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Lover of fatty meats, sweet treats, bourbon, and The Ohio State Buckeyes.
SPORTS MOMENT: Sitting in the Superdome, awestruck, confetti falling, realizing that 85 Yards Through the Heart of the South happened and that the Buckeyes had done the improbable. Two days before I had posed with the Nick Saban statue in Tuscaloosa holding an Ohio flag. Later on Bourbon street a drunken fan would grab my shoulders and say "THAT happened! And WE were there!"
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Justin just has a tendency to sail passes a bit in the first until he gets locked in. I think getting hit settles him down a bit and when the knee is an issue Day is hesitant to run JF early. But, I didn’t think he was indecisive.
Commented on Justin Fields Wearing Bulkier Brace for Warmups
KJ is a dark horse candidate for player of the game tonight
Commented on Ohio State Wide Receiver K.J. Hill Accepts Invite to Play in Senior Bowl
I think this game is a bit ugly for the Buckeyes early. Some missed passes on o. A big pass play (with blatant holding) on D. The Buckeyes don't look bad, just a bit out of sorts. Its 17-7 Clemson at the half. The Buckeye Oline starts to wear Clemson down in the second half. Those 4 yard Dobbins runs begin to pop for 20, 30, 40. Fields breaks one for 25. Olave and Victor each snag key first downs. Wilson catches a long 40ish yard deep ball. The Buckeyes also make some adjustments on D and Lawrence begins to misfire and throw out of bounds. The Tigers still move the ball but the Buckeyes are making key tackles for loss taking them off schedule. By the fourth quarter, Ohio State is up 24-20. The Bucks keep grinding and make it 34-20 with about 6:30 left. TL catches fire and gives us a scare, but its too little too late.
Ohio State 37, Clemson 27.
Commented on Eleven Warriors Roundtable: Win Or Go Home
A couple of things that jumped out at me vs. TTUN. Inside of the line was magnificent. TE blocking has been underrated. Later in the game, JK was keyed in on and there was a whole lot of JF had he kept. JF at even 85% will help open room for JK. Would love to see JF keep early and pop a big one which causes Clemson to stay honest the rest of the game allowing the Buckeyes to ride JK.
Commented on Dobbins is So Underappreciated...
In any event, the other Dlinemen need to get penetration. If I am Cooper, I'd be really tempted to play in these last two.
Commented on Across The Field: Q&A with Clemson Beat Writer Brandon Rink As Tigers Prepare for Clash with Ohio State in Fiesta Bowl
I don't think folks are taking JF being more healthy into account. I wouldn't be surprised if JF rips off a long run very early in this game.
Commented on Skull Session: Urban Meyer Picks the Buckeyes, Jackson Carman Talks Chase Young, and Mike Yurcich Might Be Texas Bound
So sayeth he then shall it be resolved: a Buckeye Victory. Long live Jambi.
Chase will be a top 3 pick in the draft. He's one of the most dominant DEs to come out of college in a while. NFL teams only trust top tier LT against players like that. Jackson may be really good--but is he that level? This reminds me of young Taylor Decker being matched up and killed by Kahlil Mack in 2013. Decker is a solid/good NFL LT but he was still young and Mack is an elite pass rusher. Even though Decker did ok percentage wise in that match up, Mack was able to make huge plays. Mack finished the day with 2.5 sacks, 2.5 tackles for a loss, tackles and an INT return for a TD. He caused another fumble but it was called back because of a facemask. I think we move Chase around a bit just like Buffalo did, but, if his primary matchup is Carman without help, Chase is going to have similar numbers. 3ish sacks, and at least cause one TO.
I think part of it was Justin Fields's knee. The Offense wasn't at optimal level vs Wisky and the team looked vulnerable for the first time. Clemson, hasn't looked vulnerable since the early season and did win the CFP last year. They're so much of an unknown that its spooking folks. Additionally, the Buckeye pass defense has been targeted in the first half of both its games and seems a bit more vulnerable. Also, Day played into this a bit by sort of admitting that Clemson was the toughest drawl.
That all said, I think the Buckeyes win this one. So long as the Buckeyes stay within 10 points or so in the first half, the second half turns into a JK party. JF has a tendency to sail balls early in big games and then get more accurate as the game continues. I look for the Buckeyes to run him early to settle him down. It would be encouraging to see some passing conversions early.
I never understood why some complain about so many bowls. I love them! Some of these games are such fun to watch. Perhaps I am biased because before my wonderful time at tOSU I completed my undergrad at FIU during the Mario Cristobal years. The 2010 Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl was an amazing game featuring TY Hilton doing a bit of everything for the Golden Panthers. Down 24-7 in the third to Toledo, TY returned a kick 89 yards for a TD to start the comeback. The Rockets' successful 2 point conversion put Toledo ahead by a point with a minute and change left, but FIU wouldn't be denied.The Panthers picked up a key 4th and forever using the ol' hook and ladder and kicked a fg as time expired. FIU 34 Toledo 32.
It was FIU's first ever bowl win and a great game of football.
Commented on Kent State Wins First Bowl Game in Program History, Topping Utah State, 51-41
I disagree that Memphis v Penn State is an 8.0 on the excitement meter. Its more like a 1.2. I'd be extremely upset if I was a PSU fan.
In 2014 members of the team said that the success of the B1G earlier of the day helped their mindsets entering the game vs 'Bama. I get that the Bucks play before the other teams match up but it may give a boost for the NC. Someone said that when the B1G went 8-1 it did little to change the national narrative. I disagree. There is much less SEC chest thumping now. Its still present but not as rabid as it was before. These things take time. Just have to consistently do better than other conferences. Also, recruits that want to "play against the best" are more likely to choose Ohio State if B1G opponents show well in bowl games.
I even want TTUN to win. I dislike 'Bama and would love to be able to say "a team we rolled 56-27 beat you!" This would also make jimmy a bit more secure--and I hope the Buckeyes play against a TTUN coach by jimmy for a long long time.
Commented on B1G Bowl Preview: Nine of the Conference's Top Teams Will Be a Part of the 2019 Bowl Season
I have thought about it a bit and I absolutely want Michigan to throttle Alabama. Of course I hate TTUN, but, I am tired of this SEC narrative. Buckeye players admitted that 2014/2015 bowl results gave them increased confidence when matching up with 'Bama. I get that our game is before, but, the last one vs LSU (presumably) won't be. Also, Gophers to beat Auburn. Additionally, if I am Penn State, I'm sour about a matchup vs Memphis.
Commented on Skull Session: Justin Fields' Historic Touchdown-to-Interception Ratio, the Ohio State Basketball Team Should Top the Rankings, and Drue Chrisman's Been Practicing at Quarterback
I guess I overstated my point. I was trying to draw the comparison to Minnesota. Bama to me is on the outside looking in, needing lots of externals to occur before it can make it. Whereas if Minnesota controls its destiny.
Commented on After Ohio State's Win Over Penn State, the College Football Playoff Committee Faces Another Choice Between LSU and Ohio State
I disagree that Minnesota is on the outside looking in. They have a chance to pad their resume considerably and would make it in if they won out (which they won't because the Buckeyes will/would stomp a hole in them). Alabama is dead in the water and will be jumped by the PAC 12, or BIG 12 champ, or LSU (if GA wins). I really don't see how 'Bama has a path.
You as well! Thanks!
Commented on Hot Off The Press: Penn State Game Poster
I turned into a lurker and went for years without commenting, but, I do remember. I also remember the premium lounge and how wonderful it was.
Thanks! I'm going to do my best to show her Columbus's best. She's a good one and somewhat pretends to enjoy football for my benefit. She's Persian and loves Americana type things. So to her, that I love football is a major plus. She likes Brutus a lot but calls him "the cute Donut guy." I just stopped correcting her on that one. I'm thinking TBDBITL blows her away.
Commented on Weather for Saturday W/updates
I'm bringing my non-Ohioan gf to Ohio for the first time to watch this game (student section!). I have repeated to her again and again that we aren't leaving the game regardless of the weather. However, I've purchased a bunch of cold weather gear so she's somewhat comfortable. Glad to find this thread. Seems like it will be that Ohio-y winter mist at times. Just makes it a little colder. I'll bide Cincy OSU's advice and check back tomorrow for increased accuracy. Good to know about weather.com too.
I shall be in attendance and will bring some extra on your behalf
Commented on Presser Bullets: Ryan Day, Jeff Hafley, Justin Fields, Branden Bowen and Robert Landers Preview This Week's Game Against Penn State
OK so for the stretch run the Buckeyes will have the best defensive player in CFB, but angry and completely rested? Dude is going to double his sack total.
Commented on Chase Young Suspended for Two Games, Will Return for Ohio State's Game Against Penn State
I whole-heartedly agree with this. The playoff should be to crown a champion--that is the 1 best team, not the 4 best teams. So, if you don't win your conference (which is always based on objective criteria) you're not the best team. I don't care if its arguable that you're one of the top 4. Teams should have to win their conference. If you're a 3 loss conference winner, chances are you'd be left out because there are likely 4 conference champs with better resumes.
Commented on Skull Session: College Coaches Give Playoff Opinions, Joe Burrow Compares Ohio State vs. Michigan to Alabama vs. LSU, and Cincinnati is About to Take Another Loss
Hell, the Bowls are good for me! I love watching them. Also that chart looks waaaaay better after 8 games than it will after the season where teams 6-8 will have 2-3 losses. 4 teams is perfect! There could be some modifications, but I like 4. Every game matters, and if you win the conference and every game--you'll get in.
That’s what I am talking about!
Commented on Ohio State No. 1 in Initial 2019 College Football Playoff Rankings
I agree. That matchup will likely be 2 v 3. Penn State moves up over Bama and LSU jumps Ohio State. All that matters is that Ohio State is number 1 in the end!
Meyer's team seemed more emotional. This team just gets to work. BTW def not a knock on Meyer. Just seems different. I think JK Dobbins best represents my feelings about this Buckeye team--his body language seems the same regardless of whether he gains 1 yard or 80. He just puts his head down and goes hard on the next play. Its been impressive.
Commented on Ryan Day, Ohio State Focused on Beating Maryland, Not Tuesday's Initial College Football Playoff Rankings
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"Welcome to the craziest and best book you'll read this year. This is far above the set by other dystopians [...] an utter white-knucker of a triumph. The Globe & Mail
The world is at peace, said the Utterances. And really, if the odd princess has a hard day, is that too much to ask?
Greta is a duchess and crown princess—and a hostage to peace. This is how the game is played: if you want to rule, you must give one of your children as a hostage. Go to war and your hostage dies.
Greta will be free if she can survive until her eighteenth birthday. Until then she lives in the Precepture school with the daughters and sons of the world’s leaders. Like them, she is taught to obey the machines that control their lives. Like them, she is prepared to die with dignity, if she must. But everything changes when a new hostage arrives. Elián is a boy who refuses to play by the rules, a boy who defies everything Greta has ever been taught. And he opens Greta’s eyes to the brutality of the system they live under—and to her own power.
As Greta and Elián watch their nations tip closer to war, Greta becomes a target in a new kind of game. A game that will end up killing them both—unless she can find a way to break all the rules.
Book of the Year for Young Adults, from the Canadian Library Association
Winner of the Monica Hughes Award for best book of science fiction or fantasy published in Canada
On the American Library Association YALSA Quick Picks List
Shortlisted for the Amy Mathers Award for best novel for teens published in Canada
Shortlisted for the White Pine (the Ontario Public Library Association's teen readers' choice award)
Shortlisted for the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award
The Scorpion Rules made the best of 2015 lists at Barnes & Nobel, Chapters/Indigo, The CBC, and The Globe & Mail.
"Slyly humorous, starkly thought-provoking, passionate and compassionate -- and impeccably written to boot: not to be missed." Kirkus (starred review)
"Masterful, electric prose and wit ... a knockout dystopian novels that readers will devour with their hearts in their months." School Library Journal (starred review)
"Bow continually yanks the rug out from under readers, defying expectations as she crafts a masterly story with a diverse cast, shocking twists, and gut-punching emotional moments." Publishers' Weekly (starred review)
"If you haven't read Erin Bow, start now." Quill & Quire (starred review)
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Readers say:
I know, I know, another dystopian. You think you know exactly what this book is, and how it's going to play out. YOU ARE WRONG AND YOU NEED TO READ THIS.
Authors say:
"This is fearfully superlative storytelling. The finest fiction I've read this year." -- Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity
"Erin Bow's Greta is my kind of princess." -- Megan Whalen Turner, author of The Thief
"Bow's amoral AI overlord is one of my favorite characters in a while." -- Maggie Stiefvater, author of the Raven Cycle
"Elegant world-building, white-knuckle plot, and wonderful characters. I couldn't put it down." -- V.E. Schwab, author of A Darker Shade of Magic
"Bow's vision of our apoocalypse is stark, beautiful, and terrifying. This is my favorite book." -- E.K. Johnston, author of A Thousand Nights
"One of the most inventive, devious, exciting, and thoroughly enjoyable books I've read in years." -- Jonathan Maberry, author of Rot & Ruin
"A game-changing novel about the consequences of war and the brutality of peace. Unforgettable!" -- Suzanne Young, author of The Program
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The Experimental Drink: Bull-Ball Beer
By Eric Vilas-Boas
Wynkoop Brewing Co.
Making a beer out of bull testicles sounds like an April Fools' joke, no? It was to Denver's Wynkoop Brewing Co. this year, when they announced a new beer made of the stuff on April 1. But then it wasn't. They're actually brewing and selling the beer, the Denver Post reports. At seven percent alcohol-by-volume, it's a stiff beer, with three balls to every barrel. We've seen weird beer, but... Christ. Here's Wynkoop's maybe-earnest-maybe-not statement (emphasis added): "Rocky Mountain Oysters (aka fried bull testicles) are arguably our state's most popular local dish. They've also been enjoyed by humans for centuries. So they're a dream-come-true ingredient for a Wynkoop beer." I can't tell if they're really Colorado's most popular dish, but it would certainly be amusing if they came up during Obama and Romney's debate tonight in Denver. Somebody's gonna need balls to get through the thing. [The Denver Post]
Eric Vilas-Boas Assistant Editor Eric Vilas-Boas is a former editor at Esquire, where he managed the magazine's social media accounts, helped edit the website, and has written stories about comic books, martinis, and Ernest Hemingway's hamburger acumen.
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Regarding a specific thing mentioned at a recent event with Yoshi-p
I find myself concerned with a statement made regarding raid difficulty, that further nerfs to Midas are being considered and they plan on making the next raid tier even easier than the current tier is now.
I'm going to start with the Midas concerns. Personally, I don't feel that this tier should be nerfed any further while it remains relevant. The difficulty curve has been corrected by the existing nerfs to A6S, and any further nerfs would in my opinion do more harm to the raid scene than good. In regards to Fist, Cuff, and Arm of the Son (Savage), to many groups the difficulty as it is seems disappointing. Not to mention how most groups that were having trouble with Cuff of the Son and did not just quit raiding have found the new difficulty of the fight to be at a level where they're comfortable taking on the fight. While due to some groups quitting raiding as a result of the fight's pre-nerf difficulty the clear rate may still seem off, the difficulty curve itself has been corrected. I understand the desire to bring groups that quit back, but further nerfs will not do this. No group that quit because of the Cuff of the Son (Savage)'s pre-nerf difficulty and has not come back post-nerf will be brought back by further nerfs to the content.
On that note, I also feel the need to warn about being too hasty with nerfs to Burden of the Son (Savage). As it feels like the only fight remaining that could possibly have nerfs applied, I plead that a low clear rate at the moment won't prompt a nerf in the near future. Most groups want to tackle this encounter at its current difficulty. Groups that were held back by Cuff of the Son (Savage) have not had enough time to help correct what may appear to be a low clear rate as of yet. So even if in 3.3 the clear rate appears to be low, I beg that the dev team will hold off on nerfs to allow groups such as my own to have ample time with the content to at least attempt it at its current difficulty. I am sure that given time to make up for Cuff of the Son (Savage) being the wall that it was, the clear rate for Burden of the Son (Savage) will correct itself.
Nerfs at this point in time will only serve to further frustrate the playerbase that is currently raiding, seeing that content they haven't had appropriate time to challenge has been nerfed despite being sure they could have handled the content at its pre-nerf difficulty. We even saw this to some extent when Cuff of the Son (Savage) was nerfed. The difference is that this time there is no issue in the difficulty curve to correct, and as such any adjustments would not be justifiable to most of the playerbase.
Now, as for the next tier being less difficult, this is something I'd be more okay with, if done right. Specifically, it was said that Yoshi-p wants the next tier to be cleared in around 1 week for the world first race. My personal thoughts on this are that most of the current tier's difficulty would already allow for this. As such, I would be disappointed if this meant the first three fights of the next tier were easier than the first three fights of this tier. The only fight this tier that I feel currently has a difficulty level that would not be conducive to this is Burden of the Son (Savage). So, my hope for the next tier is that only the final encounter is of lower difficulty than its counterpart in Midas (Savage) as it exists right now.
But those are just the thoughts I've had in the conversations I've had on this topic. If anyone has any staunch disagreements on this, I'd love to hear why. Alternatively, if you have some sort of other suggestion relating to the current raid difficulty issues, I'd love to hear those as well. Let's get a conversation going and hopefully attract some attention to this (imo) very troubling tidbit of information.
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Certainly a well thought out and contemplative analysis of the issue at hand, and I will say that the divide between raider and non-raider is a rather contentious issue with a lot of moving parts.
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3.2 really changed the amount of time a Paladin stance dances. In 3.0 a Paladin tanked A3S in Sword Oath for 95% of the fight while wearing zero Vitality accessories.
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The 15 most powerful people in wireline
If you take a look at our first annual 15 Most Powerful People in Wireline feature, you'll see many of the same people that FierceTelecom writes about every day in our industry coverage.
These people are the drivers behind the innovations and service initiatives that are transforming telecommunications industry's wireline segment from regulated providers of simple voice services into IP and broadband service providers.
These days, the wireline executive--including network operators and their vendor partners--is faced with a number of challenges from hungry cable operators ready to eat their lunch as well as wireless operators that are enticing consumers and businesses alike to ditch their traditional black phones for smart phones that allow them to communicate anytime anywhere.
But where there are challenges there are multiple opportunities. Service providers and their vendor partners are targeting new innovations to deliver consumer-rich video service (FTTH services, IPTV and over-the-top video) and emerging business services (cloud and Ethernet).
A number of our picks were chosen for different reasons. Our rankings have grouped industry segments such as the Tier 1 and Tier 2 telcos, vendors and other indusry influencers like the FCC and ARIN are based on what influence they have on the wireline segment of the telecom industry overall.
In Reed Hasting's case, the founder and CEO of Netflix may not be a traditional telecom executive, but there's no doubt that his all-you-can-eat video streaming service is driving greater amounts of bandwidth on every telco and cable broadband network.
Meanwhile, Glen Post, President and CEO of CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), rapidly transformed the once small-town, voice-only rural telephone company into the third largest U.S.-based telco behind AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) by acquiring Qwest. In addition to the Qwest win, CenturyLink bolstered its cloud vision with a new deal to acquire Savvis Communications.
At the same time, some of our most powerful honorees are facing some of the biggest challenges of their career.
John Chambers, CEO of the mighty Cisco, is trying to realign the structure of his business by shedding some of the consumer assets that have struggled to be profitable--including the shuttering of its Flip camera business. Chambers is now trying to right the ship to restore investor and customer faith, including a refocus on Cisco's core routing and switching business and emerging areas like cloud services.
Of course, don't forget to take a look back at my colleagues at FierceWireless and their own annual Most Powerful People in Wireless feature.
Like FierceWireless, our list is also a compilation of the major game changers in the U.S. wireline industry.
Since I know not everyone is going to agree with our choices, I encourage you to share with us your thoughts in the comments section.--Sean
Wireline's Most Powerful People
1. Lowell McAdam, Verizon
2. Ralph de la Vega, AT&T
3. Glen Post, CenturyLink
4. John Chambers, Cisco
5. Ben Verwaayen, Alcatel-Lucent
6. Julius Genachowski, FCC
7. Reed Hastings, Netflix
8. Maggie Wilderotter, Frontier
9. Jeff Gardner, Windstream
10. Dave Wittwer, TDS
11. Jeff Storey, Level 3
12. John Curran, ARIN
13. Arunas Chesonis, PAETEC
14. Larissa Herda, tw telecom
15. Randy Nicklas, XO Communications
P.S. Feel free to vote in our poll: Who is the most powerful person in the wireline industry?
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AT&T defends streamlining TDM-to-IP process
Jun 24, 2016 1:24pm
AT&T (NYSE: T) is defending its record on TDM-to-IP trials in Alabama and Florida, calling out Public Knowledge's statement about its request to streamline the transition process.
At issue is a letter Public Knowledge sent to the FCC. In that letter, the organization said that while it agrees that services with no customer demand should continue to be addressed using the existing procedures, shutting down a whole TDM system needs more study.
"With regard to discontinuances an entire TDM-based system as part of the tech transition, however, it is premature to discuss streamlining," Public Knowledge said in a letter to the FCC. "Although PK anticipates that streamlining will be appropriate after the Commission, carriers and local communities gain experience, that will take some time."
In response, AT&T says that Public Knowledge "asserts without any evidence that 'it is premature' for the Commission to adopt 'AT&T's Proposal to Streamline the Discontinuance Process for Technology Transitions.'"
The telco said that by the end of this year less than 10 percent of housing units where it operates as a wireline provider will continue to use TDM-based voice services.
AT&T said that since there's so "few customers remaining on legacy POTS, carriers should be able to utilize an efficient process to transition their remaining customers, such as the certification options in AT&T's Proposal."
Additionally, AT&T claims its proposal creates metrics to better understand customers that are affected by its TDM to IP transition, while offering a "reasonable notice requirements and discontinuance time frames."
PK told the FCC that it should create rules to measure network reliability and cybersecurity independent of 911 whether it's carried on TDM or a IP-based voice connection.
"All these networks, whether IP based or not, depend on the stability and reliability of the PSTN," Public Knowledge said. "Without some metric to ensure that the system will remain secure and reliable post-transition, the entire communications network for the United States becomes vulnerable."
For its part, AT&T counters that its "proposal ensures that customers' needs will be met and they will be fully informed during a technology transition."
In 2014, AT&T made Alabama and Florida the first two areas where it will conduct tests on all-IP services as part of its broader initiative to shut down its legacy copper and TDM-based network in 2020.
These tests are designed to give the FCC more information on permitting AT&T and other traditional telcos to stop offering traditional wireline voice service as more residential customers migrate towards wireless and over-the-top IP-based VoIP providers like Vonage and Skype for voice service.
- see the AT&T FCC filing (PDF)
- and the Public Knowledge FCC filing (PDF)
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Legal Wills - Free Will Forms
Along with our free online wills we provide guidelines for writing a will.
We cover all aspects of legal wills such as the requirements for witnesses, executors and guardians and explain the probate process.
People also increasingly have a presence online with social media accounts which must be addressed when a person passes away. We'll show you how to make work of this easily.
Note: Links to templates for family wills can be found on our main Last Will and Testament page.
They are all in printable form or you can copy and paste it into your word program to edit them to suit your requirements.
Below we address the common mistakes that can make a will invalid and supply answers to a variety of frequently asked questions concerning legal wills.
What Can Make a Will Invalid?
Although laws may differ in various countries, states or provinces, the following (and the list is not necessarily complete) will generally render a will invalid in most instances:
The will was not executed (signed and witnessed) in compliance with the requirements of the jurisdiction. For example, the witnesses are also beneficiaries of the will or the will is not signed by the testator and the required number of witnesses or the witnesses signed at a time before the testator did his signing.
Note: if the witnesses are beneficiaries, a court may accept the will but any bequest made to such witnesses or their spouses will be nullified. However, if the witnesses are the sole beneficiaries, then the entire will may be invalidated. The named executor can sign as witness provided he/she (and spouse) are not beneficiaries.
The testator must initial every page and sign in full on the last page at the end of the will. The witnesses must see him sign and must then sign in the designated spaces below the testator signature. Any wording added after the signatures will be discarded by the court.
The testator does not have the required mental capacity at the time of execution of the will due to mental illness. Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs would also be considered as not having full capacity.
The testator lacked understanding of the nature of the document, the extent of his estate, his relationship to those mentioned in the will and his legal or moral duty to make provision for certain people.
The witnesses are either under age or otherwise incompetent to act as witnesses.
The testator did not execute the document of his own free will but was unduly deceived or influenced or coerced to make the will or the will was made under duress.
The will has been revoked. This is typically done by executing a new will with a revocation statement such as: "I hereby declare that this is my last will and testament and that I hereby revoke, cancel and annul all wills and codicils previously made by me..."
Generally speaking, if a will has been destroyed i.e. torn up, burnt etc. by the testator, the presumption is that the will has been revoked.
The will is made subject to a condition which cannot be fulfilled e.g. a testator states that his farm and all assets be sold to the highest bidder on condition the farm be used to create a communal farm for displaced persons from the testator's land of birth.
Should this prove to be impossible to execute, the condition may be declared invalid and the testator be held to have died intestate.
If a person's marital status changed shortly before death but the testator did not change his will timeously to reflect these changes (i.e. make provision for the new spouse or disinherit the previous spouse) the validity of the will may be challenged.
In some jurisdictions an entire will may be revoked upon marriage or divorce whilst in other jurisdictions just the provisions specifically relating to a former spouse will be revoked.
A child born or adopted after the will was made and therefore not mentioned in the will shall have a claim against the estate.
The will presented for probate is not the last (latest) will made by the deceased.
When Can a Person be Disqualified from Inheriting?
If a person unlawfully and intentionally caused the death of the deceased or the deceased's parents, spouse or children, then such a person is unworthy of inheriting from the deceased. Justifiable homicide however, does not disqualify a person from inheriting.
The above will be applicable whether the deceased died without a will (intestate) or did have a legal will.
There are also other instances, depending on the jurisdiction, where a person may be disqualified from inheriting e.g.:
A person who falsifies, hides or destroys a valid will;
A person who unduly influences a testator will render a will invalid. Thereafter under intestacy law this person will also not qualify to inherit, even if this person would normally have been in line to inherit.
Can Another Person Sign a Will on Behalf of a Will Maker?
Yes. For example, a person may be paralyzed and physically unable to sign or make a mark.
In this event the will can be signed by someone else.
The requirements would be that the testator be present, two (or more) competent witnesses as well as a notary public / commissioner of oaths who will certify the will.
It is of utmost importance to consult with an attorney to ensure the will and attestation clause comply with the legal requirements in your jurisdiction.
What is a Testamentary Trust?
In this instance the testator (person making the will) wants to bequeath assets to a particular beneficiary but needs to place (albeit temporary) ownership and/or control in the hands of another person, namely a trustee.
This is typically done in the case of family wills where the beneficiary is a minor who is not equipped to control the inheritance.
Therefore the trustee is not the owner in his/her own interest, but must administer or control the assets on behalf of and in the interests of (to the benefit of) the trust beneficiary.
It must be clear in legal wills that the testator intended to create a trust, must specify the trust assets and must specify the trust beneficiary, such as in the case of minors.
The testator can also specify a future date when the trust beneficiary will be of age and competent to take full possession and control of the assets. At this time the trust can then be terminated.
This is the short answer, but that's not all...
There are distinct advantages for utilizing this structure in family wills that are well worth exploring!
We discuss this in depth on our page about Testamentary Trusts and also show you how to create a Testamentary Trust Will.
Incidentally, a charitable trust can also be created in this manner.
Note: This is not the same as creating a trust for business purposes!
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pain (n.)
late 13c., peine, "the agony suffered by Christ;" c. 1300, "punishment," especially for a crime, "legal punishment of any sort" (including fines and monetary penalties); also "condition one feels when hurt, opposite of pleasure," including mental or emotional suffering, grief, distress; from Old French peine "difficulty, woe, suffering, punishment, Hell's torments" (11c.), from Latin poena "punishment, penalty, retribution, indemnification" (in Late Latin also "torment, hardship, suffering"), from Greek poine "retribution, penalty, quit-money for spilled blood," from PIE *kwei- "to pay, atone, compensate" (see penal).
The early "punishment" sense in English survives in phrase on pain of death. Also c. 1300 the word was used for the torments of eternal damnation after death. The sense of "exertion, effort" is from late 14c.; pains "great care taken (for some purpose), exertion or trouble taken in doing something" is recorded from 1520s.
Phrase give (someone) a pain "be annoying and irritating" is from 1908; as a noun, localized as pain in the neck (1924) and pain in the ass (1934), though this last might have gone long unrecorded and be the original sense and the others euphemisms. First record of pain-killer is from 1853.
pain (v.)
c. 1300, peinen, "to exert or strain oneself, strive; endeavor," from Old French pener (v.) "to hurt, cause pain," from peine, and from Middle English peine (n.); see pain (n.). Transitive meaning "cause pain; inflict pain" is from late 14c. That of "to cause sorrow, grief, or unhappiness" also is from late 14c. In Middle English also "to punish for an offense or fault; to torture, to torment." Related: Pained; paining.
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TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding steps down amid restructure
TalkTalk shares jumped eight percent following the announcement that CEO of seven years Dido Harding is to be succeeded by Marketing Director Tristia Harrison
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On February 1, TalkTalk’s first ever Chief Executive, Baroness Dido Harding, has stepped down after leading the company through a turbulent seven years. Taking her place, is Trista Harrison, who has held a number of senior management and executive positions in the Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk Group since joining in 2000.
The announcement also confirmed TalkTalk’s founder, Sir Charles Dunstone, will take a more active role, stepping up to the position of Executive Chairman after spending several years as non-Executive Chairman. Dunstone co-founded Carphone Warehouse in 1989, when he and business partner Julian Brownlie kick-started the company with just £6,000 (€7,015) from their savings. Dunstone then went on to found TalkTalk in 2002 and remains the company’s largest shareholder.
Harding’s leadership witnessed the company successfully diversify its offering
Commenting on the change in management, Dunstone said: “Dido has been a tireless, energetic and effective force for good from the day she joined TalkTalk. As a result of her leadership and total commitment to all of us who work here and our customers, she has helped transform TalkTalk into a much stronger business.”
Harding’s leadership witnessed the company successfully diversify its offering, overseeing the introduction of pay-TV and mobile phone services. However, stocks were dented when the company was caught in a hacking scandal in 2015, after which it struggled to hold onto its customer base. The most recent figures have seen a drop in revenues for the final quarter of 2016, which are down by £24m (€28.1m) from the same quarter last year.
The transition will officially take effect from the beginning of May. Harding said: “After seven extraordinary and fulfilling years, during which we have transformed TalkTalk’s customer experience and laid the foundations for long term growth, I’ve decided it’s time for me to start handing over the reins at TalkTalk and focus more on my activities in public service.”
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Cruel objects of desire Giacometti / Sade
In 1933, Alberto Giacometti wrote to André Breton: ‘Read Sade yesterday, I’m very interested in his writings’.In the 1930s, he created objects of a symbolic function with a violent eroticism, similar to that found in D.A.F. de Sade’s writings. The epoch was propitious to the rehabilitation of the divine Marquis, a model of freedom and modernity for artists and writers. The libertine philosopher fascinated Giacometti and his friends, among them Georges Bataille, André Masson, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador Dali. This exhibition shows for the first time the influence of Sade’s writings on his works and his texts. It gathers a large part of the surrealist works that Giacometti made between 1929 and 1934, photographs of some works that have disappeared, and many notebooks of previously unseen drawings.
Curators: Christian Alandete and Serena Bucalo-Mussely
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Model holding the Disagreeable Object, 1931
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A long time before discovering Sade, the young Giacometti made copies of religious subjects representing scenes of violence. From 1929, his sculptures and texts came closer to Sade’s universe. Giacometti joined the members of the surrealist circle who contributed to the rediscovery of Sade, first the dissidents gathered around Bataille, then the formal group lead by Breton. Those artists placed imagination, fantasy and dream at the heart of their art practice. The name of Sade appeared several times in his notebooks of the time, in which the artist drew sculptures with strong erotic content, schematizing the sexual organs or representing scenes of voyeurism and prostitution.
The depiction of the sexual relationship appears in countless works between 1929 and 1933. The body is represented in an allusive way, through an organic detail or in a shape both animal and vegetable. The artist represented the tension of a sexuality seen as a struggle between the two sexes. Giacometti abandoned naturalist sculpture for a symbolic representation suggesting penetration, rape and at times murder, the culmination of Sadian pleasure in which sexual impulses are freed so that pleasure and death can coincide.
In 1931, Giacometti gathered under the nameMute and Mobile Objectsa series of equivocal works that are close to the double meaning and black humour images made by the surrealists. With their unstable and threatening character, those works bring out physical and psychological violence. These sculptures take the form of objects on the verge of abstraction, while suggesting a connection to the body. Those objects that can be handled bring to mind instruments of sadistic pleasure, which generate a ‘violent emotion impossible to define, undoubtedly connected to subconscious sexual urges’. (Maurice Nadeau)
These surrealist objects often provoke a feeling of frustration, announcing an imminent danger that in the end won’t materialise, as if to record the gap between fantasy and reality. The metaphor of the eye appears in several of his works, suggesting the possibility of an incision or a penetration. These are close to the erotic and sadistic use of the eye by Buñuel, Dalí and Bataille. Giacometti seems to allude to the scopic drive Freud described as the pleasure to possess the other through the gaze. The artist created a poetic space staging a real theatre of cruelty.
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Exhibition view « Giacometti / Sade, Cruel objects of desire", Paris, 2019
Sade et la politique, conférence de Stéphanie Genand
Dans le cadre de l'exposition "Giacometti / Sade, Cruels objets du désir", Stéphanie Genand pose la question de la politique dans l'univers sadien lors d'une conférence le 30 janvier 2020 au Giacometti LAB.
Anne Kessler reads Sade.
On the occasion of the Reading Night on 18 January 2020 and as part of the exhibition "Giacometti / Sade, Cruels objets du désir", Anne Kessler resumes her interpretation of the writings of the sulphurous Marquis de Sade at the Giacometti Institute.
Children's workshop: surrealist games
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Dreams, chance, automatisms, collages, exquisite corpses! See you on Wednesday, January 29.
Sign language visit
Access to culture for all audiences and the integration of disability is a commitment of the Giacometti Institute. Visit scheduled for 11 January 2020.
Performance by François Chaignaud et Cecilia Bengolea
Contemporary dance invites itself to the Giacometti Institute with an exceptional performance by François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea on Saturday, November 30 at 6:30 PM and 7:30 PM.
Screening of the film Karima
Film Cycle
As part of the exhibition "Giacometti / Sade, Cruel objects of desire", the Giacometti Institute and the Chaplin Denfert art cinema offer a programme of films including Karima - a documentary film by Clarisse Hahn, on Friday 29 November at 8.30 pm. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Clarisse Hahn and Karima, moderated by Christian Alandete.
Screening of the film O Fantasma
Second film meeting of the Giacometti Institute and the Chaplin Denfert art cinema with the screening of O Fantasma, a film by João Pedro Rodrigues, on Tuesday, December 3 at 8:30 pm. The session will be followed by a discussion with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, moderated by Alice Martel.
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Liveblog: Serie A Wk25 Sunday
Join us for the build-up and action as it happens from today’s Serie A games, including Bologna-Juventus, Parma-Napoli and Fiorentina-Inter.
If you are on a mobile device or tablet, then follow the Liveblog HERE.
We begin at 11.30 GMT with Marassi hosting Sampdoria against Cagliari, as the Blucerchiati try to end their run of three consecutive defeats and get back into the race for Europe.
At 14.00 GMT, Juventus might be breaking away at the top of the Serie A table, but they have to shake off the shock of their 2-0 Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid.
The Bianconeri are up against Sinisa Mihajlovic’s revamped Bologna, who already caused an upset by beating Inter recently.
Chievo-Genoa is a relegation dogfight, while Sassuolo welcome SPAL, missing Coach Leonardo Semplici after Monday’s emergency surgery to remove an intestinal blockage.
At 17.00 GMT, Carlo Ancelotti returns home to the Stadio Tardini, where his Serie A management career began, and Napoli must do without suspended Lorenzo Insigne.
There is a huge and very unpredictable game at the Stadio Franchi at 19.30 GMT, as Fiorentina throw their European ambitions at an Inter side thriving despite Mauro Icardi’s absence.
This is a traditionally a high-scoring fixture with 31 goals in the last seven meetings between these teams.
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Dubai Hotels|Dubai, United Arab Emirates
JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai
Luxury at dizzying heights
One of the tallest hotels in the world, JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai is an architectural marvel.
As luxurious as it is defining, the 1,608-room property occupies a prime downtown locale near the Dubai Canal in Business Bay. Just a short distance from the world’s tallest building (Burj Khalifa) and one of the globe’s largest retail centers (The Dubai Mall), the towering caters to business travelers and leisure-seekers alike.
Boasting more than 15 restaurants and lounges that are as gorgeous as they are delicious, the serene Saray Spa and a spacious fitness center, this sky-high stay might just tempt you to linger in Dubai a few days longer.
TheJW Marriott Marquis encompasses a pair of 72-story postmodern towers inspired by the trunk of a date palm tree. The interior design is just as elegant — look out for a wall adorned with hundreds of bottles just off the lobby.
Lined with palm trees, the large outdoor pool affords stunning views of downtown and the Burj Khalifa. Stop by after sundown to see the both the swimming hole and skyline illuminated in dazzling fashion.
The Dubai hotel hosts more than 15 restaurants and lounges, including a steakhouse, an Asian spot, a French-style café and an Indian fine-dining option. In essence, you could taste your way around the world without ever leaving the comfort of the posh property.
The Arabian-inspired Saray Spa offers a serene and gorgeous retreat within the city-center hotel, boasting 17 treatment rooms, two private hammams and a slew of hydro-facilities and relaxation areas.
Executive Suites are worth the splurge, offering 6,700 square feet of walk-in closets, deep-soaking tubs and separate study, dining and living areas. These roomy accommodations also include access to the exclusive Marriott Executive Lounge where you can partake in complimentary meals, cocktails and business services.
With eight boutiques within the luxury hotel, you can indulge in a little retail therapy without having to leave the property.
The tower is in the center of the city, close to the iconic Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Opera. It’s also a complimentary 10-minute shuttle ride from The Dubai Mall.
For unparalleled views, head to Vault, the hotel’s 71st- and 72nd-floor bar. Unrivaled city panoramas pair well with carefully crafted cocktails and a range of renowned cigars.
Fitness enthusiasts can take advantage of Club Marquis, a 24/7 health club with plenty of equipment and qualified instructors providing personal training.
The Dubai hotel’s luxurious feel is echoed through the rooms. A sleek design features leather and wood accents, a neutral color palette, plush bedding and marble bathrooms.
Most rooms provide views of the Dubai Canal or city skyline through floor-to-ceiling windows.
For those looking to squeeze in a little work, all accommodations include large desks and at least a small seating area. Suites have a separate study and full living room bathed in natural light.
The rooms are up-to-date with modern technology, including wall-embedded LCD televisions and iPads Minis that control temperature, lighting and electronics.
Indulge in Instagram-worthy cheese and charcuterie platters at 24-hour La Farine Café & Bakery. The French-themed lounge is a favorite for its exquisite array of desserts, freshly baked goods, teas and the 247 mirrors that adorn the chic space.
Fine-dining enthusiasts can indulge in a perfectly cooked steak at Prime68, Thai favorites at Tong Thai, Italian fare at Positano or Indian cuisine at Rang Mahal.
For a more laidback experience, head to Garden to savor Peruvian plates from chef Edgar Hurtado. Don’t miss the colorful venue’s Wanderlust Brunch every Friday with live music and discounted drinks.
A one-of-a-kind sushi experience can be had at trendy Japanese eatery Izakaya, home to the famous Wasabi Girl who floats from table to table preparing fresh wasabi and reading fortunes.
A relaxed evening can be enjoyed poolside at Aqua or at edgy sports bar Bridgewater Tavern.
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CEE 002EP
Airaboi is Aitor Rabell's solo project and an alias that has allowed the electronic musician and producer to record a diary of emotive sounds since 2014. This extended EP, Dream In Motion, reflects the range of emotions he experienced in uncertain times, when making difficult decisions about his future. "Nocturnal Animals" and "We'll Stay Here Forever" demonstrate how leftfield, dream house, and experimental electronica can live in unison, incorporating a sentimental and nostalgic sound. "Dream In Motion" provides a rollercoaster of raw feelings, combining perfectly with wistful undertones and the innocence and joy of a child in a theme park.
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Endless Field, Airaboi's debut EP, is dedicated to the power of changes. With a total of three tracks, Endless Field is the result of a big change in his life, where the tireless struggle for many years culminates in a difficult but right decision - the excitement of a new era. Features a rework by Bataille and a remix by Bearoid.
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ALEXANDER, ROSS
Memorias Vol. 2 - High Atlas To The Sahara Desert
CREP 068LP
Ross Alexander first came to our attention with Memorias Vol. 1 - Bugandan Sacred Places (SUC 007CS), released back in 2017 on Sucata Tapes. The release featured a mind-altering mix of recorded sounds from a series of visited sites considered sacred within the Bugandan Kingdom and session recordings with Ugandan musicians Albert Sempeke and the Nilotika Collective layered with his own original composition using the Yamaha DX7 and programmed FM synthesis. The result was a unique reconfiguration of new age vocabulary with East African traditional sensibilities. The tape quickly sold out and the new Volume Of Memorias presented here arrives now on the mother label Discrepant, comes on vinyl with an expanded sound palette appropriate to the format. Memorias Vol. 2 - High Atlas To The Sahara Desert is the logical progression of Volume 1; based on a series of field recordings Alexander made during a trip through the High Atlas Mountains and into the Sahara Desert in 2018. The aim of the trip was to visit a gathering of nomadic musicians at an oasis close to the Algerian border. Like Memorias Vol. 1, the recordings made on the trip were then later processed, layered, and arranged with original compositions. Where Vol. 1 had clear nods to new age music, this volume explores the more ambient side of '80s industrial sound. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker.
Memorias Vol.1 - Bugandan Sacred Places
SUCATA TAPES
SUC 007CS
Bugandan Sacred Places is based in a series of recordings made at sites of sacred importance to the Bugandan Kingdom and other associated clans. These recordings are combined with extracts from a ritual meditation session with musician Albert Sempke and the sounds of a Nilotika Collective drum circle. Further notes and tones were added using the Yamaha DX7 and programmed FM synthesis. RIYL: Dolphins Into The Future, Spencer Clark, Mike Cooper, exotica.
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Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life BOOK
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Patrick Lundborg's Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life
Patrick Lundborg is a dapper Swedish record collector and culture writer with a penchant for the American underground scene. He's done a few quite good books, including Acid Archives, and has now set his sights on unpacking several thousand years of psychedelic history and laying the whole thing out for us. This is a goddamn noble effort, and one so vast it's almost guaranteed to fail, but Patrick takes a good shot at it.
The bulk of the book deals with the specific history of psychedelic drug use over the centuries (although, as you'd expect, the main focus is on the latter half of the 20th century). Lundborg has clearly done his studying in this area, and he manages to boil down a lot of raw info into fairly readable nuggets. And while LSD may be my drug of choice, Patrick prefers DMT and its analogous Amazonian plant-buddies. So the focus is heavily canted in that direction whenever possible. Still, his presentation of facts regarding topics such as the Brotherhood of Light (an acid cult that once included Zoot Horn Rollo among its members) and the international web of psychedelic chemists is consistently cool and informative.
“While LSD may be my drug of choice, Patrick prefers DMT and its analogous Amazonian plant-buddies.”
There's also a passel of music stuff mentioned. Some of it's in depth (the 13th Floor Elevators' DMT connection is explored interestingly), and Lundborg makes some sharp critical points. Most notable among these is the fact that San Francisco bands (with a few exceptions) didn't really become functionally psychedelic until the scene was overrun by teenaged wastrels. This is a damn interesting observation, and something I'd not previously considered. But I sorta feel as though his description of what makes music functionally psychedelic is mumbo-jumbo. This feeling is amplified by some of the examples of records he notes, a bunch of which are dull, expensive listens that only seem to really appeal to high-end vinyl dealers. Lundborg dismisses music like early Pink Floyd (their space songs are not invitingly human enough? whuh?) while extolling the virtues of the Aggregation's Mind Odyssey and Creation Of Sunlight. Buh! He does pick some winners, but he also pledges allegiance to mid-'70s bands I don't think deserve another drop of ink (Relatively Clean Rivers, Wilcox-Sullivan-Wilcox, Kristyl, Top Drawer and other rare dogshit I would never personally tag as psych). I was also less than chuffed by the lengthy dissertation on the history and various offshoots of acid-house, psybient and various other rave-dance chugging. Lundborg seems to know a lot about this shit, but never enough to make it sound even mildly interesting. His take on proto-psych material like exotica and eden ahbez is more intriguing, although again, it seems a bit weird to name-check Martin Denny, but not Group 1850 (whose Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth should be in anyone's acid top ten).
“Psychedelia is an important addition to any decent '60s library. The material on drug history is first rate, and makes a lot of clumsier efforts irrelevant.”
The weakest parts of the book are those where Patrick discusses psych films, lit, art and whatnot. He's pretty good on the topics he chooses to focus on -- P.K. Dick, 2001, Mati Klarwein, etc. But it would seem there are some large holes in his expertise. Almost no mention is made of underground filmmakers like Kenneth Anger, Ira Cohen, Jud Yalkut and the many others who created ecstatically mind-blown moving pictures. Nor is there much acknowledgement of the vast numbers of acid-head poets out there, who were publishing regularly throughout the '60s -- from John Sinclair to Ed Sanders to Richard Krech and whoever. He also seems unaware of much acid-oriented prose, be it Billy Craddock's Be Not Content or Tom Vietch's fragmentary novels, and he claims that Kesey gave up prose after Cuckoo's Nest. This negates the very existence of '73's Kesey's Garage Sale, which includes "Over the Border," a screenplay containing some of Ken's most overtly psych writing. There's no mention of underground comix either, which is crazy. Not sure what's more psych-specific than something like John Thompson's The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You. The stuff about underground poster artists is rather thin as well, although the surfer/acid connection is so explicit in the work of Rick Griffin, you could poop. And there's not a single mention of Trips '66, the amazing collection of amateur acid art put out by the Psychedelic Shop back in '66! What the fuck? Don't mean to sound like I'm ranting, but maybe I am.
For all that, Psychedelia is an important addition to any decent '60s library. The material on drug history is first rate, and makes a lot of clumsier efforts irrelevant. Patrick is also very good on covering the stuff that has specifically caught his attention. But I can't help but think the cultural parts of this book would have been a lot richer had Mr. Lundborg spent a few months in the stacks at the New Grass Center for Underground Culture, or some similar archive. What he knows about is generally pretty good, but there are many other nooks of psychedelic theory to explore. Perhaps, like Acid Archives, there will be expanded, updated editions forthcoming. Wouldn't hurt.
Rob Thomas' Selection of In Stock Psych:
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Aristotle University Racing Team Electric
a.k.a Aristurtle
http://aristurtle.gr
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Aristotle University Racing Team Electric & Driverless
Aristurtle (Aristotle University Racing Team Electric) is the research student team of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, that designs and manufactureselectric race cars. The team was founded in 2013 and in 2016 Aristurtle built the first electric racecar in Northern Greece.
Since then, each year the team designs and manufactures a race car that competes in a series of international Formula Student competitions.
Aristurtle has so far manufactured 4 electric race cars and has taken part in over 10 high-profile international Formula Student competitions, distinguishing itself in an impressive number of competitions and taking top positions in the overall rankings. The 2018-2019 racing season has been the most successful for our team, competing with our newest car, Thetis. Our project is supported by our sponsors and ours university partners who support us since Arist.u.r.t.le’s establishment. Without their help, Aristurtle wouldn’t be able to make its vision come true.
We create the engineers of tomorrow by connecting ambitious students with innovative technologies, while we promote the environmentally friendly energy of electromobility.
Aristurtle’s 5th electric racecar loading...
FS past achievements for Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Apolipoprotein E-4 Genetic (DNA) Test - Forrest Health
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Apolipoprotein E-4 Genetic (DNA) Test
Most people who develop Alzheimer's disease do not have a history of the disease in their families. But if you do have a family history of Alzheimer's disease (one or more members of a family have had the disease), then your risk of getting it is higher. When a disease is found in families, the cause could be genetic (heredity), something in the environment, lifestyle choices, or a combination of these things.
A blood test can look for a substance that seems to increase a person's risk for Alzheimer's disease. The gene is called apolipoprotein E-4 (ApoE-4). The presence of ApoE-4 cannot predict for sure whether a person will develop Alzheimer's disease. Many people who have the ApoE-4 gene do not get Alzheimer's disease, and many people who do not have the gene still develop the disease. Most experts do not consider ApoE-4 testing a necessary or useful part of evaluating a person with suspected Alzheimer's disease.
Early-onset Alzheimer's
Sometimes people develop Alzheimer's disease at a young age, between the ages of 30 and 60. This is referred to as early-onset Alzheimer's disease or autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease. It is not common (less than 5 out of 100 cases), and this form of the disease has been linked to defects in specific genes. There is a 50% risk that these genes will be passed on. A person who inherits the genetic defect will most likely develop Alzheimer's disease.
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Antarctic Foods Relies on VERYX Sorters to Maximize Efficiency and Quality
By John 19th December 2019
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Antarctic Foods takes product quality very seriously. Selling frozen vegetables to baby food processors and others throughout Europe, the Roeselare, Belguim-headquartered company has grown 25% annually over the last few years. As production needs have increased at its Antarctic Foods Aquitaine factory in Ychoux, France, Key Technology has helped insure that throughput has been efficiently met.
In 2017, Key installed its most advanced digital sorter, the VERYX, to remove foreign material (FM) and defects from product prior to blanching at the Ychoux plant. In 2019, another unit was added immediately prior to the packaging line. Now, with two VERYX sorters on one production line, efficiency is maximized and food safety is elevated.
“Before we chose digital sorters from Key, we considered others. The very positive experiences I had with Key and their equipment when I was at Pinguin influenced our decision. Plus, the fact that VERYX is the latest technology – that’s what we want in our factory,” said Herwig Dejonghe, Antarctic’s managing director. “Because we sell our frozen vegetables as ingredients to other food processors, many of our customers also use digital sorters, so they know the technology. Having two VERYX sorters on one line differentiates us. We’re demonstrating our commitment to producing top quality product.”
Antarctic selected a belt-fed B140 sorter on the wet-end of its processing line, where product is a bit sticky. It opted for a chute-fed VERYX C140 for final inspection, where frozen product easily slides down the chute.
“Product handling is extremely important to achieving the best sort accuracy,” noted Dejonghe. “That’s why both of our sorters are integrated with Key’s Iso-Flo vibratory infeed conveyors, which have been customized specifically for our products. This line prepares carrots, green beans and salsify of different types, and various cut shapes and sizes.”
VERYX is ideal for processors, such as Antarctic, that handle multiple seasonal products. The sorter’s unique recipe-driven operation allows it to be changed over to handle a new item in seconds with only a couple of taps on the touchscreen.
“Saving sort recipes to the system’s memory eases use and helps us produce consistent results,” said Dejonghe. “On the wet end, the primary objective of the sorter is to remove foreign material and defects before we consume the energy to blanch and freeze. Also, our belt-fed VERYX features three-way sorting, so in addition to having one reject stream that leads to waste and one accept stream that leads to the freezer, we also have a third stream for product that’s below grade or needs rework. By separating this third stream prior to blanching, it has more value because we can do more with raw product. Of course, the primary objective of sorting frozen product immediately prior to packaging is to ensure final product quality.”
To maximize food safety, Antarctic selected two fully-loaded sorters. Key’s belt-fed B140 features top- and bottom-mounted off-axis cameras as well as two-sided laser sensors and Pixel Fusion to achieve all-sided surface inspection. As the world’s only belt-fed sorter that inspects product entirely in-air with top and bottom sensors, VERYX is able to identify more FM and defects. The bottom-mounted sensors, in addition to light sources and backgrounds, are positioned away from product splatter so all-sided surface inspection is sustained throughout long production cycles without operator intervention. Similarly, Antarctic’s chute-fed C140 features front- and rear-mounted cameras and laser sensors as well as double-sided Pixel Fusion.
With next-generation 4-channel cameras, VERYX recognizes colors, sizes and shapes. High-resolution laser sensors detect structural properties, including the presence of chlorophyll. Key’s Pixel Fusion detection module combines pixel-level input from cameras and laser sensors, producing higher contrasts to find the most difficult-to-detect FM and defects without false rejects. These sorters remove foreign material such as insects, animal parts, paperboard, wood, rocks, plastics and glass as well as extraneous vegetative matter (EVM) such as weeds from the product stream. They also find and remove product defects to make grade.
“Weeds like nightshade and datura are a much bigger problem than they used to be. With farmers using fewer pesticides and herbicides on conventional crops and, of course, the enormous growth of organic farming, we see a lot more weeds coming into our factory with raw product,” said Dejonghe. “Working hard to be sure we get all the EVM out, mechanical systems are used to remove as much as we can, and then we rely on our optical sorters to remove what the mechanical systems miss.”
Since the installation of VERYX sorters, The antarctic factory has seen a big improvement.
“We measure the good-to-bad ratio and the defect removal rate in addition to tracking customer complaints,” concluded Dejonghe. “These sorters enable us to achieve our quality objectives virtually regardless of the quality of the incoming material. That level of quality control – that improvement in quality – would be impossible without this technology.”
About Key Technology
Headquartered in Walla Walla, Washington, USA, Key Technology is regarded as a global leader in the design and manufacture of automation systems including digital sorters, conveyors and other processing equipment. The subsidy of Duravant has offices in Beusichem, the Netherlands; Hasselt, Belgium; and Redmond, Oregon. Its USA facilities are certified to the ISO 9001:2015 standard. Customer demonstration and testing services are available at five locations including Walla Walla, Beusichem, and Hasselt as well as Sacramento, California, and Melbourne, Australia. A sales and service office is found in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PS3
Infinity Ward's follow-up to the epic Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is shaping up nicely. So nicely, in fact, that we're worried Gerard might not make it back to the hotel tonight!
Gerard Campbell
3 June 2009, 1:06 pm
I’ve just seen Modern Warfare 2 up close and personal – and sorry guys but in the immortal words of David Tua, it’s “O for awesome”.
Mark Rubin, Jason West and Vince Zampella, from developers Infinity Ward, ran a group of about six of us through one of the game’s levels, Cliffhanger. Unfortunately, there was no hands-on so I couldn’t experience its awesomeness for myself.
But seeing the game up so close, rather than stretched over a huge monitor at a press conference, makes the game even more impressive, and the visuals are going to make a graphics whore just cry tears of joy. Sweet, sweet tears of joy.
Want details? As “Roach” Sanderson and “Soap” McTavish climb an icy cliff face on their way to assault a Russian supply depot and airfield, the ice cracks and splinters around the tip of your ice pick when you dig it into the fragile ice as you climb up. Everything just looks pristine and visually much more impressive.
Zampella said that Warfare 2 was graphically well ahead of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, with much more detailed and far more impressive effects.
“We want to take gamers to the next level with this,” Jason West, “We want everyone to play this and say that was kick ass.”
By the looks of things you can play it stealthy, especially in Cliffhanger level, which provides the cover of a snow storm and a handy heartbeat tracker so you can spot enemies before they see you – or go in guns blazing (but you won’t survive that, says Zampella). Being stealthy seems much more fun.
But best point for me during the session? Seeing McTavish and Sanderson creep through a hallway leading into a vehicle depot when a lone sentry suddenly appears in front of some lockers at the end. Instantly, McTavish charges the guy, smashes him into the lockers, bending the doors, then throws him to the ground, punches him and finishes him off with his knife. Close combat has never looked so good.
Zampella wouldn’t talk about the multiplayer aspects – with Rubin only admitting that “It’s awesome” – but if it’s half as good as [i]Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare[/i, it darn well will be kick ass.
I can’t wait for this one. Is it too early to say Game of the Year already?
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Koei Tecmo Announces A Free-To-Play Version Of Toukiden 2
By Mike Sousa on May 3, 2017, 11:15AM EST
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Koei Tecmo has announced Toukiden 2: Free Alliances Version, a new free-to-play version of Toukiden 2 in which players worldwide can fight alongside players of the full version of the recently-released demon-hunting action RPG.
To help repel the cataclysmic forces of demons known as Oni, players of Toukiden 2: Free Alliances Version are able to take on Group Missions offered at the Command Center. There, players will visit various Ages to slay the monstrous beasts with up to four other companions from across the globe. For players of the Free Alliances Version of Toukiden 2, each mission has a Stamina Cost associated, and before venturing out into the Ages the player must ensure they have the appropriate amount of Stamina required to participate.
Stamina is a key part of Toukiden 2: Free Alliances Version, as it allows players to explore and carry out missions in the surrounding areas of Maharoba Village. Each player starts with a Stamina Level of 3, and each unit of Stamina requires eight real-time hours to replenish. To dive straight back into the action without the wait, players can spend Gems purchasable at the Slayer’s Headquarters (via the PlayStation Store). Not only can Gems recover Stamina to its maximum value, but they can also be used to increase the Stamina Level to a maximum of 8. Further upgrades are also possible to the Equipment and Material Chests which allow for an abundance of items to be stored, as well as the ability to draw Mitama Tickets. These tickets are used to obtain the souls of fallen heroes which provide new combat possibilities when applied to armor and weaponry.
Players can also get a taste of the full title’s gripping narrative in Toukiden 2: Free Alliances Version by playing through the first chapter of the main campaign. Slayers who purchase the full version of Toukiden 2 are able to import their Save Data from the Free Alliances Version, allowing them to continue their adventures and experience the complete tale of the Awakening and humanity’s subsequent struggle for survival.
Toukiden 2: Free Alliances Version releases on the 30th of May on PS4 and PS Vita.
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British Embassy Hosts Queen’s Birthday Party at Radisson
The 6th of June is H.M. British Queen’s Birthday, which was also celebrated in Tbilisi at Radisson Blu Iveria hotel by the British Embassy. Other celebrations worldwide congratulated Her Majesty and the event was screened on special monitor. British Ambassador David Moran hosted an imposing and colourful party to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation.
The reception was attended by Georgian Ministers, parliamentarians, government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, members of the British community in Georgia and
civil society representatives.
Speaking about the occasion, Ambassador Moran said:”This year we mark the Sixtieth Anniversary of Her Majesty’s Coronation. This remarkable day is being celebrated by British citizens all over the world - including, I am pleased to say, Georgia. It is an honour to serve here as Britain’s representative at this important time in Georgia’s history. My Embassy will continue to do all we can, to deepen the excellent bilateral relations between our two countries.”
The party was opened by Royal Marines Band’s traditional ritual – the program designed especially for Georgia. “We are also privileged to be hosting Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Portsmouth Band ‘The Royal Band’ for the first time in Georgia,” H.E. Mr. Moran commented.
The origins of Royal Marines Band in the Portsmouth area can be traced back to the middle of the 18th Century. The present band is a direct descendant of the Band of the Royal Marines Artillery, formed in January 1861. In addition to their musical and ceremonial duties, Royal Marines Musicians and Buglers continue to carry out their secondary roles in operations around the world.
2012 has become one of the busiest years for the Royal Band. They performed during Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebration, all in addition to its usual workload of military parades, regimental dinners and concerts.
Georgian Journal talked to Mrs. Ines Merabishvili, Director of Byron Society and frequent guest to Great Britain: “For the first time in Georgia, Queen’s Birthday was marked by Stephen Ash in 1996”, she recalled. “During one of my visits to Great Britain on behalf of Byron Society in Georgia, I was making a report in Germany. Accidentally, I met one of the Queen’s friends and told her about our celebrations and she said that she would by all means pass this message to the Queen with whom reportedly she had a cup of tea quite often. Since then, we have a pleasure to be celebrating this day here in Georgia.”
Sheenagh Denson, a tourist from Great Britain, who was invited by the Ambassador to the party at the occasional meeting at the embassy, said: “It’s a happy accident that we are here at the party together with my friends, as it was not planned. This afternoon we visited Public Services Building – it’s amazing; the architecture is fantastic.”
As H.E Mr. David Moran noted, traditional Queen’s Birthday parties include no speeches. Therefore, he did not make any opening speech. He invited the guests to enjoy the best of the British Music that was played live, a variety of Scotch Whiskey, traditional dishes and, what’s more, dances. His Excellency and his spouse opened the dancing ball and soon Georgians and Britons joined them. The party proved to be long, cheerful and as pleasant as the British people are.
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Review of The Once and Future Worker
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Encounter Books, 2018
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Conservative Oren Cass’s best-selling indictment of American labor and social policy since World War II attacks his fellow conservatives almost as much as it excoriates liberals. His central argument – that policy must help and encourage employed workers instead of idle ones – surprisingly offers more support for the displaced and unemployed than exists currently. Cass’s advocacy of an end to unskilled immigration and a shift from welfare for the idle to assistance for the employed, for example, is controversial. Yet, his suggested remedies don’t seem punitive. He holds a strong conviction and makes a strong argument that two-parent, working families are the cure for almost all that ails society. Yet Cass cherry-picks statistics throughout and underestimates how new and emerging technologies will affect work. He will provoke debate. Cass offers interesting – if at times outmoded – ideas to all concerned with the future of US society.
Oren Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Previously, he was the domestic policy director for Mitt Romney’s US presidential campaign. He’s also a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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Master Weaver Tan Elena
Traditional weaver
Although weaving was once a practice in which nearly all Chamorros participated, a select few have been singled out over the past few decades due to their exemplary skill and commitment to perpetuation of the craft.
Elena Cruz Benavente (1905-2005) was a master folk artist, recognized for her skill in weaving natural materials such as coconut palm and pandanus leaves.
Born in Hagåtña on 17 December 1905 to Maria Fraga Hernandez and Pedro Guerrero Cruz, Benavente learned how to weave coconut and pandanus (ük’gak) leaves as a child, as many island residents did. By the age of sixteen, she had learned to weave more complex items, such as sleeping mats (guaffak), round and square baskets (kottot), and lunch bags (kostat tengguang).
Weaving is an important cultural practice in many Pacific societies and Chamorros were known as being particularly skilled. Many utilitarian items, such as food baskets and traps, mats for sleeping and ceremonial use, and thatching for houses, were produced by hand. Weaving was also important to the cultivation of community life. In a time before contractors built houses, villagers made their own homes. This meant that they had to work together during the dry season to fix or make new thatch roofs. A typical 18 to 20 foot-long roof could use up to 1,000 coconut leaves and take up to a month for a village to craft. Many people were needed—not just to weave, but also to climb trees, trim leaves, and prepare materials for assembly. Thus, a thatching party, like other community activities such as fiesta preparation and church celebrations, was one component of Chamorro life that not only produced goods, but whose very practice exemplified and transmitted Chamorro values like inafa’maolek and chenchule’.
Thatching roofs were an entry point to the weaving practice. Typically, once a person could reliably weave thatch, that person had enough experience to move on to basket craft, and later, pandanus weaving. In other words, making thatch roofs was a beginner’s way of becoming a weaver. Making a thatch roof required that the elders taught and mentored younger community members how to weave.
The changes in Chamorro society following World War II, however, would affect weaving traditions, both in functionality and perpetuation. In the four to five years immediately after World War II, people rebuilt their houses using wood and thatched coconut leaves. But with the importation of manufactured materials and military surplus like concrete and tin in the 1950s, house building—and the accompanying community traditions like thatching parties—changed. One reason for gathering together—making a thatch roof—was no longer essential to how people made their homes. The decline of these thatching parties also meant that weaving skills declined. With the demand for that basic skill decreasing, peoples’ weaving skills also weakened.
But while others gave up the practice due to changing times leaving less demand for weaving skills, Benavente kept up the practice and eventually passed it on to the next generation. She married Jose Quichocho Benavente from Dededo and together they had eight children, Elisa, Jose, Jesus, John, Priscilla, Elena, Manuel and Pedro. Throughout this period of change into the modern world, Benavente continued her weaving amidst (or perhaps because of) the demands of raising eight children, supporting her husband, and caring for a house. Ever the Chamorro traditionalist from her dress (a mestisa) to familial duties, her weaving did not stray from the forms and materials she had known since she was a little girl.
Benavente passed this traditional craft to those of her children who wanted to learn. Remarkably, she cultivated her own plants, harvested the leaves and used traditional drying and storing techniques to prepare the leaves before weaving. Benavente practiced and had perfected her craft of pandanus weaving as well as coconut leaf plaiting throughout her lifetime and was renowned for her skills in creating art from these traditionally utilitarian objects.
Her method of teaching others her craft was also faithful to pre-World War II traditions. While formalized, Americanized schooling emphasized strict adherence to schedules, lectures, and mandatory attendance, Benavente would accept students at their request and at mutually agreeable times. Students would first observe her, attempt to weave on their own, and ask the all important question of “taimanu?” (how?) when needing help. A student would progress from making fans, to thatched roofs, on to baskets, and, if interested, on to the demanding, labor-intensive craft of pandanus mat weaving. There was no money exchanged for teaching, although bartering or sharing things—again, in the tradition of chenchule’—was acceptable.
Beginning in the late sixties when her son, John Benavente, returned to Guam from the United States, the two found more of a demand for their skills, although it would not grow to the pre-war demand in her lifetime. A resurgent interest in Chamorro-specific traditions and bilingual education, embedded in larger social forces of political change, took hold in the local community, facilitated by the beginning of cultural fairs, such as those held at Jeff’s Pirate Cove in Ipan. Meant initially to promote the business, over time these fairs helped shape a market for Chamorro cultural products as well.
Because of her abilities, Benavente was selected to represent Guam at the Second Festival of Pacific Arts held in New Zealand in 1976. She was honored with the Maga’lahi or Governor’s Art Award for Lifetime Cultural Achievement for her role as one of Guam’s master folk artists in 1989 and 1991.
Traditional weaving evolved from a skill of necessity to an art form, over the course of Benavente’s 99 years of life on Guam. She died a few months shy of her 100th birthday, in 2005, leaving a legacy of dozens of weavers, including her grandson Mark Benavente, and a greater appreciation among the Guam community for her talent, generosity, and her contributions to the preservation of Chamorro culture.
By Marie Ada Auyong
For further reading
Political Status Education Coordinating Commission. “Elena Cruz Benavente,” in I Manfåyi: Who’s Who in Chamorro History. Volume II. Hagåtña, Guam: PSECC, The Chamorro Heritage Institute Planning Group, 1977.
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Despite Possible Pay Raises, Nevada County Teachers Will Strike
The union's executive director, John Vellardita, said the Legislature failed to allocate sufficient funds to the Clark County School District that could cover promised teacher raises without cutting resources in the classroom.
by Tribune News Service | June 6, 2019 AT 7:43 AM
Teachers have protested all around the country this year, including Los Angeles. (TNS/Los Angeles Times/Gina Ferazzi)
By Miranda Willson
Following the end of the Nevada legislative session late Monday night, the Clark County Education Association announced that its proposed teacher strike is still on.
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Union members voted last month to strike in August at the start of the 2019-2020 school year if education funding falls short, maintaining they won't accept budget cuts or pay freezes.
"In the end, the district did not get the funds it requested," Vellardita said, estimating that CCSD faces an annual funding shortfall of about $17 million.
Vellardita and others from the CCEA, the largest teacher union in Clark County, will meet with district officials Thursday to begin negotiations. Due to funding changes that came out of the legislative session, the district will need to modify the budget it approved in May.
"We don't expect a resolution in one meeting. I think over the next two-three weeks, we're going to see how this plays out," Vellardita said.
Superintendent Jesus Jara has previously said that he would take steps to "protect our kids" in the event of a strike, including legal action against striking teachers and the union. It is illegal in Nevada for public sector employees such as teachers to strike.
Despite the union's grievances, the district seemed pleased with the outcome of the legislative session, which came to a close last night.
Most significantly, the Legislature approved Senate Bill 543, an overhaul of the state's 52-year-old funding formula. SB543 will establish a new weighted funding method to increase education funding for high-needs students, such as English Language Learners and gifted and talented students, among other changes.
In a press release, the district praised the bill for increasing the transparency of education funding and allocating additional resources for students who need them most.
"Modernizing Nevada's funding formula is absolutely critical as we work to accelerate student achievement in Nevada and move toward adequate funding," Jara said.
The district also thanked state officials for passing Senate Bill 551, which will expand the state payroll tax previously scheduled to expire. That measure will provide $53 million of additional funding for teacher pay raises over the next biennium, as well as fund a 2% seniority pay increase and a 3% cost-of-living increase for CCSD educators.
Although those anticipated pay increases meet the salary demands of the CCEA, Vellardita emphasized that the district could end up cutting classroom resources in order to fund the pay raises, which the union views as unacceptable. CCSD is already one of the lowest-funded major school districts in the nation.
"Our experience with the district is until we see the final numbers and the final digits, we're not walking away from what our members authorized," Vellardita said.
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Hamilton confirms 'little spin' on MotoGP bike
Lewis Hamilton has confirmed reports that he had a minor incident whilst riding Valentino Rossi's MotoGP bike at Valencia this week.
Amid an information blackout in the 24 hours after the Mercedes and Yamaha swap, Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport reported a rumour that Hamilton had crashed with "no consequences" for the world champion.
But many media outlets described that report as "fake news", especially when the six-time world champion told his fans on social media that there had been "no problems".
However, Hamilton then told Sky Italia: "The bike is so hard to ride.
"I had one little spin with it but otherwise brought it back in one piece. I was just step by step learning, but it's a very steep learning curve," he added.
Rossi, who drove the Mercedes, told La Repubblica newspaper that the wind at Valencia made things difficult for Hamilton.
"Technically, Valencia is very difficult and it was a windy day, so in some places it wasn't easy for him to continue," said the 40-year-old.
"But he was brilliant on the bike, and his position was great. I think he had a lot of fun because he didn't want to stop," Rossi added.
Hamilton confirmed: "It's a rocket. When you accelerate it's incredible.
"The braking is not the same as a Formula 1 car but there are so many other things to think about - the body position, the gears, the head position. You have to master so many things at once.
"I'll be flying high all next week after this. I think it's my last week of work, and then I'll enjoy the holidays," he added.
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After a thorough, professional tooth cleaning, you know that your teeth look brighter and feel fresher. But tooth cleaning isn't just about appearances. It's the primary means of preventing and treating periodontal (gum) disease. Many studies have demonstrated a possible link between periodontal health and overall (systemic) health — which means regular tooth cleaning may benefit not just your mouth, but your whole body.
Why do teeth need special cleaning? Over time, dental plaque (a naturally occurring bacterial biofilm) and stains build up on tooth surfaces. Dental calculus (also called tartar), a harder deposit, can then form both above and below the gum line. A thorough dental cleaning removes these substances from the teeth, and helps keep disease-causing bacteria from proliferating.
Tooth cleaning is usually accomplished by the non-surgical technique of scaling, sometimes called “root debridement.” It's typically a relatively painless procedure in which small dental instruments are used to physically remove deposits from the surfaces of teeth. At one time, scaling was performed entirely with manual tools. But in the last several decades, the ultrasonic scaler has changed all that.
What Is An Ultrasonic Scaler?
There are different types of ultrasonic scalers, but all of them work in a similar fashion: electromagnetic forces in the unit's hand-held “wand” cause its tiny tip to vibrate rapidly. These vibrations, which occur at a rate faster than the speed of sound, effectively blast away plaque, calculus and stains from the tooth surfaces.
A small stream of water and/or antibacterial mouthwash, which emerges near the tip of the scaler, is called lavage. Lavage is used to cool the ultrasonic scaler's tip and flush away debris from the area being treated. The vibrating tip causes some of the water to break into millions of tiny bubbles, an effect called cavitation. This ruptures the walls of bacterial cells and helps create an environment that's less hospitable to harmful bacteria.
Ultrasonic Scaling vs. Hand Scaling
Studies show that a thorough ultrasonic cleaning takes about one-third less time as compared to hand scaling — which means you need less time in the chair. Many patients prefer ultrasonics to other types of scaling, possibly because it requires the clinician to use less force than a hand scaler to get the same effect. In ultrasonic scaling, only the tip of the tool touches the tooth surface, and only for a short time.
It's also possible to remove deposits of plaque and tartar from under the gum line by using an extremely small tip on an ultrasonic unit, which can cause less discomfort and result in a deeper and better cleaning. Sometimes an ultrasonic scaler is used first, and then any stubborn areas are scaled by hand.
The Experience of Ultrasonic Scaling
Anyone who has a substantial buildup of tartar or is prone to gum disease can benefit from ultrasonic scaling. It can also help to remove stains from coffee and cigarettes, for example. Yet, for all its power, most people experience little or no discomfort during the procedure.
If you have very sensitive teeth, it may be possible to alleviate some discomfort by using slimmer tips on the scaler. Alternatively, a topical anesthetic may be applied, or conscious sedation can be administered. The power range, the flow of lavage water and the frequency of tip vibration may also be adjusted for increased comfort.
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To overcome storage capacity and recharge-time limitations of conventional batteries, a Cornell team developed a self-assembling battery with twisted “ribbons.”
Bill Schweber, PowerElectronics | Sep 07, 2018
Users of rechargeable batteries have two ongoing complaints: They don’t provide enough capacity (run time), and they take too long to recharge. A research team at Cornell University hopes to fix that with an approach which allows the battery to self-assemble with a unique, higher-capacity internal structure than standard batteries, and enables far-faster recharge.
Their paper, ominously entitled “Block Copolymer Derived 3-D Interpenetrating Multifunctional Gyroidal Nanohybrid for Electrical Energy Storage” and supplemental material, was published in Energy and Environmental Science, a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Together they describe the principles, design, production, and performance of their approach.
In contrast to having the battery’s anode and cathode on either side of a nonconducting separator, this method intertwines the battery’s internal components in a self-assembling, 3D “gyroidal” structure. The structure contains thousands of nanoscale pores filled with the components necessary for energy storage and delivery.
As pointed out by Prof. Ulrich Wiesner in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, “This three-dimensional architecture basically eliminates all losses from dead volume in your device.” He added that due to the dimensions of the battery’s elements being shrunk down to the nanoscale, “you can access the energy in much shorter times than what’s usually done with conventional battery architectures.”
Inner Workings
1. The basic four-step process consists of forming the anode network, adding the electrolyte coating, and then using it for electrical-energy storage. (Source: Cornell University)
How is this done? The architecture for this concept is based on “block copolymer self-assembly” (Fig. 1), a procedure that they have used for other devices (including a gynocidal solar cell and a gyroidal superconductor). The gyroidal (highly twisted) thin films of carbon that form the battery’s anode contain thousands of pores about 40 nm wide. These pores were coated with an electrically insulating but ion-conducting separator (10 nm thick) using a process called electropolymerization, which inherently produces a pinhole-free separation layer.
That’s an important benefit, since any holes in the separator can lead to catastrophic battery failure, including fires. They next add the cathode material (here, sulfur), but don’t completely fill the remainder of the pores. Sulfur accepts electrons but doesn’t conduct electricity, so the final step is to backfill with an electronically conducting polymer known as PEDOT (Fig. 2).
2. A rendering of the 3D battery architecture (top; not to scale) with interpenetrating anode (grey, with minus sign), separator (green), and cathode (blue, plus sign), each about 20 nm in size. Below are their respective molecular structures. (Source: Cornell University)
Prof. Wiesner acknowledges that there are still challenges, despite the impressive performance (Fig. 3). The battery volume changes during discharging and charging and this degrades the PEDOT charge collector, which doesn’t undergo the expansion/contraction that does happen with sulfur. Wiesner noted that “when the sulfur expands, you have these little bits of polymer that get ripped apart, and then it doesn’t reconnect when it shrinks again. This means there are pieces of the 3D battery that you then cannot access.”
3. Galvanostatic measurements of gyroidal mesoporous carbon (GDMC): Charge and discharge curves of powdered GDMC in a standard coin cell versus lithium metal at a current of 30 mA-g/C. Charge and discharge capacities of the first 22 cycles of the coin-cell test demonstrating a reversible capacity of 220 mAh/g. Discharge and charge curves of PPO (poly-phenylene oxide) coated GDMC at a current of 0.1 mA/cm2 (corresponding to approximately 20 mA-g/C), demonstrating reversible lithiation-delithiation through the PPO-layer (c). (Source: Cornell University)
This work was supported as part of the Energy Materials Center at Cornell funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as well as in part by the National Science Foundation.
A Different Materials Approach
Researchers at the Cambridge University (U.K.) Department of Chemistry are also looking to decrease recharge time, in this case by using complex crystalline structure of niobium tungsten oxides such as Nb16W5O55. While their approach (funded in part by the European Union, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) published in Nature, “Niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion energy storage” (along with posted Supplementary Information) doesn’t enhance charge capacity, it does speed recharging time.
Dr Kent Griffith, a postdoctoral researcher on the team, speculated that complex atomic arrangements and structural complexity along with the mixed-metal composition are the reasons the materials exhibit unique charge-transport properties (Fig. 4). “Many battery materials are based on the same two or three crystal structures, but these niobium tungsten oxides are fundamentally different,” he said.
4. This scanning electron microscope cross-sectional image of a composite niobium tungsten oxide (here, Nb16W5O55) electrode film (with its lower-right corner “delaminated as a result of cross-sectioning with scissors”) shows the large metal-oxide particles that dominate the composite film and the morphology of the surface that would be directly bound to the current collector.
The oxides are held open by “pillars” of oxygen, which enables lithium ions to move through them in three dimensions, and have a rigid, open structure that doesn’t trap the inserted lithium, as well as contain larger particle sizes than many other electrode materials. Griffith explained that “the oxygen pillars, or shear planes, make these materials more rigid than other battery compounds, plus their open structures means that more lithium ions can move through them, and far more quickly.”
He added that “these oxides are so easy to make, and don’t require additional chemicals or solvents. That’s in contrast to nanoparticle-based materials where “a lot of the nanoparticle structures take multiple steps to synthesize, and you only end up with a tiny amount of material, so scalability is a real issue.”
Testing batteries to see what’s going on inside them is another challenge, as they are very much constantly changing, chemically based “black box” components. Using pulsed-field-gradient (PFG) nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) spectroscopy (better known as magnetic resonance imaging or MRI), the researchers measured the movement of lithium ions through the oxides and concluded that they moved at rates several orders of magnitude higher than typical electrode materials.
There’s another potential advantage to the new materials. The negative electrodes in most lithium-ion batteries are made of graphite, which has a high energy density (that’s good, of course). However, at higher charging rates, there’s an often-occurring phenomena where these electrodes can grow thin lithium metal fibers (dendrites), which in turn can create short circuits and cause batteries with high energy density to catch fire and possibly explode.
Neither report mentions the other issue that looms over fast-charging situations: How do you get enough energy into the battery at a fast-enough rate (power is the rate of energy delivery) to actually achieve the fast-charge possibility, since connectors, cabling, and self-heating can be serious practical issues.
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Starting with a 500 ppm rare earth concentration in the fine ash fed to the micro-pilot system, PSI made a product with greater than 50 000 ppm rare earth concentrations, or greater than 5% by weight a 100-fold increase in the rare earth concentration.
According to Charles Miller of NETL, PSI will first perform physical processing of ash from combustion of East Kentucky Fire Clay bituminous coal in a power boiler to produce a non-magnetic fine ash. Fire Clay coal has relatively high REE concentrations in some areas because it contains volcanic ash, which might have been the source of REEs.
PSI’s partner UK/CAER physically processed their first batch of ash in Lexington, KY to serve as feed for PSI’s micro-pilot-scale chemical digestion and extraction process.
“The fine ash fraction was fed to PSI’s micro-pilot system for chemical processing,” Miller explained. “Data and knowledge gained from PSI’s micro-pilot system testing will be used by Winner Water Services to design and build a pilot-scale chemical processing system in Sharon, Pa. with capacity to handle a half tonne of fine ash per day.”
The process is promising because PSI’s product concentration to date significantly exceeded its initial target of 2% by weight. Miller said the pilot-scale chemical processing should begin in 2019 and be complete by 31 March 2020.
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“In the last two months, rare earths have been front and centre due to the Chinese-US trade friction and their growing importance in the electrification of transportation, particularly EVs. As a result, prices of the key magnet metals such as NdPr, have moved up over 25% during that period,” said Don Lay, President & CEO of Medallion Resources, Ltd. “We feel it is the right time to initiate the evaluation of plant sites for a commercial monazite processing plant as a key part of re-building a North American rare earth value chain.”
Medallion Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: MDL; OTCPK: MLLOF; Frankfurt: MRDN) – “Medallion” or the “Company”), pursuing smart production of magnet metals, announced it is seeking third party proposals to advance its development of a North American rare-earth extraction plant. One proposal calls for evaluation of logistics and plant siting options in both the US and Canada; while the other, development of the process engineering design for Medallion’s rare-earth flowsheet.
“In the last two months, rare earths have been front and centre due to the Chinese-US trade friction and their growing importance in the electrification of transportation, particularly EVs. As a result, prices of the key magnet metals such as NdPr, have moved up over 25% during that period,” said Don Lay, President & CEO. “We feel it is the right time to initiate the evaluation of plant sites for a commercial monazite processing plant as a key part of re-building a North American rare earth value chain.”
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Medallion is planning to commission several preliminary trade-off studies to investigate the integration of processing and transport nodes. These studies will assess suitable jurisdictions for the proposed monazite “crack and leach” plant as well as the upstream and downstream logistic issues related to the transport of monazite sand feedstock, re-agents, produced products and waste material to and from potential project locations. Jurisdiction and location selection will address factors including:
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The process engineering work will start with the development of a robust process model for Medallion’s continuous monazite rare-earth extraction flowsheet including a mass and energy balance for the complete process. This is an important step ahead of plant engineering specifications and determining the related capital and operating cost estimates.
The basis of the process model will be to capture the extensive process development and testwork conducted to date—most of it conducted at the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC). The current program of metallurgical testwork at the SRC as well as the research program at the University of Toronto, as described in Company news releases dated January 31, 2019 and March 20, 2019, will be completed shortly and reported on. This work provides important input to the process engineering design project.
Both the Logistics and Facility Siting Studies and Process Engineering Design projects will advance ahead of undertaking a formalized economic study such as a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) and provide valuable input to such a study.
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Medallion, pursuant to its stock option plan, has granted stock options covering 345,000 shares at an exercise price of $0.185 per share for a period of five years to officers and directors of the Company.
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Medallion is preparing for near-term production of rare-earth magnet materials in North America through the processing of by-product monazite sand—in a modern, clean, and automated process. Monazite sand is rich in rare-earth elements neodymium and praseodymium (also known as “NdPr”) which are critical input for lightweight and powerful rare-earth magnets. Rare-earth magnets are essential to Automotive and Robotics (electric motors), Defense (Missile Guidance Systems), and Clean Energy (Wind Turbines) industries. Given the dominance of China as a rare-earth producer and tense global trade relations, automakers and other industry groups are seeking non-China sources to meet increasing demands for NdPr. Medallion is committed to following best practices and accepted international standards in all aspects of mineral transportation, processing and safe management of waste materials. More about Medallion (TSX-V: MDL; OTCPK: MLLOF; Frankfurt: MRDN) can be found at medallionresources.com.
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Battery Materials: Cobalt Conundrum Continues In September – Cobalt 27 Is A Buying Opportunity
Susan Zou at MetalBulletinAsia.com reports cobalt metal prices stabilized in late August with cobalt sulfate remaining under pressure.
According to the chart below, cobalt metal and cobalt sulfate prices are down 21.8% and 24.8% respectively. Both cobalt products remain up over a 12 month period with gains of 17.5% and 16.7%.
Cobalt 27 Capital (OTC:CBLLF), the Canadian cobalt investment and streaming company, has been rocked by price volatility and other challenges. Cobalt 27 reported the theft of 76 metric tons of cobalt from a warehouse in Rotterdam in early July, part of a total of 112 metric tons stolen from Cobalt 27 and others. Cobalt 27, which has stockpiled 2,982 metric tons worth nearly $200M at current prices, says its stocks, says the stolen cobalt is worth ~$5M and was fully insured at market prices. Cobalt 27 Capital had its price target decreased by equities researchers at Canaccord Genuity from C$22.50 to C$15.50 in a research note issued on September 6. Given the price sits at C$5.30 at the time of this report, Canaccord Genuity’s target price suggests a potential upside of almost 300%. The Editor believes that Cobalt 27 is vastly oversold at current price levels.
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$48.33 Billion Permanent Magnet Motor Market To Grow By 10.63% CAGR Through 2023
The permanent magnet motor market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.47% to reach US$48.334 billion by 2023, from US$26.591 billion in 2017.Permanent magnets ferromagnetic materials having magnetic properties and generate their own magnetic fields. The magnets which are utilized in permanent magnet motors are obtained from rare earth metals. Growing adoption of automation in various industries is the major driver of global permanent magnet motor market.
The increasing use of robotic material handling due stringent regulations regarding workers’ safety is boosting the demand for permanent magnet motors exponentially. Booming global automobile industry is further bolstering the growth of permanent magnet motor market worldwide.
In the coming years, the growth of this market will propel significantly due to growing renewable energy sector as solar energy and wind power technologies utilize permanent magnet motors in their generators. Geographically, China is the leading manufacturer of permanent magnet motors owing to the presence of rare earth materials in the abundant quantity in the country.
However, the market growth will be restrained due to the high cost of permanent magnet motors and complexity in the manufacturing process.
Major industry players profiled as part of the report are Siemens AG, ABB, General Electric, and Toshiba Corporation among others.
Rare Earth Magnets: 3-D Metal Prototyping Leads to Better Magnets For Critical Materials Institute
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Institute (CMI) used laser 3D metal printing to optimize a permanent magnet material that may make an economical alternative to the more expensive rare-earth neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) magnets in some applications.
The magnet alloy is composed of cerium – a less expensive and more plentiful rare earth – cobalt, iron, and copper. The researchers produced a range of compositions in samples that were printed using a 3D laser metal printer.
“This was a known magnet material, but we wanted to revisit it to see if we could find exceptional magnetic properties,” said CMI scientist Ryan Ott. “With four elements, there is a vast space of compositions to hunt around in. Using 3D printing greatly accelerates the search process.”
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ResourceWorld.com published a good story about the April 2018 Argus Specialty Metals Week Conference held at the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Henderson, Nevada. Argus Media Inc. assembled a group of experts to discuss rare earths and provided networking opportunities for the delegates. The over-riding theme of the conference was the dominance of China with rare earths reserves – about 40% – followed by Brazil and Vietnam each with about 18%, Russia with about 15% and India, Australia and the US with 1%–6% of reserves. The story provides good insight into practical use of REEs in industry including transportation, energy and more.
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A person takes a drink from a carton of “Flow” brand water in Montreal on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. The joint venture between beer giant Molson Coors and pot producer Hexo Corp. says its portfolio of pot-based drinks set to hit the market later this year includes a CBD-infused spring water as well as beverages containing THC. Truss plans to launch six pot beverage brands by December, starting with a flavoured spring water infused with cannabidiol, a non-intoxicating compound found in pot also known as CBD. The water will be called Flow Glow, in partnership with Canadian company Flow Alkaline Spring Water, and produced at a facility in Belleville, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Molson Coors, Hexo to launch CBD-infused water, THC drinks later this year
Canada both marks the first year of recreational cannabis legalization
Oct. 17, 2019 7:45 a.m.
The joint venture between beer giant Molson Coors and pot producer Hexo Corp. says its portfolio of pot-based drinks set to hit the market later this year includes a CBD-infused spring water as well as beverages containing THC.
The announcement by Truss Beverage Co. comes one week after its competitor Fluent Beverage Co. — a joint venture between the world’s largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev and B.C. pot company Tilray Inc. — said it was launching CBD drinks as early as December, but it was not yet able to develop a formulation for THC.
Truss chief executive Brett Vye said it has developed a beverage containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the compound in cannabis that produces a high, and it aims to launch various drinks containing the active ingredient by December.
He noted that the cannabis beverages joint venture was launched roughly one year ago, and innovation teams had already been working on development for four months prior to that.
“We’ve been at this for quite a while now, and we feel very confident and very excited about the THC products we will be launching,” Vye said in an interview.
Truss plans to launch six pot beverage brands by December, starting with a flavoured spring water infused with cannabidiol, a non-intoxicating compound found in pot also known as CBD. The water will be called Flow Glow, in partnership with Canadian company Flow Alkaline Spring Water, and produced at a facility in Belleville, Ont.
The launch comes as Canada both marks the first year of recreational cannabis legalization on Thursday, and new rules governing next-generation pot products such as beverages, edibles, topicals and vapes come into force.
READ MORE: A year after pot legalization in Canada, it’s a slow roll
Due to the mandatory 60-day notice period companies must provide to Health Canada before selling these products, the earliest CBD beverages and other Cannabis 2.0 goods can legally go on sale in Canada is mid-December. However, when products hit retail shelves will also depend on provincial or territorial entities that govern the distribution or sale of cannabis as well.
A recent report by Deloitte estimated that the Canadian market for next-generation pot products was worth an estimated $2.7 billion annually. Roughly $1.6 billion will be spent on edibles, followed by cannabis-infused beverages at $529 million and topicals at $174 million, it said.
READ MORE: Three B.C. moms to launch CBD-infused water
In the lead up to this next wave of pot legalization, there have been several tie-ups between alcohol conglomerates and Canadian cannabis companies.
In addition to Truss and Fluent, Corona beer maker Constellation Brands in 2017 acquired 10 per cent of Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. for $245 million in a deal that included collaboration on cannabis-based drinks. Constellation later upped its investment by $5 billion, making it Canopy’s largest shareholder.
Fluent’s chief executive Jorn Socquet last week did not offer many specifics about its CBD beverage lineup, but said it did not have a beer-like product planned because research showed that consumers were not interested. It would instead focus on “sparkling, slightly sweet beverages” and teas, he said.
Truss Beverage’s CBD-infused drink with Flow Alkaline Spring Water — a premium water brand which has partnerships with Canadian pop singer Shawn Mendes and Goop CEO and actress Gwyneth Paltrow — will initially come in goji-and-grapefruit and raspberry-and-lemon flavours, each containing 10 milligrams of CBD.
Vye said Truss had spent a lot of time reviewing cannabis drink brands in U.S. states where cannabis is legal, and found that many were “not great tasting.” However, the feedback Truss has received on its pot beverages has been positive.
The company’s first product is a spring water aimed at the growing wellness category, as it looks to tap a broader consumer base than just existing cannabis users, he added.
“We think that almost 65 per cent of our consumers will be new to the cannabis category,” he said.
He estimated that cannabis-infused drinks would eventually comprise between 10 and 20 per cent of the overall market for pot in Canada.
Vye would not provide much detail on its other five brands ahead of the official launches, but said that its offerings will cater to “all the drinking occasions.”
He would not confirm whether that would include a beer-like product, but said the company believes there is an opportunity for it.
“When we launch and go out to market, that will be our true market research,” he said. “That’s where we’ll truly understand the interactions with consumers and whether or not, for example, beer, is a relevant format for this category.”
Armina Ligaya, The Canadian Press
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What is a LIMS ?
LIMS stands for Laboratory Information Management System
Laboratory Information Management Systems are software platforms designed to enhance the operations of modern laboratories. They help them to move from paper to a digital environment by streamlining operations with the goal of saving both time and money.
In today’s world, modern labs can process more samples than ever, subsequently generating huge amounts of data. Beyond the complexity of the bench lies a web of analytical and interpretation platforms with which scientists analyze data. All of which needs to be organized and associated with its respective sample. Additionally, each sample needs to be associated with its respective processing batch, order number, and metadata information. The organizational needs surrounding the increasing number of samples and data creates the impetus to migrate from a paper based system into a digital management platform that is flexible and can support the science of today.
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The different ways that prebiotics and fiber affect the gut microbiota
BY Megan Mouw
In Fibers, Gut Microbiota, Infographics, News Watch, Prebiotics, Resources
Fiber is a key overlooked nutrient in the diets of many. Although some fiber cannot be digested by humans, it can be broken down by the microbes in our gut – a community of bacteria called the gut microbiota. Like fiber, prebiotics also act as food for beneficial microbes in the gut, and many current prebiotics are actually considered to…
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Megan Mouw holds a Bachelor of Science in microbiology from McGill University (Canada). Driven by her experiences at UCSF medical center in San Francisco, Megan is passionate about the role that the gut microbiota plays in maintaining health and wellness. She is currently perusing graduate studies in Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology at the University of California Santa Cruz and hopes to share her love of science through writing.
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Science community defends effectiveness of probiotics
BY Cristina Sáez
In Bifidobacteria, Fermented Foods, Food & Ingredients, Kefir, Lactobacilli, News Watch, Nutrition, Probiotics, Probiotics, Saccharomyces, Yeast, Yogurt
A few weeks ago, one piece of news hit the headlines and caused quite a commotion. Stating that probiotics were little more than ‘useless’ and could even have negative effects on health, this information was based on a couple of pieces of research published in the scientific journal Cell. The research suggested that the effect of probiotics was less significant than…
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Cristina Saez is a freelance science journalist. She works for several media, for instance the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, where she coordinates the science section, Big Vang; as well as research centres and scientific societies. She has been awarded for her journalistic work, among others, with the Boehringer Ingelheim Award in Medical Journalism 2015. Follow Cristina on Twitter @saez_cristina
International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics releases statement about misleading conclusions from two studies published in the journal Cell
BY Mary Ellen Sanders
In Gut Microbiota, Probiotics, Research & Practice
Two scientific papers were published last month in the high-impact journal Cell (here and here). The first one addressed the ability of particular strains of live microorganisms to colonize in both the mucosal microbiome and stool microbiome of mice and humans; the second focused on the 'reconstitution' of the microbiome and transcriptome after antibiotic treatment by particular probiotics and autologous…
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Mary Ellen Sanders is a consultant in the area of probiotic microbiology, with special expertise on paths to scientific substantiation of probiotic product label claims. Dr. Sanders served as the founding president of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) and is currently the organization’s Director of Scientific Affairs/ Executive Officer. This international, non-profit association of academic and industrial scientists is dedicated to advancing the science of probiotics and prebiotics (www.isapp.net). Through numerous written, oral and video pieces, including a website, www.usprobiotics.org, she strives to provide objective, evidence-based information on probiotics for consumers and professionals. Key activities include: Panels to determine GRAS status of probiotic strains ; member of the American Gastroenterological Association Scientific Advisory Board for AGA Center for Gut Microbiome Research and Education ; World Gastroenterology Organisation Committee preparing practice guidelines for the use of probiotics and prebiotics for GI indications (2008, 2011, 2014) ; working group convened by the FAO/WHO that developed guidelines for probiotics (2002).
ISAPP dispels myths about probiotics in new infographic
In Diet, Food & Ingredients, Gut Microbiota, Gut Microbiota Composition, Infographics, Nutrition, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Research & Practice, Resources
Surf the web and you’ll find many claims about probiotics, but many times what’s said isn’t based on fact. Sometimes this is because the author just doesn’t know the science. Sometimes it seems to be intentional, to promote some aspect of one product as better than other products. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) created an infographic…
Infographic from ISAPP explains gut microbiota and its role in health
BY GMFH Editing Team
In Dysbiosis, Food & Ingredients, Gut Microbiota, Gut Microbiota Composition, Infographics, News Watch, Nutrition, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Probiotics
Nowadays, few people doubt the major role of the trillions of intestinal microbes – known as the gut microbiota – in terms of our health. Have you ever asked yourself, however, what do microbes do, and how can you keep them happy? The answers to these questions, and a few others, are revealed in this infographic from the International Scientific…
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Certain probiotic health benefits may be associated with higher taxonomic groups rather than strain
BY Andreu Prados
In Food & Ingredients, Nutrition, Probiotics, Probiotics, Research & Practice
The identification of an isolate at the strain level has been considered an essential requirement for any microbe that is intended to be commercialized as a probiotic. Strain-level identity is essential for both safety and efficacy evaluations. It enables traceability in laboratory tests, clinical trials and throughout the production and commercialization process. Although the health benefits of probiotics have been…
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Andreu Prados holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy & Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Science writer specialised in gut microbiota and probiotics, working also as lecturer and consultant in nutrition and healthcare. Follow Andreu on Twitter @andreuprados
Implications of the new consensus definition of prebiotics
BY Kristina Campbell
In Bifidobacteria, Fermented Foods, Food & Ingredients, Gut Microbiota, Gut Microbiota Composition, Lactobacilli, Nutrition, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Research & Practice, Yogurt
When UK researcher Glenn R. Gibson introduced the concept of prebiotics to the scientific community in 1995, in a landmark paper co-authored with his colleague Marcel B. Roberfroid, it was clear to him that the gut microbiota had the potential to play a major role in health. He and Roberfroid had noted that by increasing populations of bifidobacteria and lactobacilli…
Kristina Campbell
Science writer Kristina Campbell (M.Sc.), from British Columbia (Canada), specializes in communicating about the gut microbiota, digestive health, and nutrition. Author of the best selling Well-Fed Microbiome Cookbook, her freelance work has appeared in publications around the world. Kristina joined the Gut Microbiota for Health publishing team in 2014. Find her on: Google • Twitter
Scientists reach consensus on the meaning of the word “prebiotic”
In Gut Microbiota, News Watch, Nutrition, Prebiotics, Probiotics
The famous analogy for probiotics and prebiotics has to do with growing a patch of grass. For the lushest, greenest grass you can’t just throw some seeds onto dirt; you need fertilizer to create the best conditions for those seeds to grow. Similarly, probiotics (like the seeds) and prebiotics (like the fertilizer) work together to create the best conditions in…
Report from International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics Annual Meeting 2017: Focus on Prebiotics
In Gut Microbiota, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Research & Practice
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) held its annual meeting in Chicago at the end of June, 2017. This meeting featured the latest science in the probiotic and prebiotic fields, consistent with ISAPP’s mission to advance the science of probiotics and prebiotics. Topics of discussion ranged from "How to define useful biomarkers for health?" to an update…
2017 ISAPP Annual Meeting
The 2017 ISAPP Annual Meeting is to be held June 27-29, 2017 in Chicago. The venues are the Intercontinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, 505 N. Michigan Ave, and the Gleacher Center, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive. This meeting is by-invitation only. Please contact Mary Ellen Sanders Maryellen@isappscience.org with questions.
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Trump: Saying I Compared White Supremacists to Left Is 'A Disgusting Lie'
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President Donald Trump has taken a swipe at a fellow Republican, calling Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina a "publicity seeking" lawmaker.
Distancing themselves from Trump, top Republicans slam white supremacists
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In a daybreak post on his Twitter account Thursday, Trump faulted the GOP senator for statements Graham has made about the president's stance on the violence and death of a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump said in his tweet: "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms. Heyer." He was referring to Heather Heyer, the woman who was killed when she was struck by a car driven into the crowd.
"Such a disgusting lie," Trump said of Graham's remarks. "He just can't forget his election trouncing. The people of South Carolina will remember."
In a separate tweet, Trump accused "the Fake News" of distorting "what I say about hate, bigotry, etc. Shame!"
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Silat martial arts type is profoundly entrenched in the Malay tradition. Subscribe to Notifications for updates on the latest arts & tradition stories. In traditional Japanese martial arts, the bow and its artwork was a staple of Samurai discipline, because it was a potent army weapon. Arts are sought profession in Japan and artist are …
Silat martial arts type is profoundly entrenched in the Malay tradition. Subscribe to Notifications for updates on the latest arts & tradition stories. In traditional Japanese martial arts, the bow and its artwork was a staple of Samurai discipline, because it was a potent army weapon. Arts are sought profession in Japan and artist are properly revered and supported by national government trough Agency for Cultural Affair, founded in 1968 by Ministry of Schooling.
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Jolly Facts You Didn't Know About Santa Claus
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We best know Santa as the character who delivers presents to the young and old every Christmas Eve, but it turns out his origins are far from fiction. Santa's story dates back to 280 A.D. in what today would be Turkey. Saint Nicholas was a monk who traveled the countryside to assist the poor and sick. One story claims he even used his wealth to provide a dowry for three impoverished sisters, saving them from being sold by their father. He became known as a protector of children and sailors, and by the Renaissance, he was among the most popular saints in Europe.
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His name came from the Netherlands
When people from the Netherlands migrated to New World colonies, they brought with them the legend of Sinterklaas, which is Dutch for Saint Nicholas. By the late 1700s, the story of the generous Sinterklaas reached American pop culture as Dutch families gathered to honor the death of the saint, and, over time, the name evolved to Santa Claus.
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Christmas wasn't always about Santa bringing gifts
In early America, Christmas wasn't the festive holiday we know and love today. It was shunned in New England, lacked a cheerful figure who brought gifts and was celebrated outdoors with alcohol. A string of poems and stories in the early 19th century redefined the holiday by giving St. Nick a makeover and focusing on the themes of family and togetherness.
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He didn't always have a round belly
In 1809, an author named Washington Irving helped to shape Santa's image in his book "Knickerbocker's History of New York." In the novel, he described St. Nicholas as a pipe-smoking, slim figure flying over rooftops in a wagon delivering presents to good children and switches to the bad.
A poem popularized his image
In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote a poem for his children called "A Visit From St. Nicholas." In the poem, Moore described St. Nicholas as a "jolly old elf" who has supernatural abilities like being able to enter a chimney with a nod of his head. The poem was published anonymously and is popularly known today as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
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He didn't always wear a red suit
Moore's poem created an American icon, but it didn't standardize depictions of Santa. In the 19th century, some images portrayed a man in different colored suits, others saw him miniature-sized and sometimes he rode a broomstick instead of a sleigh.
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A popular poem introduced his reindeer
Irving's book described Santa as having a small wagon with only one reindeer guiding him along the way. Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" changed that narrative. In his poem, Santa is guided "on a miniature sleigh" by eight flying reindeer.
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Santa's favorite reindeer is 80 years old
The most famous reindeer of all, Rudolph, came more than a century after his eight counterparts. In 1939, Robert L. May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward Department Store, wrote a story-poem to drive traffic to his store during the holidays. May used a similar rhyme pattern to '"Twas the Night Before Christmas" to tell the story of Rudolph, a young reindeer who is teased because of his bright, red nose, but on a foggy night, guides Santa as he delivers his gifts. The story sold over 2 million copies and, in 1949, was made into the popular song sung around Christmas to this day.
A political cartoonist drew his iconic look
In 1881, Thomas Nast - the acclaimed political cartoonist famous for creating the elephant that represents the Republican Party and the donkey for the Democratic Party - brought to life the image of the Santa that we know today. Nast drew Santa as a round, joyful man with a full, white beard, undersized longjohns with white trimming and a sack full of toys.
Sending him letters started with a drawing
Nast would go on to illustrate many of the things we associate with Santa today. In an illustration featured in Harper's Weekly in 1871, the jolly fella is shown sitting at his desk, smoking a pipe and sorting letters from "Good Children's Parents" and "Naughty Children's Parents." This image helped to popularize the idea of sending letters to Santa. And in an 1886 illustration titled "Santaclausville, N.P," Nast gave children and parents alike a location to send their mail: the North Pole.
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His home was chosen for a reason
If you're wondering why the North Pole of all places was chosen as Santa's home, the answer is simple: to keep his reindeer alive. Before Nast began illustrating Santa, Irving had already described Santa as having eight reindeer to guide him along the way. Reindeer are prone to living in colder climates - today they have evolved to survive freezing temperatures as low as minus 88 degrees Fahrenheit. It only made sense that Santa would live in a location where the chilly weather would best suit his helpers. Though it would be half a century after Nast's illustrations that explorers would reach the North Pole, the location was chosen for its presumed coldness.
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He was once a bachelor
For decades, Santa was a cheerful, but single, man delivering presents to children. It wasn't until 1849 that it was first mentioned that Santa had a spouse in James Rees' "A Christmas Legend." And in 1851, Santa's spouse was officially referred to as "Mrs. Claus" by a student writer for the Yale Literary Review. Now, Mrs. Claus is just as popular as her counterpart and is often depicted as being responsible for making sure Christmas goes smoothly.
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He isn't the only gift giver around the world
Santa is popularized as the bringer of gifts in American culture, but throughout time, around the world, many characters have been deemed responsible for bringing joy and presents to good children. Swiss and German children have Christkind. Scandinavian children have an elf named Jultomten who is said to deliver presents in a sleigh pulled by goats. And in France, children are told Père Noël fills their shoes with goodies.
He has many nicknames
We know him as Santa, but the jolly fella goes by many names. Other than the big S.C., he is also known as Jolly Old St. Nick, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Old Man Christmas and Kris Kringle.
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Department store Santas have been around for more than a century
In 1841, a shop in Philadelphia attracted thousands of children by offering the opportunity to see a life-size Santa model. Other stores heard the news and followed the shop's lead. Soon children were told they could see a "live" Santa. Fun fact: Since 1924, the Macy's Santa has appeared at almost every Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where thousands of children and adults alike line up to meet the merry man each year.
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Coca-Cola helped popularize the look of modern-day Santa
Coca-Cola, the popular soda brand, helped shape the image of Santa. In 1931, the company teamed with Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to create an illustration of a "warm, friendly and pleasantly plump" figure with a white beard in a red coat. From 1931 to 1964, Sundblom's illustrations were used in ads in which Santa would deliver gifts and stop to take a moment to enjoy a Coke. Sundblom's Santa became a global icon, and his artwork depicting Santa has been featured in art museums around the world. Santa's history is just one of the many things you didn't know about Coca-Cola.
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Stockings were once stuffed with gifts for Santa
Santa is known for leaving gifts in stockings and under the tree for good boys and girls. But before setting out milk and cookies became a tradition, families used to hang stockings by the chimney and stuff them with presents for Santa when he arrived.
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His favorite tradition started during the Great Depression
Leaving out a snack for Santa is a common Christmas tradition. But the rise of its popularity dates back to the 1930s during the Great Depression. In an effort to teach children the importance of showing gratitude during economic hardships, parents encouraged their children to leave out milk and cookies for Santa and a carrot or two for his reindeer.
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Different parts of the world leave different treats for Santa
After departing from American skies, Santa is treated to classic Christmas sweets from around the world. In Australia and the United Kingdom, kids leave out sherry and mince pies. Swedish kids leave rice porridge. And Santa can expect an even greater surprise in Ireland upon his arrival: a pint of Guinness.
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Santa is on some country's naughty list
In locations like Austria and the Czech Republic where communities want to protect the history of their native gift bringers and practices, Santa is not recognized or celebrated.
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Sometimes he sends letters to children
Although Santa receives millions of letters each year, he can also send them. In the 1850s, the wife of poet Henry Wadsworth, Fanny Longfellow, wrote her children letters from Santa commenting on their behavior throughout the year. Today, the United States Postal Service has partnered with Santa and parents to send letters from the jolly man himself postmarked from the North Pole.
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He has his own town
When you think of Santa's home, your first thought might be the North Pole. And you're not wrong. But there's another location hoping to steal the throne. Santa Claus, a town in Indiana, has deemed itself "America's Christmas Hometown." The magical Christmas town is recognized for its theme and famous locations like 1880 Santa Claus Church, the Santa Claus Post Office and a 22-foot-tall Santa statue.
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You can give Santa a call
Contacting Santa before the big day has never been easier. While some rely on the postal service to get their wishes across, Santa can now be reached through phone by calling the Santa Hotline.
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You can track Santa's progress around the world
Santa has to move quickly to deliver presents to children around the world. But if you want to keep up with his travels, it's never been easier. Google's Santa Tracker allows you to follow along with Santa as he makes his way to each country on Christmas Eve night. And NORAD has its own Santa tracker that can be downloaded as an app on any device days before the big night.
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France sends the most letters to Santa
A study conducted in 2013 by the Universal Postal Union found that France was responsible for sending the most letters to Santa - 1.7 million to be exact. Second was Canada with 1.3 million letters, and third was the U.S. with more than 1 million letters.
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Children used to burn letters for Santa
Before the United States Postal Office was established in 1775, children would burn their letters to Santa in hopes that the ashes would rise and reach him.
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You can email Santa
Thousands of children around the world still send letters to Santa, but tech-savvy youngsters can send Santa an email instead. Emailsanta.com is just one site that gives users a direct pipeline to the gift-giver before the holidays roll around.
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He delivers gifts to 22 million children an hour
Countless films and stories have told us that Santa is able to deliver gifts to children around the world in one night. But to determine exactly how he's able to deliver presents around the globe without missing a home, The Atlantic crunched the numbers using data from the CIA, and after weighing several factors, it was estimated that to complete his holiday duties, Santa has to deliver presents to 22 million children an hour. That's 365,000 kids a minute and 6,100 a second.
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He has his own university
Becoming the next Santa is a tough job, and for anyone up to the task, it'll take some serious work to receive the title. That's where Santa University comes in. Located in Westminster, Colorado, the four-day training program welcomes approximately 1,000 naturally bearded people hoping to learn the ins and outs on how to be the best Santa possible.
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He has his own postal code
Leaders in Canada are positive that Santa exists and that he's indeed Canadian. And to prove it, they've assigned him his own postal code. Anyone in the country hoping to send Santa a letter during the Christmas season can address it to Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0, Canada.
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He guest-starred in a comic book
In the "Marvel 1991 Holiday Special" the X-Men meet Santa Claus, a mutant who identifies as Kris Kringle and can turn people into toys.
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He has a pilot's license
In 1927, Santa was photographed receiving his aeroplane pilot's license from the Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Officials confirmed that he would have "airway maps and burning lights" to guide him safely along his way on Christmas Eve.
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He gives coal to misbehaved children for a reason
Santa and his elves work hard to prepare and deliver presents to children on the "nice" list. But for those who don't make the cut, it's known that Santa places a lump of coal in their stockings. He does so for a simple reason: it's convenient. Santa travels down the chimney to leave gifts. Along the way, he encounters coal, which was a common form of fuel for fireplaces in the 19th century. He then places the coal in the stockings.
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The legend of Santa Claus has been around for more than 200 years. And whether you still believe there's a cheerful, portly man who delivers gifts or not, his legacy lives on. If Santa's charm has long since been diminished in your imagination, ignite that childhood spark once again by visiting one of the most magical places in America this Christmas: Disney World.
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Friday 28th February, 8pm
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Duration: 2 x 40 mins plus interval
Suitable for: ages 14+. Live comedy usually contains adult material and strong language.
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and very-hard-to-pin-down-indie-underdog-nightmare Josie Long is back with a brand new show after a brief hiatus, during which she had a baby and so on.
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Six companies of central forces to keep vigil in Amritsar on Operation Blue Star anniversary
The Amritsar commissionerate police have called six companies of paramilitary forces to maintain law and order.
chandigarh Updated: May 31, 2019 07:53 IST
Anil Sharma
Hindustan Times, Amritsar
Punjab police personnel are put on patrol outside the Golden Temple ahead of the 35th anniversary of Operation Blue Star in Amritsar on Wednesday.(HT File Photo)
As several Sikh bodies, including separatist outfits, have started preparations for observing the 35th anniversary of the Operation Bluestar on June 6, authorities are taking all security measures to turn the holy city into a fortress.
The Amritsar commissionerate police have called six companies of paramilitary forces to maintain law and order in the city.
Besides, 5,000 cops from Amritsar and the neighbouring districts of Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur and Pathankot are also being deployed here.
The movement of the cops around the Golden Temple and the bazaars leading to it has already been intensified.
“We have called three companies of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and three of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). They are expected to arrive in the city on Friday,” said additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP-City 1) Jagjit Singh Walia.
He said, “As precautionary measures, eight companies of Anti-Riot police, six companies of Armed Special Police (ASP) and four companies of Punjab Commandos Police (PCP) have already started patrolling in the city.” He added, “Besides, 5000 cops of Amritsar and its neighbouring districts are being deployed here to maintain law and order on June 6 and the preceding days.”
On the anniversary of Operation Bluestar In 2014, a clash between radical Sikh activists and the task force of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) had taken place in which several people were injured in the Golden Temple complex.
Pro-Khalistan groups like the Dal Khalsa and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) led by Simranjit Singh Mann will hold ‘genocide remembrance marches’ across the city on the eve of the anniversary.
The Dal Khalsa has also given a call for ‘Amritsar bandh’ on June 6 to mark the anniversary.
Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh told HT that they have given a call for complete shutdown in the city to protest against the “killing of hundreds of innocent people” during the army attack on the Golden Temple.
He said they would hold a ‘genocide remembrance parade’ in the streets of Amritsar on June 5.
“The march will start from Ranjit Avenue gurdwara and culminate at Akal Takht,” he said.
All India Sikh Student Federation (AISSF) patron Karnail Singh Peer Mohammad said, “This time we are not holding a march in the city, but will join the event being organised at the Akal Takht Sahib to pay homage to those killed during the Operation Bluestar on June 6.”
The SGPC task force is also gearing up to tackle any eventuality. SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal has instructed the force to increase the security inside and outside the Golden Temple.
An ‘akhand path’ will begin at the Akal Takht on June 4 and its bhog ceremony will be held on June 6.
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Died: 11th January 1920
Brian Baden Powell, third and only surviving son of W Morley Powell, Headmaster of St. Ouen’s School, Jersey, was born 21st December, 1899. From his father’s school he went to Oxenford House, Jersey, and entered [Victoria] College in January 1915. His school career was an extraordinarily successful one. When he left, in April 1918, he was Head Prefect. He had been in the Cricket, Football, and Hockey Xl’s for three years, being in his last year Captain of Football and Vice-Captain of Cricket, was a Corporal in the OTC, and had won the Senior Challenge Cup with a handsome margin of points, doing the Hurdles in the exceptional time of seventeen and two-fifths seconds. And he passed third for the Indian Army. In every case the high position which he took was the result of sheer merit. He was chosen because he was obviously the right man to choose. And withal he won the esteem and affection of everybody by his simple strength and honesty of character.
He was trained for a time at Catterick in Yorkshire and then at the Military College, Quetta, where he took a leading part in cricket, football, and hockey. On passing out he joined the 69th Punjabis at Agra, with whom he went immediately to the North-West Frontier. The first time he was under fire he led his company in the attack on the position held by the Afghan force besieging ThaI. After the relief the 69th garrisoned ThaI, and Powell was in action in various punitive expeditions. After the Armistice he was sent to the School of Signalling at Abbottabad, and at the end of a four months’ course passed out fifth of a class of 50 British officers, with a first in Hindustani and an Instructor’s Certificate. At the end of 1919 he was in hospital for a slight illness and on leaving rejoined his Regiment at ThaI in high spirits. Immediately afterwards he was seized with pneumonia, and died on 11th January, 1920.
The above text appeared in the Victoria College Book of Remembrance published in 1920.
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Ken Reed, Contributor
Ken Reed is sports policy director for League of Fans and author of Ego vs. Soul in Sports
Here Are Some First Steps for Northwestern's Union
03/31/2014 02:44 pm ET Updated May 31, 2014
The national media has focused on "pay-for-play" for college athletes after the recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling allowing Northwestern University football players to unionize.
The concept of universities cutting paychecks to college athletes is a complex one, one that could have numerous ramifications, including unknown effects for female athletes under Title IX and male athletes in so-called minor sports.
However, if the ruling survives all the legal challenges to come, there are several relatively straightforward items that a Northwestern players' union -- or a potential athletes' union at any university -- could bring to the bargaining table quickly.
Here are a few actions that college athletes should push for immediately when dealing with the NCAA in general and individual university athletic departments in particular:
1) Cover All Sports-Related Medical Expenses for Athletes and Disallow the Pulling of Scholarships From Athletes Who Suffer Injuries While Engaged in Sports Activities For Their School
Currently, there are athletes losing their athletic scholarships (or having them reduced) due to injuries occurred during athletic competition for their university. That's simply wrong.
As the National College Players Association (NCPA), headed by former UCLA linebacker Ramogi Huma, says, "It is immoral to allow a university to reduce or refuse to renew a college athlete's scholarship after sustaining an injury while playing for the university."
Even worse is the fact that some schools aren't paying for all -- or part - of athletes' medical expenses that are clearly tied to sports-related injuries. Those occurrences need to stop.
2) Require Athletic Scholarships to Cover the Full-Cost of College Attendance and Be For Five Years
"Full" athletic scholarships should be just that and cover the full-cost of college attendance for students.
According to an NCPA and Drexel University study, the average scholarship shortfall (out-of-pocket expenses) for each "full" scholarship athlete was approximately $3,222 per player during the 2010-11 school year.
Many major college football and basketball players come from impoverished circumstances. The full cost of attendance should be covered under full athletic scholarship programs. The NCPA suggests these additional scholarship costs could be easily covered by using a relatively small percentage of post-season revenues. That sounds reasonable.
In addition, athletic scholarships should be for five years. This would prevent coaches and athletic directors from "firing" athletes due to injuries or athletic performance reasons - even when they are excelling in the classroom.
3) Develop Policies That Severely Limit Weekday Games
Academic performance is hindered, and graduation rates are damaged, by the growing number of NCAA Division I games that take place on weekdays.
In order to honor the NCAA's stated mission "to integrate intercollegiate athletics so that the educational experience of the student athlete is paramount" the number of weekday games needs to be curtailed significantly.
Scheduling Tuesday and Wednesday night football games is not in the best interests of students' educational work.
4) Adopt the Olympic Model of Allowing Athletes to Benefit Economically From Their Fame
Economically, college football and basketball players continue to be exploited.
According to a study by the National College Players Association and the Drexel University Sport Management Department, football and men's basketball players at top sports schools are being denied at least $6.2 billion between 2011 and 2015 under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules that prohibit them from being paid.
Admittedly, paying athletes salaries as university employees is a complex challenge that could take years to sort out. However, allowing college athletes to receive money from outside the athletic department is much more straightforward and can happen quickly.
It's fair and just. And it gets rid of a lot of the hypocrisy in college sports.
It's time to let athletes benefit from their fame and likeness like every other student at our colleges and universities. Let them take endorsement money like the coaches that lead them. If the local auto parts store wants to pay a college athlete to sign autographs for two hours during a store sale, why shouldn't the athlete be allowed to take that opportunity? If someone wants to give an athlete a gift -- be it cash or tattoos -- why should that be banned? College students on music scholarships are free to accept cash or gifts for playing a weekend gig at the local club. What makes athletes different?
As an example, it's time to eliminate the NCAA's outdated concept of amateurism and allow college athletes to get paid for having their likeness on calendars.
The fact is, nobody else in our country has to deal with the economic restrictions that NCAA athletes currently face.
The Olympics dumped the amateur myth and allowed athletes to make money from their athletic ability and fame. And guess what? The world didn't end! In fact, the Olympics are more popular than ever.
"The plight of college athletes is definitely a civil rights issue," says civil rights historian and author Taylor Branch. "College athletes are citizens and are being denied their rights by what amounts to collusion. Colleges are telling football and basketball players they can't get anything above a college scholarship. The athletes are being conned out of their rights. We need modern abolitionists to fight this unjust and unstable system."
The Northwestern football players have stepped up. Now, we need others from all walks of life to join the fight.
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Marie Dobbe died in Hull Royal Infirmary after an accidental overdose
Hull Royal Infirmary (Image: Hull Daily Mail / SWNS.com)
A mum-of-two who “had everything to live for” died after accidentally taking a fatal cocaine overdose.
Marie Dobbe, 45, had battled issues with drugs and alcohol for much of her adult life but in the months leading up to her death had turned to drugs service ReNew to turn her life around.
However, she was rushed to hospital on June 16 last year after struggling to breathe following a drug overdose at a flat in west Hull.
Once at Hull Royal Infirmary her heart stopped and, despite desperate attempts to resuscitate her, she died later that evening.
Three people were initially arrested by Humberside Police after reports a third party had injected heroin into Ms Dobbe but they were all later released without charge after it was clear the cocaine rather than the heroin had killed her.
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An inquest took place in Hull on Wednesday into her death and afterwards her partner Christopher Staves, who had known her 25 years, paid tribute.
He said: “She was a lovely girl who had everything to live for and had two lovely boys.
“She was making efforts to turn her life around and was working well with ReNew.
“I was devastated by her death. Marie loved life and would laugh and joke about the future.
“I was looking forward to moving in with Marie and spending our future together.”
In a statement read out at the inquest, Mr Staves said he first met Ms Dobbe in the early 1990s when he ran the St Andrew’s Social Club in west Hull.
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But he revealed Ms Dobbe’s dream to have her children back after they were put into foster care proved her undoing.
Mr Staves said: “In 2014 she was asked if she wanted her youngest son to return home and she said yes immediately and then her other son came back as well.
“It is what she wanted and having her boys back created a huge change. She was smiley and she cut back on the drugs and alcohol.
“But in time the drugs crept back as she struggled to cope. She started taking harder drugs including cocaine and then heroin.
“She was a happy-go-lucky person who had an addictive personality.”
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Ms Dobbe lay asleep on a chair in Mr Staver’s west Hull flat for 24 hours before a friend called an ambulance.
In a statement read out at the inquest, a friend explained how she was with Ms Dobbe in the days before her death.
She said: “On June 14 we went shopping at Primark. She said how nice it felt to be a normal person shopping.
“The next day I was due to meet Marie but she never turned up so I went round to Chris’s flat. She was asleep on a chair. I expected her to wake up but she didn’t. I had a drink with Chris and another friend and left.
“I went round to Chris’s flat the next evening and saw she still hadn’t woken up from the previous day. Her breathing was awful and I knew something wasn’t right so I called an ambulance.
“Marie was a comical woman who always had an answer for you and always said if you don’t ask you won’t get.”
The court also heard how Ms Dobbe was engaging with ReNew in the months before her death and was on a methadone programme.
Senior coroner Professor Paul Marks concluded Ms Dobbe’s death was due to drugs/alcohol.
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WeWork expands its Houston coworking operation with new downtown location
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Nancy Sarnoff July 8, 2019
A conference room in WeWork's Galleria location.
Photo: Courtesy of WeWork
WeWork, the coworking giant that’s blanketed the country with stylish office space for entrepreneurs and corporations, is planning its fourth Houston location since arriving here two years ago.
The New York company has leased 56,000 square feet in downtown’s 609 Main, a new 48-story office tower between Texas Avenue and Capitol. The 609 Main building, developed and managed by Hines, is just a block away from WeWork’s first Houston location in the Jones building at 708 Main St. where it operates 86,000 square feet.
Between both locations, WeWork will have more than 2,400 desks.
WeWork often operates multiple locations near each other, the company said, citing examples in Dallas, Plano, Austin and other cities around the country.
“We see businesses want to be in specific areas or neighborhoods,” said spokesman Leor Reef.
Coworking facilities, which allow companies and individuals to lease desks, offices or larger suites with flexible rental terms, are playing an increasingly significant role in the modern workplace as companies lease smaller spaces and seek more flexible office environments. Houston-based Hines, one of the country’s largest owners and managers of office space, announced its own coworking initiative late last month.
The Hines² — or Hines Squared — business will launch near the end of this year in two of the company’s buildings: 717 Texas, a 33-story in downtown Houston, and one in Salt Lake City.
In west Houston, three separate coworking companies operate facilities in CityCentre, the mixed-use development just south of Interstate 10 and inside Beltway 8.
“The three all actually meet different consumer needs and different market segments,” said Jonathan Brinsden, CEO of Houston-based Midway, developer of CityCentre.
WeWork’s new downtown spot, which is expected to open by the end of the year, will occupy the building’s 25th and 26th floors. Rents will be similar to those at 708 Main, where a private office starts at $650 per month and a dedicated desk in a shared office starts at $455 per month. Access to an open workspace in a common area starts at $250 per month.
The rents give coworking tenants 24-hour building access, business services and inclusion in community events such as professional workshops and cheese tastings. They will also have access to building’s 7,000-square-foot fitness center.
Each WeWork location has unique features with different office types and sizes, conference rooms, quiet areas and lounges, Reef said. The 708 Main location has a “wellness room” for meditation and nursing mothers, a “brainstorming room” with walls on which tenants can write, and an event space with a projector and sound system.
Outside downtown, the company has a location at the Galleria and one in The Woodlands.
“The modern office is evolving and providing a coworking component is essential to a building’s long-term viability,” Philip Croker, Hines senior managing director, said in a statement. “Adding a tenant of WeWork’s caliber further reinforces the strength of 609 Main and will deliver an outstanding amenity for the building and its future occupants.”
Hines was represented in lease negotiations by Michael Anderson and Damon Thames with Colvill Office Properties. Mark O’Donnell with Savills Commercial Real Estate represented WeWork.
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Reason Why You Should Not Carry Medicines While Travelling
Carrying hard medicines while travelling makes people more prone to pop them.
Updated: June 14, 2018 11:28 AM IST
By ANI Email
Turns out, carrying hard medicines while travelling makes people more prone to pop them, against doctor’s recommendations.
According to a study conducted by the University of Helsinki, travellers carrying standby antibiotics take them more often than those travelling without such drugs.
Having antibiotics packed in the bags allows their use – against recommendations – also for mild and moderate diarrhoea, i.e. cases not requiring medication.
Increasing antimicrobial resistance, primarily caused by the excessive and uncontrolled use of antibiotics, is a globally recognised severe threat to human health. Returning home, approximately every third traveller to the tropics carries intestinal multiresistant bacteria.
The risk of having contracted such bacteria is doubled by taking antibiotics during the journey.
Seeking means to avoid unnecessary antibiotic use, the study was carried out aiming to identify factors increasing antibiotic use among travellers.
“To cut down unnecessary antibiotic use, the underlying factors need to be explored,” said Anu Kantele, the project lead.
The study comprised 316 prospectively recruited subjects who had contracted travellers’ diarrhoea during their visit to the tropics. Of the 316 participants, 53 had brought stand-by antibiotics from Finland. The most common reason for antibiotic use was diarrhoea, the most prevalent disease among travellers to the tropics, followed by respiratory infections.
As risk factors associated with the use of antibiotics, the study identified carriage of stand-by antibiotics, vomiting, diarrhoea disrupting or preventing daily activities and contacts with local health care at the destination.
Of those carrying vs not carrying stand-by antibiotics, 34 percent vs 11 percent resorted to antibiotic therapy. Severe diarrhoea was treated with antibiotics similarly in the two groups, yet carriers of stand-by antibiotics also used them for mild and moderate diarrhoea. “According to the Finnish guidelines, antibiotics should be used for diarrhoea patients with a high fever or an exceptionally severe disease or deteriorating condition, or if they have an underlying disease which may become aggravated,” said Kantele.
“In other words, antibiotics should only be used to treat severe diarrhoea, whereas for mild and moderate disease fluid therapy and non-antibiotic drugs suffice.”
Rather than the severity of diarrhoea, the factor determining recourse to antibiotics was travellers’ subjective experience of disturbance of daily activities.
“Physicians in Finland and elsewhere should give up routinely prescribing antibiotics against travellers’ diarrhoea,” Kantele concluded.
The study appears in the journal Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.
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ROVERS’ FANS WILL BE HAPPY DEADLINE DAY PASSED BY UNEVENTFUL
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DARRELL Clarke admits a tinge of disappointment at failing to meet his double-figure target of new signings this summer.
INTERESTING PAIR: Bristol Rovers managed to keep both Tom Lockyer and Billy Bodin, despite interest on deadline day
Picture: Neil Brookman / JMP
But eight out of ten is not bad and some shrewd business, allied to hanging on to players of the calibre of Billy Bodin and Tom Lockyer, means that Pirates fans can look forward with optimism to the rest of the 2017-18 campaign.
Deadline day passed quietly at the Memorial Stadium, which came as something of a relief considering that Bodin, in particular, was reputed to be attracting attention from the Championship.
One daily newspaper reported that Rovers had turned down two sizeable bids for the free-scoring attacker, who advertised his wares by netting with a trademark long-range strike in last weekend’s 3-1 home win over Fleetwood Town.
I feared his fifth goal of the campaign might clinch Bodin a move.
Rovers have not con- firmed that there were firm offers, but if the reports were correct the club’s owners deserve praise for hang- ing on to a key player.
Clarke had gone into the summer break with the bold prediction that he would be bringing in ten, or even 11, new faces before the August transfer window closed.
He now admits to having missed out on a couple of targets and went into deadline day on Thursday still hoping to get one more deal across the line.
It didn’t happen, but I doubt that is cause for any concern. A first-team squad of 23 senior professionals is plenty big enough to man- manage, particularly for a team boss with modern ideas on selection.
Clarke, who stressed throughout the window, that none of his players was for sale, continually keeps his men on their toes and the fans guessing by springing surprises when it comes to personnel and tactics.
It happened again in the Fleetwood match when Ellis Harrison found himself back on the bench after scoring the winner and being praised by Clarke for his performance in the excellent Carabao Cup win at Fulham.
If Harrison were disap- pointed to be left out, he cer- tainly didn’t show it, going on as a substitute against Fleetwood and netting the all-important third goal to settle a competitive clash.
That is the reaction Clarke expects from any player relegated to the bench. He treats every match as a separate project and previous form, even in the most recent game, can count for very little.
It is not a policy that would have gone down well with players of previous generations, who expected to be retained when in decent form.
When I asked Clarke’s assistant Marcus Stewart last weekend how he would have reacted to being dropped or rested after playing well, his answer was honest and indicated a subtle change in football since he hung up his boots.
Irrespective
He said: ‘I was probably the end of a dying breed. I found it very hard to be left out and when I didn’t play I got annoyed and angry.
‘I spat my dummy out once or twice if I am honest.
‘Things have changed and with our manager particularly.
‘He will sometimes leave a player out and tell him he will start the following game, irrespective of the result of the first one.
‘Over the course of a season most will play at least 20 or 25 games. It’s not about form, it’s about what is best for the next project.
‘Ellis scored on Tuesday, but didn’t start today purely because we know we have someone just as good to play in a different way.
‘When I felt I was left out after playing well I probably wasn’t told the reasons.
‘Man-management is key and the way we work is to explain to players fully why a change is being made.’
A further insight came from Rory Gaffney when he was interviewed after the Fleetwood match, which saw him make his first start of the season.
‘As a player, you are not going to be happy at missing any game,’ he said. ‘But if the manager talks to you and you have the chance to have your say back it is easier to accept.
‘It happens throughout the squad so there can be no complaints. There are 50-odd games in a season and if you can end up starting 30 and going on as sub in another 15 it’s a decent campaign.’
Perhaps it was because Clarke makes so many changes as a matter of course that Rovers were able to perform so well in the 5-1 Checkatrade Trophy win at Wycombe, which followed the victory over Fleetwood.
An unfamiliar line-up, including Marc Bola, Tom Broadbent, Jonny Burn, Ryan Broom and Dominic Telford, romped to success in what appeared a tricky tie after falling behind early on.
Two goals each from Telford, the on-loan striker from Stoke City, and Broom, who could well break into the first team on a regular basis this season, will have boosted their confidence no end. In both cases it was the first time they had netted for Rovers.
Liam Sercombe’s second of the season contributed to an emphatic success and there was even scope to introduce youngsters Luke Russe, Rollin Menayese and Cameron Hargreaves for their first-team debuts.
Even then Clarke made it clear afterwards that the first-half display was short of his expectations.
Darrell once told me: ‘I am not here to keep players happy. It’s up to them to keep me happy.’
That attitude only works if players trust their boss and his decisions. It is some- thing all Rovers’ summer recruits must buy into if they are to flourish under a manager oozing self-belief and faith in his policies.
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Suns assistant coach Jamelle McMillan sounds a lot like Pacers coach Nate McMillan
Nate McMillan has passed on his coaching philosophies to his son, who fell in love with the job and is learning as an assistant with Phoenix.
Suns assistant coach Jamelle McMillan sounds a lot like Pacers coach Nate McMillan Nate McMillan has passed on his coaching philosophies to his son, who fell in love with the job and is learning as an assistant with Phoenix. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nba/pacers/2019/02/16/nate-mcmillan-son-jamelle-mcmillan-bring-unique-coaching-style-nba/2888015002/
J. Michael, Indianapolis Star Published 10:41 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2019
Jamelle McMillan || Assistant Coach || 1st Year (Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Republic)
When Jamelle McMillan played, his father didn't hover over his youth coaches. He didn't even offer unsolicited advice.
Nate McMillan practiced what he preached as a coach himself, even though he had more knowledge and insight about the game than any parent in the building.
"He never suggested anything. He allowed them to do what they felt," says Jamelle, in his first season as an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns. "He would add his stuff with me individually on the side but he respected them as coaches."
Jamelle never expected to be a coach — he aspired to be in a front office role — but stumbled on the opportunity while hanging around his father when he was on staff with the USA Basketball team for the 2012 London Olympics.
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He accepted a position with the New Orleans Pelicans and worked his way up from video coordinator to player development assistant to assistant coach in his fourth season.
The lessons he learned over the years, especially about defense, helped him land a scholarship to play at Arizona State. He passes them on in Phoenix, a team that's challenged on that end of the floor.
"I always say defense is an interest. A lot of guys have an interest in it," says Jamelle, whose Suns lost both games against the Pacers this season. "Kawhi Leonard. Klay Thompson is a shooter that has an interest on the defensive end of the floor. T.J. McConnell. I don't think there's bad defenders, per se. If you have an interest you can very much do it and be very, very effective."
They sound like a perfect match to be on the same coaching staff, but that's extremely unlikely.
Those family connections have served Jamelle well but the McMillans prefer to keep their business separate from family members.
"Preparation is everything. Do your work early," Jamelle says. "It applies to everything else. If you're prepared then you can believe. But we pretty much agreed we wouldn't go that direction of coaching together. As much as we can stay with our respected programs and organizations, that's the direction I think we'll go.
"He'll do his thing. I'll do mine."
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Dooley Downs
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II Kramer’s Kompound
II Kramer’s Kompound
The day still hung grey with the morning fog, though it had lifted considerably so that visibility on the ground remained quite clear. Peter and Priscilla exited the back door of Dooley Downs and now pounded the distance across the mangy back yard towards the rear of the briar encrusted northern fence line. The briar was a combination of wild boysenberry and raspberry bushes entangled in a long clump-like structure engulfing the entire northern fence line, possibly the result of some well-intentioned housewife’s jam canning ambitions gone awry. With over thirty years of growth, there was now no reasonable method of eliminating the monstrosity short of high ordnance and demolition. Peter sometimes wondered how much fence wood actually still existed.
The enormous thorny patch served a bonding significance of sorts for the Dooley family. The source of their favorite exclamation was derived from the bush’s general name. Mr. Dooley spoke aloud one day of the possibility of trimming back the whole thing while pushing his children on the swing set. Rather than using the lengthy “boysenberry and raspberry bushes,” he shortened it to “briar bush.” Peter and Priscilla thought he said “brear bush” and the term had stuck with them as an exclamation within the family and several insider friends. Sometimes terms like “brear” caught on amongst the general population and everyone used it just to fit in with each other, such as “cool” and “irregardless.” The Dooleys felt proud that their word remained under the radar of popular culture.
A few years back, Priscilla found a thin patch in the briar near the back end of the northern fence line. It was barely noticeable, but a loose board in the fence exposed a portal to the property beyond. The kids occasionally used it to explore the sparse woods that surrounded Dooley Downs. It also functioned as a short cut of sorts, as one could bypass a portion of the curving road that led into town. Lastly, it served as the only feasible access from this side of their property to the back entrance of Kramer’s Kompound, a reclusive war veteran seen by few, but who remained on amiable terms with Dad. Dad occasionally brought Kramer supplies from town for a few extra bucks and once in awhile went to the Kompound to knock back a few beers with the vet. Though Peter and Priscilla had never actually met Kramer, his home was their destination now. They now needed adult help of the unconventional type.
Just as the two of them reached the loose board, they heard a scrambling on the front fence connected to the house. Aunt Gretchen had barely managed to pull herself up onto the fence by her elbows and chin. Garbed in her typical thick blue yarn knitted sweater, matching floppy sun hat, and thick horn-rimmed glasses, she struggled to maintain the position while attempting to gesture and articulate some form of communication to them, but merely managed a gurgling screech while briefly shaking a fist. She clearly saw the two at the fence line with her wild blazing eyes, long wild kinky red hair fluttering in the light breeze. Peter knelt there with the briar attached board lifted as Priscilla readied to pass through the opening, freezing briefly to contemplate their Aunt’s fence line antics. Finally, Aunt Gretchen’s strength gave out. With her last verbal gargle, she fell to the ground out of view. Quickly, the twins rushed through the briar-fence passage and into the lightly wooded land on the other side.
“You kids don’t know what trouble you are making for yourselves,” they heard their Aunt cry distantly. “You can’t avoid this!”
But avoid it was exactly what they intended to do. The woods were comprised primarily of birch. Though there stood a good ten to twelve feet between most trees, the varying colors of brown, black, and white from the trunks coupled with the green foliage and grass did a fair job of obfuscating movement. They stayed to the hilly part, avoiding where it descended to meet the curving road. Five minutes into their journey, the far off tell-tale sound of Aunt Gretchen’s behemoth of a car grinded its way angrily along the road towards town. Would she try to head them off? Would she return to Dooley Downs with police? Would she garner up a posse to hunt them down? The possibilities were dizzying. One thing dawned clear in the twins’ minds: their lives had changed forever. Something had happened to Dad. And now they were on the lam, truant from school, fleeing from an Aunt determined to be their guardian, and in the woods with no food or shelter. Since he remained a town obscurity, Kramer’s Kompound sounded like the most logical of the options before them.
The day brightened as fissures appeared in the fog layer above. Their destination lay just over the next rise. It would lead them down near the roadside, but nobody would suspect a recluse like Kramer to aid and abet diminutive criminals… at least they hoped. The other hope was that Kramer would help them at all. Rumors, among those that entertained such notions, persisted that the old war vet hoarded a cache of old Vietnam-era weaponry: pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, grenade launchers, napalm, bamboo splints, and sharp sticks. Someone had even gone so far as to suggest that he harbored a tank in a special underground bunker. Nobody really knew because nobody ever saw him, except Dad. And since his existence remained a quirky mystery, nobody bothered to risk their necks investigating the matter.
Cresting the rise, they saw the compound below, a dark patch of mottled green set off from the road one hundred feet or so. The complex consisted of several half-length telephone poles set up in a pentagon and draped completely in dark shades of camouflage netting, almost completely obscuring everything beneath. The twins noticed with some sense of solidarity that heavy briar from the roadside snaked around the exterior of the outpost, though trepidation quickly replaced the feeling as they approached and saw the heavy barbed wire that mingled with it. Some sort of multiple antennae device was attached to the top of each support pole, possibly a motion sensor system or other type of security contraption. An eerie absence of noise pervaded this place, steeped into the light carpet of leaves that dusted the grass, into the tree trunks themselves, and even into the crisp air surrounding them – which wasn’t still at all, as a light breeze brushed their cheeks.
The place looked foreboding and impenetrable. From prior knowledge, the main entrance to Kramer’s abode on the other side consisted of a steel barred, barbed wired, chain locked gate. A large wooden placard had been attached to it, declaring in stark hand printed red paint: “Kramer’s Kompound.” Flood lights mounted on the front supports trained their lenses on the approaching drive. Peter always wondered at the name on the gate. “Kompound” was a clear misspelling of the word “compound,” meaning a fortress or base of operations. This begged the question as to whether or not Kramer’s name was actually spelled “Cramer.” Had Kramer misspelled his base on purpose, possibly for aesthetic reasons? Or was he possibly illiterate? Maybe the shell shock of the war had overtaken his sensibilities. The jury remained undecided on the subject, as Peter had never mustered enough courage to ask Dad.
Now, Peter was taking a chance, but he surmised that any soldier worth his salt wouldn’t corner himself, compound or not, without an escape route. If it was a tunnel, then they could spend their lives searching the woods and not discover the entrance. Even if Kramer’s contingency plan was a tunnel, they knew he owned a dog --- a big black Doberman --- and a dog likely would frown upon using a tunnel for passage. There must exist a doggie door at the back of the compound facing the woods, allowing the Doberman access to the woods in order to hunt game, or to generally just sniff around and do business. Peter now mentioned this to Priscilla, who subsequently agreed with his reasoning on the matter. They moved in closer, scouting the barbed briar with their eyes for anything unusual.
The twins suddenly became aware of a soft, but harsh panting behind them. It hit Peter at once why the area appeared so still: the sounds of birds or other background animal noises were completely absent. Both kids froze in their tracks, not turning around, but trying to with their eyes. Terror washed over them as they began to suspect that Aunt Gretchen just pulled a ruse on them. She had merely driven past them to the vicinity of Kramer’s Kompound, then doubled back to catch them off their guard here. She stood behind them now, leering and panting, boney arms raised above her turquoise hand-knitted shawl, ready to grab them. A metallic click sounded. Priscilla felt the sudden urge to pee. Peter felt all hope wither away. They both knew that sound even though they had ever heard it in person, thanks to TV. That was the sound of a gun hammer being cocked. Aunt Gretchen had a gun.
“You two are a little out of your element, I reckon.” That wasn’t Aunt Gretchen’s voice. They turned around despite themselves, jaws dropped. Standing before them like a weird cowboy scarecrow, gun now being drawn down and holstered, was Kramer and his Doberman, the source of the panting. Kramer chewed a toothpick, tossing it from one side of his mouth to the other with his tongue. He towered above them, thin and wiry, dressed in big black boots, camouflage cargo pants, matching vest, with a white tank top underneath. Strapped around his waist hung a black leather belt with a holster, cradling the polished steel hand cannon he just put away. Slung over his left shoulder, a hunting rifle rested. Beneath his camouflaged cowboy hat dripped long greasy salt and pepper hair, spilling past his shoulders. Below the hair, similarly colored stubble roughened an already craggy and sunken face. His eyes blazed piercing blue, like they had seen stars burn out, but there was a softness behind them that deepened with each passing second.
“You’re Tim’s kids,” Kramer stated as a realization more than a natural fact. His voice was rough, a smoker’s voice.
“Uh, Tim? Who’s Tim?” Peter treaded lightly. There was no telling what the war had done to Kramer. Quite possibly he was experiencing flashbacks and now recalled some old war buddy. It must be tough living in more than one world, Peter thought. He looked at Priscilla for guidance, but she looked out of her element, just like Kramer had observed.
“Your Dad, Mr. Dooley. I recognize you now. You’re his kids.” Kramer’s Doberman sat patiently next to his leg, panting lightly.
“Oh, yeah, that’s us,” Peter managed lamely. He suddenly realized that he had never known his father’s name. He had always been Dad. Dad even signed his name “Dad,” at least as far as Peter or Priscilla had ever observed.
“Woof!” The dog’s bark startled Peter and Priscilla, causing them to flinch. Kramer remained steadfast, but his eyes narrowed some. The kids trained their eyes on the dog, waiting.
“WOOF!” The dog panted heavier now, his tail wagging excitedly. But he wasn’t looking at either one of the kids. His eyes glued themselves to the canvas book bag slung around Peter’s shoulder. Does he sense the symbols in the envelope, Peter wondered? Does he sense their magic?
“WOOF!” The Doberman stood up, tail upright, slightly curved, and wagging.
“Snarf,” Kramer cautioned his dog.
“WOOF! WOOF!” The dog bounced slightly on his front legs, back leg muscles wound up like springs. The kids looked at each other worriedly, then back at Snarf.
“Snarf!” Kramer growled more forcefully.
“Woof! Woof!”
Something now squirmed within Peter’s book bag and he realized now that it was heavier and thicker than before he had placed the two envelopes inside. What was happening? Were the symbols growing? Were they coming alive? Peter raised his arms up further and looked down at the bag, suddenly wanting it off of him but too terrified to act upon his wishes. The struggling in the book bag became more intense. A black furry head popped through the corner of the flap.
“Oh my God!” Priscilla shrieked.
“Gaaahh,” Peter blurted.
“SNARF!” Kramer scolded.
“Bo bo!” Bo Bo exclaimed, trying to get out of the bag. Somehow with the turmoil at Dooley Downs, Peter hadn’t noticed Bo Bo sneaking into the book bag, nor the extra weight as they made their escape. He was openly relieved, a smile spreading widely on his face, yet in the back of his mind he felt ashamed for not thinking of saving Bo Bo while they had fled. Unbeknownst to him, Priscilla felt doubly so, on both levels. But cats, with their independent demeanor and relaxed ways, were often taken for granted and overlooked in times of stress. Most people retained a sense that they were very astute at taking care of their own affairs and saving their own skins.
“Oh, Bo Bo!” Priscilla rushed over and snatched Bo Bo from the bag, squeezing him tightly against her neck and cheek. His purr arrived swift and loud.
“Damn fine cat you got there,” Kramer remarked, shifting the toothpick in his mouth to the other side. “A might bit friendly, I might add. Snarf seems to be taken by him.” He reached down to scratch Snarf’s neck scruff, calming the dog.
“Wuff,” Snarf concluded agreeably. And with that he retired to just panting for awhile, though he never took his eyes off of Bo Bo, not even as the subject changed.
“What’re you kids doing out here. It’s dangerous.” Kramer glanced broadly around, apparently surveying all the danger around them.
Peter recovered. “We’re being chased. We need help.”
“Being chased, huh?” Kramer seemed unconvinced.
“Dad… I mean Mr. Dooley… I mean Tim…” Priscilla struggled.
“What she’s getting at is that our Dad has left or has gone missing,” Peter clarified.
“Well make up your mind. Has he left or has he gone missing?” Kramer’s left eyebrow raised while the other remained motionless. Peter found the gesture fascinating and slightly frightening.
Priscilla collected herself. “We’re not sure. All we know is that, if our Aunt Gretchen has any say in the matter, he won’t be coming back! She’s chasing us! She wants us to live with her! We got this letter…”
“Shh, shhh. That’s enough now.” Kramer raised his hand to calm her. “Let’s take this inside. The woods have… ears… and eyes.”
Peter and Priscilla failed to quite grasp what he insinuated, but Kramer glanced around furtively as if they were under surveillance. Gently, but swiftly, he led them to a thinning in the briar and barbed wire barrier, very similar to the one at Dooley Downs. Kramer swept it back with his bare palm. Although it looked real, this portion of the briar was fake, much to the surprise of the Dooleys. Beyond stood wire mesh fencing with a somewhat small hinged door. Kramer reached for something in the side pocket of his cargo pants and suddenly there issued a click from the door. It swung open silently on its own. Kramer motioned forward with his free hand. The twins looked at him, then at each other, then ducked and passed through into Kramer’s Kompound.
They all stood in what passed for Kramer’s living room. The twins waited patiently while Kramer read the letter from Dad that arrived that morning. Going through the secret back entrance at the perimeter, Peter and Priscilla had been startled and fairly disappointed by the place. They’d expected to see bazookas lying around, missiles stacked up, and crates piled here and there overflowing with belts of menacing bullets, possibly a tank peering from the shadows of a fortified garage pill box. Instead, they had entered into a flat, empty yard of hard packed tan dirt. The only things visible were two buildings of questionable wood plank construction reinforced here and there by sheet metal, aluminum siding, and chicken wire. They both looked the same size, but one was probably just a garage judging from the vehicle sized door that seemed to open upward, but which was currently closed. Besides, Kramer had motioned them to the other shack-like structure. Peter and Priscilla had stepped carefully on the ground, mindful of any trip wires or land mines that might be lurking about, but Snarf had bounded joyfully ahead of them and Kramer had prodded the kids gently along. Now Kramer stood before them, stroking his beard stubble and mumbling incoherently as he peered intensely at Dad’s letter.
Peter and Priscilla finally got tired of standing and searched for a reasonable place to sit down. Pushing aside some sporting magazines, some outdated newspapers, a monkey wrench, and what Priscilla thought must be a dried banana peel, the twins managed to clear a spot on the beige futon and huddle together. A large, shellacked wooden wire spool sat before them impersonating a coffee table. Almost every observable inch of its top surface was covered with paper scribbling, magazines, newspapers and clippings, assorted ammo, various soda and beer cans, crusted plates, writing utensils, overflowing ash trays, cigarettes and their boxes, melted down candles, and other assorted detritus. The walls were faux oak wood paneling adorned with army recruitment and old rock n’ roll posters. A tattered and drooping American flag was stapled to the ceiling. Two square plastic recycling crates next to the spool apparently served as stools. Beyond this windowless room hung a beaded curtain that led to a tiny kitchen and a green army blanket curtain that Kramer had said led to the “latrine,” which they supposed meant the potty. Supposedly, Kramer slept on the futon?
“Hmmm, now this is really something, isn’t it,” Kramer finally articulated. Still examining the letter, he went on: “Now how is it that you kids know there is something fishy about this? It says here that you should be with your Aunt right about now.”
He peered at them over the reading glasses he had put on when they had handed the letter to him. Somehow, even with his hard appearance, his army/hunting attire, and his still equipped guns, the glasses softened him… made him look wiser, almost teacher-like.
“She did come for us,” Priscilla answered, “we ran.” She held and stroked Bo Bo, who gazed cautiously at Snarf on the other side of the room. Snarf appeared clearly enamored with the cat, but respected the feline’s space. There may still be time to explore a relationship.
Peter took over the explanation: “She didn’t have the keys. And when we didn’t let her in she got rather violent, banging the door, yelling, and generally carrying on. We couldn’t go with her. Besides, she has a history of trying to take us from Dad.”
“Yup,” Kramer agreed. “Tim told me of the court case. He let on that things weren’t exactly agreeable between the Dooleys and Aunt Gretchen. She was your Mom’s sister, no? Seemed to think Tim was responsible, or something to that effect.”
“The point is,” Peter continued, “she didn’t have the keys. Even if there was half a crock to that jazzed up letter, Dad would’ve given her the keys to Dooley Downs if he really was going to leave.” It still felt weird to him to hear his Dad’s real name spoken.
“Go on,” Kramer urged.
“Dad would’ve never pulled a stunt like this. How would he suddenly just patch things up with that ugly bat after all she’s pulled? We haven’t even heard from her in over six months, since the court case. The court case… TO TAKE US. Dad’s always been on the up and up with us. He’s had problems coping with Mom’s death and all, but he’s always loved us. He wouldn’t do this. I don’t know how to explain it. He just wouldn’t.” The events were catching up with Peter. He started to feel very sad about all that had taken place. Priscilla took over to bolster their case.
“Look at that letter, Mr. Kramer, sir. That’s printed, from a computer. We don’t own a computer.”
“Maybe he used someone else’s,” Kramer countered mildly.
“Maybe. But why? Dad hand writes everything!”
“That’s his signature, isn’t it?” Kramer held out the letter so they could see Dad’s signature. “Got all of his special symbols on it, don’t it?”
Priscilla felt herself crumple. Kramer didn’t buy their reasoning. He was an adult; they were just kids. She looked at Peter. He leaned over on his knees and stared at the floor. A large Arabian rug covered most of the old, stained ochre colored carpet of the living room. It looked faded and dusty, what could be seen of it. Scraps of paper, magazines, empty cans, vacant cigarette boxes, and other byproducts of consumerism littered the floor. Clearly, Kramer lacked basic housekeeping skills. Maybe Dad had picked it up from Kramer. Their house was only slightly better.
“Relax, kids. I’m your friend, sure as I am Tim’s. But I’m trying to give you insight into how adults perceive things. Adults are going to believe this letter over your story. And if there is no evidence of your Dad to contest it, you will be going to live with your Aunt Gretchen, sooner or later, like it or not.”
“So what do we do?” Priscilla tried not to sound desperate, but it came through as such anyway.
Kramer looked down at her over his reading glasses. He carefully folded the letter and handed it to Priscilla. He gently removed his glasses and put them in one of the many assorted pockets on his vest. There was something tired about his silent motions. Even Peter noticed, now shaken out of his daze. He removed his scoped hunting rifle off of his shoulder and placed it on the wall mount opposite the futon. Then he hunkered down on one of the crates by the coffee table. Pulling a cigarette from one of the many partially filled boxes on the table, he contemplated it for a spell, then stuck it in the corner of his mouth and lit it. Dragging in deeply, Kramer looked at the tattered American flag drooping from the ceiling. Priscilla thought she saw his eyes tear up, but when he looked back down at them they appeared clear and dry. Kramer remained silent for a few moments more, flicking ashes from his cigarette into an overflowing ash tray on the coffee table. The anticipation over what he was about to say grinded on the childrens’ nerves.
“That,” Kramer finally announced, “is something that you need to decide for yourselves. I can’t do that for you. I think your Dad may have told you something to that effect before. But that doesn’t mean that I can’t help. I can offer you my life experience and maybe a couple other things. One other thing I can do is explain the choices that you have before you, which are very few.”
Priscilla and Peter looked at each other, then back to Kramer, silently accepting his offer.
“The first choice is easy, relatively speaking. You go turn yourself in and live with your Aunt Gretchen… however, you live with her for ever after.” Kramer noted by the look on the twin’s faces that the first choice was clearly not an option.
“The second choice is much more difficult and filled with uncertainty. The second choice is to keep running, find out what happened to your Dad. There’s no guarantee of success. You may still end up living with Aunt Gretchen, answers or not.”
“We run,” Peter stated emphatically. “This whole situation is a great big dogalog. Dad’s in trouble. We need to help him.”
Priscilla looked at him and nodded vigorously. Clearly, the choice had been determined. Kramer examined them carefully and then continued.
“Alright. It seems you’ve chosen a quest.”
“Brear,” Priscilla said in awe.
“Like fate?” Peter asked.
“Nope, nope.” Kramer took another drag off his cigarette. The smoke poured from his mouth like a dragon as he spoke. “Fate is when you have no choice, and it usually ends poorly. Your positions are a little more like destiny, but even that implies a fixed outcome. Nope, you two are about to embark on a full-fledged quest, the outcome of which will, in part, be decided by your actions. But there are a lot of uncertainties.”
“You mean adults?” Priscilla asked.
“That’s one uncertainty… a big one. As it’s a Monday, not a holiday, and barring any teacher conferences, I’d say you two are truant.”
“Yeah,” Peter confirmed sadly. “Dad was supposed to take us to school this morning. But he never showed up last night, obviously. He’s always been there to take us to school. We’ve never missed a day unless one of us was sick… never.”
“So, since you are truant, adults you encounter are going to wonder why you are out of school. They are not going to be sympathetic. In fact, some may try to turn you in to authorities. Plus, you’ve got your single-minded Aunt to contend with, who is actively looking for you both. She might have gone to the cops already. There might be a posse organizing right now, determined to hunt you down and bring you to the scales of justice.”
“Wait a minute,” Peter interjected, “that letter is a fraud! Nobody could seriously believe it!”
“As I said before, adults are not going to believe your story over Aunt Gretchen’s, especially without your Dad there to back it up. To other adults, that letter says it all. Now, they probably will search for your Dad, but if he can’t be found, it’ll just be prolonging the inevitable.”
“But why won’t they believe us?” Peter asked, trying not to sound whiny but feeling unsuccessful with the effort. Priscilla bore a pained expression on her face, clearly dissatisfied with their diminishing prospects of hope. Kramer finished his cigarette with one epic drag then snuffed it out in one of the overflowing ashtrays. Peter watched carefully for the smoke to come out of the veteran’s mouth or nose, but it never did, even when he spoke again.
“You see, kids, I’ve got a unique insight into the matter, being that I am arguably an adult myself. It’s like this: people are like rubber bands, see? When a person is young, they are like a new rubber band. Lots of things can happen, stretch you different ways, but you always go back into shape. Well, as you get older, all this stuff keeps on happening, see? And a person starts to get brittle and lose their elasticity. So an adult is like a stretched out rubber band on the verge of snapping… or breaking, as it were. And because they don’t want to snap, they try to impose order on life and limit the mystical and strange from affecting their lives. Oh, but they watch it on TV and read about it in the gossip magazines, because they remember on some level what it was like to be a young rubber band, but they don’t let it happen in their lives because they are afraid they might snap.”
“I’m lost,” Priscilla declared, throwing her hands up in exasperation.
“So are you saying that you’re about to snap, Mr. Kramer?” Peter was trying to figure it out because it sounded like something his Dad would concoct. He glanced at Bo Bo sitting on Priscilla’s lap, raptly watching Kramer. Clearly Bo Bo placed some stock the reasoning of rubber bands and people.
“In short, kids, it’s about magnetism,” Kramer tried to clarify.
“I thought it was about elasticity,” Priscilla tried to clarify.
“It is, but that was just a metaphor. You see, it’s about what you are drawn to and what is drawn to you. Or, more specifically, what you let yourself get drawn to and what you let get drawn to you. Most adults don’t see the transition in their lives, from kid to teen to adult. More and more they let themselves get drawn to singular ideas and ways of behaving. And, alternately and concurrently, they let the diminishing pattern of others get drawn to them. Soon, they forget what it was like to be a kid. They think when they were kids, they thought like they did as they do in adulthood. So when they hear kids question what adults are doing, they think they are exaggerating… or worse, lying.
“See, the war brought me back to remembering how I thought when I was a kid. War can do that to a person, make them realize what has passed on and been lost. I got my elasticity back, so to speak. And your Dad is one of those unique individuals who never lost his. That’s why he was… er, is such a good father to you both… and why he and I are friends. But I think your Mom’s death pulled one over on him. Instead of stretching slowly over time, he was stretched to the limit very quickly with your Mom’s passing. The only thing keeping him from snapping is his elasticity, and you two. You both help him remember how to think like a kid. And I would be surprised if he hadn’t left you with some clue or message on what to do if he was suddenly gone, like that signature of his.”
“Not too long after Mom died,” Peter said excitedly, finally catching on to what Kramer was getting at, “he put an envelope in a secret hiding place and showed us where it was. He told us to get it if there ever came a time where he wasn’t there for us. He said it contained symbols that he and Mom shared that would help guide us. We brought it here.” He began fishing in his book bag as Priscilla took over with a pressing question on her mind.
“Just what does Dad’s signature mean… those symbols? Did he ever tell you?”
“Nah, he never did… and I never asked. I never actually saw him write it, either, but I did see it on some legal papers he wanted my opinion on… you know, last Spring when your Aunt took him to court over you two. I asked him about it and he told me that he got legal permission to sign his name as “Dad” with all those special symbols after your Mom died. Apparently, there was something to it since it was all over those legal documents. But I didn’t pursue the matter further because I became preoccupied by how a person could go about doing such a thing and what kind of jangled up name I’d create for myself.” Kramer stared off at the floor, stroking the stubble on his chin, likely imagining what kind of interesting name he could adopt.
“Did you know Mom… our Mom?”
“Not like I knew Tim… I mean your Dad. It wasn’t like we ever exchanged dinner invitations. I would see them pass by the place now and again: sometimes driving, sometimes walking by hand-in-hand during the evening.”
Priscilla imagined Dad and Mom strolling together on a late summer eve, an orange glow still clinging to the deepening blue of the coming night, holding hands lightly, fingers playing with each other’s. She and Peter were barely seven when Mom died. Her memories of Mom were distant, but fond, and they centered largely on how the relationship of her parents played out before their eyes. Mom and Dad had always been happy, always romantic. They gave and laughed and played. Priscilla may not be particularly adept at articulating her feelings regarding the matter, but anyone reading her mind would understand that she knew what real love was; because she had been loved. And so it was with Peter, as well.
“After the accident,” Kramer continued, “Tim came by and introduced himself. Gradually, over the years we became good friends, even though we only saw each other once or twice a month. I think I’ve helped him through some difficult times since your Mom passed away… you know, being a buddy, allowing him to vent. The war taught me a lot about loss.”
“And how did Dad help you?” Priscilla asked.
“Groceries,” Kramer grinned weakly. “Now let’s get to this thing your Dad left you. Time’s not flying backwards.”
Priscilla noticed the abruptness with which Kramer changed the subject. She knew Dad was largely a listener and probably helped Kramer as much as Kramer helped Dad. Until Dad came along, Kramer had lived largely in isolation with the memories of the war he experienced rolling around in his noggin. All of this was probably as overwhelming to Kramer as it was for the twins, having just met and all, even under the circumstances. Besides, Kramer’s point held water. Time made friends with nobody.
“Let’s see what you got there, Peter,” Kramer said.
Peter had cleared away an empty space on the wire spool coffee table. In the middle of the clearing lay the sealed textured envelope. Without ceremony, Peter popped off the wax seal. His face displayed the surprise he felt. It was that easy? The flap of the envelope raised slightly, the seal never licked. A folded letter of strange material was tucked inside. It was some kind of paper, but it appeared to be made of corn husk or straw. Peter touched it, experiencing further surprise at the paper’s smoothness.
“That looks like papyrus,” Kramer mused.
“Pappy-what?” the twins both asked in unison.
“Papyrus: Egyptian paper. The Egyptians made paper out of the Papyrus plant. They lived on the Nile River and there weren’t a lot of trees in the desert, or some such thing. This Papyrus grew plentiful, so they devised a method of making it into paper. It’s sort of a novelty now, being that white paper produced from trees is so much the rage. I wonder where Tim obtained it from.”
Peter pulled it from the envelope and he and his sister spent a few seconds touching the smooth, sturdy texture of the strange paper. Then Peter unfolded it. A crisp one hundred dollar bill fell out onto the table.
“Peter!” Priscilla exclaimed. Peter picked the bill up, examined it briefly, and then gave it to his sister. She was the responsible one with money. He unfolded the letter and gawked at what it revealed. Each letter was carefully scribed in Dad’s odd handwriting, symbols and all. Peter’s eyes bulged in awe as he read aloud:
Snogs,
If you are reading this, then something has happened to me and it probably isn’t good. But now you are on your own and you need to find your way, together. You may be tempted to leave your fate in the hands of the nearest adult. I think I’ve taught you better than that and I think you would be disappointed in yourselves if you did. You are Dooleys and I think you can see the reasoning in that.
I’ve left you some money to help you get around. Be careful, it won’t last. You will need to find your path and get going on it right away, which leads to what else is in the envelope: The Sooth Jewels. One was your Mom’s and one was mine and together they showed us our path. Now they are yours and yours alone. Use them to decide your path and don’t let up until you see that path completed.
Remember, your imagination unlocks the power of the symbols, for better or for worse. But these Sooth Jewels have no power than that which you give unto them. Never forget this. I love you both and we will all meet again at some other place in some other time. Brear!
“That’s the Dad I know,” Priscilla sniffled, wiping fresh tears from her eyes.
“Yeah… brear.” Peter felt hollowness inside him. It felt as if Dad had been extracted from his heart; not the love, just his presence. Until reading this letter, recent events clung to them like a fall shadow trying to keep up. Now the shadow hung among them, inside them. There was no more running away; there was only running towards. Towards what, remained to be decided… by them.
Peter shook the “artifacts” from the envelope out onto the table. They tumbled together, clinking. The objects were small, shiny, and metallic. One was slim, a simple cylinder like a needle, but without a point. It wasn’t much thicker than one, either. It measured close to three inches in length. The other object was about twice as long, but bent into a “V” so that each side measured three inches, including its “open” side. The objects had landed on the table together, roughly forming the letter “K.”
“Look,” Peter observed, “it’s a ‘K’… as in ‘Kramer’.”
“Oh, c’mon, Peter,” Priscilla scolded mildly, jostling him in the ribs with her elbow. The fascination of the objects had washed away much of the growing sadness in her heart.
“Nah, nah. Peter’s got a point there.” Kramer was back to stroking his stubbly chin, now a clear indicator of deep thought. Peter wondered with passing how Kramer managed to keep any sort of stubble on his face at all, what with all his scratching and rubbing, but maybe that was how he kept it to length. Either that, or maybe deep thinking was a rarity for the hardened vet, a luxury of sorts. Peter decided to strike the latter. Then he dropped the matter from his mind altogether.
“You see,” Kramer continued, “Peter is already figuring out the symbolism of these here Sooth Jewels, using his imagination and such. That’s just the sort of thing Tim was getting at.” He winked at Peter. Peter tried to capitalize on the bonding gesture with a wink of his own, but merely managed to smash his eyelids open and closed in rapid succession.
“Well what do you think it means, Kramer?” Priscilla asked.
“Oh, no. Nah. This is your deal. Tim made that clear.”
“Ok,” Priscilla said, getting more excited at this new task before them. She arranged the objects so they were side by side, then sat back and looked smugly at them.
“What is that?” Peter screwed his face into confusion. Kramer remained silent.
“It’s a four.”
“That doesn’t look like a four! It looks like a ‘1’ and a ‘V’.”
“Yeah, you squib! That’s how the Romans wrote their fours, except with capital letters. ‘I’ equals one and ‘V’ equals five. You put the ‘I’ to the left of the ‘V’ and it’s like subtracting one from five, which equals four.”
“Where’d you learn that?” Peter felt jipped. They were in the same grade with the same teachers. How did she know something he didn’t?
“I have my ways,” she said smartly, mildly teasing.
“Well, what does ‘four’ mean for us?”
“Um, it means our family: you, me, Dad, and Bo Bo!”
“Well why not Mom, too?” Peter removed the straight piece, leaving the ‘V’ for five. The object was amazingly light and cool in his hand.
“Five to one, baby, one in five; no one here gets out alive,” Kramer mumbled, slightly singing. Peter and Priscilla shivered at the slow chill that crawled up their spins and settled as goose-bumps along their arms.
“What does that mean?” Peter asked. “That sounds kinda grim.”
Kramer blinked a few times, as if coming back from somewhere very far away. He cleared his throat.
“The Doors.”
“What do doors have to do with the number five?” Priscilla asked, rubbing her brow.
“Oh, not doors that you open and close and walk through. Not in the literal sense, mind you. The Doors were a rock band during my time, my youth. They named their band after, and sung about, the doors of perception. You see, your mind is what sees, not your eyes. People forget that, so they start believing what their eyes tell them, not what their mind tells them. It goes to what you are doing with these symbols here. Each new thing you imagine about them is another perception, another door opened.”
“We have to use these symbols together, Peter, like Dad said. Mom isn’t here.” Priscilla held out her hand. Peter reluctantly gave her the piece. He felt frustrated, like they weren’t getting this thing right.
“Well, Dad isn’t either,” Peter retorted.
Priscilla bit her nail, looking anxiously at the bent object on the table. She noticed the near weightless coolness of the piece in her hand and gazed at it in wonder. Then she quietly placed it to the right of the ‘V’.
“Six?” Peter asked. “What do you suppose that means?”
“I have no idea,” she breathed softly.
“Maybe something yet to be seen? A new doorway?” Kramer offered. “The number might have significance at a future date. Remember it.”
Priscilla reached forward, positioning the straight piece against the open face of the bent one, forming a triangle.
“The pieces are together,” Peter amazed, “in a triangle. There’s a triangle in Dad’s signature!”
“Yeah, in the small ‘d’… with a small circle at each corner.”
“Me, you, and Dad?”
“Me, you, and Bo Bo,” Priscilla corrected. “It’s just us now.”
“Well what about Kramer… and Snarf?”
“Like I said before,” Kramer reminded, “this is your quest and something you two… I mean three, will need to complete yourselves. I will do more harm joining you than good. You can hang under the adult radar, I can’t. But you are getting closer and you are starting to work together.”
Peter examined the two pieces closely. “Hey, look. This straight piece is threaded on both ends. It’s almost unnoticeable. And there is a hole in the bend of this one.” They all leaned closely in as Peter rotated the pieces slowly. He took one end of the straight piece and threaded it carefully into the outside bend of the other, forming a ‘Y’.
“Now the pieces really are together!” Priscilla marveled. “But what does ‘Y’ mean?”
The room fell silent except for the soft snoring purr of Bo Bo, who had made his way over to Snarf and curled up next to his side. Snarf sat motionless, looking about the room then back down at Bo Bo, excited but clearly afraid to move. Staring at the combined symbols, Kramer suddenly realized which piece had been Tim’s and which had been his wife’s and what their joining had meant to them, where they let the symbolism lead them. However, he felt divulging the knowledge to the twins was not prudent at the moment and he decided to interject.
“Maybe it just means you should be asking ‘why’ about everything from here on out,” he offered, breaking the silence. “Maybe you’ll figure it out later, hmm?”
“Well, wait,” Peter remarked, astonishment filling his face and voice. He swiftly unscrewed the two pieces, reversed the curved one, and then screwed the two back into place. There existed little interpretation for the resulting symbol.
“Peter, it’s an arrow!”
“Yes! And arrows point the way!”
Kramer began chuckling and a smile cracked upon his face, the first of either that they had witnessed. Abruptly, he jumped up whooping, hat in hand and slapping his thigh. Snarf jumped up and down, too. Bo Bo, realizing his new hosts not to be the calm, collected, rational sort he had come to believe, skittered across the floor and disappeared into Peter’s book bag. Peter took note while still marveling at Kramer’s startling change of demeanor.
“An arrow points the way!” Kramer crushed his hat down on his head and danced into the kitchen, slapping the beaded curtain aside in a jumble. He emerged almost immediately, delicately balancing a large saucer of water, gauging speed with care. He placed the saucer in the clearing on the table and sat back down, solemn and thoughtful again. “Go ahead, Peter, place the arrow upon the water, flat-wise.”
Peter complied, moving slow and careful. He was certain that the unified metallic object would sink. And yet, it was so light in his hand. Just a hair above the fluid he let it go. The object floated, and it floated on top of the water, as if it had one hundred percent buoyancy. Slowly it turned, until it pointed toward one corner of the room.
“Well, now. That is the damndest thing I’ve ever seen,” Kramer whispered.
“It moved,” Peter added, “and it floats.”
“It floats like nothing I’ve ever seen… nothing metallic that is. It’s floating on the water, not in it. But that’s beside my point. As you might know, Earth has a magnetic field. Although it affects everything, some things show it more, like things with iron in them. If you place a thin enough needle in water so that it floats, it will align itself to the Earth’s poles, north and south.”
“And so which way is it pointing?”
Kramer pulled a small object out of one of his pants pockets and looked it. Peter assumed he was looking at a pocket compass. Putting it away, Kramer stood up and reached into his back pocket, pulling out a folded map. Peter wondered what other gadgets Kramer kept on his person. He was like a veritable Swiss Army Vet. Kramer walked over to the wall above the futon, where resided a sternly cast Uncle Sam poster accusingly pointing a finger at his audience with the simple, yet ominous, command: “I WANT YOU FOR THE U.S. ARMY.” Kramer popped out the pins holding the poster to the wall and let it haphazardly fall to the floor. Unfolding the map in his hand, he spread it evenly upon the wall and pinned it into place. He stood back, admiring the majesty of the open parchment with his hands on his hips.
“Huh,” was all he said.
“Huh?” the twins replied in unison.
“Uh-huh,” was the response.
Snarf nosed Peter’s book bag cautiously. A soft, but definitely displeased hiss issued from it. Snarf jerked back and whined, saddened over Bo Bo’s change in affection but oblivious to how he had contributed to it. Changing the subject, he turned and sniffed his master’s leg. Apparently satisfied, Snarf trotted between the beaded curtains into the kitchen, where the sounds of water slurping soon ensued.
“Soooo?” Priscilla intoned, displaying her hands palms up before her. His back to them, the physical gesture was lost on Kramer, but the verbal tone wasn’t.
“Sorry, kids, my mind was wandering. What we have here is an anomaly. You see, this map is oriented north, against this wall.” He pulled a mechanical pencil from his boot, clicked the graphite out, and marked an ‘X’ on the map. Looking over his shoulder at the twins, he said: “That’s us… where we are right now.”
He stroked a line across the map into the town of Prudence. It went off into the northwest side of the map. Kramer then turned to the kids, raising his eyebrows up and down and nodding towards the floating arrow. The kids looked. The arrow wasn’t pointing north. It was pointing in the direction Kramer had drawn, into Prudence.
“So it points into town,” Peter observed.
“Yeah, but it shouldn’t.” Kramer removed another object, a protractor, from the bottomless pockets on his camouflage cargo pants, much to Peter and Priscilla’s amazement. He leaned over and measured the angle of the arrow floating on the water in the saucer and then placed the protractor on the map to gauge the corresponding angle. Then he peered closely at the line he had drawn on the map and compared it to the protractor. He drew another ‘X’ on a spot in prudence.
“Oh,” he said, as if he had discovered something noteworthy.
“Oh?” Peter looked at Priscilla with wonder. She returned the expression.
“This arrow points towards Swenson Park at the edge of Prudence. But the first building it points to past that…” Kramer turned dramatically to them, “is Red’s Recovery Room.” He tapped the spot on the map a couple of times with the mechanical pencil for emphasis.
“Seriously?” Peter asked.
“As napalm,” Kramer confirmed. The twins weren’t too sure what napalm meant, but Kramer’s face said he was very serious.
“Where Dad hung out,” Priscilla declared. “Then we go. Maybe Red knows something.”
Peter nodded in confirmation. Kramer scrutinized their resolve and then headed for the front door. “Be back,” he said.
The room was silent. The slopping of water in the kitchen by Snarf had finished. Possibly he had fallen asleep. Peter took the metallic arrow and the letter and put it back in the envelope. He placed it carefully in the book bag so as not to disturb Bo Bo. Priscilla just blew air through her pursed lips in a silent whistle as she quietly patted her hands together. There clearly was no need for further discussion in the matter. There was little choice, even if it was coincidence. But neither of them believed it was. Things felt fluid. A meaning and a power fluttered under everything.
Kramer soon returned, holding a BMX bike in each hand and a long object between his teeth. He set the bikes down against each other and removed the object from his mouth. In two lengthy, smooth strides he stepped over between the twins and hunkered down. The object he held in his hands was a large knife in a thick black leather sheath. He pulled the knife partially out of the sheath, revealing a polished steel blade, razor sharp on one edge, rough and jagged on the other. There was a clear bulb at the end of the hilt, a water filled compass.
“This is my army combat survival knife. I want you to have it. Don’t say no. The compass on the end here screws off. Inside is a wire saw, some fish hooks and line, a needle and thread, and some water proof matches. I anticipate that you are headed into trouble. Use this to help you on your way, but only pull it against someone when you have no other choice. I repeat: do not pull this on anyone unless you intend to use it. It is an item of last resort. Take those bikes I brought in. They were for my boys, until my woman ran off with them, never to return.” A brief sorrow rippled across his face, then vanished.
“Mr. Kramer, we can’t…” Priscilla started, but Kramer cut her off.
“I said no. You take them. You go. You run and find your destiny. Listen, there is a power and it is with you. It is on your side, but only if you believe in yourselves, like your Dad said. Today is the beginning of your new lives… the ones you will make yourselves. Go. Scat.” Kramer stood and gently prodded the twins to their feet.
Peter gently lifted his book bag with Bo Bo and the envelopes in it. Then he carefully put the combat survival knife inside, making sure the sheath was clipped so that Bo Bo wouldn’t hurt himself. Priscilla looked worried, but Peter assured her with a nod that everything would be alright.
Quietly they went over to the bikes, Kramer following behind. Each twin took one and they all went outside. They headed for the front gate this time, the twins unafraid of land mines or booby traps, their minds clearly on the journey before them. Once again, Kramer retrieved an object from his cargo pants, a small rectangular box. He extended an antenna from the box and pressed a button on the box’s face. The gate slowly swung open with a groan.
Peter realized the chain locking the gate was just a ruse, a diversion for any would-be infiltrators. The impression would’ve stricken him with greater intensity had it been under different circumstances.
The twins looked back at Kramer pensively, poised on their new BMX bikes, ready to ride. Peter opened his mouth to say something, but Kramer held up his hand, silencing him. There remained nothing else to say. He swished his hand towards them, urging them off. Reluctantly they turned towards the open gate to the gravel drive beyond. Each pulled a deep breath, set themselves upon their bikes, and pushed forward. Once past the threshold, the gate to Kramer’s Kompound slowly groaned closed behind them.
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3. II Kramer’s Kompound
1 Chapter 1
2 I Dooly Downs
3 II Kramer’s Kompound
4 III Beer Can Flats
5 IV Max the Axe
6 V Fast Eddie’s Last Gas
7 VI Swenson Park
8 VII Sid’s Toy Bazaar
9 VIII Red’s Recovery Room
10 IX Officer Holt
11 X The Straw Dog
12 XI Aunt Gretchen
13 XII Mirror Falls
14 Epilogue
15 Peter Dooleys’ Lexicon of Lingo
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A New Way of Feeling
Tamara Lindeman of the Weather Station pushes the boundaries of folk music
By Connor Dinnison
The Weather Station headlines Saturday at The Bartlett.
"I'll tell ya what freedom is to me," says the iconoclastic chanteuse Nina Simone in a 1968 New York public television interview. "No fear. I mean, really, no fear!" She calls it simply a feeling, something as inexplicable and rare as love, "like a new way of seeing."
In Tamara Lindeman of Toronto, who records and performs as the Weather Station, Simone (had she won her battle with breast cancer) would have found a kindred spirit. As Lindeman admitted to Canadian radio host Tom Power on his CBC show Q, her latest LP, released in early October, is a paean to "staring down things you're afraid of and choosing to be reckless." It's revealingly self-titled The Weather Station, and though it shares little sonic affinity with anything by "the high priestess of soul," it's in essence a soul record in the folk tradition and lineage of trailblazing women — defiant, emphatic and in search of that elusive muse, freedom.
"There's always this element of fear or shame in what I've revealed in a song," says Lindeman, whose nuanced lyrics are often blushingly intimate, like a private poem or love letter. But, she continues, "I think that's the thing that can make a song powerful," the vulnerability in naked honesty, in accepting one's face. It's certainly, suggests the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, what has made The Weather Station feel "like a fresh start," however thrilling or terrifying.
After collaborating with producer Afie Jurvanen, better known as indie folk artist Bahamas, on her previous record, 2015's Loyalty (and previously with another Canadian musician, Daniel Romano, on 2011's All of It Was Mine), this time Lindeman assumed the role of "decision maker." She found a new determination to see her vision through, and a new confidence in ignoring the dissenting opinions and hesitations of other (mostly male) voices in the studio, not to mention her own.
"It was a matter of being like, 'I want to do this and I'm just going to do it,'" she says matter-of-factly. "I felt less protective of myself, and less afraid. This record is what I wanted to do now."
Nowhere on The Weather Station is that sense of urgency more explicit than on the standout single "Thirty." Tethered to a driving krautrock pulse, Lindeman unleashes a torrent of words and images (including an unexpected F-bomb, a first in her discography, that slaughters a sacred cow of folk music) in a Kerouac-esque stream-of-consciousness rant that feels like both a bite-sized, personalized Goodbye to All That and an ode to the generational malaise of her contemporaries, the thirty-somethings of a new Age of Anxiety. Gone is the hushed vocal delivery and soft-as-falling-snow acoustic accompaniment of Loyalty. Gone, too, is a kind of smallness that, in the case of All of It Was Mine, once confined an entire record — in story — to the same house, the same street.
Good riddance, says Lindeman.
"It just felt good to let loose in all ways," she admits. "It felt like gentleness just wasn't something that was speaking to me [anymore]. Moving away from it made me feel really empowered."
Still, Lindeman balks at the suggestion that her music has ever been prototypically gentle.
"I felt like [the songs on Loyalty] were kind of intense songs," she argues, "and I was saying kind of intense things." Indeed, her feather-light fingerpicking belied a kind of weight in her lyrics of loss (on the crushingly mournful "Tapes") and plaintive resignation (on the hopeful but tempered "Way It Is, Way It Could Be").
The shift, then, to a "rock 'n' roll" palette on The Weather Station, given the context of her past records, is a striking evolution for Lindeman, a kind of bold step forward not unlike the fabled night in July 1965 when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival. It sounds "like a child in a strange new body," as she sings on "Kept It All to Myself," simultaneously unapologetic and embryonic, and brimming with sincerity and an infectious energy. It sounds like catharsis, like she has finally and belatedly granted herself permission to face up to confrontation, within and without.
"Having made [the record] and put it out," she says, "I feel lighter."
It also sounds like a kind of freedom, something that in her recent live performances, she reveals, has been revelatory.
"Even if you're playing for 10 people," says Lindeman, "it is a very intense thing to stand in front of them and ask for their time, to be like, 'I'm here.' I guess it is this aspect of allowing yourself to own that situation and be OK with it, to recognize that people want your confidence, and that allowing yourself to take up space in that way is empowering, for everyone." ♦
UPDATE: The Weather Station show was cancelled after publication.
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We’re not there just yet: A joint statement on harm reduction and the Global Fund Sixth
On the 10th October, 2019 history was made in Lyon, when governments, philanthropic donors and the private sector pledged US$14 billion for the Sixth Global Fund Replenishment, more than any other global health institution has ever raised. Harm Reduction International, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, International Network of People Who Use Drugs and the India HIV/AIDS Alliance congratulate the Government of France, the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) and the broad network of health advocates, academics and policy makers on this tremendous success.
However, this is just the beginning. If the world is truly committed to ending AIDS, a seismic change is needed. We need international donors, increased political will to scale up evidence and rights-based responses such as harm reduction, and most importantly, strong community-led and civil society advocacy which requires investment.
The International Network of People who use Drugs, Harm Reduction International, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association and the India HIV/AIDS Alliance release a joint statement on what is needed to ensure people who use drugs are not left behind.
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Dorinda Medley Reveals Luann de Lesseps Was Inappropriate While Looking For Support
Dorinda Medley doesn’t necessarily seem to be on anyone’s side in the drama unfolding on The Real Housewives of New York, but she understands why some of the ladies are arguing. One can imagine that she just wants them to work out their issues, and she has tried twice now to get the ladies together for a sit-down dinner so they can talk about their issues and feelings. Sadly, the Berkshires didn’t exactly work out to be a peaceful night away and the dinner featured on last night’s episode ended up in Luann de Lesseps walking out.
According to a new tweet, Dorinda Medley shared her feelings about last night’s episode, as it was airing. Clearly, she doesn’t think that de Lesseps is an innocent as she wants to believe she is. While she wants all of the ladies to be happy for her, she doesn’t exactly have the sweetest things to say about Sonja Morgan and Ramona Singer, who have both dated Thomas D’Agostino before her. But Medley knows to stay silent and she didn’t say anything when the ladies got together at Bethenny Frankel’s home to talk about their co-star.
“As you can see I have NOTHING to say about this because I’d rather scrub floors with mascara brushes and chew on toothpicks …” Dorinda Medley revealed on Twitter while watching the scene unfold at Bethenny’s home.
Can you believe these 2 #wonderwoman take care of all my #landscaping?!?! #ThankYou @aprilhosker!!! ???????????? #powerhouse #???? #love #berkshiregardens #landscapearchitects #girlpower #bluestonemanor ????????????????????????????????????????
A photo posted by Dorinda Medley (@dorindamedley) on Jul 1, 2016 at 12:06pm PDT
But Dorinda did speak out when she heard that de Lesseps was telling Ramona Singer that she had said some nasty things about her. Apparently, de Lesseps was under the impression that Ramona had said some nasty things about her and Dorinda had passed on the information. But Medley doesn’t quite see it that way.
“Oh boy … I never said ‘nasty,’ Luann … now YOU’re stirring the pot … you and your exaggerations …” Dorinda Medley pointed out on Twitter, sharing that she never called her co-star nasty and that Luann was just making things up to make her case even stronger.
“You know … Luann just wants to live in this moment … And yes she wants no one to rain on her parade. I get it!!!!” Dorinda Medley revealed on Twitter, sharing that she realizes that her co-star just wants to be happy.
But there are ways to be happy and talking about a co-star’s sex life isn’t one of them. While de Lesseps was looking for support from the ladies, she did reveal that Sonja Morgan was just having sex with Thomas and that their relationship was purely friends with benefits. One can imagine that Sonja didn’t appreciate Luann downplaying her relationship with Thomas. And Dorinda Medley did think that her actions were inappropriate.
“Well Luann shouldn’t say that either … that’s inappropriate too. #AllAboutTom,” Medley tweeted in response to Luann talking about Sonja’s sex life, adding that Carole probably handled the situation the best, writing on Twitter, “Wow… And that’s what a grown a** woman does Carole Radziwill. I’m proud of you!!! #MovedOn.”
This was a nice #surprise that made my day and gave me a much needed #smile!!!! Thank you @artisbrush for my new toys!!! Going to use them for the #RHONY reunion soon!!!! ????????????
A photo posted by Dorinda Medley (@dorindamedley) on Jun 14, 2016 at 4:32pm PDT
Even though de Lesseps was happy and she just wanted her co-stars to feel her happiness and congratulate her, she didn’t get what she wanted. And she decided to flip out on the ladies, yelling at them before storming out of the restaurant.
“If you’re my friend, you defend me life a friend,” Luann told Ramona during the dinner, according to Radar Online, adding, “Then don’t talk s**t behind my back.”
“When you’re here and you’re feeling great, and you’re in love, everybody tries to rip you down! All of my friends are happy for me except for you bitches! Why?” de Lesseps asked the other ladies before storming out of the dinner, according to Radar Online.
Maybe Dorinda has learned a lesson; you can’t force these ladies together to make peace. At least, she sounded like she was done planning a dinner party for the sake of making peace, as the episode came to an end.
“And there you have it, folks … Another dinner, another destiny, another disaster by Dorinda … I TRIED to #MakeItNice … AGAIN..” Dorinda Medley tweeted, adding later, “I can’t get these dinners right….. #SIGH.”
What do you think of Dorinda Medley’s efforts to get the ladies together? Do you think she was right about de Lesseps being rude?
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Philippine religious superiors slam government ‘lies’ about church leaders
10-Aug-2019 Intellasia | CruxNow | 6:02 AM
The Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines appealed to Catholics to “resist the shadow of fear cast over the nation” following government allegations that several church leaders conspired to oust President Rodrigo Duterte.
It called on people to resist the government’s “lies, violence and betrayal,” at a gathering attended by hundreds of priests, women religious and lay people in Manila August 6, ucanews.com reported.
“This is a time for all Christians to display vigilance and resist injustice,” said Father Angel Cortez, the association’s executive secretary.
“We are calling on everyone to stand together and hold the government accountable for acts of wickedness, the violence and for selling out our sovereignty,” he added.
The association is a joint forum of heads of religious congregations, which run most of the country’s top universities and institutions.
Cortez said the “use of false information and the filing of trumped-up charges” against Catholic bishops, priests, and a religious brother “is a desperate move to hinder the Church from conducting its mission for the poor.”
Philippine authorities have filed sedition, cyber libel, libel, and obstruction of justice charges against 36 people including the country’s vice president and members of the opposition.
Church leaders charged are Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan, retired Bishop Teodoro Bacani Jr. of Novaliches, Divine Word Father Flaviano Villanueva, Jesuit Father Albert Alejo, Father Robert Reyes, and Lasallian Brother Armin Luistro.
The clergymen charged have publicly criticised the government’s anti-narcotics campaign that has led to thousands of deaths.
The charges stem from the release of a video that went viral on several social media platforms early this year that linked Duterte and his family to the illegal drug trade.
The association of religious leaders said charging the religious leaders is “an attempt to intimidate” them and “to stop us from doing what we do best, voice the truth.”
In his homily during the gathering’s Mass, Vincentian Father Daniel Franklin Pilario appealed to Catholics not to be afraid. “Silence in the face of evil is evil in itself,” he said.
Alejo said it is time for church people to “resist the temptation of disconnecting doing good from seeking the truth.”
“It is not enough that we take care of those who are dead. We have to investigate who led the act of killings,” he said.
“It is not enough that we rehabilitate the drug addicts. We need to probe who is the mastermind behind these drug syndicates,” Alejo added.
Villanueva said church people “will continue to speak up” and “resist everything that stands in the way (of truth)… because it is how we follow Christ.”
Faith-based groups also expressed their support for the accused church leaders, ucanews.com reported.
“The president cannot just intimidate the Church and hinder it from telling the stories of the victims (of killings),” said Nardy Sabino, secretary-general of the Promotion of Church People’s Response.
Sister Elenia Belardo of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines called on the government to “stop persecuting church people who work for justice and peace.”
Isaiah Ministry, an ecumenical church group, condemned the sedition charges filed against the church leaders, saying they are “based on questionable and unreliable statements.”
“That the basis of these charges are lies, makes it only obvious that the current administration is paving its way towards total dictatorship,” the group said in a statement.
A preliminary hearing in court for the religious leaders is set for August 9.
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Black Women, Your Pain Only Matters When a White Man Hurts You
Posted by Christelyn, 24 Jan
“No! Stop! Help Me! Please Help Me!”
Those were the words I heard when viewing a video in which someone conducted a Facebook Live of a woman appearing to be drugged and a man forcibly raping her in a club for all to see.
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I don’t need to know the details of what happened before the video started rolling. What I saw was a black woman in clear distress calling for help while a man imposed himself on her. Unless this event was completely simulated to outrage or (for some) entertain us, somebody should have been arrested. To date, I have seen no update.
On the heels of the jaw-dropping Surviving R Kelly docuseries that aired on Lifetime earlier this month and people wondering how such horrors could have happened so long without the R & B piece of filth having virtually no consequences, I can’t say I’m surprised that a young black woman was raped in a public place while everyone stood around and did nothing but record the event for Media Take Out.
Oh…and did you read about the four black boys that were arrested for dragging a girl and gang-raping her? You probably didn’t. It wasn’t three white boys so it wasn’t all that exciting. Anyone who lives on the periphery of the black community and knows its customs and values realizes that these incidents are not uncommon. And when they do occur, little fanfare is given unless a white man is a victimizer. Then, everyone wants justice. Then there is marching in the streets and thought pieces about the horror of white supremacy and how every single white person in the world is racist.
Remember Jazmine Barnes, the seven-year-old girl who was shot while in the car with her mother, who had first reported that the perpetrator had been a white man in a red pickup truck? The black community galvanized. Ancient black leaders rose from their crypts to hold press conferences demanding that the police find the man who committed these horrible crimes. The black sector of Twitter and YouTube gleefully announce the fabled race war was beginning and the “white supremacist terrorists” were now attacking women and girls. When it was discovered that the real perpetrators of this murder where two black men, the deflation of the racial-rousing activists was nearly audible. Everyone went back to their corners and sulked because when black girls are victimized by members of their own community it’s only a Tuesday. Wednesday. Everyday.
The dejected response that the perpetrator wasn’t a “white supremacist terrorist” but rather, a typical, run-of-the-mill black, male terrorist is because of one thing and one thing only: Black men continue to fight a war by proxy with white men. They simply can’t or won’t collectively compete with men the typical way men do—by building bigger, making the most, collecting the best, owning the most etc., so when anything happens to a black girl or woman and the perpetrator is a white man, all the mechanisms in place to “fight the good fight” are primed, greased, and ready to go full throttle. It’s the only war they have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. The black community has absolutely no motivation to collectively do what is necessary to reign in the real source of danger innocent black girls and women face. They would rather you believe that the biggest source of your fear should be the white man when statistics and life experiences tell us otherwise.
What I have discovered through the repeated stories I see on my news feed about black women being beaten, raped, maimed and murdered is that no one really cares enough to do what is necessary to turn this around, because at the center of all the violence is the black male, whom the community has a blood oath to protect against “the evil white man.” So next time, if it’s your daughter being filmed for entertainment while being sexually assaulted by a black man, don’t expect many people to care. In fact, almost always, she will be blamed for not dressing like a nun to go to a club, or twerking too much when she knows damn well she’s just asking for that dude to run up in her. Don’t expect these atrocities and the (non) reaction thereof to change in your lifetime.
Now it’s up to you to ask yourself how much you believe YOU are worth. How excited are YOU to become cannon fodder for an un-winnable war that has little or nothing to do with you in the first place? How attached should YOU be to a community that is only outraged at crimes against you when others outside the community do it? When will YOU have enough?
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16 responses to "Black Women, Your Pain Only Matters When a White Man Hurts You"
fearlesscrus says:
Posted: 08 Apr 19
Can't we get statements from the black leaders who reversed gears? Ask them why it was suddenly okay with them when black women & girls are raped? They act like they do, because we don't hold them accountable.
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sonatarctica says:
Posted: 22 Mar 19
media lynching of the white high school maga smirkers was on like donkey kong... until the truth came out.... then... all quiet on the western front oops
Pleezu2 says:
Posted: 25 Feb 19
Yup Christelyn, certainly plain enough to see why this "could" be so. I think this possibly comes about when we are unable (or unwilling) to put ourselves in the other person's shoes. OR the obsession to ALWAYS prove oneself RIGHT and the other WRONG...... Life is still a game, though. And we need constant reminding of that fact, otherwise we do tend to lose perspective from the bigger view, right? ML, Calvin.
nawen says:
Posted: 29 Jan 19
Correctly yeah it's like that because some of black men's hearts are different for those of white guys most of white guys their love comes from the of their hearts and when he hurts you after short time he realises his mistake And at least he can say sorry immediately
blackbelle01 says:
This is so true. If a WM had did what R Kelly did to those young girls. Al Sharpton, BLM and everyone in the so called hypocritical Black Community would have calling for his head on a platter.
lovely816 says:
Everything Christelyn Karazin says can be accurate and it does not change the fact that America is a racist society. It doesn't erase that white privilege is a thing and systemic oppression and racism exists. I hope all readers understand that as well. Black women are the most unprotected class in American society. Our community doesn't protect as we should but neither does the larger society (including white men). So if you think dating a white man is going to guarantee protection, you might be disappointed. We have to protect ourselves on all fronts. And dating a white man doesn't guarantee that you will be treated better either.
Posted: 05 Jun 19
What are you talking about? You sound like a typical mammie. BM don't protect BW and somehow its the White man's fault? BM are murdering and raping BW every day and its because of White supremacy? You are delusional if you believe that BM do not commit these crimes on their own.
Behappy2018 says:
Posted: 28 Jul 19
Nachtigal says:
I agree with everything in this article. There is a TON of video evidence, depicting violence against "black" women, perpetrated by "black" men, but nary an arrest is made. It sickens me, to the pit of my stomach, that such a horrendous act no only happened, but that it is VIRAL (meaning that with every share, a vote is being perceivably cast, that this is the kind of "content" the general public wants to see). A WOMAN WAS SEXUALLY VIOLATED IN PLAIN SIGHT OF A CROWD OF PEOPLE, and no one lifted a finger, except to press record on their phones. I'm officially ready to move to another planet. Seems I have no protection from Earth-lings... #heartbroken
lovingstar says:
Christelyn Karazin accurately highlights the systemic problems within the African American community. Black male violence against black women and girls is largely ignored by black community leaders. The black community activism only kicks in when there is a white male victimizer as Christelyn points out. At the end of the day, African American women and girls have NO advocates from black community leaders especially when a black male victimizer is involved (e.g., Bill Cosby, R. Kelly) and it is a crying shame.
Byuma2019 says:
What this all about?I have allergy of reading.
JonnyReggae says:
There are a lot of generalisations in this article. Can you be accurate when it comes to describing various people. There is bad in a minority of people in all walks of life, whilst I see some of your point in regards to the black communities being up in arms in certain cases, it’s exactly the same in white communities too. In some Asian communities people are killed before going to any trial. I think the title of your piece is a bit hypocritical as you’re showing links about the various crimes being committed. If you’re talking about national or world wide coverage, you won’t see this as it’s a majority of white editors controlling the news. If you feel that news of black violence isn’t reflected to how you see it, create or promote the black communities to start writing their own papers, magazines or websites.
dodgethis2k says:
If I wrote this column, I would be called a racist, a Nazi or (their new favorite) a white nationalist. I respect everyone until they give me a reason not to, and that includes the women I've dated, several of whom were not white.
Meche_ says:
This isn't about you. You're a good example of the problem.
Coolms says:
you are so right
Paganinifan says:
EXCELLENT ARTICLE!! You are spot on here. Unfortunately, if you were to try to be a black female leader and talk about these issues publicly, your own black community would call you a "coon". Everything you touched on is literally right in front of their faces yet they choose to live in denial. And I blame a majority of the problems within the black community on LIBERALS. Period.
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He, being a responsible CEO, did not share the explicit details. But — notably — he did confirm that an Apple A.R. product is in the pipeline, which is big news — and more than he was willing to share about the Apple car. Here’s his response to McGregor’s direct question:
“I think AR is extremely interesting and sort of a core technology. So, yes, it’s something we’re doing a lot of things on behind that curtain that we talked about. [Laughs.]”
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Augmented reality headsets will be all up on everyone’s heads in the future, but rest assured that Apple’s eventual plunge into that market will be the real impetus.
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The Forester and Rogue are great for cruising comfortably at a quick pace down the left lane. However, if you're searching for a car that's ready for whatever you want to throw at it, the Subaru Forester is at least a few strides ahead with regard to efficiency and power capacities.
Equipped with a 2.5L 4-cylinder engine, the 2019 Forester generates 182 horsepower and 176 lb-ft of torque, which is prepared for both on- and off-road adventures. The Rogue produces a lesser 170 horsepower and 175 lb-ft of torque with a similar 2.5L 4-cylinder engine.
An important difference in capability comes when you take a look at the Forester and Rogue's drivetrains. Whereas Subaru's Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive is standard, all-wheel drive is an available option in the 2019 Rogue. This will make a huge difference in traction if you're caught outside during harsh weather conditions, such as heavy rain or snow. All-wheel drive also provides you with the ability to go off-road with ease.
Interior Cargo Competition
These compact SUVs have a 5-passenger maximum seating capacity but they differ quite a lot when it comes down to storage space. The Nissan Rogue has 106 cubic feet of passenger volume, while the Subaru Forester comes with a larger 111.9 cubic feet for your family to enjoy.
You'll have plenty of space for goods in the back with all five seats filled in both the Rogue and Forester. The maximum cargo volume in the Rogue is 70 cubic feet. If you need more room than that, it won't be a problem for the Forester. When you need the extra volume for a home project or weekend excursion, fold down the rear seat to get 76.1 cubic feet of space.
Nissan Rogue vs Subaru Forester: Safety
We'd like to say that the Nissan Rogue and Subaru Forester are equals when it comes to standard safety, but the 2019 Forester is hard to compete with. Subaru EyeSight® is a suite of driver-assistive technologies, which includes an Adaptive Cruise Control system to keep your Forester at a safe distance from the vehicle in front of you.
Some of the more comparable safety offerings between the Rogue and Forester are the Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) with a Traction Control System (TCS) as well as Rear Cross Traffic Alert and a 4-wheel Anti-lock Braking System (ABS).
We like the Brake Override System that's standard in the 2019 Forester. If you ever find yourself accidentally pressing the brake pedal and the accelerator at the same time, this system will help prevent unintentional acceleration by reducing the effectiveness of the accelerator pedal.
Which Compact SUV Will You Choose?
Our comparison guide to the Nissan Rogue vs. Subaru Forester discussion positions both of these vehicles as well-equipped, fun to look at, and fitted with top-of-the-line safety systems. However, the experts at Ira Subaru believe that drivers near the Wakefield, Reading, and Danvers areas will truly appreciate what the Forester has to offer.
When you're ready to get behind the wheel, we invite you to make your way over to our dealership to schedule a test drive in the 2019 Subaru Forester.
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Why JavaScript Coders Should Know the Basics of SEO?
Though the major search engines already can crawl plain JavaScript content, most SEOs are still very reluctant to use it on their sites and you need to really know how Google and others treat JavaScript to convince your SEO that it's OK to use the language in that particular case.
In case you really need to use some JavaScript, be sure to run tests with the help of a text browser or just disable JavaScript in yours. That will allow you to see how your content is accessible to Googlebot, which is a text-based browser as well. If you can see searchable content that you deliver with the help of JavaScript, then it's most likely OK and it will be crawled and indexed by search engines.
Some other related SEO and JavaScript articles:
- Does JavaScript Hurt SEO Efforts?
- SEO and JavaScript in Web Development
Label: Google spiders, major search engines, SEO and JavaScript, SEO Friendly JavaScript, SEO expert, Googlebot, JavaScript guru, on-page SEO, JavaScript community, JavaScript Coders
If you want to make a positive impression when you present your project to a panel of SEO guys, you totally need to know how they think about JavaScript, because it will help you to get that job and your knowledge of SEO basics will set you apart.
Back in the days of IE6
The thing is that JavaScript - since it's been introduced with IE6 - has been notorious, because of the fact that it's not SEO-friendly at all. Search engines were not even able to crawl content served by JavaScript. Thus Google literally recommended avoiding JavaScript in websites. As more and more sites start using the technology, search engines will try to catch up with the trends and refine their algorithms. It goes without saying that they will finally make their crawlers read JavaScript where possible.
What is Visible to Search Bots Nowadays?
At the time of this writing, Google can execute some JavaScript (Facebook and Disqus comment, etc.), but only if you keep it as simple as possible. You can use document.write and window.open pretty safely. Unfortunately, we don't know to which extent exactly Google spiders can crawl JavaScript code. Matt Cutts - a guy from Google who usually "discloses" some Google algo secrets - was never too specific about that aspect. Back in 2011, he said: "Google can execute AJAX/JS to index some dynamic comments." The only viable data is obtained from SEOs who actually take the plunge and conduct experiments.
By the way, Matt Cutts is a big authority in the SEO community. So, if you refer to him while proving that your idea is a fabulous one. The best way would be to based your arguments on the articles where Matt talks about JavaScript and SEO. It's a sure-fire way to convince just about every search engine optimization manager. Now let's take a closer look at how to talk to SEOs.
What to Say to an SEO
For starters, you need to emphasize the fact that your .js effects will improve user experience, because it's one of the things that both SEOs and marketers in general really value.
That done, you need to present your technical findings as for how your JavaScript code is absolutely safe in terms of inbound marketing also known as SEO. In order to provide with sound arguments, you need to take the following into consideration.
SEO Friendly Use of JavaScript
Make sure to implement your JavaScript specifically to supplement user experience, but be advised not to use it to render actual content. As a rule of thumb, you need to avoid using JavaScript where possible. Instead, you may want to use both HTML5 and CSS3 which are way more user friendly in many cases.
Also, you don't want to use multiple parameters in your code, because it drastically slows down search engines' speed while crawling sites. The slower a search engine bot crawls your site, the less chances to high rankings for your site. So, you should really care about how your code performs in its natural SEO habitat.
As a workaround, you can externalize your JavaScript in an .js file, because it will allow to execute your code way faster. Plus it will make your HTML way less cluttered up.
Befriend an SEO
If you work in a team that has an SEO expert on board, you need to consult with him or her on a regular basis, because it will ensure that you're not working on something that will be rejected after you've worked on it for a few days.
Say, you've got this truly amazing idea to add a super cool effect JavaScript in site navigation (menu buttons). Then you talk to your SEO and he arrogantly gives you a big no-no to that creative idea. The reason is simple: crawlers won't follow any links in JS. And it's just a quick example from many possible issues. Again, if there's a way to do something without JavaScript, do it.
Surprise an SEO
You may make a better impression if you offer a solution to a problem that your SEO did not think to use your services for. The thing is that infographics have been all the rage in the SEO world for a while, but now they are not working that good, because they were overused specifically for the fact that they generated the same anchor text and alt from all sites that embedded them. You could offer enabling dynamic anchor text and alt tag value generation so that the links and alts get as diversified as possible.
Doing so will testify that you're not jus an awesome JavaScript guy or girl, but you're pretty aware of the intricacies of modern SEO.
As you probably know by now, most SEOs are really biased as for JavaScript use in their sites, but you can convince them to implement a few cool and SEO-friendly effects (that you'll be paid for) if you are able to show that you're also well versed in terms of technical on-page SEO as long as JavaScript is concerned. If you make that sort of impression at least once, you'll get referrals and consequently more projects, because it's extremely hard to find JavaScript gurus who develop projects with SEO in mind as well.
Kenneth von Rauch is an avid SEO guy who's confident that we can make the Internet a better place to deal with if we create sites with both best web development and SEO practices in mind. He's with WebDesy.com, a site about inbound marketing, web development and everything in between.
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Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) strives to recruit and retain underrepresented students, English Language Learners, and undocumented students through completion of their academic goals. OMSA’s services are available to all students, but is a critical support system for African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and other diverse populations. OMSA provides direct student support services and coordinates programming to promote seamless integration into the college environment.
The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) provides outreach, academic guidance, personal support, cultural resources, and leadership opportunities to enhance the educational experience and facilitate the academic and personal growth of underrepresented students.
OMSA's vision is to increase enrollment and ensure optimal academic success, retention, and graduation of underrepresented groups. OMSA supports diversity initiatives to enhance the college community in creating a diverse, culturally inclusive environment.
The goals of OMSA are to:
Provide academic advising to underrepresented groups in an effort to provide a clearer pathway to completion.
Increase access and opportunities for underrepresented students to pursue higher education.
Promote the development of academic, social, and leadership skills necessary for student success.
Facilitate successful transfer to a four-year institution.
The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs is located across from the bookstore in A-1108 in the Campus Center, Main Campus at 1215 Houbolt Rd, Joliet, IL 60431.
Summer hours: 7:00am - 5:30pm, Monday thru Thursday
Fall and Spring hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday thru Friday
Through our Programs and Services, OMSA strives to provide an inclusive environment that achieves the following objectives: -Provide optimal academic advising to underrepresented groups in an effort to provide a clearer pathway to completion. -Increase access and opportunities for underrepresented students to pursue higher education. -Promote the development of academic, social, and leadership skills necessary for student success. -Facilitate the successful transfer to a four-year institution or successful transition into the workplace.
Bilingual Services & Cultural Reinforcement
Academic Guidance and Referral Services
Advocacy and Personal Support for Underrepresented Students
Transfer Related Services & College Tours
Mentoring Programs i.e. Brother2Brother (B2B), Male mentoring initiative; Peer Mentors
Cultural Enrichment Activities
Leadership Development Programs and Conferences
Advising for English Language Learners
Community and High School Presentations
Advising available in Spanish
Peer Mentors Program
Peer mentors serve as a resource and assist new students with first-year transitional issues by providing support in integrating students into the college community. Peer mentors are required to meet with their assigned mentees on a one-on-one basis and attend educational and leadership activities.
To be a peer mentor you must:
Be currently enrolled at Joliet Junior College
Have a 2.5 GPA
Complete a comprehensive training program
Be in good standing with the college
Compensation is $250.00 per semester.
Scholarships and Resources
Resources and Information for special populations
Black Excel
The Jackie Robinson Foundation
Thurgood Marshall Scholarships
Asian American Journalist Association
Korean American Scholarship Foundation
Japanese American Citizens League
Japanese Government Scholarships
Hispanic / Latinos
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
League of United Latin American Citizens
State Farm Insurance Hispanic Scholarships
Jimenez Scholarship for Immigrant Students
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Aspira of Illinois Puerto Rico Resurrection Project
A Better Chance
American Indian College Fund
Association on American Indian Affairs
Association of American Indian Physicians
Indian Health Service
Morris K. Udall Foundation
Self Determination Assistance
OMSA Staff
Michelle Roman-Garcia
Director, Multicultural Student Affairs
E-mail: mroman@jjc.edu
Carolyn Powers
Assistant, Multicultural Student Affairs
E-mail: cpowers@jjc.edu
Lee McCline
Multicultural Pathway Coach
Email: lmccline@jjc.edu
Veronica Mascote
email: vmascote@jjc.edu
Undocumented Student Resources
The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs provides outreach, academic guidance, cultural resources, and leadership opportunities to enhance the educational experience and facilitate the academic and personal growth of underrepresented students. OMSA is committed to creating a campus climate that is inclusive to all students. OMSA staff are knowledgeable in connecting undocumented students to valuable resources, scholarship information and personal support. Advising services are also available in Spanish.
"It is critical to reiterate that Joliet Junior College is an institution that is accessible to all, regardless of status." -Dr. Judy Mitchell, President, Joliet Junior College (9/6/2017)
Read the full version of Dr. Judy Mitchell's statement of support for DACA.
Joliet Junior College Core Values- Respect & Inclusion
Advocates respect and inclusion for every individual and pledges to promote and recognize the diverse strengths of its employees and students, and to value and celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives of every individual.
What do you Need to Know About the End of DACA
On September 5, 2017, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to phase out and eventually end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) over two and half years. This means that, as of September 5, 2017:
USCIS will continue to process all pending INITIAL applications ACCEPTED as of September 5, 2017.
USCIS will reject all other new INITIAL applications. • USCIS will continue to process all pending RENEWAL applications that have already been filed.
USCIS will continue to accept and process RENEWAL applications until October 5, 2017 from applicants whose DACA expires between September 5, 2017 and March 5, 2018. DACA recipients whose DACA has already expired are no longer eligible to renew.
USCIS will reject all INITIAL and RENEWAL applications received after October 5, 2017.
IMPORTANT: Individuals with a current, unexpired grant of DACA will continue to hold DACA until it expires. This means that current DACA recipients maintain their protection from deportation and work permit until their current expiration date. USCIS will not refer DACA recipients and applicants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation unless they meet USCIS’ Notice to Appear guidance or post a risk to national security or public safety. Applicants with currently pending and processing applications should attend biometrics appointments and respond to any requests for additional evidence they receive from USCIS.
If you are eligible to renew under the above guidelines, you should do so immediately and file with enough time for your application to be delivered to and accepted by USCIS by October 5, 2017. Renewal applications must be accepted (and not just postmarked) by October 5, 2017 to ensure that your application is processed. For the latest information, please visit Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC).
Advocacy & Support
D.A.L.E. - Dreamers Advancing in Leadership and Education
Created in 2015, DALE is housed in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA), this support group was created with undocumented student and allies, to provide a safe place to raise awareness of undocumented, immigrant student experiences, to connect students to resources and disseminate important scholarship information, and empower students to develop their leadership skills.
Advanced Advisor Seminar- Advising and Supporting Undocumented Students
This workshop is offered to JJC faculty advisors and counselors to bring awareness about the challenges experienced by undocumented students at JJC. Offered by the Counseling Department and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs.
Undocumented Student Task force
Founded in 2013, this task force primary function is to identify barriers to access and completion and establish equitable policies and procedures for undocumented students at Joliet Junior College. Members of this taskforce include the following areas: Admissions, Financial Aid, Registration, Department of Adult Education and Literacy, Workforce Development, Dean of Students, Dean of Enrollment Management, and the Vice-President of Student Development.
Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project
Programs:Day of the Immigrant, Parent Programs, Know your Rights training, Mariachi Matters, DACA Workshops, Fight deportations, Leadership Development, Grassroots fundraisers, Get Out the Vote.
Email: info@ssipchicago.org
Web: http://ssipchicago.org/
Spanish Community Center
Web: http://spanishcenter.org/
IL Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Facing Deportation? Call Family Support Network and Hotline
Phone: 1-855-HELP-MY-FAMILY (1-855-435-7693)
Web: www.icirr.org
Available in English, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese
A.C.C.E.S.S. (Access to College and Career Education for Statewide Success)
Passage of the IL Student ACCESS bill would provide undocumented students with an equal opportunity in 4 year public universities.
This bill help students give undocumented students by allowing them to receive institutional aid in public universities.
Phone: call 217.782.2000 to ask your representative to support the student ACCESS bill
Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education
Advising Undocumented Students
Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC) - aids low-income immigrant students in their pursuit of a U.S. college education
Top 10 Ways to Support Undocumented Students (PDF)
How to Support College-bound Undocumented Students: Advice for Parents (PDF)
Immigrant and Refugee, Children A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff (PDF)
DACA: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff (PDF)
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
Scholarship Resource Guide
National Immigration Law Center
United We Dream - The DREAM Educational Empowerment Program (DEEP) is a catalyst for educational justice and empowerment for immigrant students. DEEP educates, connects, and empowers immigrant students, parents and educators to close the opportunity gap and engage in local efforts to improve educational equity. DEEP seeks to lay the groundwork that advances the educational justice movement in the U.S. by focusing resources and research on the needs and realities of immigrant students in order to increase educational attainment rates.
Legal Protections
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Joliet Jr. College upholds the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to protect the privacy of all our students' educational records.
Illinois TRUST Act (SB 31)
The Illinois TRUST Act recently extended protections for undocumented Illinois residents. This act prevents Illinois law enforcement agencies and officials from detaining an individual based solely on an "immigration hold." Also under this act, local police cannot stop, search, or arrest anyone based on their immigration or citizenship status.
Outreach/Community Opportunities
High School Undocumented Pathway to College Workshops
Workshops are designed to assist high school undocumented students apply for admission and scholarships at Joliet Junior College. If you would like a workshop at your high school, please contact the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) at 815.280.6709
Dreaming for the Future Annual Scholarship Benefit
Established in 2013, this student-led annual event hosted by Joliet Junior College's Latinos Unidos Club in collaboration with the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and Joliet Junior College Foundation, seeks to not only create an awareness of the plight of undocumented students, but also, raise funds for scholarships that are open to undocumented students.
Joliet Junior College Scholarships
Undocumented students are eligible to apply for JJC Scholarships available through the JJC Foundation. The scholarship application opens up in January with a deadline of May 1st every year. To apply, visit the Joliet/AwardSpring scholarships page.
Visit the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) to learn about upcoming Scholarship Seeker Series Workshops offered to undocumented students.
Scholarships created to support undocumented students at Joliet Jr. College:
Dr. L. Claude Aschinberg Annual Scholarship
Latinos Unidos Scholarships supported by annual Dreaming for the Future Scholarship. Benefit held in May every year.
Carlos Serrato Multicultural Scholarship
To donate to these scholarships, please visit the JJC Giving page. Make sure in the comment section you write the name of the scholarship you would like to donate to. There are many ways you can contribute.
Joliet Central High School - Dare to Dream Scholarship
Contact Ms. Aseneth Ruiz, Counselor, for more information
815-727-6787 | aruiz@jths.org
Familias Unidas Scholarship - http://www.ourladymtcarmel.net/familias4.php
ILACHE Scholarship – www.ilache.com
Ole Scholarship - ole_west@exeloncorp.com
USHLI Scholarship – www.ushli.org
Chicano Organizing & Research in Education--Que Llueva Café Scholarship
Hispanic Fund
Latino College Dollars: Scholarships for Latino Students
Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational Fund (SALEF)
Scholarships Open Students Regardless of Immigration Status (PDF)
U.S. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard Scholarship Guide
Two other wonderful guides that can assist you:
Financial Guide (PDF)
Scholarship Guide (PDF) regardless of Immigration Status
Undocumented and DACA students may be eligible to receive privately funded merit scholarships or grant aid. They are not eligible to receive state and federal financial aid.
Students should begin looking for scholarships as early as possible.
Contact individuals, groups, or colleges/universities about resources that may be available.
Scholarships Received from Donors Outside of Joliet Junior College
If you have received a scholarship check from an external donor outside of Joliet Junior College, please bring the scholarship check to:
Main Campus; Room A-3027
Academic Standards of Progress
Purchase your Books
Student Advising Center
Tutoring & Learning Center
Michelle Roman-Garcia / OMSA
815.280.6680 mroman@jjc.edu
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County strikes out on Red Lion bridge grant…
County strikes out on Red Lion bridge grant from CCI
Commissioners OK $8k to continue tourism marketing program
Journal-Advocate file photo
A bridge about 120 feet long spans the South Platte main channel at Red Lion. This bridge and a third bridge about 60 feet long over a secondary channel have been judged sound and would not be included in the $3 million cost to build the new bridge.
By Jeff Rice | ricej@journal-advocate.com | Sterling Journal-Advocate
PUBLISHED: November 19, 2019 at 1:20 pm | UPDATED: November 19, 2019 at 1:49 pm
Logan County continues to try to fund a multi-million-dollar bridge replacement after losing out on a recent grant request.
During a work session prior to the Logan County Commissioners’ business meeting Tuesday Commissioner Byron Pelton told the board Logan County did not get an Off-Highway Road and Bridge grant it had applied for from Colorado Counties Inc. The grant monies would have gone to rebuild the bridge over the South Platte River on County Road 93 east of Crook. Known as the Red Lion bridge, the structure was damaged by flooding in 2013 and 2015, and rendered impassable.
Pelton said CCI had four grant requests for the available funds, but could fund only three of them. However, he said, Greg Etl, northeastern regional manager for the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, has indicated there may be DOLA funds available to help fund the bridge replacement. Pelton said he will be meeting soon with Etl and other officials to check into that possibility.
The damaged bridge has been torn out and a temporary detour is in place to carry traffic across the river until the bridge is replaced. The 400-foot long bridge that was damaged doesn’t actually cross the South Platte’s main channel at that point, but an overflow channel several hundred feet to the north.
Earlier this year the commissioners approved a $385,371 contract with Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc., of Denver for consulting and professional engineering services on the project. Total cost to replace the bridge is estimated at $3.22 million.
In other business Tuesday the commissioners approved a request from the Lodging Tax Board for digital advertising, approved a convenience store liquor license, opened a public hearing on the county’s 2020 budget, and opened bids for information technology support and for security cameras.
The Lodging Tax Board’s request for $8,250 will continue a tourism advertising campaign with Herrmann Global marketing company. The funds will pay for a digital campaign called Visit USA Parks, and continues work begun a year ago when a series of videos was created to promote Sterling and Logan County as a tourism destination. Marilee Johnson, Logan County’s tourist center director, said the program has been successful in attracting people already traveling through Sterling to stay overnight. According to statistics provided by Herrmann Global, the advertising program already has reached 53,374 potential overnight customers over the past year.
“Most of the distribution is to the Front Range market and people who travel to the national parks, such as people heading to Rocky Mountain National Park,” Johnson said. “The goal is to target people most likely to stay overnight.”
The board approved an application from LMR Oil, LLC, for a beer and wine license. The license is for LMR’s Sinclair gas station and convenience store at the intersection of Colorado Highway 63 and Interstate 76.
Board Chairman Joe McBride opened a public hearing to consider the proposed 2020 budgets for Logan County. The proposed $12.8 million budget includes Logan County operating budget, Logan County Fair Board budget and the Logan County Pest District. There were no public comments, and the public hearing was closed.
The commissioners opened seven bids submitted to provide information technology support services and another six bids to install eight security surveillance cameras in the areas used by the County Clerk for elections. Both bids were referred to Logan County Emergency Manager Jerry Casebolt for review and recommendation.
Jeff Rice
Jeff Rice is a reporter for the Journal-Advocate. He rejoined the paper in July 2016.
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Julia E. Davies, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Psychoanalyst
Contact: 734.761.2434
Psychotherapy,
Psychoanalysis,
NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE PSYCHOTHERAPIES,
Certification in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2006
DERNER INSTITUTE, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, 1988
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, M.Ed. in Counseling and Consulting Psychology, 1983
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Visiting student, 1976-77
MCGILL UNIVERSITY, B.A. in Psychology, 1979
PRIVATE PRACTICE in Psychotherapy, Consultation, and Psychoanalysis,
FACULTY MEMBER and CLINICAL SUPERVISOR
National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
New York City, 2010-present
FACULTY MEMBER, CLINICAL SUPERVISOR, AND TRAINING ANALYST,
Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 2006-present
FOUNDING FACULTY MEMBER, Relational Psychoanalytic Group of Ann Arbor (RPGAA), 2014-present
SENIOR STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST, University of Michigan Psychological Clinic, 1990-1995
ADJUNCT LECTURER, University of Michigan Department of Psychology,
Ann Arbor, 1990-1995
SENIOR STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST, Rutgers University Counseling Services, 1988-1990
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Harvard University; 1981-1983
Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association
International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis
Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
202 E. Washington,
© 2018 Julia Davies, PhD
juliadavies@mac.com
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Adana Twins - "Drive" (feat Khan) - (3:34) 121 BPM
Claptone - "Night On Fire" - (6:41) 123 BPM
Cocolores - "Vox" - (4:33) 119 BPM
Murphy Jax - "Lets Get To It" - (3:07) 124 BPM
Moodymanc - "Joy" - (9:16) 125 BPM
Homework - "Ask Yourself" (Audiojack's Chemical Rewind) - (8:48) 120 BPM
Munk - "Happiness Juice" (Satin Jackets remix) - (4:23) 113 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Long Days, Hot Nights" (Claptone remix) - (2:46) 122 BPM
Dino Lenny - "I'm Coming Home" - (3:33) 118 BPM
James Curd - "Think You Know" (feat Annabel Weston) - (5:54) 121 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "Back In The Days" (feat Bam) - (3:34) 123 BPM
Kruse - "Yokohama Nights" (feat Brolin) - (3:36) 120 BPM
Adana Twins - "Bleeding" (feat Human Life) - (3:21) 120 BPM
Adana Twins - "Strange" - (7:04) 120 BPM
Kyodai - "Houston In The Blind" - (3:29) 125 BPM
Jimmy - "I See Lights" (Karmon remix) - (4:02) 119 BPM
Mickey - "Sweet Baby" - (3:26) 121 BPM
Kyodai - "Music Rises Up" (feat Stee Downes - Claptone remix) - (3:21) 122 BPM
Homework - "Hold Me Tight" - (4:28) 118 BPM
Claptone - "No Eyes" (feat Jaw) - (3:24) 120 BPM
Nils Penner - "Bubbles" - (6:19) 117 BPM
Adana Twins - "Everyday" - (6:52) 120 BPM
Doctor Dru - "Foolish" - (3:58) 121 BPM
Compuphonic - "The Sun Does Rise" (feat Marques Toliver) - (3:34) 120 BPM
Human Life - "El Diablo" - (4:12) 118 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "7 Minutes In Tibet" - (6:22) 111 BPM
Urulu - "1991" - (5:12) 123 BPM
Light Year - "Never Know" - (3:57) 119 BPM
EXPDR 001D
Claap!/Until The Ribbon Breaks/Sirens Of Lesbos/Keene
Shir Khan Presents Secret Gold Vol 8
CLAAP! - "Jacques" (feat Santana - instrumental) - (3:26) 71 BPM
Until The Ribbon Breaks - "Pressure" (Sirens Of Lesbos remix) - (6:46) 59 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Post-Soviet Fun" (Demo mix) - (6:06) 55 BPM
KEENE - "Mortons Crave" - (7:18) 63 BPM
EXPDIGITAL 130
Shir Khan Presents Exploited 2016 FFWD RWD
Compuphonic - "My Love" (radio edit) - (3:13) 120 BPM
Douglas Greed - "Like Feathers" (feat Kuss - radio edit) - (4:36) 120 BPM
Adana Twins & Human Life - "Perspective" (Fort Romeau remix) - (7:26) 121 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "Daydreaming" (feat Enequist - Jozif radio edit) - (3:05) 122 BPM
Kyodai & Daudi Matsiko - "Houston In The Blind" (radio edit) - (3:29) 124 BPM
Claptone - "The Only Thing" (SevenDoors remix) - (6:36) 120 BPM
Gheist - "Blue Petrel" - (8:17) 125 BPM
Copy Paste Soul - "Flare" - (6:07) 82 BPM
Claptone - "Before I Lose My Mind" (feat Yes Dog) - (5:36) 120 BPM
Lopezhouse & AFFKT - "Encrypted Name" (feat Angela - radio edit) - (4:44) 124 BPM
Kiki - "Tentacles" (feat Jadele) - (8:05) 122 BPM
Claptone - "Heartbeat" (feat Nathan Nicholson - Technasia dub) - (7:33) 124 BPM
SevenDoors - "Orca" (John Tejada remix) - (7:20) 123 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Happy Hunting Ground" - (6:23) 120 BPM
James Curd - "Vertigo" - (5:07) 121 BPM
Gheist - "First Day" - (6:42) 124 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "Cover Me Up" (feat Kat Vinter - Anna remix) - (7:02) 124 BPM
EXPDIGITAL 140D
Mickey - "You Know The Beat" - (5:37) 120 BPM
Mickey - "Together In 1980s Japan" - (6:24) 116 BPM
Adana Twins - "Heroe" (SevenDoors remix) - (8:19) 121 BPM
Kruse/Nuernberg - "Yokohama Nights" (feat Brolin) - (6:57) 120 BPM
Radiophobia - "Canat Stop Believing" - (8:22) 120 BPM
SevenDoors - "Otec" - (9:02) 120 BPM
Light Year - "Feeling This Way" - (5:01) 124 BPM
Copy Paste Soul - "Home" - (6:56) 125 BPM
Kiki - "Supermoon" - (5:50) 122 BPM
Onsra - "Funky Town" - (7:01) 123 BPM
Death On The Balcony - "Addict For Your Love" - (7:47) 120 BPM
Claptone - "The Music Got Me" (instrumental version) - (6:28) 120 BPM
James Curd - "Forever My Friend" - (6:09) 123 BPM
Claptone - "Anything" (feat Jaw) - (5:41) 120 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Ecstasy" (Kraak/Smaak remix) - (5:40) 117 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "You Always Get Me High" - (7:20) 123 BPM
Adana Twins - "Bleeding" (feat Human Life - The/Das remix) - (7:28) 122 BPM
Claptone - "Puppet Theatre" (feat Peter/Bjorn/John) - (4:17) 115 BPM
Played by: Nick Warren
Ibiza Lounge
Chicane - "Aglise" - (4:35)
Krono - "I'm Just Woman" - (2:23) 110 BPM
Pablo Nouvelle - "Ave" - (4:07) 79 BPM
Lander - "Cry Alone Again" (feat Matt Hylom) - (3:29) 94 BPM
Drianu - "Netflix And Chill" - (3:38) 99 BPM
Stereoclip - "Don't Try" (feat Tessa Dixson) - (3:23) 104 BPM
Shallou - "Heights" - (2:54) 105 BPM
Ianick - "See Through My Eyes" (feat Per Kamfjord) - (3:12) 53 BPM
Manu Zain - "Stop Running Away" (feat Patrick Baker) - (3:42) 110 BPM
Melosense - "Polarization" - (3:20) 55 BPM
Andrew Rayel & Digital X - "Winterburn" (feat Sylvia Tosun - Geert Huinink Orchestral version) - (3:19) 75 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "I Got New Feelings" - (3:25) 55 BPM
Franko Ovalles & Mattis Coe - "Simply" (feat Kate Kolgan) - (3:33) 57 BPM
Aly & Fila - "Is It Love?" (feat Ever Burn - Chill Out mix) - (5:53) 116 BPM
Patrick Baker - "Call Me Up" - (3:46) 60 BPM
Andy Moor - "Trespass" (feat Sue McLaren - Masoud Chill Out mix) - (5:25) 132 BPM
Lowland - "Firefly" (Originally Performed By Mike Foyle) - (3:01) 120 BPM
Au5 - "Watership" (feat CoMa) - (3:12) 67 BPM
Santey - "What Would You Do" (feat Kelli-leigh - Pablo Nouvelle remix) - (3:20) 61 BPM
Faruk Sabanci - "Awaken" (feat Cami - Zetandel Chillout mix) - (4:08) 65 BPM
ARDI 3677
I Got New Feelings
Armada Music Holland
I Got New Feelings - (3:25) 111 BPM
I Got New Feelings (extended mix) - (5:25) 111 BPM
ARMAS 1179B
Future Disco Vol 9: A Disco Love Affair (unmixed tracks)
Fatima Yamaha - "Whatas A Girl To Do" - (7:26) 120 BPM
Lxury - "Square 1" (feat Deptford Goth - Joe Goddard remix) - (4:09) 118 BPM
An-2 - "Lazy Sun" (feat D-Pulse - Spoiled Youth mix) - (5:19) 115 BPM
Hnny - "Oma Doris" - (5:33) 118 BPM
Usio - "Gonna Make It" - (5:40) 124 BPM
I-Robots - "Dirty Talk" (feat Donna McGhee - Club version) - (7:37) 121 BPM
New Order - "Tutti Frutti" (Tom Trago's Crazy Days remix) - (10:31) 123 BPM
Hess Is More - "Youarenotaprimate" (Dimitri From Paris At The Loft instrumental) - (8:42) 122 BPM
PBR Streetgang - "Page One" (Tuff City Kids remix) - (7:23) 120 BPM
Jesper Ryom - "Apolune" - (6:42) 123 BPM
Coeo - "Native Riddim" - (6:26) 120 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Polynesian Dance" - (7:34) 128 BPM
Vessels - "Elliptic" (Barker & Baumecker remix) - (8:50) 123 BPM
Boxed In - "All Your Love Is Gone" (Joshua James remix) - (6:23) 121 BPM
Flash Atkins - "Drug Empire" (Future Disco edit) - (5:00) 116 BPM
Ashworth - "Cork" (Kris Davis & Yost remix) - (7:04) 119 BPM
Jonas Saalbach - "Ancient Lake" (feat Paul Klatt) - (8:29) 117 BPM
Future Disco Vol 9: A Disco Love Affair (continuous DJ mix) - (1:13:36) 121 BPM
Played by: Chris Massey, DJ Mau Mau, Alkalino, Ash Reynolds, Simon Mills (Bent/Napoleon), Shaka Loves You, SITUATION
NEEDCD 023D
Essays Vol 3
Happy Hunting Ground - (6:23) 120 BPM
Post-Soviet Funk - (5:00) 110 BPM
The Great Rift - (8:09) 116 BPM
Funky Lips Of Timbuktu - (4:54) 125 BPM
Polynesian Dance - (7:34) 128 BPM
7 Minutes In Tibet - (6:22) 111 BPM
Together In 1980s Japan - (6:24) 116 BPM
Played by: Roberto Rodriguez, Juno Recommends Deep House
Alma Negra/Sirens Of Lesbos
Eritrea EP
Alma Negra - "Haleto Lale Lalo (Saho)" - (6:48) 121 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Erytrea Nedege (Saho)" - (6:41) 120 BPM
Played by: Lexx
ANR 003
Ecstasy (remixes)
Ecstasy (Purple Disco Machine remix) - (6:46) 120 BPM
Ecstasy (Kraak & Smaak remix) - (5:40) 117 BPM
Ecstasy (XXXY remix) - (6:16) 124 BPM
Long Days, Hot Nights - (5:09) 119 BPM
Long Days, Hot Nights (Fred Falke remix) - (6:22) 122 BPM
Played by: Kraak & Smaak, Juno Recommends Deep House, Ash Reynolds
Ecstasy - (3:37) 117 BPM
Flowers - (3:52) 110 BPM
EXPDIGITAL 94
Coffee House - Armada Music
Lost Frequencies & Netsky - "Here With You" (Stereoclip remix) - (3:48) 100 BPM
Mike Mago & Tiggi Hawke - "Dangerous Behaviour" - (2:52) 90 BPM
Pablo Nouvelle - "I Want For Nothing" (feat Favela) - (3:13) 110 BPM
Thomas Gold - "Dreamer" (feat Mimoza) - (2:44) 96 BPM
Showtek - "Amen" (feat Freetown Collective) - (3:29) 75 BPM
Galavant - "Never Gonna Let You" (feat Max S & Dafina) - (3:17) 97 BPM
Patrick Baker - "Only" - (4:23) 110 BPM
Autograf - "Sleepless In NYC" - (3:25) 100 BPM
Armin Van Buuren - "In & Out Of Love" (feat Sharon Den Adel - Ian Tosel & Arthur M remix) - (3:15) 122 BPM
Shallou - "Heights" - (2:54) 53 BPM
Nicolas Haelg - "Mind Games" - (2:18) 122 BPM
DIMMI & Zeeba - "Found U" - (2:59) 122 BPM
Dash Berlin & Savi - "Home" (feat KO) - (3:14) 150 BPM
Mokita - "Heaven" - (2:50) 95 BPM
Boehm - "Criminal" (feat Karra) - (3:02) 98 BPM
SMLE - "Happiness" (feat Helen Tess) - (3:30) 102 BPM
Nick Martin - "Shackles" (feat Natalola - RAI remix) - (2:36) 90 BPM
Mazde - "Wicked Winds" - (3:52) 98 BPM
Fabian Mazur - "Earn It" (feat Greyson Chance) - (2:42) 85 BPM
Joyzu - "Hear You Say" (feat Olivia Reid) - (3:13) 80 BPM
Will Grands - "Hold You Down" - (3:15) 87 BPM
Monteur - "Lions" (feat Bay Ledges) - (2:58) 53 BPM
HIDDN - "Over" (feat Myah Marie) - (2:51) 98 BPM
De Hofnar - "Kings & Queens" (feat Bodhi Jones) - (2:34) 87 BPM
Nick Martin - "I'm Ready" - (3:37) 135 BPM
Disco Killerz - "One Life" (feat Gary Nesta Pine) - (3:25) 100 BPM
Cedella Marley X Savi & Bankay - "Could You Be Loved" - (2:57) 107 BPM
MOST - "Lazy" (feat Ida) - (3:23) 103 BPM
Qulinez - "Moving Pieces" (feat Kyle Reynolds) - (3:37) 151 BPM
Morgan Page - "Other Girl" (feat Rayla) - (3:09) 105 BPM
AmPm - "Best Part Of Us" (feat Michael Kaneko) - (4:01) 114 BPM
Patrick Baker - "Call Me Up" (Sebastien remix) - (3:08) 120 BPM
Teddy Beats - "Ain't Stoppin'" (feat Jolee Nikoal) - (3:20) 110 BPM
Dennis Kruissen - "South America" (feat Axel Ehnstrom - Alex Schulz remix) - (3:30) 55 BPM
Swanky Tunes - "Yesterday" - (2:24) 123 BPM
SKIY - "Bed Of Roses" - (2:58) 115 BPM
King Deco - "Read My Lips" (NOTD remix) - (3:08) 105 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "I Got New Feelings" (Pablo Nouvelle remix) - (3:04) 111 BPM
Nato Medrado - "Soulless" - (3:55) 90 BPM
MAWE - "Boy Oh Boy" (feat Jerry Williams - Pablo Nouvelle remix) - (3:45) 122 BPM
Chill Top 50 - Armada Music
Moby - "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad" - (4:24) 98 BPM
Mokita X Cade - "Monopoly" (Acoustic version) - (3:01) 76 BPM
Sasha - "Time After Time" - (4:52) 120 BPM
Jan Blomqvist - "Empty Floor" - (3:38) 61 BPM
Thomas Gold - "Magic" (feat Jillian Edwards) - (2:50) 105 BPM
Dirtcaps - "Foreign Tongues" (feat Eleni Drake - Acoustic version) - (2:12) 77 BPM
Tritonal - "Painting With Dreams Nothing Like Them" (feat Shy Martin) - (3:01) 123 BPM
Frank Pole - "Anything" (feat Greyson Chance - Acoustic version) - (3:02) 118 BPM
Milow - "Ayo Technology" - (3:33) 64 BPM
Autograf - "Episode" (dub mix) - (4:16) 100 BPM
Patrick Baker - "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - (3:29) 105 BPM
Boy Kiss Girl - "Ocean" (Acoustic) - (2:49) 94 BPM
Zuco 103 - "Outro Lado" - (4:31) 94 BPM
Pablo Nouvelle - "Ice" (feat Kylan Road) - (2:58) 93 BPM
Dropout - "Handcrafted" - (3:08) 105 BPM
Melosense - "Away From Here" - (2:26) 105 BPM
Galactic Marvl - "Don't You Worry" - (3:36) 90 BPM
Boris Dlugosch - "Keep Pushin'" (feat Inaya Day - ATFC Mellow mix) - (5:41) 125 BPM
Rodg - "Islands" - (4:16) 58 BPM
York - "Dying Star" (Chill Out mix) - (7:14) 87 BPM
Sergio Belem - "Nenhum Charuto" - (4:53) 120 BPM
Askery & Ellis - "With You" (feat Bishop) - (3:14) 132 BPM
Rue Du Soleil - "La Francaise" - (5:21) 130 BPM
ReUnited - "En Ukendt Glade" (feat Anne Dorte Michelsen - Shazz Man remix) - (5:13) 101 BPM
Mapa - "Dreamers" - (2:46) 57 BPM
Mark Oakland - "Sunny" - (4:45) 105 BPM
York & Art Halpertin - "Abyss" (Chill Out mix) - (5:23) 71 BPM
Dash Berlin - "Waiting" (feat Emma Hewitt - Strings & Vocals mix) - (3:49) 77 BPM
Bliss - "Sleep Will Come" - (6:02) 96 BPM
Quinten 909 & Mike McFly - "The End" (feat Tom Hammond) - (2:54) 102 BPM
Boot Cut Rockers - "When Comes The Rain" - (3:49) 90 BPM
Cantoma - "Etoile" - (4:50) 90 BPM
Tom Strobe & Autumn Storm - "Fluta" - (3:44) 83 BPM
Chicken Lips - "Dromp" (Special 12" mix) - (8:12) 116 BPM
York - "1971" (Chill Out mix) - (6:00) 80 BPM
Maribou State - "Scarlett Groove" (feat Saint Saviour) - (4:42) 105 BPM
Rue Du Soleil - "In My Heart" - (5:11) 130 BPM
Ours Samplus - "Smile" - (2:50) 92 BPM
Melosense - "Lines" - (3:00) 100 BPM
Digby Jones - "Pina Colada" - (6:18) 90 BPM
Howling - "Howling" - (3:43) 62 BPM
Tommy Jacob - "Heal Me" (feat Raveena) - (2:53) 72 BPM
Mo' Horizons - "So Ma Guisee" (feat Francia) - (5:40) 59 BPM
Sebastian Davidson - "Freefallin'" - (3:55) 100 BPM
Novo Amor - "Anchor" - (4:17) 78 BPM
Lander - "The Dawn" (feat Matt Hylom) - (2:51) 100 BPM
ARDI 3742C
Armada Deep House Selection Vol 14 (The Finest Deep House Tunes)
Flume - "Never Be Like You" (feat Kai - Martin Solveig remix) - (4:44) 125 BPM
Afro Medusa - "Pasilda" (Erick Morillo extended remix) - (7:00) 125 BPM
Patrice Boumel - "Surge" (original mix) - (7:47) 125 BPM
Kav Verhouzer & Ben Alessi - "Gonna Be Alright" (extended mix) - (4:11) 111 BPM
Matt Smallwood - "Keep Pushin" (original mix) - (5:52) 124 BPM
Florian Kruse & Hendrik Burkhard - "The Ground" (Joris Voorn remix) - (6:47) 61 BPM
PAJI - "Sharks In The Woods" (feat Yves Paquet - extended mix) - (5:09) 120 BPM
Yotto - "The Owls" (original mix) - (7:55) 122 BPM
Horatio - "Serengeti" (Martijn Ten Velden remix) - (7:04) 62 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "I Got New Feelings" (extended mix) - (5:25) 55 BPM
AFFTK - "No Rush" (original mix) - (6:20) 122 BPM
DeVante - "Other Types Of Music" (extended mix) - (6:43) 62 BPM
Jan Blomqvist - "Dancing People Are Never Wrong" (feat The Bianca Story) - (7:20) 122 BPM
Tim Bell - "Oceans" (original mix) - (6:10) 61 BPM
Rhythm Masters Vs Klangfabrik - "Dayhunter" (extended mix) - (6:58) 125 BPM
Moonbootica - "Hear Your Love" (Larse extended remix) - (7:05) 61 BPM
Hanne & Lore - "Luna Square" (original mix) - (6:24) 121 BPM
Heiken - "California" (original mix) - (6:10) 123 BPM
Lennart Richter - "The Witness" (feat Kye Munroe - original mix) - (5:14) 123 BPM
In Deed - "20 Miles" (original mix) - (5:53) 120 BPM
Static Revenger - "Happy People" (Rrotik extended remix) - (3:57) 62 BPM
Return Of The Jaded & PACO - "Deamons" (feat Shyam - original mix) - (6:51) 122 BPM
Sebastian Davidson - "JACK" (extended mix) - (5:22) 120 BPM
Another Ambition - "Think About You" (extended mix) - (6:37) 122 BPM
Armada Chill 2017
Lejon - "Dusk Till Dawn" - (3:45) 100 BPM
Pablo Nouvelle - "You Don't Understand" (feat ALX) - (2:46) 72 BPM
Mashti & Jean Von Baden - "Waiting" (feat Eivarr) - (3:31) 75 BPM
Kinobe - "Slip Into Something More Comfortable" (Stephan Hague mix) - (3:35) 87 BPM
Leona Lewis - "Dip Down" (feat Peter Donvang - ReUnited Chill Out mix) - (4:23) 100 BPM
It's Different & Helen - "Tell Me" - (4:24) 90 BPM
John Dahlback - "Shivers" (Acoustic version) - (3:18) 97 BPM
Haevn - "Bright Lights" - (3:47) 98 BPM
Juliette Claire - "Somebody Else's Lover" - (3:13) 100 BPM
Sebastian Davidson - "Freefallin'" (Tariq Pijning On Sax mix) - (3:55) 100 BPM
Lander - "Stone" (feat Matt Hylom) - (2:48) 100 BPM
Rico Greene - "Hank Moody" - (1:15) 134 BPM
Mashti & Jean Von Baden - "Love & Happiness" (The remix) - (3:32) 104 BPM
Huko - "Blind" (feat Cozy) - (2:36) 106 BPM
Static Revenger - "Happy People" (Christian J'Rhodes Island remix) - (3:42) 105 BPM
Mike Tohr & Jonas Johannes - "Napthali" (feat Salome) - (3:41) 105 BPM
Dialoque - "Violet Moon" - (3:18) 112 BPM
Chicane - "Offshore" - (4:28) 130 BPM
Fonzerelli - "Moonlight Party" (Touch & Go Laidback remix) - (3:10) 57 BPM
Gacha Bakradze - "Girl" - (4:07) 59 BPM
Shibumi X Telana - "Gemini Love" (Kinobe remix) - (4:25) 119 BPM
John Dahlback - "Walking With Shadows" (feat BullySongs - Acoustic version) - (2:41) 120 BPM
Cidian - "Open Your Eyes" - (3:24) 61 BPM
Matthias Vogt - "Through This Madness" (feat Charles Simmons) - (4:00) 61 BPM
Kidnap Kid - "First Light" - (4:17) 62 BPM
Frank Pole - "Anything" (feat Greyson Chance) - (3:41) 124 BPM
Sunlounger & Zara Taylor - "Try To Be Love" - (3:55) 64 BPM
Borgore - "Best" - (3:19) 130 BPM
Pablo Nouvelle - "Is It Ok" (feat Fiona Daniel) - (4:11) 132 BPM
Jay Cosmic Feat Collin McLoughlin - "Here Tonight" (feat Christina Novelli - Acoustic version) - (2:47) 71 BPM
Pablo Nouvelle - "Best Thing" (feat Norma Jean Martine) - (3:54) 70 BPM
Solarstone - "Seven Cities" (Solaris Heights mix) - (3:31) 62 BPM
The Squadz - "Here Without You" - (4:35) 124 BPM
Junge - "Chasing Your Shadow" - (3:14) 123 BPM
Galavant - "Falling" - (2:55) 82 BPM
Kraak & Smaak - "Stumble" (feat Parcels) - (4:30) 91 BPM
Nuera - "Breathing" (feat Szen - Chillout mix) - (4:03) 132 BPM
PRXZM - "Royalty" - (3:15) 75 BPM
Galactic Marvl - "Save Me" (feat Connor Foley) - (3:13) 77 BPM
Mawe - "Back In The Summer" (feat Cleah) - (2:57) 105 BPM
Phillipo Blake - "Morning In The City" - (3:55) 110 BPM
Cuebrick & APEK - "Safe" (feat Linney - C-Systems Alternative mix) - (3:50) 128 BPM
Chicane - "Windbreaks" - (5:12) 85 BPM
ARDI 3730A
10 Years Exploited
Homework - "Whipped Cream" - (7:38) 122 BPM
Claptone - "Weekend" - (6:25) 122 BPM
Freeform Five - "Brandy Alexander" (edit) - (4:01) 122 BPM
Lorenz Rhode - "Drop The P!" - (4:35) 116 BPM
Siriusmo - "Wow" (Modeselektor edit) - (2:44) 100 BPM
Adana Twins - "Schiwago" - (7:04) 120 BPM
Nils Nuernberg - "The Morning Slap" - (7:36) 120 BPM
Compuphonic - "The Sun Does Rise" (Nils Penner remix feat Marques Toliver) - (7:32) 119 BPM
Homework - "Spinning Top" (Detroit Swindle Spinning Topless remix) - (6:47) 120 BPM
Munk - "Southern Moon" (Hnny remix) - (5:30) 122 BPM
Lorenz Rhode - "Like A Player" (Shazam remix) - (3:47) 110 BPM
Adana Twins - "Bleeding" (Mark E instrumental feat Human Life) - (5:39) 116 BPM
Murphy Jax - "Let's Get To It" (Serge Santiago Garage mix feat Mike Dunn) - (6:14) 124 BPM
Copy Paste Soul - "Let It Go" - (6:30) 124 BPM
Behling & Simpson - "Don't Need You" (feat Shanti Celeste) - (6:14) 113 BPM
Cocolores - "Fire Eyes" - (3:58) 115 BPM
PJU - "Give It To Me" (radio edit feat Robert Owens) - (3:46) 119 BPM
Jimmy & Fred - "Red" (Locked Groove remix) - (6:52) 121 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "Bedstories" (Cosmin Trg remix) - (6:25) 125 BPM
Ossie - "Milk" - (6:05) 126 BPM
Chernobyl - "Empina A Pipa" (Samim's Crashroots remix feat Cabal) - (5:19) 126 BPM
Zoo Brazil - "Rock The House" (rework) - (7:14) 128 BPM
Lorenz Rhode - "Something Hot" (Mattie Safer instrumental feat Snax) - (5:02) 121 BPM
Moodymanc - "Joy" (Ralph Lawson dub) - (7:07) 123 BPM
Siriusmo - "Femuscle" - (5:37) 120 BPM
Munk - "Happiness Juice" (Miguel Campbell remix) - (6:31) 120 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Flowers" - (6:27) 119 BPM
Freeform Five - "Brandy Alexander" (Tuff City Kids remix) - (3:19) 118 BPM
Claptone - "No Eyes" (Art Department remix feat Jaw) - (3:52) 110 BPM
Homework - "Fissa Tune" - (4:51) 127 BPM
Malente - "Gipsy Kings" (feat Analogik) - (4:19) 128 BPM
Claptone - "Make Me Feel" - (6:51) 126 BPM
Cocolores - "Heart Quest" (Deetron remix) - (7:04) 124 BPM
Minimow - "Keep Groovin" - (6:03) 126 BPM
Lorenz Rhode - "Motor Cortex" (Mowgli & Solo remix) - (6:21) 125 BPM
Homework - "Hold Me Tight" (Phil Weeks remix) - (7:29) 121 BPM
James Curd - "Disco Fool" - (5:25) 121 BPM
Nils Penner - "The Thing" - (5:55) 119 BPM
Consistent - "Aint No Bump" - (5:03) 124 BPM
Kyodai - "The Clone" - (7:28) 123 BPM
Douglas Greed - "Guilty" - (4:04) 120 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "Daydreaming" (Jozif radio edit feat ENEQUIST) - (3:05) 122 BPM
Urulu - "We Belong (Together)" - (5:27) 116 BPM
Dino Lenny - "Waiting For The Daylight" (Dino Lenny remix) - (6:49) 122 BPM
Lorenz Rhode - "Superficial Robots" (Jimmy Edgar remix feat Coco Solid) - (6:52) 126 BPM
Adana Twins - "Perspective" (Fort Romeau remix) - (7:26) 121 BPM
Kyodai - "Music Rises Up" (Simon Garcia's The Real Health dub feat Stee Downes) - (6:25) 120 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Together In 1980s Japan" - (6:24) 116 BPM
Adam Sky - "The Imperious Urge" (Ku Bo remix) - (5:37) 144 BPM
Compuphonic - "My Love" - (5:22) 120 BPM
Minimow - "Bollyhouse" (Sis remix) - (7:49) 126 BPM
Lopezhouse - "San Pedro" (Zombies In Miami remix feat Angela) - (7:21) 120 BPM
Urulu - "Reason With Me" - (5:30) 122 BPM
Joyce Muniz - "Pray For Peace" - (5:50) 127 BPM
Luke & Jimmy - "Yellow Magic" - (5:36) 117 BPM
Freeform Five - "Brandy Alexander" (James Curd radio edit) - (3:47) 122 BPM
Claptone - "No Eyes" (Kyodai remix feat Jaw) - (7:07) 122 BPM
Adana Twins - "Strange" (Acid Pauli & Nu remix) - (7:25) 120 BPM
Compuphonic - "Metropolis" - (3:17) 116 BPM
Review: Ten years of tech house powerhouse Exploited's exploits - pardon the pun! A born and bred Berliner, Shir Khan started the label in his home city in 2007. The imprint now plays host to a who's who in the current tech-house climate - including Adana Twins, Doctor Dru, Claptone, Joyce Muniz, Urulu and Cocolores to name a few. Its artists have been receiving full support from tastemakers such as Pete Tong, Soul Clap, Wolf & Lamb and Kraak & Smaak. All the usual suspects appear here: many golden oldies and even some newbie surprises too - perfect for the Christmas season and to forecast trends moving forward into 2018. To prove their relevance, they've served up a whopper of a compilation: over five dozen tracks showcasing their illustrious discography. We are certain that these are timeless grooves and will prove to be just as relevant another decade.
Some of these go as far back as 2009! Take for instance Malente & Dex feat. Analogik's "Gipsy Kings" which homed in that whole loopy latin house trend - popularised by similar tunes like "We No Speak Americano". Swedish electro house dons Zoo Brazil appear as well, with their 2012 dancefloor hit "Rock The House", then get deep and slinky with Moodymanc's 2013 sleeper hit "Joy" (Ralph Lawson Dub). They were even doing jazzy/dusty deep house as far back as 2011, like on Homework's "Whipped Cream". Remember Serge Santiago's remix of Murphy Jax's "Let's Get To It" featuring the inimitable Mike Dunn? It's here!
But when best describing the label's success thus far, we'd have to give honorable mentions to the true staples of the label. The legendary Chicagoan James Curd (formerly one half of the Greenskeepers) has kept on going from his new home of Adelaide, Australia and served up some of his best work in years. The emotive and bittersweet "Forever My Friend" is just one example. Likewise, Belgium's Compuphonic appears several times also - his recent hit from earlier this year "Metropolis" appears in all its soulful and evocative glory. Here's to another 10 guys, cheers!
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Bodhi - "Satisfaction" - (5:45) 124 BPM
Claptone - "Ghost" (feat Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) - (6:55) 120 BPM
Mickey - "Holding Hands" - (6:43) 120 BPM
Metronomy - "I'm Aquarius" (Claptone remix) - (7:07) 124 BPM
Munk - "Happiness Juice" (feat Mona Lazette - Miguel Campbell remix) - (6:27) 119 BPM
James Curd - "Too Cool To Dance" (feat J Dub) - (6:57) 125 BPM
Round Table Knights - "Midnight Spark" - (6:39) 125 BPM
Homework - "The Way I See It" (feat Bea Anubis) - (5:36) 120 BPM
Isis Salam - "Nasty Girl" (feat Kruse & Nuernberg) - (5:22) 123 BPM
Kyodai - "Sound Of The Falls" - (8:12) 121 BPM
Sirens Of Lesbos - "Long Days Hot Nights" (Claptone remix) - (7:08) 122 BPM
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The Kia K900 full-size luxury sedan, launched for the 2015 model year, continues into 2016 with a number of changes, including a new V6 engine, expansion of available features, and revised model lineup. Updating of the grille and rear end added a little chrome to the latter.
New 18-inch alloy wheels go on 2016 Kia K900 V6 models, while V8s get 19-inch chrome wheels. Inside, the touchscreen has expanded to 9.2-inch size. Paddle shifters are now available on all versions. A Smart Power Trunk opens the lid automatically when it senses the key fob for more than 3 seconds.
Like the South Korean automaker’s smaller, mainstream models, the K900 aims to deliver great value. While Kia’s smaller cars benefit from crisp, European-style lines, the big K900 is less distinctive. Though the sedan is quiet, comfortable, and spacious, including the back seat, it falls somewhat short on distinguishing, upscale features.
Judged by styling, overall tone, and capabilities, the K900 could be said to score between premium and luxury. Like other Kia models, though, the K900 beats traditional competitors on price, which in itself can lure new buyers to the brand. Shoppers seeking to move up from a mass-market model are especially likely to be attracted to moderate-cost luxury.
Two engines are available: a 311-horsepower, 3.8-liter V6 and a 5.0-liter V8 that cranks out 420 horsepower. All K900 sedans have an 8-speed automatic transmission and rear-wheel drive. The V6 engine comes in Premium or Luxury trim; the V8 is Luxury-only.
Leather and wood trim help to provide a comfortable, appealing interior for upscale buyers. Behind the wheel, the K900 feels somewhat heavy, but is sufficiently enjoyable to drive. It lacks both the rigid solidity of a big Mercedes-Benz sedan and the sporty, passionate feel of a BMW. Yet, the K900 is predictable and easily understood, in addition to the virtues of comfort and quietness.
Fuel-economy estimates are about average, meaning less than thrifty. The V6 model is EPA-rated at 17/26 mpg City/Highway, or 20 mpg Combined. Moving to the V8 drops the rating to 15/23 mpg City/Highway, or 18 mpg Combined.
Active safety features include adaptive cruise control and an advance collision warning system with automatic emergency braking.
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Based in the suburb of Greensborough, in the North East Region of Melbourne, Victoria, Kalparrin serves a rapidly expanding population base of some 357,000 people (with a predicted increase to 540,700 in 20 years) across the Banyule, Nillumbik and Whittlesea local government shires.
Kalparrin provides early intervention supports and allied health services for children from birth through to high school transition. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, Kalparrin’s experienced staff of Therapists include Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, Psychologists and Dietitians. Kalparrin also provides a Key Worker model of service delivery, whereby one of the child’s therapists can serve as a single point of contact for families providing support, guidance and access to a suite of services designed to meet the physical, social, intellectual and developmental needs of the child in accordance with a specialised care plan.
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Over its 42 years of operation the initial vision of a highly dedicated group of mothers who wanted better outcomes for their children with developmental disabilities, has evolved into a highly professional organisation employing some 50 qualified and experienced staff with an enviable reputation for progressive, innovative and effective services in the area of allied health and early childhood intervention for children with disabilities and/or developmental delays.
The NDIS has transformed the landscape of funding and service acquisition for people with disabilities and the organisations that serve them, as they assess and respond to the new ways by which services are now acquired and delivered to people with disabilities. Kalparrin is an Approved Registered Provider of NDIS services (Provider No: 52623824) and can meet all allied health and early childhood intervention service needs for families and children funded under the Scheme.
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Rule #2: Play the Emperor
Here in Karbohemia, we have no trouble understanding why little girls yearn to be a princess. The idea that you might lead a life where everyone worships you simply for being born is hard to resist. Who doesn’t want to enter a room, feel the crowd swell with love, express a wee desire, then watch while the footmen clonk heads racing to fulfill it? Who doesn’t want to believe that you can be well looked after and well taken care of through no agency of your own, but simply because you’re a princess. It’s an infantile desire, but a perfectly compelling one.
In the event you thought princess lust had faded, this posse pulls down four billion a year. (From the Disney Princess Wallpaper Collection)
While it’s true there are other princesses who are less ornamental, geared to woo the imagination of the more active girl who wants to be worshiped, while still having the opportunity to kick a little ass (Merida, the impetuous princess who stars in Pixar’s Brave is one), the problem is the same: they, along with their imaginary fortunes, kingdoms, and staggering wardrobe, don’t really exist.
Well, except this one:
She came into our lives in the form of a low-resolution hologram, surrounded by a blue aura. She possessed classified information that would save the galaxy, and wore a white toga-like dress that was so plain, yet so amazingly drapey, we knew she must be someone extraordinary.
The strange and discomfiting thing about princess-yearning is that even though, when pressed, girls will admit that it’s all pretend, they don’t quite believe it. Between fairy tale weddings, red carpet culture (there’s also an online game aimed at little girls called Bride on the Red Carpet, stoking a mash-up fantasy of glamor, love, adoration, and swag bags), and whatever nonsense the Kardashians have gotten themselves up to, there exists the chance that just maybe, they can grow up to be pampered, adored and unburdened by any responsibility, save rocking that ball gown. The possibility is further reinforced in real life, by the existence of That Girl in High School — the one with the long wavy-but-never-frizzy hair, nice teeth, and boys buzzing around anxious to do her bidding — who is always, inevitably, the Prom or Homecoming Queen.
But the song remains the same: You can play princess all you want, but sooner or later life will correct any false notions you may have that just by walking into a room wearing a pretty dress and a lot of sparkly jewelry, you’re doing your life’s work. I’m not going to even bother pointing out that there are a few genuine princesses roaming the planet, and from what we can tell, they are as miserable as everyone else. (Kate Middleton is a duchess.)
I hate it when that happens. (From Dina Goldstein’s satisfying and alarming series, Fallen Princesses.)
Julia Child, born a hundred years ago, was no less attracted to the possibility of being a princess than the rest of us. She caught the drama bug early and auditioned for every school play that came along, at both Westridge and Polytechnic, the two grade schools she attended in Pasadena, and then the Katherine Branson School in then-rural Marin County. A monstrous wall of reality crashed down upon her almost immediately. Not only was she never considered for the princess/sweet maiden/sassy ingénue roles, her great height, gangly limbs, and boisterous nature assured she was never offered anything but parts suitable for husky boys: the villain, the monster, the Emperor.
She got the message, loud and fast: that traditional female princess fantasy? Not for you. Not for you the illusion that just by having a small waist and a pleasing manner, the world will fall at your feet. Not for you the hope that being pretty in pink will be all that is required.
Despite Julia’s great height — she topped out at 6’3″, and for her entire school career she was the tallest person in her class — and her love of pranks and practical jokes, she was emotional. She was sensitive. She was a girl. She didn’t want to play the monster, the villain, the Emperor.
Julia plays the Emperor in a Pasadena Junior League production of the same name. Such wicked eye-acting!
But she was also pragmatic and optimistic. Then and always, she worked with what she had. She realized that she had a choice: she could spend her life trying, and always failing, to be cast as a princess, or she could embrace her height, her quick wits and big personality and she could go with it. She could own her role as the Emperor, who, unlike a princess, is active, not passive, takes up a lot of space, strides around issuing edicts and proclamations. Expresses not desires, but demands.
After a while, she realized that being the Emperor was better than being a princess. She could blast through the world being exactly who she was, fully occupying the space she inhabited, thinking her thoughts, doing her deeds, without depending on anyone’s approval. Once she busted out of conventional roles, the freedom she felt was nothing less than revolutionary.
The Emperor Julia and her court, on the set of The French Chef.
sources: Disney princesses/www.fanpop.com;Princess Leia/www.fanpop.com; Snow White, photographer Dina Goldstein/www.fallenprincesses.com; Julia Child/Appetite for Life:The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch; Julia Child/www.pbs.org
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Kaweah Delta unveils new Exeter Women's Health Clinic
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Kaweah Delta unveils Exeter Women’s Health Clinic
VISALIA – Kaweah Delta unveiled its new Exeter Women’s Health Clinic on Thursday, Jan. 10 in Exeter. The clinic is part of a three clinic expansion project that is bringing needed health services to people in rural areas such as Lindsay, Exeter, and Dinuba.
The open house, which is also an Exeter Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours Networking Mixer, took place at Kaweah Delta Exeter Women’s Health Clinic, 1013 San Juan Ave., Building B., in Exeter.
The new Women’s Health Clinic added seven exam rooms and two procedure rooms to Exeter Health Clinic and allowed the Exeter clinic to expand patient capacity for Family Medicine and specialty services such as Pulmonary Care, Nephrology, Neurology, Dermatology, Orthopedics and more.
“Our health clinics play an important role. They provide care in communities that would not otherwise have access to care and by keeping people well in their communities, the clinics help take pressure off our Emergency Department,” said Dave Garrett, Director of Kaweah Delta’s Rural Health Clinics, noting that about 40 percent of patients who come into Kaweah Delta’s Emergency Department do not have life-threatening illnesses or injuries. “The more we can increase access to health care in rural areas, the more pressure we can take off our Emergency Department. At the same time, those services are profitable and return money back to Kaweah Delta.”
The clinic expansion project has also:
-Doubled the size of the Lindsay Health Clinic and brought much needed mental health services to the Lindsay area. Patients are seen by psychiatrists, including resident physicians from Kaweah Delta’s Psychiatry Residency Program.
-Added five more exam rooms for women’s health services and a room to provide comprehensive perinatal services in the areas of nutrition, psychosocial and health education for women at Dinuba Health Clinic.
Construction on the expansion projects began in 2017, and was completed in 2018; Kaweah Delta received approval from the state to open in August.
Walk-in patients are welcome at all of Kaweah Delta Health Clinics and most insurance is accepted.
Kaweah Delta Exeter Health Clinic is open seven days a week at 1014 San Juan Avenue. Hours vary. Information: 559-592-7300.
Kaweah Delta Lindsay Health Clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays at 839 N. Sequoia Ave. Information: 562-1546.
Kaweah Delta Dinuba Health Clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 355 Monte Vista Drive. Information: 595-7650.
Kaweah Delta is a publicly-owned community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia region and Tulare County.
With over 5,000 dedicated medical professionals and employees, Kaweah Delta is committed to meeting the community’s health needs through state-of-the-art medicine, high-quality preventive services and specialized health centers and clinics. For more information, visit www.kaweahdelta.org. #
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Soon, Sally learned that her hopeful thinking was too good to be true. A mammogram and biopsy exposed a 5cm cancerous tumor growing in the 66 year-old’s right breast. For many people, this kind of diagnosis would be a perfectly understandable reason for an emotional breakdown, but Sally chose to keep her faith and glean strength from the cancer fighters who went before her. She also found great reassurance in the care of her oncology team at Kaweah Delta. “The doctors and nurses were professional, caring, and because they knew what they were doing, they made me feel safe every step of the way,” shared Sally. “And when you feel safe, it changes your attitude from scared to courageous.”
Over the next eight months, Sally’s family, friends, and medical team rallied around her as she underwent chemotherapy, a lumpectomy, and radiation therapy to eradicate the cancer cells in her body. Through it all, Sally tried to keep her head up. “For me, cancer was a detour in my life,” said Sally. “The thing about detours is you see and appreciate things you’ve never experienced before. Now I’m back on my path after the detour.”
“Cancer was not my purpose. My purpose is to serve people the way my family, friends, and the doctors and nurses served me,” continued Sally. “They gave me determination and armed me to get through cancer, so that I could get to where I needed to be. I’m a different person now because of what I’ve experienced. I am a breast cancer survivor.”
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Our primary service objective will be completing a renovation project in the area of Las Cañas. Specifically, we will be working on restoring, renovating, and beautifying the Comedor in the school. The comedor is where the lunch is prepared each day for the students and where the students eat. It is in dire need of repair, and it will directly improve the daily lives of the students and staff at the school.
The second part of our service project will be focused on recreation and physical education for students in the Playa Venoa, Las Tablas, and Pedesi areas. For a portion of our trip, Knowledge on the Run students, along with the staff at Beach Break Surf Camp and Waved Foundation, will host an afternoon sports camp. This camp will include rugby lessons, soccer lesson, surf lessons, and martial arts classes. The Knowledge on the Run students will be in charge of planning and executing a portion of each of these activities. The children from Venao, Las Tablas, and Pedesi are not as privileged as their American counterparts, having the privilege to participate in something like this is a welcomed relief from their daily routines of school and sometimes, helping out around the house, and work.
To take on both of these projects effectively, we hope to raise $4000 to cover the cost of:
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We sincerely thank you for any donation you can spare. This area of Panama is near and dear to us and we hope to make a difference while working with the Waved Foundation.
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Ever wondered why English is such a widespread #language? When I studied abroad, the chosen language amongst the #international students was always English. In #Belgium, it is normal that students are taught #Dutch, #French and #German, since those are the three national languages (yes, a tiny country like Belgium has as much as three national languages). But every high school in the country also teaches English. Why? Because it is useful, you can say, it is spoken everywhere. Yes, but how come? Another answer could be that it is the common language most used in scientific publications. True, but why English? Why not Chinese, Hindu, or Arabic, all of which can easily compete with English when it comes to the number of native speakers?
David Bellos offers an interesting insight on the matter in his book “Is that a fish in your ear?” which I’m currently reading, and which I also mentioned in my previous blog post. He points out that throughout history, the rise in popularity of a certain language was often related to scientific progress. From ancient times until the Middle Ages the dominant languages were Chinese, Sanskrit, Greek, Syriac, Latin and Arabic. #Italian and #French became popular during the #renaissance, and even Swedish knew an uprising between 1760 and 1840 thanks to Bergman’s and Jacob Berzelius’ foundational work in organic chemistry. Then all of the sudden #German became immensely popular because of scientists’ like Liebig, followed by #Russian thanks to Mendeleev, whom we all know for his periodic table. Over time however, the #popularity of some of those languages declined, until English remained as the vehicle language used by the #international #scientific #community, and gradually, the rest of the world. According to Bellos, the reason behind this is not necessarily that English is better suited for science, but simply that because of a strange course of history nothing happened to knock it out, as opposed to the fate of other languages.
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Don’t Forget About Sergio
By Tim Henry | October 17, 2018 | 1
While this year’s East Coast hurricanes have wrought horrendous damage in Florida and the Carolinas, Hurricane Sergio flew under the radar, though it already has its own Wikipedia page. According to that source, “Sergio became the eighth Category 4 hurricane in the East Pacific for 2018, breaking the old record of seven in 2015.”
The wonky, indecisive path of Hurricane (and Tropical Storm/Depression) Sergio. Photo / Wikipedia
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After forming off the coast of Southern Mexico/Central America in late September, Sergio marched west/northwest and underwent “rapid intensification,” reaching sustained winds of 140 mile an hour on October 4 before hooking sharply east, gradually losing strength and ultimately being downgraded to a tropical storm. When it finally came ashore in the Mulegé Municipality (home to Turtle Bay) on October 12, Sergio was packing 45-mile-an-hour winds. As it continued to move east over Baja California, the Sea of Cortez, and into the state of Sonora on Mainland Mexico, Sergio was further downgraded to a tropical depression.
But Sergio was not a completely “innocent” storm.
With roughly 60-mile-an-hour winds, a few boats found themselves blown ashore. Photo / Bret Mitchell
“Don’t ignore Mother Nature!” wrote Bret Mitchell on his Facebook page. “Unattended boats in Bahia San Carlos wound up on the rocks, and boats were toppled in Marina Seca San Carlos from Tropical Storm Sergio. Sad to see. S and A docks in Marina San Carlos came apart but miraculously no boat damage.”
It’s always sad to see boats in this state. Photo / Bret Mitchell
Kirsten Grossman de Zaragoza, the director general for the Grupo Marina San Carlos, told us that, “Sergio had more wind and surf than expected but nothing major. A few boats from the bay are on the beach.”
Even boats on the hard were not entirely safe. Photo / Bret Mitchell
Don Brame with San Carlos Yacht Sales echoed a similar sentiment: “This storm left a few boats with minor damage in storage yards. We had four boats end up on the beach that were left out on moorings. I saw 58 knots of sustained winds for a short period.”
We’re glad to see that everyone is Mexico is OK, and even more glad that hurricane season is winding down.
But wait — as we speak, a tropical depression is in its infancy off Belize, where Hurricane Michael formed a few weeks ago. “This system is expected to move near or just offshore of the northern coast of Honduras, and if the center moves offshore, a tropical depression could form before moving inland over Belize by late Tuesday,” www.nola.com said, quoting the National Hurricane Center.
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Good things often emerge in the face of adversity. We have been reporting on the aggressive tactics of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, or BCDC, regarding Westpoint Harbor in Redwood City, and against John Sweeney at Point Buckler in Suisuin Bay.
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You are here: Home / El Paso County OKs plan for proposed rehab center in Woodmoor area over residents’ objections
El Paso County OKs plan for proposed rehab center in Woodmoor area over residents’ objections
· November 8, 2018 ·
El Paso County planning staff have signed off on a California company’s controversial plan to build a luxury rehab center in the Woodmoor area north of Colorado Springs.
The decision is a green light for Mountain Springs Recovery facility, which will open “in the coming months,” Sunshine Behavioral Health CEO Chad Daugherty said in a statement.
The rehab center, slated for 1865 Woodmoor Drive on the site of a former Ramada motel, has been vehemently opposed by some area residents who say it’s not appropriate in that location and could attract criminals.
“We will continue to listen to the concerns of our neighbors and we are confident that ultimately, Mountain Springs will play an important role in addressing the epidemic of drug and alcohol addiction in El Paso County,” Daugherty said.
An opposition group told The Gazette on Friday that it would appeal the approval of the site development plan, which was posted to a county website on Friday.
“It isn’t that we don’t want a rehab center. It’s just that this just not the right place for it. It’s so close to the businesses and to the schools.” said Sam Schafer, organizer of Take Action El Paso County, LLC.
At a contentious public meeting held by the company in Monument in August, dozens of residents laid out other concerns: that the center would decrease nearby home values, increase traffic on local roads, and expose young people in the surrounding community to dangerous habits. They also criticized Sunshine Behavioral for not holding the public meeting until after the company had paid $4 million for the former motel.
About 150 pages of comments from residents opposed to the project were submitted to the county planning staff during the site plan review. Petitions, with hundreds of signatures, saying the center “will jeopardize and put at extreme high-risk public safety and health,” also were given to staff.
The public outcry was reminiscent of the outrage three years ago over a proposed methadone clinic roughly a mile from the former hotel. Colonial Management Group, which sued Monument after officials denied it a business license to open the clinic, agreed to leave the town for a $900,000 settlement that was finalized in 2016.
Sunshine Behavioral has repeatedly emphasized its center won’t administer methadone. It will be similar to another facility the company operates, Texas-based Willow Springs Recovery, a resort-style campus with group therapy, detox services and other programs and resources onsite.
Mountain Springs Recovery would open with about 54 beds and eventually be expanded, said Jared Raymond, Sunshine Behavioral vice president of project management.
Raymond said that many of the residents’ concerns are based on “false information.”
“I think that just comes from a lot of people being irrationally afraid of something because they just don’t want it in their backyard,” he said.
Sex offenders, people convicted of violent crimes, and substance abusers court-ordered to participate in a rehabilitation program would not be accepted, Daugherty has said.
A memo, prepared by traffic engineering firm CLH Associates and submitted with the site plan proposal, estimates that the rehab center would see a fraction of the traffic associated previously with the motel.
The site plan shows that the property includes a main office and several other buildings clustered around a courtyard. The company has proposed adding landscaping and building a 7-foot tall cedar fence around the complex.
Sunshine Behavioral still needs approval from Pikes Peak Regional Building Department to begin renovations and a Colorado license to operate the inpatient rehabilitation facility, Raymond said.
Because a zoning change was not needed for the rehab center, a public hearing before the Board of County Commissioners wasn’t required.
However, the board will make a ruling if an appeal is made.
Anyone seeking an appeal of an administrative action has 30 days to file a written appeal with county Planning and Community Development Executive Director Craig Dossey, said county spokesman Ryan Parsell.
After the appeal is submitted, it will be scheduled for a hearing before the board within 35 days, according to a resolution previously approved by commissioners that outlines the process.
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Loughborough student puts safety first with his prototype for an ‘intelligent’ polo helmet 9 June 2015
Image: ARMIS™ (Robin Spicer)
A Loughborough student’s prototype for a safer polo helmet – complete with a built-in crash sensor – could save lives by alerting emergency responders to impacts and falls that may cause head injuries.
Robin Spicer, 23, a final year Industrial Design and Technology undergraduate from Northamptonshire, has already attracted the attention of leading market retailers and manufacturers with his polo helmet redesign – the ARMIS™ Polo Helmet. It will be exhibited to the public at the Loughborough University Design School Show from Friday 12 June to Monday 15 June, 10am until 5pm.
The unique design contains a ‘crash sensor’ which Robin plans to link to a smartphone app via long range bluetooth. His overall aim is to develop the technology to alert emergency responders to falls and impacts that may require medical attention due to unseen, non-tangible concussions, as well as sending GPS coordinates of where the incident has occurred when the rider is training alone.
The prototype was created using a 3D printer and developed for production, comprising of a crumple zone made of expanded polystyrene, a flexible peak, and a Multi-directional Impact Protection System (MIPS) that moves inside the helmet mimicking the brain’s own protection system. The low friction layer reduces the amount of rotational acceleration to the head and minimises the risk of suffering a serious brain injury.
Robin, a polo player since the age of six, said the helmet has been designed with the British Standards in mind, incorporating safety clips, streamlined air vents and a double layered carbon fibre shell to prevent penetrations. Robin was awarded a £350 bursary from the James Dyson Foundation to help bring his project to life as part of his end of year degree show.
He said: “I’ve fallen off countless times while playing polo and have been knocked unconscious three times, with the most recent incident lasting for over 20 minutes. But I was straight back up onto the horse and playing polo again in a couple of days, which I really shouldn’t have been.
“With my polo helmet design, I hope to change attitudes and behaviour towards safety in the sport and encourage polo players to seek proper medical attention when suffering a dangerous head impact.
“Even though the rate of injury in polo is low, the severity rate is extremely high. If I can influence other manufacturers and companies to have a re-think about the design of their polo helmets and look at making them safer, then I have achieved my goal.”
Professor Tracy Bhamra, Dean of Loughborough Design School, added: “Robin’s ARMIS™ Polo Helmet is a fantastic design which has really caught the eye of staff, students and businesspeople. The fact that Robin was able to go from a sketch to such a well developed, high quality prototype in just eight months, shows how dedicated and committed he has been to the course and his future success.
“The Design School Show is a brilliant opportunity to meet Robin and other talented students and this year – for the first time – we are proud to be exhibiting work from our Ergonomics and Design Ergonomics students.”
For more information about Robin’s design, click here or email robinspicer@hotmail.co.uk.
For further details on the Design School Show, click here.
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Journey into the eternal ice: A mobile crane in Antarctica
Dedication to volunteer: Liebherr employees at their voluntary work
Playing with the big ones: When Liebherr and LEGO build excavators
Electronics on the test bench: How Liebherr ensures their function and safety
As quiet as possible: Liebherr ensures silent drive for e-bikes
A vision of safety: Liebherr wheel loaders provide maximum safety at a recycling company in Munich
Electric aviation launches: Power electronics will revolutionise the field of aviation in the near future
Great things are happening: Liebherr is currently building the largest offshore crane so far in Rostock
Like father, like son:
How a father-son team build one of the largest exhibition booth in the world
In one line: How working methods in technical construction have changed in recent decades
Alternative drive systems: What other energy sources are in contention and where will this development lead
Stories from the Liebherr World
Journey into the eternal ice
A logistical and technical masterpiece: a mobile crane is delivered from Munich to its work site on the southernmost continent of the world – in individual parts.
Dedication to volunteer
They are passionate about the community. Three Liebherr employees talk about their voluntary work and why they can recommend it to everyone.
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Playing with the big ones
The R 9800 Mining Excavator has a new LEGO Technic family member. Time to find out more and learn how the two machines are assembled.
Electronics on the test bench
Electrical components must withstand a variety of environmental influences. This is ensured in the Liebherr Test Center for Electronics.
As quiet as possible
Electric bicycles promise effortlessly driving experience without annoying background noises. Gear technology from Liebherr makes it possible.
A vision of safety
There's no material-handling job too tough for Liebherr wheel loaders. At a recycling plant in Munich, smart assistance systems with innovative sensors, modern camera systems and ‘intelligent’ headlights guarantee optimal safety around the depot.
Electric aviation launches
Better energy supplies, lighter weights and more efficient aircraft all round: Liebherr has started conducting major research into electric systems at three different sites which could revolutionise the field of aviation in the near future.
After five years of development, Liebherr-France is ushering in a new era for crawler excavators. The 8th generation of this heavy-duty machine is a technological revolution both in terms of the machinery and the production process
Head of Construction Werner Haas works hand in hand with his son Julian at Bauma 2019 to build one of the largest exhibition booth in the world.
Alternative drive systems
Where are we heading in terms of drive system technologies? Dipl.-Ing (TU) Klaus Graner, Managing Director and Head of Drive System Technology at Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH, looks at the evidence.
In one line
Working methods in technical construction have changed in recent decades, but engineers’ enthusiasm for innovation remains the same today.
Great things are happening
Liebherr is currently building the largest offshore crane so far. Dr. Krappinger, Technical Managing Director of the Maritime Cranes division, reports on the progress of construction and challenges.
Come join the Revolution!
INTUSI, a new piece of control technology, marks a revolution in machine communication. It was created in a joint development project of the Technical University (TU) Dresden and Liebherr.
Skilled workers are made
Eleven training programs, 10,500 m2 surface for apprenticeship and 4,500 m2 training area for apprentices: Since its foundation in 2008, the Liebherr Academy in Rostock has prepared more than 300 aprentices for the challenges of the future. Learn in our story what Lars Pröhl and his colleagues at the Academy do about the skills shortage.
At icy heights
Good planning and fast, reliable service are required to complete major projects in a timely manner. The team of Tower Crane Solutions and service engineer Ivan Dukin ensure that Europe's tallest building can be completed even in extreme weather conditions. We take a look back.
Smart is cooler
Miriam Hunger is a real sports freak. This is not by chance, since she grew up in a family of world champions in karate. But when it comes to sports, the right food also plays an important role. In order to be able to plan her meals in an optimal manner, she always takes her fridge with her. How this works? Check out in the story!
Everything under control
Downtime is lost time for every entrepreneur. To keep it as low as possible, the earthmoving division has built a globally functioning, lightning-fast and perfectly coordinated service network. This also works for service missions in the middle of the Swedish forest.
To the future
Traffic jams, smog, crowding in the metro. The transport network of the French capital is completely overloaded. The infrastructure project Grand Paris is intended to prevent gridlock. Liebherr construction machines help to improve the connection between Paris and the surrounding suburbs. Find out here, how demanding the work in the middle of this densely populated metropolitan area is.
Revolution on the Erzberg
Mining trucks are the heavyweights among their kind. In the 100-ton class Liebherr has now started to flex its muscles with its first diesel-electric drive. Check out which challenges the machine has to master when used on the Erzberg and how special the guys are who work with it.
The water detectives
The hardly noticeable moisture measurement sensors were developed 30 years ago for mixing plants and concrete pumps. Today Liebherr moisture measurement systems are indispensable to many industrial and agricultural processes. In which industries the sensors are used today and how they continue to be researched, you can find out here.
Everything is extreme on Germany's highest construction site. Anyone working here at almost 3,000 meters must be cast from a very special mold. Just as the 150 EC-B from Liebherr has been faithfully serving its purpose in all weathers for the past two years. Here you can see what special challenges the construction of the new cable car on the Zugspitze has placed on man and machine.
Energy transition 2.0
The highest wind turbines with 246,5 metres. A pilot project which will for the first time make green energy storable and thus available on a flexible basis. One of the most exciting chapters in the future of Germany's energy transition is being written near Schwäbisch Hall – with the help of Liebherr cranes.
"Charge the hoses!"
The ultimate vehicle: 4,500 litres of fire-extinguishing water, 400 litres of foam, nine crew members on board, plus all the tools and hydraulic rescue equipment. The fire service can always be relied on. One reason is because Rosenbauer fits its vehicles with high-performance pumps using Liebherr technology.
Out of love for technology
Hans Eisele has been working for Liebherr, where he normally spends his time fitting state-of-the-art concrete mixing trucks with mixer drums, for 37 years. Today, however, he is dealing with an "old-timer", a 1977 Liebherr truck mixer.
Reaching into the depths
In a high alpine setting, duty cycle crawler crane operator Yann Blouet excavates sediment from the depths of a reservoir to keep a power plant running. The site in the mountains has all the ingredients for a great adventure.
Ready for animal action
Dortmund Zoo now features a very striking "beast of burden". It looks like a giraffe, burrows like a meerkat, is armed like a rhinoceros and moves as sure-footedly as a Himalayan tahr.
Intelligence is cool
"Hey Mia, is there still milk in the fridge?" – "The inventory says there's one carton!" When Miriam Hunger talks to her fridge, she's not actually thirsty. She is a member of Liebherr’s "digitalisation" team.
Print & fly
Producing a complete aircraft using a 3D printer? That stage has not yet been reached. However, a team of researchers at Liebherr is gradually getting closer to achieving this dream – working in tandem with evolution.
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We want truth on death crash
THE family of a Liverpool teenager who died aftera police chase criticised an inquest into the cause of her death.
Kimberley Ann Crawford, 16, was flung through the windscreen of the Mini Cooper in which she wasa passenger in March 2004 and died of her injuries.
The jury found police chasing the Mini were travelling at a safe distance behind the car.
In their verdict, jurors said driver Phillip King, who was on the run from Thorn Cross young offenders institution, was well over the drink drive limit and driving dangerously when he lost control of his car.
But family members said the inquest failed to uncover the truth of Kimberley's death.
Speaking outside the inquest, her uncle Jimmy Cawley, 41, of Lovel Road, Speke, said: "I promised Kimberley when I saw her in hospital that I would find out the truth.
"The police were coming into a built-up area and they should have seen King had had a drink and not forced him to jump the lights.
"If the police are chasing you, you can't stop because you are scared to because they will hit you in the back."
Mr Cawley said the teenager did not know King was on the run, or that he was using a stolen vehicle when she agreed to travel with him.
The inquest heard Kimberley had lost her house keys and accepted a lift from King to a friend's house.
Police began following the vehicle when they saw it being driven erratically.
King accelerated to 70mph in Western Avenue, Speke, and lost control when he hit a speed bump, jurors heard.
During the inquest, witness Phillip Harrison claimed a police Vauxhall Vectra had clipped the Mini shortly before it crashed.
But the jury exonerated the police who requested the driver to stop and then chased him when he sped off and ran through a red light.
Mr Cawley said the family were devastated at the loss of the teenager, from Fenton Green, Speke, who hoped to become a veterinary nurse.
He said: "It's just a waste of a life."
Liverpool FCPolice raid pub before Liverpool FC and Man United match to arrest suspected ticket toutsOfficers entered the backroom of the pub and detained two men
Knowsley VillageMuch-loved Merseyside pub closes and is expected to reopen under a new tenantThe ECHO understands that the previous tenants closed and vacated the property last Thursday
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311. Robert Hawke (Book review) [Lobster #8 (Jun 1985)]
... course, did become Prime Minister and has recently won another term. He is what we would see as a social democrat, a strong supporter of the Americans and big business, increasingly at odds with the left-wing of his party. He is pro MX, pro Israel, pro uranium mining and a promoter of economic policies which Thatcher would endorse. He is also immensely popular, but recently support has begun to slide and the election victory wasn't as decisive as he wanted. "He has subsequently admitted that his campaign performance was affected by his concern about his daughter, a heroin addict. After the election he almost went into hiding for a month." ( ...
312. Clippings Digest: August - November 1984 [Lobster #7 (Feb 1985)]
... on threats to independence of broadcasting: 'the protection of government information has become undiscriminating and obsessional with the resulting suspicion that frequently the motive is not so much to protect the security of the state as the political comfort of ministers. ' (Times 27 August) Story, already printed, due for Times (of 23 August) claiming Mrs Thatcher present at Naval HQ when Belgrano was sunk, was withdrawn at last minute by editor, apparently after conversation with Rupert Murdoch. (Guardian 4 October) Book about Falklands war by head of MOD's naval history department refused publication by junior defence minister John Stanley (Observer 30 September) Special Branch SB attending Friends of the Earth and NCCL ...
313. Parapolitical bits and pieces [Lobster #7 (Feb 1985)]
... article which appeared in the July 1981 issue of ROUND TABLE - The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. The article dealt with British (and Western) security in the event of a political and military withdrawal from Ireland and pointed out that the possibility of a united Ireland joining NATO was the option most frequently discussed at the meeting between Haughey & Thatcher, in December 1980. The author of the article was Kenneth Whitaker, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, and Secretary of the Irish Department of Finance. Whitaker was regarded as a powerful figure in the Irish bourgoisie establishment, and has been widely accredited as the architect of Irish economic policy from the mid-1950s to ...
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314. Publications and Book Reviews [Lobster #6 (Nov 1984)]
... to me to be unexceptional, although there are sections on the organised crime scene in Australia in which the Nugan Hand operations fitted. As the Australian crime/politics story unfolds this may turn out to be more interesting than it first appears. And let's hope that McCoy, now living in Australia, is working on that material . RR Thatcher and Friends: The Anatomy of the Tory Party Ian Ross (London 1983) This might have been a very good book, but inclusion in Pluto's 'Arguments for Socialism' series means: no index, no footnotes, and the scantiest of documentation. In some of this series this hasn't mattered too much, but with a subject like ...
315. Lobster Issue 6: Contents [Lobster #6 (Nov 1984)]
... . © 2001 Lobster Contents | Cover Image Brief notes on the political importance of secret societies Ian MacGregor: and AMAX and armaments Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads Notes on the Round Table et al Kincoragate: parapolitics Who's afraid of the KGB? Reading Italy Clippings Digest Publications/Reviews Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia Thatcher and Friends: The Anatomy of the Tory Party The New Right 1960-68: with epilogue 1969-80 Deadly Deceits Editorially Sorry this is late by the schedule we set ourselves of an issue every two months. A number of reasons for this - the summer holidays, a typewriter breakdown - but mainly (a ) just a ...
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316. Clippings Digest. June/July 1984 [Lobster #6 (Nov 1984)]
... 40 years ago: Times 29 May Norman Tebbit, Secretary of State for Industry, attempted to censor Chairman of British Shipbuilders in appearance before Commons Select Committee. Times 19 July Government accused of trying to suppress chapter in OECD report on the economy which states that unemployment causes poverty. We kid you not! Guardian 16 June Material on Mrs Thatcher and her links with the Oman business and Trafalgar House removed from World in Action programme by IBA. This is the result of recent changes in the law as a result of the Mary Whitehouse case against the film 'Scum', which now obliges the IBA to vet potentially controversial programmes. Objections came from the Oman Government via Sultan of ...
317. Changing the guard: Notes on the Round Table network and its offspring [Lobster #6 (Nov 1984)]
... . One obvious current example in this country is the recent resurgence of popular interest in 'things Imperial' - the endless TV dramas set in India, the Falklands episode, Sir Keith Joseph's talk of instituting a 'patriotic' history curriculum in secondary schools, and, arguably, the reappearance of The Round Table. All have taken place since the Thatcher Government removed exchange controls and allowed the current flood of UK capital abroad to take place. (About 60 billion has gone since 1979). As the core of the British Empire was the exportation of British capital, it is tempting to see the present capital exports and all this Imperiana as linked. But how are they linked? ...
318. Ian MacGregor: AMAX and armaments (Part 2) [Lobster #6 (Nov 1984)]
... Centre for International Briefing at Farnham Castle since 1974. (17) Ian MacGregor - a man of prudence and principles?Since Ian MacGregor came to Britain he has made it clear that the giant firms he has been put in control of must be made to "balance their books". The implication, forcefully promoted by the 'monetarist' Thatcher, is that the nationalised industries don't work and privatisation is necessary. But, as we have seen, a massive rationalisation movement has been going throughout the capitalist economies affecting firms whether they be private or State-controlled. Multinational monsters like IT and T have been divided up; indeed, it was Lazards of New York which enabled ...
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319. Spooks UK [Lobster #5 (Aug 1984)]
... WC1 MI6 recruitment - 3 Carlton Gardens, London SW1 * * * Head of MI6, Sir Colin Figures , KCMG, went to Cambridge before serving in Germany and Vienna. He lists his hobbies as watching sport, gardening, beachcombing, and is 59 years old...MI5 Director is Sir John Lewis Jones .. .. Thatcher has a new spy chief at No.10. Air Vice-Marshall Basil Lock is Cabinet Security Adviser - known in Whitehall and Pall Mall clubs by the nickname 'Lock-up' - and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5's top secret F3 section which is ...
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320. Golitsyn [Lobster #5 (Aug 1984)]
... on without them. During this period, say 1960-1975 when (apparently) the West's counter intelligence services were penetrated by the KGB, Western Europe and the US, far from being 'Finlandized' or GDR-ized, far from drifting slowly into the Soviet orbit, saw the beginning of the right-wing moves which now see Thatcher, Kohl and Reagan in power. To this mere book-reading outsider one of the odder features of the great 'mole hunt' has been the contrast between the wilder stories told by Golitsyn and those of another ex Soviet bloc intelligence defector, Goleniewski. Golitsyn defects, blows some Soviet operations, tells his new allies that they have ...
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Industry Focus: Strictly Rhythm Co-Founder Gladys Pizarro On Her New Venture & The Lost Art Of Developing DJs
We talk about the challenges of developing artists in the era of streaming and social media, lessons from the past and more.
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Gladys Pizarro
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Gladys Pizarro is a name known in industry circles. She co-founded famed New York dance music label Strictly Rhythm, that helped shape the sound of the city and dance music in the 1990s. She is using her experience and knowledge of the music business to launch her own company called Launch Entertainment. Pizarro initially launched the company in 2008 right at the onset of the EDM boom, but the timing wasn't right for a company that worked with a completely different world of electronic music. Now a decade later, she is relaunching the company with the music climate in a better place for classic, authentic house music.
We chat with Pizarro about her plans to relaunch the company, how developing artists has changed over the past few decades and more.
What is the company you are starting and what is its goal?
Actually I started my company in 2008 in the height of the EDM phase, which was a total mistake. After a few releases I paused and decided I was heading down the wrong path. So I waited for the climate to change musically in order to relaunch the label now. Launch Entertainment is a label where I develop producers, dance music artist and DJs who are in the dance music - electronica genre. The goal here is to develop the artist through social media, the internet and contacts to create a following that can become illustrious for the artist and the label.
Why did you start this company?
I decided to relaunch the label now because I feel there’s a void that needs to be filled in the music business. For instance, labels today do not have the time to develop an artist. That takes time and money. Most labels today are data driven. A music executive will go on social media to see who's hot, check to see how many followers they have, although having talents helps, its not a prerequisite many make a decision with this formula, then decide if they should get signed or not. Don't get me wrong it awesome to have an artist that the primary work has already been done for you. Now all you have to do is build from there. At Launch you don't have to have 100,000 followers if you’re talented and can take constructive criticism that’s enough to get you signed to the label. The staff will work out the rest and I will work my magic.
What did you learn from your time at Strictly Rhythm that can apply to your current venture?
That building relationships with your artist and doing it with integrity is everything. I still keep in touch with almost every producer, artist and Dj that I have developed back at Strictly Rhythm and Nervous Records
The dance music business is much more global these days. How will you try and take advantage of that?
The advantage I have comes first from my foundation working at Strictly Rhythm. There are some viable contacts that I have at the major label here in the US and abroad which gives me access to them. Through technology using the internet, social media, and my contacts I can create awareness to engage music executives that maybe interested in synching my music to a film or a commercial or license the music in a specific territory.
What will you do to develop artists today?
I'll give you a basic start. Developing an artist is challenging in todays market, I’m not going to lie. But again due to my foundation at Strictly I have some connections that will get me in the door faster than a regular person. Hitting social media by building a fan base, hitting the right DJ at the club, getting the radio mix show play, creating such a buzz that a major label may want to get involved. Hiring another promotion company to help create a massive buzz are just a few pieces of a formula that may lead to getting the track added to a radio station.
What types of artists will you look to work with? Are you working with any now?
The types of artist I look for, and I’m going to sound cliché, is the go-getter, that’s hungry, that will do whatever it takes in a respectable manner to get the job done. If it requires a long studio session, if we have to open up for another act, If there’s a chance to get some real commercial exposure they will have to be willing to be able to handle constructive criticism and handle all the pain that comes with the hard work that’s involved. At the moment I’m currently putting out Dj-friendly tracks, but when a producer brings in a vocalist that I’m interested in, I’m going to do what I do. I’m currently looking for that act that can fill an arena. I’m looking for the massive hit. I’m either going to find or develop it.
What are some of the biggest changes you have seen since the 90s when it comes to developing an artist?
The changes I have seen today is that most labels do not want to develop an artist like back in the day. Today you can do develop yourself through social media. That’s why label reps spend hours searching for new and upcoming talent via the web. Everyone who has a computer has access to social media. This is where the advantage works for me. My plan is to bring back my development skills into play. I am a seasoned veteran in developing producers, artist and DJ's. That’s why the name of my company is named Launch.
A lot of A&R has become data-driven. Are you using data at all for your work and how do you feel about this rather large shift?
Although A&R has become data-driven and it gives the label a great start, it’s not a prerequisite at Launch. Yes I will use some data to gauge a few things, but if I tell you Ill be giving away a part of my formula.
How does streaming fit into what you will be doing with your artists?
Although my label at the moment caters mostly to DJ's, streaming can work for me as well but only if your track is on a heavy traffic driven playlist,
That’s when you can make some nice money. The label doesn't make any money if the track is alone on the site, it will only receive pennies to the dollar and I have huge issue regarding that. I feel if its streamed we should get more. The advantage of streaming comes when you have a well-established artist. That’s when you'll really see that money.
Since you are working with mostly Djs, are you working with them more on the live side and also with getting songs signed?
I’m working with producers that make tracks some with vocals, some with vocal sample and some instrumental. I’m currently on my fourth release and I’m currently interested in signing a female artist at the moment.
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Folk Trio Lula Wiles On Fiddle Camp, Political Turmoil, Their New Album And More
By Maine Public staff • May 21, 2019
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A 164-Year-Old Bangor Church Will Hold Its Last Service On June 30
By Judy Harrison - Bangor Daily News • May 7, 2019
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Grace United Methodist Church in Bangor will hold its last worship service on June 30 and close its doors after serving the community near Union and Thirds streets for more than 160 years.
Famed Maine Restaurant To Open For Season. But It's Too Late To Win A Chance For A Seat At The Table
By Irwin Gratz • Apr 30, 2019
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Erin French's famed restaurant, The Lost Kitchen, in Freedom, will open for the new season in a matter of days. Since opening in 2014 the 40-seat restaurant at the site of an old mill has become so popular that French conducts a mail-in lottery for reservations. This year's is already over. She received 20,000 post cards. Only 1,000 will be chosen. French came by Maine Public's Portland studios recently for a chat with Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz.
'Every Child Should Find Themselves In a Book' Speaking With Illustrator Melissa Sweet
By Nora Flaherty • Apr 22, 2019
Melissa Sweet grew up in New Jersey, but when she first came to Maine in the 1970s, she fell in love.
Mainers In Paris 'Took Some Of The Last Photos That Exist' Of Notre Dame
By Emily Burnham - Bangor Daily News • Apr 16, 2019
Courtesy of Jasmine Ireland / via Bangor Daily News
Mainers who witnessed the enormous fire that engulfed the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on Monday described the experience as harrowing and surreal.
How A Maine Artist Brings Characters To Life In New Animated Film 'Missing Link'
Courtesy Adam Fisher
How A Maine Artist Brought Characters To Life In New Animated Film 'Missing Link'
The new animated movie "Missing Link" opens nationally and in Maine today. It tells the tale of a big foot-like character trying to find missing relatives. The film features the voices of Hollywood stars like Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, and Zach Galifianakis. But one of the films animators, Adam Fisher, is originally from Maine and recently left the West Coast to teach animation at the Maine College of Art. Fisher spoke with Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz about the film and his work.
Roman Catholics Celebrate 150th Anniversary Of Portland Cathedral
By AP • Mar 25, 2019
PORTLAND, Maine - Maine's Roman Catholics are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.
Maine Town Putting Kibosh On Releasing Balloons Skyward
UNITY, Maine - A Maine town is asking people to keep a grip on their balloons. Residents of Unity on Saturday approved an ordinance prohibiting the intentional release of 10 or more balloons within a 24-hour period.
Pollution Is Personal At A New Abbe Museum Exhibit
By Caitlin Troutman • Mar 20, 2019
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The rapidly changing climate in Maine and New England is affecting lives – those of the people who depend on the region’s waters, as well as the species that live there. At the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, a new exhibit explores the connection between the First People and the northern waters, and how that relationship is evolving in reaction to climate change and pollution.
Maine's Largest City To Say Goodbye To Annual Old Port Festival
By AP • Mar 6, 2019
PORTLAND, Maine - Maine's largest city will hold its annual celebration of art, music and food for the last time this summer.
Despite Suit, Effort For Robert Indiana Museum Is Advancing
By David Sharp - Associated Press • Feb 25, 2019
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PORTLAND, Maine — Despite costly litigation embroiling pop artist Robert Indiana's estate, the foundation tasked with transforming the reclusive artist's home into an art museum is moving forward.
Singer JanaeSound Among Maine-Based Talent Highlighted In 'Creative Portland' Event
By Irwin Gratz • Feb 15, 2019
Singer JanaeSound Among Maine-Based Talent Highlighted In Creative Portland Event
Creative Portland is launching a new event intending to highlight the city's performing arts talent. It will take place this Sunday, Feb. 17. The show will feature music, dance, digital art. Singer JanaeSound recently relocated to Portland from St. Louis, Missouri, and will be performing on Sunday. Her song "Diamonds" has racked up more than 100,000 listeners on services like SoundCloud and Spotify. She spoke with Maine Public's Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz.
Maine Basket Maker Wins Prestigious $50,000 Fellowship
By AP • Feb 6, 2019
Jennifer Mitchell / Maine Public
ORONO, Maine - A Maine man who is part of a long tradition of basket makers in a native American tribe has received a prestigious fellowship and its $50,000 award.
Lewiston To Be Featured On CBS' 'Criminal Minds'
By AP • Jan 28, 2019
LEWISTON, Maine - Maine's second-largest city is getting some love from a TV show.
Verna Bloom, Dean's Wife In 'Animal House,' Dead At 80
BAR HARBOR, Maine - Verna Bloom, the actress who portrayed the wife of the dean in the movie "Animal House,'' has died. She was 80.
Family spokesman Mike Kaplan tells The Hollywood Reporter that Bloom died Wednesday in Bar Harbor, Maine, of complications from dementia.
In the 1978 John Landis film, Bloom played Marion Wormer, who flirted with and had a drunken romp with fraternity president "Otter'' Stratton.
She was Clint Eastwood's lover in "High Plains Drifter'' and was Mary in "The Last Temptation of Christ.''
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Nearly 25% of a House and Land Package are Taxes and Charges
UDIA (VIC)
Nearly 25% of the cost of a house and land package is in federal, state and local government taxes and charges.
Tony De Domenico
Executive Director of the UDIA (VIC) Tony De Domenico, who will speak at the Master Builders Association of Victoria annual conference in Melbourne, today warned governments that continual tax rises and the cost of unnecessary red tape on the industry could seriously undermine its contribution to the economy.
"Government policies are a direct threat to the stability of the Australian property industry and housing affordability, and the costly processes to bring land to market need a major overhaul".
Mr De Domenico said, "In two years there has been a $13,500 rise in taxes and charges - $125 a week, on an average block of land valued at $200,000".
"The Victorian development industry directly employs around 310,000 full time employees, contributes around 12 per cent of the state's gross domestic product and contributes $4.6 billion in taxes to all tiers of government".
"I think you could safely say that without our industry, the economy and government budgets would be in very big trouble."
Mr De Domenico said, "on top of the taxes and charges, the industry is facing massive costs from environmental regulation, especially from the Federal Government which is confusing with new home buyers being forced to carry the cost of environmental regulation instead of the cost being spread across the community."
UDIA (VIC) supports some of the proposed changes to biodiversity conservation policy, particularly where they cut red tape.
"However, we consider the proposed offsets of non-native vegetation for the golden sun moth and proposed offsets of manmade habitat for the growling grass frog to be a flat tax on virtually all development."
The UDIA considers that there should be no offsets payable for removal of non-native vegetation and manmade habitat; while we understand the new regime would allow landowners to develop their land without interference from DSE or the Commonwealth, we do not understand why landowners should be asked to pay a flat retrospective tax on all their land regardless of whether it is confirmed habitat or not.
"The reality is, especially on the fringe, projects are often taking over degraded farm land and during construction there are hundreds of trees planted and substantial wetlands created as part of restoring natural habitats and protecting water resources."
Last year the development industry in Melbourne alone contributed $92.2 million to waterways and wetlands according to the Melbourne Water Healthy Water Ways annual report.
Ron Smith, Corporate Media Communications, UDIA - Mobile: 0417 329 201
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Medtronic launches spinal surgery system with Mazor technology
Maria Rachal
UPDATE: Jan. 28, 2019: Medtronic on Monday said surgeons are now using its Mazor X Stealth Edition system for spinal patients at sites in Kentucky and Virginia. The company plans to expand the American launch of its robotic surgery system to additional key U.S. regions throughout the coming year.
Medtronic said Wednesday it has completed its acquisition of Israeli company Mazor Robotics for a reported $1.7 billion total, a deal first announced Sept. 20.
The addition of Mazor's robotic guidance system for spinal surgery to Medtronic's own spine implants and navigation and 3D imaging technologies give the medtech giant a "fully-integrated procedural solution" for use by orthopaedic and neurosurgeons, Medtronic said in a news release.
The company also used the opportunity to tout the November 510(k) clearance of the Mazor X Stealth Edition, a product of the Medtronic-Mazor partnership that brings together Medtronic's surgical navigation software and Mazor's robotic-assisted surgery platform.
Wednesday's announcement finalizes the largest acquisition by Medtronic since January 2015, when it completed its nearly $50 billion merger with Covidien. Having bought a 15% stake in Mazor in 2016, the actual cost of this year's acquisition was closer to $1.3 billion.
Mazor will become part of Medtronic's neurosurgery business, under the Restorative Therapies Group's Brain Therapies division. For the quarter closed Oct. 26, the neurosurgery business grew in the high-single digits, bolstered in part by sales of the Mazor X system, of which it has been the exclusive worldwide distributor since August 2017.
Geoff Martha, executive vice president and president of the Restorative Therapies Group at Medtronic, called the Medtronic-Mazor partnership the "latest example" of the company's strategy to "integrate implants, biologics and enabling technologies like navigation, 3D imaging, robotics and powered surgical tools," with the end goal of "refining procedures, reducing variability and impacting procedural outcomes."
The Mazor buy shows that Medtronic is serious about getting a significant piece of the growing robotic surgery pie, a market where Intuitive Surgical still reigns supreme.
On a Nov. 20 conference call, Medtronic executives highlighted that the company's own robotic-assisted surgery platform, which has been Medtronic's single largest R&D investment, will likely have a fiscal 2020 launch, with work on hardware, software and verification testing still in progress. Johnson & Johnson, Zimmer Biomet, Stryker and Smith & Nephew are among the competitors also investing in the space.
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Baking elegance into an appetizing design story.
Two Bites Branding
Services: Art Direction, Creative Direction, Copywriting, Branding, Logo & Identity Design, Design Strategy, Image Selection, Print
Two Bites, a small bakery and confectioner business, approached us to create something truly unique and special. Working together, we created a way that the brand could come to life and become engaging and something that has an expressive personality. We build on a foundation of what had already been built, and began clearly articulating who they are as a company (mission, purpose, tone, and voice), and then designed a pathway for success with distinctive photography, typography, and color.
The Signature Logotype
The logo we created for Two Bites was to be a simple, to the point; a personalized signature that expesses their creativity and personality, while at the simultaneously communicating one of their deepest values, as their desserts are “The Ultimate Dessert Experience.” TM
Being Specific Helps Increase Sales
When we asked questions about their mission and what they value, it caused them to get very specific in their responses. When we get specific about a brand, it clearly defines who you are and why you exist in the business world.
“Up to this point, our sales had become somewhat stagnet and the brand itself felt tired. We wanted to create something that stood out, was visually engaging, and felt authentic. We wanted to be something that people would feel excited by and truly enjoy. In order to get there, we had to be presice in our communication, and the results are just stunning.”
The results are that the brand was entirely rejuvenated because the owner openly expressed who they are as a company, what they value, and what they represent to consumers.
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Hawaiian Aloha Shirts: Barebreasted To Barethreaded
BY BUCK QUAYLE
Hawaiian Aloha Shirts
Your mission, Rev. Hale, is to spread the Hawaiian Aloha Shirt around the world. And make a strong fashion statement.
If you're a young lady who'd like the freedom to swim and sun bare-breasted in Hawaii-or even live that way as was the custom-you may be either a couple of hundred years too early or too late. The missionaries did their job too well.
The women who used to wear only a leaf skirt, similar to a hula-skirt, and the men only a bark-beaten loan cloth-are now covered up.
Perhaps this will evolve into a more "French-Riviera" style under the prodings of the Hawaiian residents who tend to be Califorians or Japanese. The Califorians are easy, and loose, and live and let be. The Japanese are now where did I leave my tiny towel in the public bath house?
But once the missionaries force-fed western-style shirts and pants and blouses and dresses upon the natives-these same accepting people began to modify their threads.
One of the most striking developments was that of the hawaiian shirt or Aloha shirt. A forerunner to the Hawaiian Aloha shirt, alive with island scenes, with geometrics and pineapples and hula skirts and palm trees and hybiscus blossoms, was the 1920's on-back Palaka shirt. These were short-sleeved shirts with a plaid design worn by plantation workers.
Also present were home-made shirts cut from leftover Kimono fabric. Bright Chinese silk garments and cloth were added to the mixture. As were the Barong Tagalogs-untucked shirts from the Phillippines.
At first from cotton and silk, usually, and later from Rayon "false silk-more silky than silk" the new Hawaiian shirt developed in the early 1930's.
In the mid 30's, a Chinese merchant, Ellery Chun, together with his sister, Ethel Chun Lum, placed one of her fancyful short-sleeved shirts in their window at 36 North King Street in Honolulu. They added a sign that said "Aloha Shirt".
This was the beginning of proliferation. Of a Chun-fostered fashion statement. Of a new industry. The Hawaiian Shirt. The Aloha Shirt.
Born in Honolulu in 1909, where he attended Punahou School, Chun left for the States, where he attended Yale. In 1931 he graduated with an economics degree and returned to Hawaii in the middle of the depression.
He then took over his father's dry goods store, which had been serving the Chinese community. Chun changed the name to King-Smith Clothiers and dry goods. He upped the ante and broadened the appeal.
There's a story of a Honolulu Advertiser newspaper salesman who, together with Chun, came up with the "Aloha Shirt" name, as it appeared in an ad on June 28, 1935. Probably that designation had been floating around the streets prior to this time.
The shirts began to sell like crazy, and others quickly followed suit. Many new island designs were developed and tourists snapped them up. Hollywood jumped on the bandwagon as well.
Remember those old Elvis movies. Great propaganda. Not to mention John Wayne, Johnny Weissmuller, Tom Selleck, Duke Kahanamuku, Montgomery Cliff, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. U.S.President Harry S. Truman as well.
Chun kept busy, importing cloth from the U.S. At first two or three dozen of this shirt, then two or three dozen of that. Then more and more. Some of these old shirts are now collector's items and sell for hundreths and ,even, thousands of dollars.
In the late 1930's, Chun sponsored a radio talent show which broadcast in front of the Moana Surfrider Hotel. This brought even more publicity and more sales.
In 1945 he joined the Board of Directors for American Security Bank. Later he became Vice President, a full-time job, and sold his original store. In 1966, he retired, remaining on the Board until 1980, and as an advisory director until 1985.
On May 16, 2000, Chun died in Honolulu at the age of 91. Even though he didn't invent the garment-he did create the Aloha Shirt industry.
This good-old-boy from Punahou, served the missionary mission of covering christians in a right powerful way.
So from the Maui of Yore-bearbreasted-to the Hawaii of Today-gaudy chested-the Aloha Shirt saga wears on...threadbare.
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Linkedin endorsements – cynical, not stupid.
Since its introduction, it’s fair to say that Linkedin’s “endorsements” feature, which makes it simple to add a ‘point’ to your connections’ skill in various areas, has divided opinion. Actually, that’s probably not fair — anecdotally most people I know seem to think it’s a complete absurd joke.
But, I think there’s an easy misunderstanding around this feature. Most people assume, quite reasonably, that Linkedin has added this to provide more value for its users. I don’t actually think that’s the main story here — it’s about interaction figures.
As a social network, your best indicators of network health are not user numbers but user engagement. By the same argument Apple keeps coming back to re. iOS devices being *used* much more than Android equivalents, the unloved accounts that litter hundreds of now dormant social networks speak for themselves.
For years, most Linkedin users I know have been lurkers. Perhaps there’s a flurry of activity if you’re on the hunt for a new opportunity but, even then, most peoples’ career cycle is more like a couple of years than a couple of months. And as for the communities on Linkedin, the experience is so unpleasant and the general usage so uninspiring and cynical that it’s hard to create stickiness compared to the variety of alternative communities that exist.
Endorsements are the answer. Every iota of the feature’s design exposes its motive to simply up engagement metrics rather than genuinely add something valuable. The box pops up gleefully all across the site, challenging the user to confirm endorsements that verge on the rhetorical with a simple click and message of positive reinforcement. It feels like hyper-engineered altruism by numbers and its what makes it clear this is a feature for Linkedin, not so much for you.
I think this kind of design is more common in the social world than people often realise. I had an article in mind recently to run through all Twitter’s announcements for the last year and create a checklist of who each development served. If it was the users, they receive a point, if it was Twitter and/ or it’s business model, Twitter gets a point. Sadly, I don’t think there were many where everyone benefited.
For Twitter and Linkedin, I think it actually works because they do have something valuable at their core that people are already finding value from. In Linkedin’s case, it’s engineering reasons to come back more often and support that user value with company value. Does it hurt you to play with the endorsements feature a little to help support their service? Perhaps you’re actually endorsing something more important than you first thought.
Postscript: minutes after I wrote this, Mat Morrison brought up the following not entirely irrelevant aspect to the matter from Linkedin’s Q3 results. Another very clear side of the picture…
The modern ‘manuscript’ of status updates
The humble status update has grown up a lot in recent years, by me on Medium:
It’s more and more common to have not just a stream of social updates now but a full landscape. What we have today, is almost like a manuscript — and I think some of the most interesting developments can be lumped into three categories that also demonstrate how the humble status update has evolved into something more.
So let’s look at actions, dialogue and illustration.
Vine is best when you’re Being John Malkovic
Two big things I like about Twitter:
1. Source of content – links etc
2. Glimpses of how others see the world
I think my Instagram feed was too weighted to people trying to achieve 1, e.g. Here’s a lovely sunset (satisfying on content alone.)
While theres some of this on Vine, I love how vividly those in my feed achieve function 2. Not since Twitter have I felt like I’m glimpsing these little clips of every day in a different head.
Perhaps it’s because Vines include many more ‘human’ variables. From how someone moves the camera to what they decide to film to whether they give themselves a starring role, these give me more of a feel of a moment (and a person) than a dodgy Instagram filter.
If you haven’t tried it yet, I recommend it. Since I like it so much, it’s almost certainly doomed to fail (see Google Wave) so perhaps best to enjoy it while we can…
Vine is Twitter’s route to selling visual ads in your stream
Imagine you have a stream of info with riveted users but all you can put in there is text. Want to expand the options? What better way than to introduce something for your users first and foremost that can be monetised in more powerful ways later on. Sponsored tweets are about to get more serious.
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Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville
Dispatch 34:
by Charlie Hopper
“They call him Mister Christmas,” the man said, smoking and leaning on a mixing board installed in his one-bedroom apartment. “We recorded most of the demos right here.”
He indicated a closet outfitted with foam soundproofing, a little window and a microphone.
I bet landlords in Nashville have to deal with this sort of re-carpentering all the time.
“You can have that CD,” he said. It was in a thin case with a peel ’n stick label. The typeface was that “Invented For Dot Matrix Printers” font.
I said, “Ah, hm! Huh… yeah,” hoping I sounded appreciative as I read the song titles: “Forever Christmas Eve,” “Christmas in New York,” “The Season For Romance,” “All I Want For Christmas Is The Saints To Win.” There were, like, twenty Christmas songs.
“He just has this ability to write a new Christmas song, and it sounds like a classic,” said the man, taking another drag on his cigarette.
“Mister Christmas,” I said, showing that I had been listening.
The man stubbed out his cigarette as he exhaled slowly, drawing it out so I could look at the CD and reflect on Mister Christmas’s talent.
It was a hot Southern summer day as we sat in the little apartment studio. Mister Christmas’s friend wanted to talk about my attempt to crack Nashville’s code and, more importantly, my job as creative director at an advertising agency.
He was a jingle writer.
He co-writes advertising jingles with Mister Christmas.
He was hoping to sell me a jingle.
Jingles.
In general, those of us in advertising who sit next to smart, funny, eye-rolling wives as our commercials air don’t like to use the word “jingle.” If we write a song for an advertisement, we call it “custom music” or “an original track” or “a song.” The term “jingle” has the stink of an old-fashioned huckster ploy.
“If you have nothing to say, sing it,” is an old ad agency joke from years ago.
Straight-up actual capital-M Music, of course, is as important as ever. It’s in the execution: you can make it seem like you know what year it is, or you can make it sound like Casey’s got a long-distance dedication all cued up.
Once we had a client whose phone number was 444-4444. My friends Evan, Bill, Chris and I wrote a song for them making fun of having such an easy phone number. Evan wrote a lot of the best lines: “444-4444/Just dial four till someone answers.” “444-4444/It even works if you dial it backwards.” “444-4444/Coincidentally spells hi-hi-hig.”
We did a version with a Cuban band that I wrote a special lyric for: “444-4444/En español, son muchos quatros.”
Funny, no?
I thought our song was pretty hip. Sounded good. Atypical. I’d tell people, “See? We wrote an actual song. Just because it’s an ad, it doesn’t have to be a jingle.”
“Charlie,” said Bill the co-writer one day when I was straining to make my point. “Charlie—if you sing the phone number, it’s a jingle.”
He was right. It still hurts.
I’ll never be ready to admit that I co-wrote a “jingle.”
And now smoking guy wanted to sell my agency a whole jingle package (full sing :30 and :60, :30 w/announcer bed, :60 w/announcer bed). I’m sure he knew from years of cold-calling that I would politely promise to keep him in mind.
We both knew this was simply a chance to talk a little Nashville shop. And so it was, on a summer afternoon, that the conversation turned to Mister Christmas.
I don’t know. There’s something unsettling about being able to pump out Christmas stuff.
It feels jingly.
And so what? Why am I so sensitive? What exactly is the difference between a jingle and a song, and my objection to the former?
Well, a jingle wouldn’t exist unless someone was willing to pay for it. A song might.
A jingle efficiently touches on all its sales points. A song seems interested in finding something out for itself, pursuing an idea wherever it might go.
A jingle wraps up a little too neatly in favor of an argument it was rigged to win. A song might end with a satisfying conclusion, but the singer experiences a little friction on the way.
A jingle has no friction.
All the things I enjoy watching or hearing or singing to myself in the car contain friction.
Maybe that’s what I have against modern Christmas songs. Mostly they’re too pat. They touch all their snowy, candle-lit bases without any trouble, as if those bases were “quality, value, and service from a name you can trust.”
Most of the well-known, overplayed, standard Christmas songs contain an unusual idea and a touch of friction, expressed crisply.
So does Mr. Christmas deploy friction crisply? Good question. (Thanks.) (You’re welcome.) I took a listen to “The Season For Romance,” performed by Lee Ann Womack. It has a deft opening heavy with specific imagery:
She smiles at him, he says ‘Hello’
They stand beneath the mistletoe
Embarrassed by the awkward circumstance
He asks her if she’d like a drink
She says, ‘I better not, I think
Oh, what the heck, maybe just one glass’
It all goes down easy, and obeys Nashville’s recommended formula. But the reason you haven’t heard of it, in my opinion, is it doesn’t contain any new ideas. Are you surprised that these two fall in love? That happens in a lot of the standards. But here there’s no facing unafraid the plans that they made, no corn for popping.
There’s no date rapist spiking her drink and wheedling, “It’s up to your knees out there.”
And as far as “complicated but intriguing ideas,” I couldn’t find anything in Mister Christmas’s oeuvre comparable to a lonely person writing Christmas cards from a place where it doesn’t snow. By the way, I counted: the convoluted premise of “White Christmas” comes across in 53 words.
Of course, you can over steer. In a quest for crispy friction, you can just be sad or obscure (like a lot of rock bands who write Christmas songs). Sometimes it works beautifully (“2,000 Miles” by Chrissie Hynde).
Sometimes not.
I wrote Christmas songs one time for our rock band’s Christmas album. It was the guitar player’s idea to do a Christmas album, and a great idea at that. I’m proud of the songs both of us wrote.
But this was before my Nashville classes; my songs are way too oblique:
Taper, taper, burning down
Faint Nat King the only sound
Neighbor’s mini-window lights blinking a-rhythmically
Apartments around mine have emptied out
It’s still and silent, inside out
Waiting in the candlelight, nobody knows about me…
Or fast-talking but low-confidence:
Well, I woke up in the morning and I knew it wasn’t autumn
The leaves had disappeared someone’d come along and got ’em
And obviously the season of giving was here…
I’m sitting at my desk and I’m getting nothing done
Drawing faces in the margins, a grin on every one
Obviously this is not a brilliant career…
Or just dissatisfied and self-defeated:
Relatives in from out of town
Big naked flakes sticking to the ground
People in sweaters gather around
To talk and talk and talk
Talk and talk and talk
Have another glass of whatever that is
Maybe I should just shut up…
Why are the flakes naked? I don’t know. I like saying it. I sort of know what it means.
Nashville smiles, clicks the CD player off before the second verse, and wishes me a merry little etc., as they prepare to record another album of worn-out standards.
Probably recording a lot of them the wrong way.
Yes, there’s right ways and wrong ways.
It’s true: I have a lot of opinions about Christmas music.
We all do, don’t we? Some from our musical taste and preferences, some from simple sentiment or childhood associations.
Into it all wades Mister Christmas.
A jingle writer.
In Nashville.
Who knows? There was a day no one knew anything about the reindeer whose nose lit up.
That “modern classic” was written by Johnny Marks, based on a Montgomery Ward Christmas promotion. As it happens, after Rudolph and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Marks was known in the songwriting biz of the fifties as “Mister Christmas.”
Is smoking man’s jingle buddy the heir to Johnny Marks’ title? Sure. Why not? Let’s give it to him.
It’s the season of that, you know.
You Better Not Pout
Jingle Bell FAQ
Do They Know It’s Christmas After All?
by Henry Alford
Top Ten Most Censored Press Release of 1998. No. 3
by McSweeney’s Editors
Jesus Christ Decides He Doesn’t Want to Celebrate His Birthday This Year
by Matt Bannish
An Open Letter to Saint Nicholas
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Diversity in Giving 2015: The Changing Landscape of American Philanthropy
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7 years after 26/11, martyrs insulted by shabby memorials
Updated: Nov 26, 2015, 09:39 IST | Vinod Kumar Menon and Varun Singh |
Families of martyrs upset as they learn of the pathetic condition of the 26/11 memorial at Kalyan, which mid-day visited ahead of the seventh anniversary of the 2008 attacks
Seven years after the horrific 26/11 terrorist attack, this is how the martyrs’ bravery is being remembered — the memorial in Kalyan is crumbling and filthy, its paint flaking off, the tiles chipped, even as the spot is invaded by vagrants who hang clothes, throw rubbish and even sleep right there.
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When mid-day visited the 26/11 memorial at Kalyan, it was crumbling and surrounded by rubbish. Corporator Arvind More said instead of renovating the monument, they will build a newer, grander one there. Pic/Swarali Purohit
It’s no surprise that the martyrs’ families feel such memorials are less an honour than an insult. The Kalyan memorial was built in honour of five bravehearts who were killed during the attack in 2008 — Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar, Sandeep Unnikrishnan and Tukaram Ombale.
It was constructed in 2009 by the then Kalyan corporator, Asmita Arvind More, at the cost of Rs 4 lakh. Today, her husband Arvind is the corporator, and by his own admission, the rundown monument has become a haunt for drug addicts and vandals.
“We haven’t renovated the memorial, because the road on which it stands is going to be concretized. We have plans of making a grander memorial with funds from the KDMC,” Arvind told mid-day. The KDMC commissioner, E Ravindran said, “I was unaware about the issue as it was never brought to my knowledge, but now I will get it corrected.”
However, the martyrs’ families have not taken kindly to this oversight and are of the opinion that politicians should not simply build memorials to score points if they will not put in effort to maintain them.
Read Story: Gateway of India concert remembers martyrs of 26/11 Mumbai attacks
The widow of slain Senior Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar, Smitha told this paper, “If local politicians cannot maintain memorials, they should refrain from building them. Not only is this a waste of public money, the shabby and filthy condition of such memorials only serves to rub salt on our emotions.
I am against the very idea of memorials coming up in every part of the city, when the government has already constructed a memorial to the martyrs at the police gymkhana at Marine Drive.” Smitha intends to write to the chief minister to ensure action is taken against those who construct monuments only to let them run into disrepair.
“The government should impose stringent norms for the construction of such memorials and action should be taken against those who fail to maintain them. Someone complained to me that a similar memorial between Charkop and Kandivli is also maintained shabbily. Why insult the deceased and their families in this manner?” she said.
Prime location
The memorial is located between the courthouse and the police control room in the west side. The Mahatma Phule police station is hardly a minute away, and the DCP’s office is pretty close too. Despite this, the memorial is in a pathetic condition.
“ We built the monument here because important offices of the police, court, forest department are close by. We thought it will be safe, but despite that drug addicts have ruined everything. Next time we will build a memorial, we will build a fence around it to ensure no one can get in,” said corporator Arvind More.
Vaishali Ombale, Daughter of Tukaram Ombale
On the day I am supposed to remember my father’s bravery, I am deeply saddened to learn about the pathetic state in which his memorial is kept at Kalyan.
Mahendra P Choudhary, Retired Colonel
When the Armed forces erect a memorial it is looked after very well. Civilians on the other hand are interested in erecting a memorial as a publicity stunt.
Amit Khetle, Constable, Sustained three bullet injuries during 26/11
It is saddening that a memorial that was constructed at Kalyan in remembrance of senior police officers is in shambles. Politicians should not use memorials as publicity stunts. We must respect the martyrs of 26/11.
Mansi Shinde, Widow of Inspector Shashikant Shinde
Every 26/11, I remember the horrific night that shook the city. My husband fought like a warrior and laid down his life in the process. I can’t ask everyone to respect this sacrifice, but appeal to the public to not disrespect it in this way.
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Narendra Modi to visit Pakistan for Saarc summit
Published: Dec 09, 2015, 22:23 IST | IANS |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year, the first such visit by the head of the Indian government in over a decade, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday
Islamabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Pakistan next year, the first such visit by the head of the Indian government in over a decade, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said here on Wednesday.
Modi will participate in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit, Sushma Swaraj told the media.
This will be the first prime ministerial visit from India to Pakistan since Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited the South Asian neighbour in January 2004 to attend that year's Saarc summit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif at the CoP 21 summit at Paris. Pic/PTI
Sushma Swaraj said she would accompany Modi during his visit, Geo TV reported.
The Indian minister is in Islamabad to participate in the Heart of Asia Conference on peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Sushma Swaraj's is the first ministerial visit from India to Pakistan since the then external affairs minister S.M. Krishna went to Islamabad for official visit in 2012.
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit held in Ufa, Russia, in July, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif invited Modi to attend the Saarc summit in Islamabad next year, which Modi had accepted.
After the Ufa meeting, both prime ministers directed their foreign secretaries to initiate the process of renewing talks, including meetings between the national security advisors of the two countries.
However, NSA-level talks between India's Ajit Doval and his then Pakistani counterpart Sartaz Aziz scheduled in New Delhi in August were cancelled after the Pakistan high commissioner in New Delhi insisted on inviting Hurriyat leaders for pre-talks consultations before Aziz arrived.
Sushma Swaraj's visit to Pakistan comes after a flurry of diplomatic engagements between the two South Asian neighbours in the past 10 days.
Modi and Sharif had an impromptu meeting on the sidelines of the Conference of Parties (CoP-21) Climate Summit in Paris on November 30.
Both leaders were seen warmly shaking hands at the summit venue as world leaders converged for the opening of the event.
The two leaders then sat on the same sofa and were seen engaging in an animated discussion.
Following this, on December 6, Doval and Pakistani NSA Naseer Khan Janjua held a meeting in Bangkok which was also attended by Foreign Secretaries S.Jaishanker and Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry.
A joint statement issued after the meeting said the two NSAs held discussions "in a candid, cordial and constructive atmosphere".
According to the statement, the NSAs "were guided by the vision of the two leaders for a peaceful, stable and prosperous South Asia".
"Discussions covered peace and security, terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, and other issues including tranquility along the LoC (Line of Control)."
"It was agreed to carry forward the constrictive engagement," said the statement.
The LoC divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Sushma Swaraj also met Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif and his Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on the sidelines of the Islamabad conference.
According to external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup, during the meeting with Sharif, Sushma Swaraj conveyed “India's commitment to good neighbourly relations”.
After the meeting with Aziz, Swarup tweeted: “Building a cooperative relationship. EAM @SushmaSwaraj meets Pakistan's Forteign Affairs Adviser Mr Sartaj Aziz.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Sushma Swaraj extended India's hand of friendship to Pakistan at the Heart of Asia Conference.
"It is time that we display the maturity and self-confidence to do business with each other and strengthen regional trade and cooperation," she said in her address at the conference.
"For its part, India is prepared to move our cooperation at a pace which Pakistan is comfortable with," she added.
Later, the Indian minister attended a lunch hosted by Sharif for delegates to the Heart of Asia Conference.
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Poetry, Short Stories and Spoken Word
Wednesday 18 September
Ouse Muse at MK Lit Fest, featuring Kate Noakes
Event Space, MK Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, 7.30pm: £5
For one night only, Ouse Muse of Bedford relocates to Milton Keynes, showcasing the very best of the local talents. The event will conclude with headline poet, Kate Noakes reading from her most recent collection, The Filthy Quiet.
Two Contemporary Poets: Luke Kennard and Mary Jean Chan
The Sky Room, MK Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, 12.15pm: £5
Mary Jean Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong: her debut collection, Flèche, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Luke Kennard's fifth collection, Cain, was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2014 he was named one of the Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Book Society in their once per-decade list.
The Modern Short Story: Chris Power and Lisa Blower
Short story lovers, join us to hear new voices as we present the authors of two debut collections. Lisa Blower's stories tell tales of working lives in contemporary Britain, while Chris Powers writes stories peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends.
Attila the Stockbroker
The Sky Room, MK Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, 8.30pm: £10
Attila the Stockbroker has toured the world performing his sharp-tongued, radical social surrealist poetry and songs for 39 years, doing over 3400 gigs in 24 countries and releasing over 40 CDs/LPs/singles, 8 books of poetry and, in 2015, his autobiography Arguments Yard.
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East Notes & Rumors: Trumbo, O’s, Familia, Nats, Yanks
By Connor Byrne | December 17, 2016 at 7:21pm CDT
Contract talks between the Orioles and free agent outfielder/first baseman Mark Trumbo have stalled, reports Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com. The two sides previously agreed to a four-year framework, but Baltimore’s offer is now off the table, per Kubatko, who notes that a deal could still come together (Twitter link). In 2016, his first (and perhaps only) season as an Oriole, Trumbo hit .256/.316/.533 with a major league-high 47 home runs. Along with the O’s, the Rockies, Indians, Mariners and Rangers are among the clubs that have shown interest in the soon-to-be 31-year-old this offseason.
More from the majors’ two East divisions:
Domestic violence charges against Mets closer Jeurys Familia were dropped Thursday, but he’ll still face at least a 30-game suspension next season, per Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News. A 30-game ban would be identical to the punishment Major League Baseball levied on Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman last year. Like Familia, Chapman didn’t face any legal ramifications for his domestic violence incident. Rob Manfred regarded Chapman’s case as serious enough to warrant an unpaid month off, though, and the commissioner is currently investigating Familia. Bianca Rivas, Familia’s wife, said he didn’t hurt her Oct. 31, but the police who responded to her 911 call noticed a bruise on her cheek and scratches on her chest. The scratches came from the couple’s 1-year-old son, according to Rivas.
After trading away infielder Danny Espinosa last week, the Nationals are searching for outside bench help, writes Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com. The Nats have expressed interest in re-signing free agent infielder Stephen Drew, who joined the team last year on a one-year, $3MM deal and hit .266/.339/.524 in 165 plate appearances. However, Drew might end up finding a more prominent role elsewhere. “He’s been offered some,” Drew’s agent, Scott Boras, said at the winter meetings. “So he’s just kind of evaluating the options of carrying out a multiple-position role and probably playing more than he did last year, or pursuing something more along the lines (of what he was for the Nationals this year).” If Washington doesn’t acquire an Espinosa replacement from elsewhere, the club does have 24-year-old Wilmer Difo on hand as a potential solution. He has just 77 big league PAs to his name, though.
Given that they haven’t added anyone to their rotation this winter, the Yankees are positioning themselves to rely heavily on unproven starters in 2017, observes Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Masahiro Tanaka, C.C. Sabathia and Michael Pineda are locks for the starting five; behind them, Luis Severino, Chad Green Luis Cessa, Bryan Mitchell and Adam Warren will vie for roles. The most intriguing member of the group is Severino, who endured a miserable 2016 with an 8.50 ERA in 47 2/3 major league innings as a starter. That was only Severino’s age-22 season, though, and the former big-time prospect isn’t far removed from a highly promising 2015 debut in which he recorded a 2.89 ERA, 8.09 K/9 and 50.3 percent ground-ball rate in 62 1/3 frames. “My emphasis at the end of the year with him was locate your fastball better, repeat your delivery and make sure your breaking ball morphs back into a harder breaking ball,” pitching coach Larry Rothschild told Sherman. “I certainly look at him as a starter. But to be a starter, improvements need to be made. If the improvements are made, he will be really good.”
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Why take the offer off the table? Lol, this is why no one significant ever wants to sign a long term deal with the O’s. Forever amateur hour with them.
davbee
You should only hope Trumbo doesn’t sign a long term deal with the O’s.
chesteraarthur
Because other teams that may have used him have filled the hole, thus reducing his potential market and pay day – would be my guess.
dorfmac
Poop or get off the pot. If he wanted to sign the deal he would have by now. O’s can’t wait around all offseason for Trumbo to leverage the deal elsewhere.
JKB
Why leave it on the table. You expect them to just leave it out there and let him shop it around and come be able to just accept it whenever he wants when he sees his market dropping
mrwheby1
No one significant signs with the Os because they’re not passing out 25M/year contracts. End of discussion
swami21
Considering that Weiters and Trumbo could both walk why wouldn’t O’s be interest in swapping Kevin Gausman for NYY’s Gardner, Austin Romaine, Chad Green, and Tyler Austin. Romaine gives them insurance should Weiters leave, Gardner gives them speed on the bases, GG defense in Left and solid offense geared to Camden Yards. Green can compete for a back end rotation starter, and Austin can replace some of Trumbo’s power at the DH or spell C. Davis at first.
hojostache
So….an expensive aging OF and spare parts for Gausman? Nah…I think the O’s would pass on that 10/10 times.
Really? The O’s just signed a “spare part” to be their regular catcher. Castillo became a FA because the Diamondbacks (Who?) wouldn’t give him a contract for 2017. Romaine is a better defensive catcher and has shown that his offense will improve with more playing time (which he won’t get sitting behind Gary Sanchez). These “spare parts” would start in left, catch between 80 – 100 games, fit in as the #4 or 5 Starter or at least be the long man out of the pen, and Austin would give the O’s depth in the OF, 1st, and even 3rd unless you expect him to play 162 games. Financially it is a good deal for both teams. Gardner’s locked in at $13M per year through 2018 plus a team option for 2019 when he’d be 36 years old. The others are all team controlled for the next 2 or 3 years.
orioles101_milller
Spend the extra 25 mill on encarnacion
I wonder if the Rockies are holding out on Trumbo for the potential of a deal with the White Sox for Abreau. Abreau just locked down a salary in arbitration, that could help facilitate any deal. I suppose they’d also be interested in Quintana. Quintana is the deal of the winter as far as I’m concerned. Stealthy good numbers.
LADreamin
They might be waiting on EE’s price to drop. I’d rather have EE over any of the 1B/DH types available including Trumbo and Abreau.
EE can’t play 1B for 163 games
pukelit
Good because he only needs to for 162…sorry
I think Abreau is a dream at Coors….power sure….but he hits the ball VERY hard…and those are big gaps in Colorado…some of those doubles will carry as well. He’d look alot like Andres Gallaraga with the Rockies….I think his avg would explode….maybe .310-320 with 40 HR…he has the bat that Arenado has
politicsNbaseball
Quintana does have good numbers, however his reported asking price does reflect that so I’m not to sure if I’d call him the deal of the winter
I’m referring to him as the deal of the winter because I feel he’s the pitcher that could possibly have the sneakiest high impact on who would receive him. Sure, his price is reportedly high….but someone could make a case that hes everything that Sale was, and possibly better going forward.
I just meant in general transaction pop factor. Quintana isn’t going to light up any Facebook trends. I think most likely would be the Dodgers…but things change. They dont have to flip him…someone has to toss innings on the south side.
East Coast Bias
Oh boy. That Yanks rotation does not inspire confidence at all. So many question marks after Tanaka.
Foreveryankees
Tanakas the biggest? Does that elbow hold up?
jleve618
I thought that elbow was done for last year for sure. Who knows, he made it this long maybe he’s good.
overratedsandy
That Pineda is the biggest joke of all. A younger version of Mike Pelfrey.
CubsFanForLife
But his FIP! His FIP says he’s better than his traditional markers suggest! sigh… If only he could be consistent.
The Danny Espinosa situation got me thinking. Does anyone know do players privately ask to be traded very often and if so, do teams actually do it in response to a request? I just wonder if this happens behind closed doors?
Doc Halladay
I’m sure it happens on a semi-regular basis and probably more often than we realize/know of. When Scott Rolen was in Toronto, he quietly asked JP Ricciardi to deal him to a more Central located team so he could be with his family(pretty sure his wife was expecting at the time) but also told him that if the deal didn’t make sense for the team, to not overly worry about it.
Thanks. I guess if it does happen nobody wants to ever publicize that because if it got back to the fans that a player wanted to leave a team they’d be crucified. We are a fickle bunch!
Yankees1991
The Yankees should take a flyer on either Jason Hammel or Tyson Ross. Both could be had on cheap deals. Worst case scenario, Hammels and Ross act as innings eaters. I have little faith in Severino, Cessa and Warren at this point. Would like to see Green get another opportunity in the rotation after his strong performance last year.
aff10
Hammel’s likely an innings-eater, but Ross’ worst-case scenario isn’t really back-end guy. He’s quite the health risk. Not sure he’s a great fit for the Yankees, seems better for a team needing a boom-or-bust guy like Miami or Seattle
bradthebluefish
Surprised that Ivan Nova (SP) and the Yankees are not discussed much. Also, Mariners would be a great fit for Ivan Nova as well given their trade that involved shipping away Tijuana Walker (SP) to Arizona.
kiwimlbfan
I’m not. That boat has well and truly sailed.
rivera42
Stop messing with Warren. Put him in the pen and keep him there. Not expecting much from the rotation this year, but hoping for continued improvement from Severino, Green, and Cessa while the kids in the farm(Sheffield, Adams, Kaprielian) continue their seasoning.
Manny's Pancakes
If I recall, didn’t the orioles take Chris Davis’ offer “off the table” last offseason before finally paying him a lot of $$$. Maybe that’s what got him to agree to all that deferred cash.
IMO would rather have Edwin Encarnacion on a Cespedes like one year contract than Trumbo.
blentz
Frankly if the Os are offering Trumbo something like 4/$50-55mm I’d much prefer that they take that offer and go talk to EE and move it to the $85mm range. Trumbo has had one big year and wants paid for it. EE has a track record and his power in Camden Yards along with his OBP would make the Os much better.
EE could go for <$85m…as his market has been soft all off-season. I agree about the Cespedes type deal because it is win-win for both sides.
Sorry, that’s Weiters not Writers. Dam that spellcheck.
F off familia , i want him to trade hes a piece of crap
He does seem to dissapoint in the big spot.
DrCrawdad2009
The Yanks seem more likely to trade a veteran starting pitcher for prospects than to trade a bunch of prospects for a starter. The Yanks stand to lose Tanaka, Sabathia, and Pineda at the end of the 2017 season.
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32 - Robert Gellatly
Hometown: Brick, N.J.
High School: Brick Memorial
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2017: Gellatly played in all 14 games for the Greyhounds. He recorded one goal and also grabbed 17 groundballs.
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Dancing With The Stars NZ reveals the record breaking amount they raised for charity
goss 08/08/2019
Dancing with the Stars New Zealand raised a record-breaking $499,286 for charity.
The jaw-dropping figure is a record high for the show in New Zealand, and it's all thanks to the Kiwi fans who showed their support by texting in their votes.
For the first time in the show's history, all four text service providers dropped their fees too.
The money raised is up $75,000 on the shows the previous season, and a whopping seven times more than 2015.
All the proceeds of the first week ($16,770) were donated to the Christchurch Our People Our City fund.
The remaining cash was divided equally between each contestant's chosen charity.
"Again this show has hit the mark with New Zealand and more importantly we've managed to make more money for our chosen charities," said MediaWorks chief content officer Andrew Szusterman on Thursday.
"On behalf of the whole Dancing with the Stars cast and crew, thanks for making the show a success for everyone."
The 12 contestants and their chosen charities are below.
Manu Vatuvei (winner)- Kids Can
Laura Daniel (runner up) - Shine
Clinton Randell - Refresh
William Waiirua - The Attitude Trust for People with Disabilities
Nadia Lim - Garden to Table
Glen Osborne - The Women's Refuge
K'Lee McNabb - The Revolution Tour
Walter Neilands - Kidney Kids NZ
Mike McRoberts - Variety Bikes for Kids
Anna Wilcox - The Mental Health Foundation
Carolyn Taylor - Cure Kids
Jude Dobson - Plunket
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Widebody Mercedes-AMG GT S With Carbon Wheels Sounds Naughty
Widebody Mercedes-AMG GT S With Carbon Wheels Sounds Naughty product 2017-11-23 09:50:13 https://www.motor1.com/news/222285/widebody-mercedes-amg-gt-s/ Mercedes-Benz AMG GT Aftermarket / Tuning, luxury
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By: Adrian Padeanu
All that's missing is the Gulf logo.
With its low-slung curvaceous body featuring wide hips and an imposing front grille flanked by large air vents, the Mercedes-AMG GT S isn’t exactly the most subtle car out there when it comes down to the exterior design. But some people will always want more in order to stand out from the crowd and for them it looks like Starke USA is the go-to place.
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After making an appearance earlier this year at the New York Auto Show, the Mercedes-AMG GT RS by Starke USA as it’s known by its full name was spotted recently at a car meet in the United States. It comes as no surprise that it immediately managed to catch the attention mainly due to its extra wide body wearing a Gulf-like livery.
The high-performance coupe rode on 20-inch carbon fiber wheels and was basically glued to the road thanks to the adjustable KW suspension that was likely set up to the lowest possible configuration. Numerous other carbon fiber bits and pieces can be seen all over the car, including a front spoiler lip, side skirts, and a massive rear diffuser that extends onto the sides (and collects a lot of debris as shown in the video).
It’s all show without any extra go as the tuner hasn’t fiddled with the biturbo 4.0-liter V8, which in the 2018MY GT S pushes out 515 horsepower and 494 pound-feet of torque or 12 hp and 15 lb-ft more than before. For those finding hard to quench their thirst for power, Mercedes-AMG is also selling a 550-hp GT C version and the 577-hp GT R, with a Black Series version likely on the agenda bringing quite possibly even more AMG muscle.
Getting back to the car at hand, you’ll have to give Starke USA a call to find out how much the package costs, but you can imagine this level of customization doesn’t come cheap.
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2012 Land Rover LRX To Debut At Paris Motor Show
Nelson Ireson February 23, 2010 Comment Now!
The 2012 Land Rover LRX was announced for early 2011 production earlier this year, and today it was revealed that the new smallest Land Rover will make its debut at the 2010 Paris Auto Show.
Official photos of the car have been released, and we've spied it in action carving through the snow with LR2 body panels and a top-mount light bar. We even know that Land Rover is planning for gasoline, diesel and hybrid models.
The gasoline and hybrid versions are almost certainly destined for U.S. sale, while the diesel may be reserved for Europe and other markets. At its reveal at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, the LRX Concept was powered by a 2.0-liter diesel-hybrid powertrain fueled by biodiesel and capable of 60 mpg. We don't expect to see this engine come at first, though it may eventually make it to production, despite the likely high cost of combining diesel and electric drive.
The LRX is also expected to get stop-start systems to cut idle fuel use and emissions, and there's even a chance that some carbon fiber reinforced plastic panels will see production to cut weight.
Production at Land Rover's Halewood plant is expected to begin early next year, with sales to start during the first half of the year.
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Bad Boys 4 Already in Development At Sony
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Why I Hate the Apple Store
I go to the Apple store in Ginza looking for Snow Leopard (for a client). Of course, there's no sign indicating what is on each floor because signs would dirty the clean, minimalist approach. So I ask them where the Snow Leopard upgrades are, and they say 2nd floor. I get the elevator, but there aren't any buttons in it. Other people get in, and we all look at each other confusedly. At least I wasn't the only one.
The retarded elevator goes to every floor. I get to the 2nd floor and find Snow Leopard, and I'm holding it like a moron trying to figure out how to pay. No registers. No checkout. Just a big brushed-aluminum party with a bunch of assholes in black shirts. I ask this douchebag how to pay, and he says someone will help me soon. Oh, and I'm sweating like a pig in my winter wear because the place is flooded with trendy, power-guzzling halogen lights. How very non-green of you, Apple.
Some trendy Apple chick comes along and asks me what version of OSX I'm upgrading from. I say 10.4. She says I need some useless "boxed set" that costs 3x as much and comes with a bunch of software I don't need. I told the client the upgrade was around 3500 yen. This boxed set is 13,000 yen. I say no freakin' way and leave, my mood less than kind as I now have to tell the client the "good news."
I briefly looked for stairs to get back down to the first floor, but--big surprise--no stairs. I had to wait for that retarded elevator. God forbid there ever be a fire in that store. Every person would burn as they claw at brushed aluminum wall panels trying to find the hidden fire escape. Others would die trying to use silver (Ironically red doesn't match the Apple design modus) fire extinguisher cylinders lacking any levers, buttons, or usage guides.
The problem is that the Apple Store is more like a showroom where they show off their crap, but don't actually sell it. If you actually wanna buy something there it's a total pain in the ass. I felt like everyone was looking at me thinking, "What's this guy doin'? He's buying something?"
Generally speaking, Apple makes decent stuff, but their minimalist, "you just have to know" approach really pisses the crap out of me sometimes. For example...
You boot a Dell or HP PC, and there are messages on the BIOS screen like "F2 to enter setup, F12 for boot menu." That's easy enough.
You boot a Mac, and you just stare at a dumb Apple logo. How do you boot to a CD or DVD? Do you know? You have to press the "C" key. Did you know that? Better yet, can you remember that? Maybe it was written on the back of the Apple stickers. Who knows. Wouldn't it be easier to just have it appear during the boot screen?
Apple hides it from you to make it simple.
Microsoft shows it to you to make it available.
Both approaches aren't without flaws, but when working outside the "media creator" realm that Mac excels at, Apple can really get on my nerves. When it comes to IT stuff, the free alternative OS Linux is the gleaming new star in my sky.
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Agree. Had to reinstall my Mac from backup and almost had to go on the internet on my Acer to find out how to boot the POS from DVD. Oh yeah, hold the Option key while it boots. Why doesn't it pop up a menu like a PC?
I'm glad Steve Jobs is finally gone and hopefully they'll eventually migrate away from his extremist approach rather than continue with it.
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Chickie Parker Comedic Monologue by Neil Simon
1-Sentence Summary: Alan demonstrates his irresistible charm to his friend Buddy by talking Chickie Parker into going to a friend's party with him.
Appreciated: How just within the space of a few words, Simon conveys how socially adept and charming Alan Baker can be. The smooth conversational segues from Switzerland as a topic to the Joke about a specialist Swiss doc recommending Alan has to see Chickie within the next half hour or he'll die. His excuse for not picking Chickie up, he has to pickup pretzels for the party.
Character's gender is male.
Find this monologue on page 32 of "The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Volume 1" from Simon's play "Come Blow Your Horn"
1. Strong Want - 1. To get a date and impress Buddy.
3. Tactical Variety - 1. Flatters her, makes himself sound important, reminds her of who he is, avoids picking her up..
4. Hook Opener - 1. A playboy goes through his little black book.
5. Button Finish - 1. Closes on a "Voila" which references how easy it is for him to conjure up dates for any event.
8. Past/Present Balance - 0.5. Past history with Chickie lightly referenced. Essentially piece is all present action (not a bad thing!)
9. Discovery - 0.
TOTAL "ELEMENT USAGE WEIGHT": 5
I like this monologue! It quickly establishes a character. And it's quick; monologue can be done in one minute.
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Into the Woods with Love by Alisha Gaddis
1-Sentence Summary: A park ranger gives an engaged couple a tour of the woods and insists he is more entitled to the woods than they are.
Appreciated: The holier than though superior attitude the park ranger has over the people to whom he's speaking. How he shows off his knowledge of the flora and fauna. The great over the top joy and self satisfaction he takes in the woods. The absurdity of the sense of ownership he feels over the national park.
Age Range 20's to 40's
Find this monologue in the collection "Men's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny." I believe it is standalone (not from a play).
1. Strong Want - 0.5. To impress the couple, to show off.
2. High Stakes - 0.5. Maybe they won't be impressed.
3. Tactical Variety - 1. Shows of his knowledge, compares himself to Paul Bunyan...
4. Hook Opener - 1. Uses Latin word for a tree and refers to himself as "in the know" within first 5 seconds or so.
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Soap Opera by David Ives
In this comic monologue a man professes his lifelong love for a Maypole washing machine.
Monologue gives you a great yarn to spin plus a decent journey with emotional highs and lows to hit.
The monologue is from the short play "Soap Opera" from the collection of short plays by David Ives entitled "Time Flies and other short plays."
The monologue opens on the top of page 119 of "Time Flies and other short plays" with the line "It was as a naked crawling infant I first glimpsed it" and continues to "I was hooked." The second part begins with "The sphinx in our Oedipal basement was my mother's Maypole" and continues to "We were a perfect match." The third part starts with "A machine that's faultless and flawless" and continues to "Perfection, cubed!" The fourth part starts with "Yes. Yes. I know I'm just replacing my mother by dating a washing machine." and continues to "This machine and I are soulmates!" The fifth part starts with "Nobody understood" and closes on "The day I graduated to Maypole Repairman."
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The Green Hill by David Ives
David Ives is the master of the short form play in our lifetime. No one in the short form is as widely produced or as well known even outside the world of theatre people. His published plays can be found in nearly every drama school library. His writing is light like a souffle, witty, warm and wise. And yes, he's a Yale MFA grad like Durang perhaps the other darker more emotionally raw short form genius who also holds a Pulitzer. But this post is about Ives. If Durang is deep, painful cathartic comedy, Ives is the light brilliant uplifting counterpoint. In any event, both write comedy, a thing perhaps too little celebrated in a life that is made infinitely better by the presence of laughter.
Alright then, the actual topic of this post, David Ives "The Green Hill." It' a short play about a man, Jake, who everyday imagines himself if only for a few minutes atop a green hill. The hill is a place where he is perfectly happy and at peace. He is obsessed with finding the actual green hill. He knows it is not just in his mind. He goes on a journey perhaps leaving the love of his life, Sandy, behind to chase down the hill. He discovers the hill is real when he finds a picture of it at a travel agency. He gets the name of the late photographer and asks the photographer's wife, where is this hill? She doesn't know! The photographer spent his life taking pictures of green hills and didn't label where any of them were located! However, there was a lot of everywhere he'd travelled. So our hero Jake sets out to go to every place this photographer went in search of the hill.
The peak of dramatic tension and the cathartic moment of realization by Jake that he no longer needs to find the hill. He is ready to go home. At that moment when his dream is lost, he discovers the hill. This is the best suited moment to derive a monologue. You will have to make some cuts to make it work, but the derived monologue works and gives you a sense of defeat and then elation to play. And the entire play is short, a ten minute play, so read the entire thing to understand where Jake is emotionally at this moment.
Start the monologue with the line "Hill 16,973. Every American I meet I ask for Sandy." Skip right to "I figure Sandy's long married .. " and after "as flat as a starched bedsheet" jump to "Suddenly I can't remember what the hill I'm looking for looks like ... " and after "I'm nowhere inside my head or out of it" jump to "It's time to go home" and then to "Help a guy out?" and continue with text as-is all the way until the final line you'll end on "I've never felt so free in my life."
Get the play The Green Hill by David Ives here. The monologue is derived from pages 198-200.
"Licensed to Fart" by Gabriel Davis
(Bond addresses a new recruit who he's mentoring at the secret service)
Everyone thinks I, James Bond, 007, have it easy.
Because I make it look easy. Because I never let them see me sweat. That doesn't mean I'm not sweating inside.
You say oh sure but James Bond can do anything he wants. He's even licensed to kill. Well you know there's a lot of things I'm not licensed to do. Like normal things like you take for granted. Like for example, farting. I'm not even licensed to fart. In fact it is forbidden. If I break wind, I break character.
You think Dr. No would have taken me seriously if I let one rip? No!
You know little known fact Ms. Money Penny likes to make me a dinner before every mission. Corned beef and cabbage.
That cabbage makes me gassy. But I endure! I endure so that you have a credible hero to look up to. And I've got to say, it's unbearable.
Think about it. I've been in over 24 movies, that's nearly 48 hours, two straight days of screen time. Have you ever heard me blare my butt horn once in that time? Of course not. Because I respect my queen and my duty to country.
But when was the last time you held one in for 48 hours let alone ... ? I've been holding it since I joined the secret service 14 years ago. I took an oath.
And I am not about to break it now just because Q has fashioned some sort of a fart silencer butt plug thing. What's that? Seriously, all our new recruits are wearing them now? In solidarity? For me?
Well I'm honored, I am. But I'm also James Bond. I don't take the easy path.
So as much as I appreciate the gesture. Frankly, you can take that fart silencer and shove it up your ass. But I'm not going to.
"Life without subtext" by Michael Mitnick
Monologue for a young man. Hook opener "I'm Ben. I'm pretty stupid. I'm not going to a fancy college like you. I'm a third-tier kind of person." and closes on "...more than selfish discontent." Romantic comedy monologue of an earnest guy trying to talk his way into a woman's heart.
From page 195-196 of "Shorter Faster Funnier"
Get me to the doctor! From "Funny People" by Judd Apatow
Monologue for a man. Character George Simmons. It's early morning, he's feeling disoriented and frightened. It's from the medicine he's on. He comes into Ira's room.
Actor performing this gets to play disorientation, fear, and a strong objective with panic under it, to get Ira's help to take him to the hospital. Contains some denial at how bad he is doing at the beginning. Then discovery at just how bad he feels and he needs to get to hospital ASAP.
Starts on page 54 of the shooting script for "Funny People" with line "I couldn't sleep." Ends on page 55 with "we gotta go now"
Inspiration, what's it like? - from "Picasso at the Lapin Agile"
Monologue for a man, comedic. Character is described as "an older man" named Gaston. The play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" is by Steve Martin.
This monologue gives an actor a nice balance of past and present action to play. The present action is the character's desire to understand from Picasso what it's like to come up with ideas, to be creative, to have inspiration. He yearns to know what it must be like to be inspired; an original. Then he recounts a failed attempt in his own life to come up with an idea to pain something: the shutters on his house. The story he tells is actually really heart wrenching but comedically so, and the problem of coming up with an idea for the color to paint his shutters gets bigger and bigger until he actually considers taking his own life! Finally, he decides to paint them green. All the huge struggle over something so seemingly simple and relatively mundane/inconsequential both gives an actor a great intense journey to play, and because of the absurdity be pretty funny too. The build of the problem is like Henri Bergson's "Snowball" effect described in his famous essay on comedy "Laughter." As an actor you get to play all the great angst and struggle and desperation (past action) while using it as a way to convey to Picasso in right now how much you'd like to understand his process (present action). So you've got both a big emotional ride and a strong want/objective to pursue.
Monologue starts with the line "Well, you're a painter; you're always having to come up with ideas. What's it like?" and ends with the line "But then one day I said to myself 'Green' and that was it." Find it on page 55 of "Picasso at the Lapin Agile and other plays." Get the play here.
Ira from "Funny People" by Judd Apatow
Monologue for a young guy, 20's. Character is Ira, a young standup just getting started. Not making his money as a standup.
In this comedic monologue Ira has to follow George Simmons, a famous standup comic, who has just done a very unfunny set in which he was clearly very depressed and reflective about his life. Ira has to follow George and has no choice but to improvise some humor about George's set.
Great chance for an actor to play the situation, which is rich in realistic detail. Ira is nervous to be performing, as he's new to standup. He's a bit thrown by what he's just witnessed Simmons do. He's reactive in the present moment commenting on audience members who rudely get up and leave during his set.
One of the strengths of this monologue is how Ira starts struggling with weak material about himself, then gains confidence as he gets on a role with the improvised material about Simmons. He's drowning up there and he saves himself by making a split second decision to shift gears and try fresh off-the-cuff material. There's a real sense of discovery for an actor playing this monologue, as your character is having these thoughts, inventing the material which is finally getting the desired response (laughter) from the audience on the spot.
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George from "Funny People" by Judd Apatow
On page 17 of Apatow's screenplay his lead character George, a successful celebrity standup, has a very vulnerable, very human moment. Prior to the scene he's been given a cancer diagnosis and the prognosis does not look good. Now up on stage at a comedy club, he admits he's scared and tells a few jokes about growing up in a family that didn't believe in a higher power or an afterlife. The jokes fall flat. By the end of the monologue, it's gotten so quiet in the comedy club George jokes that he can hear the freeway. No one laughs.
Some of the jokes might play as funny in audition, but really this monologue is one of George's more vulnerable and raw emotional moments in tthe movie. For a standup comic, the stage is a place where he can be honest and express what he's going through. It's a slightly sad moment as we discover he has no one he's really close to and its onstage where he's able to open up. Bearing his soul to strangers, fans, in a club.
You could certainly consider this in the category of dramatic monologue. Great balance of past/present action as his recollections about his Athiest family tie directly to the terminal diagnosis he's trying to come to terms with. And the anger, at the situation, at his father for not giving him a religious faith that could have given him comfort now, is deep and moving. He has a strong desire in the scene to connect, to find comfort for the pain he is in, to release it, to tell someone. He also is struggling wanting to recapture his life before he got the diagnosis. He wants to go onstage and be adored, like normal, and do his act, perform a short set, like he usually would. But he can't just do his standup like always. So there is great internal conflict here as well. Ahh! This monologue is just fricken deep and honest and awesome. If you're into bear your soul kinda stuff, this monologue is your bag.
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Two Americans Dead, Five Injured in Belize Bus Accident
"Sadly, two guests have died and the five others remain hospitalized, with one guest already transported back to the U.S for medical care," Carnival Cruise Line said
Published at 3:06 pm on November 28, 2019
Hipolito Novelo/Channel 5 News Belize
Two Americans were killed and five others were injured in a bus accident as they traveled in Belize on Wednesday as part of a Carnival Cruise Line trip.
Jacqueline Abad, 53, and Sara Armijo, 51, were killed as they were traveling on a roadway to Belmopan City in a Grey Dodge passenger van as part of their Carnival Cruise trip, the Belize Police Department confirmed Thursday. Abad and Armijo's van struck a red Chevy SUV head on when it entered their lane to overtake another vehicle, NBC News reports.
Five other Americans were wounded in the crash, carrying injuries ranging from broken legs and arms to cuts, pelvic fractures, abrasions and dislocated knee caps.
The three passengers in the red SUV, all Belizean, died on impact, police said. The driver of that vehicle was at fault, authorities added.
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https://www.ncadvertiser.com/news/town-government/article/No-action-on-request-to-merge-two-Oenoke-Ridge-14042911.php
No action on request to merge two Oenoke Ridge lots
Published 3:08 pm EST, Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Here are the details for absentee voting in the Nov. 6, 2018 election. New Canaan Town Hall
No decision was made on a zoning proposal to construct a new home and turn an existing garage into a residential cottage on an 11.2-acre parcel on Oenoke Ridge Road.
A Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing on the application Oct. 30 was kept open, partly due to concerns about having separate driveway entrances for the two proposed residences.
The applicant, Kindridge LLC and Oakridge LLC, wants to combine parcels at 1031 and 1077 Oenoke Ridge. Two existing houses and a swimming pool would be removed and a new five-bedroom home constructed, while an existing horse farm with a barn would remain. A new swimming pool and septic system also is proposed.
The special permit application specifically seeks permission to grade the land and use the standalone garage, located near the road, as an accessory residence.
Applicant attorney Amy Zabetakis said only interior changes would be made to the garage structure, now used for garage, office and storage purposes. She said the goal is to make it a guest or caretaker's cottage with one bedroom, a bathroom and kitchen.
When asked, Zabetakis said the plan is not to rent out the cottage although that would be allowed as an accessory dwelling.
Applicant engineer Leonard D'Andrea said overall construction should take about five months and precautions taken to protect a nearby reservoir, owned by South Norwalk Electric and Water (SNEW) but not used to supply drinking water at this time.
D'Andrea said a new drainage and water runoff treatment system would be installed, compared to “virtually no treatment of stormwater” at the site now.
Questions were raised about whether regulations allow having a separate driveway entrance for the accessory residence. Member Dan Radman said one driveway is needed to “be in compliance,” and asked if the plan could be adjusted so the accessory residence used the same entrance as the proposed single-family house.
Member Kent Turner also was skeptical. “You're asking for a non-conforming use,” he said.
Zabetakis said a shared driveway would impact planned landscaping, require more pavement and increase land disturbance. She pointed out she isn't asking permission for a new structure, just “repurposing an existing structure,” so the proposal should be covered by different regulations.
Members also wondered if the plan has excessive parking and they wanted to be certain the applicant was working with SNEW to protect the nearby reservoir.
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