your local computer, it is very difficult to test these pages offline. With a testing server, you can post your changes to the site and then see if the programs, scripts, or database still works as you intended.
Companies that have a testing server typically add it to the workflow like this:
The designer builds the site locally and tests locally, just like above.
The designer or developer uploads changes to the testing server to test dynamic elements (PHP or other server-side scripts, CGI, and Ajax).
Approved designs are moved to the production server.
Development Servers
Development servers are very useful for sites that have a large development component, such as complex e-commerce sites and web applications. Development servers are used by the web development team to work on programming the back end of the website. They almost always have version or source code control systems for multiple team members to use and they provide a server environment for testing new scripts and programs.
A development server is different from a testing server because most developers work directly on the server. The purpose of this server is typically to try new things in programs. While testing does happen on a development server, it is for the purpose of making a piece of code work, not testing it against specific criteria. This allows developers to worry about the nuts and bolts of the website without worrying about how it's going to look.
When a company has a development server, they often have separate teams working on design and development. When this is the case, the testing server becomes even more important, as that is where the designs meet with the developed scripts. The workflow with a development server is typically:
The designers work on the designs on their local machines.
At the same time, developers work on scripts and programs on the development server.
The code and designs are merged onto the testing server for testing.
Approved designs and code are moved to the production server.
Content Server
For sites with a lot of content, there may be another server that houses the content management system. This allows the content developers a place to add their content without it being affected by the design or programs being built alongside. Content servers are a lot like development servers except for writers and graphic artists.
Staging Server
A staging server is often the last stop for a website before it is put into production. Staging servers are designed to be as much like production as possible. So, the hardware and software are often mirrored for the staging and production web servers. Many companies use a testing server as a staging server, but if the site is extremely complex, a staging server gives designers and developers one last chance to verify that proposed changes work as designed and don't have a negative impact to the site overall, without having other tests being performed on the testing server causing confusion.
Staging servers are often used as a form of "waiting period" for website changes. At some companies, the staging server deploys new content posted there automatically, while other companies use the server as a final testing and approval area for people outside the web team like management, marketing, and affected groups. The staging server is typically put in the workflow like this:
The designers work on the designs on their local machines or the testing server.
Content authors create the content in the CMS.
Developers write code on the development server.
Design and code are brought together on the testing server for testing (sometimes content is included here, but it is often validated in the CMS outside of the design workflow).
Content is added to the designs and code on the staging server.
Final approvals are received and the entire site is pushed to the production server.
Your Company's Workflow May Be Different
One thing we have learned is that the workflow at one company may be completely different from that at another company. We have built websites writing HTML straight on the production server using Emacs and vi and we have built websites where we have had no access to anything but a small section of the page we're working on and we did all our work inside a CMS. By understanding the purpose of the various servers you might come across, you can do your design and development work more effectively.
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Transgender woman sues employer for harassment and retaliation
On behalf of McCune Zenner Happell, PLLC | Jan 16, 2018 | Workplace Discrimination
Transgender people in Tennessee might relate to the workplace experiences of a Sam’s Club employee suing the company for wrongful termination. Court filings for the person, who now lives as a woman, detailed her story of harassment within a hostile workplace.
She started her job in 2004, and her employer appeared to value her contributions and even granted a promotion. In 2008, however, her increasingly female appearance, which included long hair and makeup, provoked co-workers to mistreat her. According to court filings, co-workers and her direct supervisor called her “thing” or “it,” and they felt free to target her with obscene jokes. Her employer was not sympathetic to her complaints.
Worsening job reviews followed, and the plaintiff described the reprimands written by her manager as fabricated. The negative evaluations eventually caused the company to end her employment. Her legal claim describes this as an act of retaliation. After informing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of her treatment, the organization concluded that the evidence supported the accusation of a hostile work environment. Sam’s Club refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing, which caused the woman to advance her claim to the courtroom. Her lawsuit is pursuing financial damages as well as a demand that the company ensure fair treatment of transgender employees.
A person experiencing discrimination or harassment on the job might benefit from consulting with an attorney familiar with workplace discrimination law. An attorney may offer assistance in documenting discrimination on the basis of age, sex, religion, race or disability. If evidence appears sufficient to take legal action, an attorney may prepare a formal complaint to the employer and potentially file a lawsuit.
Source: Courthouse News, “Transgender Woman Claims Sam’s Club Discriminated Against Her,” Dan McCue, Dec. 27, 2017
EEOC and discrimination relief
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West Terry Street crosswalks could mean safer walks for Bonita school children
The five temporary crosswalks should help Bonita Springs Middle School students cross the busy road, the city said.
West Terry Street crosswalks could mean safer walks for Bonita school children The five temporary crosswalks should help Bonita Springs Middle School students cross the busy road, the city said. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: http://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/communities/the-banner/2018/06/12/terry-street-crosswalks-mean-safer-student-pedestrian-travel/690632002/
Thaddeus Mast, Naples Published 10:52 a.m. ET June 12, 2018 | Updated 1:15 p.m. ET June 12, 2018
School children ride their bikes on Terry Street in downtown Bonita Springs on Thursday, Oct. 26.(Photo: Thaddeus Mast/Staff)
Students trying to cross the fast-moving West Terry Street could be safer after five temporary crosswalks are painted, the city of Bonita Springs said.
The City Council voted last week to add the crosswalks in a recent meeting, making good on a promise councilors said to local students to make the crossings more visible.
“We’re trying to improve an unsafe situation there,” Councilor Mike Gibson said. “Hopefully the crosswalk and signage will get people to notice and make it safer.”
The crosswalks and signs should be painted and installed as soon as the city finds a contractor, Gibson said.
The roundabout at Terry Street and Old 41 Road, under construction since June, is nearing completion. A final road paving is scheduled for 9 p.m. Saturday. (Photo: Thaddeus Mast/Staff)
By law, drivers have to stop for pedestrians at crosswalks, so the new options should allow people easier access across the busy road.
A month ago, three Bonita Springs Middle School students spoke before City Council and described the challenges they faced crossing from the south side of the road to their school.
“Sometimes, we’re scared to cross West Terry Street because it’s very dangerous,” said Nolan Zimmerman, a student.
Councilors said they would look into the problem, and this plan was the result.
West Terry Street has a 35 mph speed limit which drops in front of the middle school, although Gibson said drivers going at 45 mph is normal.
Waiting five minutes to cross the street when not at one of the two crosswalks was not uncommon, the students said.
The roadway is undergoing a major redesign with an emphasis on pedestrians and cyclists — sidewalks will be expanded and more permanent crosswalks will be added, Gibson said. Raised crosswalks, or speed tables, would likely be used, the city said.
The company designing the project selected the crosswalk locations, the city said.
The design company is expected to present its updated 60 percent complete plans in public within the next two months, Gibson said.
Downtown development moving forward
Progress on a new construction project in downtown Bonita Springs continues. City Council recently approved a density change to allow four-story buildings scattered around Old 41 Road south of West Terry Street.
Most of the buildings would house restaurants and shops on the first floor and apartments on the upper stories, according to the developer.
Current plans are for five buildings, although the developer is still interested in other properties in the area, according to public discussions about the project.
There are currently plans for 80 units split among the buildings.
The project had stalled until council approved the change. The development’s plans were approved by city staff months ago, but an outside attorney noticed a problem that required the change, which will take some time to make.
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Indian Law Bulletins | Tribal Courts | In the Matter of T. F.
--- Am. Tribal Law ----, 2017 WL 1136993 (Fort Peck C.A.)
Fort Peck Court of Appeals.
In the Matter of T. F. (DOB 06/09/00), A Minor Indian Child.
CAUSE NO. AP #737
SO ORDERED this 13th day of March, 2017.
Appeal from the Fort Peck Tribal Court, Michael Headdress, Presiding Judge.
Appearing on behalf of Appellant T.F., Victor Fourstar Jr., Father.
Before Smith, Chief Justice, and Shanley and Knudsen, Associate Justices.
ORDER DENYING APPEAL
Maylinn Smith, Chief Justice
¶1 This matter came before the Fort Peck Appellate Court on a Notice For Appeal filed January 5, 2017 by Victor Fourstar Jr. challenging the juvenile delinquency conviction of his son by the lower court based on a violation of his constitutional rights under the Indian Civil Rights Act and on the assertion his guilty plea was not made knowingly and voluntarily.
Statement of Jurisdiction
¶2 The Fort Peck Appellate Court has jurisdiction to review all final orders from the Fort Peck Tribal Court when a timely appeal is made. 2 CCOJ § 202. The Order to Release from Custody which deferred the juvenile’s charges for 60 days was a final order issued on January 4, 2017, and the juvenile’s father filed a Notice of Appeal within the fifteen (15) day statutory period, therefore the notice of appeal is deemed timely filed.
¶3 The Appellant argues that the Juvenile’s guilty plea to Disorderly Conduct was made involuntarily because he was not appointed counsel pursuant to the Indian Civil Rights Act. The Appellant further argues that the sentence, which included deferment for 60 days on the condition the juvenile abstain from alcohol and drugs, have no violations of the law, remain on house arrest until he leaves for Teen Challenge, and successfully complete the program, was harsh and discriminatory.
¶4 After reviewing the record, this Court finds the Appellant’s argument unfounded and does not find a legitimate legal issue for review. The Indian Civil Rights Act only guarantees a right to Counsel in juvenile adjudications at the juvenile and his legal guardian’s own cost. The Juvenile was read his rights and charges, with his legal guardian, Latoya Jones, present. Neither he nor his legal guardian requested an opportunity to retain counsel. Furthermore, the Judge retains discretion in sentencing as long as the sentence is within the parameters of the law. This Court does not find the Tribal Court’s decision to defer the sentence with various conditions to be unreasonable, discriminatory, or an abuse of the Judge’s discretion.
¶5 For the above-mentioned reason, the Fort Peck Court of Appeals finds nothing in the Tribal Court record which gives cause for review of any legal issue and does not find cause to set aside the trial court’s determinations of fact. Therefore, it is hereby ORDERED that the Notice of Appeal is DENIED.
FORT PECK COURT OF APPEALS
Erin Shanley, Associate Justice
DANIEL P. KNUDSEN Associate Justice
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You are at :Home»News»U.S. Navy Considering More Advanced Burke Destroyers as Large Surface Combatant Timeline Slips
Artists rendering of the first planned Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyer. HII image.
U.S. Navy Considering More Advanced Burke Destroyers as Large Surface Combatant Timeline Slips
The Navy is looking at “something beyond even a Flight III” combat capability for its new-build destroyers, as its plans for transitioning from building the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the future Large Surface Combatant continue to evolve and the LSC procurement date continues to slide.
Xavier Vavasseur 13 Aug 2019
This story was originally published by Megan Eckstein, USNI News on August 8, 2019
Program Executive Officer for Ships Rear Adm. Bill Galinis told USNI News that questions about what the Large Surface Combatant needs to be and significant pressure on the annual shipbuilding budget are forcing the service to think about what the Arleigh Burke program will look like beyond the current multiyear contract for the Flight III configuration.
The Large Surface Combatant program is meant to replace both the Ticonderoga-class cruiser and the DDG-51s, and previous documents from the Pentagon showed LSC acquisition beginning in Fiscal Year 2023, following heel-to-toe behind the end of the current contract for Flight III DDGs that ends in 2022.
However, USNI News first reported in March that LSC acquisition had fallen to a 2025 start date – though the Navy pushed back at the time and said it could accelerate the program to resume that planned 2023 start date if industry were able to support a faster design process.
Galinis told USNI News today that the Navy is now looking at 2026 or possibly later to begin the Large Surface Combatant.
“We’re even considering right now, as we have these conceptual discussions on the Large Surface Combatant, do we need something beyond even a Flight III on the 51s? And again, I tell people, the budget always gets a vote, so you’ve got to think about what the Navy is doing over the next five to 10 years in terms of ship construction: we’ve got frigates coming online, Columbia (ballistic missile submarines) hands down is the top priority, we’re recapitalizing the sealift fleet, we need to continue building Virginias (attack submarines), we just executed a two-carrier buy,” he said during a panel presentation at the American Society of Naval Engineers’ annual Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium.
“So competing priorities; where do you fit in there for the surface fleet and how do you continue to move forward with improving and getting that current combat system upgrade?”
Asked about what might come between the current Flight III design and the Large Surface Combatant, Galinis told USNI News after his panel that “we are in the very early stages of that – again, to try to keep up, to pace the threat, to outpace the threat.”
“And then also balance, you’ve got evolving requirements, you’ve got evolving threat, and you’ve got budget pressures and what the Navy’s doing recapitalizing the ballistic missile submarine force, building up the submarines, carrier force and surface combatants and how does all of that fit in the confines of the budget we have,” he said.
“So we’re looking at the timing. We know we have to recapitalize the surface fleet, but when does that kind of fit in, and if it moves out, do we need to do something more with the 51s to keep them combat relevant?”
DDG51 Flight III scale model on HII stand at SNA 2019
Galinis said PEO Ships has been planning to build more destroyers beyond the current multiyear contract, which covers as many as 15 ships from FY 2018 through 2022. With so much uncertainty in the timing of Large Surface Combatant, he said, “how many more and for how long, that’s what’s part of the discussion.”
“We’re looking at all options on the table right now. We’ve kind of notionally put a target date of sometime in 2026 or so, give or take, for the Large Surface Combatant, but I would tell you that’s not set in stone,” the admiral continued.
“The current force structure assessment that’s ongoing is going to also play into those conversations, and we won’t get that until this fall.”
The Navy needs some sort of a large combatant for a couple reasons: to replace the capability the cruisers bring to host an air defense commander staff within the carrier strike group, to host the capability to launch a large number of large weapons, and to haul a very large radar into theater. Beyond that, the surface warfare directorate at the Pentagon has made clear it is much more interested in fielding more small surface combatants and fewer large surface combatants, compared to a fleet today that has dozens of large combatants at sea at any given time but only one small combatant – a single Littoral Combat Ship deployed to Singapore – operating at sea right now. What this flip-flopped balance of roles between large and small combatants means for Large Surface Combatant and guided-missile frigate (FFG(X)) acquisition is still mostly unclear.
Last month, new Director of Surface Warfare (OPNAV N96) Rear Adm. Gene Black said he and his staff “haven’t closed the book” on LSC requirements or the acquisition process for the new ship program.
“It’s a question of how much speed do you need, how much speed can you afford, how much do you want. How much signature are you willing to pay for? What payloads are you going to put in in?” he said while speaking at a local Surface Navy Association chapter event.
“The things I know: I want a big sensor, I need big computing power, and I want some big magazines. Beyond that, we’re not entirely sure.”
“We’ve got Flight III DDG coming, it’s going to be a fantastically capable ship, and that gives us a little bit of room to think through some of these challenges, because this is going to be an expensive ship and we want to be sure we’re coming in with a capability and cost that are a good balance,” he concluded.
Arleigh Burke-class cruiser Destroyer Large Surface Combatant US Navy 2019-08-13
Xavier Vavasseur
Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.
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Warriors takeaways: What we learned in gritty 109-100 loss to Clippers
By Logan Murdock • Published at 9:56 pm on January 10, 2020
LOS ANGELES -- For weeks, the Warriors have been searching for a complete performance from their battered roster. They remain on the hunt for such a standard after Friday night's 109-100 loss to the Clippers at Staples Center.
After the Warriors (9-31) dominated the Clippers (27-12) through three quarters, LA took control of the game down the stretch, led by All-Star Kawhi Leonard's exploits.
With Stephen Curry, D'Angelo Russell, Klay Thompson and Kevon Looney in street clothes on the bench, the Warriors lost their second straight game to LA, marking the change between the two teams over the summer.
Here are the takeaways from the loss:
Fast start gives way to fourth-quarter collapse
Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he hoped for a better start Friday evening. In the first quarter, the Warriors delivered defensively, holding the Clippers to 39 percent and forcing five of LA's 19 turnovers.
Along the way, the Warriors held Leonard to just 2-of-7 from beyond the arc. By the end of the first half, Golden State had forced 12 Clippers turnovers.
However, the impressive performance was nullified in the fourth quarter, as LA outscored them 36-17. Leonard scored 10 of his game-high 36 points during the stretch.
Such starts have been uncommon in recent games. Entering Friday, the Warriors have been outscored 104-82 in the first quarter over their last four games. On most nights, Golden State won't have the talent edge, but their energy must be consistent, as Friday proved.
Spellman shines in starting role
After a decent stretch of games, Kerr rewarded the second-year big man with his first start of the season. In 28 minutes, Spellman shined, finishing with 17 points, five rebounds and three assists.
Spellman did most of his damage from beyond the arc, hitting four 3-pointers. Over his last five games, he's hitting 57 percent of his shots behind the line.
Spellman's performance comes during an odd time for Golden State's center position. At the moment, no player has solidified the starting role, and with Marquese Chriss off the roster, minutes are available to be taken. By the end of the night, Spellman put in an impressive bid.
Armed with Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell, the Clippers' league-leading bench usually dominates opponents. That wasn't the case against the Warriors, who scored 46 bench points.
While Williams finished with 21 points, while Harrell chipped in 11 points. Meanwhile, Golden State got key buckets from Jordan Poole, Jacob Evans and Eric Paschall along the way.
In a season marred by injury, the Warriors' bench has been a bright spot, averaging more than 38 points per game. Scorers like Burks are often tasked to carry the offensive load to keep the team afloat. On Friday, the unit was a difference-maker yet again.
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Texas’ First Free Pharmacy Opens in North Texas
The service provides free life-sustaining and possibly life-saving medications.
By Larry Collins • Published at 4:03 am on September 25, 2018
A North Texas organization is on an mission to extend a helping hand. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of North Texas has opened the first public free pharmacy in the state.
The group soft launched the pilot pharmacy program nearly six months ago and saw firsthand how much the service was needed.
“By word of mouth only – no marketing push – just word of mouth as of Friday we have dispensed 872 prescriptions with a market value of about $210,000,” said Kate Rose Marquez with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of North Texas. “That’s tremendous and that’s before today. Once the word is out, we expect that to really increase.”
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On Tuesday, the group will hold an official ribbon cutting, opening the pharmacy for widespread usage.
This resource is available to individuals who:
-Have no health insurance coverage.
-Have a household income at or below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level
-Who have a valid prescription (either an original paper copy or one at another pharmacy)
-Who live in the nine-county service area (Dallas, Collin, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall).
The service provides free life-sustaining and possibly life-saving medications such as insulin, asthma inhalers, blood pressure medication and mental health medication. The medication is donated from pharmaceutical companies. The pharmacy does not provide opioids.
“For many of [the clients], it’s a juggling act,” pharmacy managing director Hank Hermann said. “[They have to ask] ‘Do I buy food for my family or do I take my medications?’ If they are ill and are not able to go to work – generally they do not get paid. So, it’s a vicious cycle and we are trying to lift people about that.”
“There are many people who need help and don’t know that there is this help available and to know that they can change their lives and save their lives and that allows them to be a better parent, a better spouse, a better employee – what a gift,” Marquez said.
One of the first people to use the service was Vincent Flores of Irving. He said he has survived both a heart attack and stroke and this medication is vital to him.
“It has made a tremendous difference. It has definitely been a help and blessing to me by providing these prescriptions it takes the weight off of me and helps me perform and go through my daily routines,” Flores said.
There is a four-year plan to expand that free pharmacy to other North Texas counties and eventually statewide.
The pharmacy is at 5750 Pineland Dr. #280, Dallas, TX 75231
More information and how to apply: St. Vincent de Paul Pharmacy
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The journalistic gymnastics involved were on vivid display Friday evening at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press. In one of the more ridiculous such dispatches to date composed by the Obama-supportive media, AP reporter Alicia A. Caldwell lauded new Department of Homeland Security head Jeh Johnson for taking actions to "to tamp down what could have been political scandals." The problem with that assessment in two of the three instances Caldwell cited is that a "scandal" ("a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.") had already occurred.
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Another Swimmer Apologizes, Gives His Own Account
Gunnar Bentz says Ryan Lochte confronted security guards
Posted Aug 20, 2016 8:19 AM CDT
Updated Aug 20, 2016 8:29 AM CDT
In this image made from video, American Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger walk in the departure area after checking into their flight at the airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. (AP Photo)
(Newser) – One of the other swimmers caught up in the Ryan Lochte Rio mess has apologized for the controversy, while suggesting that Lochte made things worse during the incident by being hot-headed. “Without question, I am taking away a valuable life lesson from this situation,” wrote Gunnar Bentz, per USA Today. “In everything I do, I am representing my family, my country and my school. I will not take that responsibility lightly.” Bentz provided his version of what happened, and he said video released by Brazilian authorities seems to have been edited to make the Americans look worse than they were. "I am confident that some video angles have not been shown that would further substantiate my account," said Bentz. "I also believe some scenes have been skipped over.”
Based on Bentz's account and other reporting, including in the New York Times, here is the latest, and most definitive explanation of what happened: Bentz, Lochte, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen were in a taxi returning from a party, intoxicated, when they stopped at a gas station. They urinated behind the building, where Lochte pulled a metal advertisement from the wall. Bentz says he saw no one enter the bathroom, let alone trash it, as Brazilian police have said. They returned to their vehicle, but two security guards ordered them out and on the ground. Both guards eventually pulled their guns. "I cannot speak to his actions, but Ryan stood up and began to yell at the guards,” Bentz wrote. “After Jack and I both tugged at him in an attempt to get him to sit back down, Ryan and the security guards had a heated verbal exchange, but no physical contact was made.” A passerby stopped to interpret, and the swimmers paid $50 for the damage before leaving. Lochte presented an altered version, and he has apologized, too. (Read more Ryan Lochte stories.)
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Aug 21, 2016 3:35 AM CDT
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Ryan Lochte is a douchebag and has been for years. He acted like his usual self when he got drunk, split town and left his team mates holding the bag. The younger guys should be given a second chance, but Lochte needs to be banned from swimming, and needs to do a lot of growing up. The behavior they all exhibited is typical of the jock culture in the U.S. where they can say and do anything they want and it is up to the rest of us to clean up their mess.
FDR LBJ
Can't believe what a big deal everyone's making of this. A few young guy's, traveling abroad, were feeling their p!ss and vinegar, got drunk, and did something many young guys have done before. They urinated behind a building, and one pulled down a sign. Oh, the horror. Now this one claims they didn't go into the restroom, break a door, or smash a mirror. The station owner could've called the authorities for the public urination, but instead they were held at gunpoint, and money was seized to pay for the damage. Lochte told a story to his momma, and she blabbed to the authorities. News explosion! I saw the video played on TV. The Brazilians cut three minutes out of it. The athletes are not the most horrible self-entitled ugly Americans in the world, because of this episode. They are young guys, who went on a tear, and their private shenanigans became all too public. So far they've been held up at gunpoint, publicly apologized, faced ridicule in the news, and paid $11K in fines. What's next? A pound of flesh?
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(Newser) - He avoided jail, but Chris Brown didn't exactly get off scot-free: A judge in LA ordered him yesterday to complete 1,000 hours of community service, reports E! Online . And this time it has to be in California, not his home state of Virginia. Brown nearly had his probation... More »
Chris Brown: I'm Quitting Music, Maybe
Says he's tired of being vilified for 'mistake' he made in Rihanna assault
(Newser) - Chris Brown has a new album coming out later this month, and he says that might be it for him in the music biz, reports the Huffington Post . "Don't worry mainstream America," he tweeted . "After this X album, it'll probably my last album." (Note... More »
Hit-and-Run Charge Could Land Chris Brown in Prison
If judge decides he violated probation in Rihanna case
(Newser) - If you've been waiting to see Chris Brown get tossed in the slammer, this could be your opportunity. He's been charged with a hit-and-run following an incident last month in which he allegedly rear-ended someone and gave the other driver fake insurance info, leaving the scene without offering... More »
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CORRECTION FROM SOURCE: TerraX Receives Type B Water License from Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 21, 2019) - TerraX Minerals Inc. (TSXV: TXR) (FSE: TX0) (OTC Pink: TRXXF) is pleased to announce that a Type B Water License has been issued by the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board (MVLWB) approving TerraX's broad exploration plan for all land holdings of its Yellowknife City Gold (YCG) project. The Water License enhances the new Land Use Permit (LUP) (news release February 27, 2019). This water license is effective for 7 years until March 6, 2026 and covers all of TerraX's claims and leases on the entire 70 kilometer length of the YCG project.
President and CEO David Suda stated: "Receiving the Type B Water License significantly enhances exploration and development potential at the YCG project."
TerraX wishes to acknowledge the many community and government stakeholders who were engaged during the permitting and licensing processes including the support of the City of Yellowknife, CanNor, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and the Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Industry Tourism and Investment. TerraX would also like to thank the technical staff of the MVLWB for their guidance and review of TerraX's application.
About the Yellowknife City Gold Project
The Yellowknife City Gold ("YCG") project encompasses 783 sq km of contiguous land immediately north, south and east of the City of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. Through a series of acquisitions, TerraX controls one of the six major high-grade gold camps in Canada. Being within 10 km of the City of Yellowknife, the YCG project is close to vital infrastructure, including all-season roads, air transportation, service providers, hydro-electric power and skilled tradespeople.
The YCG project lies on the prolific Yellowknife greenstone belt, covering 70 km of strike length along the main mineralized break in the Yellowknife gold district, including the southern and northern extensions of the shear system that hosted the high-grade Con and Giant gold mines. The project area contains multiple shears that are the recognized hosts for gold deposits in the Yellowknife gold district, with innumerable gold showings and recent high-grade drill results that serve to indicate the project's potential as a world-class gold district.
For more information on the YCG project, please visit our web site at www.terraxminerals.com.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"DAVID SUDA"
David Suda
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svella@terraxminerals.com
This news release contains forward-looking information, which involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual events to differ materially from current expectation. Important factors - including the availability of funds, the results of financing efforts, the completion of due diligence and the results of exploration activities - that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations are disclosed in the Company's documents filed from time to time on SEDAR (see www.sedar.com). Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The company disclaims any intention or obligation, except to the extent required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
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Tulsa Nonprofit Animal Aid Finds Roach-Infested Garbage In Parking Lot
Monday, September 30th 2019, 7:49 PM CDT
By: Amelia Mugavero
TULSA, Oklahoma - After finding a massive pile of wet, roach-infested garbage in their parking lot Animal Aid workers decided to get the police involved.
Over the weekend, someone dumped piles of rotting garbage and broken furniture in and around their dumpsters. They even left behind acid, which required a visit from firefighters and a pollution company to clean up.
"I've managed the store for over 3 and half years and have never seen anything like this," Manager Stasia Rainwater said.
Rainwater said Animal Aid of Tulsa operates a thrift store to help homeless cats and dogs. She says all their limited resources should go to the animals - not picking up trash.
"It's heart wrenching. The store means more to us than just the store and money; our hearts are here for the animals," says Rainwater. "When these people dump trash, it feels like they are hurting the animals."
Employee Sandra Martinez says they don't have the manpower to deal with the crimes. "It was just junk, it was broken trash and we can't do anything," Martinez recalls, "and then we have to call people to haul it off and waste what little man power we have to clean it up."
Board members tell me they're now looking into adding fencing and alarms. Rainwater says they've had a history of vandal, thieves stealing legitimate donations, and crooks even stealing surveillance cameras. She says enough is enough and says board members have filed a police report.
"I do feel targeted by criminals who dump their trash who want to steal from us," says Rainwater, "and they feel like they can do whatever they want to our property."
Rainwater says an anonymous donor will pay for an alarm system that will be installed this week.
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Trump Presidency Over If Border Wall Fails: Graham
"Donald Trump has made a promise to the American people," Senator Lindsey Graham said. "He's going to secure our border."
Ann Coulter: Trump 'Will Fold' on Border Wall
The right-wing commentator, who was once such a staunch Trump supporter that she wrote a book titled "In Trump We Trust," has been increasingly critical of the president over his failure to build his long-touted barrier between the United States and Mexico.
Congressman Says Trump Is Holding Taxpayers 'Hostage'
"What we're unwilling to do is to pay a $5 billion ransom note for a medieval border wall that Trump wants to put forward that he initially said…that Mexico would pay for," New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.
Pelosi Plan to End Shutdown a 'Nonstarter': White House
Trump invited congressional leaders from both parties to the White House on Wednesday for a border security briefing, their first face-to-face meeting since the shutdown began 11 days ago.
Trump Still Has No Plan for Border Wall: Fox News Host
"This is the president of the United States' signature domestic policy," Leland Vittert said.
Beto O'Rourke Rivals Trump on Social Media
O'Rourke's 48-second video against the president's border wall received more than 5 million views in 72 hours, outperforming many of the videos in Trump's own Twitter feed.
Trump Compares Obamas' D.C. Home Fence to Border Wall
On the ninth day of the partial government shutdown, Trump used the Obamas' brick fence to justify building the border wall.
Fundraising to Dig Border Wall Tunnels Launched
New fundraising page has been set up in response to hugely popular "We The People Will Fund the Wall" campaign
Trump Tells Democrats to 'Come On Over and Make a Deal'
"They are spending so much time on Presidential Harassment," the president tweeted.
Americans Agree With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Not Trump
Only 19 percent of respondents in a new poll said $5 billion should be spent on the border wall.
Trump Threatens to Close Southern Border Entirely
President Donald Trump tweeted that he would close the border, end NAFTA and cut off foreign aid to three Central American countries if he does not get money for his wall.
Pelosi: Democrats Will End Shutdown
Democratic leaders have vowed to solve the shutdown and usher in a new era of responsible government despite fraught relations with the Trump White House.
Graham: Trump Wall Is Defense Against 'Radical Islam'
While claiming the incomplete border fortifications would form America's "last line of defense" against radical Islamists, the South Carolina senator offered no evidence that Islamic extremists had ever used the southern border to infiltrate the U.S.
Fox News Anchor Predicts Failure of Trump's Border Wall
"I don't care if you call it a slat, a fence, a wall — it's not happening," Fox News anchor Julie Banderas said.
Border Protection Chief: 'We Need a Different Approach'
"It's been more than a decade that we've had a child pass away anywhere in a CBP process so this is just devastating for us," Customs and Border Patrol commissioner Kevin McAleenan told "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday.
Trump Claims Federal Employees Like Government Shutdown
President Donald Trump used his Christmas morning call with U.S. troops abroad to reiterate his commitment to his partial government shutdown, adding that federal workers "want the wall."
No End in Sight for Partial Government Shutdown
The House and Senate are scheduled to reconvene for regular business Thursday at 4 p.m. and resume the process of hashing out a deal on border wall funding.
Trump Is a Failure as America's CEO: CNN Host
"If America were a business and the CEO was facing a dozen criminal and ethics investigations, multiple members of his inner circle had gone to jail, he was making rash decisions that prompted his top advisers to quit in protest and the company had to temporarily shutdown over failed internal business negotiations, what would happen?"
Mulvaney: Shutdown Likely to go 'Into the New Congress'
Mulvaney's public remarks, made on Fox News, further show that the president is prepared to have a shutdown that lasts through the holidays.
Trump Is 'Missing the Boat' With Government Shutdown
"In the land of common sense, we're not in it right now. The shutdown is because the president wanted to shut down," Republican Representative Ryan Costello said.
Democrat Blasts Trump for 'Stupid Vanity Wall' Shutdown
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) reminded voters that Trump said Mexico would pay for a border wall, and declared that Democrats will not allow U.S. taxpayers to fund Trump's wall.
Senate Democrats Blast Trump Over Government Shutdown
"We're in a shutdown because the president threw a tantrum about his border wall," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said.
Will Republicans Use Nuclear Option to Avoid Shutdown?
"Mitch, use the Nuclear Option and get it done! Our Country is counting on you!" President Trump tweeted on Friday morning.
Trump Has Made 7,500+ Misleading Claims in 700 Days
The lead-up to the midterm elections saw an uptick in misleading statements from the president.
Trump, Congress Showdown on Shutdown
Both the House and Senate have passed short-term spending bills that would fund the government through February 8. One includes funding for a Trump campaign trail promise, while the other doesn't.
'Ladders' GoFundMe Page Challenges Trump's Wall Fund
The fund-raising campaign, which has raised more than $60,000 so far, was created to counter a separate GoFundMe page aimed at helping the government build the border wall.
Houses Passes Spending Bill, Gives $5.7 Billion to Wall
The House's spending bill will now have to be sent back to the Senate, where Republicans will need at least some Democratic support if they hope to overcome the chamber's 60-vote threshold.
Fundraiser for Ladders for Border Wall Raises Over $24K
"The wall is wholly absurd, and the folks supporting it are doing so for the worst reasons. We need to reject white supremacy in our country."
Trump Refuses to Sign Bill to Avoid Govt. Shutdown
House Speaker Paul Ryan, other House Republicans and the White House continued to give mixed messages to reporters through Thursday morning about what President Donald Trump would sign or veto.
Border Wall GoFundMe Campaign Reaches $4.5M
Florida Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage said he launched his "We the People Will Fund the Wall" campaign in response to "inaction from politicians on both sides of the aisle."
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NSA Still Vulnerable to Insider Threats, Watchdog Found
The National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. Patrick Semansky/AP File Photo
By Charles S. Clark,
Senior Correspondent
By Charles S. Clark
Four years after Edward Snowden leaked highly classified data, the agency still hadn’t implemented key protections, secret audit shows.
Four years after National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked domestic surveillance data and weeks after the 2016 breach of NSA’s own hacking tools were traced to Russian sources, the agency was still behind in its strategy for securing its internet-based collections systems from insider threats, a watchdog found.
In an August 2016 secret report, a redacted version of which was released Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Defense Department inspector general said NSA lacked a strategy and detailed implementation plan for completing its “secure-the-net initiatives” aimed at protecting classified information from malfeasant employees and contractors with access to the data.
Among other things, NSA failed to consistently secure server racks and other sensitive equipment and had not fully implemented two-stage authentication for its high-level administrators, the IG found. The auditors focused on seven specific initiatives they believed “presented the highest risk to NSA’s ability to secure network access, protect against insider threats, and provide increased oversight of personnel with privileged access.”
The IG identified internal control weaknesses at NSA labs in Washington, D.C., Texas, Utah and North Carolina, although auditors acknowledged improvements in recent years.
The failure to employ an overall strategy to create a structured framework, the IG said, means the agency’s actions to date “did not fully meet the intent of decreasing the risk of insider threats to NSA operations and the ability of insiders to exfiltrate data,” it said.
Based on previous related reports, the auditors said, NSA’s information security team had implemented four of seven key steps—developing a documented plan for a new system model; assessing the number of system administrators at NSA; implementing two-person access controls at data centers and machine rooms; and installing two-stage authentication controls for administrators.
However, NSA failed to “fully implement technology to oversee privileged user activities; effectively reduce the number of privileged access users; and effectively reduce the number of authorized data transfer agents.”
The report recommended that the director of NSA’s technology directorate, who also serves as the central security chief information officer, update procedures requiring data and machine room managers to effectively manage keys to server racks. It also recommended the CIO develop a strategy to expand the two-stage authentication controls and implement automated, technology-based monitoring for all administrators.
That official agreed, though the IG said he still had not fully documented his strategy.
NEXT STORY: The British Government Knows Where Terrorists Gather on the Internet, But It’s Not Telling
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Well over 130 years after the first telephone transmission, the movies continue their love affair with the telephone. In many a scary movie, the action would wane if it wasn’t for the ringing of the phone. Hearts skip a beat when the phone call comes in The Ring and who could forget actress, Drew Barrymore, in a blond wig being teased by a tormenting mask-wearing caller in the opening scene of Scream. Vintage film-lovers will recall When a Stranger Calls starring a young Carol Kane as a trapped babysitter. But the telephone hasn't always played a role in just slasher films.
Colin Farrell learns that it’s unwise to answer a ringing phone in a New York City phone booth because a psycho could be on the other end. But a telephone booth becomes a safe haven in Hitchcock's The Birds. And who could forget the surprise call to Jodie Foster from Anthony Hopkins , aka Hannibal, in Silence of the Lambs.
Romance rang in the movies, as well; Bells are Ringing with Judy Holiday is one such notable. Doris Day and Rock Hudson fell in love while sharing a party line in Pillow Talk. And while the telephone is the means between success and being fired in Glengarry Glen Ross, a cell phone call enables a last farewell in United 93.
There are so many scenes in which the telephone plays an intricate role in either the plot of the film or the viewer’s experience. What’s your most memorable?
What about the technology?
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Earn extra cash this holiday season
This clothing line uses a network of consultants to sell its products via social media and pop-up boutiques hosted at home.
This site offers pet owners a venue for hiring local, customer-rated and vetted pet sitters.
Earn money as a driver for this ride service (think Uber or Lyft) launched especially for children.
By Lil Lovinus | OC Family
PUBLISHED: December 1, 2016 at 8:00 am | UPDATED: April 8, 2017 at 1:24 pm
Baking cookies, pulling extra shifts and signing up to staff stores during holiday sales – these are all good ways to earn extra money this season. But maybe you want to earn a little more money on the side by doing something useful, innovative and technologically savvy. What are your options? Moms tell us what they’re doing to pad their wallets in December.
luluroe.com
This clothing line uses a network of consultants to sell its products via social media and pop-up boutiques hosted at home. Alexis Kemp-Angier is one such consultant. Kemp-Angier is a yoga instructor; her husband manages a UPS store, and they have a 6-year-old son. Kemp-Angier says LulaRoe could potentially double their income.
DogVacay
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This site offers pet owners a venue for hiring local, customer-rated and vetted pet sitters. To become a host, you just need to sign up for free to go through the vetting process. Once you’re approved, you can set your own schedule and rates. The average rate in California is typically $30 or $35 nightly.
Ettie Panossian, an Orange resident raising a 12-year-old daughter, got started with DogVacay three years ago because her daughter wanted to walk dogs in their neighborhood. “I was not prepared to let her do it alone, so I started searching online. I found DogVacay, and asked my daughter whether she would like to host and take care of a dog or two from time to time at our home. She said yes, so we have been hosting pups for close to three years now. The best part is that we don’t have to have our own dog right now. I put the extra income toward my daughter’s college education.”
HopSkipDrive
hopskipdrive.com
Earn money as a driver for this ride service (think Uber or Lyft) launched especially for children. Adults who drive for the company go through a certification process and background check. Once approved, you can add as many or as few trips to your schedule as you want, earning $30 per hour, paid weekly.
Suzie Babakhanian, a Laguna HIlls resident with two kids, discovered HopSkipDrive on Facebook. “I wanted to make extra money on the side so I called them. It helps my daughter in college, plus I get to make my own schedule.”
taskrabbit.com
If you like doing other people’s chores for money, TaskRabbit is for you. The web platform connects people who need tasks done with people who are willing to do them. If you’re the person in need of a Tasker, you fill out information about the task – date, time, details – and then you can choose from a list of folks willing to do it. As a Tasker, you could do anything from folding laundry to building IKEA furniture. The perks? A flexible workday and good pay. Taskers set their own rates; if you’re committed to the platform, you can potentially earn up to $6,000 a month.
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The Container Store is incorporating more technology into its physical locations, CNBC reports. San Francisco has become so pricey that households making more than $100,000 annually can qualify for low-income housing, according to MarketWatch...
Host Hotels Is Said to Weigh $2 Billion Hotel-Portfolio Sale
The Bethesda, Maryland-based real estate investment trust has interviewed advisers regarding the portfolio sale.
University of Oklahoma Is Weighing Rent Subsidies for Troubled Dorm
The project was too slow to cut rents and had trouble attracting students earlier this year because it was still under construction.
New York Landlord RXR Realty Taps Investors for a Technology Fund
. The firm is initially targeting a $50 million fund and will allow investors to contribute as much as $100 million in additional capital alongside the fund.
10 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (June 27, 2018)
Reuters looks at who is benefiting from struggles in the regional mall sector. There will be more REIT acquisitions this year, Forbes predicts. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.
LaSalle Alerts SEC to Stock Purchases by Suitor Pebblebrook
The losing suitor, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, “was provided with material nonpublic information” during the sale process LaSalle said in a filing with the SEC.
U.S. Housing Will Get Even Less Affordable: A. Gary Shilling
Moderate-cost house construction is restrained by rising building costs.
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is opening 100 cafes in New York, CNBC reports. A Forbes contributor analyzes how hurricane damage impact real estate values. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.
Blackstone Nears First Close of $5 Billion for Infrastructure Fund
The capital raising comes even as Trump has yet to deliver on a promise to facilitate the investment of as much as $1.7 trillion in the next decade.
Former Toys ‘R’ Us CEO Is Working on the Retailer's Reboot
Jerry Storch, a former chief executive officer of the defunct toy chain, has been working with multiple investors on a plan to reboot the retailer in the U.S.
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Ask the Curators: Gcotyelwa Mashiqa and Precious Mhone
by Oyin Olaniyan
in Art, Interview
Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday…is an exhibition at the South African Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) running till September 22, 2019. The show provides an opportunity to re-examine notions of utopias, African futures, and Afro-futurism from artists on the continent and in the diaspora, while simultaneously calling for a re-reading and re-writing of both real and imagined narratives, to create narratives that aren’t constrained by time and place. Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday also explores the different ways in which artists tackle the complexities within the concepts of progress in post-colonial Africa.
Derived from tropes of the Afro-futuristic movement and notions of the exploration of space, the exhibition is realised in chapters that will unfold over the course of the show, morphing and progressing to present a plurality of post-colonial futures. As such, Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterdayshapes and shifts in the gallery, disrupting and distorting both the constructs of utopia and dystopia, prompting more nuanced perspectives on progression and multiple readings of its themes. In this interview with Omenka, the curators, Gcotyelwa Mashiqa and Precious Mhone, discuss the show in detail, their underlying philosophies, and the reception of the show.
Installation view: Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday…
Congratulations on your recent exhibition Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday… at Zeitz MOCAA, which explores “the different ways in which artists, performers, writers and architects tackle the complexities inherent within the dual concepts of utopia and progress.” What personal experiences inspired it, and how did it resonate with the public and larger community?
Precious Mhone:Thank you. As a young African working in the arts, particularly here on the continent, I’ve always been interested in the ways in which we tell our stories, a merging of the past and present.
I’ve always had an interest in fiction (particularly science fiction), music, and the ways in which storytelling can morph and change to create more of an experiential way of understanding our histories.
This exhibition created opportunities for the public and the larger community to ask questions about the way in which art can be used as a lens for Africans to tell our own stories and centralise our own narratives, histories, and ways of imagining or own futures.
Gcotyelwa Mashiqa:Growing up, I used to watch sci-fi series (Stargate, Quantum Leap) and tuned into Radio Umhlobo Wenene (an isiXhosa station) every Saturday to listen to Gcina Mhlophe orating intsomi (folklore). I also read books by African authors such as Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, Binyavanga Wainaina, and NoViolet Bulawayo. I tapped into these experiences to shape my ideas about Still Here, a show where we centred black bodies and Africa. We used the exhibition as a medium in which to create a vision and alternative stories that do not even up with how black bodies are perceived and how Africa is depicted or written about in mainstream spaces. We hope people are able to leave with a different and positive perspective of who they are and who they’ve imagined themselves to be.
Liona Nyariri, The Pidgin, Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday…
Regarding your curatorial methodology and process, did you have a reference point from other exhibitions, or is this a new, experimental approach?
Mhone:It’s always important in the early stages of planning to conduct research into past exhibitions that have looked to unpack ideas related to time, utopia, progress, and possible futures on the continent and in the diaspora. This drew our eye to concepts of time as not being necessarily just linear but to the fact that it can be viewed as cyclic and inter-dimensional, with the possibility to shift and change. This in turn informed the physical layout of the exhibition space, which we wanted to be reflective of that cyclical concept. We looked at themes such as “yet-to-be spaces,” “one small step for humankind,” and “notions of home” as the framework for the artwork layout.
Mashiqa: However, our curatorial approach is also experimental, as we had to consider a variety of elements, such as the architecture of the building, exhibition themes (i.e., time and space), participating artists, and so on. “Time and space” became the heart of the show. Our conception of time as cyclical, repetitive, and continuous mimic our political, social, and economic histories in Africa. So we wanted to capture the element of continuum in the exhibition, hence we opted to open the show in different stages.
Have you both always worked together? What underlying philosophy informs your individual practices?
Mhone: This was the first time that Gcotyelwa and I have worked together, but it was a great exercise in collaborative process. Our different backgrounds (nationality, education, and interests) helped us flesh out our ideas in a way that had more perspective and spoke to a wider understanding of the African experience.
Mashiqa: This is the first time we have worked together on a project, besides the obvious fact of working for the same institution and being part of the curatorial department. As a visual storyteller and a collaborator, I believe it is my responsibility to tell all sides of histories, especially those that have been included in grand narratives.
“Fiction has a critical role to play in shaping imaginations and directing ideas for contemporary Africa.” Kindly tell us more about this statement.
Mhone: Fiction broadly refers to any narrative that is derived from the imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.
If the imagination can be considered to be a radical act of freedom, the artists that are part of the exhibition tap into looking at fiction as a way to create alternative notions of past, present, and future. Taking ownership of those narratives speaks to a sense of agency on the continent right now that shapes our ways of looking, seeing, creating, and being in the world.
The exhibition features Kumasi Barnett, Cristina de Middel, Kathrien de Villiers, Kadara Enyeasi, Wanuri Kahiu, Cassandra Kloss, Osborne Macharia, Michael MacGarry, Loyiso Mkize, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Muchiri Njenga, Liona Nyariri, Daniel Obasi, Kathy Robins, Aristotle Roufanis, Yinka Shonibare, Ablaye Thiossane, and Atang Tshikare. Considering their diverse geographical locations and media, what selection criteria did you employ? How have the artists resident on the continent engaged the theme differently than their international counterparts, and to what would you attribute these differences?
Mashiqa: Once the concept of the show crystallised, it was then easier to identify artists whose work deals with the show’s themes. But we also selected works that challenged and complicated the idea of utopia and dystopia as clear opposites and allowed us to discern the multiple viewpoints or definitions of these concepts. Almost every artwork in the show existed before we mounted Still Here, with the exception of Loyiso Mkize’s mural, Liona Nyariri’s installation, Kadara Enyeasi’s photographs, and Ralph Borland’s sculpture. Since the topic of utopia or imagined futures is not new in Africa, the selected artworks prove that artists (authors, filmmakers, etc.) have been engaged in these conversations. I also think that their location in the world influenced their unique creation processes and thoughts about imagined African futures.
Loyiso Mkize, Exodus, Still Here Tomorrow to High Five You Yesterday…
Since its establishment in 2017, how successful, in your opinion, has Zeitz MOCAA been in redefining the local art industry?
Mashiqa:I think it’s still early to say, as the museum is in the early phase of defining and shaping its mission and curatorial vision within the local and global art industry.
Mhone:Zeitz MOCAA is fortunate enough to be able to mould a mission and vision that work to put a spotlight on contemporary artistic practice on the continent. As a new institution, we are also able to learn, grow, and adapt in real time to the needs of our community and the public, to ensure that we provide knowledge, education, and access for all.
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Oyindamola Olaniyan is the Head of Media and Communications at Revilo Publishing. She holds a B.sc in Botany from Lagos State University. Broadly experienced in this area, her core expertise includes social media management, content development and brand identity.
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The House Democrats continue to party on their Titanic voyage even as there are clear signs that the impeachment iceberg will sink them:
President Trump’s job approval rating has ticked up 6 percentage points since the Democrats' impeachment inquiry began, according to a new survey.
The Gallup poll released early Wednesday found Trump’s approval rating at 45 percent, up from 39 percent when the inquiry was launched in the fall. The new findings mark the third-consecutive increase in Trump's approval rating, Gallup noted.
Gallup’s new poll found that 51 percent of respondents say they oppose impeachment and removing Trump from office, an increase of 5 percentage points since the Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the impeachment inquiry into the president's dealings with Ukraine. By contrast, 46 percent of respondents now support impeachment and removal, down 6 points.
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Veteran journalist Paul Bauman, based in Sacramento, covers Northern California professional, collegiate and junior tennis. Contact him at norcaltennisczar@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @norcaltenczar.
UC Davis fundraiser set; pro rankings; TV; calendar
Toki Sherbakov, UC Davis' No. 1 men's singles and doubles player,
is scheduled to play in an exhibition fundraiser on May 18 in the
Sacramento suburb of Orangevale. Photo by Paul Bauman
Former Sacramento Capitals co-owner Ben Combs will hold an exhibition fundraiser for the UC Davis men's tennis team on Saturday, May 18, at his clay court in Orangevale, Calif.
Challenge matches between the Aggies and contributors will begin at 10 a.m. at 8582 Westin Lane. The festivities, which include a barbecue and kegs of different beers, will end with a match between UCD's No. 1 doubles team of Adam Levie and Toki Sherbakov and some of the Sacramento area's best former pros at 2 p.m.
The VIP table is still available for $500. Chef Kenny Vowel will serve salmon, shrimp, the finest steaks and adult beverages. The shady table also will come with a server and the best view of the matches.
Anyone interested in donating to the team may send a check, payable to UC Davis Men's Tennis, to the above address (zip code 95662).
For more information, call Combs at (916) 425-5889.
PRO RANKINGS
Following are this week's world rankings of professional players with Northern California ties (change from last week in parentheses):
Bob Bryan, 1998 NCAA doubles champion from Stanford -- Career-high No. 1 in doubles (no change), unranked in singles.
Mike Bryan, 1998 NCAA doubles champion from Stanford -- Career-high No. 1 in doubles (no change), unranked in singles.
Mardy Fish, Sacramento Capitals of World TeamTennis (2012-13) -- No. 42 in singles (+2), No. 338 in doubles (+2).
Bradley Klahn, 2010 NCAA singles champion and 2011 NCAA doubles runner-up from Stanford -- No. 187 in singles (+1), No. 346 in doubles (+1).
Scott Lipsky, 2002 NCAA doubles runner-up from Stanford -- No. 26 in doubles (no change), unranked in singles.
Sam Querrey, San Francisco native, Capitals (2012-13) -- No. 18 in singles (+1), No. 109 in doubles (-1).
Ryan Sweeting, Capitals (2012-13) -- No. 270 in singles (-5), No. 829 in doubles (+2).
Dmitry Tursunov, Folsom resident from Russia -- No. 57 in singles (+1), No. 146 in doubles (+124).
Mallory Burdette, NCAA singles runner-up in 2012 and NCAA doubles champion in 2011 and 2012 from Stanford -- Career-high No. 84 in singles (+1), No. 364 in doubles (-2).
Raquel Kops-Jones, 2003 NCAA doubles champion from Cal -- No. 14 in doubles (no change), No. 1,133 in singles (-6).
Megan Moulton-Levy, Capitals (2013) -- Career-high No. 63 in doubles (+2), unranked in singles.
Maria Sanchez, Modesto product -- No. 124 in singles (-9), No. 123 in doubles (no change).
Taylor Townsend, Capitals (2013) -- No. 349 in singles (no change), No. 533 in doubles (-2).
(All times PDT)
Madrid (men), early rounds, Tennis Channel, 5 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (live), 2:30 p.m.-midnight (repeat).
Madrid (men), quarterfinals, Tennis Channel, 6 a.m.-3 p.m. (live), 7-9 p.m. (repeat).
Madrid (women), quarterfinals, Tennis Channel, 3-7 p.m. (delay).
Madrid (women), semifinals, Tennis Channel, 2-6 a.m. (live).
Madrid (men), semifinals, Tennis Channel, 6:30-9 a.m. (live), 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (live).
(men and women), semifinals, Tennis Channel, 12:30-11:30 p.m. (repeat).
Madrid (women), final, Tennis Channel, 4-6 a.m. (live), 9:30-11:30 a.m. (repeat), 6:30-8:30 p.m. (repeat).
Madrid (men), final, Tennis Channel, 7-9:30 a.m. (live), 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. (repeat), 4-6:30 p.m. (repeat), 8:30-11 p.m. (repeat).
Friday-Monday -- $10,000 USTA National Men's, Women's & Mixed 30 Indoor Championships, Spare Time Indoor Tennis Center, 11205 Pyrites Way, Gold River, Calif., 95670, www.usta.com, www.sparetimeinc.com.
Friday-Saturday -- NCAA Men's and Women's Team Championships, first and second rounds at campus sites, www.ncaa.com.
Saturday-Monday -- USTA Boys and Girls 16 National Open, Laguna Creek Racquet Club, Elk Grove, Calif., www.norcal.usta.com.
Saturday-Monday -- USTA Boys 14 National Open, Harbor Bay Club, Alameda, Calif., www.norcal.usta.com.
Thursday-May 21 -- NCAA Men's and Women's Team Championships, round of 16 through finals, Urbana, Ill., www.ncaa.com, www.fightingillini.com.
May 22-27 -- NCAA Men's and Women's Individual Championships, Urbana, Ill., www.ncaa.com, www.fightingillini.com.
May 26-June 9 -- FRENCH OPEN, www.rolandgarros.com. 2012 champions: Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova, Max Mirnyi-Daniel Nestor, Sara Errani-Roberta Vinci.
June 24-July 7 -- WIMBLEDON, www.wimbledon.com. 2012 champions: Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Jonathan Marray-Frederik Nielsen, Serena Williams-Venus Williams.
June 29-July 6 -- $50,000 Gold River Women's Challenger, Gold River Racquet Club, Gold River, Calif., www.usta.com. 2012 champions: Maria Sanchez, Asia Muhammad-Yasmin Schnack.
July 6-8 -- West Coast Junior Championships, Rio del Oro Racquet Club, 119 Scripps Dr., Sacramento 95825, www.norcal.usta.com.
July 7 -- Sacramento Capitals open season vs. Texas Wild in World TeamTennis, Capitals Stadium at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, Calif., 7:35 p.m., www.saccaps.com.
July 22-28 -- Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, www.bankofthewestclassic.com. 2012 champions: Serena Williams, Marina Erakovic-Heather Watson.
July 25 -- World TeamTennis conference championships at highest seeds, www.wtt.com.
July 28 -- World TeamTennis Finals at Eastern Conference champion, www.wtt.com.
Aug. 5-11 -- $100,00 Comerica Bank Challenger, Seascape Sports Club, Aptos, Calif., www.seascapesportsclub.com/challenger. 2012 champions: Steve Johnson, Rik de Voest-John Peers.
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New Jersey regulation of pet stores needs improvement | Opinion
Pet stores continue to rely on known puppy mills for their animals, indicating that a stronger framework for regulation is necessary.
New Jersey regulation of pet stores needs improvement | Opinion Pet stores continue to rely on known puppy mills for their animals, indicating that a stronger framework for regulation is necessary. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/contributors/2019/06/14/new-jersey-regulation-pet-stores-needs-improvement-opinion/1449812001/
Brian R. Hackett Published 5:17 a.m. ET June 14, 2019
New Jerseyans who have learned the facts about puppy mills in the United States have helped to achieve a remarkable decline in the number of pet stores in the state selling puppy mill dogs in recent years. The number once stood at 45, and now it’s about half that. Increasingly, consumers are shunning pet stores and choosing more humane sources such as shelters, rescues and responsible breeders who sell directly to the public. In addition, more than 126 New Jersey communities have now prohibited the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores.
That’s good for animals, and it’s good for New Jersey, too.
There is more to be done, though, to address the cruelty and heartache associated with puppy mills. Too many pet stores mislead customers about the sources from which they get puppies. Too many sell sick and behaviorally challenged puppies. Too many stores push financing with incredibly high interest rates for puppy purchase. And too many mistreat consumers who seek reimbursement for fees incurred after the animals they bought end up requiring veterinary medical care.
In a recent opinion piece in The Record and NorthJersey.com, “Pet store owners are already well-regulated,” a New Jersey pet store owner claimed that we have enough regulation of pet stores in our state. But stores continue to rely on known puppy mills for their animals, indicating that a stronger framework for regulation is necessary. Puppy mills — inhumane commercial breeding operations that place profit over the health and well-being of the animals -- keep dogs in conditions that most New Jerseyans would find horrifying. In these locations, breeding dogs often spend their entire lives in dirty, cramped cages with none of the pleasures that most of our pets know.
With a simple web search, pet store owners could easily identify some of the most problematic puppy mills and avoid them, as some of these breeders’ violation histories have appeared on the Humane Society of the United States’ annual Horrible Hundred puppy mill reports. One breeder with whom one local pet store owner did business was so problematic that the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined the puppy mill thousands of dollars — a step the USDA rarely takes — for failing to provide veterinary care to her dogs. Another breeder of hers was cited by a Nebraska inspector for keeping dogs in filthy conditions and denying veterinary care to a puppy whose leg was bitten off.
East Rutherford is the first South Bergen town to ban the sale of kittens and puppies in an attempt to shut down puppy mills. Carlstadt may soon follow suit. (Photo: Photo/Nati Harnik)
A New Jersey store owner who fails to source from humane, law-abiding breeders has neither cause nor warrant to condemn the work of humane advocates pressing for stronger regulations. The goal of these advocates is to stop the suffering and misery of animals in substandard puppy mills by cutting off their sales outlets.
A flaw of New Jersey’s current state law is that it is too dependent on USDA oversight. USDA licensees can legally confine hundreds or even thousands of dogs to wire, stacked cages only six inches longer than themselves for their entire lives. There are no limits on how often or how many times a dog can be bred, and socialization and regular veterinary care are not required. Plus, the USDA does a horrible job of enforcing these low standards and protects those cited by keeping their inspection reports private. The USDA’s recent removal of all pertinent inspection report information from the public domain renders the current pet store law — which relies on breeders’ violations histories — unenforceable.
The evidence suggests that New Jersey communities will continue to enact ordinances protecting animals and consumers, and soon, we may hope to see Garden State lawmakers following the examples of California and Maryland by enacting such policy statewide. With the majority of pet stores in the state already adhering to a humane model, there’s no reason the few that still sell puppies can’t convert to a product and services model and partner with shelters and rescues to host adoption events. With profits increasing in every category of the pet retail industry except live pet sales, such a business model is ethical, humane, broadly supported by public opinion, and is a win-win-win for animals, businesses, and the community.
Brian R. Hackett is the New Jersey state director of The Humane Society of the United States.
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OPPO furthers partnership with Smart to strengthen Filipinos’ connectivity and mobile experience
MANILA, Philippines — JUNE 2019 — In a move to broaden and strengthen the connectivity of Filipinos, leading smartphone brand OPPO partners with telco giant Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) to get more consumers to shift to LTE, and soon to advance to 5G connectivity for stronger and better communications experience that is parallel with the cellular network and data connectivity capabilities of more technologically advanced countries.
“This partnership promotion is an integral effort forged by OPPO Philippines and Smart that aim to strengthen the ties of the two conglomerates in mobile and telecommunications industry by providing better communications and smartphone experience to its consumers,” Zen Han, Vice President of Channel Sales of OPPO Philippines.
OPPO Philippines and Smart have had spearheaded marketing and sales efforts to further reach more audience by leveraging the strong LTE connectivity of Smart and top quality smartphones of OPPO. In the last quarter of 2018, OPPO gained 24% of the total market share, and the company is positive to cut a bigger share with the partnership efforts forged with Smart.
“Apart from our continuing investments in upgrading our network, we are also partnering with manufacturers like OPPO in empowering our customers with capable devices, so that they can maximize the network that we have put in place,” said Oscar A. Reyes Jr, PLDT-Smart senior vice president and head of Consumer Market Development.
With this, consumers can start availing of LTE-capable smartphones through Smart, starting with the OPPO A3s. Consumers can now avail of the OPPO A3s for P5,990, from its original price of P6,990. To ensure immediate connectivity, the package comes with a Smart LTE Prepaid SIM with free 1GB worth of data valid for 3 days. It also comes with data rewards for a year, where customers get 500MB for every P150 accumulated load, valid for 3 days.
Beyond connectivity, users can also enjoy the other powerful features that the A3s has to offer. The dual-camera OPPO A3s features a 13MP rear camera and an 8MP front camera, a 6.2” IPS HD Display with notch design, Octa-Core 1.8 GHz, and an SD card slot expandable up to 256 GB. It runs on Android Oreo OS with 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM, and boasts a ‘best-in-class’ battery of 4,230mAh, compared to the usual 3,000mAh of other devices in the same price range.
On the future plans between the two corporate giants, “Elevating the brand as we elevate consumer lives is our goal in the coming years. This campaign is just one way for both our brand and Smart to help build a world of intelligent connectivity. We have a lot more to roll out with Smart soon, and we are truly excited to bring them all to life,” says Han.
Want to know more about the OPPO? Visit www.oppo.com/ph for more information.
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LEADING OFF
CL Expert Outlines the Benefits of Specialty Lenses
If your plans for 2019 include opportunities for improved patient care and practice growth, you may want to consider offering specialty contact lenses to those patients who are “hard to fit,” says contact lens guru Jason J. Nichols, O.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Education Committee Chair of the Global Specialty Lens Symposium and editor of Contact Lens Spectrum, (a sister publication of Optometric Management).
“Most soft contact lenses are now available online — some legitimately and some not,” Dr. Nichols explains. “Specialty lenses, due to their inherent need for customized and personalized fitting are not, making them exclusive to practices.”
PATIENT LOYALTY
“I can’t tell you about a specific study that shows this, but talk to any O.D. who actively fits specialty contact lenses, and they’ll tell you that these patients are their most loyal because they are so appreciative of the practitioner’s time and care in getting the lens choice and fit right,” he says. “Remember, so many of these patients have been told, ‘you are not a candidate for contact lens wear,’ so when they’re told they can be fit in contact lenses, it means a great deal to them, and they place a lot of value on that doctor, bragging to their friends and family, who often become patients themselves for other ocular issues.”
Dr. Nichols adds that patients are also grateful for the specific features of their specialty lenses:
“If you consider some aspects of specialty toric and multifocal lenses, for example, they can provide an enormous visual benefit to patients who can’t achieve this benefit with standard torics and multifocals,” he says. “Additionally, patients who can’t get relief from dry eye disease have been able to via specialty lenses.”
STREAMLINED FITTING TIME
“By and large, with the diligence of the expert consultants at the various labs, the perceived time needed to fit patients in specialty lenses has been substantially trimmed due to enhancements in this support and fitting guides,” Dr. Nichols says. “Also, advances in specialty lens designs have played a role in that.”
One of the best ways to learn about specialty contact lenses is to talk to the labs directly, which can be accomplished at related meetings, such as the Global Specialty Lens Symposium (produced by PentaVision, publisher of OM), says Dr. Nichols. Such meetings also offer networking opportunities with specialty lens O.D.s, researchers and the labs directly. (More on GSLS starting on p.28.)
The GP Lens Institute: www.gpli.info
The Scleral Lens Education Society: www.sclerallens.org . OM
CORRECTION: In “Tax Break: Do You Qualify” (OM December 2018, p.14), we incorrectly reported the percentage of revenue of ophthalmic goods that would allow a practice to qualify for a tax break as a non-specified service trade or business (non-STBB). The proposed regulation states that for a practice to qualify as a non-STBB, 90% or more of revenue must be derived from the sale of ophthalmic goods. OM apologizes for this oversight.
Optometric Management, Volume: 54, Issue: January 2019, page(s): 8
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Organising the legendary one-make cup
Boost and give new impetus to the competition
The Porsche Carrera Cup France is the national version of a competition born in Germany in 1986. This cup is part of the main French motorsport championship. Each year, around twenty Porsche 911 GT3 Cup pit against one another on the most prestigious French circuits. Throughout the seasons, the Porsche Carrera Cup France has revealed many talents, allowing passionate contenders – gentlemen drivers – to compete within a professional environment. In 2002, Porsche wanted to give new impetus to the PCCF not only in terms of the race itself but also regarding events alongside it.
Increasing visibility and developing events programme
In terms of competition, the PCCF’s role as springboard for young drivers was increased by putting forward different scholarship-like programmes. We built on our experience of racing to support French young talents in their career.
In terms of events, we worked on making the PCCF stand out, getting different major partners involved throughout the years, such as insurance company MATMUT for instance, while ensuring an important media coverage and maximum visibility for the event. Developing VIP packages was also one major concern, looking to meet increased demand from teams, drivers and sponsors.
In 2015, the PCCF, still run by ORECA, celebrated its 14th anniversary.
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Fort Glanville Conservation Park
Fort Glanville Conservation Park represents a significant period in South Australia's European colonial history. The fort remains largely unaltered since it was built in 1880 to boost Australia's defence strategy. Visitors are treated to full historical re-enactments by members of the Fort Glanville Association, including military drills and cannon firing.
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If you find a sick or stranded marine mammal (including whales, seals, sea lions and dolphins), please contact Black Hill Natural Resource Centre on (08) 8336 0901 or the after-hours duty officer on 0427 556 676 (outside of business hours)
Fort Glanville Conservation Park is located at 359 Military Rd, Semaphore Park, 12km north west of Adelaide. Access is via Military Road.
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Dogs are not permitted in this park.
Discover which parks you can walk your dog in on our find a park tool or read 12 dog-friendly walks in Adelaide Parks by Good Living for inspiration.
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As per the dogs in parks and reserves policy, if the dog is not an accredited assistance dog, they must be trained to assist a person with a disability to alleviate that disability and meet standards of hygiene and behaviour appropriate for a dog in a public place. However, refusal may be given if the person with the disability is unable to produce evidence the dog is an assistance dog with the appropriate training.
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The fort can be hired for a variety of uses, including concerts and community activities. The parade ground and visitor centre (which has kitchen facilities) is also available for hire.
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Read about the family fun that awaits you at Fort Glanville on the Good Living blog.
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Aboriginal peoples continue to play an active role in caring for their Country, including in parks across South Australia.
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Fort Glanville stands as a monument to Australia’s colonial defence strategies. In the 1870's, fearing sea-based threats from Russia due to potential conflict between Britain and Russia, the Australian colonies planned coastal fortifications to protect major ports and coastal cities.
Three forts were planned for South Australia: Glanville (opened in 1880), Largs (opened in 1884) and Glenelg. The forts were to be connected by a road built behind the coastal dunes for military use - hence the name Military Road. A heavily armed gunboat (HMCS Protector), a torpedo station on Port River and signalling stations completed the plan.
Fort Glenelg was never built and within twenty years Fort Largs was upgraded, resulting in Fort Glanville becoming less important. Following Federation, Fort Glanville ceased to be operational. Since that time, Fort Glanville has served as a military detention centre, depression era accommodation, Boy Scout headquarters and, following its sale to the government, a caravan park. In the 1970s, its important heritage value was recognised. Once the caravan park was relocated, restoration work began and continues today.
Fort Glanville was constructed during the period 1878-80. It is a 'luntte' or crescent-shaped earthwork, reinforced by 160 cm of concrete and 60 cm brick retaining walls, affording both camouflage and protection. The front and sides of the fort were defended by a ditch, which was itself defended by a caponier (musketry gallery) at the north-east corner. The rear and southern walls were defended by the loopholed rear defence wall, barracks and stockade.
Expense Stores
Ammunition for the 64 pounder guns was located in the expense store near each gun. Battery Two 10-inch guns provided the fort with formidable fire power, having a maximum of 6500 yards (6014 metres). The smaller 64 pounder guns, located on each flank, could engage targets 5000 yards (4550 metres) away, and supported the larger guns. By 1889 however, the battery was superseded by the more modern breech-loading artillery installed at Fort Largs. The southern 10-inch gun carriage has been re-created.
Loading Gallery
With their large carriages, the 10-inch guns were able to swivel, making it possible to load them in two minutes under the protection of the loading gallery. Ammunition in the form of 400 lb (182 kg) projectiles and 130 lb (60 kg) charges of gunpowder were raised to the loading gallery above the magazine by hoists. From here they were rammed by a mechanical loading system into the muzzles. The complete loading system has been re-created for the southern gun.
The magazine provided storage for gunpowder and shells for the 10-inch guns.
The Caponier
The caponier served as an important defensive feature. Its covered passage gave access to the supplementary gunpowder stores and the side-arm and tackle store.
The Garrison
Between 1880 and 1882, the fort was staffed on weekends on a temporary basis by the South Australian Volunteer Artillery ‘B’ battery. In 1882, the South Australian Permanent Artillery became the colony’s first home recruited ‘regular’ force. With Fort Glanville as their base, their prime purpose was to defend the colony. Officers’ quarters were separated from the enlisted men in the barracks, as were their mess facilities. Accommodation was limited, and tents for volunteers were pitched outside the fort for weekend training camps.
This fort is open to the public on the third Sunday of every month, from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm, between September and May.
Fort open days are an affordable and fun afternoon out for 'history buffs' and families alike. The Fort Glanville Historical Association members provide a unique and entertaining living history through uniformed re-enactments of military activities. Cover your ears and smell the gun powder smoke in the air during the cannon and carbine firing drills.
Take your kids and watch them get put through their paces by the drill sergeant as he takes them through a mock traditional military parade. Don't forget your camera as this always proves to be entertaining viewing for parents and grandparents!
Learn about the history of the fort as you wander through the small museum at the fort entrance. See war relics, military equipment and historical photos of the fort as it once was.
Tours are also run on these Sundays; however no booking is necessary, you also have the option to explore the fort and small museum in your own time.
The fort is open for tours every Tuesday, from 9 am to 2pm.
Walk-ins are welcome and no booking is necessary for groups of less than 25. The full tour of the fort takes approximately an hour and a half; shorter/longer tours are available to booked groups via arrangement.
Fees and bookings
Fort Glanville is always on the hunt for new volunteers to help during re-enactments and open days. If you have a passion for military history or just want to get involved with your local community please don't hesitate to contact us.
If you think you might be interested in volunteering opportunities within this park please contact our Volunteer Support Unit.
There are no specific bushwalking trails within this park.
Can I have a fire or barbecue?
Wood fires, solid fuel, gas fires and liquid fuel fires are prohibited throughout the year.
Ensure you are familiar with the fire restrictions for this park.
Closures and safety
This park is closed on days of Catastrophic Fire Danger and may also be closed on days of Extreme Fire Danger.
You can determine the current fire danger rating by checking the Fire Ban District map on the CFS website.
Check the CFS website or call the CFS Bushfire Information Hotline 1800 362 361 for:
Information on fire bans and current fire conditions
Current CFS warnings and incidents
Information on what to do in the event of a fire.
Listen to your local area radio station for the latest updates and information on fire safety.
Every national park is different, each has its own unique environment, it is important to be responsible while enjoying all the park has to offer.
Please ensure that you:
leave your pets at home
do not feed birds or other animals, it promotes aggressive behaviour and an unbalanced ecology
do not bring generators (except where permitted), chainsaws or firearms into the park
leave the park as you found it - there are no bins in national parks, please come prepared to take your rubbish with you.
abide by the road rules (maintain the speed limit)
respect geological and heritage sites
do not remove native plants
are considerate of other park users.
Entry and tour fees
Open days and re-enactments (third Sunday of the month - September to May)
Entry fees include a guided tour and re-enactment.
Adult - $15.00
Child (under 14) - $7.00
Concession - $7.00
Family - $35.00
Tuesday tours (1:00pm - 4:30pm)
Standard tour - $6.00 per person
Bookings are essential for 25 people or more.
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This park is not included in the park pass system.
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Dual reporting to the Dean, School of Health & Human Sciences and the Associate Vice Chancellor of University Advancement
UNC Greensboro is part of the University of North Carolina System. The multi-campus university encompasses 16 such institutions sprinkled strategically to population centers within the state. The City of Greensboro is the third most populous in the state with the campus located only one mile from the center of “downtown.”
The Director of Development for the School of Health & Human Sciences (HHS) oversees and manages all aspects of the development program. The candidate must be able to think strategically and practically to implement a comprehensive and results-oriented development plan that includes goals and strategies for major, planned and annual gifts. This position will also build and foster key relationships for the School and the University with alumni, friends, community members, business leaders and faculty.
This gift officer will work closely with the Dean and faculty to encourage and manage their engagement in the fundraising process. The Director will play a significant role in the leadership of associate gift officers occasionally assigned to HHS working in supportive collaboration through mentorship, close communication and inclusion. The Director of Development will enjoy the enthusiasm of Chancellor Gilliam and Dean Mattacola to assist in the fundraising process when strategically appropriate.
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Professor Jane Lydon will be speaking on the topic 'Imperial emotions: Empathy, politics and global networks'.
Burns 2 Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
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The Internationalisation Committee meets bimonthly to discuss developments in the University’s overall internationalisation strategy and to make recommendations to Senate regarding institutional partnerships. Funds for travel grants for the University’s Student Exchange Programme are held by the Committee, as is the funding for the Staff Development Awards offered to staff from the National University of Samoa. The Committee also administers the Internationalisation of the Curriculum Initiative Grants and the Matariki Network of Universities’ Travel Awards.
Queries regarding these, or any other activities of the Committee, should be directed by email to lynda.mciver@otago.ac.nz .
If you are a full or part-time member of staff for whom teaching or co-ordination of academic courses is a substantial part of your job, and are interested in research that will lead to significant developments in the curriculum or your teaching practice (including content, delivery method and/or assessment practice), you may be eligible for the above grants.
Further details on the application process are available by emailing lynda.mciver@otago.ac.nz
Applications are invited for the University of Otago's Matariki Network of Universities’ (MNU) Travel Awards. The purpose of these awards is to enable academic and professional staff at the University of Otago to meet with colleagues from MNU member universities to develop and/or enhance collaboration. That collaboration can be research or teaching/curriculum related. The Travel Awards are to be used in addition to regular conference or RSL funding, with the additional funding enabling a visit to an MNU partner that would otherwise not have been funded through either conference or RSL monies. Further information regarding the MNU, member institutions and its objectives, is available at matarikinetwork.org
A proposal should accompany the application, detailing the purpose of the visit, whether or not there is already an existing collaborative relationship with the person(s) to be visited, the nature of the collaboration, confirmation that you have the appropriate conference/ RSL approval and evidence of who you will be meeting with at the MNU institution(s) you intend to visit (e.g. letters of invitation). An indicative budget (including quotes from one of the two University-approved travel agents, stipend, hotel, shuttle/ car hire and insurance costs etc) and timeframe should also be provided. Please note that the Travel Awards do not allow for contributions to the cost of international airfares but rather are to assist staff with the travel costs specifically related to visiting MNU partners.
A total of ten (10) travel awards are available in any one year, with two submission dates each year.
The first round of applications will be considered at the March meeting of the Internationalisation Committee and the second round will be considered at the May meeting. A maximum of $2000 is available for each award. Applications should be endorsed by your Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and submitted to Lynda McIver (email lynda.mciver@otago.ac.nz), Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement). On completion of the project, recipients will be required to submit a written report to the Internationalisation Committee on the use and outcomes of the award.
University of Otago House was a gift from the National University of Samoa (NUS). The house was gifted to provide accommodation for academics conducting approved research either in collaboration with the National University of Samoa faculty or in the Samoa Islands. It is also available to other university staff on official business either with NUS or the Samoan Government. Postgraduate students conducting approved research and family members accompanying staff are also able to stay in the house.
The house, situated on NUS campus, is fully furnished, has two twin bedrooms, two bathrooms, a full kitchen, lounge, dining area, laundry and an office with two desks. It is designed to comfortably accommodate up to 4 people. Please note that accommodation may be on a shared basis. Basic supplies are provided but staff will need to supply food and personal items.
Charges are:
NZD$30.00 per person per night
NZD$100.00 per person per week (7 consecutive days).
If you are interested in staying in the house, please contact:
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The University of Otago is an official partner in the NZ Centre at Peking University, having joined as a member of the Advisory Group in 2008.
Staff are encouraged to consider including a visit to the Centre in any travel to Beijing, and contacts with academic staff at Peking University can be facilitated via the Centre. While the current PKU-based directors are both in the School of Foreign Languages, the Centre is intended to bring together Chinese and New Zealand academics working across the spectrum of disciplines.
Key initiatives currently underway at the Centre include the offering of an undergraduate elective course on New Zealand, and any staff who would be interested in lecturing as part of this course should contact the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) in the first instance. Public lectures can also be organised under the auspices of the Centre, and/or in combination with the respective academic department at Peking University.
For further details regarding activities at the NZ Centre, please contact the Office of the Director International.
The International Relations & Visits Coordinator arranges and organises visits for many different types of visitors to the University of Otago.
For more information please visit the International & VIP visit guidelines section of this website.
If you are interested in setting up a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or New Exchange Partnership agreement with an overseas institution your first point of contact should be Otago International.
Lynda McIver, Personal Assistant to the Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), can provide further details on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) proposal process, email lynda.mciver@otago.ac.nz
New Exchange Partnership
Further information about the Student Exchange proposal process can be obtained by downloading the Proposed Agreement for New Exchange Partnerships document (88KB in PDF format)
Departments should consult with the Exchange Office prior to submitting this form by emailing exchange@otago.ac.nz
Please Note: once a proposal has been received, it will need to go the Internationalisation Committee for further consideration.
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Oxford United goalkeeper Max Harris has signed his first professional contract with the club.
Max,19, joined the club as a scholar and has kept goal for both the under 18s and under 23 sides as well as appearing for the first team this pre-season. He has now signed a unique deal which will see him play for the U’s while continuing his education at Hartpury College.
Academy Manager Dan Harris explains:
“Max is a fantastic lad who has made huge progress here and first and foremost he completely deserves the chance to become a professional goalkeeper because he has undoubted ability and trains very hard every day.But he is also an academically minded young man and we put great stock in education for our scholars. Education remains one of our core principles. We believe we have found a way for him to continue in higher education while also training and playing for us, and we thank Hartpury for their help in setting this up.”
Max told us
“I have loved every minute since I came to the club. All of the coaches have been brilliant with me and there is a strong goalkeepers’ union here under Wayne Brown who is an exceptional coach. My aim is to push myself all the way because the dream has always been to be a goalkeeper, but I also want to continue my studies and I am so grateful that Dan and the Academy staff have helped me sort that side of things out.
“Now it’s a case of making sure I make the most of this opportunity."
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"Equal emphasis is placed on a balance of priorities: intellectual, emotional, social and physical cultivation."
The goal is to cultivate "emotionally intelligent and con?dent individuals, capable of leading both themselves and others."
The goal is to cultivate "academically strong, creative and critical thinkers, capable of exercising rationality, apprehending truth, and making aesthetic distinctions."
The goal is to cultivate "individuals with inner resourcefulness, strong faith and respect for God or a higher power."
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Broadly-speaking, the main curriculum -- like that of most schools -- paces the provincially-outlined one. This pace is steady and set by the teachers and school. The curriculum might still be enriched in various ways: covering topics more in-depth and with more vigor than the provincial one, or covering a broader selection of topics.
The main curriculum accelerates beyond the pace of the provincial one; ALL students do the work of OLDER public-school peers in tangible and measurable ways. This accelerated pace is maintained by the teachers and school, (through textbook selection, topic selection, grading, assignment standards and expectations, etc).
A school with a “supportive” academic culture focuses more on process than short-term outcomes: academic performance is a welcomed side-benefit, but not the driving focus. This does not mean the school lacks standards, or has low expectations for its students: a school can have a supportive academic culture and still light the fire of ambition in its students. It does mean, however, the school provides a less intensive culture than schools with a “rigorous” academic classification, and is focused more simply on instilling a love of learning and life-long curiosity.
A school with a “rigorous” academic culture places a high value on academic performance, and expects their students to do the same. This does not mean the school is uncaring, unsupportive, or non-responsive -- far from it. A school can have a rigorous academic culture and still provide excellent individual support. It does mean, however, the school places a particular emphasis on performance -- seeking the best students and challenging them to the fullest extent -- relative to a normal baseline. High expectations and standards – and a challenging yet rewarding curriculum – are the common themes here. Keep in mind this classification is more relevant for the older grades: few Kindergarten classrooms, for example, would be called “rigorous”.
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Academic-based preschools and Kindergartens are the most structured of the different types, and have a strong emphasis on math and reading readiness skills. These programs aim to expose children to what early-elementary school is like. While time is still allotted to free play, much of the day is built around explicit lessons guided by the teacher. Classrooms often resemble play-based ones (with different stations set up around the room), but at an Academic program the teacher leads students through the stations directly, and ties these activities to a whole-class lesson or theme.
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Whereas some schools are just that, schools, Blyth represents a range of programs at a range of locations. It was founded by Sam Blyth in 1977, and quickly established itself as a leader in global education with the creation of a Canadian high school in France, as well as an accredited program at Oxford University. Those global education programs provided a unique addition to the Canadian educational landscape.
With the creation of the first brick-and-mortar school here at home in 2002, Blyth applied the same concept to domestic education. In the intervening decades, the program has grown exponentially, now including 11 campuses which, together, represent the largest single private school student population in Canada. Still, the program continued to grow, today including a campus in Washington DC. A majority host summer programs, night and weekend classes, intended to provide challenge or support for students of the school, or those interested only in specific courses. And on it goes … there are further international programs, year-long study abroad program under the Blyth Global High School banner, as well as online/distance course offerings. There are even March break courses, both here and abroad.
Again, it's a lot, with a range of programs to support a wide range of students and academic goals. Again, for anyone who thinks of school in a traditional way—a building with classes—Blyth can be a lot to get your head around. Given the historical strength of the programs, however, it's very much worth the effort.
Headmaster emeritus Glenn Domina quotes Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizen in a Republic" speech—" The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and blood"—to underscore his guarantee that at Northmount "your son will not get his sister's education." No, that's not the cornerstone of the school, but Domina's statements highlight the values that inform the life of the school, values that are also very firmly centred in the Catholic traditions on which the school's program is based. The school is strong, both socially and academically, and including a rich extracurricular program, particularly when viewed in light of the school's size. Faith is central to the approach. The ideal student is one who shares the values that the school promotes and is personally inspired by them.
Small class size (Average 7)
Experiential learning approach
Individualised programming
Partnerships with community organisations
Certified, trained teachers
Convenient downtown location
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Ranked #1 Elementary School in Ontario by the Fraser Institute
Catholic Character Education and Personal Advisory Program
Partner in Education with the Archdiocese of Toronto
Extensive Clubs and Co-Curriculars
Pre AP College Board Approved School
Advanced Mathematics and Science Programs
At Blyth Academy Waterloo we are building an active and dynamic school community. We have a range of extra-curricular opportunities inclusive of student council, prom committee, DECA, mathematics and computer science clubs and contests, coding workshops as well as various other activities of interest to our students. Our school has an average class size of seven which allows for our educators to spend significant individualized time with each student while delivering a broad range of courses.
Northmount School for Boys is proud to be Toronto’s only independent Catholic boys’ elementary school (JK-8). Our strategically small class sizes and enriched program of study are designed to optimize a boy's education. Experiential learning that engages all of a young man's senses is critical for the delivery of our curriculum. Our lessons provide opportunities for movement, experimentation, presentation, and the building of core skills in order to achieve extraordinary results. As a small school, the opportunity for participation in the arts, athletics, clubs, and community service is available to students at each grade level. We believe that close, personal, home-and-school communications reinforce our exceptional Catholic Character Education Program. Northmount works in partnership with parents to instill in our boys a strong sense of character, leadership, service and a life long love of learning. At Northmount, it is our mission to inspire boys to explore and achieve their greatest potential.
At Blyth Academy Waterloo we take pride in delivering a well rounded, personalized education that focuses on the development of the student both academically and personally. Our goal is to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to be successful in an ever changing world while instilling a passion for learning. Students will graduate from Blyth Academy Waterloo well prepared for successful entry to the best universities in Canada, the USA and abroad.
I am delighted to welcome you to Northmount’s Website on the Our Kids Network and I hope that you will soon visit the school if you have not done so already. Northmount is a unique place where boys are encouraged to learn and grow in a character-driven context that places a premium on our stated goal of bringing the boys along the road to honourable manhood. As parents you are your son’s first, and, most important teachers. Each boy is respected for the individual he is and his parents are very involved partners in his “school life.” The preparation for his future started at home but Northmount will continue and enhance the work you are doing as parents in an academically supportive environment. Your son will be known and mentored by his teachers and advisors. He will be understood and embraced in this community that understands and loves boys for what they really are. As a school we take great pride in our Catholic heritage. This continues to be the fundamental base in Northmount’s Character Education Program. Our student population is representative of many faith backgrounds coming from a community of families that endorse and advance the values that define Northmount School. The face of Northmount is the face of Toronto. We have tried to strike an appropriate balance for each boy in the three “A’s” of his education: academics, athletics and the arts. Boys learn best in a single sex environment. The evidence on this is overwhelming and incontrovertible. The heavy emphasis placed on girl’s education since the late 70’s has not been kind to boy’s education in general and has given rise to the myth that boys will get along regardless of curriculum and pedagogy. This is demonstrably wrong. In Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan, high-school drop out rates for boys age 16 and over is higher than 40%. We have seen women’s enrollment in university significantly surpass men’s university enrollment across the western world. If current trends continue, one source calculates, the last boy will graduate from “a” North American University in 2076. Some co-educational schools admit, candidly, that they have not had a boy qualify as valedictorian for a graduating class over the past ten years. At Northmount we consider this a very serious state of affairs. We at Northmount base the character and education of the boys on firm ground born of the rock of ages making us much less inclined to faddism or novelty. Your son’s education is too important to be a trial case study in the latest educational ”experiment.” As I watch the boys at play each day I am struck by how quickly they become physically strong but restrain themselves as they play with, or near, the younger ones. These emerging young men can also turn around and play a song or paint a picture that, on occasion, will make one stop in his tracks. Their work can belie an emotional depth that the boy’s verbal communication does not. Competitive, active boys will be drawn to academics if put in an environment that champions the challenge of academics balanced with the athletic and artistic prowess as it springs from these young men of virtue. Years after the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo he was asked how this great victory was possible. He harkened back to the virtues and values his men had taken to heart while boys at school. He stated flatly, “The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” Northmount is such a school. We look forward to welcoming you and your son. Glenn C. Domina Headmaster
PHOTO-TOUR OF FACILITY
OVERALL CURRICULUM
Our Take: primary curriculum type
Liberal Arts curricula share with traditional programs their emphasis on core knowledge-acquisition, but tend to borrow more best practices from the progressive approach. A Liberal Arts program might still feature group work and projects, for example, contrary to the more singular emphasis on tests and essays at a Traditional program.
Our Take: secondary curriculum type
What the school says about their curriculum
Blyth Academy offers a private school experience that focuses on personalized education, very small class sizes and experiential learning. Our unique approach allows us to tailor the curriculum to the individual student, not the other way around. By taking into account each student’s learning style and extra-curricular responsibilities, we are able to customize a plan unique to the individual.
Northmount School is an independent boys preparatory school (JK-8) grounded in the Catholic tradition. It helps students achieve their greatest academic potential in a supportive environment which emphasizes character development, values and service, leading to a meaningful, balanced and fulfilling life.
COURSE PEDAGOGIES
Equal Balance
Traditional Math
Our take: math approach type
These math programs feature an equal balance of “Traditional” and “Discovery” methods.
Traditional Math typically teaches a method or algorithm FIRST, and THEN teaches the applications for the method. Traditional algorithms are emphasized and practiced regularly: repetition and drills are frequently used to ensure foundational mastery in the underlying mathematical procedures. The traditional approach to math views math education as akin to building a logical edifice: each brick depends on the support of the previously laid ones, which represent mastery over a particular procedure or method. Traditional Math begins by giving students a tool, and then challenges students to practice using that tool an applied way, with progressively challenging problems. In this sense Traditional Math aims to establish procedural understanding before conceptual and applied understanding.
What the school says about their math program
We use an inquiry-based approach to instruction, supplemented with traditional direct instruction. New topics are presented using real-world scenarios and students are then prompted with questions such as: “What do you notice?” or, “What do you wonder?” This open-ended questioning allows students to begin engaging with concepts without being limited by preconceptions. At this point, the teacher may ask additional open ended questions, or offer prompts if students are stuck. After they have had a chance to brainstorm, it is up to students to articulate what materials and skills they might need to solve the problem. The teacher then provides some direct instruction to introduce the necessary new skills. Having students engage with a problem prior to direct instruction not only makes math more meaningful, but also fosters more engagement, as students will be more invested in learning new skills if they are instrumental to a pre-existing task.
Northmount School for Boys uses the Saxon Math program that works on building, reviewing and learning new challenging math skills in a modern context that is focused on boys learning.
Textbooks and supplementary materials
Nelson textbooks are used across grade levels, with supplementary learning facilitated by Desmos online graphing calculator, as well as Gizmos virtual manipulatives (explorelearning.com).
Only non-graphing scientific calculators are permitted during test and exams. (Smart phones are also not permissible, as they do not always handle order of operations appropriately.) Students are encouraged to use their own calculators during regular practice, so that they are comfortable with their devices during tests and evaluations.
Scientific calculators are introduced to boys in grades seven and eight.
Our take: early reading approach type
Balanced reading programs are typically Whole Language programs with supplementary phonics training. This training might be incidental, or it might take the form of mini-lessons.
What the school says about their early reading program
Reading is taught from the K level through the primary program. Focused is on engendering a love of reading. Phonics decoding and comprehension skills are the focus of the primary division. Literature studies are central to the rest of the grades.
DIBELS testing
Our take: writing approach type
Programs that balance systematic and process approaches equally likely have an emphasis on giving young students ample opportunities to write, while providing supplementary class-wide instruction in grammar, parts of sentences, and various writing strategies.
What the school says about their writing program
Students are taught to write by the exposure to good literature, the scaffolded structure of assignments and the exposure to age appropriate exemplars.
Our take: science approach type
Science programs that balance expository and inquiry learning equally will likely have an equal blend of tests and experiments; direct, textbook-based instruction and student-centred projects.
What the school says about their science program
At Blyth Academy, we like to focus on experiential learning, and there is no real better subject in which to be able to do that than Science. From collecting and consolidating the knowledge of students entering in primary grades, to the complex examination of biological process, physical systems, and chemical reactions in grade 12. In grade 9, students build an understanding of the world around as they develop their practical and inquiry skills. In grade 10 we shift focus to Cells and Systems, Chemical Reactions, Climate Change, and Light; By grade 11 and into 12, students are encouraged to study each of the subjects individually, where we start to truly explore the nature of the sciences in ever more complex and elaborate ways. Our prime asset, though, is our team of passionate and knowledgable staff, communicating their love of the subject in every lesson.
The boy scientific education is taught through both the teaching of theory and the inquiry based hands-on experimentation in a lab setting.
Topics covered in science curriculum
Evolution as consensus theory
Evolution as one of many equally viable theories
Evolution is not taught
Treatment of evolution (value)
Our take: literature approach type
These literature programs draw in equal measure from “Traditional” and “Social Justice” programs.
What the school says about their literature program
Our English program encourages students to collaborate in their analysis through the use of formal and informal seminars on a variety of texts and forms of media. Students read a wide array of texts ranging from literary classics to contemporary pieces. Teachers seek to build creative thinking skills within their students by balancing their courses with traditional literary criticism, creative writing, and media analysis.
The boys are exposed to a wide variety of literature from a wide variety of sources. We offer a wide variety of sources that is boy- centric. Our literature program is cross curricular integrated with our social studies program.
Domains covered by the literature program
Topics covered in literature curriculum
Ancient lit
English lit
World (non-Western) lit
European (continental) lit
Canadian lit
Our take: social studies approach type
Usually focused on teaching history and geography at an early age, the core knowledge approach uses story, drama, reading, and discussion to teach about significant people, places, and events. Breadth of content and knowledge is emphasized. The curriculum is often organized according to the underlying logic of the content: history might be taught sequentially, for example (as students move through the grades).
What the school says about their social studies program
The basis of our program is a core knowledge but is organized with themes running through it that is co-ordinated with our literature program. Social justice is a key focus of the school and is not relegated to our social studies program.
Our take: humanities and social sciences approach type
These programs represent an equal balance between the perennialist and pragmatic approach to teaching the humanities and social sciences.
Perennialism in the humanities and social sciences emphasizes the idea of education being a kind of “conversation” between generations, and so frequently turns to “Great Works” and “Big Ideas” for teaching-content. Perennialist programs approach past works on their own terms; as if they might actually help students understand “today” better. Past works are not viewed as mere historical artifacts, but as gateways to a deeper understanding of the human condition. History (and, by extension, the humanities in general) therefore plays a large role in perennialist curriculums, though social sciences like economics, psychology, and sociology can still be taught. There is a strong Liberal Arts bent to perennialist programs. The key goals are to develop critical thinking, a strong foundation of core knowledge (or “cultural literacy”), and persuasion skills through informed debate and extensive practice in essay writing.
What the school says about their humanities and social sciences
Blyth Academy emphasizes experiential learning and so a pragmatic approach is important to making learning memorable and relevant. History, whilst grounded in facts, nonetheless has at its core inquiry skills and the appraisal and interpretation of evidence. Whilst this aspect is often seen as perennialism or the preserve of the liberal arts, the application is very much pragmatic. History, though political and social bias, is created as much as it is studied and the students will reflect critically on this process of creation. This skill can then can be applied to real life scenarios such as political and social education, and applications to social justice. Students will complete projects and be encouraged to reflect on the success of their approaches to learning new topics. The relevance and appropriateness of pragmatism in the social sciences must be critically appraised before it can be usefully employed.
Northmount students enjoy learning about the history and geography of the world around them. In the Senior Division, students will learn about exciting and important world issues, politics, and economics. They will learn about the important events that shaped modern day Canada, from First contact with European settlers through to New France, British North America and then Confederation. This journey is filled with inquiry, discovery, and interactive learning experiences. With the study of important and relevant historical events, as well as of current economic and political issues, students begin to learn valuable lessons and skills of how to be positive contributors of Canadian society. Field trips also form an integral part of the course – boys get to explore the real world as they learn the theory in the classroom.
Our take: foreign language approach type
What the school says about their foreign language programs
We follow the Ontario curriculum, with a focus on oral language and practical knowledge and skills. At the Grades 10-12 level, students are combined in a core/extended/immersion classroom, and are credited based on the competencies they attain during the course. While we are not a French Immersion school, we do offer credit for the French Immersion course. In addition, ESL courses are offered as needed, resulting in a possible maximum of 3 English credits.
Our French program emphasis listening, interpreting, writing, and producing original French works.
Language instruction offered in:
Learning a foreign language is required until
Our take: fine arts approach type
Creative arts programs are studio-driven. While historical works and movements may still be taught to add context to the program, students mainly engage in making art (visual, musical, theatrical, etc). The goal is use the actual practice of art to help educate students’ emotions, cognition, and ethos.
These programs have an equal emphasis on receptive and creative learning.
What the school says about their fine arts program
EXPRESSIVE: "Creativity is inherently subjective. Our goal is to create an open and non-judgemental environment for students to experiment, innovate, and find the artist within." The arts program at Blyth Academy is very much tailored to the students' strengths and interests. In music, for example, if the students wish to study guitar, we locate a music studio in the neighbourhood and provide the appropriate setting and instruction. If students in Visual Arts wish to pursue pottery, classes take place in a nearby pottery studio. Individual creativity is very much the focus of our arts programming.
Our visual arts begins on the expressive scale and develops into a more disciplined approach as the student matures.
Drama/Theatre
Computers and Technolgy
Heavy integration
Light integration
Our take: computers and technology approach type
A major effort is made to integrate the development of digital literacy throughout the curriculum and in everything students do. Digital literacy is understood to be a fundamental skill in the 21st century: it therefore follows, the idea goes, that teachers should find ways to connect every lesson back to technology. Effort is made to ensure the use of technology is meaningful and advances students’ skills beyond what they would otherwise be from using computers outside the classroom.
Computers are used in the classroom from time to time, but integrating technology into everything students do is not a dominant focus. Digital literacy is understood to be a legitimate skill in the 21st century, but not one that should distract from teaching the subject at hand, or more fundamental skills and literacies. The idea is today’s students, being “digital natives”, are likely exposed to computers and new media enough outside the classroom: the role of the school, rather, should be to develop competencies that may otherwise get missed.
What the school says about their computers and technology program
Students are highly encouraged to bring their own device to class each day. Laptops are used extensively in each class, and the majority of resources and assignments are posted on our educational portal, ensuring that students always have access to class notes, upcoming assignments, and pertinent digital resources. In addition, students who opt to delve further into Information Technology, Media or Film Studies are encouraged to equip their devices with appropriate and efficient software.
Technology is scene as a tool to enhance learning in the curriculum rather than a discipline rather than itself.
What the school says about their physical education program
Physical Education takes many forms at Blyth Academy. Outdoor education is the backbone of our programming, however we do regularly access a nearby facilities as needed, as well as pools, basketball courts, hockey arenas, martial arts studio, and fitness centres. As part of our extracurricular programming, physical education is delivered by means of school soccer teams and clubs. Students are required to complete the pertinent theory components to all Physical Education classes, which is delivered in the classroom.
We believe strongly that the boys have daily physical education classes, with skill development, co-operative play and personal fitness as highlights.
What the school says
The main focus of the Kindergarten program is for boys to develop a love of learning. Furthermore, the boys are given an excellent academic, athletic, artistic, social, and spiritual foundation. Northmount has an energetic and talented group of teachers that strives to individualize its instruction and programs. Teachers enrich student learning as well as provide additional help and encouragement when needed. It is so well developed that by the end of senior kindergarten our boys read, write and do mathematics at a Grade 1 standard, which sets them well on the path towards academic success.
Students learn best when it’s at their own pace. Whether fast tracking is a priority, extra help is needed, or athletics/homeschooling play an important roll in our students’ lives, Blyth Academy offers flex schedules, night school, private/semi private classes, summer/accelerated course designed to accommodate our students’ diverse academic goals.
Northmount's CASTLE Program is there to increase the stride in a students' learning pace. The CASTLE Program is an individualized instruction which allows each boy to achieve their greatest potential within our enriched and accelerated academic setting.
At Blyth Academy, we have high academic expectations, and provide students with the supportive and flexible environment in which to reach those high standards. Teachers are very much focused on student learning and success, ensuring understanding for each individual, and engaging the entire class in the learning process. The academic success of each student is based entirely on the individual's learning style and academic goals.
At Northmount School for Boys, the key to mastery of fundamental skills stems from the ability to tailor the curriculum so that it is personally relevant and engaging. We recognize that each student comes to us from a different background and as such our individualized instruction allows each boy to achieve their greatest potential within our enriched and accelerated academic setting.
Approach to student honours
"We honour and distinguish our brightest students, using them as examples for other students to follow."
Graduates of Blyth Academy will step into post secondary education with an appreciation for hard work and their fellow peers. While supportive by nature, our staff pushes students to strive for academic excellence, without sacrificing the human element. Empowering each student to be emotionally mature, socially balanced, academically driven, and personally open and accepting is an inherent goal for each student who spends time with us.
We offer an advanced curriculum rooted in the Catholic tradition. Our students will become men who are competent and confident leaders; strong in both mind and body. They develop into contributing citizens with a moral conscience.
FORMAL SUPPORT FOR DISORDERS, DISABILITIES, AND EXCEPTIONALITIES
A - Forms of Support
Modification:
Remediation:
B - Environments
Indirect Support:
Resource Assistance:
Withdrawal Assistance:
Partial Integration:
Full-Time Class:
Forms of Support
ADHD (moderate to severe)
This is a neurodevelopmental disorder. Children with ADHD may be hyperactive and unable control their impulses. Or they may have trouble paying attention. These behaviors can interfere with school and home life.
Dyslexia (Language-Based Learning Disability)
This is a learning disability that can limit a child's ability to read and learn. It can have a variety of traits. A few of the main ones are impaired phonological awareness and decoding, problems with orthographic coding, and auditory short-term memory impairment.
This is a sound differentiation disorder involving problems with reading, comprehension, and language.
This is a kind of specific learning disability in math. Kids with this math disorder have problems with calculation. They may also have problems with math-related concepts such as time and money.
This is a kind of specific learning disability in writing. It involves problems with handwriting, spelling, and organizing ideas.
Language Processing Disorder
This is characterized by having extreme difficulty understanding what is heard and expressing what one wants to say. These disorders affect the area of the brain that controls language processing.
Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NLD)
These involve difficulties interpreting non-verbal cues, such as facial expressions and body language. They're usually characterized by a significant discrepancy between higher verbal skills and weaker motor, visual-spatial, and social skills.
Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit
A characteristic seen in people with learning disabilities such as Dysgraphia or Non-verbal LD. It can result in missing subtle differences in shapes or printed letters, losing place frequently, struggles with cutting, holding pencil too tightly, or poor eye/hand coordination.
Refers to a range of conditions that involve challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, and speech and nonverbal communication. They also involve unique strengths and differences. For instance, there are persons with both low- and high-functioning autism (some claim the latter is identical to Asperger's syndrome).
On the autism spectrum, Asperger's is considered quite mild in terms of symptoms. While traits can vary widely, many kids with Asperger's struggle with social skills. They also sometimes fixate on certain subjects and engage in repetitive behaviour.
his is associated with impairment of cognitive ability and physical growth, and a particular set of facial characteristics.
This is a condition characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning (e.g., reasoning, learning, and problem solving). Intellectual disabilities are also known as general learning disabilities (and used to be referred to as a kind of mental retardation).
This is a rare genetic disorder present at birth. It is characterized by intellectual disabilities or learning problems, unique facial features, and cardiovascular problems.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an umbrella term used to describe the range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother consumed alcohol during pregnancy. These may include growth deficits, facial anomalies, and damage to the central nervous system, which can lead to cognitive, behavioural, and other problems.
Behavioral and Emotional
Troubled behaviour / troubled teens
roubled teens tend to have problems that are intense, persistent, and can lead to quite unpredictable behaviour. This can lead to behavioural and emotional issues, such as drug and alcohol abuse, criminal behaviour, eating disorders, depression, and anxiety.
This is a mental health disorder also called "major depression." It involves persistent feelings of sadness, loss, and anger. According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms are usually severe enough to cause noticeable problems in relationships with others or in daily activities, such as school, work, or one's social life.
Clinical anxiety
This is a mood disorder involving intense, relentless feelings of distress and fear. They can also have excessive and persistent worry about everyday situations, and repeated episodes of intense anxiety or terror.
This involves persistent thoughts about ending one's life.
This involves the excessive use of drug and/or alcohol, which interferes with daily functioning.
This is a disruptive behavioural disorder which normally involves angry outbursts, often directed at people of authority. This behaviour must last continuously for six months or more and significantly interfere with daily functioning.
This is a condition of the central nervous system. It affects the brain, optic nerves, and spinal cord. Symptoms can include fatigue, loss of motor control, memory loss, depression, and cognitive difficulties.
his refers to a group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood. CP is caused by abnormal development or damage to the parts of the brain that control movement, balance, and posture.
Muscular dystrophy is a neuromuscular disorder which weakens the body's muscles. Causes, symptoms, age of onset, and prognosis vary between individuals.
This is a condition present at birth due to the incomplete formation of the spine and spinal cord. It can lead to a number of physical challenges, including paralysis or weakness in the legs, bowel and bladder incontinence, hydrocephalus (too much fluid in the brain), and deformities of the spine.
Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder)
This is a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Also known as "sensory integration disorder," it affects fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults. It may also affect speech.
Visual impairment is a decreased ability or inability to see that can't be fixed in usual ways, such as with glasses. Some people are completely blind, while others have what's called "legal blindness."
Hearing impairment, also known as "hearing loss," is a partial or total inability to hear. The degree of hearing impairment varies between people. It can range from complete hearing loss (or deafness) to partial hearing loss (meaning the ears can pick up some sounds).
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an inherited genetic condition, which affects the body's respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems. It affects young children and adults.
Multiple physical
Accommodating a wide range of physical conditions and disabilities.
Social skills programs
INFORMAL SUPPORT FOR MILD DIFFICULTIES
Mild but clinically diagnosed ADHD
What the school says about their special needs support
At Northmount School for Boys, we recognize the diverse learning needs of our community. For that reason, we proudly offer the CASTLE Program: a centre of enrichment and support. The acronym, CASTLE, stands for: Character, Academics, Athletics, Arts, Strengths (social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual), Toward, Leadership and Excellence. These are all traits that we hold in the highest of regard and truly believe that every one of the students in our charge can reach his greatest potential in each and every one of these areas. Sometimes though, we know additional help and resources may be needed; hence we have the CASTLE Program! The CASTLE Program is truly essential for Northmount as it helps address the needs of our students who are gifted, underachieving, ESL, or have other unique learning styles.
What happens if child develops disorder while enrolled/Should families seek enrollment if child has disability
Academic success presents itself in many forms, and requires diverse learning situations. At Blyth Academy, we are well versed in the role of accommodating students with various challenges. Differentiated learning is common place in each classroom. These accommodations, by way of student support plans, are developed in cooperation with the student, family, teacher, guidance counsellor and administration, as a whole team approach.
Northmount school makes every effort to support a boy through his educational journey. Moderate individualization of instruction allows us to make some accommodation. We recognize the diverse learning needs of our community. For that reason, we proudly offer the CASTLE Program: a center of enrichment and support. The CASTLE Program is truly essential for Northmount as it helps students achieve their full potential.
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Clubs Offered
Ballet and Classical Ballet
Poetry/Literature club
Outdoor Club
Musical theatre/Opera
Audiovisual Club
Student involvement in DECA
Every boy, beginning at any age, who wishes to be on a school team may do so. Varsity sports begin at grade 1 and because we are a small school the boys have lots of opportunity to earn a spot on a team.
Club offerings follow the interest of the boys. We have a wide array and boys are free to include their own suggestions. Interest clubs are so important that we actually build school time in for them.
Service to our community encompasses all grades. It is diverse in its opportunities from providing Christmas hampers for families in need to painting a fence at a local women's shelter.
Grades eligible
JK - 8
Students on aid
Avg. aid package (annual)
SSAT(out of province) required
Entrance exams required
Entrance essay required
Application fee required
Type of student school is looking for
Students wishing to attend Blyth Academy should be academically oriented, with post-secondary education as the goal.
Boys of promise, strong in character, academics, and athletics. Students who are willing to learn and give of their time to others.
Students and families are required to meet with both administration and guidance as part of the initial application to ensure the goals of the student are in line with the philosophy of Blyth Academy. Formal application and registration may then take place online, or in person.
STEPS TO ADMISSION
1.Please complete and return the on line application together with a copy of the applicant’s two most recent report cards.
2.Upon receipt of the completed application and the application fee of $200.00, a date will be scheduled for your son’s educational assessment and family interview with the Director of Admissions.
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Warren Christopher, former U.S. Secretary of State, was an early champion of the Pacific Council on International Policy and longtime chair of its Board of Directors. His vision and values inspired all aspects of the Council’s work, and we seek to honor his legacy through the creation of the Christopher Society, a distinguished member society consisting of the Council’s most dedicated supporters and leaders.
Secretary Christopher demonstrated an unparalleled commitment to public service, and his legacy embodies equality, fairness, community service, and the highest ethical standards. The members of the Christopher Society follow in his footsteps by representing the forward-thinking values and commitment to the common good demonstrated throughout Secretary Christopher’s career.
The Pacific Council is grateful to our generous supporters who make it possible to advance our mission to build the potential of the West Coast for impact on global issues, discourse, and policy.
For questions about the Christopher Society, contact Lauren Batten at lbatten@pacificcouncil.org.
Our Christopher Society members include:
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Amir Zaki: Southern California
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Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 1999 and has been regularly and actively exhibiting photographs and videos nationally and internationally since. Zaki has had solo shows at the Mak Center Schindler House in West Hollywood, ACME gallery in Los Angeles, Perry Rubenstein Gallery in New York, James Harris Gallery in Seattle, and Roberts and Tilton in Los Angeles. He has been included in many group exhibitions in significant venues including The California Biennial: 2006 at the Orange County museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Andreas Grimm Gallery in Munich, Germany, Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York, Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, the California Museum of Photography, and the San Jose Museum of Art. Zaki´s work is part of numerous public and private collections across the country including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, the Orange County museum of Art, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Recently, he has been included in a Phaidon Press anthology of contemporary photography called ´Vitamin Ph´ and contributed to LACMA´s Words Without Pictures
Zaki has an ongoing interest in the rhetoric of authenticity, as it is associated with photography as an indexical media. Simultaneously, he is deeply invested in exploring digital technology’s transformative potential to disrupt that assumed authenticity. While this may initially sound like a standard and tired postmodern trope, his interest is not in utilizing digital trickery as illustration to undermine a photograph’s veracity. In fact, Zaki often creates hybridized photographs that carefully use the vocabulary of the documentary style so that the viewer’s belief in its veracity remains intact, at least initially. He construct scenes that are somewhat off-register, ‘out of key’, and ever so slightly faux. He often uses the architectural landscape of Southern California as a subject, as it seems particularly appropriate to his process. This is largely because, either through media myth, reality or a combination of the two, the architecture and surrounding landscape in Southern California is itself an evolving bastardization of styles and forms, in other words a pastiche.
Southern California is home to a collision of high modernist ideals, suburban McMansions, high-rise density, endless asphalt grids, deserts, mountains, beaches, Los Angeles urbanism, Inland Empire sprawl, Orange Curtain conservatism, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Integratron. It should be made clear that although Zaki is fascinated and inspired by this architectural and cultural entropy, his intention is not to record, replicate or simply document a preexisting postmodern pastiche. More precisely, his work begins with the familiar, by looking at objects, structures and locations that are often pedestrian and banal. And by capitalizing on the presumed veracity that photographs continue to command, along with the transformative, yet invisible digital alterations he employs, his images depict structures that that aspire to be added to the list of the hodge-podge built landscape that creates the Southern California mythology.
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Article: Connecting the Generations in India
AUTHORMeena Surie Wilson
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Connecting the Generations in India
Research indicates that all generations want their leaders to be charismatic, team-oriented, participative, and humane
Common sense suggests that the generations in India are fundamentally different from one another. Some differences are blatant-- such as, how people dress or their preference for a consumer-oriented life style or choices about after-work entertainment. Other differences are subtle and not as easily detected, like ideas about marriage or what one considers as appropriate personal behavior or attitude towards elders or members of the opposite sex.
But as the generational tides shift due to the retirement and replacement of older employees, will there have to be wholesome changes in how leaders must behave? I do not think so.
Let’s start by defining the generations, mainly in the context of India’s urban middle and upper socio-economic classes. Three generations emerge: the Partition generation, born 1944-1963; the Transition generation born 1964-1983; and the Post-Liberalization (Market generation) born 1984 onwards. These generations are roughly equivalent to the Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y or millennials.
Each generation was raised in unique historical and economic circumstances and so their values are different. The Partition generation aspired for steady jobs and economic stability to buffer themselves and their families against misfortune. They believe that the social customs that they grew up with, are essential for social stability. The Transition generation has experienced a greater range of choices about lifestyles, careers and consumer goods and is more open to different options. However, most want to stick to the family and societal traditions with which they grew up. The Post-Liberalization generation has been brought up in a world with exponentially expanding opportunities. They are inclined to value entrepreneurship and hard work, and regard organizational rules with some skepticism. However, they continue to appreciate their families and traditions.
But when it comes to workplace behavior, our research at the Center for Creative Leadership shows that, what employees want from their leaders, across all three generations, is far more similar than different.
So what do the generations believe about effective leadership? In India, our data indicate that all three generations want their leaders to be charismatic, team-oriented, participative, and humane. And all three generations are not convinced that a hierarchical or autonomous style of leadership is effective.
These six leadership styles were identified by the GLOBE research, which was conceived by Robert House of the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Study participants were asked to think about outstanding leaders who were "exceptionally skilled at motivating, influencing, or enabling you, others, or groups to contribute to the success of the organization or task" and to rate their characteristics. The leadership styles are based on statistical and conceptual analysis of data from 17,300 middle managers from 61 countries, and is one of the most comprehensive recent studies of global leadership,
Let’s delve deeper. What do the descriptions of these six styles tell us about what all three generations want from their leaders?
Charismatic leadership is characterized by strong enthusiasm and by inspiring and motivating others
Team-oriented leadership calls for helping teams to deal with conflict, work together, and develop cohesion
Participative leadership features collaboration and inclusiveness
Humane-oriented leadership is characterized by helping others, generosity and compassion Autonomous leadership features self-reliance, individualism, and working and acting independently Hierarchical leadership places importance on social rank, following tradition, and abiding by the rules.
These descriptions help us understand what all employees want from effective intergenerational leaders. They tell us that an “outstanding leader” will be regarded as outstanding by all generations, and not just one generation of employees! But how does this translate into cross-generational behaviors and workplace interactions between managers and subordinates? Here are my top tips which are time-tested and they work. They may seem obvious, but they are difficult to put into practice.
Practice charisma. This is simply having enthusiasm for your work and for the people with whom you work. Emotions are contagious. Studies show that leaders who are perceived as positive are also perceived as being more effective.
Help your team to connect with each other. In India, the last decade has created vast opportunities for business growth. But within a company, fierce competition for personal career advancement can turn a team into a collection of maneuvering, ambitious individuals who focus on their own agendas and jockey to claim credit. In this context, it is especially important for you as a leader to build in time in your meetings for team members to learn to support one another. Your team needs to practice tackling challenges together, reflecting on lessons learned, showing mutual appreciation and celebrating achievements.
Be participative when possible. Make it a habit to ask your team for ideas and make sure you implement others’ ideas, not just your own. A leader who educates and empowers subordinates and invites their participation will consistently achieve superior results. Cultural traditions teach Indian subordinates to listen and follow the instructions of their bosses and superiors. Many times, well-qualified employees are treated as peons and scolded for not doing precisely what they were told. But recent insights from neuroscience tell us that by chastising employees frequently, we simply make it more difficult for their brains to absorb new learning and improve. They begin to mistrust their own judgment, lose confidence and the motivation to take initiative or responsibility for achieving team goals. They become under-performers.
Be humane. Really think about what your subordinates and co-workers need and how you can help them to work more effectively and achieve their personal and work-related goals. In India, there are dramatic differences between the socio-economic strata of society. Sometimes, employee performance is significantly impacted by life circumstances and events. Simple actions that recognize others’ personal situation go a long way — for example, inquiring about a sick child or attending an employee’s wedding. The point is that humane leaders consciously take such personal factors into account.
In practice, what employees of all generations want to see in their leaders is consideration for others. All leaders must learn how to be more charismatic, team-oriented, participative, and humane, and less hierarchical and autonomous. This is how to meet the deep and basic needs of employees. A good way to bridge generational gaps is to live up to employee expectations and demonstrate that you want and see value in everyone’s contributions.
Topics: #HRInsights, Leadership, Diversity
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Jenna Dewan Tatum credits a vegan diet and cardio-dance workouts for her speedy post-baby weight loss. “Working out kept me sane,” Dewan Tatum, 33, told Us. “I would feel a burst of energy and all my hormones would regulate.” Dewan Tatum did cardio dance workouts, hiking and strength-training. Jenna, who has been a vegetarian since she was 13, also made a healthy diet a top priority.
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Meanwhile, Jenna’s husband, Channing Tatum, tried a vegan diet last year but lapsed after gaining weight on it. “I gained weight, because I don’t like vegetables, so I basically had to wrap them in bread,” said Tatum, 33. Jenna said Channing is an amazing father who’s crazy about their daughter. As the Tatums navigate parenthood, one thing they agree on is they will never medicate their daughter if she ends up having a learning disability such as ADHD, which Channing was diagnosed with during childhood.
Tatum, who has dyslexia and ADHD (attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder), took prescription drugs as a child to cope with his learning disabilities. Channing said he experienced severe depression and emotional distress as he built up a tolerance for his ADHD medication and the drugs became progressively less effective. As a result of his harrowing experiences, Tatum vowed never to medicate his daughter.
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De Lille given opportunity to withdraw her misguided application – James Selfe
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DA CFE says mayor's application displays a lack of appreciation for the law and relevant facts
DA gives de Lille an opportunity to withdraw her misguided application
The DA has written to Patricia de Lille to invite her to withdraw the application regarding the upcoming Motion of No Confidence (MONC), tabled by the City of Cape Town Caucus against her.
Her application displays a lack of appreciation for the law and the relevant facts, as placed on record by the DA.
The application insists that the members of the DA Caucus be allowed to vote on the MONC in accordance with their conscience. The DA has already made it clear that this will be the case and that every Councillor is free to vote with his or her own conscience.
On the matter of a secret ballot, while the DA does not believe it is necessary given that members have the freedom to vote with their consciences, the decision on this matter must be made by the Council itself. Until such time that this decision is made and voted on, any challenge is premature.
Mayor de Lille’s final prayer in her application, that the DA federal and provincial executive be interdicted from ‘influencing’ Caucus members, has no legal basis and disingenuous, to say the least. Not only has she has failed to cite specific officer bearers she wishes to interdict, making her prayer unsustainable, she has failed to acknowledge that the DA has been clear that no threats or disciplinary action will be taken against Caucus members regarding their vote.
Should Mayor de Lille persist with her application, the DA will seek a punitive costs award for abusing the court's process with pointless and unfounded litigation.
It is in the best interest of the people of Cape Town that this matter is resolved in an open and democratic manner and for this reason, we hope that Mayor de Lille reconsiders her current course of action.
Issued by James Selfe, DA Federal Council Chairperson, 9 February 2018
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Port Orange Observer Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 3 months ago
Port Orange man with HIV arrested for not alerting partners
Gentry Burns is in jail with no bond.
by: Jarleene Almenas News Editor
A 26-year-old Port Orange man with HIV was arrested after years of having sex with multiple partners without informing them of his infection, Volusia County Sheriff's Office reported.
Gentry Burns has been charged with three felony counts, as under Florida law, it's illegal for anyone who has HIV to have sex with others without telling them of their disease. VCSO detectives identified three women who engaged in sexual activity with Burns without knowing he was HIV positive.
VCSO reported that the investigation began after Burns's ex-girlfriend reported she believed she contracted HIV from him while dating in 2013. The victim had contacted other women who dated Burns in attempt to warn them. She also provided detectives with names of those Burns could have infected.
Through subpoenaed medical records, VCSO detectives confirmed Burns was diagnosed with HIV in January 2014, and have since identified three victims who confirmed they dated and had sex with Burns without knowing he had HIV. One was diagnosed with the disease in 2017 after dating Burns in 2016.
Burns didn't need to be taken to jail, as he was already in custody on unrelated charges. No bond is allowed on the new charges.
Detectives believe other victims may still come forward and ask that anyone who has dated Burns, and believes they might be at risk, go see a doctor. They should also contact VCSO at 248-1777.
Other diseases for which it is illegal not to inform a sexual partner of include chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, genital herpes simplex, chlamydia, nongonococcal urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, acute salpingitis or syphilis.
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Basalt Fire day 3: 0% containment, fire grows to 4,900 acres, 3 homes lost
News | July 5, 2018
Scott Condon, Aspen Times
UPDATE 12:30 p.m. – The Lake Christine Fire has grown to 4,900 acres, according to the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office and Roger Staats, Northern Rockies incident commander.
Two mobile homes in El Jebel burned down, Staats said. A frame house on Missouri Heights ridge has also been destroyed. There have been no injuries to firefighters or members of the public.
Staats credited local firefighters for preventing more structures from burning. “It just shows the efforts made last night. We could have lost several hundred homes,” he said.
The fire is zero percent contained as of noon Thursday, Staats added. About 500 homes have been evacuated, though that number could be higher because of the frenetic pace of operations late Wednesday and early Thursday. An unknown number of people have been displaced.
There are about 200 local and federal firefighters on the scene now. That will swell to 300 by Friday. Federal firefighters include hotshot crews, hand crews and engines.
UPDATE 11:30 a.m. – The Lake Christine Fire destroyed three homes during a “prolific ember shower” overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning, according to the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office and U.S Forest Service.
“We’re pretty sure three structures were lost,” said Jennifer Costich, public information officer for the federal government firefighting team.
The Northern Rockies Incident Management Team took over management of the fire Thursday morning and will coordinate with local agencies.
At least one helicopter resumed water drops shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday.
UPDATE 10 a.m. – The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office advises that areas of Garfield County in the Missouri Heights area north of Highway 82 and east of County Road 100 to upper Cattle Creek are now under voluntary evacuation orders, with all of Eagle County under mandatory evacuation orders in the Missouri Heights area.
“People in Garfield County are encouraged to gather their belongings and err on the side of caution by evacuating at this time,” according to a news release. “The nature of the fire is unpredictable and a turn in weather conditions, local ambient conditions or available fuel sources could alter the course of the fire at any time. This happened last evening and the new direction required an immediate change in direction and the re-direction of available resources.
“If the fire direction changes again time may be of the essence in leaving your residence immediately,” the Garfield Sheriff also advises. “Better to evacuate now in a prepared and orderly fashion and make plans.”
Closures to the general public are currently in place on County Road 100 and County Road 102 in order to maintain and enforce the evacuation orders. Mail delivery has also been affected in the area.
BASALT, Colorado — The Lake Christine Fire was pushed overnight Wednesday into Thursday by strong winds that started around midnight and lasted into the morning hours.
Hundreds of people gathered in the parking lots of the Willits Town Center and watched early into the morning as the flames from the fire, which started Tuesday at the shooting range on the Basalt State Wildlife Area, swept toward El Jebel.
Residents first in the El Jebel area and then in Missouri Heights had mandatory evacuations as the winds pushed flames downvalley. As well, a second evacuation center has been established at Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale, in addition to the one at Basalt High School.
Local officials said a meeting was planned at 7 a.m. Thursday with the federal authorities who are taking command of the fire operations. A news briefing likely will be scheduled after that.
Federal authorities are setting up a command center at the Crown Mountain Park area.
The fire had burned 2,700 acres as of 7 p.m. Thursday.
Authorities issued a mandatory evacuation notice for Missouri Heights at 12:47 a.m. Thursday.
“All residents in Missouri Heights should evacuate immediately,” the alert said. “Evacuate via Fender Lane to Catherine Store Road, then take (Highway) 82.”
The hillside above the El Jebel area was aglow shortly after sunset. Calm conditions suddenly turned wicked with wind. Firefighters shot flares to the upvalley or easterly side of the El Jebel Mobile Home Park around 11 p.m. to burn fuels in a somewhat controlled manner and prevent the advance of the wildfire.
Residents El Jebel Mobile Home Park were ordered to evacuate at about 9:40 p.m. Wednesday when the Lake Christine Fire crested a ridge and winds pushed flames toward the heavily populated area.
The Red Cross is looking for volunteers to help with fire relief for those affected by the Lake Christine Fire in Basalt and El Jebel. Volunteers would help with shifts at the evacuation shelters in Basalt and Carbondale. If interested, contact Pamela Herr at pjherr@yahoo.com
The Aspen Emporium and Flying Circus is accepting donations of water and liquids such as Gatorade in sealed containers to deliver to firefighters battling the Lake Christine Fire. You can drop off donations in boxes at the store located at 315 E. Main Street in downtown Aspen.
This is a developing story that will be updated.
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Heather Morel, BS, MBA
Why are REMS not standardized today? Our columnist offers insight into the problem and how to lead specialty pharmacy forward.
It’s a key Six Sigma tenet and it makes sense: “Standardization of processes that are performed thousands of times can eliminate costs, reduce errors, and improve quality.” Then why are we operating with so many distinct processes and methods in REMS? This is a chief complaint of every stakeholder I discuss REMS implementation challenges with today. “We need easier, less time consuming, more standardized processes to comply with REMS, particularly those with ETASU” (Elements To Assure Safe Use, which include training certification, enrollment, and other strategies).
There are several reasons why REMS are not standardized today. In my opinion, it is too simplistic to blame the FDA or pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Certainly, the FDA and pharma can work to help remedy the challenge, but I believe it is our fragmented, disconnected health care delivery system itself that contributes to the lack of standardization.
The FDA must abide by the FDAAA legislation that grants the authority to implement REMS with ETASU. It gives the FDA the ability to require a REMS and encourage both brand and generic pharmaceutical companies with competitive products to work together to centralize 1 REMS in a shared system for a class of their competitive products. One REMS—with a shared system and, thus, a single process for compliance for an entire class of products—is certainly preferred over a different process for each product. Sounds simple, but it’s not.
Developing a shared class REMS for existing products on the market that meets the FDA’s approval takes time, and the FDA must at the same time provide a pathway for new products that meet the regulatory criteria to enter the market in this same class. During this interim, separate REMS programs must be developed by the individual pharma companies in the class and approved by the FDA. So, until a shared class REMS is approved, individual REMS must be used, which prevents standardization and consolidation goals from being met.
NCPDP Leads the Way
Another way to standardize is to ensure that the processes for managing REMS are aligned with industry standards. One major improvement in the standardization of REMS was the development of guidelines to ensure a consistent implementation of the NCPDP Telecommunication Standard for REMS. “These standards allow us to run REMS transactions on our network in sub seconds to ensure safe use criteria are met for enrolled pharmacies,” stated Scott Genone, vice president of RelayHealth Pharmacy.
Before the use of these standards, REMS required pharmacists to constantly step out of their normal work flow to perform REMS safety activities. I believe that the future of all retail pharmacy–based REMS with ETASU will be to use the NCPDP standard. This is a terrific advance and will be a large leap forward for retail REMS. But what about REMS for products dispensed or administered in other points of care such as physicians’ offices?
Many REMS with ETASU are for products that are infused or injected in a community physician’s office. To help ensure compliance with REMS, the FDA often requires that biopharma companies implement restrictive distribution, limiting access to only enrolled and compliant distributors and prescribers.
This can create significant challenges in standardization since most prescribers have multiple identifiers associated with them, including DEA numbers and NPI numbers. To complicate this further, when a distributor sets up a “ship to” location for a drug purchase, the distributor does not track and manage changes in all of the prescriber’s associated “ship to” locations. The distributor will track 1 site DEA and the NPI typically, but it may be used for multiple sites for many practicing physicians. Now, imagine the challenge of trying to ensure that only REMS-enrolled prescribers have access to the product. Our health care system is composed of disparate IT systems and simply cannot link to these levels of details across stakeholders at this time.
I believe McKesson and other organizations like ours that serve the many stakeholders in health care have a unique opportunity to help lead the industry forward toward greater standardization and greater use of IT in REMS. Our commitment is to drive this to reality through strategies, investments, and engagement with industry.
Heather Morel is vice president and general manager of reimbursement & access services for McKesson Reimbursement, Access and Safety Services in Scottsdale, Arizona. Morel leads the development and execution of reimbursement strategies and support services, patient assistance programs, risk evaluation and mitigation strategies programs, and other patient- and physician-focused initiatives. She is a nationally recognized expert in health care reimbursement and marketing and is a member of the Specialty Pharmacy Times editorial board.
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Five over/unders for Eagles' home opener against the Giants
By Matt Mullin
Eagles NFL
The Eagles are set to face the Giants on Sunday in what will be their second NFC East matchup of the season after they beat Washington in Week 1.
This time, however, the Birds will be the home team as they look to improve to 2-1 on the season in the first game at Lincoln Financial Field. They've owned the Giants in recent years, going 5-1 in their last six meetings. However, that lone loss came last season in the first year of the Doug Pederson & Carson Wentz era. And it came at home.
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Here are five over/unders for their first meeting of the 2017 season, one in which the home team is favored by six points.
Total points: 42.5
That’s the current total being offered by Bovada, and even though the Giants have scored just 13 total points through their first two games, that number seems a little low to me.
Both teams have injuries to starting cornerbacks – and in the case of the Eagles, a rash of hamstring injuries that will leave them without defensive backs Rodney McLeod, Jaylen Watkins and Corey Graham. And both teams are much better through the air than they are on the ground – neither team has scored a rushing touchdown this season. And while the Giants haven’t looked good on offense no matter the play call, they’re dead last in the NFL in rushing yards through two games (97 yards on 30 carries).
There are a lot of ways this could play out, but most signs point to an aerial battle unfolding at the Linc on Sunday. Given the state of both teams’ secondaries, it could be a high-scoring one. Each of their last three meetings – and four of their last five – have seen at least 43 points scored. I don’t see that changing on Sunday.
Carson Wentz pass attempts: 42.5
No, that’s a not a typo carried over from the previous over/under. Believe it or not, that’s how many pass attempts Carson Wentz is averaging through the first two games of the season. And even though it goes without saying, I’ll say it anyway: THAT’S WAAAY TOO MANY. And it’s not just because he’s a second-year quarterback still growing as an NFL QB; it’s also because he’s been sacked eight times – and hit a bunch more times – already this season.
The Giants pass defense is respectable, especially considering their ability to get to the quarterback, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see Pederson deploy a more balanced gameplan on Sunday. Of course, Wentz is averaging one 38 pass attempts per game in his 18-game career (and 42 per game through his last 11 games). So while I think this falls short of hitting the above number, I don’t think it’s going to be by much.
LeGarrette Blount carries: 9.5
Blount carried the ball 14 times in the season opener, a 30-17 win over Washington. Then, last week against the Chiefs, Blount didn’t get any rushing attempts, finishing the game with just one reception … for no gain.
The Giants are almost as bad at defending the run as they are running the ball, and that could mean we see more Blount on Sunday. Will he get to double-digit carries? That’s likely going to depend on how the rest of the game unfolds – if the Eagles are down early, I’m going to get both this and the previous over/under wrong – but I just don’t think it’s very likely that Blount finishes with so few carries.
If he does, the Birds are in trouble. And there are going to be a lot of questions about what’s really going on with Blount. Hopefully, for the sake of Eagles fans everywhere, that scenario doesn’t play out in Week 3.
Odell Beckham receiving yards: 87.5
That’s what the Giants’ top receiving threat has averaged through his six career games against the Eagles, but it’s really been more feast or famine for Beckham. He has a pair of games with 150-plus yards but has failed to get record more than 61 yards in each of his other four times facing the Birds.
YR OPP W-L REC-TGT YDS TD
2014 @PHI L, 0-27 2-4 28 0
PHI L, 26-34 12-21 185 1
PHI L, 30-35 5-7 54 0
2016 PHI W, 28-23 4-10 46 2
@PHI L, 19-24 11-20 150 0
TOTAL --- 1-5 41-70 524 4
After missing Week 2 and facing a decimated Eagles secondary in Week 3, Beckham is going to be hungry for targets … and he’s likely to see a healthy dose on Sunday. His two huge games came when he saw a ridiculous 20 or more targets, and if he sees anywhere close to that number in Week 3, it’s going to be a long day for the Birds secondary. That being said, it appears his receptions aren’t the number with which Jim Schwartz and the defense needs to be most concerned. The Giants lost both of those games in which Beckham went off – he’s only beaten them once in his career, and he had to score a pair of touchdowns to do so.
In other words, they can bend quite a bit before Beckham breaks them. I think Beckham has a big day, hitting the over here, but I don’t think it prevents the Birds from improving to 2-1 on the young season.
Sacks by Eagles defense: 3.5
Through two games, the Eagles defense has recorded eight sacks, and simply hitting the average will put the Birds in a good position to beat the Giants, who have allowed eight sacks of their own. But if they want to get in great position to pick up their second win, they’ll also need to create some turnovers, something they failed to do last week against the Chiefs after forcing four in their season-opening win in Washington.
In what I suspect will be a pass-heavy game, the chances for turnovers should be there, but it starts with the Eagles front seven – and, specifically, the front four – getting pressure on Manning early, and keeping that pressure up throughout the game.
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Multiple mutations and cancer
Lawrence A. Loeb, Keith R. Loeb, and Jon P. Anderson
PNAS February 4, 2003 100 (3) 776-781; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0334858100
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Article Figures & SI
A mutator phenotype arising from genetic instability at the single nucleotide level is not detected in routine DNA sequencing. The DNA sequences of oligonucleotides containing clonal and random mutations are shown. Clonal nucleotide substitutions are in blue, and random substitutions are shown in red. The only substitutions observed by DNA sequencing are those present in the majority of molecules, i.e., the clonal mutations. In this example, random substitutions that constitute <10% of the nucleotides at each position are not detected. This level of detection approximates the sensitivity of routine DNA sequencing.
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Lawrence A. Loeb, Keith R. Loeb, Jon P. Anderson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Feb 2003, 100 (3) 776-781; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0334858100
The Mutator Phenotype Hypothesis
Evidence for Multiple Mutations in Human Cancers
Maintenance of the Genome
Types of Genetic Instability
Mutations in Genes That Control Genetic Stability
Clonal Selection as an Alternative Mechanism for the Generation of Multiple Mutations
Arguments Against a Mutator Hypothesis in Cancer
Implications of a Mutator Phenotype for Cancer Therapy
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The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Mark C. Enright, D. Ashley Robinson, Gaynor Randle, Edward J. Feil, Hajo Grundmann, and Brian G. Spratt
PNAS May 28, 2002 99 (11) 7687-7692; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.122108599
Mark C. Enright
D. Ashley Robinson
Gaynor Randle
Edward J. Feil
Hajo Grundmann
Brian G. Spratt
Edited by Christopher T. Walsh, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and approved April 16, 2002 (received for review February 22, 2002)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of hospital-acquired infections that are becoming increasingly difficult to combat because of emerging resistance to all current antibiotic classes. The evolutionary origins of MRSA are poorly understood, no rational nomenclature exists, and there is no consensus on the number of major MRSA clones or the relatedness of clones described from different countries. We resolve all of these issues and provide a more thorough and precise analysis of the evolution of MRSA clones than has previously been possible. Using multilocus sequence typing and an algorithm, burst, we analyzed an international collection of 912 MRSA and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) isolates. We identified 11 major MRSA clones within five groups of related genotypes. The putative ancestral genotype of each group and the most parsimonious patterns of descent of isolates from each ancestor were inferred by using burst, which, together with analysis of the methicillin resistance genes, established the likely evolutionary origins of each major MRSA clone, the genotype of the original MRSA clone and its MSSA progenitor, and the extent of acquisition and horizontal movement of the methicillin resistance genes. Major MRSA clones have arisen repeatedly from successful epidemic MSSA strains, and isolates with decreased susceptibility to vancomycin, the antibiotic of last resort, are arising from some of these major MRSA clones, highlighting a depressing progression of increasing drug resistance within a small number of ecologically successful S. aureus genotypes.
Methicillin was introduced in 1959 to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In 1961 there were reports from the United Kingdom of S. aureus isolates that had acquired resistance to methicillin (methicillin-resistant S. aureus, MRSA) (1), and MRSA isolates were soon recovered from other European countries, and later from Japan, Australia, and the United States. MRSA is now a problem in hospitals worldwide and is increasingly recovered from nursing homes and the community (2, 3). The methicillin resistance gene (mecA) encodes a methicillin-resistant penicillin-binding protein that is not present in susceptible strains and is believed to have been acquired from a distantly related species (4). mecA is carried on a mobile genetic element, the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec), of which four forms have been described that differ in size and genetic composition (5). Many MRSA isolates are multiply resistant and are susceptible only to glycopeptide antibiotics such as vancomycin and investigational drugs. MRSA isolates that have decreased susceptibility to glycopeptides (glycopeptide intermediately susceptible S. aureus, GISA) (6, 7), reported in recent years, are a cause of great public health concern.
Many studies have characterized MRSA isolates from individual hospitals or countries and have identified strains that appear to be well adapted to the hospital environment, are established in several hospitals within a country, or have spread internationally (epidemic MRSA, EMRSA). MRSA isolates are generally characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, a powerful technique for identifying the relatedness of isolates from recent outbreaks within a hospital, but are not well suited to long-term global epidemiology, which requires a procedure that is highly discriminatory but that indexes variation that accumulates slowly. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) provides such a procedure and characterizes isolates of bacteria unambiguously by using the sequences of internal fragments of seven housekeeping genes (8, 9). MLST has been developed and validated for S. aureus (10) and provides a discriminatory method that allows related strains recovered in different countries to be readily identified.
The origins of the major MRSA clones are still poorly understood. Kreiswirth et al. (11) proposed that all MRSAs were descended from a single ancestral S. aureus strain that acquired mecA, but more recent studies (12, 13) show that some MRSAs are very divergent, implying that mecA has been transferred between S. aureus lineages. The data from MLST can be used to probe the evolutionary and population biology of bacterial pathogens and to predict ancestral genotypes and patterns of evolutionary descent within groups of related genotypes. We have applied MLST to an international collection of 359 MRSA isolates, which includes examples of the previously described EMRSA and GISA clones, and compare these to a collection of 553 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSAs). We demonstrate the limited number of major EMRSA genotypes and provide an unambiguous method for characterizing MRSA and GISA clones and a rational nomenclature. We also identify the ancestral MRSA clone and its MSSA ancestor and suggest the evolutionary pathways by which MRSA clones have repeatedly emerged from successful MSSA clones.
Bacterial Isolates.
A total of 359 MRSA isolates were collected between 1961 and 1999 from 20 countries. Isolates were confirmed as MRSAs in our laboratory by detecting the presence of the mecA gene with PCR (14). The collection contains members of previously described EMRSA clones, including the Iberian (15), Portuguese/Brazilian (16), Vienna (17), New York/Japan (18, 19), pediatric (20), Berlin (17), Hannover (17), South German (17), EMRSA-3, -15, and -16 (21), and six of the first GISA isolates (minimum inhibitory concentration ≥8 μg vancomycin ml−1) from Japan, the United States, and Scotland (6, 7). The allelic profiles of the MRSA isolates were compared with those of 553 MSSA isolates from disease and carriage; details of all isolates are available at the MLST database (http://www.mlst.net).
MLST.
MLST was performed as described (10). Alleles at the seven loci were assigned by comparing the sequences at each locus to those of the known alleles in the S. aureus MLST database. The allele numbers at each of the seven loci define the allelic profile of each isolate. An allelic profile is defined as a sequence type (ST) that provides a convenient and unambiguous descriptor for each S. aureus genotype. The allelic profiles of all 912 isolates were compared by using the program burst (Based Upon Related Sequence Types). The relatedness of lineages was displayed as a dendrogram constructed from the matrix of pairwise differences in allelic profiles by using the unweighted pairgroup method with arithmetic averages.
burst Analysis.
burst is an algorithm devised by E.J.F. that is used to discern groups of isolates among large MLST datasets that have some defined level of similarity in allelic profile (in this study, identity at five or more of the seven loci), and to predict the ancestral allelic profile (genotype) of each group, or clonal complex (CC), and the most parsimonious patterns of evolutionary descent of all isolates in the group from this putative ancestral allelic profile. A CC should include all of the isolates in the MLST dataset that have descended from the ancestral genotype, although it could include other isolates, for example, descendents of isolates related to the original ancestral genotype. As the CCs are observed within a very small sample of the total S. aureus population, the founding isolate is likely to have gained some adaptive (fitness) advantage such that it increased in frequency within the population. During this clonal expansion slight genetic diversification will occur so that descendents of the ancestral genotype that differ at one of the seven MLST loci will accumulate (single locus variants; SLVs), and the putative ancestral genotype within each CC is therefore defined as the allelic profile that has the largest number of SLVs. Further details are available at http://www.mlst.net/BURST/burst.htm.
mec Gene Analyses.
The SCCmec type was determined for 304 MRSA isolates by PCR detection of the ccr (cassette chromosome recombinase) and mec genes as described by Hiramatsu et al. (5).
MLST of MRSA and GISA Isolates.
MLST revealed 162 STs among the 912 isolates and 38 different allelic profiles (STs) among the 359 MRSA isolates. Twenty five of the MRSA STs included only a single isolate, and there were only 12 STs that contained multiple MRSAs recovered from more than one country (Table 1). Several of these major STs included MRSAs differing in SCCmec type, which presumably have arisen by independent acquisitions of the mec genes. Defining MRSA clones as isolates with the same ST and the same SCCmec type, there were 11 major MRSA clones (more than 10 isolates; Table 1).
Details of STs and clones containing MRSA from more than one country
Several EMRSA clones considered to be distinct through the use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and other molecular typing methods were indistinguishable with MLST (Table 1). For example, the clones EMRSA-1, -4, and -11, the Portuguese clone, the Brazilian clone, and the Vienna clone all were ST239. Similarly, EMRSA-2, -6, -7, -12, -13, and -14 and the Irish-1 clone were indistinguishable by MLST (ST8), as were EMRSA-5 and -17 and the Iberian clone (ST247), EMRSA-15 and the Barnim clone (ST22), and EMRSA-3, New York/Japan and the pediatric clone (ST5). Four GISAs from the United States and Japan (6, 7) were ST5, and of the other GISAs studied, one (from the United States) was a member of the ST5 CC. A Scottish GISA isolate belonged to ST235, which is unrelated to other STs when studied by burst, but shares four alleles in common with ST5. In some cases previously defined EMRSA clones with the same ST could be distinguished by the presence of different SCCmec types (Table 1).
Analysis of the mec Genes of MRSA Isolates.
The SCCmec types of 304 MRSA isolates were determined. It was not possible to type all MRSA isolates by using the published primers as ambiguous results were found in some cases, perhaps indicating the existence of a novel SCCmec class. Of those tested, 93 isolates (30.6%) had SCCmec I, 87 (28.6%) had SCCmec II, 28 (9.2%) had SCCmec III, and 96 (31.6%) had SCCmec IV.
The SCCmec types present within the 12 STs that included MRSA from more than one country are shown in Table 1. STs 5, 8, 45, and 254 included MRSA isolates with different SCCmec types, whereas the other STs were uniform in SCCmec type. Isolates with all four SCCmec types were found within both ST5 and ST8.
A Rational Nomenclature of MRSA Clones.
EMRSA clones described in different countries often have been given different names although they are indistinguishable in genotype with MLST. The allelic profile defined by MLST is unambiguous, and we argue that MRSA or EMRSA genotypes should be defined by their STs. Because some of the MRSA STs also include MSSA or GISA isolates, clones are further designated where necessary as ST5–MRSA, ST5–MSSA, or ST5–GISA. Any nomenclature has to take account of the fact that MRSA clones appear to have emerged on more than one occasion in the same genetic background, as MRSA isolates of the same ST may have different SCCmec types. We therefore propose that MRSA clones are defined by both their genotype (ST) and their SCCmec type. Thus, isolates of ST5 may be ST5–MSSA, ST5–MRSA-I, ST5–MRSA-II, etc., or ST5–GISA-II. The relationship between this ST–SCCmec nomenclature and the original arbitrary nomenclature of MRSA clones is shown in Table 1.
Identification of the Ancestral MRSA Genotype.
Fig. 1 shows the relatedness of the 38 STs that include MRSA isolates. It is apparent from the dendrogram that many MRSA isolates are only distantly related to each other, although there is one cluster of related MRSA lineages (marked by * in Fig. 1) that includes four of the major international EMRSA STs. All except one of the 35 early MRSA isolates (those from the 1960s) are within this cluster of related STs. The other early MRSA isolate (ST996) is distantly related to all of the isolates that we studied and its origins are unclear.
Relatedness of MRSA isolates. The 359 MRSA isolates were resolved by MLST into 38 STs, and a dendrogram was constructed from the pairwise differences in their allelic profiles. * identifies a major cluster of related STs, which includes four of the major EMRSA STs (and five of the major EMRSA clones) and all but one of the MRSA isolates from the 1960s. ● denote the seven major international EMRSA STs and one additional EMRSA ST (ST36) that was very abundant in the dataset, but that was largely restricted to the United Kingdom (Table 1).
The relationships among similar genotypes are poorly represented by a dendrogram, and the algorithm burst was used to identify groups of related genotypes (CCs) and to predict the ancestral genotype of each group and the most parsimonious patterns of descent from this ancestor. The analysis was applied to all 912 S. aureus for which allelic profiles have been determined with MLST, including the 359 MRSAs and 553 MSSAs from disease and nasal carriage. Fig. 2 shows those CCs identified by burst that include at least one MRSA (or GISA) isolate. CCs that include only MSSA isolates are not shown.
Analysis of S. aureus isolates with burst. The collection of 914 S. aureus isolates was analyzed by burst, and the five CCs that included MRSA isolates are shown. CCs are named after the ST predicted to be the ancestral genotype (e.g., CC8). The ST prefix is not shown (i.e., 250 corresponds to ST250). The ST of the predicted ancestral genotype is placed in the central circle, SLVs are within the second circle, and double locus variants within the outer dotted circle. Three isolates within CCs but that are not SLVs or double locus variants of the ancestral genotype are also shown (STs 222, 312, and 518). One further small group of isolates for which an ancestral genotype cannot be inferred and three STs that are not members of any CC (singletons) are also shown. The major EMRSA STs are underlined. MRSA STs are shown in red, MSSA STs in blue, and GISA STs in green. In some cases the same ST includes MRSA and MSSA isolates and, for ST5, also GISA isolates. Some MRSA STs include more than one MRSA clone, identified by the presence of different SCCmec types (Table 1). Where more than one, the number of isolates in each ST is shown in parentheses.
All except one of the 35 early MRSA isolates were within a single CC whose predicted ancestor is ST8 (CC8). All except one of these isolates belonged to a subgroup of CC8 that was identified by burst, and most (65%) were identical by MLST and had the allelic profile of the putative ancestral genotype (ST250) of the latter subgroup.
All isolates of the ST250 subgroup are MRSA and possess SCCmec type I; most are isolates from the 1960s. Because ST250 is the predicted ancestor of this subgroup, and this ST includes most of the early isolates, it is considered to be the original MRSA clone (ST250–MRSA-I in our nomenclature). ST250 is predicted to be derived from ST8. These STs differ only at yqiL and the distribution of the alleles at this locus supports the burst prediction that ST8 is the ancestor of the ST250 subgroup. ST8 possesses allele 3 of yqiL, which is found in several other distantly related lineages, whereas ST250, and all SLVs predicted by burst to be derived from it, possess allele 16. Allele 16 is found only in the ST250 subgroup and differs from allele 3 at a single nucleotide site, which results in a polymorphism that is not found in any of the other yqiL alleles, indicating that allele 16 arose from allele 3 by a point mutation, and thus that ST250 arose from ST8.
Although ST250–MRSA-I appears to have been derived from ST8, the latter includes no early MRSA isolates, making it unlikely that mec first appeared in ST8, which then diversified slightly to become ST250. It seems more likely that ST8 was a successful MSSA lineage and slight diversification occurred to produce the SLV, ST250–MSSA, and the latter acquired SCCmec type I and became the EMRSA clone that was first detected in 1961 (Fig. 3).
Evolutionary origins and patterns of descent within CC8. ST8 is the predicted ancestor of the CC8 CC. Alterations in the allelic profile (and the locus that has changed), and the acquisition of the SCCmec types are shown. The five major EMRSA clones are underlined. All except one of the MRSA isolates from the 1960s are within the STs included in the box. For isolates outside the box not all SLVs are shown. ST250–MSSA isolates were not present in our collection but have been described (26).
Origins of Other Major EMRSA Clones Within CC8.
In addition to ST250–MRSA-I, there are three other major EMRSA STs within CC8. ST8 is a successful MSSA clone but there are also many MRSAs with this genotype. Two major EMRSA clones are apparent within ST8, one with SCCmec type II and one with SCCmec type IV, although single isolates possessed SCCmec types I and III. The ST8–MRSA clones probably emerged by multiple independent introductions of mec into the successful ST8–MSSA clone (Fig. 3), rather than from ST250 (see above), and this view is supported by the fact there are no early MRSA isolates corresponding to ST8.
ST250 now appears to be very uncommon (no ST250–MSSA and only one ST250–MRSA was found among the approximately 870 S. aureus isolates in our collection recovered since 1990), but a SLV of ST250 (ST247) has emerged as one of the most commonly encountered and internationally disseminated multidrug-resistant EMRSA clones (ST247–MRSA-I), and corresponds to the Iberian clone described by Sanches et al. (15). ST247 differs from ST250 at the gmk locus and is almost certainly derived from ST250, because the single nucleotide difference in the gmk allele of ST247 (allele 12) is not found in any other gmk allele and therefore is presumed to be a recent point mutation. Furthermore, ST247 has allele 16 at yqiL, which is restricted to the ST250 subgroup, and the same SCCmec type as ST250 (Fig. 3).
The fourth major EMRSA ST within CC8 is ST239 (ST239–MRSA-III), which corresponds to the Brazilian clone described by de Sousa et al. (16). ST239 is a SLV of ST8 and is assigned by burst as the putative ancestral genotype of another subgroup within CC8. All isolates of ST239 (and all of its associated SLVs and double locus variants) are MRSA, which suggests it was derived from an ancestor that was itself MRSA, and all isolates tested possess SCCmec type III, which within CC8 is otherwise only found in an MRSA isolate of ST8. ST239–MRSA-III therefore is probably derived from a ST8–MRSA isolate that contained SCCmec type III (Fig. 3).
Evolution of the Other Major EMRSA Clones.
Of the major EMRSA STs in Table 1, four are within the group of closely related genotypes that define CC8 (ST8, ST239, ST247, and ST250). However, the other three major international EMRSA STs (ST5, ST22, and ST45), and the prevalent but less widely distributed ST36, are very different in genotype, differing from each other and from the predicted ancestor of CC8 at six or all seven of the loci used in MLST (Fig. 1; Table 1). Similarly, two of the unique MRSA isolates (ST59 and ST996) are very different in genotype from all other MRSA isolates. The presence of mec in such widely divergent genotypes is almost certainly the consequence of the horizontal transfer of the mec region into distantly related S. aureus lineages.
The major international EMRSA STs 5, 22, and 45 are identified by burst as the putative ancestral genotypes of their corresponding CCs (Fig. 2). In each case these STs also include many MSSA isolates, from which the MRSA clones have arisen by the acquisition of mec. There were single EMRSA clones within ST22 and ST45, although one isolate of ST45 possessed a different SCCmec type. ST5 isolates with all four SCCmec types were identified, and ST5–MRSA-I and ST5–MRSA-II were major EMRSA clones (Table 1). The first GISAs from Japan and the United States are ST5 and possess SCCmec type II and are derivatives of the ST5–MRSA-II clone (Fig. 4).
Evolutionary origins and patterns of descent within CC5 and CC30. (A) The proposed pathways to the major EMRSA clones of ST5 (underlined) and the origins of GISA–ST5-II are shown. (B) The origin of MRSA–ST36-II (underlined) is shown. MSSA–ST36 is on the proposed evolutionary pathway from MSSA–ST30 to MRSA–ST36 but isolates with this genotype have not been observed so far. Other details are as in Fig. 3. Not all SLVs are shown.
ST36 is a major EMRSA genotype in the United Kingdom but in our collection there was only one isolate of ST36 from outside the United Kingdom. All isolates of ST36 were MRSA and appeared to be a single clone possessing SCCmec type II. ST36 is a SLV of a predominant MSSA clone (ST30) that was the predicted ancestor of the corresponding CC. ST36–MRSA-II presumably has emerged by the introduction of SCCmec type II into a SLV of ST30 (Fig. 4). Five of the 90 ST30 isolates were MRSA but possessed SCCmec type IV rather than SCCmec type II found in ST36–MRSA. These ST30–MRSA-IV isolates probably have emerged by a recent introduction of SCCmec type IV into the successful ST30–MSSA clone, rather than being ancestors of ST36–MRSA-II (or derived from ST36–MRSA).
MLST provides an unambiguous method for characterizing MRSA isolates via the internet. The procedure demonstrates that many of the clones of EMRSA that were previously described as distinct with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis are indistinguishable in genotype with MLST. In one extreme case, isolates of the EMRSA-2, -6, -7, -12, -13, and -14 clones described from the United Kingdom all were indistinguishable by MLST (ST8). It could be argued that MLST lacks sufficient discriminatory ability or is grouping unrelated genotypes within the same ST. However, this notion is very unlikely given that there is an average of 42 alleles per locus, which provides the ability to resolve >200 billion STs, and the probability of two unrelated genotypes having the same ST is essentially zero. It is far more likely that the rapid accumulation of the genetic variation indexed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis has led to considerable differences in SmaI DNA fragment patterns among the descendents of each of the ancestral genotypes of the EMRSA clones, resulting in some EMRSA clones being inappropriately subdivided.
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis or other high-resolution typing methods such as fluorescent-amplified fragment-length polymorphism (22) may be appropriate for identifying clusters of related genotypes within a laboratory, but for comparing strains between laboratories, or for the unambiguous assignment of MRSA (or MSSA or GISA) isolates as known clones or new clones, we consider that MLST has very considerable advantages. MLST is already the gold standard for precisely assigning Neisseria meningitidis isolates to the known hypervirulent clones (8) and for defining antibiotic-resistant clones of pneumococci (23). MLST also provides a logical nomenclature for MRSA clones, as the ST precisely defines a strain as having a unique and unambiguous allelic profile and identifies those MRSA isolates that have descended from the same recent common ancestor. However, there is clear evidence that successful MSSA clones have become MRSA on more than one occasion, as evidenced by the presence of isolates with the same ST but with different SCCmec types. For example, MRSA isolates of both ST5 and ST8 are found with each of the four known SCCmec types and MRSA isolates of these STs have presumably arisen on at least four occasions (Table 1). The proposed rational nomenclature of MRSA clones takes this into account by including both the ST and the SCCmec type.
MLST combined with SCCmec typing establishes that there are relatively few major EMRSA clones. Only 38 STs contain MRSA of the 162 currently present in the MLST database, demonstrating that MRSA have evolved in relatively few lineages. Only 11 MRSA clones were represented by more than 10 isolates among the international collection of 359 MRSA isolates. Of these 11 major clones, five belonged to a single group of closely related S. aureus lineages (CC8) whereas the other six were distantly related to this CC and (excepting the two major MRSA clones within ST5) to each other. The presence of distantly related lineages of MRSA has been shown in several studies (12, 13, 24) and is evidence that MRSA isolates are not all descended over the last 40 years by diversification of a single original MRSA clone. Rather, horizontal transfer of mec into different lineages has been highly significant in MRSA evolution (12, 13).
The evolutionary origins of MRSA clones were explored with burst, which, together with an analysis of the distribution and nucleotide sequences of alleles within SLVs and their presumed ancestors, provides a powerful approach to discerning the likely evolutionary relationships among bacterial clones. By combining this approach with an analysis of the SCCmec types we have produced a putative evolutionary history for all of the major EMRSA clones. burst identified a large complex of related MSSA and MRSA genotypes (CC8) and resolved it into three subgroups. Significantly, almost all of the MRSA isolates from the 1960s were within a single subgroup of CC8 and most of these were in ST250, the predicted ancestor of this subgroup. Our data support the suggestion that methicillin resistance first arose within ST250 (25), but the results from the burst analysis, and the alleles at the yqiL locus, show that ST250–MSSA probably first evolved from a MSSA isolate of ST8 and then acquired the mec gene. Whereas ST250 isolates are not current causes of epidemic MRSA disease, a minor variant (ST247–MRSA-I; the Iberian clone) has evolved resistance to most antimicrobial agents and is one of the major EMRSA clones currently recovered from European hospitals (19). ST247–MRSA-I may have arisen relatively early from ST250–MRSA-I because there are six isolates of MRSA–ST247-I from the 1960s. ST8, the predicted ancestor of ST250 (and of the whole CC), has itself also developed into two major EMRSA clones (ST8–MRSA-II and ST8–MRSA-IV) although we believe this development happened independently and subsequent to the emergence of ST250–MRSA-I.
MRSA arose recently and in many cases should have retained the allelic profile of the MSSA isolate that acquired the mec determinant. In the collection of 912 S. aureus isolates there were no MSSAs with the allelic profile of the original MRSA clone, ST250–MRSA-I. ST250–MSSA has, however, recently been described among early isolates from Denmark, and ST250–MSSA was a successful clone within hospitals in the 1950s (24), but it appears that this MSSA ancestor of the first MRSA clone is no longer commonly encountered among MSSAs from disease or carriage. However, MSSA isolates with the same allelic profile as the major EMRSA STs 5, 8, 22, and 45 were common among the MSSA population that we studied, which were mostly recovered in Europe during the late 1990s. Similarly, ST36–MRSA-II is a SLV of a very successful MSSA clone (ST30–MSSA). MSSA isolates of the major EMRSA clones ST239–MRSA-III and ST247–MRSA-I were not observed, presumably because these clones were derived directly as SLVs of preexisting MRSA clones.
The major EMRSA clones have emerged either as descendants (SLVs) of preexisting EMRSA clones or by the horizontal transfer of the mec determinants into MSSA. In the latter cases, the mec genes are most likely to have been introduced into those S. aureus clones that were already common within hospitals. The fact that most of these EMRSA clones correspond to major MSSA clones, and the evidence that in several instances MRSA clones have arisen on multiple occasions from the same successful MSSA clone, supports this view. Interestingly, four of the six GISA isolates also have emerged within one of the major EMRSA clones (ST5–MRSA-II). This finding suggests a depressing evolutionary progression, with MSSA strains that are well adapted to transmission within hospitals repeatedly receiving the mec determinant after the introduction of methicillin to treat penicillinase-producing MSSA, and then becoming the successful EMRSA clones within hospitals. Now these same successful EMRSA clones are responding to the increasing use of vancomycin by becoming less susceptible to glycopeptides, resulting in EMRSA variants that are also GISAs.
The ccr and mec genes that are the basis of SCCmec typing are thought to have first been introduced into coagulase-negative staphylococci (4, 26, 27) from an unknown source, where deletion of the mec regulatory genes occurred, and then into S. aureus. It is unclear which staphylococcal species donated the four SCCmec types found among MRSAs, but the presence of four types suggests multiple introductions into S. aureus, and their presence in the same ST indicates that horizontal transfer of mec genes is relatively frequent within S. aureus.
Finally, we stress the value of burst that provides an objective evaluation of the relationships between closely related isolates within a CC. The burst analysis provides a hypothesis about ancestry and patterns of descent whose validity can be tested. For MRSA, analysis of the distribution of alleles at MLST loci, and of SCCmec types, and consideration of the genotypes of the early MRSA isolates, provides a consistent and compelling scenario for the evolutionary history of the major EMRSA clones.
We thank all donors of isolates. This work was funded by the Wellcome Trust. M.C.E. is a Royal Society University Research Fellow. B.G.S. is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.
↵† To whom reprint requests should be addressed. E-mail: m.c.enright{at}bath.ac.uk.
This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office.
MRSA,
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus;
EMRSA,
epidemic MRSA;
MSSA,
methicillin-susceptible S. aureus;
SCCmec,
staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec;
GISA,
glycopeptide intermediately susceptible S. aureus;
MLST,
multilocus sequence typing;
ST,
sequence type;
SLV,
single locus variant;
clonal complex
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You are going to email the following The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Mark C. Enright, D. Ashley Robinson, Gaynor Randle, Edward J. Feil, Hajo Grundmann, Brian G. Spratt
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2002, 99 (11) 7687-7692; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.122108599
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Prada Rong Zhai - "Rear Windows"
an exhibition project by Li Qing
Prada presents “Rear Windows”, a new exhibition project by artist Li Qing, with the support of Fondazione Prada. Curated by Jérôme Sans, the show will be on view from 7 November 2019 to 19 January 2020 in the premises of Prada Rong Zhai, a 1918 historical residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in October 2017.
“Rear Windows” is an immersive and collaborative project conceived on site by the artist Li Qing and the curator as a specific storyboard, an in-depth exploration of the history and the space of Prada Rong Zhai, creating a connection between the past times and the current urban environment of Shanghai.
Prada Rong Zhai can be considered as a palimpsest of Shanghai's century-old history. Before being restored to become a place dedicated to cultural activities, the building was the private residence of a successful entrepreneur, Mr Yung Tsoong-King, and then a public property after socialization. Li Qing imagines the building as a space still used by its residents or their contemporary ghosts. The artist recreates imaginary visions of key rooms, like the ballroom, the bedroom, the bathroom, and a karaoke room, where the presence of the former inhabitants is suggested through artistic gestures. The decision of re-occupying the vacant spaces generates a strange and cinematographic atmosphere, evoking the duality of our present lives, divided between authenticity and imitation, reality and reproduction.
“Rear Windows”—inspired by the eponymous 1954 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock— is devised as a succession of climatic scenes to experience the act of seeing and of being seen or observed. Through some of his emblematic works like Neighbor’s Window and Tetris Window series, Li Qing suggests references to the city of Shanghai (or even Hangzhou, where the artist lives), where old and new buildings, different social groups, urban myths, legends and expectations coexist.
The exhibits also comprise new works and commissions like a neon sign installed on the external façade of Prada Rong Zhai, a cabin tent on view in its garden, a sound installation especially realized for the corridor of the first floor, and nine carpets printed with pictures of tiles patterns laid on the ballroom floor. The display is completed by a selection of recent paintings part of Find Differences series, video installations such as Neon News and paintings from the series Images of Mutual Undoing and Unity, that act like invitations to question our relationship to the moving world around us.
Jérôme Sans’ describes the exhibition, “as a narrative story conceived through a wide range of Li Qing’s past and recent works, unfolding as in a movie set of a film whose action is about to happen. Li Qing initiates here a new form of poetry in Prada Rong Zhai, one which belongs to an imaginary society and that lives in its past dreams, but also within his own work of today, continually questioning: how to be closer to the reality of things?”
The exhibition “Rear Windows” will be open to the public from from 7 November 2019 to 19 January 2020
For more information, please contact Prada Rong Zhai at pradarongzhai@prada.com
PRADA RONG ZHAI
No.186 North Shaan Xi Road
Jing’an District, Shanghai
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Li Qing
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Tetris Window · Exhibition Center
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Things You Can Take Away
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Richmond Guitars Empire Mahogany Electric Guitar Review
Charles Saufley
For years, the Godin family of guitar companies—Godin, Seagull, Simon & Patrick, and Art & Lutherie—has built unique and often great guitars at prices that are competitive with just about any manufacturer in the world. It’s a trick the Canadian company pulls off with an inarguable regularity. So when Godin created the Richmond brand a few years back as a vehicle for more traditional ’50s- and ’60s-inspired electrics, few were surprised at how stylish, well built, and sweet sounding guitars like the Dorchester and Belmont were for the price.
Richmond’s latest, the Empire, is more of the same goodness. It rocks with a no-frills, budget-lux combination of appointments and playability that’s the stuff of pawnshop sleepers and minor classics like the Gibson Melody Maker.
Built for Business—on a Budget
With its chocolaty mahogany finish and compact heft, the Empire made it impossible not to reminisce about the 1971 SG that was one of the first electric guitars I spent any real time with as a lad. But though the beautiful grain, bass-bout carve, and sense of solidity in the Empire are very SG-ish, there’s a lot of cool design inspiration from less likely sources. There’s certainly a touch of PRS and some hints of Gibson’s ill-fated Sonex in the body profile, and the headstock is a bit of a nod to the slimmer Rickenbacker headstocks of the ’60s.
You can’t get much simpler than the control layout on the Empire: Volume and Tone knobs and a pickup switch in the forward bass bout. But the simplicity belies the range of sounds available from the bridge humbucker and the neck-position single-coil. The tailpiece is a wraparound design that’s elegant and well made, though its lack of adjustable saddles does beg the question of how to deal with intonation problems down the line. The cool-looking Kluson-style tuners are a great match for the headstock, though they lack the advantage of slotted posts that make Klusons the easiest string change of all time.
The Empire is very well balanced for its weight and feels really comfortable hanging over your shoulder. Much of the overall comfort is attributable to the 2-piece, satin-finished, 22-fret neck, which has a slim, fast-feeling, and slightly flattish C profile that makes chording and deep bends uniformly easy. A neck joint that tapers toward the cutaway facilitates access to the upper frets.
A vigorous strum of a first-position E chord long before I ever plugged the guitar in revealed a remarkable resonance that’s doubly notable given the bolt-on design. You can really feel the body sympathetically vibrating, and the sustain of unamplified chords is impressive.
The combination of the Empire’s solidity and simplicity called for a straightforward approach to amplification, so I hooked it up to a blackface Fender Concert, a blackface Tremolux, an Ampeg Super Jet, and a 50-watt Marshall plexi to probe the surprisingly wide array of tones on tap.
It’s hard not to want to rock with the Empire. It feels sturdy and thrashable in your hands, and the bridge humbucker possesses a snarly character when you open up the Volume and Tone controls—not totally uncivilized, but heavy on high-end content that helps leads and power chords cut through a mix. It’s a great match for Marshalls if you like the dry bite of Paul Kossoff ’s or Mick Ronson’s tones, but it’s also a perfect fit for slashing, mod-garage-style chords and punk riffs. Through the less powerful Fenders, the humbucker is no less effective for generating spiky punk textures and hot blues-rock lead tones, though it’s predictably a little more rubbery.
The Tone and Volume controls are effective and responsive—which is nice to see on a mid-priced instrument, given how many companies cut corners on electronic components in this price range. Used in conjunction with the bridge humbucker, the two knobs enabled me to shape the top end into a form ideal for use with fuzz—particularly if you’re into wooly and endlessly sustaining Randy California-style sounds. In fact, the Empire’s humbucker, with a little roll off in volume and tone, is a great guitar for taming your most hectic fuzz while retaining some meat and buzz in your signal.
The single-coil neck pickup is full of surprises, too. It’s a great all-around pickup that sounds wider than a neck humbucker you hear in an SG or Les Paul. It doesn’t have the wide-spectrum detail of a Rickenbacker toaster pickup, which it slightly resembles, or the high end of a good Filter’Tron in the neck position, but it has the versatile feel of a Telecaster pickup and works great in lead or rhythm situations without getting muddy. Like the bridge humbucker, it’s a great match for a fuzz—especially if you’re dealing with the sting and rasp of a squirrelly old germanium or silicon unit.
Like every Richmond we’ve encountered to date, the Empire is a steal. The fit and finish are excellent, the components are better than most that we see on mid-priced guitars, and the mahogany body is beautiful and magically resonant. And rather than throw together the same old two-humbucker set, Richmond selected a humbucker and single- coil that sound unique and expand the range of tones at your fingertips.
If you’re into punk, garage, or blues-rock, the Empire is an ideal partner in crime, but it’s equally at home grinding metal chords through a Marshall and a distortion pedal or jangling away at folk-rock arpeggios. At just 500 bucks, however, it represents an extraordinary value—particularly given the quality of the materials and build. If it’s a no-frills rocking machine you need, you’ll find that and a lot more in the Richmond Empire.
Buy if...
sweet, blossoming, mahogany rock tones on a budget sound sweet to your ears.
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you’re just going to keep saving until the SG of your dreams is in your hands—no matter what it costs.
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Charles Saufley is a writer, editor, and musician from San Francisco. He has been the gear editor at Premier Guitar since 2010 and previously served as an editor at Acoustic Guitar magazine.
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Classroom snapshot: 'The Art of Living'
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
July 1, 2019 10 a.m.
The spring course “The Art of Living” was part of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), bridging academics and service. Pictured from left: Sophomore Sabrina Sequeria; senior Isaiah Nieves; Basile Baudez, assistant professor of art and archaeology; junior Sydney Wilder; and senior Amarra Daniels talk about urban renewal issues during a visit to an underserved neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey.
Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Heat in the living room. Street lights. Apartment buildings. How did the creature comforts of home and public life — from pubs and flush toilets to crime control and kitchen gardens — develop?
This spring, 10 Princeton undergraduate students in the course “The Art of Living” set out to discover connections between the past and present, with a particular focus on an underserved neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey, the state capital near Princeton.
The cross-listed course is part of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), bridging academics and service. Throughout the semester, students attended community forums led by the nonprofit East Trenton Collaborative (ETC), a community organizing and development initiative in the East Trenton neighborhood of Trenton’s North Ward.
Assignments included generating a summary based on students’ observations and group discussions with residents at the forums, and recommendations that will be incorporated into ETC’s 10-year strategic neighborhood plan.
The instructor: Basile Baudez, assistant professor of art and archaeology, specializes in 18th- and 19th-century European architecture, and the role of architecture in politics and society. His current project is “Inessential Colors,” a book on the history of the use of color in architectural representation in Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Baudez, who joined the Princeton faculty in fall 2018, from Paris-Sorbonne University, learned about ProCES and other University programs at the two-day orientation for new faculty members, which is hosted by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. He was immediately inspired to develop a course.
He credits Leah Seppanen Anderson, associate director of ProCES, with connecting him with ETC and with “shaping what types of assignments struck the balance between historical and contemporary situations,” he said.
Students pore over large photocopies of 18th-century engraved plans of Paris townhouses to jumpstart a discussion of how architecture informs domestic life.
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Studying the past: Many of the readings focused on the development of urban infrastructure and domestic spaces in late 17th- to early 20th-century Paris and London. On March 6, the class discussion explored “Masters and Domestics.” Seated around a long table in McCormick Hall, the students pored over large photocopies of 18th-century engraved plans of Paris townhouses.
Baudez asked, “Where is the kitchen in terms of the rest of the house. Has anyone found it?”
“As far away from the bedrooms as possible,” one student said.
“Right,” Baudez said. “Fire hazard is one reason. Noise. Smell. Heat.”
Focusing on the dining room, Baudez described how, before the 1860s when passing of dishes became the norm, food was served all at once.
“The diners help themselves,” he said. “Then the domestics take the leftovers and that’s what they eat. If there’s more than enough for the domestics, they give it to the poor. It’s a chain. The more lavish the house, the more spreading the rest of your food to the neighborhood. That’s very important in terms of ‘outside/inside.’ The outside benefits from the inside.”
Baudez asked how this “outside/inside” concept translates to the East Trenton neighborhood.
One student said, “I feel like Trenton is missing ‘the big house’ facilitating food and services.”
Another student compared “the big house” to the municipal government and said: “Government officials aren’t necessarily seeing and experiencing what’s happening in East Trenton. That’s why we need these neighborhood forums.”
Elena Sauceda-Peeples (left), director of the East Trenton Collaborative (ETC), a community organizing and development initiative, gives students a tour showing them rehabbed housing units as well as damaged streets and poor signage that lead to traffic and safety issues.
Photo by Basile Baudez, Department of Art and Archaeology
Engaging in the present: As the sun dipped below the horizon on an early April evening in East Trenton, about two dozen residents filled their plates with submarine sandwiches and settled around three tables in the main room of a small converted church, the headquarters of the East Trenton Collaborative.
Before joining the residents, four of the Princeton students met with ETC director Elena Sauceda-Peeples in a makeshift office that also serves as a supply room.
“By helping us capture residents’ ideas, you’re making a significant contribution,” she told them. “The work we do here is to elevate residents’ views and voices.”
The topic of this evening’s forum was “Public Spaces and Transportation.” The students, seated one or two at each table, participated in a neighborhood planning activity. Each group completed a worksheet on one of three topics: programming in and for public spaces; neighborhood identity, branding and signage; and complete and safe streets. The worksheet served as a discussion guide, focusing on strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
The residents, some speaking in Spanish, voiced a variety of experiences and concerns.
“My street has a lot of holes. I’m tired to see kids playing and motorcycles and cars zooming by. It’s dangerous.”
“I’m a landscaper. They’re filling those holes with sand, not blacktop or cement. After a rain, my neighbor’s car was messed up.”
Others bemoaned the lack of adequate public transportation and signage to warn drivers they are entering a school zone, to indicate children at play, or to mark access to parks and bike trails.
The recommendations in the students’ summaries ranged from signage to address specific issues; beautification projects such as gardens, murals and public art installations to build community identity; a weekly newsletter from ETC to help residents feel informed and build their trust in ETC’s process; and exploring logistics for transporting residents to Newark so they could speak at the NJ TRANSIT board meetings, which are open to the public.
At the start of the semester, Sauceda-Peeples gave the students a walking tour of the neighborhood so they could experience some of the challenges the residents face on a daily basis. Lack of painted crosswalks results in dangerous jaywalking; garbage is strewn around the park’s greenspace; freight trucks impede traffic flow on certain residential streets and compromise homes’ foundations; and public transportation consists of only one bus route that comes through the neighborhood every two hours.
Sauceda-Peeples (center left, in floral top) and Princeton seniors Daniels and Nieves engage in a discussion of residents’ concerns and ideas during one of several neighborhood forums the students attended throughout the semester. Recommendations from the students, drawn from their participation in the forums, will be incorporated into ETC’s 10-year strategic plan.
The nexus of academics and service: Trisha Thorme, director of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, said “students were able to connect the lived experience of Trenton residents to the themes of the class.”
She said ProCES helps dissolve the lines between the classroom and the real world. “One of the things I want students to learn through this kind of project is the importance of knowledge and research in creating social change,” she said.
Sauceda-Peeples noted the benefits of a service project that lasts a whole semester.
“Students who are able to spend more time in a community are able to understand the nuances of that community,” she said. “Students see and hear directly from community members, rather than through secondary sources. They are able to reflect on earlier experiences, ask more informed questions, and make meaningful connections between their studies and the real world.”
Baudez said: “The question of whose voice is heard in this context is essential. What I am most proud of is that the students learned how to listen to those most immediately impacted by the situation instead of imposing solutions from outside or taking knowledge secondhand.”
The take-away: Baudez said that he hopes the students, no matter what their majors, “will reflect on the fact that history helps to put into question our most basic assumptions. The course showed that what we take for granted as part of contemporary society in terms of essential needs and comfort is, in fact, the result of a historical process — and that not far from Princeton, communities are still struggling to access or maintain this level of comfort.”
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Luke Jennings. Mulholland, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-51252-7
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Superior prose and a cracker jack plot lift this exceptional spy thriller and series launch from Jennings (Beauty Story). Assassin Oxana Vorontsova, who was once a linguistics student at the University of Perm, is employed by someone she knows only as Konstantin, who works for a secret international organization called the Twelve, a dozen men who decide which evildoers who threaten the stability of the world should die. Three years earlier, Konstantin rescued Oxana from the Dobryanka women’s remand center in the Ural Mountains, where she was serving time for murdering three gangsters. After a year of intensive training, Oxana now goes by the code name Villanelle. After carrying out several assigned killings, she guns down Russian political theorist Viktor Kedrin in London, which brings her to the attention of former British MI5 agent Eve Polastri, who was in charge of protecting Kedrin. Eve slowly begins putting together the pieces of the Villanelle puzzle. The wide-open ending points to more to come in the struggle between these two resourceful antagonists. Readers will eagerly await the sequel. (July)
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Martin Audio BlacklineX Powered ready for shipping
Martin Audio has confirmed that the active versions of its big selling BlacklineX series, the BlacklineX Powered, will begin shipping in early September. When it was first announced in May this year, customers and distribution partners welcomed the introduction of a self-powered version of this full-bandwidth, high definition portable system. They will now have the opportunity to sample the new speakers, and learn more about their unique properties at the series of Martin Audio Open Days (September 17-19) at company HQ in High Wycombe
Comprising 12” (XP12) and 15” (XP15) full range enclosures plus the compact but powerful 18” XP118 subwoofer, BlacklineX Powered integrates Martin Audio’s signature acoustic, DSP and amplifier technologies and follows the success of the passive BlacklineX Series—the fastest-selling portable series in Martin Audio’s 48-year history.
In addition, BlacklineX Powered offers optional Bluetooth control, streaming and a built-in three channel mixer, placing increased flexibility and features within easy reach of users ranging from live venues, DJs and corporate events to permanent installs, all housed in rugged, road-ready chassis, designed for quick set-up.
Stated Martin Audio MD, Dom Harter. “The introduction of a self-powered series makes perfect sense in every way. The reception it received on its worldwide premier in London and the follow up at InfoComm 2019 in Orlando was everything we had hoped for, and we encourage anyone who missed the presentation to make sure they attend one of our Open Day forums.”
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Irons in the fire: Rural arrogance
Paul Marchant for Progressive Cattleman Published on 23 June 2017
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Last month, I drove to Clover Valley, in Elko County, Nevada, to attend the funeral of an aunt, my mother’s sister. As we drove south on Highway 93, out of Idaho and into Nevada, the rugged, imposing, snowcapped Ruby Mountains came into view, powering skyward from the valley floor of the high desert country.
In the late spring, the view of the Rubies, from any direction, is nothing less than impressive.
To nearly any native of the Great Basin or Rocky Mountain country, late spring is a time that is truly appreciated. After a winter that is generally cold, windy and unforgiving, you can finally venture outdoors without a coat and winter boots although, regardless of the season, it’s wise to at least have a vest within reach.
The natural beauty of the freshly green meadows and hayfields, contrasted with the brightness of the snow on the peaks and north-facing hillsides, is enough to give pause to even the most unobservant atheist.
You’re not yet faced with the dust and the brutal, dry heat and dull brown colors of late summer and early fall. If you’re ever going to be an optimist, it’ll probably be in the late spring.
The sight of the Rubies triggered a discussion on which mountains were most worthy of awe. My mother, who was raised in the shadows of the Ruby Mountains, was understandably a little partial to the mountain range in our immediate view but has, in the decades since her departure from her childhood home, grown partial to the alpine country of central Idaho and the German Alps, near the home regions of her ancestors.
To my father, the grandest of views will probably always be the High Uintas of northeastern Utah, his native country. Sadly, that country has been discovered by the masses and serious thoughts of ranching and agriculture are now mostly just that: quaint thoughts of a bygone era.
My sister refuses to even attempt to look beyond the Albion Range of south-central Idaho and the comfort of home that sits beneath Cache and Independence peaks.
My daughter and son-in-law, who have transplanted themselves along with my grandchildren in Johnson County, Wyoming, have developed a real fondness for the Bighorns. The land that has always captured my lust is southwestern Montana, where you can see cows and grass and mountains forever.
I have a son, currently residing in West Virginia, who even had the audacity to suggest that the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley might give our rugged West a serious challenge in terms of gorgeous natural landscape. And, if you think you’re a scrapper, I dare you to tell Julie Dotson Brown there is a prettier place on God’s dear earth than her beloved Missouri Ozarks.
I don’t know the right answer, for sure. As a matter of fact, that may actually be the right answer – that there is no wrong answer. I know that’s kind of a cop-out, BS answer. It didn’t really work for me in college. However, I think it’s fitting for cow and dirt people, even though it’s not as simple as the nonsensical notion that everyone is right about whatever they want to believe.
Over the years – and it didn’t really take me long to develop this trait – I’ve formed a genuine rural arrogance. I see it in a lot of country folk. I think I know how to appreciate just about any pretty mountain or rough country. It isn’t born out of some sense of superiority I’ve gained simply by living in a certain place, unlike the vibe I sometimes feel from some of my urban friends.
Rather, I think it comes from a combination of many things. It comes from genetics, the DNA from a long line of honest hard-working people. I didn’t have to work for that part of it. It comes from forced labor – endless hours spent picking rocks, feeding calves, shoeing horses, building fence and trailing cows.
A ranch or farm kid develops a sort of Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the land. It may control what you can do and when you can do it, but you love it anyway. It comes from the need, which eventually turns into a desire, to defend what you do against the ignorant onslaught of criticism that seems to come from every side.
It comes from the seasonal beatings heaped on you by Mother Nature and the singular camaraderie you develop with those other cowboys and dirt farmers who are competing against you for the same dollar.
So if you hail from the Sandhills or the Flint Hills, the hill country, the Front Range, the Tetons, the western slope of the Sierras or the prairie, or if you’ve ever pulled a calf, dug a posthole, hauled a bale of hay or wrecked a swather, you’re allowed a little bit of rural arrogance. Just remember to be humble about it.
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All you need to know about Vue Native: A framework to build Native Mobile Apps
Cross Platform App Development, Mobile app developement
The IT industry is a constantly changing and upgrading industry. To survive in an IT industry one must constantly upgrade and be able to identify with the latest technologies and also adapt to them. The IT developers are aware of this and therefore are always on the threshold of building mobile apps using latest technologies.
In the recent past, there have been a lot of changes in the development of cross-platform and native apps, for example, frameworks.
Facebook’s React Native was the first of its kind tool which helped developers create a cost-efficient cross-platform application.
One such tool is the Vue.js which is slowly gaining a lot of popularity amongst developers because of its use in Native applications and Cross-platform.
This JavaScript framework has gained a lot of popularity amongst the beginners because it is very easy to learn and master. Here is all that you need to know about Native Vue.
What is Vue Native?
Vue Native is useful in building mobile applications in Vue.js. This framework comes with a lot of benefits such as it helps to organize the user interface development and it focuses on view layers making it very easy to understand.
Vue.js does not depend on Babel which is a transpiler which converts JavaScript codes into Old ES5 version.
Vue.js depends on valid HTML templates which makes its integration process easy. Vue Native is a cross platform app framework which makes use of both React Native and Vue.js. It was developed by team GeekyAnts. It is very useful for the development of lightweight apps.
Vue Native is available under the MIT license and so one need not worry about the copyright concerns. To begin, the developer needs to install CRNA( create-react-native-app) on the system. After installing, the developer can use Vue Native CLI and CRNA to further develop a Native app using Vue..
Features of Vue Native
Vue Native is fast gaining popularity amongst developers because it helps them to make their front-end developments a lot more organized.
Mentioned below are its salient features:
This particular feature helps the developers make the changes and view it instantly without having to wait for the UI element execution. This saves them a lot of time.
Declarative Rendering
This feature enables the developers to write the codes which will only focus on the output. With all the implementation details hidden, the developer can keep their data consistent. New changes in the codes are possible only once the developers enter new codes.
Compilation with React Native
Vue Native and React Native work together which is extremely beneficial for the newbie’s who have never before worked on React Native for developing mobile Apps. Vue Native can also be used to render React Native components. It also allows developers to run Vue components in React Native with Vue-native-scripts.
Vue Native Router
This helps Veux in the navigation of mobile apps.
The basic components provided by the Vue Native helps the developers to boost up their development process.
Why Choose Vue.js?
Everyone prefers to use Vue.js because it makes the development of apps very easy and smooth. It is easier to learn and beneficial for beginners to develop their skills. Native Vue also offers useful tools like Vuex and Vue Router. It has easy-to-access plugins which enable high development thereby resulting in low cost for the app development.
Benefits of using Vue Native
Gentle Learning Curve
Vue.js is one of the easiest frameworks to learn. You can just start with a few basic lines of JavaScript and HTML. The easy learning curve can be mastered by any developer quickly.
Well-defined Ecosystem
The well-defined ecosystem of Native Vue helps the developers to easily find solutions to certain problems. This not only saves time but also increases their development speed.
Command-line Interface (CLI)
CLI is an important factor which has made Native Vue so successful. With CLI, one can reduce set up time and also reduce scaffolding to negligible. The project generator helps the developers to begin their project easily. The third version of Vue CLI allows developers to begin a project with some set of questions easily.
Who should use Vue Native?
To anyone who wants to use a Vue Native, it depends on whether you are proficient in the language and also on the goal that you have chosen.
If, as a developer, you are very good in React.js, then Vue Native will not be a good idea to work upon. Vue Native bridges Vue and React and so you will not find it beneficial. A developer who is proficient in Vue.js, then Vue Native would be suitable for cross-platform app development. If, as a developer, you are proficient in both Native-script Vue and Weex, then Native Vue usage will depend upon your goal.
Many platforms that allows developers to build Cross Platform Apps on all the three platforms, i.e., Android, Web and iOS, but the app production can happen only in China because it has a license only for that country.
For the development of a Native app, Quest Infosense is the best app developement service provider in India. rather you want to develop an app for a large community then we can help you with use of Native-script plugin can help solve your purpose. Native Vue is especially beneficial for beginners who are comfortable working on CSS, jQuery and HTML.
Native Vue is useful for those who want to develop a Native app. It is also very easy to learn, practice and master it. It is also very fast resulting in fast app development.
It has a few drawbacks too like it needs frequent optimization. It also needs a creation of a function for a component that can return JSK code. Every framework has its pros and cons and this one is a great framework to develop a cost-efficient Native Vue app.
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The Greatest Crooners of All Time
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Who are the greatest crooners of all time? This list of crooners includes many of the greatest male singers ever, in any genre, and there are some modern day, popular crooners included as well. Put simply, a crooner is a singer, typically male, who sings softly, slowly, and, often, sentimentally. Some of the best crooners of all time were masters of jazz standards. Crooning certainly emphasizes strong vocals.
Picture a huge, smoky ballroom full of people swaying to the music, as crooner singers stand on the stage, serenading them with the standards – many with themes of lost love, found love and other heartfelt sentiments. Romantic? You bet. “Croon” does rhyme with “swoon,” after all. If you’re a fan, you’ll likely find your favorite crooners listed here – but you may also find some new favorites to check out.
Back in the day - and by “day” this means the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, good crooners were a staple of popular music. By the mid-1960s, crooning had lost a bit of its luster. It is by no means dead, however. While many of the top crooners are no longer with us (Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin), some still are: Tony Bennett still tours, as does Johnny Mathis. And there are plenty of new modern-era crooners available for you to discover. Harry Connick, Jr., Michael Buble, and Michael Feinstein are all contemporary crooners, putting their own, unique spin on the classics.
Are these the greatest crooners ever? You decide, with your votes. Vote for the best crooners of all time, and let’s see who comes out on top.
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Frank Sinatra Christmas With the Rat Pack, In the Wee Small Hours, Christmas Songs by Sinatra
Nat King Cole Merry Christmas, The Magic of Christmas, The Nat King Cole Christmas Album
Bing Crosby Merry Christmas, Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics, White Christmas
Dean Martin Christmas With the Rat Pack, Dino / You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, A Winter Romance
Sammy Davis, Jr. Christmas With the Rat Pack, Sammy & Friends, Our Shining Hour
Johnny Mathis Merry Christmas, Christmas With Johnny Mathis, A Personal Collection: The Christmas Music of Johnny Mathis
Andy Williams We Need a Little Christmas, The Andy Williams Christmas Album, Moon River
Tony Bennett Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, A Swingin' Christmas
Perry Como Greatest Christmas Songs, Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music, Christmas With Perry Como
Bobby Darin Beyond the Sea: The Very Best of Bobby Darin, You're the Reason I'm Living / I Wanna Be Around, Bobby Darin Sings Doctor Doolitle / Born Walden Robert Cassotto
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Ray Charles The Birth of Soul, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, The Spirit of Christmas
Harry Connick, Jr. What a Night! A Christmas Album, When My Heart Finds Christmas, Blue Light
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Mel Tormé Complete Concord Recordings, Christmas Songs, Lulu's Back In Town
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Nanoparticles Rapidly Detect Pesticides in Food
By National University of Singapore | February 20, 2018
The research team led by Assistant Professor Yang Hongshun from the NUS Food Science and Technology Program were behind the development of novel magnetic nanoparticles that could speed up the screening of pesticide residue in vegetables
Food scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed a rapid and highly sensitive screening technique capable of detecting minute amounts of pyrethroids in vegetables, a common type of synthetic pesticide applied on agricultural crops. The innovative strategy makes use of magnetic nanoparticles to simplify pyrethorid extraction, reducing the screening process to under two hours.
Synthetic pesticides such as pyrethorids are widely used in vegetable farming to control agricultural pests. While the use of these pesticides improves crop yield, long-term ingestion of excessive pesticide residues through the consumption of fruits and vegetables that have been subject to pesticide abuse could lead to adverse health effects.
Several methods have since been established to screen vegetable crops for pyrethorid residue. However, they require time consuming and costly procedures such as column filtration and centrifugation, and can take up to six hours to process and analyze a sample.
To simplify the procedures, Assistant Professor Yang Hongshun and his PhD student, Yu Xi, both from the Food Science and Technology Program at the NUS Faculty of Science, developed polystyrene coated magnetic nanoparticles which can effectively extract pyrethorid residue from vegetable crops for analysis via simple magnetic separation. The nanoparticles are first added into a liquid sample obtained from vegetables, serving as “micro magnets” to attract pyrethroid molecules. Pyrethroids bound on the nanoparticles are then washed off by a small amount of organic solvent and collected for analysis.
This innovation allows analysis to be completed in less than two hours, and is able to detect pyrethroids at a concentration level of as low as 0.02 nanogram per gram of vegetables. The nanoparticles can also be reused up to 30 times, making this screening approach both time and cost efficient.
Yang says, “Existing screening methods require long processing time and hence it could be challenging to apply such methods to detect pesticide residue in a large batch of samples, which is vital to ensuring food safety. Our method therefore offers a faster and more effective alternative.”
This novel screening technique can also be modified for different purposes and holds immense potential for the safety of the food industry.
“With small modifications to the extraction process, this method can be used to detect pyrethroids in other food products such as nuts, fruits and vegetable oils. Modifications can also be made to the coating of the nanoparticles to detect other types of pesticides and chemicals including mycotoxins and antibiotics,” says Yu.
Moving forward, the duo will look into expanding the applications of their novel technique to enable screening of different chemical hazards in various food types.
Source: National University of Singapore
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Tom Mix Died Here
Tom Mix was the greatest of the silent-era movie cowboys, and a cowboy in real-life as well. He reportedly could knock a button off of a shirt with a rifle shot, and jump a horse into a railroad box car. He was married seven times to six different women.
But Tom was 60 years old on October 12, 1940, and behind the wheel of a V8 convertible, not in a saddle, when he decided to race north across the Arizona desert to visit his son-in-law. No one knows how fast he was going when he saw the road repair crew, but some say that he was standing straight up on the brakes, trying to stop, when his car flew into the washed-out gully. Tom's aluminum suitcase was thrown out of the back seat and into the back of Tom's head (He was wearing his trademark 10-gallon white Stetson at the time). Mix emerged apparently unscathed from the car -- which was not badly damaged -- took one step, and crumpled, dead of a broken neck.
The gully was renamed Tom Mix Wash as a makeshift memorial. Seven years later the Pinal County Historical Society erected a monument at the remote site. It's a mortared, cobblestone pile topped with a two-foot-tall black iron silhouette of a saddled but riderless horse, its head bowed. The horse has several holes in it. At first you may think it's rust -- but then you remember that you're in a desert, and there is no rust, and the holes are in fact bullet holes.
The monument was restored in 1990 when the horse, which had been stolen ten years earlier, was returned and had its first batch of bullet holes repaired. In the early 21st century a single, sheltered picnic bench was built just behind the monument, for those who want to eat lunch in the middle of a desert where Tom Mix died.
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Robison has written fourteen novels, including three for the local market, six for the national market, one indie, three ghostwriting projects, and one co-writing gig. He's won lots of awards and stuff.
I have a lovely wife, Erin, and three great kids. My oldest just turned sixteen, and does not yet have her drivers license, thank goodness. She makes videos, including one with 125,000 views. My second kid plays every game on every kind of device, and knows more about Pokemon than his dad, and he rolls his eyes every time I ask what a Jiggly Puff is. My third son is determined to be a YouTuber in his future, though he has no idea what that means.
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I work, like a shmuck. I received my MBA in 2009, and have spent the majority of my time in the tech consumer industry, managing products and leading teams.
I make stuff in my spare time. I have oil painted since I was eleven, and was once apprenticed to the artistic director at a theater. I like making stuff, but not anything that you'd ever need.
A chilling, masterful debut. With its clever premise, quick pace, and easy-to-champion characters, Wells’ story is a fast, gripping read with a cliffhanger that will leave readers wanting more.
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A thrilling combination of Wells’ trademark twists and terror. Fantastic!
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ARM Chooses 4 Projects in Latest Funding Effort for Manufacturers
Manufacturing institute has chosen almost 50 projects in the robotics and automation space.
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PITTSBURGH – The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute today announced four new projects from its fifth “Technology Project Call”, which took place earlier this year. ARM said it has now selected 49 projects, with 44% of its 220 member organizations involved. With this call, ARM plans to provide more than $1.6 million in funding for a total investment of $5.3 million across the four projects, pending final negotiations.
One of ARM’s goals is to issue project calls to its membership to “catalyze solutions for American manufacturers” for the most critical technology and workforce problems, and how automation and robotics can help American manufacturers. “These projects epitomize the strength of the ARM consortium, bringing together diverse organizations to improve manufacturing processes and lower the barriers to adopting robotics,” said ARM CTO Arnold Kravitz. “These projects help to ease issues inhibiting growth in U.S. manufacturing, while elevating the human roles.”
The selected programs cover topics such as human-robot interaction for inspection, path planning, edge intelligence for mobile robots, and figuring out a better assessment method for robotic applications. The four projects chosen are as follows:
Human-Robot Collaboration in Quality Inspection
Principal Investigator: Fiat Chrysler
This project seeks to improve the processes surrounding part quality inspection through the development of an easily programmable robotics 3D inspection system. Success will be measured through improvements in resolution, cycle time, programming time, and enhanced insights. By project end, the team intends to demonstrate an automatically calibratable system that will work with existing CMMs.
Path Planning for Precision Brazing
Principal Investigator: Siemens
Current precision brazing operations rely on highly manual processes in hazardous environments with high temperatures and noxious fumes. As such, there are a limited number of skilled welders to perform these processes. This project seeks a collaborative robotic solution to supplement the workforce gap through a system where the robot ensures precise flame and temperature control while a skilled operator performs quality control and adds filler material.
SAFE: Safe Autonomy Features in the Edge
This project seeks to leverage advancements in sensors, edge intelligence, robotics, and fail-safe controls to ensure the safety of human workers around their robotic counterparts, specifically AGVs. Current AGVs are limited to moving on a pre-defined path in a highly controlled manner, limiting real-time decision-making opportunities for human counterparts. This project team aims to improve human sensing and perception in AGVs, allowing for wider and safer applications.
Systematic Robotics Application Assessment Methods and Tools for Decision-making
Principal Investigator: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
Due to the cost and perceived risk with implementing robotics, advocates are often putting their reputations on the line when advocating for adopting robotics in manufacturing processes. This project seeks to minimize risk to manufacturers by improving upon methods and tools for evaluating manufacturing readiness levels for robotic applications. The expected project outputs include an expert-system-based software platform that identifies the key robotics parameters for a given manufacturing process and suggest solutions.
ARM said it currently has an active project call in the Education & Workforce Development space, but proposals are due on Wednesday, Dec. 11. In order to submit a proposal, you must be an ARM member. The group also said a new technology project call for the Department of Defense, focused on Sustainment, will be available for download on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Head to the ARM website for more details on the active project calls.
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Evenflo Discovery Recalled One Year After Consumers Union Urges Its Removal from Marketplace
Posted on Saturday, Mar 1st, 2008
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VANDALIA, OHIO - One year after Consumer's Union called for its removal in a controversial article and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration defended its safety, the Discovery Infant Car Seat has been voluntarily recalled in advance of a possible defect investigation.
Evenflo announced in early February that it was recalling models 390, 391, 534, 552 - a total of 1 million car seats - based on "recent laboratory tests conducted by Evenflo and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which show that this car seat could potentially become separated from its base in high impact side collisions similar to those in the tests."
The recall is a curious postscript to a January 2007 uproar after Consumer's Union released the February issue of its popular Consumer Reports magazine featuring a sensational article rating rear-facing infant car seats in front and side-impact sled tests. The Discovery performed particularly poorly, and the advocacy group urged it to be recalled. CU, however, soon found itself the target of attacks, when it was discovered that the side impact tests had been performed at 70 mph - twice the speed intended.
NHTSA Follows CU's Lead
While questions about the safety of the Discovery were all but drowned out by the uproar over CU's testing methods, the agency quietly took its own look. From February to October 2007, the Discovery failed when tested in NHTSA's Side Impact New Car Assessment Program (SINCAP) in four separate 2008 vehicle models: the Chrysler Sebring, the Lexus RX350, the Nissan Versa and the Dodge Grand Caravan. In each test, the seat, which contained an instrumented 12-month-old CRABI dummy, separated from the base. In addition, the agency subjected 12 other infant safety seats in different vehicles to side-impact crash tests at the 38.5 mph speed of the NCAP tests. NHTSA spokesman Rae Tyson said the tests were part of an ongoing research project, which started several years ago, into a possible rulemaking for a side-impact standard for child safety seats.
"When we see failure modes like this, we are going to take steps to protect the consumer," Tyson says. "A defect investigation is one of the options, if the manufacturer had not stepped forward with a recall."
NHTSA informed Evenflo of the test results after NCAP testing concluded in October. Evenflo then performed its own tests, and decided to launch a voluntary recall, Tyson said.
In a letter to NHTSA, Evenflo's Lindsay Harris, vice president of corporate engineering/quality, said that the recall was in response to "anticipated customers concerns" about "recent laboratory side impact crash tests conducted at energy levels well above the regulatory requirements for automobile side impact performance. "While the company believes that the condition observed in the laboratory high impact tests is not a ‘defect' as this term is understood under federal safety law Evenflo recognizes that this matter will likely raise concerns for its customers."
As part of the recent announcement, Evenflo said that it would provide current owners of these models with a free supplemental dual-hook fastener that was tested to ensure that the seat remains attached to the base in the event of such collisions.
Evenflo spokeswoman Karen Davis said that the child seat manufacturer was only aware that NHTSA would make the results public, and "even though Evenflo had received no reports of this actually happening in real world crashes, they decided to issue a voluntary safety recall."
In the summer of 2004, the agency opened and then rapidly closed an investigation into nearly 2.6 million Evenflo Discovery models manufactured from 1999 to 2003. The Preliminary Evaluation was based on 56 crashes in which the Discovery separated from its base, resulting in 23 injuries and 8 fatalities - half of the fatalities occurred in side-impact crashes. In its Closing Resume, NHTSA failed to clearly explain its reasoning, simply noting that the Discovery passed the FMVSS 213 compliance tests and the crashes were high-speed and severe.
More recently, consumer complaints to NHTSA raise concerns about loose-fitting harnesses that allow the infant to slide in the seat or harnesses that fail to latch properly, handles that do not lock in place and break and sun canopies that do not operate properly. Several consumers complained about the stability of the Discovery - typically, the seat tipping over or coming off the base during the course of normal driving, for example:
"While driving one day, my daughter's car seat actually just tipped over while making a left hand turn. The base was in the correct place and we were not speeding so that couldn't have made a difference. Luckily my daughter was not injured and we did not get into an accident while I was holding her up while driving to the side of the road."
"While driving home today and as consumer rounded a corner, the child safety seat came out of the base and turned over. Consumer's child was in the seat."
CU Attempts to Raise the Bar of Child Seat Testing
The CU tests showed that only two of the 12 seats performed well in tests and most failed: "The car seats twisted violently or flew off their bases, in one case hurling a test dummy 30 feet across the lab," the article said.
"In our 35-mph front-impact test, seven car seats failed. They separated from their bases, rotated too far, or would have inflicted grave injuries, as measured by our test dummy, whose sensors record the severity of impact. We retested these to see whether they passed the 30-mph federal standard. All passed except the Evenflo Discovery." And as part of the story, CU urged the recall of the Evenflo Discovery.
The article - rather than the test results - swiftly became the story. The public and many child passenger safety technicians were shocked by the results. Manufacturers insisted that their products were safe and CU was forced to withdraw its report after NHTSA quickly reviewed the results and found that CU's testing contractor, Calspan, had conducted its side impact sled tests under conditions that represented being struck at more than 70 mph. When NHTSA tested the same seats installed in sleds at 38.5 mph, the seats stayed in their bases.
The agency, in particular, defended the Evenflo Discovery.
"Our own tests don't quite agree," Tyson told one newspaper in January 2007, and stressed that the Evenflo Discovery was compliant with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 213. "We tested it just this last year, in 2006. All the seats tested do meet federal safety standards."
CU issued a retraction and appointed a review committee. CU retained Brian O'Neill, retired president of the Insurance Institute on Highway Safety and Kennerly H. Digges, the director of NHTSA's Vehicle Safety and Biomechanics National Crash Analysis Center to retest the car seats and promised to publish the new results. In the June issue of Consumer Reports, Consumers Union quietly released the results of its re-test. This time, the consumer group abandoned the side-impact tests altogether and simply tested the infant seats according to the FMVSS 213 compliance test. All of the seats passed.
Following the Evenflo recall announcement, CU released a brief statement:
"Consumer Reports has long had concerns about the safety of children in side-impact collisions," says David Champion, senior director of automotive testing for Consumer Reports. "We're pleased to see NHTSA addressing the issue."
CU spokesman Douglas Love declined to comment further.
NHTSA denied that the CU testing influenced this phase of its child safety seats and side-impact research project, but the sequence of events suggest otherwise. The seats installed in its NCAP tests last year were nearly identical to the seats in the Consumer Reports article, and the testing began a month after the CU controversy. (NHTSA tested the Safety First Starter, rather than Designer model, added the Combi Tyro and Connection models and did not include the Eddie Bauer Comfort in its test.)
"Despite the flaws in its initial side-impact test, Consumer's Union tried to raise the bar of child seat safety and ultimately, the effort proved to be a catalyst for the agency to take another look at the excellent questions CU raised," says Sean Kane, president of Safety Research & Strategies. "The result has been that one million infant safety seats have been removed from the market."
It is unclear if these unofficial side-impact research efforts will have a long-term effect in the form of better child safety seat regulations, Tyson said
"We're continuing to do it. It's an excellent opportunity," he said. "We haven't written off the possibility (of a regulation), but at this point our view is that the side impact tests seem to tell you more about the vehicle than the child safety seat."
Deborah Stewart, child seat safety advocate and editor of the Safe Ride News believes that in using the NCAP results to encourage a recall, NHTSA has taken a step toward a stricter child safety seat rules.
"This seems to indicate that side-impact performance has become a de facto requirement for child restraints," she says. "Manufacturers need to be aware of this but are in a difficult position due to the fact that no specific testing procedure has been established that enables them to run reproducible, practicable tests. NHTSA needs to move swiftly to establish such a standard."
In the meantime, the substantive research and testing on child safety seat performance is being done over the border. Since 2003, Transport Canada has conducted hundreds of tests involving some 77 passenger cars, cross-over vehicles, minivans and SUVs from the 2002-2007 model years, along with low-back and high-back boosters, high-back boosters with a harness latch and tether and a lap and shoulder belt.
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Ian Barrows: Mastering the College Game
Ian Barrows
Ian Barrows was awarded College Sailor of the Year, seven years after his brother Thomas had his name engraved on the same trophy. Now graduated from Yale University and easing into some 49er Olympic sailing with fellow Bulldog Mitchell Kiss, we checked in with Ian about his upbringing and what tips he can offer to the college sailing crowd.
Any brotherly advice when you began at Yale?
Not that I can think of, but every time I had a question for him when I was in college, or needed advice, he was always there for me. So he was a big help and someone I always looked up to and was a good influence on me.
Did his accomplishments motivate you?
Definitely! I always thought about it all the time in college, wanting to succeed at what he was able to do.
You both came up from St. Thomas Yacht Club in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In fact, Nikki Barnes, who was recognized as the College Women’s Sailor of the Year last year, is someone you grew up with. What’s going on down there?
For starters, the conditions down there are really good. You get to sail all year, which is an advantage. It’s enjoyable to be sailing because the air and water temperature is always warm. It’s also consistently 10 to 15 knots pretty much every day. So you get the trade winds and big waves there, which makes for fun and effective practicing conditions.
You see this translated in college, as generally when it gets windier, you see the Virgin Island sailors do really well. That comes from our time in those conditions, but we also get a lot of college coaches that come down to train with us. Additionally, we’ve had some Argentinian coaches that have come to St Thomas like Argy Resano. He basically coached me and Nikki all our lives which was a big plus for us
Does it help to be from an area where the ocean is part of the lifestyle?
I think so. We become very comfortable and aware while on the water, whether it’s sailing, or surfing, or fishing. Basically, everything you do down there is on the water.
Note: In addition to Ian Barrows receiving College Sailor of the Year, the Virgin Islands was represented by Nikki Barnes earning the annual Sportsmanship Award voted on by the teams, Graceann Nicolosi being named All-American crew, and Nikki and Mack Bryan earning All-American Honorable Mention as skippers.
Six sailors in the top 10 college teams in the nation were from the U.S. Virgin Islands – representing freshmen through seniors and from St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. Left to right: Mackenzie Bryan (Roger Williams), Graceann Nicolosi (Yale), Nikki Barnes (U.S. Coast Guard Academy), Paige Clark (Dartmouth), Alec Tayler (Fordham) and Ian Barrows (Yale). Photo: Ann Nicolosi
Looking back, would you consider yourself well-prepared when you began college sailing?
I wouldn’t necessarily say I was completely ready for it, but you’re definitely well prepared for it. We generally practice a lot of team racing down in St. Thomas, and we generally do pretty well at the high school nationals. But ultimately the only way to really be prepared is by doing college sailing. I was good enough at sailing the boats, so it is more about improving risk management skills, and understanding how to get the few extra inches that’ll help you on the short college race course.
Any weaknesses that you had to work on?
Probably the shiftier condition was a little tough to understand at first. In St. Thomas, you have the consistent trade winds with so slow oscillation, which is a lot different than the Charles River and adjusting to shifts every five seconds. It was tough at first, but by the end of my college career I considered those conditions to be one of my bigger strengths.
For the same reasons, light air sailing wasn’t a strength since you really never get those conditions in St. Thomas, but luckily, I also went to Marblehead in the summers where it’s generally not too windy. So I think that helped me prepare for the light air, and by the end of my career I was definitely a lot better in light air.
Is there an ideal size or weight for college doublehanded sailing?
I’m five foot ten or eleven and maybe 185 pounds… maybe not ideal. I actually began my college career at probably the perfect size, which was about 155 or 160 pounds. At this weight and height, it is a plus for boat handling, but I do think there is a big range that can be effective. I know Nikki probably sailed at around 240, 250 pounds, and my crew and I were probably 305 pounds together, and we’re definitely pretty even in speed.
With that said, my crew and I were one of the heavier teams, and for us there was certainly less room to make mistakes. If you get down speed, it’s a little bit harder to get back to speed. But I think size is something that people over exaggerate its importance. It really comes down to how smart you sail, and making the least amount of errors on the course.
Most of the doublehanded events are in FJs, 420s or Z420s. Any tips?
In my freshman year, I was a little rusty in the FJ and had a little bit of trouble with it. But by my sophomore year, I liked the FJ more than the 420, especially for team racing. Each year the emphasis varies depending on what will the nationals host will be using. Ultimately, if you put the practice time in every week and throughout the year, you should have it mastered by the time you’re a junior.
But isn’t there a problem for small skippers and the FJ?
In a 420, you can basically put whatever size crew in the front of the boat. For example, you could put a 170-pound person when it’s really windy, or there could be a really big skipper with a light-air crew, and it’s really not going to make a difference. But in an FJ, the more weight you put in the front of the boat does make it slower. So definitely, when it gets on the windier side, in FJs, it pays a lot to be a bigger skipper.
Let’s talk about the mental endurance needed for college sailing.
With the sheer number of races in a regatta, it’s definitely a huge psychological game. You can’t beat yourself up too much after a bad race because they do happen, especially with the level of competition at some of the events. With upwards of 18 races at a regatta, it is about staying optimistic and moving on to the next one.
It must be nice to conclude your college career by being named Sailor of the Year. What does that award mean to you?
It means a lot. It’s awesome that all the hours I put in, and the performance that came from the commitment, was recognized. I have had a lot of support along the way from my family, St. Thomas and Yale, so it is as much an honor for them as it is for me.
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Ryanair to continue Maltese expansion with new airline
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is to establish a subsidiary in Malta, with plans to have as many as ten aircraft on the island's register within the next three years. The airline will become the third new brand in the expanding group’s family of carriers.
By David Casey
Posted 11 June 2019 13:45
After adding Lauda and Buzz to its list of brands over the past 18 months, Ryanair’s latest move is to buy Maltese start-up Malta Air as it seeks to grow its presence on the island and access markets in North Africa.
The new subsidiary, which will be known as Malta Air, will operate six Boeing 737 aircraft transitioned from Ryanair’s fleet. Completion of the acquisition is expected before the end of June.
In a statement announcing the deal, the Irish carrier said it plans to increase its Malta-based fleet to ten aircraft within three years. Ryanair currently carries about three million passengers to/from Malta each year and more than 60 routes.
“Malta Air will proudly fly the Maltese name and flag to over 60 destinations across Europe and North Africa as we look to grow our Maltese-based fleet, routes, traffic and jobs over the next three years,” said Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary.
“Ryanair’s continued partnership with the Malta Tourism Authority will help drive forward the vision of Prime Minister Muscat and Minister Mizzi to grow year round connections to all corners of Europe which will support increased tourism, business and jobs in Malta.”
O’Leary added: “Ryanair appreciates the expertise of the Maltese Civil Aviation Directorate (CAD) in licencing Malta Air to operate the B737 aircraft and we look forward to working closely with the Maltese authorities over the coming years as we hope to add over 50 more aircraft to the Maltese register.”
Malta’s minister for tourism Konrad Mizzi claimed that Ryanair’s commitment to operate and grow a fully-fledged Malta-based airline would “contribute in a large way to the country’s development”.
Writing on Facebook after news of the deal first broke, Mizzi added that Malta Air will not impact state-owned Air Malta as the two airlines will offer different but complementary services.
Ryanair has significantly grown its capacity from Malta in recent years, as well as the number of routes it operates. According to data from OAG Schedules Analyser, the airline offered 689,661 departure seats in 2015, which will rise to more than 1.5 million in 2019.
This summer, meanwhile, it will operate 64 scheduled non-stop routes from Malta International Airport, up from 29 in summer 2015. Overall, its capacity share of departure seats will increase to 34.0 percent this summer season, 2.9 percent more than Air Malta in second place.
OAG Schedules Analyser data shows Ryanair and rival Air Malta currently operate a combined 100 routes from Malta International, but only compete directly on seven of them. They are to Birmingham, Bristol, Catania-Fontanarossa, Rome-Fiumicino, Manchester, Marseille Provence and Naples.
Speaking to Routes earlier this year, Air Malta's chief executive Clifford Chetcuti said the carrier was “committed to getting a slicker operation” after returning to profit in 2018.
“We are studying if we can go up to 14 aircraft over the next five years,” he added. “All the existing ones will be replaced with brand new neos. So, over five years, we will have a brand new fleet.”
Chetcuti also said Air Malta is doing some route studies on the A321XLR and LR. “We are actively pursuing it as part of our strategy over the next year, three years, or maybe even earlier,” he explained.
“We are studying the potential to go to the Indian subcontinent. To get there, though, we need the LR because the current neo does not reach the Indian subcontinent. To go to the East Coast of America, we need the XLR.”
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by Tiffany Antone
May 09, 2016 at 1:16 am EDT
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Quantico may be all about FBI agents trying to find a terrorist, but week after week the characters’ personal problems hijack any semblance of reality from the show. Now we finally know who the supposed mastermind behind the terrorist plot is, and it’s just another crazy piece of the show’s puzzle.
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Week after week I’ve watched the recruits of Quantico stumble over themselves in a bid to “be the best” — but the truth is, even though the show bounces back and forth between Alex Parrish’s training days and her days as an agent, none of the characters seem to learn very much.
This week we saw the agents given free reign over the evidence room, which they of course used to sort out personal issues instead of taking care of business. Shelby stole an immunity document in order to trick her parents into getting captured, and Parrish broke into her father’s undercover journals, discovering that he and Liam were basically responsible for the deaths of dozens in a terrorist bombing years ago.
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Remember how Parrish totally screwed up a month-long investigation into a pedophile ring last week? At no point did anyone remind her that she’s just an agent-in-training, or that she had totally messed up big time! And this week, Caleb pushed trainee Ira Chang’s security clearance through as a personal favor.
Basically, every week these agents behave like teenagers working at summer camp, and yet we’re supposed to believe they’re the best America has to offer! And the trainees aren’t the only hot messes on campus… the Quantico faculty are also all sorts of messed up.
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Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York's spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely-to the horror of the elite. This rollicking demimonde drove the development of an energetic dance music that would soon span the world. The Virginia Minstrels, Juba, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin and his hit "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and the Original Dixieland Jass Band all played a part in popularizing startling new sounds. Musicologist Dale Cockrell recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposes, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places. Everybody's Doin' It illuminates the how, why, and where of America's popular music and its buoyant journey from the dangerous Five Points of downtown to the interracial black and tans of Harlem.
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Rediff.com » News » What are Modi-Shah's plans for Lok Sabha polls?
What are Modi-Shah's plans for Lok Sabha polls?
By Aakar Patel
January 17, 2019 08:29 IST
'The party will keep to the script that its core supporter understands: Temples, statues, Muslims and cows,' says Aakar Patel.
Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com
What will be the effect of the alliances being formed against the Bharatiya Janata Party across the country? The obvious conclusion will be that the BJP will take fewer seats than in 2019.
The history of electoral alliances in India is that when the dominant party faces a joint Opposition, it gives up seats.
This was the case for the Congress party when it was the dominant force for five decades after Independence. Whenever the Opposition came together, as it did in 1977 and 1989, it was able to overwhelm the big party.
The theory is that because most parties in India are caste-based, alliances tend to work and are able to increase vote share. When large alliances form against the ruling party, it gets into trouble.
That may or may not be the case in May this year and it could be that the BJP will still come back to power, though in an alliance. But there is little doubt that it will have to face a much stronger resistance than it did in 2014.
Between Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, the expectation is that the BJP could lose as many as 100 seats.
Most of these losses will not be recoverable in the parts of India where the party will gain, for example in Kerala and West Bengal.
We will soon know what is happening when the opinion polls begin to roll out from next month onwards.
There is another effect that the alliances and the weakening of the Modi-Shah combine will have inside the BJP and let us take a look at that. What I mean is what will happen within the party.
In many ways, the BJP is unique because it looks on itself as an ideological party. In comparison, the Congress has no real ideology. It can say it has values, for example secularism, or that it has some policies, for example liberalisation. But it does not have a fixed set of beliefs, and that is what an ideology is.
Parties such as the BSP, the SP, the TMC, the BJD etc also do not have any particular ideology. The Samajwadi Party will say it is Lohiaite, but not many party workers or even SP leaders will be able to explain what that means in real terms.
The Communists say they have a Marxist or Leninist ideology but they cannot really express the ideology when they are in power in a state.
Kerala does not look particularly different under a UDF government led by Congress than when it is under an LDF government led by the Marxists.
But the BJP claims it has a proper ideology, and it calls this ideology Hindutva. What will happen when the party is weakening, as it has been in recent months?
We should expect that some consequences will follow.
The first is that in times of uncertainty, ideological parties tend to fall back on their first principles.
In the case of the BJP this means that the party will keep to the script that its core supporter understands: Temples, statues, Muslims and cows.
These are reliable things where the party is surefooted and its stand on these things separate the BJP from its competitors.
The result of this is that it will pull the leadership towards the extreme.
Within the party, the second rung will try to position themselves with the expectation that the uncertainty will produce opportunities later on.
Modi and Shah will be more vulnerable in these circumstances. They will have less space to talk about development and inclusion and will have to move towards the right. This is why we are seeing no emphasis on these things this time versus in 2014.
The pressure is already on them and will continue to build through the next few months.
As Modi and Shah move to the right, centrist BJP leaders like Nitin Gadkari will also have a larger opportunity to expand their non-Hindutva appeal.
The vulnerabilities will therefore be on both sides. This can be seen as something that is good for the party because right now it is quite closed and undemocratic at the national level.
But inclusion and development are not core to the BJP's appeal, and so we must conclude that the change this period will produce will be more visible in religious and nationalistic issues than in everyday and material ones.
The findings of the opinion polls, as the alliances are formed and announced, will keep this framework locked in.
The space for Modi will continue to shrink and the drift towards the right and the extreme will accelerate.
Aakar Patel -- winner of the 2018 Prem Bhatia Award for Political Reporting -- is Executive Director, Amnesty International India. The views expressed here are his own.
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Samsung app confirms three new wearables for Galaxy S10 launch
Samsung has officially confirmed that the Galaxy Watch Active, Galaxy Fit, and Galaxy Buds will launch alongside the Galaxy S10 on February 20. Well, the company hasn’t released a statement or anything, but an update to the Galaxy Wearable app now offers users the option to pair their phone with the three new wearables in addition to existing ones like the Galaxy Watch and Gear Sport. All three wearables are likely to be part of Galaxy S10 pre-order promotions.
As we had exclusively reported, the Galaxy Fit will be available in two variants, and one of them is called Galaxy Fit e according to the Galaxy Wearable app. The Galaxy Wearable app also confirms that the Galaxy Watch Active will be smaller than the Gear Sport, as we had revealed in one of our exclusive reports, and lack a bezel ring. With the Galaxy S10, the foldable phone, and these new wearable devices, this year’s Unpacked event will be extremely busy and perhaps the biggest yet in terms of how many devices Samsung will unveil.
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Part of my effort to see every Shakespeare play.
One of the things that I try to see more of is puppetry for adults. Not that kind of puppetry (although I have seen that, great show). And so, when I went up to Edinburgh this August to see a friend and take in some shows, I was scrolling through the listings for puppets and found “Puppet Richard II”. I hadn’t had a great experience the last time I saw Richard II and thought, “well, why not go see it again? It’ll be some silly adaptation, no doubt, mainly sock puppets to entertain, let’s have a look”.
I think there are few things about which I have been so wrong.
Puppet Richard II is one of the greatest plays I’ve ever seen.
Gregory Gudgeon is a serious actor with a list of credits that include both the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe and decided to do Richard II as a puppet show in order to break up what he considered to be a very dialogue-heavy play, so that people could appreciate it.
“It’s very gestural … it transmits the feeling of what’s going on even if the words are a bit archaic. … The movement of a puppet takes on what you’re doing and speaking the lines becomes secondary to the ballet.” – Gregory Gudgeon
And it works. I really works. Using a variety of spoons and other common household objects (The Duke of York is a shoehorn), Gregory imbues these puppets with greater and greater life, manipulating them with life-like gestures until you barely notice his face above or next to them, delivering the lines of the play. As far as you are concerned in that moment, the character *is* a stuffed toy. One reviewer praised “THE most moving John of Gaunt death, played by a glove”.
Award-winning performance of a shoe-horn.
As the play goes on, and Richard loses his throne to Bolingbroke, soon to be Henry IV, the puppets are used to emphasise the shift in power – Richard goes from being played by Gregory in a yellow crown to a soft toy stuck to a chair to becoming a wooden figurine carved to look like Gregory himself, emphasising the continuity of the character. Similarly, Lucas Augustine, who plays Bolingbroke, initially begins just by voicing what looks like a ping-pong bat with a picture of Lucas’ face on it. By the end, he has become the character and sits in the throne at the end of the room.
On that: the room that we were in could sit a maximum of fifteen people who were quite fond of each other. The second half of the play, as it becomes more dramatic, moves from the puppetry set to the middle of the room, where there is no room to store props, so the audience are abruptly handed various puppets to hold while the play unfurls.
I had happened, because we were late arriving, to find myself sitting next to the throne in which Gregory-as-Richard-II sits to deliver his final soliloquays. Less than a foot away from me, delivering a performance fit for any RSC stage. It was intensely marvellous.
Unfortunately, if you’re right next to them, they’re right next to you, and as it happened, my friend that I was visiting had left during the interval, and I was worried that he was waiting for me outside and kept checking my phone, which prompted a rebuke from Richard the bloody II, whoc asked if I had somewhere to be. A mortifying moment. I quickly explained that I was going to send one text to let my friend know what was happening, and he seemed to think I was politely covering up being bored, so I had to say, “No, mate, this is fucking incredible, you keep right at it”, and he smiled and snapped back into character.
As I wrote to another friend, afterwards:
“Honestly, you don’t appreciate what someone can do with puppets to convey emotion when all you have to go on is comedy.
The guy was playing a three inch stuffed cloth tied around the wooden knob at the top of a chair with all the intensity of an RSC performance, it was riveting.”
Richard II, literally clinging to the throne.
There is possibly no greater compliment I can pay a performance than to go and see it again immediately. I went again the next day, so I could see it from the beginning through to the end without interrupting, and it was just as good. I do therefore have to conclude that the first performance I saw at the Sam Wanamaker was just really not that good.
Henry Bolingbroke, taking the crown as Henry IV.
Puppetry appears to be one of the rarest performing arts, and if you aren’t around for the London Puppetry festival, it can be difficult to find performances for adults that aren’t weird avant-garde experimental theatre. Gregory and Lucas have produced a play that is funny, tragic, and moving in all the right places. With puppets.
I just wish I could go again. Apparently they do private performances, and I have a thirty birthday to plan…
Puppet King Richard II/Edinburgh from Gregory Gudgeon on Vimeo.
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The Worst “Country” Songs of 2019
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One sign that mainstream country music continues to improve is the decrease in “country” songs that were worthy of rants in 2019 compared to previous years. As the Bro-Country era continues to wane, and artists like Luke Combs dominate the airwaves, it’s offering a much more healthier alternative to the public. “Boyfriend Country” in the form of artists like Dan + Shay and Kane Brown is still pretty bad, but not objectionably offensive like some of the singles from previous years.
However there were a few exceptions in 2019, and songs worthy of taking out back to the woodshed. And don’t whine, “Hey, why don’t you focus on the good stuff instead ?!?” Heed your own advice and peep Saving Country Music’s Song of the Year Nominees if you want something better. But for now, it’s time to offer our full-throated opposition to these monstrosities misappropriated as “country” music.
Jason Aldean – “We Back”
He back, and as stove-headed as ever. Jason Aldean recently took time away from volunteering his head as a battering ram for the Southern Georgia Special Tactical Infiltration Unit to cut the songs for his new record lazily entitled ‘9.’ Hopefully like a feline’s lives, this will be Jason Aldean’s last. But for now, he’s making us suffer through this terrible single, “We Back.” If you think your IQ just dropped simply from staring at the title, wait until you hear this sucker.
If it was the early 90s, and Jason Aldean was opening for AC/DC or a born again Ozzy Osbourne, perhaps this mess would fly. But this is 2019, and supposed to be country music. Where is the Prince of Darkness to bite the head off a Jason Aldean when you need him? Chainsaw guitar chucks and Hells Bells minor chords introduce a song that is just another fist-pumping arena rock anthem about performing yet another fist-pumping arena rock anthem, which has become Aldean’s specialty, or crutch. This guy is stuck in a deeper rut than an F-250 wearing street tires trying to streak across a field of Texas black gumbo newly-tilled topsoil after four inches of fresh rain.
This isn’t music for people who like music. It’s for people who want their entertainers to affirm their lifestyle. (read review)
Zac Brown Band – “God Given”
Oh God this sucks. At this point you can’t even look away. Like coming up on some grisly roadside accident, you know it’s going to be grotesque, horrific, and mentally scarring for the rest of your life. But even as you cover your face, the index finger raises ever so slightly, and you sneak a peek. And yes, it’s as bad as you expected, except now it’s so damn bad, it cycles back around to imparting a belly full of inadvertent mirth from just how bad it is.
“God Given” makes reference to Gucci Bags, Veyron whips (huh?), and other stuff most God-fearing country music fans have to consult Mr. Google to decipher. The chorus goes, “Gucci bag, stacks on stacks, diamonds fill up the champagne glass, Veyron whip, G5 high, you have class that you just can’t buy.” Oh but then Zac Brown devolves into downright white boy rapping. At that point the whole thing goes beyond any criticism, and you just feel bad for of this poor guy’s all-enveloping and downward-spiraling midlife crisis.
Zac Brown. Buddy! You’ve got one of the best live bands in the game, and garnered a big grassroots following over the years. Look in the mirror, cry it out, come to Papa, and just STOP.
Brantley Gilbert (ft. Willie and Lukas Nelson) – “Welcome To Hazeville”
Brantley Gilbert tries to ride the dying embers of the marijuana craze and the legitimacy of the Nelson name to renewed attention by releasing this refer ode full of indolent lyrics vomited over an obnoxious and hyperactive electronic beat. The unforgivable dumbfuckery contained in “Welcome To Hazeville” makes one palpably feel your IQ points tick down simply by being in its presence, and no, not from any contact high.
Brantley Gilbert is now in his mid 30’s, but still sporting the unbridled braggadocios machismo of a 15-year-old boy whose balls have just dropped and who just received his first hand job. Time hasn’t just passed Brantley Gilbert over, so have all the wisdom-inducing attributes of adulthood. If you want to advocate for the normalization of marijuana use, making an imbecilic stoner song that reinforces that smoking pot is nothing more than a stultifying activity of the great American meat head is not the way to go.
And you’ve gotta love that one of the themes of “Welcome to Hazeville” is “Hangin’ out with Willie,” when all Nelson was willing to contribute to the stupid song was three words lasting 1.21 seconds stuck on the very end. Willie Nelson has no idea who the fuck Brantley Gilbert is, but sure he’ll take 1/4 of the performance royalties for doing virtually nothing, dumbass.
It’s not 1996 anymore, and your stupid pot songs are about as relevant as Brantley Gilbert’s Tapout attire. They’re not edgy and hip, they’re conformist and tired. Soon marijuana will be legal everywhere, and along with alleviating the unjust incarceration of people for the possession of a plant, hopefully it also ushers in the cessation of these shitty pot songs. (read review)
Sam Hunt – “Kinfolks”
Like a persistent venereal rash you think you’ve finally licked, only to experience a severe flare up right before you’re headed out on a hot date, here comes Sam Hunt and a new song screwing up the rally we’ve been enjoying in mainstream country lately. It’s been a glorious five year reprieve after this college football flunkee turned country music EDM mumble rapper lost interest in his own music faster than his bubblegum fans did, and stopped releasing new songs aside from the failed single “Downtown’s Dead” from 2018.
The premise for this song is a mess. A piece of free advice: if you do end up going back to the hometown of a suitor and want to impress your future in-laws, for the love of God, whatever you do, never, and I mean never, admit to them that you listen to Sam Hunt. He’s the face tattoo and felony conviction of music. (read review)
Blake Shelton – “Hell Right”
With the release of “Hell Right,” the entirety of Blake Shelton’s career just devolved quicker than a political discussion with your drunk and racist uncle at Thanksgiving dinner. With this song, BS has now racked up such a monumental deficit of ill will with actual country music fans, he’d have to play Hank Williams covers exclusively until 2028 to pay his debts to country music society, and even then his name will still be tantamount to a swear word to many in the country music community into eternity.
For making this “Hell Right” atrocity, I hope Blake Shelton’s penis falls off. Hearing this song played anywhere within my general vicinity makes me want to revitalize the Faces of Death movie franchise by drinking a lug of Drano as opposed to being exposed to even a fraction of a second more of this audio monstrosity. (read review)
Mitchell “Bitches” Tenpenny – “Alcohol You Later”
This fat asshole should have his right to use the English language revoked for employing such a terrible pun. It’s songs like “Alcohol You Later” and meat heads like Mitchell “Bitches” Tenpenny (nicknamed for his horrible and misogynistic song “Bitches”) that have folks hating on anything associated with country music as indolent and backwards. In the case of this song, that assessment is completely justified. The only redeeming quality of “Alcohol You Later” is the fact that it flunked on the charts, not even cracking the Top 40 despite many touting Mr. Bitches as country music’s next hot thing. Hopefully his career is the next thing to tank. Mitchell “Bitches” Tenpenny gives off more rapey vibes than a Miami University football player. This song deserves to go straight to voicemail, and the number permanently blocked.
Dishonorable Mention:
Luke Bryan – “Knockin’ Boots.” A terrible song for sure, but sadly, just par for the course from country music’s Gomer Pyle.
Brantley Gilbert – “Fire’t Up.” More blowhard machismo from Brantley. His performance of the song on Monday Night Football was so bad, they quite literally canceled this year’s halftime performances afterwards.
Dustin Lynch – “Ridin’ Roads.” Lynch once again outdoes himself in his never-ending quest of selling out every last vestige of his self-respect.
Maren Morris – “Flavor.” Maren Morris boasts of her creative alacrity and ingenuity in this song, saying in part, “If it ain’t familiar, it’s ’cause you ain’t had it yet.” Yet the underlying takeaway from her new album GIRL is its raging familiarity in the way it leans on pop tropes, safe composition, and simple melodies to garner its appeal. This song tastes bland.
Thomas Rhett – “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” and “VHS.” Rhett songs like “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” symbolize the worst appropriations of vapid dance pop ever perpetrated in the country genre. “VHS” is so laughably bad, Beck is probably kicking himself for not thinking of this oversexed tripe when he recorded Midnite Vultures mocking the stupidity of this shallow version of R&B music.
Zac Brown – “Swayze.” The only reason this thing doesn’t make the top of the list is due to the fact that it officially wasn’t released as a “country” song, and despite the millions who’ve been trolled by it, it’s not meant to be taken seriously. The recent video for the song proves it. Nonetheless, it’s as bad as advertised.
READ: The Best Mainstream Country Albums of 2019
Blake Shelton, Brantley Gilbert, Dustin Lynch, Jason Aldean, Lukas Nelson, Luke Bryan, Maren Morris, Mitchell Tenpenny, Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Willie Nelson, Zac Brown, Zac Brown Band
Jimmy’s Carhartt
December 15, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
“Like a persistent venereal rash you think you’ve finally licked”
Oh God no.
Jeana Bales
December 16, 2019 @ 9:50 am
I haven’t heard one as bad as the riding my horse down old Town road one! The lyrics stink and it felt like a song that got pushed on us.
I’m an admirer of Trigger’s way with words, but geez, that one. Wasn’t sure about “I hope Blake Shelton’s penis falls off” either. Obviously, when “country” songs are this bad it’s not the time elegant prose.
Oh boy. You’ve probably triggered at least 5 different legions of aging soccer moms with this one.
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North Woods Country
I think I agree with you on about 98% of your rants and the artists whose music you despise, but every now and then I think a terrible sin carries weight into later songs from the same artist that just aren’t that offensive. As awful as “Bitches” was, “Drunk Me” was flat out catchy and “Alcohol You Later,” while a terrible pun, isn’t overly offensive. I find the We Backs and Zac Brown songs so much more intolerable.
Was Maren Morris’s “Rich” on the 2018 list? Most annoying song since “Stuck Like Glue.”
“Ridin’ Roads” is almost a new low for Dustin Lynch. It can’t get worse than “Seein’ Red,” can it?
I have not heard “Flavor” by Maren Morris, but when out with friends recently, we discussed Maren Morris, and how she might be the artist in mainstream country right whose creative output doesn’t even approach her talent level.
Brantley Gilbert and his Sons of Anarchy cast-off image need to go away already. Disappear for a year, Brantley, and come back dressed like a grown man, not like some poser asshole that gets his ass buried in the backyard of his girlfriend’s parents’s place.
”…..Maren Morris, and how she might be the artist in mainstream ”stream country right whose creative output doesn’t even approach her talent level.”
this absolutely sums up MM …..she could be SO MUCH better if she found better material….country or otherwise . a waste …
December 15, 2019 @ 1:12 pm
Trigger, your writing — unlike these songs — made me smile.
OlaR
The pile of shit award for worst “country” song goes to…
…australian singer Tyran & his masterpiece (well…) “Bang Bang”.
I.M. Brute
By the way, a “grisly” roadside accident is only “grizzly” if a large brown bear is involved. You’re welcome!
Other than my nitpicking, I’m glad you’re calling out what passes for “country” music these days.
I gave up on mainstream FM radio “country” more than twenty years ago. I don’t know any of the names you’ve mentioned in your article. As far as I’m concerned, Country Music is finished. It was fun while it lasted!
Unless there’s some sort of rebellion like the 1970’s Outlaw Movement or NeoTraditionalists on the horizon, you can pretty much count me out as a consumer of today’s “Nashville Product.”
Ok, so you don’t like country music. I have a suggestion for you, don’t listen to it!
These songs aren’t country, though. They’re just marketed as country.
Can’t imagine George Strait singing any of these songs.
I have a suggestion for you. Get educated as to what actual country music is. SPOILER: These songs aren’t it.
Well the country music of the 1990’s was not country according to 60’s and 70’s country music standards. However I agree that these songs are horrible
INDK
Every. Damn. Time.
They show up like flies to shit.
1/10 troll. Poor effort.
Oh great. The soccer moms are here. News flash, Colleen. These songs aren’t country.
I remember my first time on this site
Gee, yet Jason Aldean is still selling out his concerts & more. He is the only artist I disagree with in your list.
Just because he’s selling out concerts & more doesn’t excuse the fact that his recent album is atrocious.
Mark Marchand
Your a moron
sbach66
“Your” a moron.
K lical
I disagree there’s some great songs on this album
So are Coldplay. Doesn’t make them country.
Eccentric Madman
That’s because he relies on garbagemen who crash dirt bikes into brick walls in their spare time and sexually aggressive soccer moms who are going through a midlife crisis and suddenly want to be called cowgirls to sell his shows.
McDonald’s sells millions of hamburgers every day.
In no way does that imply it’s good food.
Limaohio09
I would suggest visiting Ticketmaster.com and taking a look at what tickets are available at these so called “sold out” concerts. Aldeans career is on the downswing and some of these arenas have TONS of tickets available for shows in as little as 7 weeks away.
gdfupos
It’s so damn funny reading your hate filled posts quite possibly the funniest thing I read when I stumble across them.
Definitely the largest teasers over country music.
The ghost of Ernest Tubb will find you and he WILL burn all your record collection and replace it with ‘Waylon Jennings Greatest Hits’, ‘Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger’, ‘Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits’ And ‘Ernest Tubb The Definitive Collection’. Oh and a word of warning, Ernest’s ghost has been known to go on drunken rampages, so if you go talking smack about TRUE country fans and/or the Ernest Tubb Record Shop costumer population, you better start digging your own grave, boy.
Selling out concerts doesn’t mean an artist doesn’t suck. It just means they’re popular.
Popularity doesn’t equal quality.
He sucks.
Not sure who you’re talking about….but, in this case it applies to all.
Reply fail. Was replying to Cindy’s nonsensical comment above equating quality with popularity.
Reply fail. Replying to Cindy’s nonsensical comment above equating quality with popularity.
I cannot tell you how much I love this article! Much needed commentary on today’s “hick hop” music. Hank never would have done it this way…lol. So many douchebag artists out there that it’s not even funny… Gilbert, Church, Aldean, Bryan, etc. Great content, but it’s sad that country music is dead….at least mainstream.
Fun fact – when I first heard Shania Twain in the UK in the late ’90s, I had no idea she was meant to be a country singer. I thought she was just another pop diva. Make of that what you will, but compared to Maren Morris, she’s practically Loretta Lynn.
Ha! You made me spit out my coffee. Well said.
We should probably vote on this too but I don’t want to have to listen to any of these in order to make a sound decision.
Seriously though, all of these songs are good…for a laugh.
Douglas Trapasso
No “Old Town Road”, Trigger? I’m guessing the song and Mr. X are already a footnote in country history, but thought you might give your readers one last reminder/warning.
1) I don’t consider it a country song, so it doesn’t qualify here, sort of like Zac Brown’s “Swayze.” And note, Billboard also does not consider it a country song, even by their extremely loose qualifications.
2) Any criticism of “Old Town Road” is immediately read as racism with no other possible conclusion no matter what the opinion holder says. No reason to ruin the good time here with that nonsense.
“No one can possibly write a song with worse lyrics than Old Town Road….”
Zac Brown: “Hold my beer.”
Sam Hunt is not country
Trigger , you don’t get paid enough to listen to these songs.
Kent Rightmire
Americana red dirt. Get back to our roots.
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“Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes”
I can say one thing, it ain’t the so called country singers today. I stopped listening to what was supposed to be county a long time ago. I tried to watch a CMA awards show a few years back and endured about 15 minutes of it and turned the TV off. Thank God fo bluegrass.
I’m here laughing at yall comments. Like why are you listening to this stuff if you dont like it? There is some of us that do like it. Like get a life and let go of this. Your bitching on this page is no one any good. Some of my favorite songs are Ridin Roads and Kinfolks .
Lil’ D.L.’s Honk
I agree with ya man. This is America! That means you have every right to have a pitiful taste in music like you claim to
If you don’t like this article then why are you commenting on it? Same concept.
EDWARD GILDNER
I’m surprised Blake Shelton’s stupid ” Chew Tobacco, Chew Tobacco, Chew Tobacco, Spit song did not make the list.
Oh that got it’s due in 2013 when it was released.
It’s crap music that’s coming out of Nashville now crap stands for country rap
It’s not country music anymore it’s rock and pop music
So over this “today’s country music isn’t country music and it sucks” mantra. All of these complaints and articles must be written by 20 year olds. Do you have any idea what they said about Garth Brooks, Conway Twitty, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks, etc, etc, etc? “THIS ISN’T REAL COUNTRY MUSIC!” You people have no idea and no clue about the history of country music. Like all forms of music, things are evolving and changing. The genre doesn’t seem to matter….they all change. If you don’t like it then don’t listen to it and pull out your 8tracks of Barbara Mandrell and go to town! I for one am probably older than all of you (58 years young here) and I absolutely love the new stuff. Brett Eldredge, Joe Nichols, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Dallas Smith, Luke Combs….I mean come on!
You’re 58 and like Luke Bryan and I’m 14 and listen to Waylon
Out of the mouths of babes. You are wise beyond your years, sir.
Wilson Pick It
So you liked We Back and Swayze? Good for you.
Keepin it Country
I’m 18 and listen to anything from Hank Senior to Cody Jinks. And from this I know one thing for sure Country has evolved but never into another genere. Sure it goes through “pop” sounding cycles but it always circles back. Another thing is it’s not evolution if it’s just another genere. Look at rock for example. It got more and more pop and POOF it’s gone. NEW DECADE, AND REAL COUNTRYS COMIN BACK BABY. TIME TO GET THE PARDI STARTED!!!!
CeeCeeBee
If you’re tired of “today’s country music isn’t country music and it sucks” mantra, then I honestly have to wonder why you read the articles on this site. Invoking Barbara Mandrell is a clue that you don’t really have an understanding of what real country music is. She had some great COUNTRY songs, but her best work was more pop or blues. And as for those other artist you mentioned, yes, some of their work was called “not real country” because it wasn’t, but like Mandrell, they are celebrated by traditional country fans for the work they’ve done that IS real country.
And honestly, the biggest problem with the songs on THIS list isn’t even that they’re not “real country,” it’s that they SUCK in any genre.
I have to agree and I can’t tell you how often I come to this conclusion in a week .Wow ! I LOVE music ..all kinds …classic country , pop , radio , indie …whatever , ……and its just so frustrating wading through most contemporary stuff and being disappointed by the dearth of listenable songs. so much focus on trend in terms f sonics , ‘ beats’ fake sounds , autotuning …all to hide the fact theat there is no song behind that smoke and mirrors facade . There are no smokey robinsons, no paul overstreets , don gibsons or jimmy webbs ,no ‘song-first’ powers -that- be in the biz , it seems . a new piece of music just has to be passable …., then its all dressed up to SOUND like far more than it actually is . the golden era of songwriting has long sine passed , it would seem . there is no acknowledgement of , no demand for and possibly no understanding of the importance of timelessness inherent in a GREAT , well-written , well crafted song .
Yup. All the proof you need is in Taylor Swift winning all these “artist of the decade” awards. It’s all about the production these days – not the song, and certainly not the voice.
we had a conversation the other week about just how far artistry , talent and quality has fallen since the times when whitney houston was considered THE best voice/artist in the biz ( and many many others ) to the likes of a taylor swift being praised for her ‘talents ‘. its laughable how low the bar is now …….dreadful writing , no-talent vocalists more concerned with fashion and posing and social media followings than ACTUAL artistry , timeless songs and artistic abilities . what the hell happened ?
a lot of industry folk attribute this to the dried up revenue streams and the glut of people chasing the few dollars still left as well as the inability of a generation to recognize REAL talent and REAL entertainment value . the laughable royalty agreements through streaming services and the costs of mounting major tours has REAL talents staying out of the biz in droves . why , if you have other emploment options , would you want to roll the dice in a music business that rewards a Card B or a Post Malone , L’il Nas or a Jason Aldean for simply being able to market themselves rather than artists with actual gifts ??
it seems the biz ( as hugh prestwood once wrote about ) has been indoctrinated by the ‘church of hollywood ‘ and targets the young and the impressionable and their dollars in order to survive economically .
Taylor Swift has written or co written every song on every album she has released. She may not have Whitney’s pipes (who btw wrote none of her own music), but to say she has no talent i is idiotic.
Your argument would work if these modern artists were at least releasing good songs.
But they aren’t. These songs are factually terrible. There’s no credible argument that defines them as “good songs.”
Quality of art isn’t subjective after a certain point. These songs are long past that point.
The fact that you’re 58 just makes it that much sadder that your taste is so shitty.
Jack Williams
We’re approximately the same age and I’ve been a reader here for quite a while. One suggestion that I have for you would be that the next time you get the urge to write one of these categorical putdown rants, ask yourself if you really understand the people you are putting down and allow for the possibility that you might be making shallow, sweeping assumptions about them.
Again with that word “evolving.” Doesn’t evolution require some sort of connection to the past? As a boomer, you should understand that.
Blockman
I think that the Satanist by the name of Zach Brown has released the worst of the year by far.
Trig, any news story on the forever stalling next LP by Chris Young? His “Raised on Country” album was supposed to come out in spring 2019… Same goes for “Fun” by Garth Brooks. Months and months later, and still no updates from them… Garth even had a pre-order going on for his album… Crazy to think fans bought it in advance and have been given zero updates on a new release date. That’s lame and quite disgraceful to Garth’s fans…
Can we discuss how country radio is stalling all of FGL’s newest singles… From “Talk You Out of It” peaking at # 11 after nearly 10 months of radio support and now their current “Blessings” is slowly climbing in the Top 40 after 3 months of radio support… A new trend is for sure happening!!!
Also, “Hell Right” by Blake is slow on the charts too. It’s at # 18 after 4 months… Both Blake and FGL use to score # 1’s within 3 months… Oh how the mighty have fallen. It’s too bad for FGL because Blessings is a pretty good song!
Goes with the “Bedroom Country” trend. Blake Shelton lucked out with “God’s Country,” but didn’t learn his lesson that the country audeince now wants songs that are more mature.
I’m guessing his next single will be his duet with Gwen “Nobody But You”… I wouldn’t mind if his Tequila Sheila cover was a single!!! Blake has covered many singles before including Ol Red, Home, and God Gave Me You.
Also, FGL is on Kenny Chesney’s tour as a supporting act instead of a headliner.
If you want to hear real country take a listen to acts like creed fisher,Tyler.Childers or Sturgill Simpson
Lexingky@yahoo.com
When are you going to make an article about the worst country song EVER? Blake Shelton’s “Boys ‘Round Here” has to take several shit kudos. Blake Shelton should be ashamed. I had a good friend who died from mouth cancer and this shit face is apparently getting his pockets lined by the big tobacco industry. “Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco. SPIT”. How can anyone write a song that promotes chewing tobacco to our youth? Socially, spitting is one of the most disgusting things a human can do. But Blake somehow incorporates that into his music like it’s the normal thing a young kid should be doing. It’s ignorant and shameful to be promoting a nasty drug addiction that can lead to mouth cancer to America’s youth like it’s nothing. And what’s just as disgusting is that nobody says a thing about it. Blake is more disgusting than spit! Thanks Blake for helping out this perpetual drug addiction that will help keep the tobbaco industries thriving while our youth gets addicted and has to spend their hard earned money to help with their own demise.
Oh quite a few of those have been written here:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/?s=boys+round+here
Let me say first off that I’m not defending “Boys ‘Round Here” (I think that song is an abomination), but I don’t see how Blake Shelton can be so out for promoting a nasty, dangerous habit when so many artists do the same. Chris LeDoux and Gretchen Wilson both did songs about dipping tobacco. Hundreds of country songs mention smoking (in fact, country music still somewhat glamorizes smoking). Every other song on the radio is about getting drunk.
If you’re gonna nail Shelton, better nail everyone else too.
Not a fan of the song… But Blake has said on many occasions that it’s ‘the stupidest song” that he’s ever recorded and it ironically became the biggest hit of his career. But I don’t think we should be bashing Blake… He’s done a lot of good for the mainstream country world. I do enjoy most of his singles. He’s doing music the way he wants to. “I Lived It” and “God’s Country” are awesome newer tracks from Blake. He promoted Craig Morgan’s “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost” and got it trending everywhere. His “Friends and Heroes” tour was fantastic (yes I attended) with John Anderson, the Bellahmy Brothers, and Trace Adkins! And Blake seems like a really nice fella in real life… The Blake bashing for that one song and Hell Right is tiresome…. He’s put out some good stuff over the past 2 decades… Sort of like with Dierks and Brad Paisley… I definitely think the problems with current country reside with Dan and Shay, Old Dominion, Thomas Rhett, Sam Hunt, Luke Bryan, and Jason Aldean.
I’m sorry, but after listening all the way through, I have to say that Luke Combs’ current album ranks right up there with Blake Shelton’s “Hell Right”. The entire album just beats you over the head with Bro tropes of huntin’, fishin’ truckin’, bro-hangin’, you name it. Everything Saving Country Music has complained about during the Bro-Country era is right there, done in an arena-rock bombastic style if there ever was one. “Beer Never Done Me Wrong” is a cute novelty song, but Combs is not a huge leap forward in the quality of country music at all.
They’re all slugs!!!!!!!
I’m not a old timer set in my ways and unable to adjust to pop country like the person who wrote this. I like older music and new music if it sounds good to me that’s all that counts. I love that country music has evolved from the shit that puts you to sleep to the stuff that makes you wanna drink shine and throw furniture on a bon fire. if there’s been any change over the years that don’t bother me it’s the change in music and I despise change.
Eddie Vibbert
This so called music is pure shit! And these so called country artists are a bunch of self absorbed hick ass no talents! Real country is dead in the hands of these dillholes!
Alldun: Actually had fun listening to this song. The lyrics are so dumb you can’t help but laugh at them. And the arena rock sound is ok, though not as good as Bon Jovi lol.
Artist Formerly Known As ZBB: The first second and a half was fine, sounded like a nice electric guitar groove getting started. But then this dumb hick starts rapping about Gucci and blow and whatever. Immediately turned it off. Microcosm of why ZBB is dead to so many.
BeeGeeBro: Can we please kill off that horrible synth-guitar sounding garbage once and for all? Didn’t even make it to the tractor rapping I assume he does here. Might be the worst song on this list, since it’s not even music.
SAM HUNT IS NOT COUNTRY.
BS & The Ghost of Trace Adkins: You can tell in the video that these guys are just having fun, not taking themselves or this song too seriously, but it’s still weird to see a bunch of 20-somethings at a bonfire hanging out with a couple of old timers who are telling them how cool they used to be. And of course this is another one of their patented talk-rap songs. IMO Trace Adkins is one of the worst sellouts in recent memory. Beautiful baritone voice totally gone to waste.
Bit**es: 5 seconds in, not even trying to pretend it’s country.
What gets me about “Hell Right” is that it’s actually a pretty catchy chorus and gets stuck in my head. But then the lyrics are just so freaking awful it kills the whole thing for me.
LilPops
Don’t hate on Trace Adkins.
Just ONE GUYS OPINION!!!!!
Taylor 💜
“We Back” just bores me to tears and I like “Flavor” for what it is (a pop song). The rest of these suck though. I gotta say I nominate two songs for the list though: “Black Sheep” and “Goldest” by Walker Hayes. I swear these two songs make Zac Brown’s atrocities of “Swayze” and “God Given” look like George Strait. These are so bad, I’m not even linking them. If you are curious, they are on YouTube. Just make sure you have some Jon Pardi, George Strait, or Alan Jackson on hand afterwards.
The worst (or at least most disappointing) thing about “Hell Right” is that Trace Adkins participated in it. We expect this type of thing from Blake–he’ll release a good song, and then follow it up with this kind of nonsense. But Trace knows better–he’s sung real country music, and he’s gotta know that this ain’t it.
Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson are the future …..Thank God.
By every objective measure, “Knockin’ Boots” is a terrible song. But damn, it’s catchy.
As for “Hell Right”. More like “Hell No”.
“This fat asshole should have his right to use the English language revoked for employing such a terrible pun.”
Made my day. Thank you sir.
kapam
I notice that every one of the leading contenders starts with fake electronic percussion loops. Surely that’s enough to consign all of them to the discard bin straight up!
There must be rappers & hip-hoppers in LA & NYC wondering who stole their beats.
This article/list is total trash. You sound like one of those kids from high school who wore an “I hate preppies” t-shirt and hated all the popular kids for being too “mainstream “…
Two positive things here: I only read two full song reviews and skimmed the rest so I didn’t waste too much of my time. And the other thing I have going for me is now I’ll recognize the website and avoid any further pieces written by or involving it.
Sad bunch of cynical people. Maybe you just need a big hug and a good therapist.
Let me guess, Ashley K, you were one of the popular kids?
If so, you’re right. I hated y’all. And I still do.
My guilty pleasure of 2019 is “Hell Right”. The idea of the song is clever and it is catchy. Plus, I think Blake from time to time likes to put out songs in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. However, I won’t dispute all the above critiques, but I’d be lying if I denied hitting repeat a couple of times after hearing the whole song for the first time.
Patrick Nance
As a way to judge ANY of the arts, a German philosopher named Goethe said you need to ask these three questions;
1) What was the artist trying to say?
2) How did the artist say it?
3) Was it worth saying?
This applies to all the arts… and in the case of all of these songs, they all fail #3. As does most of the current “country” music genre. Watching the CMA awards the other night left me wondering what happened to “country music”. Shay and ? are as far from country as you can get. Florida Georgia Line is just a recycled Red Hot Chili Peppers. And Sam Hunt? Holy shit, dude, leave that tattooed look to the ex-cons. By putting on a cowboy hat and a pseudo “Nudie” suit, you do NOT become a country artist.
Country music has become another genre of pop… and neither is very good. I am not sure that even Garth with his “Dive Bar” album is doing “country”.
Thank God our local country station, KCW, Bakersfield, CA plays actual country music.
Want to see the failure of question three in all its totality? Look no further than The afore mentioned Blake Shelton abomination “Chew Tobacco, etc”. This is the sad state of country music today.
Listened to Miranda’s “Dark Bars” while reading this.
Alekc
I hope Trigger’s penis didn’t fall off while he was writing about Shelton
GuitarGirl
No surprise to see one of the gems off of The Bowel, I mean the Owl, from ZBB here. I’m sure one of the treasures from that amazing piece of work, is on most “Worst Country songs of 2019” lists. I’m still so bummed about the turn ZBB has taken. If Zac Brown was so hell bent on pursuing his big dream of being the next EDM/rap/pop sensation, I wish he would’ve just had the band go on hiatus and done a solo tour with his new BFF Poo Bear. Dragging his band into his ridiculous mid life crisis is such a shame. This will be the first tour I miss, by choice, because I refuse to fork out my hard earned money just to have my ears subjected to OMW or God Given. Hopefully they come back to us once Zac gets through this rough patch in his life. But until then, I’m extremely put off by the fact that they’re determined to stand by this album even though the majority of their fans can’t stand it. Zac Brown makes it sound like people just “don’t get it” because they’re “country purists”. Then the band has gotten snarky with some folks on Instagram. Not a smart business move, guys….. I know they’re “artists” but last time I checked fans PAY MONEY for albums and concerts and there should be a spirit of reciprocity between an artist and their fans. And for anybody who wants to come at me who just looooooves the new album…. I’m glad somebody likes it. But the numbers don’t lie. Look at reviews/billboard standings on this album versus any of their others. Clearly a lot of people don’t like it. And its not because its not “country” – I refuse to even get into the “country/not country” discussion. Plus ZBB never professed to be purely a country band – although they didn’t mind benefitting from country radio and its fanbase… Just sayin… Anyway.. It’s because its just BAD. The signature harmonies and incredible musicianship that is the trademark of this band is virtually nonexistent on this thing. You could take any mediocre hack musicians, and with enough studio magic create The Bowel. It sooo sells this band short and as a “use to be die hard, but now hanging on to a thread of hope that they come back to us” ZBB fan, I use to literally mark my calendar for their new albums. And I’d listen to them over and over again. Not this trash heap… OK I’m done now… Rant over.
Jared Ramsey
Without reading all of the previous 97 comments, I am proud to to I have also not consciously heard any of the songs mentioned in this article.
Thank you Amazon Music Unlimited for allowing me to pick music in which I choose to hear..which seems to be none of these songs or artists mentioned.
Knockin’ Boots is a guilty pleasure of mine, but under no illusion it is actually a good song.
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Be Seen After Dark—What Clothes Keep You Safe?
Areas of Science Physics
Time Required Short (2-5 days)
Prerequisites None
Safety Adult supervision is required when performing the test after dark.
Did you know that the most likely time to be struck and killed by a car in the United States is at dusk, dawn, or at night? In 2014, 3 out of every 4 pedestrian fatalities happened in these types of poor light conditions. Is there something you could do to decrease the chances you, your friends, and your family members are safer when walking or biking at night? Do you think the types of clothes that you wear could make a difference in how visible you are to drivers? Explore the science of staying visible and safe at night with this science project; what you discover might save someone's life.
Study the distance from which a car driver can see a pedestrian wearing a dark shirt, a bright yellow shirt, fluorescent yellow clothing, or clothing equipped with retro-reflective strips.
Sabine De Brabandere, PhD, Science Buddies
De Brabandere, Sabine. "Be Seen After Dark—What Clothes Keep You Safe?" Science Buddies, 12 Jan. 2020, https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Phys_p104/physics/clothes-reflective-dark-night. Accessed 21 Jan. 2020.
De Brabandere, S. (2020, January 12). Be Seen After Dark—What Clothes Keep You Safe? Retrieved from https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Phys_p104/physics/clothes-reflective-dark-night
In 2014, 4,884 pedestrians died in car crashes in the United States and 65,000 more were injured. In other words, on average, 13 pedestrian die in America in a traffic accident every day —that is about 1 every 2 hours! For injuries, it is one pedestrian every 8 minutes, which is about 180 per day, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Drawing illustrating pedestrian injury and fatality statistics obtained from the 2014 Traffic Safety Factsheet listed in the Bibliography.
It is important to note that these accidents did not happen regularly all throughout the day. Figure 2 reveals that more than 3 out of every 4 pedestrian fatalities occurred in poor light conditions, like dawn, dusk, or at night. Compare this to the distribution of fatalities for cyclists, which is about an even number of fatalities occurring during dark and during daylight conditions.
Two graphs show the light conditions during cyclist (left) and pedestrian (right) fatalities in the United States during 2014. For cyclists 50 percent of the fatalities happened in daylight, 44 percent happened in the dark and 3 percent happened each at dusk and dawn. Pedestrian fatalities occur at a much higher rate in the dark at 72 percent, 24 percent of fatalities happened in the day and 2 percent happened each at dusk and dawn. Yellow sections of the graph are daylight, grey sections are dark, blue is dusk and orange is dawn.
Figure 2. Pie charts illustrating the percentage of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities that happen during different light conditions. Data retrieved from 2014 Traffic Safety Factsheets listed in the Bibliography.
This raises questions, such as why are pedestrians so vulnerable during poor light conditions? What can a pedestrian do to be better seen?
You probably know that camouflage makes you disappear in the background, but would "not being camouflaged," as shown in Figure 3, be enough to be more visible at night?
Figure 3. Wearing garments that stand out with respect to the background (positive contrast), increase the chances of being seen compared to wearing garments that blend in with the background (negative contrast).
Humans "see" objects because light that reflects off an object reaches our eye. At night, there is very little light, so it is hard for us to see objects. Would some colors help get more light into our eyes, so we could see them better? Materials with bright colors bounce off more light than dark-colored objects do. Fluorescent objects send out visible light when high-energy light shines onto them, and retro-reflective material—often referred to as reflective material— bounces back all the light that shines onto it. Figure 4 shows materials in these three "colors" in ample light conditions. Which one do you think will increase visibility the most in poor light conditions?
Fluorescence means it uses higher energy light (mainly ultraviolet (UV) light—a part of light we cannot "see" because our eyes are not sensitive to this type of light) to create and send out light we can see.
Figure 4. This picture shows a bright yellow t-shirt and helmet, a yellow fluorescent garment, and a safety vest equipped with retro-reflective stripes in daylight.
In this science project, you will rate how much these different types of clothes increase the visibility of a pedestrian placed at 25 meters (m), 50 m, 100 m, and 150 m away from a car with its low-beam headlights on.
Figure 5 shows how far a car travels, on average, during the reaction time of the driver (blue bar) and while the car brakes to get to a standstill (orange bar). The reaction time of the driver is the time it takes for the driver to react to a stimulus, like seeing a pedestrian. Knowing these distances for different initial speeds of a car can help place your test results in context.
The example graph measures the speed (miles per hour) of an incoming car and the distance (meters) required for the car to come to a complete stop. The graph shows that as a cars speed increases, the distance required to stop increases. The slowest speed listed for a car is 35 mph and at that speed a car needs 25-30 meters to stop completely. The highest speed listed is 80 mph and at that speed a car needs about 125-150 meters to stop completely.
Figure 5. Graph showing how far a car travels between the driver observing a stimulus and him/her reacting to it (blue bar) and the car braking to get to a standstill (orange bar). The total bar shows how far a car travels between observing a stimulus and coming to a stop for different initial speeds.
Retro-reflective or reflective
Figure 2 shows that more than 3 out of 4 pedestrian fatalities occur in poor light conditions, while for cyclists, it is 2 out of 4. Can you state some reasons that might explain this difference?
Do you expect that adding retro-reflective strips to your clothing will make you more visible at nighttime? The explanation of the term retro-reflective is given in the introduction and can help you reason through this question.
Why might clothing that increases your visibility during the day be so different from clothing that makes you stand out at night? Knowing that sunlight contains ultraviolet light, while street lights and car lights generally do not contain ultraviolet light, might help you find one reason.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (n.d.). Driving Safety: Pedestrians. Retrieved October 6, 2016 from http://www.nhtsa.gov/Driving-Safety/Pedestrians
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (2016, May). Traffic Safety Facts, 2014 Data, Pedestrians. Retrieved October 6, 2016 from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812270.pdf
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (2016, May). Traffic Safety Facts, 2014 Data, Bicyclists and Other Cyclists. Retrieved October 6, 2016 from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812282.pdf
The Reflectory. (2015). Reflector Education. Retrieved October 13, 2016 from http://www.safetyreflectors.com/education.html
Kids.Net.Au. (n.d.). Fluorescence. Retrieved October 13, 2016 from http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/fl/Fluorescence
For help creating graphs, try this website:
National Center for Education Statistics, (n.d.). Create a Graph. Retrieved June 2, 2009, from http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
A tool that allows you to measure 25, 50, 100, and 150 m. Some options are:
Rolls of twine (6), each 25 m long; like this one, available from Amazon.com.
Phone app that can keep track of the distance walked from a starting point
Optional: Painter's tape
Black or dark clothing covering most of the body
Bright yellow garment, preferably covering the torso
Yellow safety vest with retro-reflective taping; like the safety vest available from Amazon.com.
Yellow fluorescent garment; if you buy the safety vest listed above, you can use the fluorescent bag (side without the retro-reflective band) as the fluorescent garment.
Street or parking lot with the following features:
There is no or very little streetlight or other lighting after dark.
There is a spot where you are allowed to park a car, and where there is a safe, open space of at least 150 m straight ahead of the car.
There is no or minimal traffic during your experiment.
Flashlights (2); add one flashlight for each additional person who will join you to take the data.
Adult assistant to operate the car and supervise any activities outside after dark.
Assistant to run the test; this can be the adult supervising you and operating the car. Note: The assistant running the test must also wear black or dark clothes.
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Preparing Your Test
Observe visibility at night.
Whenever you are in the car after dark, observe what you can see, and what is surprisingly hidden until it is almost next to you. These observations together with the information given in the Introduction help you make a hypothesis for your project. Take pictures with a camera, like Figure 6. They will help you convey your message on a science project display board.
Figure 6. Jogger out at night.
Find a good location at which to perform your test.
Figure 7. Quiet, non-lit street that would be suitable as the visibility test location.
Show step-by-step instructions
While you are out and about, observe streets and public areas to see if any are fit to perform your test. The following questions can help you evaluate:
Is there nighttime light pollution from street light or highly lit houses?
How much traffic is there after dark?
Are you allowed to park a car at the side of the road?
Can you walk out at least 150 m in front of the parked car?
Find an adult who is willing to help you.
Explain to the adult what you would like to do. Show him/her the selected test location and ask if your chosen plan and spot are safe. If so, ask the adult if he/she can help you with the following:
Park a car at the chosen spot, leaving the headlights (low beam) on.
Supervise you during your experiment.
Assist you during the test (if you do not have another assistant).
Discuss with an adult what would be a good date and time to perform your test.
Prepare a data table in which to collect all your data.
Copy Table 1 four times in your lab notebook. You need one data table for each trial. You will run the experiment for a total of four trials. Doing several trials allows you to see how reproducible and robust your collected data is. These data tables will help you take organized notes during your test.
Trial # ___
Visibility at specific distances straight ahead of a car with low beams turned on. Rating from 0 (not visible) to 10 (clearly visible)
Garment with retro-reflective stripes
Fluorescent yellow garment
Bright yellow garment
Black attire
Table 1. Table in which to collect the data of one trial. You will need 4 tables, one for each trial.
Decide how you will measure a distance of 25, 50, 100, and 150 m from a parked car.
Some options are:
Find and use a phone app that can tell you how far you are from a point you pinned on a map.
Use six rolls of 25 m twine to measure off this length. Fix one end close to the car, and wind down the roll as you walk away from the car. One roll will lead you to a place 25 m away from the car. Attach a second roll to the end of the first, and you can walk 50 m away, four rolls will bring you to 100 m, and six rolls will measure off 150 m.
Use a tape measure to practice making steps of about 1 m long. Count the number of these type of steps you make to measure off the distances. Painter's tape will help you indicate the place on the street.
If you feel uncomfortable determining the distances of 25, 50, 100, and 150 m once it is dark outside, mark the distances with tape on the road before it gets dark.
Read the Gathering Data section. If you feel unsure about it, practice the data-gathering procedure during the daytime before you go out after dark.
Find an assistant.
Explain the science project to him/her.
Ask if he/she can help. Do not forget to ask permission from the volunteer's parents or guardian as well.
Inform your volunteer about the day and time you will perform your test. Do not forget to ask him/her to wear black or dark colors.
Gathering Data
Do the following before you leave.
Dress in black.
Gather the bright yellow, the fluorescent, and the retro-reflective garments you would like to test.
Take one flashlight for yourself and one for each person joining you.
Take your lab notebook and pen.
If you have not measured off the distances yet, take any equipment you need to measure the distances in front of the car.
Set up the test at the selected location.
Have the car parked, with the low-beam headlights on.
Agree with your assistant on easy light signals (like a short flash) to communicate "Please evaluate," and the possible replies: "I see you," and "I do not see you." Agree on a signal to communicate "Look out, danger!".
In the next steps, you will walk to the different distances, starting with 25 m. Your assistant will go and sit in the front passenger seat of the car. Once you reach a distance mark, signal your assistant to evaluate. At that time, your assistant will evaluate (on a scale from 0 (non-visible) to 10 (highly visible)) how well he or she sees you and write the finding down in a table like Table 1. After writing down the number in the data table, he/she returns your question with the signal "I see you" if the evaluation was between 1 and 10, or "I do not see you" if the evaluation was 0. Go over this procedure with your assistant.
Figure 8. An observer sitting in the car rates how well he/she sees pedestrians standing at specific distances in front of a parked car. In the figure on the right, an assistant dressed in a dark color accompanies the person wearing the safety vest, being tested for visibility.
Take data for one garment.
Put on the garment.
Walk back 25 m. Remember to be safe and stay near the edge of the street or on the sidewalk.
Once you are there, provide the signal "Please evaluate."
Wait until the assistant signals "I see you" or "I do not see you." If he/she replies "I do not see you" or you are at the last distance mark, go to step 3.f.
Turn around and walk to the next distance mark. Once you have arrived, repeat steps 3.c.–3.e.
Walk back to the car.
Test all garments.
Repeat step 3 for all garments. Do not forget to test your visibility being dressed in all black. This completes one trial.
Perform several trials.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 one more time. Do not stick to a specific order of testing the garments, but mix it up. This completes a total of two trials.
Switch roles before you repeat steps 3 and 4 two more times, for two additional trials. Now you will observe and your assistant will walk out with the different test garments on. Clearly explain to your assistant what to do.
You have now gathered data for four trials in total, two where you observed and two where your assistant observed. This is sufficient to make credible conclusions.
Leave no trash behind.
Remove anything you brought if you safely can. If this is difficult in the dark, come back as soon as possible the next day to clean the site.
Complete your data tables by adding 0's to any empty cells.
These cells are empty because during the experiment, you did not walk out to farther distances once the observer was not able to see you.
Analyzing Test Data
Make a table with the average over different trials.
Make one more table like Table 1. Instead of "Trial #", you will now write "Average over Four Trials."
Calculate the average for each garment tested. To do this, add the ratings of one garment and one distance (the numbers in a particular cell in the four tables like Table 1), and divide this result by four (as there are four trials). For example, if the visibility of a person totally dressed in black at 25 m away from the car was 8 for trial 1, 9 for trial 2, 6 for trial 3, and 8 for trial 4, the average rating would be (8+9+6+8)/4, which is 31/4 or 7.75. You can use your calculator to help you find the average.
Add your results to the data table you made in step 1.a.
Represent your average data graphically.
You can make your graphs by hand or you can make your graphs online using Create a Graph.
Choose a bar graph. Label the x-axis with "Distance (m)" and the y-axis with "Visibility Ranking." You can make a bar graph for each garment tested, or use bars in different colors to indicate the different garments tested.
Mention the visibility ranking in the graph, being 0 = no visibility and 10 = great visibility.
Make sure your graph(s) have a title, a legend, and clear labels on the axis.
Draw conclusions.
Did your data show that garments influence the visibility of the pedestrians after dark?
According to your data, would you rate one or several of the garments tested as being able to considerably increase the visibility of a pedestrian at night?
Look back to the introduction where the stopping distance of a car is explained (see Figure 5.) Would specific garments be an absolute necessity when walking on a road with maximum speed of 60 miles per hour (mph) after dark sets in? Why or why not? What other thoughts come up when seeing your data in conjunction with this graph?
Occupational Health & Safety Specialist
Many people work in environments that have obvious potential dangers, like collapses in mines, chemicals in laboratories, or machinery in factories, but there can be hazards in almost any job, like repetitive stress injuries from constant computer use or from scanning groceries. Occupational health and safety specialists identify potential hazards in a job, and then figure out ways to reduce the risks of accidents or injuries to workers or to the public. They also investigate accidents when they do happen, writing reports that detail the causes, and making recommendations to prevent future mishaps. Their motto is "safety on the job is no accident." Read more
Have you ever heard the expression "Prevention is the best medicine"? Prevention is the fundamental work of all health educators. They attempt to prevent illnesses or diseases in individuals or entire communities through education about nutrition, exercise, or other habits and behaviors. Health educators present scientific information in ways that their audience can relate to, and are sensitive to cultural differences. They are the cornerstone of the public health system, improving health and saving thousands of lives by motivating changes in behavior. Read more
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What makes it possible to create high-technology objects like computers and sports gear? It's the materials inside those products. Materials scientists and engineers develop materials, like metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites, that other engineers need for their designs. Materials scientists and engineers think atomically (meaning they understand things at the nanoscale level), but they design microscopically (at the level of a microscope), and their materials are used macroscopically (at the level the eye can see). From heat shields in space, prosthetic limbs, semiconductors, and sunscreens to snowboards, race cars, hard drives, and baking dishes, materials scientists and engineers make the materials that make life better. Read more
In this science project, you studied bright yellow, fluorescent yellow, and retro-reflective material. You can also study how different colors impact visibility, such as black versus blue, green, red, orange, yellow, and white.
You might have used new garments for your test. You can also study if and how heavy wear of safety vests reduces their power to increase visibility.
In this science project, you did not consider the size of the garment. As a variation, you can study how the size of, for example the retro-reflective material, influences the visibility of a pedestrian.
In this science project, you chose a street with very little ambient light. Can you find a way to repeat the test in a street lit with streetlights?
In addition to measuring the visibility of pedestrians, you can make a survey to find out if pedestrians are aware of how they are perceived by a car driver. Would they tend to underestimate or overestimate their visibility at night? Would they know which garment increases their visibility, and by how much it increases it?
Physics Project Ideas
Vibration & Sound: Make Sprinkles Dance
Two-Stage Balloon Rocket Introduction
You can find this page online at: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Phys_p104/physics/clothes-reflective-dark-night
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Last-ditch bid to halt Scotland smacking ban as MSPs prepare to pass law
Demos are expected to be staged outside Holyrood on Thursday, both in opposition and support of the controversial ruling.
Scott Macnab
Published: 06:00 Thursday 03 October 2019
A legal ban on smacking children in Scotland is set to be formally passed by the Scottish Parliament today.
Opponents and supporters of the controversial new law are expected to stage demos outside Holyrood ahead of the final vote on the issue.
The Green politician behind the bill, John Finnie, has called on MSPs to show “courageous leadership” by becoming the first part of the UK to introduce such a ban.
READ MORE: Smacking ban: Why MSPs are making a mistake if they approve it – Jamie Gillies
READ MORE: Smacking ban ‘sends clear message physical punishment isn’t acceptable’
But the Be Reasonable campaign, which has opposed the move, issued a last-ditch appeal for the measure to be blocked, amid concerns that many “loving parents” will be turned into criminals.
The Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill would remove the defence of “reasonable chastisement” in Scots law, which allows parents to use physical punishment on children. Mr Finnie said: “The Scottish Parliament has the opportunity to show courageous leadership by putting in place vital legal protections for Scotland’s children.
“It is staggering that our smallest and most vulnerable citizens are the only people who do not currently have this protection, and now is the time to rectify that. Physical punishment has no place in 21st century Scotland.
“The international evidence tells us that it can have serious adverse impacts on children, and that it is not effective. It is time for parliament to put an end to it tonight.”
But a raft of experts, family groups and campaigners have issued a statement calling on the legal status quo to be preserved. Among the signatories are Prof Tommy MacKay, a consultant child psychologist and former president of the British Psychological Society, Joy Knight, former national chair, Children’s Panel Advisory Committee, as well as Dr Simon Knight, a senior community work practitioner, and Prof Ellie Lee, director, Centre for Parenting Culture Studies.
It states: “The discourse around smacking is dishonest. It conflates ‘hitting’ and violence with smacking… A careful examination of the evidence does not find that light, infrequent physical discipline is harmful to children.
“Removing the defence will leave loving parents open to police cautions and even criminal convictions for behaviour which is, by definition, ‘reasonable’. The stress this would bring to parents and children far outweighs any perceived benefits.”
It adds: “The vast majority of Scots do not want to see smacking criminalised, regardless of their views on smacking as a parenting technique.”
Why ‘boatels’ on Edinburgh’s Union Canal are a mistake – Sarah Boyack
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Gmail Spam Filtering Explained: Actionable Advice for Email Marketers
David Angotti March 20, 2012
David AngottiSmokyMountains.com
Gmail has an automatic spam detection system that uses a combination of pattern analysis, user analytics, and virus/phishing detection to send suspicious messages directly to spam. Gmail’s spam detection and filtering, which is extremely accurate, is part of why the email service has reached its current popularity levels.
Yesterday evening, Gmail announced a new feature that will allow users to determine why a message was sent to the spam folder. Now, when a Gmail user clicks a message in the spam folder, Gmail will provide detailed information related to why the message was filtered and inform the user of any potential dangers associated with the message.
Ela Czajka, a Google software engineer, wrote the following regarding the new feature:
“We hope that this is not only interesting, but also helps you learn about scams and other harmful messages that Gmail filters out. Whether you prefer to leave your spam folder untouched or do some educational digging, the information will be there for you.”
Although Gmail already did an excellent job filtering spam, this new feature will help Gmail users better understand the risks associated with spam. In addition, email marketers can use the information the new feature provides to create campaigns that will be more successful.
To maximize the chances that an email campaign will not be filtered as spam, simply follow the steps below:
Create a new email marketing campaign using normal methods
Prior to sending out emails to your entire customer database, test your messages on a small selection of Gmail addresses that you have access to
If some of the messages are sent to spam, carefully consider the “marketing feedback” in the red message boxes and alter the message based on Gmail’s “advice
The primary reasons a message might end up in the spam folder include:
Phishing – A spammer is fraudulently trying to trick a Gmail user into sharing sensitive information
Unconfirmed Sender – A message is missing the normal authentication data and the Gmail system cannot confirm the identity of the person or company sending the email
Suspicious Message Attributes – The message displays certain characteristics (i.e. IP address, attachments, language usage, mature content, pharmaceuticals, etc.) that causes the Gmail system to mark it as spam
Gmail User Input – If a Gmail user has previously marked messages with the “Report spam” or “Report phishing” buttons, the system will learn to route certain messages directly to Spam from the sender
With the exception of the “Gmail User Input” category, an email marketer can easily alter the message, mail service, settings, or make other minor changes that will decrease the chances of an email being sent to spam.
[Sources Include: Google, The Next Web, & CNET]
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After successfully founding and exiting an educational startup in 2009, I began helping companies with business development, search engine marketing ... [Read full bio]
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Axis partners recognised at annual Summit event
Axis Communications has concluded a week-long event at Hamilton Island’s Reef View Hotel, culminating in the company’s flagship Partner Awards night.
Delegates from several significant security vendors attended the summit, including major sponsors Milestone Systems and 2N, as well as Allied Telesis, Tyco Exacq, Genetec, SAFR (from Real Networks), Geutebruck and Hitachi. Products and solutions from all vendor partners were actively demonstrated at regular sessions throughout the event.
Major awards were given out by region, as follows:
Distributor of the Year Award
Australia: Anixter Australia Pty Ltd
New Zealand: Channel Ten Security Imports Limited
Oceania: Hills Limited
Partner of the Year Award
Australia: Chubb Fire and Security Pty Ltd
New Zealand: Advanced Security Group
All award winners can be found here: https://www.axis.com/en-au/newsroom/press-release/oceania-award-night
“Our partners are critical to our success in the region, and as much as we rely on our own ability to innovate as a company, we rely on our partners to embrace new technologies and advancements. We are extremely lucky to have such a strong group of innovative, forward-looking companies to work with across Oceania,” said Wai King Wong, Sales Director, South Pacific Region
The Axis Summit also featured a new product showcase, revealing a wide array of innovative security products due to land in the region over the next few months. Among these, the vendor highlighted cameras that offer superior vision in ultra low-light conditions, functions for protecting privacy, as well as industry-specific solutions for markets including retail, healthcare, education and more.
Axis’ expanded portfolio of audio solutions was also showcased, with the vendor due to release a fresh campaign across A/NZ targeting the audio security market in 2019.
“In many deployments, audio speakers outnumber cameras, sometimes as much as five-to-one. We want the market to realise how much scope there is to capitalise on the integration of cameras and speakers, along with other cutting-edge security technology. Axis is now very well-positioned to corner this market in our region,” said Wong.
Regional Director Ivy Sun from IHS Markit gave attendees a wide-ranging overview of the surveillance market, and a spokesperson from New Zealand company Foodstuffs discussed industry innovations and how the company are using Axis products in their security mission.
Stephen Knights, Director of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) gave a keynote speech on cyber defences and the role that video recording plays in the cyber landscape.
The Summit concluded with two days of the Axis Technical Conference featuring workshops on key topics such as Cybersecurity and scripting.
Norway Government Collapses over Repatriation of IS Terrorist’s Spouse, Kids
U.K. PM Warns Putin Not to Repeat Chemical Attacks on Britain
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Veterinary healthcare, specifically laboratory diagnostics, is growing year on year even in a down economy as a result of increased pet ownership and increased spending on vet care. In the U.S., an estimated 62% of households own a pet. With a total of 78 million pet dogs and 86 million pet cats in the U.S. alone, there is a continuous need for veterinary visits and diagnostic evaluation. In 2011, it is estimated that 14 billion USD will be spent on veterinary care1.
Servicing many of these needs are veterinary laboratories that rely on accurate and precise diagnostic testing. Siemens Healthineers is committed to providing a variety of veterinary immunoassays to serve this need. With thyroid disease accounting for the most common endocrine disorder in both dogs and cats, ensuring that the animals are diagnosed properly with the most reliable assays is critical.
The IMMULITE® immunoassay systems from Siemens Healthineers provide veterinary-specific thyroid assays that offer ease of use, accuracy, and precision with a fast turnaround time. In addition, Siemens offers an assay to aid in the diagnosis of pancreatic dysfunction, TLI (trypsin-like inhibitor), an important diagnostic tool for veterinarians and laboratories.
1. 2011-2012 APPA National Pet Owners Survey
2. Veterinary Practice News. www.veterinarypracticenews.com posted April 12, 2011 by W. Jean Dodds, DVM
3. Brochure on Hyperthyroidism in Cats. Prepared b the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the Cornell Feline Health Center, Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine 2007
4. Veterinary Clinical pathology clerkship program. www.vet.uga.edu Feline Hyperthyroidism. By Jeff S. Stortz, DVM; Kenneth S. Latimer, DVM, PhD; Heather L. Tarpley, DVM; Bruce E. LeRoy, DVM, PhD, Perry J. Bain, DVM, PhD, T. Michelle Wall, DVM, DACVIM
5. IDEXX Laboratories. Diagnostic Update. March 2011.IDEXX Reference laboratories new Free T4 Test
6. Boretti, FS, Reusch C.E.- Diagnostic specificity of canine thyrotropin in the diagnosis of Hypothyroidism in dogs. EJCAP 2006,16:185-189
7. The Merck Veterinary Manual. © 2011; Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc
Siemens Healthineers also offers ADVIA® Hematology Systems for comprehensive animal testing with reliable, first pass results.
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The products/features (mentioned herein) are not commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons their future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens representative for additional information.
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An attempted burglary at a medical marijuana facility ended in arrest for two and a ‘dude, where’s my car moment’ for two others thanks to a detection by Sonitrol Pacific’s security system January 23.
Just before 5:00 a.m., Operator Joe Orsborn received an alert from the door between the warehouse and office of The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation. Through the audio security sensors, he heard voices and sounds of movement, and dispatched Portland Police.
Officers responded quickly and took two suspected burglars into custody. A review of non-monitored security video showed four people broke into the facility and police are using the images to help locate the other two. In making their get-away, the suspected burglars left behind two vehicles and Portland Police impounded both.
According to a representative from the organization, the burglars kicked in a panel on one of the warehouse doors to break-in. Thanks to Sonitrol Pacific’s impact-activated audio security system detecting the noise, Orsborn verifying the threat and Portland Police responding quickly, the intruders’ adventure ended there.
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Notice for BRAVIA owners:Termination of Facebook App on selected BRAVIA televisions
Notice for BRAVIA owners:
Termination of Facebook App on selected BRAVIA televisions
Dear Valued Sony Customers,
Facebook, Inc. will no longer support Facebook Application on certain devices including selected models of BRAVIA televisions.
As a result of Facebook's decision, the Facebook Application will no longer be available for selected models of BRAVIA televisions after 27th April 2015.
Please click here for the list of affected models.
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We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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English Interview 傳媒訪問 【SCMP 訪問】Good vibrations: Hongkongers embrace sound therapy to retune their bodies (South China Morning Post, 27 May 2017)
【SCMP 訪問】Good vibrations: Hongkongers embrace sound therapy to retune their bodies (South China Morning Post, 27 May 2017)
South China Morning Post, 27 May 2016
People are increasingly turning to an alternative treatment in which vibrations generated by striking gongs, singing bowls, tuning forks and the like relieve aches and pains.
// A growing community in Hong Kong and around the world are gathering in wellness centres, beaches and even office meeting rooms for this alternative treatment called sound therapy.
The practice employs sonic vibrations generated by gongs, singing bowls, tuning forks and other instruments to relieve common aches and pains. Besides promoting relaxation, practitioners believe it works by correcting blocked energy flow and out-of-tune frequencies in the body that they reckon lead to various ailments, and can complement chemotherapy.
Western-trained physicians remain sceptical about the efficacy of sound-healing approaches although they recognise their ability to soothe.
The notes banished all thoughts and emotions from my clouded mind, leaving it in total peace for the first time
JASMINE HUI
Nevertheless, Jennifer Tang Yee-tung, co-founder of Sound Therapy Hong Kong, became a staunch advocate of the alternative therapy after suffering a personal tragedy.
Her elder brother died 10 years ago after a five-year battle with cancer, and she blames the illness largely on his high-stress lifestyle.
“He was always wound up and irritable,” Tang says. “His passing made me reflect whether good grades and a high-flying career equal contentment. I used to run a sales team at a multinational company, but I didn’t feel happy.”
It was Jasmine Hui Wing-chi, her then colleague and eventual partner in the sound therapy service, who introduced her to the healing properties of Himalayan singing bowls.
Hui had been hypnotised by the sound of singing bowls after tuning in to a YouTube clip of a performance by Hans de Back, a renowned master of the instrument.
She found their resonance was like no other.
“The notes banished all thoughts and emotions from my clouded mind, leaving it in total peace for the first time,” Hui says. “While [notes played on] the violin or piano evoke joy, mystery and perhaps anger, the sound of the singing bowl is neutral and helps me look within myself.”
Hui and Tang trained with de Back and eventually quit their jobs to set their Sound Therapy service in Wan Chai two years ago and make it their life mission to promote its benefits.
“I believe sound therapy is my true calling in which I found inner fulfilment,” Tang says.
Singing bowl therapies are a more serene and tactile affair compared to gong meditation. When someone comes in complaining of backache or an anxiety attack, they would first have the person lie down on a massage bed.
Singing bowls are then set out in a ring around the client as well as on the torso before they strike the rims of the instruments with padded mallets. This generates subtle, calming and harmonic tones – which many liken to the sound of “om” or “aum”, the sound associated with Hindu and Buddhist chants.
We use singing bowls to listen to what their body has to say – it doesn’t lie – before we diagnose and treat the patient
JENNIFER TANG
By placing one bowl on the chest and another on the abdomen, the sound waves aren’t only heard by the ear, but also felt by the body.
“We use singing bowls to listen to what their body has to say – it doesn’t lie – before we diagnose and treat the patient,” Tang says.
For the uninitiated, the singing bowl might sound the same when placed around different individuals, but she can tell that her instrument is missing some of the overtones because a poorly organ would absorb those frequencies to self-heal.
// Singing bowls seem to have worked for Sybil Chan, whose family has a history of thyroid disease. Chan always worried that the same fate will befall her and was distraught after being diagnosed with an overactive thyroid last year.
“With hyperthyroidism, I felt like a car parked without killing the engine. I hardly ever felt rested and was walking on an emotional tightrope,” says Chan.
She sought help from Tang and Hui and, after 18 months of treatment, Chan says she has being able to keep her thyroid hormone levels in check.
Whereas she used to suffer mood swings associated with the condition, and was often nervous and fatigued, Chan now has a rosy glow on her cheeks and is more energetic and outspoken.
She has become such a convert of the power of singing bowls she even bought one to practise at home.
Asked what she liked best about the bowls, Chan says, “[The vibrations] feel just as satisfying as scratching an insect bite”, prompting Hui and Tang to burst into laughter.
*Please note the above are parts of the article extracted from full article.
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Assombalonga out to end drought
David Scriven
Striker Britt Assombalonga is desperate to hit the back of the net against Port Vale on Saturday in order to avoid the longest goal drought of his career.
The 19-year-old has now gone four games without scoring for Southend United.
And Assombalonga is out to stop making it five for the first time ever by scoring in Saturday’s showdown at Roots Hall.
“Trust me, I’m counting how many games I’ve gone without scoring so I don’t need to be told and I want to put it right against Port Vale,” Assombalonga told the official website.
“I’m focusing on just making sure I’m working hard because I keep on doing that then I’m sure I will get my rewards.
“All strikers go through these kind of spells and then when you get one you get on another run and start scoring regularly again.”
“That’s what I’m hoping for, starting with Saturday, but as long as we win I don’t really mind who scores.”
Despite Assombalonga’s recent drought he remains Blues’ top goalscorer this season with nine strikes to his name.
And he also wants to rediscover his scoring touch to fire Paul Sturrock’s side in to the race for promotion.
“We’re just outside the play-offs at the moment and want to close the gap,” said Assombalonga.
“Port Vale will be a hard team to play and in Tom Pope they have a striker who can’t stop scoring.
“But we’ve won our last two now and we want to get another good run going.”
Southend go in to the game sitting 12th in the League Two table, while Port Vale are second.
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Indexation Will Save Saskatchewan Taxpayers $8.1 Million in 2016
All Saskatchewan income tax brackets and tax credit amounts will go up 1.3 per cent in 2016, matching the national rate of inflation.
“Indexation is part of our government’s ongoing commitment to fairness and competitiveness in taxation,” Finance Minister Kevin Doherty said. “This annual measure helps protect Saskatchewan people from ‘bracket creep’ and keeps more money in their pockets throughout the year.”
Indexation will save Saskatchewan people an estimated $8.1 million in 2016, and is part of an array of measures aimed at keeping taxes low. Individual taxpayers now pay no Saskatchewan income tax on their first $19,220 of income while a family of four pays no Saskatchewan income tax on their first $49,800 of income—the highest tax-free income threshold for a family of four in Canada.
A family of four with $50,000 annual income, and deducting $3,000 in child care expenses, has now seen their provincial income tax cut by 100 per cent since 2008—from about $2,300 to zero provincial income tax in 2016.
“Our government's various reductions to personal income taxes since 2008 will have saved Saskatchewan people more than $490 million by the end of 2016,” Doherty said. “Since 2008, about 112,000 low-income Saskatchewan residents have been removed from the tax rolls entirely, and a family of four with $50,000 income will have saved more than $21,000 by the end of 2016.”
Measures to reduce personal income taxes in Saskatchewan since 2008 include:
Increasing personal, spousal, and child exemption amounts and introducing a new Low Income Tax Credit in 2008;
Raising personal, spousal, and child exemption amounts again in 2011; and
Introducing a new First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit in 2012 as well as expanding the Active Families Benefit to include all children age 17 and under (previously, it covered ages 6 to 14).
When income tax savings are combined with new tax reduction programs introduced since 2008 (including the refundable Low-Income Tax Credit and the Active Families Benefit), a single person with $25,000 annual income will benefit from $913 in lower provincial tax in 2016 than in 2008. A family of four with $50,000 combined income will see tax savings of $2,977; and a family of four with $75,000 combined income will see tax savings of $2,709, when comparing 2016 to 2008.
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Rodion is from Rome. Mixmag/UK called him the “new genius of Italian Dance music”.He released his debut album Romantic Jet Dance and a series of singles and remixes on Gomma Records, Les Disques De La Mort, Eskimo, City Slang, Bearfunk. He also remixed Giorgio Moroder, and quickly became a favourite of DJs such as Andrew Weatherall and the DFA crew. Rodion has been featured on playlists from the likes of Franz Ferdinand, DJ Harvey, Laurent Garnier, Maceo Plex, Erol Alkan, Daniel Avery, Francois K, James Holden, DJ Hell to name a few. Ed has collaborated with superstar crooners such as Louie Austen, Khan and Jeppe Kjellberg from Whomadewho, and with top-notch producers including Bottin, Fabrizio Mammarella, Francisco and Mexican rising star Mijo. Rodion also finds time to run his own Roccodisco record label and to be one half of the Alien Alien duo, together with Hugo Sanchez as featured on many compilations including Body Language vol.12 on Get Physical Records. Disco legend Giorgio Moroder played a Rodion remix during his first ever DJ appearance in New York. Rodion played live and DJed in many of the best clubs around the world, from Moscow to Paris, from Berlin to Istanbul, from Mexico City to New York, Rio, Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur.
His latest Generator album, a twisted blend of real instruments and spaced out electronics came out in 2016, on Nein.
Here s what Mixmag UK says about it: “Loose comparisons might place him somewhere between pre-‘Get Lucky’ Daft Punk and the poppy ease of Röyksopp, but Rodion is his own man, dipping into psy-trance, shimmering cosmic disco (‘Gamma’) and breathless pop-funk, all while maintaining a red-blooded pulse.”
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WHAT IS OPIUM?
Opium is a highly addictive non-synthetic narcotic that is extracted from the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum. The opium poppy is the key source for many narcotics, including morphine, codeine, and heroin.
The poppy plant, Papaver somniferum, is the source of opium. It was grown in the Mediterranean region as early as 5000 B.C., and has since been cultivated in a number of countries throughout the world. The milky fluid that seeps from its incisions in the unripe seed pod of this poppy has been scraped by hand and air-dried to produce what is known as opium.
A more modern method of harvesting for pharmaceutical use is by the industrial poppy straw process of extracting alkaloids from the mature dried plant (concentrate of poppy straw). All opium and poppy straw used for pharmaceutical products are imported into the United States from legitimate sources in regulated countries.
• Ah-pen-yen, Aunti, Aunti Emma, Big O, Black Pill,
Chandoo, Chandu, Chinese Molasses, Chinese
Tobacco, Dopium, Dover’s Powder, Dream Gun, Dream
Stick, Dreams, Easing Powder, Fi-do-nie, Gee, God’s
Medicine, Gondola, Goric, Great Tobacco, Guma,
Hop/hops, Joy Plant, Midnight Oil, Mira, O, O.P., Ope, Pen
Yan, Pin Gon, Pox, Skee, Toxy, Toys, When-shee, Ze, and
Opium can be a liquid, solid, or powder, but most poppy straw concentrate is available commercially as a fine brownish powder.
Opium can be smoked, intravenously injected, or taken in pill form. Opium is also abused in combination with other drugs. For example, “Black” is a combination of marijuana, opium, and methamphetamine, and “Buddha” is potent marijuana spiked with opium.
The intensity of opium’s euphoric effects on the brain depends on the dose and route of administration. It works quickly when smoked because the opiate chemicals pass into the lungs, where they are quickly absorbed and then sent to the brain. An opium “high” is very similar to a heroin “high”; users experience a euphoric rush, followed by relaxation and the relief of physical pain.
Opium inhibits muscle movement in the bowels leading to constipation. It also can dry out the mouth and mucous membranes in the nose. Opium use leads to physical and psychological dependence, and can lead to overdose.
Overdose effects include:
• Slow breathing, seizures, dizziness, weakness, loss of
consciousness, coma, and possible death
Drugs that cause similar effects include:
• Morphine, codeine, heroin, methadone, hydroquinone,
fentanyl, and oxycodone
Opium is a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act. Most opioids are Schedule II, III, IV, or V drugs. Some drugs that are derived from opium, such as heroin, are Schedule I drugs.
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A billion-dollar land grab in podcasting has begun, and Spotify's leading the charge
John McDuling
National Business Editor
February 18, 2019 — 12.00am
It's not every day that an obscure Australian tech start-up is acquired by a group of storied American media organisations. But a little more than nine months ago, that's exactly what happened.
Pocket Casts, a beloved podcasting app that hails from Adelaide, was bought out by US public radio group NPR and its affiliated public radio stations in New York (WNYC) and Chicago (WBEZ), who are behind some of the audio format's biggest hits, including true crime series Serial, and the serendipitous This American Life.
Spotify's ambitions in podcasting are becoming clear. Credit:AP
While the deal created a little bit of noise in the US tech press at the time, it was largely ignored locally. But with podcasting now rapidly evolving from cottage industry into a strategically important, billion-dollar segment of the global media market, it now looks increasingly prescient.
"To give us some credit, this is exactly what we saw coming over two years ago when we started all these negotiations with various companies," says Russell Ivanovic, the head of product at Pocket Casts, who is still based in the South Australian capital.
Podcasts have been one of the brightest spots in an often bleak media landscape of the past decade or so. But now, the emerging medium is facing an inflection point.
A land grab of sorts in the sector is under way. Nearly a year on from the Pocket Casts deal, New York listed Swedish streaming music giant Spotify is muscling into the sector. Last week, it shelled out a reported $US230 million ($320 million) to acquire Gimlet Media, a prominent creator of podcasts in the US; and Anchor, a tech platform that helps people record and monetise them.
RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney says podcasting is now a $US700 million ($980 million) a-year industry globally, with the potential to grow up to 30 per cent annually. But it is also a highly fragmented industry, with no single corporation dominating the sector.
At the moment, it feels like the format is in a similar position to digital publishing before the advent of Google, Facebook, third party ad-networks and programmatic buying severely damaged the economics of that industry.
'Lots of podcasters in the middle tier of podcasting are making great money,' Russell Ivanovic, centre, head of product at Pocket Casts. Credit:
There has been an explosion in creative output – from the true crime genre popularised by Serial, to the intimate celebrity interview format (think Marc Maron's WTF ) to explainer podcasts (this newspaper has a great one of those) and countless other formats serving any number of niches. (My personal favourite is anything from The Ringer.)
And, as things stand, many smaller podcasting operations are managing to make a buck out of it. "Lots of podcasters in the middle tier of podcasting are making great money," says Ivanovic. "If they have between 10,000 and 100,000 listeners and are good at selling ads, the ad rates are incredibly high."
Yet measurement of the audiences podcasts are generating, and the efficacy of ads on them, remains fairly primitive. That is fine for a certain subset of advertiser with a certain budget – on-demand consumer products, and small business-focused tech providers – but not for big brands.
So, if someone could figure out how to unlock the format for advertisers with the biggest budgets, the rewards could be substantial.
For its part, Spotify clearly senses an opportunity in the space, and advertising may not even have that much to do with it.
The overwhelming bulk of the money Spotify takes in from subscriptions goes straight back out the door to music publishers and record labels in royalties. Podcasts are much cheaper to make, and don't typically involve royalties. So if Spotify can entice users to listen to more of them, its margins could improve significantly.
As well, if it chooses to make the podcast content it now owns exclusive, at least for a window, that could help differentiate its service from rival platforms operated by tech giants such as Apple Music and Google's YouTube.
Of course, this is the strategy Netflix has pursued to great success in streaming video. (Directly producing original music is tricky terrain for Spotify. Doing so risks upsetting the major record labels, who control rights to the back catalogue that its subscribers sign up to listen to).
Terrestrial radio will, of course, play a role in the unfolding battle for control of podcasting. Southern Cross Austero, for example, has declared ambitions to be the Netflix of podcasting in Australia.
And, after all, the organisations that acquired Pocket Casts are all radio companies at heart.
Ivanovic says the new US ownership has benefited Pocket Casts. Enthusiasts of the audio format, and anyone who has a grasp of recent digital media history, will just hope that the new corporatised era for podcasts will drive good outcomes for creators and listeners.
"If an Apple or a Spotify locked up the entire market, that would inevitably be bad for everyone except Apple or Spotify," he says.
John McDuling is National Business Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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The rare Gamma Delphinid meteor shower last observed in 1930 as seen above the MeyerWomble Observatory. The glow of Denver can be seen in the distance from the fourteener as well as the milky way abo
The rare Gamma Delphinid meteor shower last observed in 1930 as seen above the MeyerWomble Observatory. The glow of Denver can be seen in the distance from the fourteener as well as the milky way above.
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Official 2019 Offseason Thread
spurraider21
Savvy Veteran
NFL offseason schedule 2019
Feb. 4: Waiver system begins for 2019.
Feb. 12: Beginning at 12:00 noon, New York time, NFL clubs may begin to sign players whose 2019 CFL contracts have expired. Players under contract to a CFL club for the 2019 season or who have an option for the 2019 season are not eligible to be signed.
Feb. 19: First day for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players.
Feb. 26-March 4: NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana.
March 5: Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players.
March 11-13: Clubs are permitted to contact, and enter into contract negotiations with, the certified agents of players who will become Unrestricted Free Agents upon the expiration of their 2018 player contracts at 4:00 p.m., New York time, on March 13.
March 13: Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must exercise options for 2019 on all players who have option clauses in their 2018 contracts.
March 13: Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must submit qualifying offers to their Restricted Free Agents with expiring contracts to retain a Right of First Refusal/Compensation.
March 13: Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must submit a minimum salary tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2018 contracts who have fewer than three accrued seasons of free agency credit.
March 13: Top 51 Rule begins. All clubs must be under the 2019 Salary Cap prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time.
March 13: All 2018 player contracts will expire at 4:00 p.m., New York time.
March 13: The 2019 league year and free agency period begin at 4:00 p.m., New York time. The first day of the 2019 league year will end at 11:59:59 p.m., New York time, on March 13. Clubs will receive a personnel notice that will include all transactions submitted to the league office during the period between 4:00 p.m., New York time, and 11:59:59 p.m., New York time, on March 13.
March 13: Trading period for 2019 begins at 4:00 p.m., New York time, after expiration of all 2018 contracts.
March 24-27: Annual League Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona.
April 1: Clubs that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2018 regular season may begin offseason workout programs.
April 15: Clubs with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs.
April 19: Deadline for Restricted Free Agents to sign offer sheets.
April 25-27: 2019 NFL Draft, Nashville, Tennessee.
May 3-6: Clubs may elect to hold their one three-day post-Draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday.
May 7: Deadline for prior club to send “May 7 Tender” to its unsigned Unrestricted Free Agents. If the player has not signed a player contract with a club by July 22 or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later, he may negotiate or sign a player contract from that date until the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, at 4:00 p.m., New York time, only with his prior club.
May 10-13: Clubs may elect to hold their one three-day post-Draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday.
May 13: Rookie Football Development Programs begin.
May 16-19: NFLPA Rookie Premiere. Invited rookies (typically, first and/or second-round selections) must be permitted by their respective clubs to attend. Such players are unavailable for offseason workouts, OTA days, and minicamps during this period.
May 20-22: Spring League Meeting, Key Biscayne, Florida.
June 2: For any player removed from the club’s roster or whose contract is assigned via waivers or trade on or after June 2, any unamortized signing bonus amounts for future years will be included fully in team salary at the start of the 2020 league year.
June 3: Deadline for prior club to send “June 1 Tender” to its unsigned Restricted Free Agents who received a qualifying offer for a right of first refusal only in order for such player to be subject to the CBA’s “June 15 Tender” provision.
June 15: Deadline for club to withdraw qualifying offer to Restricted Free Agents and still retain exclusive negotiating rights by subs uting “June 15 Tender” of one-year contract at 110 percent of the player’s prior-year Paragraph 5 Salary (with all other terms of his prior-year contract carried forward unchanged).
Late June: Rookie Transition Program to be held at individual clubs. Attendance is mandatory for all 2019 rookies.
July 15: At 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for any club that designated a Franchise Player to sign such player to a multiyear contract or extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one- year contract with his prior club for the 2019 season, and such contract cannot be extended until after the club’s last regular season game.
Mid-July: Clubs are permitted to open preseason training camp for rookies and first-year players beginning seven days prior to the club’s earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veteran players. Veteran players (defined as a player with at least one pension-credited season) other than quarterbacks or “injured players” (as defined in CBA Article 21, Section 6) may report to a club’s preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the club’s first scheduled preseason game or July 15, whichever is later. Veteran quarterbacks and injured players may be required to report to the club’s preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens) its official preseason training camp for all rookies and first-year players. A three-day acclimation period will apply to players who are on a club’s roster up to and including the mandatory veteran reporting date. Players who rejoin the roster after that date may practice (including wearing pads) and play immediately after passing a physical.
July 22*: Signing period ends for Unrestricted Free Agents to whom a “May 7 Tender” was made by prior club. After this date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights. (*or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later). Signing period ends for Transition Players with outstanding tenders. After this date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights.
Aug. 1: Hall of Fame Game, Canton, Ohio.
Aug. 1-4: Hall of Fame Weekend, Canton, Ohio.
Aug. 6: Deadline for players under contract to report to their clubs to earn an accrued season for free agency. If a drafted rookie has not signed with his club by this date, he cannot be traded to any other club in 2019, and may sign a player contract only with the drafting club until the day of the Draft in the 2020 league year.
Aug. 31: Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must reduce rosters to a maximum of 53 players on the Active/Inactive List. Simultaneously with the cut-down to 53, clubs that have players in the categories of Active/Physically Unable to Perform or Active/Non-Football Injury or Illness must select one of the following options: place player on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform or Reserve/Non- Football Injury or Illness, whichever is applicable; request waivers; terminate contract; trade contract; or continue to count the player on the Active List.
Sept. 1: Claiming period for players placed on waivers at the final roster reduction will expire at 12:00 noon, New York time.
Sept. 1: Upon receipt of the Personnel Notice at approximately 1:00 p.m., New York time, clubs may establish a practice squad of 10 players (clubs participating in the International Player Development Program may sign one additional international player to a Practice Player Contract.) No club, including the player’s prior club, will be permitted to sign a player to a practice player contract until all clubs have received simultaneous notification via the above Personnel Notice that such player’s prior NFL player contract has been terminated via the waiver system.
Sept. 5: At 12:00 a.m., New York time, the Top 51 Rule expires for all NFL clubs.
Sept. 5: 8-9 Regular Season Week 1.
actual important dates:
Scouting Combine - February 26
Franchise tags - March 5
"Legal Tampering" - March 11
Free Agency - March 13
Draft - April 25
Training Camp - Mid-July
Hall of Fame game - August 1
Regular Season - September 5
WICKED PISSAH!!!!
Going to be a great year for free agents imo. Not a great free agent class and a lot of teams with more cap room than they know what to do with. There also aren't very teams up against cap issues so I don't think we see very many good players getting cut.
i just hope dat n*gga mike mayock still puts out a mock draft as a power move
Patriots hire Greg Schiano as DC.
I've never been a fan of the guy as a head coach but it's a good sign Belichick hired a semi-big name who's going to actually want to add value instead of be another Matt Patricia.
Originally Posted by Will Hunting
but patricia is a rocket scientist!
Killakobe81
Prescott expects the Cowboys to “pay what’s deserved” and makes it clear he expects to be paid more than Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who has a team-friendly deal that paid him $15 million in 2018.
“Nobody’s wife makes as much money as his wife does either,” Prescott told Trysta Krick of USA Today. “When Tom Brady isn’t the breadwinner in the home, then that’s a great problem to have.
“So, in that case, he can do that. He can do his contract however you want to do it.”
Brady’s wife, model Gisele Bundchen, earned $10 million in 2018 and $17.5 million in 2017, per reports.
Whodafuc Dak think he is?!
That’s a stupid comment for him to make. The discount Brady gives New England is basically the difference between a top tier QB and a 2nd tier QB. His cap hit next season is also $27mm and there’s no ing way Dak is worth that much of a cap hit.
Holden_Caulfield
you're a phony
as much as i dont want big nick on the jags, i hope they dont reach for a QB again like they did with bortles in 2014, i finally warmed up to him after the AFCCG last year and he goes on and falls off a cliff
Robz4000
Erryday I'm Hustlin'
Flacco traded to Denver.
Originally Posted by Robz4000
He’s only an above average QB at his best but still an upgrade over the trash Denver has had at QB.
Baltimore going all in on the dog Lamar Jackson offense. That got a exposed the minute a team played against it more than once.
SpursforSix
Besides that offense sucking, I don't think he's going to last if they're going to have him run 15-20 times per game.
Originally Posted by SpursforSix
Truth, he’s got a frail build and wouldn’t hold up against a big hit. Russell Wilson has the stockier frame that a running QB needs for durability.
Exactly. And most "running" QB are getting their yards in scramble situations when a play breaks down. I don't remember the exact stat but it was something like 70% of Jackson's runs were designed plays.
I can't see this lasting.
And as you said, it doesn't matter anyway. Unless he can somehow develop as a passer, that offense is going to be terrible.
The Denver Fluccos
i dont think that's them "going all in". flacco is getting paid 20+ mil to be the backup. makes sense to trade him regardless, tho imo they should draft a QB as well until they are sure in what they have with lamar...
Darth_Pelican
We've got a job to do.
BUILD THE WALL
Millennial_Messiah
Originally Posted by mono
This is the best one tbh
So Gurley's been diagnosed with arthritis in his hurt knee.
Wow. Bad news. They didn’t say what specific kind. I guess osteoarthritis is the most likely. Probably facing amputation in the next 2 years.
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Darien volleyball rallies to top Central, reach FCIAC final
Mike Levitt, Correspondent
Published 11:05 pm EDT, Wednesday, May 25, 2011
FAIRFIELD -- With a rematch of last season's FCIAC title game against Staples looming on the horizon, the Darien boys' volleyball team expected to cruise through its semifinal against Bridgeport Central.
But somebody forgot to tell the Hilltoppers they didn't stand a chance.
Central came out with something to prove in its first-ever FCIAC playoff appearance, winning a dramatic first set 30-28 after Darien fought off seven set-points. But the Blue Wave, whose only loss of the season came in April against Staples, showed why they've won 15 straight matches, winning the next three sets 25-20, 25-18, 25-18, to win 3-1.
"They came out with more fire than us," said Darien co-captain Calder Billhardt, who had 23 kills to pace the Blue Wave. "After that first game we had a team talk about playing together and pushing for the win. We realized we had to earn it and that it wouldn't just happen for us."
With the win, Darien faces Staples in the FCIAC championship on Friday at 7 p.m. at Ludlowe in Fairfield.
Fittingly, both finalists have only one loss this season -- away at the other school. Darien, who returns all but one starter from last year's runner-up squad, is looking for a little redemption in the title game against the defending champs.
"We definitely weren't overlooking Central, but that (Staples) is who we want to face at the end," Billhardt said. "We split the home-and-home, and still remember last year. This will be our grudge match."
Co-captain Rodolfo Pestana and junior inside-hitter Abdoulie Williams led the way for Central. Williams, a dominant force at the net all night, ended the game with 22 kills and 12 blocks.
Pestana, who emigrated from Brazil before his sophomore season, did a little of everything for the Hilltoppers, ending the day with double-digits in kills and digs.
"In that first game we did what we know -- we dug everything and got our kills," said Pestana, who purposely wears the uniform No. 10, a soccer-style tribute for a team's most dynamic player. "At that point, I 100 percent thought we could beat them. I don't know what happened in the next two games. Our passing wasn't there and their service was tough for us to handle."
Central took a 9-5 lead early in the second set, but lost steam down the stretch as Darien pulled away. Billhardt opened the third set with seven straight service points, and at that point the writing was on the wall.
"Calder's serving got us," Pestana said. "Unfortunately we couldn't make the next pass and the pressure got to us. Either way, I'm so proud of this team for just getting here."
Co-captain Austin Cockerill had 20 kills for Darien, while Matt Lee had 11 digs and 47 assists.
Darien 3, Central 1
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Julia Landauer ’14 eliminated from “Survivor”
Courtesy of Monty Brinton
By Kurt Chirbas on March 29, 2013
After ending up on the wrong side of a tribal swap, Julia Landauer ’14 this week became the eighth contestant eliminated from “Survivor: Caramoan,” the latest season of the long-running reality series.
In an episode that aired Wednesday night, the 21-year-old professional race car driver and Stanford undergraduate saw her torch snuffed out when her fellow tribe mates decided to vote off one of the two non-returning players on the tribe.
“This game was so different than I expected going into it,” Landauer said in a post-elimination interview that aired during the episode’s end credits. “It was tough going up against veteran players who knew this game inside and out and who had played before… I’ve had a wonderful experience, even though it’s been incredibly frustrating at times, and I couldn’t have done anything differently.”
Fans vs. favorites
“Survivor: Caramoan” began with 20 contestants divided between two tribes: Bikal, which consisted of well-known returning players, and Gota, comprised of fans playing the game for the first time. In each episode, the two tribes compete in an immunity challenge, with members of the losing team forced to vote off one of their own at a so-called “tribal council.”
Initially a Gota tribe member, Landauer found herself in the majority alliance, aligned with other contestants such as Matt Bischoff, a 38-year-old BMX bike salesman; Michael Snow, a 44-year-old personal event planner; Sherri Biethman, a 41-year-old fast food franchisee; Laura Alexander, a 23-year-old administrative officer; and Shamar Thomas, a 27-year-old Iraq War veteran.
As the season progressed, however, Gota lost several immunity challenges to the more physically imposing Bikal tribe, prompting the elimination of some of Landauer’s fellow alliance members. Those losses included Thomas – who was medically evacuated from the game when he accidentally scratched his cornea – and Alexander, who was voted off because she was perceived as physically weak and a liability in the immunity challenges.
Still, Landauer appeared to be in a comfortable position, with a member of the opposing alliance – Eddie Fox, a 23-year-old fireman and EMT – crediting her as one of the stronger female contestants left in the game.
That favorable dynamic changed, however, in last week’s episode, when contestants were reassigned within the tribes based on the color of paint inside randomly assigned eggs. Fans ended up comprising a 3-4 minority on both tribes, giving the favorites the upper hand.
Tribal upheaval
While Landauer initially expressed a “sense of relief” at being assigned to the new Bikal tribe – where two of her closest allies, Bischoff and Snow, would join her – her new team was physically ill matched against the new Gota tribe, putting the Bikal at a severe disadvantage in subsequent immunity challenges.
Moreover, Landauer also seemed to struggle to socially integrate herself into her new tribe, where the returning players adhered to their “favorites” alliance. Those players also criticized Landauer in on-camera confessionals as quiet and strategically inactive.
Corinne Kaplan, a previous contestant on “Survivor: Gabon” known for confessionals attacking fellow contestants, alleged that Landauer “does not contribute anything, except a nasally voice.” John Cochran, a veteran of “Survivor: South Pacific,” would later compare Landauer unfavorably to the flavor vanilla, in a sound bite that quickly went viral on social networking sites.
“I’m tempted to say that she has a vanilla personality, but I feel like that would be a great disservice to the flavor vanilla,” Cochran claimed.
That same reserved approach, however, unexpectedly became one of Landauer’s greatest assets on the island. Last week, returning players mistook it for confidence that she would survive another round through the possession of a hidden immunity idol, which can be used to invalidate votes cast against the possessor at a tribal council. In the event that a hidden immunity idol is played, the contestant with the second-highest number of votes against him or her is eliminated from the game.
For that reason, the Bikal tribe decided to eliminate Bischoff – rather than Landauer – after losing last week’s immunity challenge. Even as Landauer survived, however, she received two votes for elimination from Bischoff and Snow, emphasizing her precarious position if her tribe were to lose another challenge.
When that eventuality occurred on Wednesday night, Bikal reconvened their tribal council, during which Landauer’s efforts to target Phillip Sheppard – a returning player who is famous for wearing pink underwear and giving fellow contestants “stealth” nicknames – failed to fracture the favorites’ majority alliance.
While the tribal council’s vote was initially tied 3-3 between the two remaining fans – Landauer and Snow – a tie-breaking revote sent Landauer packing by a 4-0 margin.
After her torch was snuffed by “Survivor” host Jeff Probst, Landauer turned back to face her fellow tribe mates and, bowing, told them, “It’s been fun. Good luck.”
Landauer’s Twitter followers quickly jumped to her defense following her elimination, especially taking exception to Cochran’s assertion that the Stanford junior’s personality was “vanilla.”
“Racecar driver @julialandauer is as far from vanilla as anyone I know!” tweeted Angela Becerra Vidergar, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature whose course Landauer took before travelling to the Philippines to film “Survivor” last spring. “Stanford love! #Survivor #TeamJulia good run!”
Even Kaplan took to Twitter to clarify her description of Landauer.
“For the record, @julialandauer is an m’er f’ing racecar driver,” she tweeted. “She doesn’t need to do anything else to be extraordinary in my book.”
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Off Rollercoaster for Weekend - Dow Expected to Head Higher Today
Like the cliché "perfect storm," a stale buzzword has been applied to the global equities markets. The term is "rollercoaster." " But for the weekend, riders probably have received a pass to get off the ride and relax. MORE
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"Megyn Kelly Today" - Not the Morning Show Fluff Jane Fonda Was Expecting
That was likely not the usual morning show fluff Fonda was expecting. What was she thinking? That's what we wonder yet again as we follow the puzzling saga of Megyn Kelly's morning show. For two days too much of the programming was ME ME ME. MORE
Fluff 2017 Expectations Fulfillment 52
Bloodbath Expected in Stock Markets - Businesses Have to Re-Think Pricing Strategy
Back then, every buyer expected a bargain. It is 6:29 A.M. New York Time. And I am re-doing a client's promotional material. The new message is all about affordability. That client has re-thought her pricing strategy. MORE
2019 Expectations Pricing 2008 56
Full-Time MBA Programs - Expect Them To Be Rebranded
Professional degree programs are in play. And the academic institutions which "sell" them will likely have to rebrand many of the programs. Not only is the value of law school being questioned. So is that of the full-time MBA program, both here in the U.S. and abroad. The current issue of The Economist focuses on why the full-time MBA degree has lost its pull power. MORE
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Christiane Amanpour: Leaving "This Week," as expected
Television is a niche medium. The brand established by the personality is the brand that has to be maintained. There's no parachuting into other roles. We saw that with Katie Couric and Jane Pauley. MORE
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Choosing Our Battles - iGens Don't Expect Social Security, By 2035, Oldest of Baby Boomers Will Be 90
This is the era when members of the media scream about coming catastrophes. What is supposed to be at the top of the list is the insolvency of the Social Security System. By 2035, reports The Hill , the $3 trillion in reserves will be depleted. MORE
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"Megyn Kelly Today" - Poor Sweeps Numbers Expected
As Megyn Kelly watchers know, her morning show got a ratings bump and some goodwill when she focused on sexual harassment. But, reports The Wrap , the sweeps numbers (calculated every November) are predicted to be the lowest for a Today franchise since 2000. MORE
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Beyond Goldilocks Myth of "Just Right" - Lower Expectations
" Unfortunately, that sets up the expectation for perfection. " From the get-go, they have to lower their expectations. When they re-located from the coasts they expected perfection. MORE
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Q2 GDP Growth = 3.7% V. Expected 2.3%: America Is Great (will this derail Campaign Trump?)
There it is: Q2 GDP growth at 3.7%, reports the Commerce Department. That's a smackdown on the estimated 2.3% growth. Here is the deconstruction in The Wall Street Journal. America is great. Obviously. We have lots to feel good about ourselves. MORE
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Catastrophe as Expected - Eric Lertzman, Leslie Van Houten, King Lear, et al.
" Consequently, tragedy should be expected. Do human beings really "snap?" " Or, is that a media creation to position and package the unthinkable such as the growing number of murder/suicides as understandable. MORE
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April 11 - Facebook Investors Shouldn't Expect Uptick in Stock Price
The question on the minds of those who have a stake in Facebook is: Can Mark Zuckerberg have a conversation with the members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11? That is, can he engage versus enrage them? The very existence of Facebook is at stake. MORE
2018 Expectations Pricing Social Network 52
"Truth" - No Expectation of That, Maybe Never But Certainly Not Anymore
So many of us have no expectation of truth. In Fortune , Alan Murray and Tom Huddleston Jr. have an article about how truth is being eroded. That kind of rant is puzzling. Maybe we never had it. Maybe, not since the rhetorical gyrations of Campaign 2016. MORE
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Lobbying: What Schumpeterians didn't expect
The zen of professional life or the Schumpeterian approach is to anticipate that everything changes. However, we in public affairs might have assumed that lobbying was a line of work where the players might shift but the industry would remain large and lucrative. We were wrong. MORE
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Startup Pivots - Have No Expectations
Had I zero expectations, I could have simply enjoyed the blessings. My expectation was to penetrate the western market for my services. Probably that produced wonderful results because I had no expectations. On August 28th, as I head east, I am determined to have no expectations. MORE
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Can mental patients ever expect justice from psychiatrists?
Max Atkinson
2018 Expectations Recorders Community 52
Millennials as Your Clients - What They Expect
No need to add that they expect us to be proficient in technology. Take a look Inside the Beltway. The impression you get is that the American economy is run by Baby Boomer white men, with some Generation Xers thrown in. Well, that assumption will deep-six your business. MORE
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Present interactively: Your audience expects it!
My training webinar, “ Present interactively—Your audience expects it!&# was well received and you can now purchase the recording. In fact, the Training Manager of a state teacher’s union hired me to give this webinar, slightly customized, for employees. That too was well received. Learn more about what I covered during the webinar and what participants said MORE
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Romantic Love - Not for i-Generation, So Expect Industries to Be Shaken Up
Falling in love is not on the minds of the I-Generation, that is, those born between 1995 and 2012. That's what the survey of now-famous psychologist Jean Twenge found. And, since youth determines values in America, we might be seeing the beginning of the end of the cult of romantic love. MORE
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Drudge Report, As Expected, Features Hillary Clinton's Big Day With The Press
Just as expected, the conservative Drudge Report quickly aggregated and posted the negative headlines from coverage of Hillary Clinton's press conference on use of personal email when on government duty. MORE
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Expect More TV Programs About Young (Rich) Lawyers
And, so soon after the Cravath Bump … Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy is increasing - significantly - associate salaries. The starting salary for first-year associates will be a whopping $10k above where the Cravath Bump realigned compensation. MORE
2018 Expectations Compensation TV 52
Friday Massacre Expected at NEWSWEEK
Old-line NEWSWEEK had those well-paying jobs in media. And that, just like at THE NEW YORK TIMES, is what did it in. The latter will have a 3Q loss. High fixed costs are impossible to carry in the fast-moving digital age. Well, it's anticipated that 30 percent of those jobs will disappear this Friday. That's when, THE NEW YORK POST reports , the publication will announce its cuts. At least the first major round of them. MORE
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Retirement - Not What Most Expected (and that wasn't necessarily bad)
Also, Medicare supplements may cost more than they expected. Most of us, both still working and retired, have experienced aging as a transition. For some, it was unexpected. We didn't feel like we were aging. Yet, the world began treating us as "older." MORE
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What does your audience really expect of you? Guest post by Barry Potyondi
Speak Schmeak
It is the most common sin among speechwriters, and almost all of us are guilty of committing it: in our zeal to sound authoritative, coherent and memorable, we forget that speeches begin and end with the listener, not us. MORE
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Streaming - Expected Now, Pretty Soon Standard In Online News
Gawker's head Nick Denton recognizes that readers expect that. Today, many of the stories in influential Gawker are headlined with streaming video. Here is an example. That means that it won't be long before attaching video is standard. MORE
2015 Expectations Online Contract 65
Truth Is Not Expected - And, Often, Not Welcome
Currently, truth is not expected. The term for it used to be "spin." " That was the ability to position and package reality into acceptable illusions. The phenomenon began with politicos. MORE
2017 Expectations Packager Maine 52
Part of the problem people have with public speaking is their expectation. They expect that, once they start doing it, they will never be nervous again. Let go of the expectation that you need to be anxiety-free. MORE
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C-Level Presentation Tip #3: Expect and Be Happy About Interruptions
Professionally Speaking...
TIP #3: EXPECT AND BE HAPPY ABOUT INTERRUPTIONS. Question: What's the relationship between sky diving and making executive presentations? MORE
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Six Ways To Manage Audience Expectations
As a speaker, you will always deal with audience expectations. Expectations typically are based either on past experiences."I've For example, the student who expects he will get an A on the final exam when he hasn't studied. MORE
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"I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win." ~ Leonard Cohen. MORE
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Accept Applause but Don’t Expect It
Manner of Speaking
In this blog post from 25 April 2012 , Seth lays down a simple rule that every public speaker should take to heart: Don’t expect applause. But here’s the point: If you approach your speech or presentation expecting applause and focused on the rewards (applause, recognition, money, an invitation back, etc.) Don’t Expect Applause. But when you expect applause, when you do your work in order (and because of) applause, you have sold yourself short. MORE
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Curbing Great Expectations - Don't Bet On It (not if you are an investor or employee)
Back in the Industrial Age, the captains of industry, as they were called, had what novelist Charles Dickens labeled "Great Expectations." Of course, when those expectations didn't pan out, it had been the little people who suffered. MORE
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Bill Cosby Trial, Norristown, PA, 6/5/17 - What Not to Expect
The most we can expect is a little more shuffling in a walk and that aging person's staring blankly into space. In reality and perhaps through pr-ish positioning and packaging, Bill Cosby is an old man. MORE
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New York Post Endorses Donald Trump (expecting he'll pivot to more presidential)
" It expects him to pivot to a more presidential style when he is officially nominated. The influential New York Post has endorsed Donald Trump. Here is that editorial. MORE
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Part of the problem people have with public speaking is their expectation. They expect that, once they start doing it, they will never be nervous again. Let go of the expectation that you need to be anxiety-free.
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As a speaker, you will always deal with audience expectations. Expectations typically are based either on past experiences."I've For example, the student who expects he will get an A on the final exam when he hasn't studied.
Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking
"I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win." ~ Leonard Cohen.
In this blog post from 25 April 2012 , Seth lays down a simple rule that every public speaker should take to heart: Don’t expect applause. But here’s the point: If you approach your speech or presentation expecting applause and focused on the rewards (applause, recognition, money, an invitation back, etc.) Don’t Expect Applause. But when you expect applause, when you do your work in order (and because of) applause, you have sold yourself short.
He expected deference from law enforcement. The legal and perhaps business worlds are tittering about how high-profile professional Stephen Wigginton got nailed for DUI and more. Before his current job as partner at Armstrong Teasdale, he had been a U.S.
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Had I zero expectations, I could have simply enjoyed the blessings. My expectation was to penetrate the western market for my services. Probably that produced wonderful results because I had no expectations. On August 28th, as I head east, I am determined to have no expectations.
They are known as The Seven Sisters. But, given the fast pace of developments in technology, those seven giant tech companies are bound to have plenty of sibling rivalry.
The Dow is expected to continue its downward trajectory when the U.S. Bad news isn't letting up for our portfolios. market opens the day after Christmas. Axios notes that the Japanese market took a "dive" today, as did other Asian markets.
So, those still in the editorial box or who are graduating from college with majors in those aspects of communications should expect more darkness to fall in mid-2020. Every time there's a change in ownership or power at media companies, the editorial market gets more glutted.
Back in the Industrial Age, the captains of industry, as they were called, had what novelist Charles Dickens labeled "Great Expectations." Of course, when those expectations didn't pan out, it had been the little people who suffered.
No need to add that they expect us to be proficient in technology. Take a look Inside the Beltway. The impression you get is that the American economy is run by Baby Boomer white men, with some Generation Xers thrown in. Well, that assumption will deep-six your business.
As Megyn Kelly watchers know, her morning show got a ratings bump and some goodwill when she focused on sexual harassment. But, reports The Wrap , the sweeps numbers (calculated every November) are predicted to be the lowest for a Today franchise since 2000.
Like the cliché "perfect storm," a stale buzzword has been applied to the global equities markets. The term is "rollercoaster." " But for the weekend, riders probably have received a pass to get off the ride and relax.
It is the most common sin among speechwriters, and almost all of us are guilty of committing it: in our zeal to sound authoritative, coherent and memorable, we forget that speeches begin and end with the listener, not us.
But watchers don't expect much to change in CA. Business giants such as Uber using the gig-economy business model aren't going gently into the nightmare created by California AB 5.
" Unfortunately, that sets up the expectation for perfection. " From the get-go, they have to lower their expectations. When they re-located from the coasts they expected perfection.
" Consequently, tragedy should be expected. Do human beings really "snap?" " Or, is that a media creation to position and package the unthinkable such as the growing number of murder/suicides as understandable.
Frederick Hopkins, suspect in the South Carolina police massacre, has not practiced law since 1984. However, as too frequently happens when a lawyer or former one is involved in a crime, it's that professional identity which is highlighted in the media.
So, no one expects the most recent development - hacking of Japanese exchange Coincheck - to derail the global cryptocurrency train. At most, investors and advocates should expect more regulation. The hack of Japanese Mt.
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My training webinar, “ Present interactively—Your audience expects it!&# was well received and you can now purchase the recording. In fact, the Training Manager of a state teacher’s union hired me to give this webinar, slightly customized, for employees. That too was well received. Learn more about what I covered during the webinar and what participants said
And, so soon after the Cravath Bump … Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy is increasing - significantly - associate salaries. The starting salary for first-year associates will be a whopping $10k above where the Cravath Bump realigned compensation.
Currently, truth is not expected. The term for it used to be "spin." " That was the ability to position and package reality into acceptable illusions. The phenomenon began with politicos.
Today I conducted a training webinar on presenting interactively. I loved the topic and enjoyed myself quite a bit! Here’s what I covered: Why interactivity is necessary in today’s world: people are no longer willing to sit passively and take in information.
The question on the minds of those who have a stake in Facebook is: Can Mark Zuckerberg have a conversation with the members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11? That is, can he engage versus enrage them? The very existence of Facebook is at stake.
Back then, every buyer expected a bargain. It is 6:29 A.M. New York Time. And I am re-doing a client's promotional material. The new message is all about affordability. That client has re-thought her pricing strategy.
Had the leadership at Facebook conducted itself with decorum and humility, investors might have had tempered expectations. Facebook's sin, and it has been regarded as a mortal one, has been that it disappointed investors.
The most we can expect is a little more shuffling in a walk and that aging person's staring blankly into space. In reality and perhaps through pr-ish positioning and packaging, Bill Cosby is an old man.
Gawker's head Nick Denton recognizes that readers expect that. Today, many of the stories in influential Gawker are headlined with streaming video. Here is an example. That means that it won't be long before attaching video is standard.
TIP #3: EXPECT AND BE HAPPY ABOUT INTERRUPTIONS. Question: What's the relationship between sky diving and making executive presentations?
Also, Medicare supplements may cost more than they expected. Most of us, both still working and retired, have experienced aging as a transition. For some, it was unexpected. We didn't feel like we were aging. Yet, the world began treating us as "older."
The zen of professional life or the Schumpeterian approach is to anticipate that everything changes. However, we in public affairs might have assumed that lobbying was a line of work where the players might shift but the industry would remain large and lucrative. We were wrong.
Professional degree programs are in play. And the academic institutions which "sell" them will likely have to rebrand many of the programs. Not only is the value of law school being questioned. So is that of the full-time MBA program, both here in the U.S. and abroad. The current issue of The Economist focuses on why the full-time MBA degree has lost its pull power.
This is the era when members of the media scream about coming catastrophes. What is supposed to be at the top of the list is the insolvency of the Social Security System. By 2035, reports The Hill , the $3 trillion in reserves will be depleted.
So many of us have no expectation of truth. In Fortune , Alan Murray and Tom Huddleston Jr. have an article about how truth is being eroded. That kind of rant is puzzling. Maybe we never had it. Maybe, not since the rhetorical gyrations of Campaign 2016.
That was likely not the usual morning show fluff Fonda was expecting. What was she thinking? That's what we wonder yet again as we follow the puzzling saga of Megyn Kelly's morning show. For two days too much of the programming was ME ME ME.
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There it is: Q2 GDP growth at 3.7%, reports the Commerce Department. That's a smackdown on the estimated 2.3% growth. Here is the deconstruction in The Wall Street Journal. America is great. Obviously. We have lots to feel good about ourselves.
The outing of sexual harassment by big names keeps going and going. And, that is a miracle development for floundering morning program "Megyn Kelly Today."
" It expects him to pivot to a more presidential style when he is officially nominated. The influential New York Post has endorsed Donald Trump. Here is that editorial.
Television is a niche medium. The brand established by the personality is the brand that has to be maintained. There's no parachuting into other roles. We saw that with Katie Couric and Jane Pauley.
All night, the major television news networks provided special and ongoing coverage of Stephen Paddock's sniper attack in Las Vegas. In the background of the video feeds there was the noise of sustained gun fire.
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Falling in love is not on the minds of the I-Generation, that is, those born between 1995 and 2012. That's what the survey of now-famous psychologist Jean Twenge found. And, since youth determines values in America, we might be seeing the beginning of the end of the cult of romantic love.
Old-line NEWSWEEK had those well-paying jobs in media. And that, just like at THE NEW YORK TIMES, is what did it in. The latter will have a 3Q loss. High fixed costs are impossible to carry in the fast-moving digital age. Well, it's anticipated that 30 percent of those jobs will disappear this Friday. That's when, THE NEW YORK POST reports , the publication will announce its cuts. At least the first major round of them.
Just as expected, the conservative Drudge Report quickly aggregated and posted the negative headlines from coverage of Hillary Clinton's press conference on use of personal email when on government duty.
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Comprehensive research survey conducted by Inbound Logistics names Warehouse Management System SphereWMS in the Top 100 Logistics IT providers offering solutions designed to meet supply chain challenges.
LITTLETON, CO – April 27th, 2016 - Inbound Logistics conducted an extensive survey of over 400 companies and named SphereWMS in its Top 100 List for Logistic IT Providers that are leading the way in the industry.
The April 2016 issue of Inbound Logistics allows IT buyers and users to see profiles of the Top 100 providers, allowing buyers to have a better idea of what’s happening in the industry. SphereWMS was named primarily for its variety of industries served, its vertical specialization, and its logistics solutions.
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Cowboys vs. 49ers: Score, results, highlights from Week 7 game at San Francisco
Written By Tadd Haislop
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The Cowboys entering Sunday's Week 7 game against the 49ers as 6 1/2-point favorites seemed like an irrelevant fact given the way the 2017 NFL season has progressed. Dallas (2-3) was coming off a bye after a rough start to the season, and San Francisco (0-6) had lost five straight games by three points or less.
So much for that, as the Cowboys flexed their muscles in every phase of the game on their way to a 40-10 win.
Dallas did receive a boost earlier in the week when running back Ezekiel Elliott was cleared to play against San Francisco, as his six-game suspension was kicked further down the road. His play was a huge factor Sunday.
MORE: Week 7 NFL scoreboard
The Cowboys got the win they desperately needed in order to keep pace in the NFC East, in which the Eagles had taken a solid lead going into their Monday night showdown against the Redskins.
SN provided live scoring updates for Sunday's Cowboys-49ers game in San Francisco. Here's how it went down.
Cowboys vs. 49ers: Score, results, highlights
(All times Eastern)
7:03 p.m.: Final. Cowboys 40, 49ers 10
6:44 p.m.: Touchdown. 49ers rookie QB C.J. Beathard scored his first career touchdown with a four-yard scramble in garbage time against the Cowboys. It capped a 12-play, 75-yard drive. 40-10, Cowboys
Here's CJ Beathard's first career rushing touchdown #DALvsSF pic.twitter.com/c0D6ng7ugm
— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) October 22, 2017
6:29 p.m.: Touchdown. Dez Bryant tied Bob Hayes' Cowboys record for receiving touchdowns in a career (71), and he did it in style. The wide receiver went up and snatched Dak Prescott's throw in the back of the end zone and got both feet down before he fell out of bounds. The two-yard TD extended Dallas' lead. Jeff Heath made the PAT. 40-3, Cowboys
6:22 p.m.: End of third quarter.
6:21 p.m.: Turnover. As if it wasn't the case already, the rout was on after Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith blitzed and drilled 49ers quarterback C.J. Beathard, whose fumble was recovered by Tyrone Crawford. Dallas took over on San Francisco's 29-yard line.
.@thejaylonsmith coming through! #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/VSIZYypDkA
— NFL (@NFL) October 22, 2017
6:16 p.m.: Touchdown. Dak Prescott provided what felt like the dagger in the last minute of the third quarter. A QB-keeper up the middle from two yards out resulted in a touchdown and capped a 13-play, 80-yard drive that took 7:44 off the clock. Jeff Heath missed the PAT. 33-3, Cowboys
.@Dak will do it himself! #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/vNl62dazm6
5:53 p.m.: Touchdown. That was quick. Ezekiel Elliott took a Dak Prescott screen pass and ran it 72-yards for a touchdown on the first play of the Cowboys' possession after the 49ers' turnover on downs. Jeff Heath, who was kicking in place of the injured Dan Bailey, made the extra point. 27-3, Cowboys
5:50 p.m.: Turnover on downs. The 49ers gambled with a pass play on fourth-and-4 from the Cowboys' 28-yard line on their opening drive of the second half, but C.J. Beathard's pass sailed incomplete, and Dallas took over.
5:30 p.m.: Halftime. Cowboys 20, 49ers 3
5:26 p.m.: Turnover . Cowboys pass rusher DeMarcus Lawrence made a great play off the edge, beat 49ers left tackle Joe Staley and hit C.J. Beathard before the QB was able to get rid of the ball to force a fumble. Lawrence also recovered the fumble. It was a huge turnover, as San Francisco was threatening in the red zone in the final minute of the second quarter.
5:02 p.m.: Touchdown . The Cowboys extended their lead with an 18-yard Dak Prescott touchdown pass to Jason Witten, who made a beautiful, one-handed catch in the end zone. The score capped an impressive 12-play, 86-yard drive for Dallas. The Cowboys' two-point conversion attempt failed — they went for two because kicker Dan Bailey was ruled out with a groin injury. Safety Jeff Heath served as the kicker on the ensuing kickoff. 20-3, Cowboys.
. @JasonWitten ONE HAND TOUCHDOWN CATCH!
Beautiful. #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/nMWkMOIr6W
4:50 p.m.: End of first quarter.
4:37 p.m.: Field goal . The 49ers desperately needed some points to answer the Cowboys' early-game burst, and they got three in the form of a 42-yard Robbie Gould field goal. It capped a nine-play, 53-yard drive. 14-3, Cowboys
4:28 p.m.: Touchdown . Credit the Cowboys for dominating the 49ers on the ground early in the game, as they should. Ezekiel Elliott scored his second rushing touchdown of the first quarter with a 25-yard sprint off right guard. Dallas marched 74 yards in seven plays and extended its lead. 14-0, Cowboys
25-yard @EzekielElliott TD run! #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/kh9mG3z45C
7 plays, 74 yds, 3:28. Zeke: 7 carries, 59 yds thru 3 possessions (average 8.4/carry). Blocking has been really good especially on 25 yd TD.
— Derek Eagleton (@derekeagleton) October 22, 2017
4:12 p.m.: Touchdown . The Cowboys quickly made the 49ers may for their turnover and turned it into six points. Ezekiel Elliott scored a rushing touchdown from one yard out on the third play of the series. 7-0, Cowboys
4:08 p.m.: Turnover . The Cowboys on their first drive went three-and-out for just the second time this season, but it ended up working in their favor. Rookie Trent Taylor fumbled the football during his punt return, and Xavier Woods recovered for Dallas and made it to the San Francisco 20-yard line.
First takeaway by the Cowboys' defense or special teams since Week 2. #cowboyswire
— Rob Phillips (@robphillips3) October 22, 2017
4:05 p.m. : Kickoff. The 49ers won the coin toss and elected to defer to the second half. The Cowboys began their first drive from the 25-yard line after a touchback.
3:55 p.m. : The Cowboys took the field to cheers on the road at Levi's Stadium.
LET'S GOOOOOOO!!!!! #DALvsSF pic.twitter.com/ccjq044n6S
— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) October 22, 2017
3:22 p.m. : 49ers quarterbacks C.J. Beathard and Brian Hoyer started warming up. Sunday would mark Beathard's first NFL start.
QB 1 and QB 2 pic.twitter.com/epk9WF71WQ
— Chris Biderman (@ChrisBiderman) October 22, 2017
2:36 p.m. : Inactives were announced for both teams.
Cowboys inactives: Kellen Moore, Darren McFadden, Chidobe Awuzie, Justin Durant, Damontre’ Moore, Byron Bell, Benson Mayowa.
— David Helman (@HelmanDC) October 22, 2017
#49ers inactives for #DALvsSF
Kickoff 1:05pm on @NFLonFOX pic.twitter.com/O8329QwGE7
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Extra Questions for Class 9th: Ch 7 Diversity in Living Organisms (Science) Important Questions Answer Included
Q1. Scientist who classified animals, according to whether they lived on land, in water or in air?
Greek thinker Aristotle classified animals, according to whether they lived on land, in water or in air.
Q2. What is the lowermost category in the hierarchy of classification of groups of organisms?
Species.
Q3. In the hierarchy of classification, which group will have - the smallest number of organisms with a maximum number of characteristics and the largest number of organism?
Smallest number of organisms – Kingdom.
Largest number of organisms – Species.
Q4. Name the kingdom in which an organism does not have a well-defined nucleus and organelles.
Monera.
Q5. In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?
Protista.
Short Answer Questions-I (SAQs-I) : 2 Marks
Q1. Mention any two advantages of classifying organisms.
Why do we classify organisms?
(i) Classification makes the study of vast diverse of organisms easier by clubbing them into different groups.
(ii) It also facilitates the study of evolution that has taken place.
Q2. Which organisms are called primitive?
Primitive: Groups of organisms with simpler body structure and ancient body design that have not changed much over a period of time or with evolution e.g., amoeba.
Q3. How primitive organisms are they different from the advanced organisms?
Advanced Groups of organisms with complex body structure and design, that have changed over evolutionary time. e.g., Starfish. Amoeba has a simple body structure and primitive features to that of starfish. Hence, an amoeba is considered more primitive than starfish.
Q4. Name the first four categories used in hierarchical classification of organisms.
(i) Kingdom
(ii) Phylum/ Division
(iii) Class
(iv) Order
Q5. What is symbiotic relationship?
Some fungal species live in a permanent mutually dependent relationship with blue-green algae/Cyanobacteria. Such relationships are called symbiotic relationship.
Short Answer Questions-II (SAQs-II) : 3 Marks
Q1. What is the system of scientific naming of organisms called? State two important conventions followed while giving such names.
The system of scientific naming of organisms is called binomial nomenclature. Each name consists of two parts, generic name and specific name. Generic name should start in capitals and specific name in small letters. When printed, the specific name is given in italics, when handwritten, generic name and specific name must be underlined separately.
Q2. On the basis of presence or absence of coelom organisms are of two types. Is it true or false?
False. On the basis of presence or absence of coelom organisms are of three types. They are:
(i) Acoelomates
(ii) Coelomates
(iii) Pseudo coelomate
Q3. Carolus Linnaeus gave the two kingdom classification. Later it was changed by Ernst Haeckel in 1894 and in 1959, Whittakar gave the five-kingdom classification. Do you think that studying about the work done by earlier scientists or their obsolete theories is useful for students of this generation? Give any three reasons.
It helps us in:
(i) Learning the importance of observation.
(ii) Learning to value the efforts put in by the other scientists/people in general.
(iii) Developing scientific attitude/critical thinking.
Q4. Write four characteristics of monerans.
(i) They are unicellular.
(ii) Prokaryotic in nature.
(iii) Membrane bound cell organelles are absent.
(iv) The mode of nutrition is autotrophic.
Q5. Bluegreen algae have been included under the kingdom monera not under plantae. Why?
Plantae show definite membrane-bound organelles and multi-cellular body design. Blue-green algae is prokaryotic in nature as it does not show multicellular body design. Hence it is included in monera.
Long Answer Questions (LAQs) : 5 Marks
Q1. (a) State two basis of classifying plants and animals into different categories.
(b) List three characteristic features of fungi. Some fungal species live in permanent, mutually dependent relationships with cyanobacteria. What is this relationship called? Where are they found?
(a) (i) On the basis of cell structure.
(ii) On the basis of body organisation.
(b) Fungi are heterotrophic eukaryotic, saprophytes. Permanent mutually dependent relationships are called symbiotic relationships. They are found as slow, growing large, coloured patches on the bark of trees.
Q2. In vertebrata notochord is replaced by…..? State all features possess by vertebrata.
In vertebrata notochord is replaced by a true vertebral column. These animals have a true vertebral column and internal skeleton. All chordates possess the following features:
(i) Bilaterally symmetrical.
(ii) Have a notochord.
(iii) Have a dorsal nerve cord.
(iv) Are triploblastic, have paired gill pouches.
(v) Complex differentiation of body tissues and organs : paired gill pouches and 2, 3, 4 chambered heart
(vi) Are coelomate and segmented
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