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President Uhuru Kenyatta witnesses the signing of the Shareholders' Agreement during the Commissioning of the Bandari Maritime Academy in Mombasa County Image: PSCU
BY PSCU
MOMBASA, 8th July 2019 (PSCU): Kenya’s efforts to position the blue economy sector as a key driver of the country’s transformation today received a major boost with the commissioning of the Bandari Maritime Academy in Mombasa County.
President Kenyatta led hundreds of maritime sector stakeholders at the ceremony during which he announced a raft of reforms the government is undertaking to secure both local and international seafaring jobs for Kenyan youth.
The President said the new institution will be key in equipping young Kenyans with the requisite skills and knowhow to enable them compete favourably for employment opportunities in the vast blue economy sector.
“The Academy is expected to become a top supplier of world class seafarers for shipping lines all over the world,” the President said.
As a pointer to its strategic importance to the country’s economy, Bandari Maritime Academy will partner with the Kenya Utalii College, the Kisumu Maritime Centre and also establish twinning arrangements with the Mediterrranean Shipping Company (MSC) Training Academy based in Naples, Italy.
“I am confident that the enhanced training will bring out the best in our talented young people,” said President Kenyatta.
The transformation of the college into a centre of excellence in maritime training and research is envisaged to facilitate the country’s quest to reap maximum benefits from the blue economy sector, an agenda that the President has given undivided attention.
It is estimated that blue economy, if properly harnessed, has the potential to inject up to 4.8 billion US dollars (Ksh480 billion) to Kenya’s economy and create over 52,000 jobs in the next 10 years.
At the ceremony, the President announced the revival of the Kenya National Shipping Line (KNSL) and witnessed the signing of a new shareholding agreement between KNSL, Kenya Ports Authority and the MSC aimed at restoring the state corporation into a world class shipping company.
President Uhuru Kenyatta is taken on a tour of the Bandari Maritime Academy during the commissioning of the facility in Mombasa County
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“The shareholding agreement we have signed today, marks the beginning of our well thought out plan to transform the Kenya National Shipping Line into a world class shipping line, over the next ten years,” the President announced.
He said MSC, the second largest shipping line in the world, which has been a strategic partner with the KNSL since 1997 will assist in re-engineering KNSL into a world class entity.
“The Agreement we have just signed will, thus, deepen this partnership and enable the MSC, to more effectively support the revival of the Kenya National Shipping Line,” he said.
ECONOMIC BASE
KNSL was established in 1987 as a national carrier to handle containerized export and import freight cargo, to and from ports in Kenya. It however failed to grow into an effective national carrier.
“We are here to revive that vision. The revival of the Kenya National Shipping Line will enable Kenya to benefit from the regional and global maritime transport value chain. About 90 percent of Kenya’s foreign trade is dependent on maritime transport,” said the President.
He said taking part in our own maritime transport services will enhance the contribution of the sector to the national economy and make the cost of our goods more competitive.
President Kenyatta said since the launch of the Kenya Coast Guard Service (KCGS) in November last year to secure Kenya’s territorial waters and protect the country from threats emanating from the sea; the unit has made good progress.
“The Coast Guard Service has maintained daily patrols of Kenya’s waters to guard against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, provided safety to seafarers, and prevented drug smuggling and other illegal movement of people and goods,” he said.
President Kenyatta said the government is rebuilding and upgrading the fishing infrastructure at the coast region as part of efforts to expand its economic base.
He expressed satisfaction that even before the rehabilitation of the Liwatoni Fisheries Complex is complete; there are already 12 Kenyan fishing vessels that are utilizing the facility.
“And more exciting is that close to 400,000 metric tonnes of fish have landed since the facility was re-opened in November. This may appear small but it is a significant step towards the recovery of thousands of jobs for our fishermen,” said President Kenyatta.
President Uhuru Kenyatta in charge of controls while touring the Bandari Maritime Academy facilities on July 8, 2019
To boost the fishing industry, the President announced government plans to develop designated fishing ports at the coast, facilitate landing of fish by deep sea fishing vessels and finance aquaculture technology and innovation transfers.
He said the goal of the incentives is to position the country globally as a nation that is harnessing its ocean resources in a sustainable manner for the benefit of current and future generations.
“We are, indeed, emerging in the world as a rising maritime nation,” the President said.
President Kenyatta said that after successfully hosting the blue economy global conference in Nairobi last year, Kenya will in June next year co-host the UN World Ocean Conference with Portugal in Lisbon.
TRAINEE SEAFARERS
At the same event, the President saw off 62 trainee seafarers out of the 119 that have been recruited by MSC. Forty of the recruits have already been assigned a vessel for their ‘sea time’ exposure by the company while the others are awaiting their opportunity.
President Kenyatta had a chance to interact with some 16 seafarers that he dispatched last November whom he said “have become the pride of Kenya” for serving in foreign countries with diligence, commitment and integrity.
The 16 included Kenya’s first female marine pilot Elizabeth Wakesho Marami.
“Well done Elizabeth and your fellow seafarers. Kenya is proud of you,” he told the young Wakesho who spoke on behalf of her colleagues.
He told the new cohort of seafarers to emulate the first batch by becoming Kenya’s ambassadors in the sea and help re-establish the reputation of Kenyan seamen and women as trustworthy and hardworking professionals.
“Such a reputation will attract more companies to recruit from Kenya,” the President said.
Others who spoke at the event included General Samson Mwathethe, the Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces who also doubles up as the chairman of the Blue Economy Implementation Standing Committee, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure, Urban Development and Housing James Macharia and Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho.
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Kaiser Extends Coverage to Transgender Coloradans, Larger Changes on the Table
Home > Health Care Published September 30, 2013 - 11:21am
There was confusion and neglect and resistance and now that’s starting to change.
This month, major health care insurer Kaiser Permanente announced it would no longer exclude transgender Coloradans from treatment and, more than that, would offer transgender-specific health care to its all of its policies.
Gay-rights groups here are celebrating the news as a major civil rates and health service advance. For years, One Colorado — a gay- bisexual- and transgender-rights advocacy organization — spearheaded the years-long effort to persuade Kaiser to re-examine its approach to transgender patients.
“It’s absolutely exciting,” said Jace Woodrum, who was employed by One Colorado during his transition and ran up against Kaiser’s then-exclusionary services. “Now transgender Coloradans have access to the health care they need. This is part of our healthcare system getting better for everyone.”
The news comes as the rollout of the national Affordable Care Act or Obamacare begins to protect transgender clients who have been denied insurance in the past because they have been tagged as afflicted by “gender dysphoria” — one of the many dreaded “pre-existing conditions” that allowed insurance companies to turn away Americans in droves.
One Colorado began battling transgender discrimination in health care in 2010 after conducting a general survey asking LGBTQ Coloradans what kinds of institutional changes might improve their everyday lives.
“One of the big takeaways from the survey was that transgendered folks were being discriminated against in many ways — from the care they received in the system to getting care in the first place,” said Ashley Wheeland, the group’s health policy director.
She says the problem was and still is urgent.
Forty-one percent of transgendered people nationwide attempt suicide, compared to just 1.6 percent of the general population. Wheeland says these drastically elevated rates are tied to transgender people not having access to the medical and mental health care they need.
One Colorado built a coalition of several dozen small employers who were disturbed to find they couldn’t purchase health care policies that would treat all of their employees equally. The group also found many transgender individuals willing to share their stories.
“Some of the stories were heartbreaking,” says Woodrum. “Someone’s arm is broken, for example, but their claim is denied because they’re on hormone therapy.”
After months of targeted advocacy, the Colorado Division of Insurance issued a bulletin last March prohibiting discrimination in coverage based on sexual orientation that included transgender clients.
Kaiser meantime had been investigating its own practices and had begun to offer a special set of services that would cover transgender employees at large companies.
Small businesses and many nonprofits remained unaffected.
After a few months of evaluating the Insurance Division bulletin, Kaiser announced that, as of September 10, it would offer its transgender clients not just the same services it provided to non-transgender clients — treatments like hormone therapy — but that it would also cover specific services, like sex-change surgeries, that transgender people may need in particular.
Wheeland says One Colorado is thrilled Kaiser has joined with Colorado HealthOp, a nonprofit insurance cooperative funded by the Affordable Care Act, in providing plans that cover transgender Coloradans.
But she says two insurers is simply not enough.
“We believe all insurers should have options for transgender Coloradans to get the care they need,” she said. “We’re looking forward to working with companies and communities to make this happen.”
Meanwhile, Woodrum said the rollout of Obamacare, in addition to funding providers like HealthOp, also provides another, broader level of protection to transgender Americans.
“Starting in January, an insurance company will no longer be able to deny me coverage because I’m transgender,” he said.
Woodrum recently moved back to North Carolina, where he grew up. He was self-employed at the time and turned to the private market to buy health insurance. He said he was met with a classic bureaucratic Catch 22.
“The letter of denial clearly stated, ‘You are being denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition of gender dysphoria.’ You need that diagnosis in order for an insurer to cover hormone therapy and surgery, but it’s the same diagnosis they can then use to deny you coverage.”
Now that Obamacare prohibits coverage denials based on pre-existing conditions, many transgender Americans will have access to health care again, or for the first time. Woodrum feels it’s just the beginning.
“We’re going to continue to see momentous change as the [Colorado Division of Insurance] guidelines are understood and implemented and as the [Affordable Care Act] takes effect.”
“It’s one step at a time but this is nothing short of a major victory,” Woodrum said of the expanded coverage in Colorado. “It came about because transgender Coloradans were courageous enough to share their stories … and folks on other side listened, were moved, and took action.”
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Best of 2012: Business
by Irene Kim | Posted December 27, 2012
Topics: africa, Alexander Wang, Balenciaga, blood diamonds, Christian Dior, commentary, conflict diamonds, e-commerce, fast fashion, Ghana, Hedi Slimane, high street, Indego Africa, Kenya, London, London Collections Men, luxury fashion, marks & spencer, menswear, middle class, Nigeria, Online Retail, Raf Simons, Saint Laurent Paris, social entrepreneurship, vivienne westwood, Zimbabwe
Illustration by Shingo Shimizu.
As 2012 comes to an end, we pick our favourite Business articles of the year.
Luxury Fashion Courts Africa. The fashion industry is buzzing about the potential in Africa's growing middle class, particularly in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya. But is the continent, which still faces issues of crushing famine and poverty, ready for luxury goods? Alina Kulesh explores the progression of luxury throughout the continent.
The Trade-offs of Trading Up Online. Luxury boutiques are cropping up in malls in cities big and small; high-end labels are offering low-end creations at retailers like Zara, H&M and Topshop; and, little by little, premium boutiques are morphing into sales-churning online shops. The democratisation of high-end fashion, especially via e-commerce, is changing the luxury landscape as we know it.
The United Kingdom of Menswear. This June will mark the first ever London Collections: Men during which over 60 menswear designers will show off what they do best in showrooms across London. Find out who's involved and what the event might mean for the future of menswear. Can independent designers sustain the same audience as major labels?
Struggle on the High Street. Despite maintaining an indomitable presence on the British high street for the past 128 years, Marks & Spencer has traversed troubled waters over the last decade. Whilst the tough economic climate and global recession have undoubtedly had a certain level of influence on falling profits, can Marks & Spencer be accused of being the architect of its own downfall?
All the World's a Runway. 2012 marked a changing of the guard for some of fashion's biggest brands. As Dior, Saint Laurent Paris and Balenciaga enter a new phase of creative direction, Olivia Wilbury considers the role and expectations of the contemporary creative director.
Fashioning of a Social Enterprise. Indego Africa is changing the way business is done with artisan cooperatives. The design-driven social enterprise has teamed up with the likes of Anthropologie, J.Crew, Ralph Lauren and Nicole Miller to facilitate market access, increase visibility and diversify sales channels for the company's female artisan partners in Rwanda.
Digital Newsstands with Virtual Shopping Racks. E-commerce shopping websites, along with bigger retailers, are exploring new ways of connecting with their customers, ways that seem to transcend traditional editorial models. Paul Aguirre-Livingston explores the next incarnations of the mail-order catalogue.
Caveats of Conflict Diamonds. As Zimbabwe is accused of collusion and human rights abuses over diamond production in its Marange diamond field, the effectiveness of the Kimberely Process, the globally recognised body that aims to prevent the circulation of so-called "blood diamonds," is being called into question. As the Canadian diamond industry moves towards greater vertical integration, it struggles to find its place in the larger context. Justine Iaboni reports.
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Keeping Down with the Kims: Seoulites New Quest for Individuality
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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Ten years too late, it’s good riddance to wind farms – one of the most dangerous delusions of our age
Christopher Booker UK
"I have been following this (wind turbine) extraordinary story for ten years ever since, in 2002, I first began looking carefully at what really lay behind this deceptive obsession with the charms of wind power. It didn’t take me long, talking to experts and reading up on the technical facts, to see that the fashionable enthusiasm for wind energy was based on a colossal illusion. I first warned about what I called ‘the greatest mistake in our history’ in an article in the Mail almost ten years ago.
I described the claim that it would be the answer to all our future energy problems as a catastrophic failure of judgment. I feared that windpower was stupendously inefficient and ludicrously expensive and that by falling for the greatest energy hoax of our time, the Labour government could be consigning Britain to a very dark future. So unreliable are wind turbines — thanks to the wind’s constant vagaries — that they are one of the most inefficient means of producing electricity ever devised."
"The erection of a wind turbine creates apprehension in the general public, which makes the property less desirable and thus diminishes the prices of neighbouring property...” “Continuing scientific uncertainty over the adverse health consequences of wind turbines only serves to perpetuate the debilitating effect of wind turbines on property prices.”
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“Proof wind turbines take thousands off your home: Value of houses within 1.2 miles of large wind farms slashed by 11%, study finds”
• Study by the London School of Economics found value of homes close to wind farms slashed by 11%
• Home that costs £250,000 would lose £27,000 in value
• Homes as far at two-and-a-half miles away could be reduced by 3%
—Sanchez Manning, MailOnline (1-25-14)
The presence of wind turbines near homes has wiped tens of thousands of pounds off their value, according to the first major study into the impact the eyesore structures have on house prices.
The study by the London School of Economics (LSE) – which looked at more than a million sales of properties close to wind farm sites over a 12-year period – found that values of homes within 1.2 miles of large wind farms were being slashed by about 11 per cent.
This means that if such a wind farm were near an average house in Britain, which now costs almost £250,000, it would lose more than £27,000 in value.
In sought-after rural idylls where property prices are higher, the financial damage is even more substantial. In villages around one of Southern England’s largest onshore developments – Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm in Romney Marsh, Kent, where homes can cost close to £1 million – house values could drop by more than £100,000.
The study further discovered that even a small wind farm that blighted views would hit house values.
Homes within half a mile of such visible turbines could be reduced in value by about seven per cent.
Even those in a two-and-a-half-mile radius experienced price reductions of around three per cent.
The report’s author, Professor Steve Gibbons, said his research was the first strong evidence that wind farms are harmful to house prices.
Prof. Gibbons, director of the LSE’s Spatial Economics Research Centre, said: ‘Property prices are going up in places where they’re not visible and down in the places where they are.’
The study, which is still in draft form but is due to be published next month, focused on 150 wind-farm sites across England and Wales. It compared house-price changes in areas that had wind farms, were about to see one built or had seen one rejected by the local authority.
Last night Chris-Heaton Harris, MP for Daventry, said: ‘There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence – especially in my constituency – of house-price reductions near wind turbines. The question is, will anybody be liable for these losses in future?’
And Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, said: ‘These results are not really surprising as it is already known that people place a value on countryside views.’
A Department for Energy and Climate Change spokesman said: ‘Developments will only get permission where impacts are acceptable.’
A spokesman for Renewables UK, which represents the wind industry, said: ‘We will be analysing the conclusions closely when the final report is issued.’
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SATURDAY MORNING SUPER-HEROES - VIXEN
Since it's Thanksgiving weekend, I thought I'd take it a bit easy.
Here's the character who will link 'Arrow' & 'The Flash' - but only in the Tooniverse, for now....
Labels: Linkin' Case, My So-Called Life, Sign of the Crossover, Tele-Folks Directory, Tooniverse, Video Weekend
THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY - JACK DAVIS
Jack Davis:What else have they got against me?
James Hawley:
Your reputation - you're known as a gunman.
Jack Davis:
I never drew first in my life.
They can't hang a man for havin' a reputation.
They can try.
'Death Valley Days'
Sometimes I find the greatest nuggets of televisiological trivia when I'm looking for something else. Okay, so this isn't the lost treasures of the Library at Jasonalexandria, but 'twill serve.....
I was searching to see if Frank Sutton, as Sgt. Vince Carter, would be eligible for membership in the Television Crossover Hall of Fame as the bane of his existence Gomer Pyle was, when I stumbled across these two roles in his resume at the IMDb.
- Diamond Field Jack (1963)
Frank Sutton in three 'Gunsmoke' episodes
- To Walk with the Serpent (1962)
Frank Sutton in 'Route 66'
I don't even have to strain with this splainin!
With 'Death Valley Days' being an anthology series, not all of the episodes take place in Earth Prime-Time, just as is the case with 'The Twilight Zone'. This is especially the case if an episode of the series involves an historical figure, like young Mark Twain.
But "Diamond Field Jack" does take place in the main Toobworld, even though Davis was an historical figure. (Click here for the Wikpedia entry.)
"Diamondfield Jack" Davis would have been the forefather of the family lineage which would lead to the Jack Davis of Boston in the early 1960s - the televersion of Diamondfield Jack was probably that neo-Nazi's grand-pappy since he died in the 1940s. That a real world character could be related to a fictional character has precedence in Toobworld. In this case, Diamondfield Jack probably had fathered a son with a fictional saloon girl. (The fecund sluttiness of saloon girls is going to be a theme in the TV Western showcase for next year.)
It doesn't even have to matter what Fate befell either character or what the premise for each plotline entailed; the telegenetics are just that strong in this case. But in case you wanted to know, I haven't been able to see the "Diamond Field Jack" episode of 'Death Valley Days'. Here's the TV Guide plot summary for it, however:
Arrested for murder, Jack Davis (Frank Sutton) seems more concerned about preserving his reputation as a gunman than saving his skin.
As for Jack Davis of Boston, he was a follower of the "Awake America" leader John Westerbrooke. He had been dishonorably discharged in 1950 for torturing a prisoner of war. At Westerbrooke's rally in the Boston Common, Davis was shot dead by the FBI when he acted as a sniper to blow up a bomb concealed in one of the statues of the Revolutionary heroes.
The pictures of Frank Sutton in Western gear come from his three episodes of 'Gunsmoke':
"Catawomper"
"Miss Kitty"
"Old Comrade" (My personal favorite of the trio)
I couldn't find the 'Death Valley Days' episode except maybe through OVGuide, but I wasn't sure about the site.....
But here is the 'Route 66' episode if you want to see Sutton as the neo-Nazi Jack Davis:
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM TOOBWORLD!
Here's this year's Thanksgiving story. I don't know how Elon Musk will be spending Thanksgiving in the real world, but in Toobworld....?
'THE BIG BANG THEORY'
"THE PLATONIC PERMUTATION"
While working in a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving this year - today! - Howard Wolowitz got to meet the Tesla Motors businessman and inventor. Both of them were assigned to washing dishes (Howard started out there, but Musk was banished there after being too free and easy with the gravy ladle.) Musk and Howard shared a tossed-off, half-eaten piece of pumpkin pie and exchanged email addresses.
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity.
He is the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla Motors. He has also envisioned a conceptual high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion. His most important goal is to make human civilization multiplanetary.
Elon Musk also has a counterpart in the Tooniverse, thanks to an episode of 'The Simpsons.'
For the rest of Musk's life story, click here.
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MAILING TUBE - FIVE-0 AND THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Yesterday's Five-O, visiting San Francisco inspector mentions working with Insps. Stone and Keller, who don't always follow the rules. Given Stone's age in the '70s and Keller's resignation from the force, my guess is the current Stone and Keller followed on their pops' footprint.
I don't place the new version of 'Hawaii Five-O' in the main Toobworld in which 'The Streets Of San Francisco' took place, and for a very good reason - the original 'Five-O' series with Jack Lord, James MacArthur, and on occasion Kigh Diegh has the honor of being part of Earth Prime-Time. The 2010 series, still on the air, is a total remake... despite bringing in Ed Asner as a character he played in the original show.
For me this reference to the Quinn Martin show which starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas still was not a Zonk. Instead, the Frisco detective was referring to the counterparts of Stone and Keller in that Land o' Remakes, who were probably younger and recast - as was the case with the Five-O squad.
So it still works but on an interdimensional level. Thanks, Martin!
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TUESDAY NEWS DAY - VONNEGUT TELEVISION
FX has gained the rights to bring Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle", his fourth novel, into a limited run TV series. The man overseeing the project is Noah Hawley, who has found the right formula in bringing the Coen Brothers' "Fargo" to fruition as a TV series.
The A.V. Club gave a good summation of the work:
Vonnegut’s original work was published in 1963 and takes on science, technology, and religion with equal satirical fire. After the novel’s narrator, John, becomes involved in the lives of the adult children of Felix Hoenikker, a fictional co-creator of the atomic bomb, he travels to the fake Caribbean island of San Lorenzo and encounters a strange outlawed religion called Bokononism that many of the area’s inhabitants practice anyway. Through Hoenikker’s children he also learns about ice-nine, a way to freeze water at room temperature that could be devastating if used improperly. Needless to say, destruction and dark humor ensue.
I've got a good feeling that FX won't change its mind about the project and that it will make it to air on the network.....
(This won't be the first time Dr. Hoenikker and Bokonon have appeared on TV. Back in the early 1970s, PBS made a movie combining several of Vonnegut's works in a story about Stony Stephenson traveling through the chrono-synclastic infundibulum. Other characters included were Harrison Bergeron, Wanda June, and Diana Moon Glampers. All of these characters take precedence for Toobworld and the new version will go to the Land o' Remakes.
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ECHOES: TURN-ONS
Sam Malone:
You are the nuttiest, the stupidest, the phoniest fruitcake I ever met!
Diane Chambers:
And you, Sam Malone, are the most arrogant, self-centered...
SHUT UP! Shut your fat mouth!
Make me!
Make you? Why, I'm... I'm gonna...
I'm gonna bounce you off every wall in this office!
Try it and you'll be walking funny tomorrow.
Or should I say funnier.
You know, I always wanted to pop you one.
Maybe this is my lucky day.
You disgust me. I hate you.
Are you as turned on as I am?
[They kiss]
Debra Barone:
I need that squash!
Ray Barone:
Are you as turned on as I am right now?
'Everybody Loves Raymond'
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VIDEO SUNDAY - YOUR THANKSGIVING PSA
A public service announcement before you take your Thanksgiving home movies.....
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Beverly Ayling-Smith is a textile artist living in Finchampstead, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Beverly originally studied sciences and holds a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK and worked in antibiotic research and Public Health before developing her interest in textiles and obtaining a BA (Hons) in Embroidered Textiles.
Stemming from an interest in cultures that create textiles either to wrap the body after death or to place in the grave with the deceased, Beverly's work examines the emotional resonance of cloth particularly in relation to feelings of loss and absence. In her work she aims to connect with the experience of the viewer and evoke an emotional response.
Having achieved an MA at the University for the Creative Arts, in Farnham, Surrey, Beverly is currently studying for an MPhil/PhD in textiles, researching the use of cloth in contemporary art practice to materialize the work of mourning. Beverly has work in the Whitworth Art Gallery collection of contemporary textiles in Manchester and has presented her research at national and international conferences. She is currently working towards a solo show in GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan in September 2013. Beverly's website and also at Transition and Influence.
Cloth and Memory exhibition, Photo: Gerry Diebel.
Tell us about your work?
My work examines the emotional states of mourning and melancholia and I try to evoke the feeling of loss and remembrance in the viewer. In the past my work has focused on the rituals and practices undertaken by the bereaved after someone has died. Pieces such as Burial and Shroud have text from the Prayer Book printed on them – not prayers, but the instructions for what to do in the burial service. My research into the history of the shroud has helped to inform this work and the use of cloth in rituals of mourning has a long history. In its simplest form it is used to wrap the body of the deceased as well as playing an important role in the social conventions of dress in mourning rituals, particularly in the Victorian era. Cloth has been described as a 'second skin' and this long association of cloth with the body during and after life, means that it is a uniquely appropriate medium to be used as a metaphor for grief, loss and mourning in my practice.
Recently I have been using cloth to explore the experience of mourning over time - the raw emotion immediately after bereavement through the healing and fading of the intensity of grief, which however, always leaves a scar. One of my more recent pieces was called remembering, repeating and working through where I was trying to capture the overwhelming nature of grief. It is a large piece (5m x 3m) and was made to fill the entire wall of the exhibition space. It was made from patches of black linen which had been sanded and waxed and then pieced together to show a sense of how, when someone has died we go through a process of remembering shared experiences which re-confirms that the person is no longer here. The patches were stitched together in a rhythmic way with the stitches evenly spaced and the patches overlapping. The surface was then covered in a web of larger stitches as a way to evidence how one can be caught up in the emotion of mourning and find it difficult to move on.
Other recent work has examined the idea of grief healing over time and the way memories become embedded into our lives. For this work The Resonance of Loss I have used the image of a small child's dress as a vehicle for expressing loss. Mourning is integrated into the structure of our lives emerging at different times to stain our emotional states. The way the image of a child's dress can emerge from the surface, echoes the way in which feelings of loss can come to the surface at different times.
Shroud, 16' 6" x 30", linen, print, paint, stitch.
From where do you get your inspiration?
My inspiration mainly comes from academic research on theories of mourning and grief counselling and also in reading about different people's stories of loss and the different customs around the world that people use to cope with that loss.
The boro textiles from Japan intrigue me. I was fortunate enough to visit Japan in 2010 and saw an amazing collection of boro textiles and garments while I was in Tokyo. The utilitarian fabrics and clothes have a ragged beauty about them, made where textiles are hard to find, they were repeatedly patched and mended with whatever fabric was available and then handed down from one generation to the next. The patching and mending and the hours of sewing that it entailed, speaks to me of the love and care the women who stitched these fabrics had for their family.
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Revelation, 85cm x 60cm, lead, linen, print, stitch.
What specific historic artists have influenced your work?
The German born American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) has been an influence on my practice, particularly the pared down nature of some of her work such as Sans ll, latex boxes installed in a double row on the wall. Her use of repetition and multiples has also influenced my thinking – for example her series of paintings of repeated rectangles in gouache, watercolour and ink in muted grey tones. She was also innovative in her use of materials – including cheesecloth in some of her latex pieces. This has encouraged me to consider the materials I use and not to worry if they are not conventional materials from which to make textile pieces.
I have a book of the prints and drawings of the German artist Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945). A few years ago I visited the Kathe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin, which houses one of the largest collections of her work. It was an almost overwhelming experience. Her powerful depiction of the effect of war and poverty on people is very affecting. The searing emotion in works such as Mother with Dead Child and the pain in her face in her self-portraits are truly remarkable. I am always drawn to the power contained within the work in an understated way. Her depiction of women and the pain they carry in their lives whilst they strive to care for their families has a universal resonance.
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Detail: Splitting Up
What specific contemporary artists have influenced your work?
The British artist Rozanne Hawksley was one of the first artists I discovered who used textiles in her work to convey powerful emotions around issues such as war, death, loss and injustice. I first saw her work in 1998 in an exhibition On the Edge curated by Julia Caprara and was really moved by the emotion contained in her work. I also saw her retrospective exhibition at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Ruthin, Wales in 2009. Her piece Pale Armistice – a wreath of white gloves, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum has become an iconic image of the loss of life in the First World War. Although some of her work makes for uncomfortable viewing, it challenges the viewer to consider issues such as the misuse of power, death and grief.
The Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has also had a huge influence on me. She transforms everyday materials into work of immense power, which carries great emotion. I saw her exhibition at the White Cube gallery in Hoxton, London a few years ago and was particularly affected by the installation Atrabiliarios - shoes - placed in windows cut directly into the wall. The niches were covered over with animal fibre stitched over the opening with surgical thread. This piece was made after Salcedo's experience of the identification of corpses in mass graves by their shoes. In 2007 Salcedo also created a work for the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. Shibboleth was a 548-foot long fissure in the floor of the Turbine Hall – a thin hairline crack at the start widening to a few inches and in some places over a foot deep. An interesting aspect of this piece for me was that when the work was 'removed' i.e. the crack filled in, it remained visible and will always be so, like a scar forever present on the floor of the Turbine Hall.
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What role do you think fibre art plays in contemporary art?
Fibre art deserves an equal place in contemporary art alongside any other medium and I think it is gradually achieving this. In the past, textile artists had to submit work in selected shows under the title of 'mixed media' in order to be given a place – textiles would not have been considered 'art.' Things have moved on since then and more fibre art is seen in contemporary galleries. I think we, as textile artists, have people like Tracey Emin, Michael Raedecker and Yinka Shonibare to thank for making people more aware of textiles in contemporary galleries, although even they are unwilling to use words like 'stitch' in descriptions of their work.
The work of curator Lesley Millar in creating exhibitions that bring the best of Japanese textile art to the UK, has also had a tremendous influence on our perception of textiles having an equal place in the art gallery, and raises the bar in terms of the quality and range of the textiles that are shown, bringing to a large audience the best of contemporary textile art.
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Tell us about your training, how it has influenced you and how you have applied what you have learnt.
My first degree was in Microbiology and, although I haven't worked as a scientist for some time now, I feel that the scientific way of working (making small changes in experimental processes and the documentation of these experiments) has spilled over into my artistic life. I studied for my BA (Hons) degree in Embroidered Textiles in a distance-learning programme when my children were still young and I couldn't attend university full time. One of the benefits of this is that it made me resourceful in terms of materials and processes. For example, if I wanted to use a particular technique it meant that rather than being taught, I had to find out for myself how to do it and what equipment I needed. It always had to be able to be done within a domestic environment. My first place to look was always the hardware store rather than the expensive specialist supplier. After the BA course I spent two years working on my own, making pieces that were informed by my research into the development of the shroud in England, from a winding sheet to the coffin garments and body bags used today. I also exhibited in different venues in the UK but I then felt it was time to undertake some more academic research and so enrolled onto an MA course at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK.
Detail: Burial, 8' x 5' linen, print, paint, stitch
Please explain how you developed your own style.
My own style manifested itself as I was working towards a Diploma in Stitched Textiles with my tutors Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn. They would sometimes set the class challenges using key words such as 'crossing boundaries' or 'imprisonment.' And I often found myself exploring the darker side of these inspirational words. Together with the constant question of why - do it this way, why use these materials, I found that my stitch became more minimal but I knew why each one had to be where it was and in what material. Now when I work, I often use a word or phrase and use that as my starting point. I also spent a lot of time learning how to distress fabrics and make them appear aged – to me they hold more meaning when they contain the history of their use and wear and tear.
Untitled, 60cm x 40cm, lead, linen, wax, paint, print, stitch.
What other mediums do you work in, and how does this inform your fibre work?
Previously I have used lead as an element in some of my work because of its association with burial. I prefer to work with natural materials such as linen, calico and muslin because of the way they retain the memory of use within them. Also some of the materials and processes I use are not necessarily traditionally textile orientated. As a textile artist I am not constrained by any set of materials or methods – I can utilise whatever I feel is the right material for the work I am trying to create. I have also used the transfer of text to fabric as part of my work and used my own body as a medium, painting it and then laying on the cloth to create body-prints that I have then stitched. I am currently exploring the use of video to create a piece about the meditative qualities of preparing cloth for use, but the video will also be used to celebrate the qualities of the cloth and its inherent meaning.
Detail: Evocation, 60cm x 35cm, lead, linen, wax, stitch.
Through your art, are you attempting to evoke particular feelings in your audience?
My current research is on how artists can use cloth in art practice to materialize the work of mourning. Cloth has a long association with the body, both during life and afterwards in death and burial. Therefore, it is uniquely placed to be used as a metaphor for the trauma of grief, mourning and loss in contemporary art practice.
Freud's psychoanalytical theory of mourning states that it comes to a spontaneous end after a certain period of time. But listening to the personal experiences of many people this would not seem to be the case. We all carry with us a degree of unresolved mourning – which, in certain circumstances can rise to the surface and be as raw and painful as in the first days of grief.
My work seeks to make a connection with the unresolved mourning of the viewer and assist them with the 'work of mourning,' the working through of memories that confirms that the deceased has gone but that there is still a continuing bond with them in that remembrance.
Detail: Healing series,193cm x 40cm, calico, paint, lead wire, stitch.
How did you initially start showing your work in galleries?
I first showed my work in a series of exhibitions of textile work and later, through membership of the Society of Designer Craftsmen, to showing in mixed exhibitions. I now belong to a group of artists based in the Thames Valley in the UK in which many artistic disciplines are represented.
Installing 'remembering, repeating and working through' at Whitworth Art Gallery, 5m x 3m, linen, wax, stitch
Tell us about your studio and how you work:
Although the spaces where I work are small, I am fortunate enough to have two separate work places so that I can devote one to writing and one to my practice. The space where I do my writing is in the converted attic of my house – far enough away from the front door for me not to answer it if I am concentrating on writing. The studio where I work on my practice is a ten-minute walk from the house and is a room in an old farm building. It is very peaceful and quiet with no Internet access and so I can be on my own to think and work. The farm building is set in twelve acres of land and the road has no through traffic. When I am trying to make work that has an element of meditation about it then it is ideal. Sometimes I like to sit and think and look at my materials before I start work. It settles me and reconnects me to what I am trying to achieve. My initial training as a microbiologist means that there is an element of the 'experiment book' in my sketchbook. When I am exploring processes and techniques I make lists of different variations to try and write down what I feel works about a piece and what doesn't.
Writing space
Where do you imagine your work in five years?
In five years time I would like to have completed my PhD research and would also like to be making work that reflects my research interests and exhibiting to an international audience.
The Resonance of Loss, 70cm x 70cm, linen and paint
What interests you about the World of Threads festival?
The fact that it has a real passion for showing a broad range of textile art and showing the best of what contemporary artists are creating.
Cloth and Memory exhibition space, Photo: Richard Brayshaw
Do you have any upcoming shows?
Later in the year I am having a solo show in GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan.
28th September – 12th October 2013.
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The earliest forms of storytelling were thought to have been primarily oral combined with gestures and expressions. In addition to being part of religious ritual, rudimentary drawings scratched onto the walls of caves may have been forms of early storytelling for many of the ancient cultures. The Australian Aboriginal people painted symbols from stories on cave walls as a means of helping the storyteller remember the story. The story was then told using a combination of oral narrative, music, rock art and dance. Ephemeral media such as sand, leaves and the carved trunks of living trees have also been used to record stories in pictures or with writing.
With the advent of writing, the use of actual digit symbols to represent language, and the use of stable, portable media, stories were recorded, transcribed and shared over wide regions of the world. Stories have been carved, scratched, painted, printed or inked onto wood or bamboo, ivory and other bones, pottery, clay tablets, stone, palm-leaf books, skins (parchment), bark cloth, paper, silk, canvas and other textiles, recorded on film, and stored electronically in digital form. Complex forms of tattooing may also represent stories, with information about genealogy, affiliation and social status.
Traditionally, oral stories were committed to memory and then passed from generation to generation. However, in Western, literate societies, written and televised media has largely surpassed this method of communicating local, family and cultural histories. Oral storytelling remains the dominant medium of learning in many countries with low literacy rates.
Contemporary Storytelling
Modern storytelling has a broad purview. In addition to its traditional forms (fairytales, folktales, mythology, legends, fables etc.),it has extended itself to representing history, personal narrative, political commentary, and evolving cultural norms. Contemporary storytelling is also widely used to address educational objectives.
Oral traditions
Albert Bates Lord examined oral narratives from field transcripts of Yugoslav oral bards collected by Milman Parry in the 1930s, and the texts of epics such as the Odyssey and Beowulf. Lord found that a large part of the stories consisted of text which was improvised during the telling process.
Lord identified two types of story vocabulary. The first he called "formulas": "rosy-fingered dawn", "the wine-dark sea", and other specific set phrases had long been known of in Homer and other oral epics. Lord, however, discovered that across many story traditions, fully 90% of an oral epic is assembled from lines which are repeated verbatim or which use one-for-one word substitutions. In other words, oral stories are built out of set phrases which have been stockpiled from a lifetime of hearing and telling stories.
The other type of story vocabulary is theme, a set sequence of story actions that structure a tale. Just as the teller of tales proceeds line-by-line using formulas, so he proceeds from event-to-event using themes. One near-universal theme is repetition, as evidenced in Western folklore with the "rule of three": three brothers set out, three attempts are made, three riddles are asked. A theme can be as simple as a specific set sequence describing the arming of a hero, starting with shirt and trousers and ending with headdress and weapons. A theme can be large enough to be a plot component. For example: a hero proposes a journey to a dangerous place / he disguises himself / his disguise fools everybody / except for a common person of little account (a crone, a tavern maid or a woodcutter) / who immediately recognizes him / the commoner becomes the hero's ally, showing unexpected resources of skill or initiative. A theme does not belong to a specific story, but may be found with minor variation in many different stories. Themes may be no more than handy prefabricated parts for constructing a tale, or they may represent universal truths – ritual-based, religious truths, as James Frazer saw in The Golden Bough, or archetypal, psychological truths, as Joseph Campbell describes in The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
The story was described by Reynolds Price, when he wrote:
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens – second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Märchen and Sagen
Folklorists sometimes divide oral tales into two main groups: Märchen and Sagen. These are German terms for which there are no exact English equivalents, however we have approximations:
Märchen, loosely translated as "fairy tale(s)", take place in a kind of separate "once-upon-a-time" world of nowhere-in-particular. They are clearly not intended to be understood as true. The stories are full of clearly defined incidents, and peopled by rather flat characters with little or no interior life. When the supernatural occurs, it is presented matter-of-factly, without surprise. Indeed, there is very little affect, generally; bloodcurdling events may take place, but with little call for emotional response from the listener.
Sagen, best translated as "legends", are supposed to have actually happened, very often at a particular time and place, and they draw much of their power from this fact. When the supernatural intrudes (as it often does), it does so in an emotionally fraught manner. Ghost and lovers' leap stories belong in this category, as do many UFO stories and stories of supernatural beings and events.
Another important examination of orality in human life is Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982). Ong studies the distinguishing characteristics of oral traditions, how oral and written cultures interact and condition one another, and how they ultimately influence human epistemology.
As art form
The art of narrative is, by definition, an aesthetic enterprise, and there are a number of artistic elements that typically interact in well-developed stories. Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention/future anticipation; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is "arguably the most important single component of the novel"; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – "the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers"; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition "addresses" and "interacts with" reading audiences (see Reader Response theory); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, "arguing" for and against various positions; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony (see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc. to other literatures; and commonly demonstrates an effort toward bildungsroman, a description of identity development with an effort to evince becoming in character and community.
Storytelling festivals feature the work of several storytellers. Elements of the oral storytelling art form include visualization (the seeing of images in the mind's eye), and vocal and bodily gestures. In many ways, the art of storytelling draws upon other art forms such as acting, oral interpretation, and performance studies.
Several storytelling organizations started in the US during the 1970s. One such organization was the National Association for the Perpetuation and Preservation of Storytelling (NAPPS), now the National Storytelling Network and the International Storytelling Center. NSN is a professional organization that helps to organize resources for tellers and festival planners. The ISC runs the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. Australia followed their American counterparts with the establishment of storytelling guilds in the late 1970s. Australian storytelling today has individuals and groups across the country who meet to share their stories.
Currently, there are dozens of storytelling festivals and hundreds of professional storytellers around the world, and an international celebration of the art on World Storytelling Day.
Emancipation of the story
In oral traditions, stories are kept alive by being re-told again and again. The material of any given story naturally undergoes several changes and adaptations during this process. When and where oral tradition was pushed back in favor of print media, the literary idea of the author as originator of a story's authoritative version changed people's perception of stories themselves. In the following centuries, stories tended to be seen as the work of individuals, rather than a collective effort. Only recently, when a significant number of influential authors began questioning their own roles, the value of stories as such – independent of authorship – was again recognized. Literary critics such as Roland Barthes even proclaimed the Death of the Author.
For businesses, communicating by using fiction storytelling techniques can be a more compelling and effective route than using only dry facts.
Daphne A. Jameson undertook some research into the manner in which language is used in business meetings. Her analysis led her to the following major conclusions:
Using narrative to manage conflicts For managers storytelling is an important way of resolving conflicts, addressing issues and facing challenges. Managers used narrative discourse to deal with conflicts, because direct action was often impossible.
Using narrative to interpret the past and shape the future In a group discussion a process of collective narration can help to influence others and unify the group by linking the past to the future. In discussions, the managers transformed problems requests and issues into stories. Jameson calls the collective group construction storybuilding.
Using narrative in the reasoning process Storytelling plays an important role in reasoning processes and in convincing others. In the meetings, the managers preferred stories instead of abstract arguments or statistical measures. When situations were complex, narrative allowed them to involve more context.
Storytelling is increasingly used in advertising today in order to build customer loyalty. According to Giles Lury, this marketing trend echoes the deeply-rooted need of all humans to be entertained. Stories are illustrative, easily memorable and allow any firm to create stronger emotional bonds with the customers.
According to Professor Henry Jenkins, four steps should be followed to achieve successful campaigns based on that concept:
Stories should be drillable.
Each piece of the story should be enriching, but not vital to the understanding of the story (so that a customer can still have a clear idea of the bigger picture even though he has missed a part of it)
Involve the fans in the creation process.
Build a world in which your story can evolve (such as Coca-Cola's "Happiness Factory")
Coca-Cola is certainly the most famous example of the use of storytelling. Going back to Iris Bell's tale in 1944 to the "Happiness Factory" today, they have succeeded in involving their customers in their advertising and creating emotional power.
The use of storytelling by marketers shows the beginning of a new narrative era in which brand content, brand story, advertainment, street marketing, guerilla marketing ... will be essential communication concepts.
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Our Country's Good
Hamish Boyle
Our Country’s Good sees the first shipload of English convicts find footing in Australia after eight months at sea. As the officers bicker on whether it is better to punish or rehabilitate the convicts, 2nd Lieutenant Clark (James Boag) assumes the role of director of a play in which the convicts find personal growth. During rehearsals, Clark begins to fall for one of them. I left this performance with mixed feelings. There were as many moments that fell short of their potential, jokes that didn’t land or tragedy that required more nuance, as there were moments that were near dead-on lovely.
At an unjustifiable three hours, Our Country’s Good really struggled to hold a balanced pace throughout. Some sequences could certainly be truncated to hit their intentions sooner, as they feel like we’re moving through molasses. Often, characters are literally repeating themselves for no obvious effect; Boag’s Clark asks questions that are only answered the second time. And the dance sequences, while decently executed, seemed unnecessarily long additions to an already hefty script. If characters expressed themselves equally through dance as they do dialogue, it would have worked. As it stands, they read as jarring tonal shifts.
Our Country’s Good lacked a clear tone, seemingly wishing to be everything simultaneously. It’s part musical, part dance, part documentary, part tragedy, part meta-commentary, and part comedy, and none of it really meshes together cohesively. It opened like a musical, with two chorus numbers back-to-back. Music on oddly-balanced speakers plays over sparsely-placed dance routines. Angelica Thomas followed up with what becomes a recurring dance-based Aboriginal character. On the whole however, the Aboriginal sequences only ever felt problematic. While never the focus of the play, the approach seemed tactless for something so embedded in Australian history. Thomas’ Kuparr feels simultaneously reverential of the source culture, while perhaps over-comical in her reactions to the officers’ revelry, violence and gunfire. The context surrounding Thomas’ performance, in the text and direction, doesn’t leave much room for nuance.
The musical section reads like a documentative historical piece, followed by the theatrically tragic and positively unnerving wails and moans of the punished convicts at sea. Many of the standout narrative and performative beats of OCG are the tragedy-drenched gut punchers, as in Brewer’s ordering of Ketch to measure Liz for hanging.
But, at the same time, the script has all the theatre meta-commentary of a stand-up set, and the ensemble prove a great collective strength in varying comedic deliveries. These comedic moments seem to downplay the seriousness of the situation, making it out to be as if the emotional and physical abuse of the prisoners doesn’t matter as much as it should. Comedic scenes would unexpectedly jut out from tragic ones. Tragedy would unsatisfyingly grind against what was humorous. OCG fails to earn these tonal shifts, and so rather than an effective balance, it feels like two wildly alternate tellings of the same general event happening in parallel.
This is an ensemble-driven piece and the whole cast seems to feed and draw well from each other. However, there’s a few performances that must be pointed out. Richard Nicholls throws down the first act cliffhanger with a barely-under-control vile, sharp Scottish force that rends the air. Oliver Mander has a wonderful light-hearted nature as convict Ketch that pays off fantastically in a personal stand-out sequence where he’s commanded to measure Lydia Marston’s Liz prior to hanging. His hands tentatively grip around her neck, both of them earning every single tense beat. Comedic audience favourite may well be a fight between Haydn Carter’s Sideway and Amanda Eckersly’s Dabby, both exuding fantastic charisma and presence. I must also mention James Boag’s comparatively sky-scraping stoic deadpan as 2nd Lieutenant Clark. While these individual performances caught my eye, the best sequences are the ones with the most cast on stage. The ensemble work on display is a great effort by all, each part working together well to effectively achieve the scenes’ individual moods. However, sometimes the accents get lost in the commonwealth and muddy comprehension with lapses in articulation, and some scenes feel like they’re overplayed. McTague’s initial yell as Midshipman Brewer creates little room for him to go further as he drunkenly breaks down.
Our Country’s Good is indecisive like the officers’ quarrelling about their plans for the convicts. While the attention to detail given to the ensemble work and the standout sequences is mighty respectable and theatrically pleasing, there are equally as many moments that shy away from brilliance. It's raw length made active engagement tough and made dragging moments more noticeable. The tone drifted out of focus, unfortunately seeping levity into moments that required utter conviction, and gave the humour a harder job of landing. I’m left wanting to see this ensemble’s attempt at play with a tighter focus as, on the whole, Our Country’s Good didn’t seem to give them a fair shot.
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BTRTN: Democrats Rip Into Each Other Competing to Prove Who is the Best Unifier
The first hour of last night’s debate was a fairly civil wonkfest, but Democrats can only refrain from unleashing their weapons of mass self-destruction for so long. On the debating merits, Amy Klobuchar won, but Steve wonders if the real conclusion is that everybody lost.
Oh, Democrats.
We’ve just been through one of the worst, most acrid, most bitterly divisive weeks in the history of the Republic.
Americans appear weary of the incessantly shrill, biting hyperbole of partisan rhetoric, and are desperately hoping for a change.
Democrats agree that more than anything, they simply want to know who can beat Donald Trump.
Who, they ask, is best able to unify and excite the Democratic Party?
Hey, let’s rip into each other to find out!!
Watch Elizabeth rip into Pete! Wait, Pete just took a not-so-subtle shot at Amy! Now Bernie is going after Joe!! Woah, look at Joe – he’s going right back at Bernie! Uh, oh, now Amy is going back at Pete!
Let’s get ready to grummmmmmmble!!!
Call me crazy, but I really enjoyed Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer last night. They were remarkably calm, measured, and thoughtful. Unlike the professional politicians, they appeared statesmanlike.
And those five “top tier” politicians?
On just the night when America may have looking to find who on the Democratic stage has the potential to restore our national pride, who could right this radically polarized ship, and who could bring our bitterly divided nation together, we got a lot of snotty, snippy, nastygrams launched sideways at other Democrats. Come on, people. We want to find out how big you can be, not how small you really are.
The fact is that this debate was relatively even, by the simple measure that everyone who has already made up their mind will tell you that their candidate hit it out of the park. They would be wrong, but they would say that.
In fact, Amy Klobuchar turned in the strongest performance of the evening. She appeared more in command of the stage than the other candidates, at several points even stepping in to cool down a hot confrontation between other candidates… once between Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, and again for one between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. While many of the candidates couldn’t wait to pivot questions into familiar talking points, Klobuchar was more “in the moment,” thinking on her feet and seizing the opportunity rather than the threat in each question.
Klobuchar appears ever more steady, comfortable, and in command on the stage, and her use of humor is growing ever more deft. Klobuchar was the most effective in beating up on Pete Buttigieg, who was clearly the main target for the evening. At one point, Klobuchar took him to take for his criticism the “100 years of Washington experience” of his rivals in the last debate. Klobuchar looked like the bigger person for taking the moment to laud the D.C. accomplishments of other candidates. Her darts at Mayor Pete were more subtle but nevertheless more effective than Elizabeth Warren’s blunt instrument bashing.
Considering that Pete Buttigieg was everybody’s bullseye tonight, he did a good job, but he took some hits. Allowing Buttigieg to be lured into a “wine cave” for a fundraiser was a terrible decision by Mayor Pete’s campaign. The optics were ghastly, and Elizabeth Warren went for the jugular on it. Unfortunately, the Massachusetts Senator has not learned the most basic rule of this campaign season: do not go directly at Pete Buttigieg unless you are ready to bleed. He is one of the most effective counter-punchers in Presidential debate history.
As effective as Klobuchar was, she too, was punished for pouncing on Pete. When she dissed Pete for his past election failures, he responded:
“Senator, I know that if you got my vote totals, maybe what goes on in my city seems small to you. If you want to talk about my capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80 percent of the vote as a gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana.” Drop the mic, Pete. Boom!
Elizabeth Warren paid dearly for taking on Mayor Pete. The Massachusetts Senator has an impassioned rhetorical style that can scream “holier than thou,” but it is always the holiest who must be wary of casting the first stone. When Warren went after Buttigieg with a laser gun on the issue of his willingness to take money from coastal billionaires, Mayor Pete simply held up a mirror, reminding Warren that she had transferred money from her Senatorial campaign funds to her Presidential campaign war chest… and that during her Senate campaign had accepted plenty of money from wealthy donors. “This is important,” Pete hissed. “This is the problem with purity tests that you cannot yourself pass.” Warren had no way to deny the charge, and no logical retort. It was her biggest television moment of the night, and it boomeranged very badly.
Bernie Sanders has developed a terrible habit of pivoting every possible question on every possible topic into one of his shrieking shrink-wrapped scripted sound-bytes. Some pivots are elegant and some are clumsy, but all serve the essential function of reinforcing his own base without saying anything new enough to attract voters away from other candidates. It is possible that the worst possible situation is developing for the progressive wing of the party: it is becoming equally divided between Sanders and Warren, with neither able to pull convincingly ahead of the other. With neither decisively grasping the upper hand, the progressive wing is itself weakened by division.
Oh, yes, Joe Biden was on the stage, too. Here’s the good news: no gaffes. Not one. Also good news: there was little of the “madcap Joe” of prior debates, the Biden who frequently launched punctuation-challenged sentence fragments that morphed from topic to topic in mid-flight, all plummeting to earth as just so much sound and fury signifying nothing.
Here’s the bad news: no one was paying much attention to Biden. Not even the moderators. When you are a former Vice President of the United States who is the leading candidate in all the national polls, and your competitors appear to be focusing all their energy on damaging the 37 year-old major of a small midwestern city, you have to wonder about the power of your candidacy. Sooner or later, Joe has to win a debate, and it did not happen again last night. Yet again on the debate stage, Joe Biden looked like he was seeking the nomination of the Low-T Party.
To slightly amend the earlier statement: Amy Klobuchar turned in the strongest performance among the truly viable candidates. The unflappable Andrew Yang was superb in this debate, and he remains on the stage even as supposedly stronger candidates like Harris, Booker, O’Rourke, and Castro have disappeared. Yang is consistently able to articulate underlying causes for societal problems that make his unconventional solutions appear creative and plausible. But time is running out for him to bust his way into the top tier candidates, and once the primary voting starts, there will be no room for also-rans.
Similarly, Tom Steyer turned in a strong debate performance. He is articulate, informed, and as passionate as a six-foot billionaire WASPy white guy gets. But time is ticking for him, too. By February, the billionaire lane will only have enough room for one guy, and it sure seems like it’s gonna belong to Mike Bloomberg.
The disappointment of the night, however, was the missed opportunity.
Someone, at some point, right in the midst of the intense rancor could have turned to the camera and said this:
“My fellow Americans, I was just singled out for attack by my colleague on the stage tonight, and I have a well-rehearsed snappy retort that everyone expects me to fire back. But I think that after the week we just saw in Washington, you are tired of listening to politicians ripping into each other, questioning each other’s motives, principles, and integrity. After this week, I don’t think you are interested in seeing whether we are capable of tearing our opponents apart. I think you want to know who is capable of bringing us together.”
Last night Amy won that dimension of this debate that was simply a petty internecine battle, and it will certainly help her campaign.
But no one saw the forest for the trees. No one saw the opportunity in the moment to seize the mantle of unifier.
In that regard, it was an opportunity squandered. In that regard, everyone lost.
Here's our scorecard:
Better than expected:
Mixed: Took some hits, scored some hits, but net negative for the night:
Needed to accomplish more than they actually did:
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Posted by Steve at 8:59 AM
Can't argue with your rankings and characterization of how the candidates did. Except maybe to make Biden a "'Better than expected" because he had a decent night after so many bad ones and expectations had been driven very low.
Connor G. December 22, 2019 at 1:01 PM
Can't say I agree with your characterization of Klobuchar as mature during the debate. She seemed willing to attack every other candidate on stage about some pretty petty stuff (trying to one-up Pete's commitment to the first amendment, for example, or going back to last month's debate to bring up a spat that was already over).
She was heard in the background of nearly every question, attempting to get her two cents in, and I'm not convinced she was stopping the fighting on stage in order to bring some peace to the stage. Let's not forget she seemed totally fine with the fights on stage when SHE was a part of them. She's reminding me of Gillibrand during the first couple of debates...over-eager to interrupt and willing to start fights so that the camera spends as much time focused on her as possible. Hardly what I'd call mature.
I think Mayor Pete came out ahead (again, there seems to be a pattern here) because of his ability to deflect and counter punch pretty much any argument, whether substantial (e.g. his experience) or BS-filled (Warren's ridiculous smearing). He also talked about unity and "it's all of us vs Trump" more than any other candidate. I mean, the entire thesis statement of his closing lines was basically "I'm tired of America dividing us. I want a culture of unity and belonging."
Hate to say it, but this is the most I've disagreed with any commentary on this blog.
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There are four races that qualify as toss-ups right now, Alabama (Democrat Doug Jones) and three GOP seats: Colorado (Cory Gardner), Arizona (the seat occupied by Martha McSally, who lost in 2018 but was named to replace John Kyl for the other Arizona seat when Kyl resigned; Kyl had been appointed to the seat after the death of John McCain) and North Carolina (Thom Tillis, who may not withstand a primary challenge from the far right).
The Democrats have some other potentially tough races to defend, perhaps New Hampshire and Virginia, but also may be able to target a few other GOP seats, such as Maine and Georgia.
It is way too early for predictions but as of June 25, 2019, we have only Colorado and Alabama flipping, which offset, and that leaves the Dems (including the two Independents) at 47 seats.
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For the month of November, 2019, the average of the generic ballot polls show the Democrats with a substantial +8 point advantage.
Using our exclusive BTRTN House Prediction Model, using generic ballot data and adjusted for campaign-specific polling and other factors, at this early stage, the Democrats stand to pick up an additional +16 seats in 2020. Despite their large lead in the generic ballot, the model illustrates how difficult it will be for the Dems to make further inroads. This is is because the current 198 GOP-held seats tend to be mostly in red districts, as the Dems picked up most of the swing seats in the "blue wave" of 2018. The GOP held 178 seats at one point in the Obama years, to give you an idea of how low they have gone in modern times.
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The Trumpometer, as of December 30, 2019, has increased since his Inaugural, from the zero starting point to +14, which means these indicators have on average improved by 14%. The Dow Jones has risen 45%, and consumer confidence is up 11%. The unemployment rate has improved from 4.7% to 3.5%. The 2019 Q3 GDP was 2.1%, even with the 2.1% growth in Obama's last full quarter, Q4 2016. The price of gas is up 9%, increasing on average from $2.44 to $2.66 since Trump took over.
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AMD has announced the Radeon Pro WX 3200 graphics card, a high-performance workstation solution that provides the ideal balance of performance and stability, while staying within increasingly tight project budgets and meeting the stringent space limitations of CAD engineers and designers’ work environments.
The cost-effective, low-profile graphics card was created specifically to meet the needs of today’s small- and medium-sized businesses.
For flawless performance in today’s most popular professional applications, the Radeon Pro WX 3200 is certified by Autodesk, Dassault, Siemens NX and Solid Edge, Creo and many other leading applications. The Radeon Pro WX 3200 also provides key features to address a variety of factors, from display outputs to power consumption and more, including:
1.66 TFLOPS performance – Provides up to 33 percent faster single-precision compute performance compared to the previous generation Radeon Pro GPU.
4GB GDDR5 VRAM and 128-bit memory – Offers the memory capacity and performance to handle large workflows, as well as 2D and 3D models quickly and efficiently.
Energy-Efficient Design – AMD PowerTune dynamically optimizes power usage and limits max consumption to 50W, while AMD ZeroCore Power significantly reduces power consumption at idle.
Low-Profile, High-Performance – Designed for small form factor enclosures, and equipped with four Mini-DisplayPort 1.4 connections, it supports four 4K displays or a single 8K display.
Enhanced Driver Support – AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise supports the Radeon Pro WX 3200 and the entire Radeon Pro product family with performance enhancements, stability fixes and new or updated features on a quarterly basis.
The Radeon Pro WX 3200 is AMD’s most cost-effective, certified graphics card, providing a small-form solution for $199. It is expected to be available in Q3 2019 from leading retailers and in updated commercial workstations from Boxx, Dell and HP starting this summer.
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This Year's Halloween Comics Begin Hitting Shelves with Broadsword's Tarot, Witch of the Black Rose 112
Submitted by RJ Carter on Thu, 09/27/2018 - 12:16
Last Halloween, Tarot, her husband, and her sister encountered the Spirit of Halloween in a park in Salem. Ever since that time, they have been cursed to appear as the stereotypes of their characters -- i.e. green-skinned witches, and a living skeleton man.
Now, in TAROT, WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE #112, the season is upon them once more, and the three, along with their mother, plan to seek out the spirit and entreat him to return them to their original forms. But it's not going to be that easy. The spirit agrees to do so -- if he can be defeated in a game of monsters, taking place on another plane. And if he cannot -- then the entire population of Salem is to be his forever.
Tarot and company agree...and don't do so well. But this is the season of tricks and treats, and a wily opponent knows how to use both of those to her advantage.
Jim Balent's long-running fan-service series is one that doesn't take itself too seriously. The artwork is fantastic, but the plot varies from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD to GHOSTBUSTERS in its tone. I was also thrown off by the lettering of the book, particularly with the text boxes, which seemed to have apostrophes and periods scattered throughout them rather than in the places that actually ended sentences. I get the effect they were going for with the text, but it cluttered it to the point of stepping on the story -- and honestly, in comics, we don't need the text boxes to serve as adverbial dialogue tags, as was frequently done here.
One special thing to note, this issue's Broadsword Girl model is Victoria Avalor, who Critical Blast readers may recall as our June 2017 Bombshell of the Month. Victoria is looking as lovely as ever in her pinup in this month's TAROT, WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE.
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The Canadian Anti-Doping Program
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) is the custodian of the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP): the set of rules that govern anti-doping in Canada. The CADP consists of several components such as in- and out-of-competition testing, education, medical exemptions, and the consequences of doping violations. The CADP is compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code and all international standards.
Canadian Sport Institute has adopted the CADP which means that you can be confident you are part of a world-class anti-doping program designed to protect athletes’ rights and ensure a level playing field. The Canadian Sport Institute’s anti-doping policy reflects and supports the CADP.
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The CCES recommends that athletes take the following actions to ensure they do not commit an inadvertent anti-doping rule violation:
Know your rights and responsibilities as an athlete with regard to anti-doping.
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15 Bizarre Things That Your Body Does While You Sleep
Every SINGLE time.
Ray Porter October 25th 2017 Science
Sleeping is such a normal part of our lives that it can be easy to forget how weird the concept is. If you remove yourself from the situation and consider it objectively, sleep is a very strange thing. To prove it to you, we've broken down 15 of the weirdest things that happen to you and your body when you're asleep. You might be surprised to find out some of these bizarre sleeping quirks!
Sleep Can Force You Awake
You know that feeling when you're asleep and something suddenly 'jolts' you--and before you know it you're awake. It feels like you're falling and have just caught yourself, and this is completely normal. It's called a hypnic jerk and while annoying, is nothing to fear.
Your Eyes Move
We often don't think about what happens to our eyes when we're asleep, after all, they're tucked safely behind our eyelids. However, when we sleep our eyes actually move around an dart back and forth during a normal sleep cycle.
Your Body Produces Growth Hormones
You read that right, when you're asleep your body is in a constant state of producing growth hormones that help your muscles and aid your tissues in repairing themselves while you rest. Since the glucose level in your blood is lowest when you're asleep, this is the time when most hormone production occurs.
Throat Constriction
This one is scarier than it sounds, but when you're asleep your throat muscles tend to relax which causes the airway in your throat to become more narrow. This is not harmful at all but can cause snoring--much to the dismay of the people who sleep near you.
Some people suffer from such severe teeth grinding that they have to wear a grind guard to prevent their teeth from being damaged while they're asleep. Often this can be attributed to stress, but there is no clear cause of teeth grinding.
Your Kidney Functions Slow Way Down
The role of your kidney is to filter out harmful toxins from your bloodstream and convert the excess into urine. Sleeping makes this process less active, as your body obviously produces less urine while you're asleep--which is why you shouldn't have to wake up to pee so often.
Sleepwalking is a real thing that happens to many people every night. Instead of staying put in your bed like you're supposed to, your body takes charge and marches you everywhere and anywhere. While you look like a zombie doing this, it's actually relatively normal.
Sleep Talking
Similar to sleepwalking, this is a kind of common predicament. Some people happen to be chatty sleepers, and if the issue persists you can get help at a sleep clinic. For the most part though, as long as you try not to anger anyone while you're asleep, you should be fine.
You're Paralyzed
While you're in the REM stage of sleep, your body releases instructions to your muscle that temporarily paralyze you. The intent is to stop you from walking around while you're asleep, but this can have some interesting effects. Some people report experiencing 'sleep paralysis' due to waking up in this state.
You Get Turned On
When you're asleep, both men and women alike get turned on due to the body testing different receptors in order to make sure you're not in a coma! That's right, you get turned on when you're asleep as a way of your body making sure that it will be able to wake up.
You Dream
it can be easy to forget how weird the concept of dreaming is, since it is such a normal part of our day to night lives. Still though, dreaming is pretty bizarre and can seem extremely real while we're experiencing it.
You Might Even Text!
That's right, technology has such a subconscious demand on our lives that much in the same way we can sleep walk or sleep talk, it is possible to text while almost completely asleep. Talk about being plugged in! How bizarre!
You Might Hear... a Bang!
Hear us out for a second. There is an actual phenomenon that involves people hearing what they report sounds like a crash or a bang or even like a gun being fired while they're asleep! It can be very scary, but is completely harmless otherwise.
Your Body Restores Itself
Sleeping is vital as it allows our body to replenish our resources. Our muscles repair themselves, our body functions are given a break and we wake up revitalized. When you're younger, and when you're an adult, most of your growth happens while you're asleep.
You Can't Smell
While your sense of smell is extremely important and useful in your day to day life, it is almost non-existent when you're asleep. Your body might not even be able to smell dangerous fumes or smoke while you're asleep, hence the importance of smoke alarms.
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Will Hoge Rocks the Tortuga Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach
Now releasing his impressive tenth album, “Small Town Dreams” many attribute the longevity of Will Hoge’s music career to his soulful voice and original lyrics that relate to everyday experiences. Crafting words that resonate with everyone, Hoge’s songs tell stories that make us reflect upon our lives. Last weekend, Hoge played Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach. “Country music is one of the last genres rooted in story telling. Ninety percent of country fans listen for the lyrics. The other ten percent just like the beer,” Hoge says. Just minutes after his performance on the Sunset Stage, Hoge met to discuss his music.
Dana: What inspires your lyrics?
Will: Really, everyday life. It can be anything from personal experience like my wife and kids. It’s a never ending well of things to draw from.
Dana: What song is the most meaningful to you?
Will: They all ring true in different ways, but I think, “Little Bitty Dreams” is the most personal to me at this point. The narrator of the story is kind of accepting his life where he is. We all get to a point where we have to accept where we are.
Dana: How did you feel when you first heard your song, “Strong” on the Chevy Silverado commercial?
Will: It was awesome. It’s an awesome feeling anytime you hear your song on the radio. It’s like the coolest feeling in the world. And, that never gets old. T.V. is even bigger since it literally goes into people’s living rooms. It’s just wonderful.
Dana: What are you most proud of with your new album?
Will: Well part of it is just getting to do a tenth album. A lot of people don’t even get to do a second let alone a tenth. So, the release is itself is one thing that I’m proud of. I think it’s the record that reflects where I’ve come from as a person and an artist. I love that aspect of it too.
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Front Page Listing of the Week: 9435 Shawnee Run Road
Listing of the Week: 9435 Shawnee Run Road
by Amy Scalia - Dec 9, 2019
It's a beautiful estate in Indian Hill with every amenity (and then some). Keep reading for a peek inside this week's Listing of the Week!
This amazing home features exceptional design, opulent, and luxurious living. It sits on 5.6 private acres with meticulous grounds, a beautiful pool, and tennis court. The home has a grant entry with a double curved staircase, a fabulous Chef’s kitchen, gorgeous first-floor master suite, walls of windows, a workout room overlooking the pool and grounds, a lower level with full bar, theater, and balcony overlooking indoor basketball court and gym. The 6 bedroom, 9 bathroom home is listed at $3.475 million.
This listing is sponsored by Ron Erdmann at Guaranteed Rate, the official mortgage professional of Cincy Chic.
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Publisher & CEO - Amy Scalia, a Cincinnati native, is the editor in chief and publisher of Cincy Chic. Send her an e-mail at ascalia@cincychic.com. From growing up in the cornfields of Harrison and getting a Mass Communications B.A. degree in the bubble of Oxford, to living on the NKY side of the river in Newport and then Ft. Thomas, Amy Scalia has embraced Cincinnati with her presence. Her major life accomplishments include: being a mom of two girls and a boy, a 2010 "40 Under 40" recipient from the Cincinnati Business Courier, winning the "Best New Product/Service of the Year" Award from the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and a national Web-writing award from ASHPE in 2007, a national feature writing award from ASBPE in 2006, and running three Flying Pig Marathons.
Listing of the Week: 20 Garden Place
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Christmas.com
Keeping Christmas secure, fast, and online.
You may find it hard to believe, but there are people out there who dislike Christmas: virtual Grinches trying to ruin the fun for the rest of us.
Christmas.com, a beacon of holiday cheer online, encountered one of these cyber Grinches this December, their busiest time of year. Christmas.com is a site dedicated to the vision that “Christmas is for Sharing”: it allows people to connect and share through photos, wish lists, games, recipes and free Family Pages wherever they are in the world. There’s even a high tech Naughty List that allows you to see if you’ve been good this year. While the domain name Christmas.com is well trusted and serves tons of happy visitors, it’s also a target.
In early December, Christmas.com got hit with several large DDoS attacks, knocking the site offline. Alan Bailward, the lead technologist on the team, said “We were getting hammered and couldn’t keep the site online. We needed to get behind a proxy to shield us from the attacks.”
Having heard about Cloudflare from a friend in the IT business, Alan contacted Cloudflare. “Getting setup on Cloudflare was fantastically easy, it took only a few minutes”, Alan remarked, “ and as a systems administrator, knowing that someone is there to take the brunt of these attacks lets me relax. It’s one less thing I have to worry about.” Once Christmas.com was behind Cloudflare the attacks stopped immediatly.
Christmas.com experienced 12x increase in traffic during the latest DDoS attack. Cloudflare successfully absorbed the traffic at the edge and kept Christmas.com online.
Cloudflare is the leader in DDoS mitigation, but its service extends far beyond. Alan said, “Cloudflare is also great because they have a worldwide presence. Christmas is a global holiday, and Cloudflare’s CDN makes sure our site is safe and fast for our customers all over the world.”
We hope the holiday season goes as smoothly for you as it will for Christmas.com. Check out their site to find new ways of connecting with your family.
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“Getting setup on Cloudflare was fantastically easy, it took only a few minutes. As a systems administrator, knowing that someone is there to take the brunt of these attacks lets me relax. It’s one less thing I have to worry about.”
Alan Bailward
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A SYN Flood exploits a vulnerability in the TCP/IP handshake in an attempt to disrupt a web service.
SYN Flood
Define a SYN flood DDoS attack
Explain how a SYN flood attack works
Differentiate the different types of SYN Attacks
Understand some mitigation techniques for SYN Floods
What is a SYN flood attack?
A SYN flood (half-open attack) is a type of denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which aims to make a server unavailable to legitimate traffic by consuming all available server resources. By repeatedly sending initial connection request (SYN) packets, the attacker is able to overwhelm all available ports on a targeted server machine, causing the targeted device to respond to legitimate traffic sluggishly or not at all.
How does a SYN flood attack work?
SYN flood attacks work by exploiting the handshake process of a TCP connection. Under normal conditions, TCP connection exhibits three distinct processes in order to make a connection.
First, the client sends a SYN packet to the server in order to initiate the connection.
The server then responds to that initial packet with a SYN/ACK packet, in order to acknowledge the communication.
Finally, the client returns an ACK packet to acknowledge the receipt of the packet from the server. After completing this sequence of packet sending and receiving, the TCP connection is open and able to send and receive data.
To create denial-of-service, an attacker exploits the fact that after an initial SYN packet has been received, the server will respond back with one or more SYN/ACK packets and wait for the final step in the handshake. Here’s how it works:
The attacker sends a high volume of SYN packets to the targeted server, often with spoofed IP addresses.
The server then responds to each one of the connection requests and leaves an open port ready to receive the response.
While the server waits for the final ACK packet, which never arrives, the attacker continues to send more SYN packets. The arrival of each new SYN packet causes the server to temporarily maintain a new open port connection for a certain length of time, and once all the available ports have been utilized the server is unable to function normally.
In networking, when a server is leaving a connection open but the machine on the other side of the connection is not, the connection is considered half-open. In this type of DDoS attack, the targeted server is continuously leaving open connections and waiting for each connection to timeout before the ports become available again. The result is that this type of attack can be considered a “half-open attack”.
A SYN flood can occur in three different ways:
Direct attack: A SYN flood where the IP address is not spoofed is known as a direct attack. In this attack, the attacker does not mask their IP address at all. As a result of the attacker using a single source device with a real IP address to create the attack, the attacker is highly vulnerable to discovery and mitigation. In order to create the half-open state on the targeted machine, the hacker prevents their machine from responding to the server’s SYN-ACK packets. This is often achieved by firewall rules that stop outgoing packets other than SYN packets or by filtering out any incoming SYN-ACK packets before they reach the malicious user's machine. In practice this method is used rarely (if ever), as mitigation is fairly straightforward – just block the IP address of each malicious system. If the attacker is using a botnet such as the Mirai botnet they won’t care about masking the IP of the infected device.
Spoofed Attack: A malicious user can also spoof the IP address on each SYN packet they send in order to inhibit mitigation efforts and make their identity more difficult to discover. While the packets may be spoofed, those packets can potentially be traced back to their source. It’s difficult to do this sort of detective work but it’s not impossible, especially if Internet service providers (ISPs) are willing to help.
Distributed attack (DDoS): If an attack is created using a botnet the likelihood of tracking the attack back to its source is low. For an added level of obfuscation, an attacker may have each distributed device also spoof the IP addresses from which it sends packets. If the attacker is using a botnet such as the Mirai botnet, they generally won’t care about masking the IP of the infected device.
By using a SYN flood attack, a bad actor can attempt to create denial-of-service in a target device or service with substantially less traffic than other DDoS attacks. Instead of volumetric attacks, which aim to saturate the network infrastructure surrounding the target, SYN attacks only need to be larger than the available backlog in the target’s operating system. If the attacker is able to determine the size of the backlog and how long each connection will be left open before timing out, the attacker can target the exact parameters needed to disable the system, thereby reducing the total traffic to the minimum necessary amount to create denial-of-service.
How is a SYN flood attack mitigated?
SYN flood vulnerability has been known for a long time and a number of mitigation pathways have been utilized. A few approaches include:
Increasing Backlog queue
Each operating system on a targeted device has a certain number of half-open connections that it will allow. One response to high volumes of SYN packets is to increase the maximum number of possible half-open connections the operating system will allow. In order to successfully increase the maximum backlog, the system must reserve additional memory resources to deal with all the new requests. If the system does not have enough memory to be able to handle the increased backlog queue size, system performance will be negatively impacted, but that still may be better than denial-of-service.
Recycling the Oldest Half-Open TCP connection
Another mitigation strategy involves overwriting the oldest half-open connection once the backlog has been filled. This strategy requires that the legitimate connections can be fully established in less time than the backlog can be filled with malicious SYN packets. This particular defense fails when the attack volume is increased, or if the backlog size is too small to be practical.
SYN cookies
This strategy involves the creation of a cookie by the server. In order to avoid the risk of dropping connections when the backlog has been filled, the server responds to each connection request with a SYN-ACK packet but then drops the SYN request from the backlog, removing the request from memory and leaving the port open and ready to make a new connection. If the connection is a legitimate request, and a final ACK packet is sent from the client machine back to the server, the server will then reconstruct (with some limitations) the SYN backlog queue entry. While this mitigation effort does lose some information about the TCP connection, it is better than allowing denial-of-service to occur to legitimate users as a result of an attack.
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September 2, 2011, - 7:25 pm
Jewish Media, ADL, Snopes Work Overtime Whitewashing Anti-Israel Whole Foods; Here Are the FACTS
**** ACTION ALERT: Please send these FACTS about anti-Israel Whole Foods to everyone you know. Cut and paste this and send it on your e-mail lists far and wide. There are a lot of morons getting, believing, and re-sending false e-mails and links whitewashing Whole Foods. And we cannot allow Whole Foods and its friends to win their propaganda war while they continue to engage in lies and anti-Israel, pan-Muslim behavior. ****
YES, WHOLE FOODS IS ANTI-ISRAEL . . .
Whole Foods Funds Scholarships to HAMAS’ An-Najah University
An-Najah University Stages Re-enactments of Sbarro Pizza Homicide Bombing & Israeli Bus Bombing
In recent days and weeks, I’ve been getting e-mails from a bunch of people about how Snopes, the ADL, and a series of Jewish newspapers have been working overtime to whitewash Whole Foods’ anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, pan-Muslim activities and my writings about them. Rest assured these reports are not true. The facts I wrote about Whole Foods anti-Israel, pro-HAMAS products and behavior remain unrefuted because they are absolutely true. Even Whole Foods admits to them when it comes down to it. And neither Whole Foods nor the ADL will say how much money Whole Foods donated to the ADL. Nor will the Jewish newspapers detail how much in ad revenue they get from frequent, lucrative Whole Foods ads during the Jewish holidays. If anything I wrote were untrue, Whole Foods would have sued me by now for defamation. They aren’t because what I wrote is the absolute truth.
Here are the facts I reported–facts which remain solid and unrefuted:
* Whole Foods dumped Israel’s best-selling product, Israeli olive oil, and replaced it with Palestinian Terrorist Olive Oil a/k/a Palestinian Canaan Fair Trade olive oil, which supports Muslim HAMAS and Fatah farmers and funds scholarships to HAMAS Terrorist University a/k/a An-Najah University in Nablus, which recruits for HAMAS, displays exhibits celebrating and mocking homicide bombings of Jews, where photos of Islamic terrorist leaders of Hezbollah, HAMAS, etc. line the walls, and where the American and Israeli flags are permanently affixed to the floor for students, faculty, and visitors to step on. See more details here and here and make sure to watch this video of what Whole Foods anti-Israel terrorist olive oil is funding. FYI, Canaan Fair Trade olive oil is headquartered in Jenin, the hotbed of homicide bombers and Jew-hating HAMAS supporters. In America, the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, pro-HAMAS “Jewish Voice for Peace” and all the usual anti-Israel, left-wing churches are helping to promote and distribute the Palestinian terrorist olive oil through Whole Foods. Whole Foods isn’t just selling this olive oil, it is spending big bucks to promote it in partnership with the Jenin HAMAS Palestinians.
* Whole Foods officially recognizes HAMAS’ “Palestine” as a state and said so in writing to people who complained about its anti-Israel stance. When this statement brought more anger from Jewish and other consumers, Whole Foods deleted the paragraph about the olive oil and “Palestine” from the letter, to whitewash the issue. In the original mass letter Whole Foods sent out to those who complained, Whole Foods “customer information specialist” Rachael Gruver wrote:
Ms. Schlussel mentions olive oil in her post. We do sell olive oil from Palestine under the brand name Canaan Fair Trade.
Since that only confirmed exactly what I wrote, in the next incarnation of the letter Whole Foods deleted the entire “Palestine” and Palestinian olive oil paragraph, but continued its recognition of the HAMAS Palestinian state and continued to mention “Palestine.”
* Whole Foods cannot dump all Israeli products or it would be in violation of federal anti-boycott laws, so it still carries less popular Israeli products, but dropped Israeli olive oil. Whole Foods would be sued under laws preventing it from abiding by the Arab boycott of Israel if it dropped all Israeli products, which is the only reason it still sells obscure products from Israel no one buys. Who goes to Whole Foods seeking “tuna fish canned in Israel”? No one.
* Whole Foods Funded Radio Intifada on KPFK radio station. Radio intifada glorifies, praises, and encourages Islamic terrorism and Jew-hatred. And, yet, Whole Foods ran ads sponsoring the show and the openly anti-Israel, pro-jihad radio station for years, despite protests from Whole Foods customers and people in the pro-Israel community.
* Whole Foods’ London store doesn’t carry Israeli couscous because it does not want to offend British Muslims. Instead, Whole Foods London sells Palestinian Zaynoun couscous.
* Whole Foods’ Ramadan promotion was not “just like any other holiday promotion for Christmas or Passover,” because it spent a lot of money from its foundation to promote Ramadan and never any other holiday. Contrary to the chain’s claim because Whole Foods spent a huge chunk of money from its Whole Planet Foundation (which is supposed to feed the poor and promote healthy lifestyles in inner cities, not promote Islam) to finance free Ramadan food prizes and giveaways. Whole Foods never used its foundation to promote Christian or Jewish holidays, only Ramadan. Whole Foods won’t disclose how much money the Whole Planet Foundation spent to promote Ramadan. Why not?
Again, NONE of these facts which I reported has ever been refuted by anyone or any source. They won’t be and they cannot be, because they are facts. Period. If you have no problem with Whole Foods dumping Israeli olive oil, financing Radio Intifada, funding and selling Muslim terrorist olive oil used to finance Jew-hating HAMAS farmers and scholarships to HAMAS Terrorist University and with recognizing a HAMAS Palestinian state, then you are a jihadist sympathizer. For everyone else, you should have a problem with this. And you should have a problem with the ADL, Snopes, and the Jewish media, who continue to promote Whole Foods and worked overtime to whitewash the supermarket chain in a way they have never done. Why? What kind of money did they get for being Whole Foods’ kapos? What kind of money would they lose without Whole Foods ads?
If you believe Snopes (a site which claims to be the arbiter of truth about rumors or claims, but is the exact opposite) or ever even consult that website, your head needs to be examined. That you would trust verification of truth to a couple of married former folk dancer pro-Obama leftists (the owners/operators/writers of Snopes) tells me you are a moron. And a lazy fool. Too lazy to do your own research and too foolish to have any critical thinking skills or even common sense to know better. Snopes lies and cannot be trusted. I’ve written stories based on written documentation from companies themselves, such as when UPS sent me a written statement that it does not deliver beyond Israel’s green line, including to settlements. And Snopes claimed the story was false. When Target officials and the Wall Street Journal both confirmed in writing that Target cashiers were forbidden from wishing customers a “Merry Christmas,” Snopes claimed the story wasn’t true. If Snopes says something, you can be sure the opposite is in fact the truth. And that’s the case here, in which Snopes merely repeated the ADL’s three-line BS.
The ADL, which refuted not a single fact I wrote, did not investigate the matter and won’t reveal how much money it got from Whole Foods as a donation. ADL merely said it “doesn’t believe me.” Guess what? ADL is what shouldn’t be believed. This is the same ADL, which hosted a member of Hezbollah as a “diversity and tolerance speaker” and which frequently co-sponsors anti-Israel movies and other events with the pro-HAMAS/Hezbollah American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and its official, Palestinian terrorist, FBI award revokee, and marriage and immigration fraud perpetrator Imad Hamad, who praised teaching kids to blow up Jews on Palestinian TV shows. ADL Michigan chief Betsy Kellman said that the “real terrorists” in America are Orthodox Jews. She said she is worried that Orthodox Jews will commit terrorist attacks on Muslims and that this is the real terrorist threat to America. This is the organization you trust to decide whether or not Whole Foods panders to Muslims and is anti-Israel? Only if you’re a complete idiot.
And the Jewish newspapers get big money advertising from Whole Foods and have compromised their “coverage” of this issue accordingly. The “report” running in many Jewish newspapers around the country, today and for the past week, is phony. The uber-liberal Los Angeles Jewish Journal (whose moronic editor, Rob Eshman, is a complete leftist and self-hater whose only Jewishness is making dumb latke videos) had a complete idiot named Ryan Torok do a whitewash piece on Whole Foods, apparently to protect ad revenue. Torok wrote his false report whitewashing Whole Foods without even interviewing me or reading any of the articles I’ve written on Whole Foods. He admittedly still hasn’t read them or done any research on the topic, merely repeating Whole Foods’ denials, without doing any fact-checking.
When Torok finally contacted me a day after his phony report was published, it was a waste of time because he ignored all the facts and told me he found that Whole Foods sells an obscure olive oil by a Messianic Jewish group in one or two of its stores and, therefore, it is pro-Israel. That should tell you what an absolute dummy this guy is. He was not interested in the truth. His editor, Rob Eshman (who blamed the Palestinian terrorist murder of the Fogel family on Jews, Israel, and settlers), refused to allow me to write an op-ed or to edit the story to include my side of it a/k/a the actual facts. Now, that phony article appears in other so-called “Jewish” newspapers such as the Detroit Jewish News, owned by Islamo-panderer, Obama fan, and self-hating “Jew” Arthur Horwitz, a business partner of Osama Siblani, an open supporter and agent of Hezbollah, whose close relatives are executives at Al-Manar a/k/a Hezbollah TV. There is a reason none of these hacks is working in the mainstream media. Even those frauds thought these frauds too incompetent and unqualified.
I repeat: NONE of these facts which I reported has been refuted by anyone or any source. They cannot be, because they are facts. Period.
Whole Foods dumped Israeli olive oil. Whole Foods helped finance terrorist Radio Intifada on American radio airwaves. Now, Whole Foods funds and sells Muslim terrorist olive oil which finances HAMAS farmers and scholarships to HAMAS Terrorist University. Whole Foods recognizes the HAMAS Palestinian state. And Whole Foods spent oodles of its foundation money to promote Ramadan, which it does for no other religion, no other holiday.
Those are the facts. Your mind needs to be deSnoped.
Here are more of the FACTS:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/5046/welcome-to-palestinian-fair-trade-olive-oil-sold-whole-foods-funds-study-anti-semitic-pro-hamas-universities-dr-bronners-soap-too/
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/5076/when-you-shop-whole-foods-this-is-what-you-are-funding/
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/5068/whole-foods-responds-to-schlussel-story-on-funding-palestinian-terrorist-u-stands-by-terror-u-scholarship-products/
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/40514/anti-israel-whole-foods-wishes-you-a-happy-ramadan/
Again, Please Remember to Cut & Paste This Post and E-mail It To Everyone You Can Think Of. THANKS.
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Debbie you said in you’re sentiment:
“If anything I wrote were untrue, Whole Foods would have sued me by now for defamation. They aren’t because what I wrote is the absolute truth.”
Agreed DS, I read just about all of you’re articles regarding Whole Food and them not promoting and selling products from Israel, etc. And you know that the ADL or any pressure group can’t and won’t try to file a suit against you for defamation, because what you wrote in all of those articles are complete PROVEN FACTS, and they can’t refute any of the articles you wrote about Whole Foods.
DS and everybody else who comments here, the bible reads, “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free (those were the words of jesus christ himself)”. Folks need to wake up and acknowledge the whole facts and also notice what’s happening around them and wake up and live in the real world!
Sean R. on September 2, 2011 at 8:15 pm
***Off Topic****
Please watch the Video !
A concert attended by Queen Beatrix has been disturbed
by a (muslim) man who invoked Allah to say he was Jesus !
He wants Queen Beatrix to take on Islam !
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/09/mayor_sents_man_who_disrupted.php
Mallory on September 5, 2011 at 10:24 am
Hi Mallory – I notice that the Dutch media did not mention the Islam connection.
Last week at the Royal Albert Hall in London a demonstration by ‘pro-Palistinians’ stopped a concert from taking place.
What do these creatures from the 7th century know about music???
Nir Leiu on September 6, 2011 at 4:00 am
MUSLIM ANTI-SEMITISM IN GERMANY
(Stuff politicians hardly speak about)
Almost daily anti-semitism Rallies (Demonstrations) in BERLIN, MUNICH etc.
This Video ist with english subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmiKVhry2JA
this one without subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at4Dema6rks&feature=like-suggest&list=UL
I’ve been posting this for a couple of days, to excellent responses:
“Jewish” fronts hate Sharia Law because no-interest Islamic banks will take all the “jews” business. http://tinyurl.com/ShariaLoansMuchCheaper
DEAN BERRY MINISTRIES on January 13, 2012 at 8:42 am
Well, Debbie, what can you expect of scumbags whose patron Saint is St Rachel Corrie of IHOP?
Occam's Tool on September 2, 2011 at 8:40 pm
They make the Jerusalem Post look enlightened.
Will they cut their tries to the Islam Lobby? No, they won’t and they won’t investigate b/c they know what that would mean for their credibility.
Actually, the organized part of the American Jewish Community are the last people on earth who should tell us they care about present threats to Jewish survival!
NormanF on September 2, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I’ll pass this info to the people I know that shop at Whole Foods.
Ilan on September 3, 2011 at 12:28 am
That’s it. I’m gonna have to put my discomfort aside and try to see what I can do about this. My town is predominately Jewish and we have TWO Whole Foods patroned by many, many, Jews.
I’m gonna have to find someone in my community who is a strong, Conservative zionist to help me get the word out.
Because we know that there are many, many self-hating sorts who hate Israel and love the filthy Palestinians and happily shop there. The group I wanna reach is the un/mis-informed Liberal Jews who even though they are Liberal, REALLY support and see the significance of Israel. If I can get that group to see the truth, their ire at WF could really do some damage.
I have a lot of work to do. It just has to be done.
(I have spoken to some Liberal Jews who see themselves as Liberal and are fierce about Israel. Unfortunately, these sorts have a very loose understanding of politics and really don’t know much when you get right down to it. When I tell them how supportive Christian Consevatives are to Israel, they look at me as if I just spoke to them in Chinese. The truth needs to get out.)
Skunky on September 3, 2011 at 12:31 am
Debbie how dare you slander my Israeli canned tuna fish! J/k. To be fair Whole Foods London doesn’t sell Israeli couscous also because they prefer not being burnt to the ground by British Muslims, who are a big whopping hammer compared to the skinny little nail of British Jews, many of whom keep quiet about their religion. Pls call me after shabbes.
A1 on September 3, 2011 at 12:46 am
So how OLD is THIS story??
ANOTHER variation? NYC’s Park Slope has it’s own Yuppie TALIBAN: http://forumnyc.com/topic/32555-yenta-andrea-peyser/page__pid__78828#entry78828 MANY of them self-HATING DNC jews???
EminemsRevenge on September 3, 2011 at 1:01 am
I’ve noticed some word-parsing going on by defenders of WF, such as denying Debbie’s accusation of pulling ALL Israeli products from their shelves, which they deny. Debbie didn’t say they pulled ALL, she said they’ve pulled PROMINENT ones such as Israeli olive oil.
An easy way for WF to clear this up is to disclose WHICH Israeli products they’ve pulled if any, and the REASON for the pull. They probably won’t do that because they know they would look bad.
Scott on September 3, 2011 at 1:45 am
Why does this not surprise me? (For the 755,289th time.)
3 reasons why WF and ADL would not strike back at DS for defamation…
1) The facts about WF’s selective marketing are there, and so-far someone hasn’t formulated a satisfactory response;
2) They are total cowards (appeaser -> coward -> KAPO/traitor);
3) They can’t afford a REAL lawyer to fight back (it takes a lot of money to crush an enemy, especially if you have no evidence that use could use to defend yourself).
Case closed. NEXT…
The Reverend Jacques on September 3, 2011 at 6:00 am
Good work Debbie, I think you have their back against the wall.
Lars on September 3, 2011 at 10:44 am
Well I know what makes Jews great is strength in industry. It’s too bad Whole Foods has signed up for the muslim-sharia agenda through their prejudice.
I wonder who the muslims who own the olive groves had to kill to get “ownership.”
The domain that you requested, boycottwholefoods.com, is still available!
In the mean time, I will be calling and faxing using the information below, asking why they are supporting terrorist groups and not selling any prominent Israeli food products.
Whole Foods Market, Inc. Corporate Headquarters
550 Bowie Street
512-477-5566 voicemail
JE on September 3, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I never shop at Whole Foods, over priced stuff that just isn’t any better than you can buy a good local market. But I know of people who will drive many miles out of their way to shop there. the whole organic movement is on the scale of global warming, in other words a hoax. Boycott Hollywood, Whole foods, read a good book & shop at local markets.
ChickasawMan on September 4, 2011 at 2:07 am
Are there any chains that sell organic produce and that genre of products that are not pro-Jihadi? You mentioned once that Trader Joes too advertizes on Radio Intifada, so what else is there that one could use, outside the usual local grocery chains? I find some items, like chicken, too fat laden, compared to when I bought from Traders Joe. So are there other alternatives?
Infidel Pride on September 4, 2011 at 8:03 am
ADL = Arab Defense League
I_AM_ME on September 4, 2011 at 1:49 pm
This blog post is super juicy. It looks like they are going to start fighting back. It’s about time somebody took on these counter-productive ignoramuses!
http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/09/04/misguided-freedomworks-protests-romneys-tea-party-appearance/
If FreedomWorks gets their way, President Obama is going to get re-elected… Can’t we all just allow the candidates speak and let people decide for themselves!
Dan on September 4, 2011 at 7:19 pm
WF is based in Austin, Texas. That’s one of the few cities in Texas that has a higher than normal concentration of liberals. That explains why WF is shunning Israel and hugging the likes of Hamas.
Oscar on September 4, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Thanks. It’s not that I’m much into the ‘organic’ fad or care much about hens being cage free or being constrained in a small area w/ their own waste, but rather, the type of food I get in Safeway or Lucky gives me undesired results: when cooking chicken, I get plenty of melted fat as a result of cooking – something that’s not a problem w/ cornish game hen. As far as the veggies go, however, a lot of them, like cauliflower, are pretty bland, but I can live w/ that, as opposed to the imported ones w/ exotic flavors (since they are not bio-engineered).
I shopped primarily @ TJs, and usually got their meats, as well as some other stuff, such as their lemonades, their cheese and some veggies. With Whole Foods, I liked the fact that in their meat section, they had people who could cut your meat any way you wanted. Since I live in the Bay Area, the other place where I can do that (for fish) – Ranch Market, I’d have to learn Mandarin first, unlike @ Whole Foods, where English would work. But I don’t normally shop there, primarily b’cos it’s too expensive, but now even b’cos they are pro-Islamic. But I do miss it sometimes, since I had the option of buying things like Muscovy Duck, which I’d not get anywhere else. If one is vegetarian, I guess one will not miss much.
The places you mention are on the East Coast, whereas I live on the Left Coast, where they don’t operate. Anyway, I’ll keep my distance from Whole Foods, and only rarely buy TJs
We have to take a stance against the enemies of good which includes Whole Foods
Wake up before it’s too late
Jules Tabak on September 5, 2011 at 6:44 am
Everything I’ve read about WF here is true. They are overpriced.
Their stuff really isn’t that good. The big HQ store in downtown
Austin has many different stations that make their style of Italian, Mexican, etc. It all tastes like cardboard – cold cardboard that is. And the women who shop or work there don’t look very healthy, much less hot.
CornCoLeo on September 5, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Oh, one other thing about WF that I think I commented on before. I drove an 18-wheeler for a short time. I’d pick up “organic” lettuce and spinach in California. It would all be pre-packaged in plastic tubs that weigh a couple ounces each. The cases with the tubs would be stacked on pallets and then loaded top to bottom of the trailer all the way from front to rear. I’d then haul the product to a WF cold-storage site all the way on the East coast.
The rub is that the trailer could haul around 44,000 lbs., but, due to the way the product was pre-packaged in plastic tubs the fully loaded trailer would only be hauling about 9,000 lbs. The cross-country haul would then occur in a Kenworth T2000 that gets a 6 MPG.
Whoa, that’s really “going green” huh?
Spread far and wide via my Facebook page!
Michelle on September 6, 2011 at 5:43 pm
My shopping days at Whole Foods are over. I noticed only two weeks ago that kosher chicken was no longer available and had wondered what this was all about as the the location of this WF is positioned to serve many Jewish patrons and others who believe kosher has value for numerous reasons, one being the more humane treatment of animals.
How sad that the lobby is so strong against Israel. I will now switch back to Stew Leonard’s and make it again number one for groceries and products for my family.
The economic war rages on. Little do most people understand the consequences of supporting a supposed underdog – the trumped up phony Palestinian movement the tip of the iceberg of terrorism, repression and global upheaval. Hinda M
Hinda Matuszinska on September 11, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Its like you read my thoughts! You seem to grasp a lot about this, such as you wrote the ebook in it or something. I think that you can do with a few percent to power the message house a little bit, however other than that, that is excellent blog. A great read. I will certainly be back.
get ripped techniques on December 22, 2011 at 5:35 pm
What is the difference between Israeli and Palestinian terrorism and which came first the chicken or the egg. As someone an arms length from this dog fight I see neither side as having the moral high ground…However, Israel is definitely the bigger bully and perpetrator of violence..just look at the numbers…no heat, just light and facts. A wise man once said you are allowed your own beliefs but not your own facts.
Hank T on April 20, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Israel is no friend of the U.S. – the Jews of Israel just use the U.S. to fund its own terrorist operations against Palestine.
brovids.com
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By Dick Morris on September 27, 2012
What would the Founders do? How many times have we asked that very question?
What would the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Hamilton, and the Adams cousins say to our current problems, challenges and crises? Joe Connor, my good friend and a true patriot, along with Mike Duncan, have taken a great stab at unraveling the mystery. In their novel, The New Founders, Joe and Mike bring them back to life in 2012 and record their reactions as they address the growth of the federal government, our overly partisan political environment, our massive national debt, and our economic malaise. How do Joe and Mike know what they would say were they here? They asked them! Each of these magnificent men left a lengthy written record of their opinions on almost everything. By rummaging around original historical sources — their letters (often to one another), documents, speeches, and writings — they provide the answer to the key question: What would they say?
As he surveys the delicate web of international relations with the U.S. at the center, would Washington stand on his warning against “entangling alliances?” When Jefferson and Madison see what the political party they spawned is advocating, would they remain on board? How would Hamilton — the apostle of a strong central government — react to the modern American nation with its Washington-centric system? And what would the first Secretary of the Treasury say about our staggering debt and the freedom with which we print money, debasing our currency?
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I can only hope that this is the beginning of a type of historical writing which will catch on.
The Founders have so very much to teach us, if we just listen to them.
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Startup Spotlight: StreamSets' Big Data Integration
Posted April 13, 2016 By Loraine Lawson Feedback
Informatica veterans create new approach to Big Data integration, one that includes KPIs.
Girish Pancha is a data integration veteran who spent the better part of two decades working at integration powerhouse Informatica. In 2013, he had "done all there was in data integration." Or so he thought.
He was wrong, although he wasn't easily convinced when a former employee, Arvind Prabhakar, first pitched him on a new approach to integrating Hadoop with enterprise applications. Prabhakar worked under Pancha before leaving the company in 2010 to join Cloudera, then a small Hadoop startup. While working with large customers there, he experienced data flow and fidelity problems between enterprise applications and the Hadoop cluster.
Pancha was now dabbling in angel investing, primarily in the field of data. When a mutual acquaintance brought them back together, Prabhakar shared his experience and his idea for solving the problem with Pancha.
"One of his theses was that the problem of data integration into at least Hadoop had reverted to being a very manual, opaque and brittle process," said Pancha. " I, at first, really argued with him, obviously standing up for the work I'd done at Informatica and saying, 'Look, we solved this problem, you can use traditional ETL technologies to ingest data into Hadoop.' In fact, I gave him a number of examples of customers that I knew of from that time."
Prabhakar pressed his point until Pancha saw how the nature of Hadoop data stores caused problems in accessing the data. Legacy integration tools created what Pancha calls "data drift." Traditional ETL, with its focus on metadata, had become an Achilles Heel in Big Data applications.
"We started off calling it meta-data driven, then we talked about it as model-driven," Pancha explained. "I talk about it as schema-centric, because fundamentally what we're trying to do in every situation is capture the nature of the source and the destination through user interfaces. The user defines what these things are, then the system takes care of the actual extracting of the data and the confirmation of the data."
Big Data's Integration Problems
Big Data isn't simple, particularly when data is machine generated.
"If you have data sources that change, with respect to the infrastructure producing the data, with respect to the structure of the data, the schema of the data, the semantics of the data; when that starts changing unexpectedly, the whole thing breaks down because the assumptions that were held at development time no longer hold true at operations time," Pancha said.
This creates two big problems: a slowdown in data flow and degradation in fidelity.
"I came to realize this required a fundamentally different approach and, frankly, one that if we can crack it can address all data flow problems in an enterprise, not just Big Data," he said.
Not even a year into retirement, Pancha in June signed on as a co-founder of StreamSets.
KPIs for Data Integration
He and Prabhakar began by completely rethinking how data moves in the enterprise. As is often the case with Big Data solutions, their end product doesn't fit neatly into any one category. It's not so much integration as performance management for data integration. It adds KPIs (key performance indicators) to the process of data integration. The KPIs include metrics about whether data was dropped, whether it changed or whether it's now incorrect.
"What we're saying is that the same methodology, if applied to integration, can deliver a very different end result around your integration flows or your jobs on an ongoing basis. What this allows you to do is really deliver a different level of service to the business in terms of guarantees around the data that they're looking at," he said.
Big Integration Ideas for Big Data
To achieve that, StreamSets DataCollector incorporates three "big ideas" into integration:
1. Defining key performance indicators (KPIs) for all data flows and providing real-time control for data operations teams and data scientists
2. Using adaptable flows or pipelines and an IDE (integrative development environment) that focuses more on actual data flow than schema or metadata
3. Building a highly containerized approach so that every movement of data, every type of processing, is isolated - which allows StreamSets to deliver continuous operations
"In the face of drift, in the face of change, in the face of unexpected data, changing business needs and logic, changing infrastructure, you're able to minimize the amount of downtime of the system and kind of keep it always on," Pancha explained.
Open Source Business Model
StreamSets DataCollector follows the Big Data tradition of open source licensing and is available under Apache license version 2. For most companies, that decision is based on the fact they're leveraging an underlying open source technology.
For StreamSets' founders, it was a conscious decision based on their experience with Informatica 9. Informatica did not opt for open source, so the business model ended up being driven by the technology, Pancha said. Using open source allows StreamSets to easily share the technology, so early adopters can help harden it and enterprises can download the product without the company pushing it. Already, 3,000-plus users have downloaded DataCollector, including "well north of 100 enterprises," he said.
StreamSets makes money in the usual way -- selling support to enterprises. The starting price point is $50,000 a year, with entry-level projects closer to $100,000 he said. However, open source offers another key advantage to StreamSets: It can build new applications on top of the technology, giving the company more options for growth.
One such product is in the works already, with plans for a beta release in the second quarter and a general release in the third. This product is designed for enterprise data operations and addresses a longstanding pain point for enterprises, Pancha said.
Fast Facts about StreamSets
Founders: Arvind Prabhakar and Girish Pancha
HQ: San Francisco
Product: StreamSets DataCollector, which delivers more reliable data streaming coupled with performance management KPIs to Big Data
Employees: 11-50
Customers: Lithium uses the StreamSets Data Collector to enable near-real-time data flow, and Cisco uses StreamSets as part of its InterCloud offering
Funding: $12.5 million in series A funding, led by Battery Ventures and New Enterprise Associates
Loraine Lawson is a freelance writer specializing in technology and business issues, including integration, health care IT, cloud and Big Data.
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ETS Home > TOEIC > For Organizations > TOEIC Research > Research Topics > Validity and Fairness
Validity and Fairness of TOEIC® Score Interpretations
TOEIC® test design and development processes are systematic and rigorous, leading to score interpretations that are meaningful, fair and relevant to the real world.
Evidence: Research in this category examines:
whether scores mean what they are intended to mean
that TOEIC score interpretations about someone's English skills are unbiased and fair (e.g., in regard to gender or disability)
that they reflect a real-world setting ability
Validity: What Does It Mean for the TOEIC® Tests?
This paper provides a nontechnical overview of test development and research projects undertaken to ensure that TOEIC test scores serve as valid indicators of test takers' skills to communicate in English in global workplace environments.
The main value of the TOEIC tests lies in their validity, which can be defined as the extent to which the tests do what we claim they can do.
Read more about what validity means for the TOEIC tests >
The Relationship Among TOEIC® Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing Skills
Through examination of test scores, this research found that the TOEIC tests measure distinct but related skills, and that, taken together, they provide a reasonably complete picture of English-language proficiency. This finding provides additional evidence that four-skill approach to language proficiency assessment is crucial.
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Linking OPIc Levels to TOEIC® Speaking Scores
An important aspect of test validity is the appropriateness of the interpretation and usage of test scores. Caution is needed when comparing scores on two tests, such as the OPIc (Korea) test and the TOEIC® Speaking test, which have different content. The inappropriate comparison between the scores of different tests may lead to unfair decision making. This study compared scores on the OPIc test and the TOEIC Speaking test. Given the results of this study, to prevent invalid and unfair comparison, especially near the top of the two test scales, the scores of the two tests should not be interpreted as equivalent or interchangeable.
Read more about Linking OPIc Levels to TOEIC Speaking Scores >
Measuring English-Language Proficiency across Subgroups: Using Score Equity Assessment to Evaluate Test Fairness
English-language proficiency assessments are designed for a targeted test population and may include test takers from diverse demographic, sociocultural and educational backgrounds. The test is assumed to be fair and the scores earned by different subgroups of test takers have the same meaning. One way of evaluating the test fairness is to produce a linked test for each subgroup and compare the test score results of the linked test with the test scores of the original test they took.
Read more about Measuring English-Language Proficiency across Subgroups: Using Score Equity Assessment to Evaluate Test Fairness >
Best Practices for Comparing TOEIC® Speaking Test Scores to Other Assessments and Standards: A Score User’s Guide
In order to better understand the meaning of test scores and to facilitate decision making, score users may need to understand how scores from two different tests are related. The relationship between scores from two different tests are typically summarized in a “concordance table” that indicates the correspondence between the scores on the two tests. Unfortunately, some concordance tables are produced and distributed without any research support, which can lead to inaccurate and unfair decisions about test takers.
Read more about Best Practices for Comparing TOEIC Speaking Test Scores to Other Assessments and Standards: A Score User’s Guide >
Measuring English-Language Workplace Proficiency across Subgroups: Using CFA models to Validate Test Score Interpretation
This study used a statistical technique called "factor analysis" to determine which statistical model best explained performance on the TOEIC® Listening and Reading test. Researchers found that a model (two-factor model) in which reading and listening skills were represented as distinct abilities best accounted for performance, consistent with how scores are supposed to be interpreted.
Read more about Measuring English-language workplace proficiency across subgroups >
Linking TOEIC® Speaking Scores Using TOEIC® Listening Scores
In testing programs, multiple forms of a test are used across different administrations to prevent overexposure of test forms and to reduce the possibility of test takers gaining advance knowledge of test content. Because slight differences may occur in the statistical difficulty of the alternate forms, a statistical procedure known as test score linking has been commonly used to adjust for these differences in difficulty so that test forms are comparable.
Read more about Linking TOEIC® Speaking Scores Using TOEIC Listening Scores >
Expanding the Question Formats of the TOEIC® Speaking Test
Traditionally, researchers have used the term "authenticity" to refer to the degree to which tasks on a language test correspond to those used in the real world, with authenticity being a desired characteristic of tasks and tests. This white paper explains how the format of several questions in the TOEIC® Speaking test was expanded to include a greater variety of real-world situations.
Read more about Expanding the Question Formats of the TOEIC Speaking Test >
The Case for a Comprehensive, Four-Skill Assessment of English-Language Proficiency
This paper explains how four-skill language testing is the best way to evaluate whether someone can communicate in English, and explains how this approach can:
result in a fairer way of assessment for test takers
improve the quality of test users' decisions
create a more positive impact for decision makers, teachers and learners
Read more about The Case for a Comprehensive, Four-Skill Assessment of English-Language Proficiency >
Analyzing Item Generation with Natural Language Processing Tools for the TOEIC® Listening Test
The TOEIC® Listening test includes items or tasks related to the global workplace and with a variety of authentic contexts. As the need for an ever larger number of test forms has increased, an important goal for the TOEIC Listening test has been to increase the efficiency of item generations by maintaining a large pool of items across a wide range of contexts has been an important goal for the TOEIC Listening test.
Read more about Analyzing Item Generation with Natural Language Processing Tools for the TOEIC Listening Test >
The Incremental Contribution of TOEIC® Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing Tests to Predicting Performance on Real-Life English-Language Tasks
This study investigated whether proficiency in a particular language skill (e.g., speaking) could be better estimated by considering not only the TOEIC test scores corresponding to that skill, but also TOEIC tests scores for other skills. The results supported this assertion, suggesting that scores on the four-skill TOEIC tests together provide a more valid measurement of English-language proficiency than any skill in isolation.
Read more about The Incremental Contribution of TOEIC Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing Tests to Predicting Performance on Real-Life English-Language Tasks >
The TOEIC® Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing Tests: Evaluating Their Unique Contribution to Assessing English-Language Proficiency
This study investigates:
The extent to which TOEIC test scores of one ability correlate with test takers' self-assessments of their English abilities across all four skills
Whether one English skill (e.g., reading) can be more accurately estimated or predicted using multiple other TOEIC test scores i.e., listening, speaking and writing
Read more about Evaluating the Unique Contribution of TOEIC four skills to Assessing English-Language Proficiency >
Constructed-Response (CR) Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Evaluations for TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests
Differential item functioning (DIF) is a statistical procedure used to identify items or tasks that are unexpectedly biased in some way, inappropriately favoring one group of test takers over another. One of the challenges for speaking and writing tests is the lack of proven, practical DIF techniques that can be used to analyze performance-based or "constructed-response" tests.
Read more about Constructed-Response (CR) Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Evaluations for TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests >
Comparison of Content, Item Statistics, and Test Taker Performance on the Redesigned and Classic TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
This paper compares the content, reliability and difficulty of the classic and 2006 redesigned TOEIC® Listening and Reading tests. Although the redesigned tests included slightly different item (question) types to better reflect current models of language proficiency, the tests were judged to be similar across versions.
Read more about Comparison of Content, Item Statistics, and Test taker Performance on the Redesigned and Classic TOEIC Listening and Reading Test >
Evidence-Centered Design: The TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests
Evidence-Centered Design (ECD) is an assessment development methodology which explicitly clarifies what an assessment measures and supports skills interpretations based on test scores. This paper describes the ECD processes used to develop the TOEIC® Speaking and Writing tests. Evidence collected through the test design process produced foundational support for the validity of TOEIC Speaking and Writing test score interpretations.
Read more about Evidence-Centered Design: The TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests >
Statistical Analyses for the TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Pilot Study
This paper reports the results of a pilot study that contributed to TOEIC Speaking and Writing test development. The analysis of the reliability of test scores found evidence of several types of score consistency, including inter-rater reliability (agreement of several raters on a score) and internal consistency (a measure based on correlation between items on the same test).
Read more about Statistical Analyses for the TOEIC Speaking and Writing pilot study >
Statistical Analyses for the Updated TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
To ensure that tests continue to meet the needs of test takers and score users, it is important that testing programs periodically revisit their assessments. For this reason, in order to keep up with the continuously changing use of English and the ways in which individuals commonly communicate in the global workplace and everyday life, an updated TOEIC Listening and Reading test was designed and first launched in May 2016.
Read more Statistical Analyses for the Updated TOEIC Listening and Reading Test >
The Redesigned TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test: Relations to Test Taker Perceptions of Proficiency in English
After any test redesign project — such as the redesign of the TOEIC Listening and Reading test in 2006 — it is important to provide evidence that test scores can still be meaningfully interpreted. This study examined the relationship between scores on the redesign of the TOEIC Listening and Reading test and test takers' perceptions of their own English proficiency. Researchers found moderate correlations between the test scores and test takers' perceptions, providing evidence that scores on the redesigned TOEIC Listening and Reading tests are meaningful indicators of English ability.
Read more about The Redesigned TOEIC Listening and Reading Test: Relations to Test Taker Perceptions of Proficiency in English >
TOEIC Bridge™ Scores: Validity Evidence from Korea and Japan
This study sought to compare TOEIC Bridge scores to test takers' self-evaluations of their own abilities to perform everyday language tasks in English. The results suggest that the test scores correlated well with test takers' self-evaluations, providing further evidence in support of the of TOEIC Bridge scores as valid and fair indicators of English-language proficiency.
Read more about TOEIC Bridge Scores: Validity Evidence from Korea and Japan >
The Relationships of Test Scores Measured by the TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test and TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests
This study examines the relationship between TOEIC Listening and Reading scores and TOEIC Speaking and Writing scores in order to determine whether or not Listening and Reading scores should be used as predictors of Speaking and Writing scores, and vice versa. Findings support the validity of test scores for the measured skills (e.g., Listening and Reading test scores provide meaningful interpretations of Listening and Reading skills).
Read more about The Relationships of test scores measured by the TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test and TOEIC Speaking and Writing Test >
The TOEIC® Speaking and Writing Tests: Relations to Test Taker Perceptions of Proficiency in English
This study sought to compare scores on the TOEIC Speaking and Writing tests to students' self-evaluations of their abilities to perform everyday English-language tasks. The researchers reported relatively strong correlations between test scores and the self-evaluations. This finding contributes further evidence in support of TOEIC Speaking and Writing test scores as indicators of English-language proficiency. This study was also published as Powers, Kim, Weng, and Van Winkle (2009).
Read more about TOEIC Speaking and Writing Tests: Relationships to Test Taker Perceptions of Proficiency in English >
TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test Scale Anchoring Study
Scale anchoring is a process that groups test scores into score ranges or proficiency levels. It uses a combination of statistical methods and expert judgment to produce descriptions of the skills and knowledge typically exhibited by test takers at each proficiency level. This research report describes the scale anchoring process for TOEIC Listening and Reading tests, which facilitates meaningful score interpretations.
Read more about TOEIC Listening and Reading Test Scale Anchoring Study >
Background and Goals of the TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test Update Project
This report describes the goals and outcomes of a project to update the TOEIC Listening and Reading test in 2016. The use of English for communication, particularly in international workplace contexts, is continually evolving. Therefore, the TOEIC Listening and Reading test is reexamined periodically to ensure that the test content reflects current communication in the workplace and in daily life, thereby supporting meaningful interpretations about English-language skills and promoting a positive impact on English teaching and learning.
Read more about Background and Goals of the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test Update Project >
Background and Goals of the TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test Redesign Project
As time progresses, it becomes important to revisit the design of a test to ensure that its conceptualization of language proficiency aligns with current theory and test tasks continue to be indicative of real-world tasks. This report outlines the goals, theoretical alignment, procedures and outcomes of a redesign effort for the TOEIC Listening and Reading test in 2006.
Read more about the Background and Goals of the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test Redesign Project >
Field Study Results for the Redesigned TOEIC® Listening and Reading Test
This paper describes the results of a field study for the 2006 redesigned TOEIC Listening and Reading tests, which includes analyses of item and test difficulty, reliability and correlations between test sections with classic TOEIC Listening and Reading tests.
Read more about Field Study Results for the Redesigned TOEIC Listening and Reading Test >
Validating TOEIC Bridge™ Scores Against Teacher Ratings for Vocational Students in China
This study compared TOEIC Bridge scores with teachers' assessments of test takers' abilities to perform everyday language tasks in English. The authors reported moderate correlations between these assessments and test scores, which provide supporting evidence of the validity of TOEIC Bridge test scores as indicators of English-language proficiency.
Read more about Validating TOEIC Bridge Scores Against Teacher Ratings for Vocational Students in China >
Validating TOEIC Bridge™ Scores Against Teacher and Student Ratings: A Small-Scale Study
This study sought to assess the degree to which TOEIC Bridge scores correspond to student self-assessments and teacher assessments of students, two measurements of English-language proficiency. TOEIC Bridge scores were found to be moderately correlated with these measurements, a finding which provides validity evidence that TOEIC Bridge scores can be meaningfully interpreted as indicators of English-language proficiency.
Read more about Validating TOEIC Bridge Scores Against Teacher and Student Ratings >
Relating Scores on the TOEIC Bridge™ Test to Student Perceptions of Proficiency in English
This study investigated the relationship between TOEIC Bridge scores and students' evaluations of their own English-language proficiency. The TOEIC Bridge test scores were found to be correlated with self-reported reading and listening skills, providing evidence that TOEIC Bridge test scores are valid or meaningful indicators of English-language reading and listening proficiency.
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Since this past May, I have realized my life-long dream of living with or near people who run as much/fast/frequently as I do. This means I almost always have someone to meet in the mornings, the guilt of not showing regularly forcing me out of bed, and I am therefore totally spoiled.
I can run by myself, and often I do and enjoy it, but this morning was not such a morning. My alarm went off at 6:25 am o’clock (I planned to pool run), and I immediately reset it for 6:45 (eh, I don’t have to pool run that long). When 6:45 came oh-too-soon, I decided to run instead of pool (running takes less time) and re-set it for 7:00. By 7:00 I was mid-dream and incredibly comfortable, so I made the executive decision not to work out at all today and reset my alarm for 8:15 (enough time for me to get to work, no shower). But then when I heard SpeedyKate come home from her run at 7:30, I was in a half-awake should-I-run-or-should-I-sleep debate, and finally guilted myself out of bed and out the door by 7:40. So there’s that. It was actually not a terrible run, and I tell you all this just to instill the message that even for “real” runners it is HARD sometimes…but usually worth it.
Anywho, I have a lot of links to share this week! My most popular post was “Orange Cake with Dark Chocolate and Cream Cheese Frosting,” which was featured on the Christian Science Monitor’s "Stir It Up" blog.
Let’s start with something silly. This video, “Gangnam Style remixed with MC Hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit,” gets exponentially better right around 2:55.
Random question – does anyone else get pop-up adds for a “CIA Intelligence Degree” on YouTube? I’m assuming, as in all things, Google knows every site I’ve ever visited and has targeted adds at me accordingly….so why does Google think I want this?
I spent waaaaayyy too much time on this Tumblr called Bookfessions this week and added all my favorites to my "Books" Pinterest board…so I’ll leave you to that particular Tumblr rabbit-hole.
Speaking of reading, “The Underground New York Public Library.” A series of pictures of people reading on the subway.
Why do we get pruney fingers in water? (source)
For a long time, it was assumed that the wrinkles were simply the result of the skin swelling in water, but recent investigations have actually shown the furrows to be caused by the blood vessels constricting in reaction to the water, which in turn is a response controlled by the body's sympathetic nervous system.
OMG guys a Rhino Orphanage. This is simultaneously the most adorable and saddest thing ever. New life goal: bottle-feed a baby rhino.
On the serious side: “I Was Wounded; My Honor Wasn’t.”
Rape is horrible. But it is not horrible for all the reasons that have been drilled into the heads of Indian women. It is horrible because you are violated, you are scared, someone else takes control of your body and hurts you in the most intimate way. It is not horrible because you lose your “virtue.” It is not horrible because your father and your brother are dishonored. I reject the notion that my virtue is located in my vagina, just as I reject the notion that men’s brains are in their genitals.
Think your identity is private? Nope. (source)
87% of US residents can be uniquely identified by zip+DOB+gender
Fireworks exploding in reverse – SO COOL. I love fireworks.
"Do French women need feminism?"
From afar, many think French women don't need such victories, at least when it comes to the child/work balance that so eludes American women.
French women sit in the bottom half of Europe's rankings on a slew of measures from the most recent 2012 World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index – even taking last place on the group's perceived wage-equality survey indicator – while sexism and even sexual harassment have been overlooked or disregarded as the necessary evil of an otherwise lovely cultural relationship between men and women. Just recently all the government's ministers were sent to 45-minute anti-sexism classes.
Generous state support for working mothers is widely endorsed by French women, but many argue that, having hailed from a historic pro-childbearing effort, French women haven't really promoted gender or social equality.
Women in France have less access to justice when it comes to sexual harassment. According to the French Ministry of Justice, about 1,000 complaints for sexual harassment are filed every year, but only a few dozen lead to sentencing.
And overall, the World Economic Forum's index puts France at 57 of 135 countries in terms of gender equality, falling in ranking from the year before. It sits well behind the Scandinavian countries, all in the Top 10, as well as behind Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the US.
I want pistachio oil.
Word of the day: "shibboleth."
From Wikipedia: a word, sound, or custom that a person unfamiliar with its significance may not pronounce or perform correctly relative to those who are familiar with it. It is used to identify foreigners or those who do not belong to a particular class or group of people. It also refers to features of language, and particularly to a word or phrase whose pronunciation identifies a speaker as belonging to a particular group.
Where I found it: “Yet weariness remains one of the great shibboleths of U.S. foreign policy. In reality, Americans continue to support, usually with significant majorities, overseas military operations, at least at their outset.”
Picture me standing between Elijah Wood and Al Pacino
The Christmas Book flood – maybe I should move to Iceland?
Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world, with five titles published for every 1,000 Icelanders. But what's really unusual is the timing: Historically, a majority of books in Iceland are sold from late September to early November. It's a national tradition, and it has a name: Jolabokaflod, or the "Christmas Book Flood."
The saddest graph you’ll see today (this week? This month? Ever?):
“22 Things You’re Doing Wrong.” The bobby pins one – blowing my mind. Luckily I was already right on the cupcake-eating front, and have never felt the urge to crush a beer can on my head.
I never had braces, and I’m pretty happy about that. But in Asia apparently it’s cool and trendy?! Fashion Braces.
For many Westerners, braces are the bane of adolescence, but teens in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malayasia have co-opted a mouthful of metal as the latest fashion trend.
The media has been abuzz over the past week with reports of youngsters in Southeast Asia buying black market braces -- fake metal-and-rubber mouth accessories in a rainbow of colors and designs (Hello Kitty and Mickey Mouse are popular options) -- for around $100 a pop.
Aside from the fashion statement, wearing a mouthful of braces has the added allure of being a status symbol. In Bangkok, paying for dental care is costly, with real braces running around $1,200 -- a hefty sum for the average family.
Love this (apparently this is a book-themed Best of the Week).
Bikeshare! Go DC!
But today, the nation’s largest, most successful bike-share program—in terms of size, ridership, and financial viability—is in Washington, D.C. How did D.C. accomplish this unlikely task?
The system is not without its weaknesses. Work by David Daddio has shown, for example, that many stations are underused, and that a station’s success depends largely on five factors: The age of its nearby population; the density of retail outlets (and in particular liquor licenses); the proximity of Metrorail stations; distance from the center of the system itself; and, essentially, the presence of a lot of white people. Gilliland says Capital is trying to counter the demographic skew, not just through geographic expansion, but in a partnership with Bank on D.C. to provide bike-share access to the “unbanked” —i.e., people who don’t have credit cards, which are necessary to use the system.
This video is TOO FUNNY. "Invisible Driver Fast Food Drive-In Prank."
I have the 9th most popular dog name. Who’s surprised? No one. My dog’s names have been Watch, Watch, Sarah, and Amy (no that’s not a typo, we had two dogs named Watch, oh The Boxcar Children days.) “Top Pet Names for 2012.”
More on color: Orange or beige…conflicting reports:
Scientists at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Oxford University tested this theory by having 57 participants taste the same type of hot chocolate out of four different cups: white, creme, red and orange. All of the participants claimed the hot chocolate in the orange and creme cups tasted better than the others, with some even going so far as to say the chocolate in the creme cups was sweeter and more aromatic.
And finally, caption contest?
Hope you have a great weekend! SpeedyKate and I are off to conquer West Virginia (again), Winter Edition.
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MIAMI -- Conference USA released 2013 football opponents for each of its members Wednesday, including the Marshall Thundering Herd, as the league’s Winter Meetings concluded.
The Herd will host East Carolina, Southern Miss, UAB and UT-San Antonio and will travel to FAU, FIU, Middle Tennessee and defending C-USA champion Tulsa, during the 2013 football season. Marshall registered home victories over East Carolina, Southern Miss and UAB in 2011 and will face UTSA -- which like MTSU will be in its first year in C-USA -- for the first time.
“Our conference alignment for the 2013 football season is favorable and exciting for our program and our great Marshall following,” Marshall Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick said. “We look forward to a great season.”
It also was decided that each C-USA member will play 16 league games in men’s basketball in 2013-14, with each of the 16 institutions playing one fellow member twice. For the Herd, that home-and-home foe will be Old Dominion University. The Herd will face MTSU in basketball after traveling to Middle Tennessee in March 2012 for a first NIT appearance in 24 years.
"Having a chance to play each of our member schools once in basketball makes for a very intriguing season that our fan base will enjoy,” Hamrick said. “We have wonderful new additions to our conference, in particular Old Dominion, which has a rich basketball history.”
While C-USA will have 16 basketball members in 2013-14, it will have 14 football-playing schools, with ODU (2014) and Charlotte (2015) starting league football play in future seasons.
In football, Marshall is joined in the Eastern Division by East Carolina, FAU, FIU, Middle Tennessee, Southern Mississippi and UAB. The Western Division members are Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Rice, Tulane, Tulsa, UTEP and UTSA.
The C-USA football and basketball schedules for 2013-14 will be stand alone for only that academic year. Future schedules have not been determined.
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What a difference straight teeth can make! A great-looking smile can boost your self-confidence and have a positive impact on social and professional opportunities. Orthodontic treatment is the original smile makeover tool — and you will be happy to know that you're never too old to take advantage of it. But it isn't all about looks: Properly aligned teeth help you to bite, chew and even speak more effectively. They are also easier to clean, which helps keep your mouth free of tooth decay and gum disease.
The amazing thing about orthodontics is that it harnesses the body's natural ability to remodel its own tissue. With the application of light, constant force, orthodontic appliances gently reshape bone and move teeth into better positions. Some examples of these appliances are traditional metal braces, inconspicuous clear or tooth-colored braces, and clear aligners, a relatively new option for adults and teens.
Bite Problems and How to Fix Them
Orthodontic treatment can resolve a number of bite problems, which often become evident by around age 7. These include underbite, crossbite or excessive overbite, where upper and lower teeth don't close in the proper position; open bite, where a space remains between top and bottom teeth when the jaws are closed; and crowding or excessive spacing, where teeth are spaced too close together or too far apart.
To correct bite problems, teeth need to be moved — but doing that isn't as hard as you might think! Teeth aren't fixed rigidly in their supporting bone; instead, they're held in place by a hammock-like structure called the periodontal ligament, which is very responsive to forces placed on the teeth. Orthodontic appliances move teeth by careful application of light, constant pressure. This force can be applied via metal wires that run through small brackets attached to the teeth (braces), or via the semi-rigid plastic of clear aligners.
Orthodontics is for Children — and Adults
Having orthodontic treatment in childhood is ideal in order to take advantage of a youngster's natural growth processes to help move the teeth into proper alignment. Like the rest of the body, the teeth and jaws are now changing rapidly. So at this time it's possible (for example) to create more room for teeth in a crowded mouth by using a “palatal expander” to rapidly widen the upper jaw. This phase of growth modification can shorten overall treatment time and ensure the best result if additional orthodontic appliances are needed.
But remember, healthy teeth can be moved at any age, so you've never “missed the boat” for orthodontic treatment. In fact, about one in five of today's orthodontic patients is an adult. Several new technological developments — including tooth-colored ceramic braces, clear aligners and invisible lingual braces — have made orthodontic appliances less evident, and enhanced the treatment experience for grown-ups. Before treatment, adults are carefully examined for signs of periodontal (gum) disease, which will be brought under control before treatment begins.
Types of Orthodontic Appliances
When you imagine someone wearing braces, you probably picture small metal brackets bonded to the front of the teeth, with a thin wire running through them. This time-tested style remains very popular — but it's no longer the only option. Clear braces use brackets made of ceramic or plastic which, except for the slim archwire, are hardly visible. Lingual braces are just like traditional metal braces — except they're bonded to the back of your teeth (the tongue side) so that no one can see them.
Removable clear aligners are an alternative to fixed orthodontic appliances. They consist of a series of clear plastic “trays” that fit over your teeth exactly; each one moves your teeth a little bit, until they are in the proper position. Whether fixed or removable, each type of appliance may have advantages or disadvantages in particular situations. After a complete examination, the best treatment options for you will be discussed.
Retention & Post Orthodontic Care
Once your orthodontic treatment is completed, it's extremely important to wear a retainer as directed. That's because teeth naturally tend to drift back to their original locations — which is the last thing you want after you've gone to the trouble of straightening them! Wearing a retainer holds your teeth in their new position long enough for new bone and ligament to re-form around them, and helps keep your gorgeous new smile looking good for a lifetime.
Orthodontics for the Older Adult Healthy teeth can be moved at any age, so there's no such thing as “too old” for braces. In fact, nowadays about one out of every five orthodontic patients is an adult. Yet this figure represents only a small portion of adults who could actually benefit from orthodontic treatment... Read Article
Clear Aligners for Teenagers Teens who regard traditional braces as restrictive, confining, and obstructive to their lifestyles now have another choice for orthodontic treatment: clear aligners. This advanced dental technology, originally geared toward adults, has recently evolved to treat a greater variety of bite problems in younger people. These improved orthodontic appliances can help teens function normally during a difficult phase of life... Read Article
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TAU Rivka Feldhay in "Netanyahu vetoes left-leaning Israeli academic's participation in Merkel meet"
Professor Rivka Feldhay
Cohn Institute
yorams@netvision.net.il
A Roundtable with Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu, Angela Merkel and a dozen of Israeli and German academics in Berlin created a stir in the academy. Dr. Rivka Feldhay, part of the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University, who was asked to attend by the German Embassy in Israel, was "disinvited" because Netanyahu did not want to appear with a radical leftist scholar known for her harsh critics of Israel. The Israeli side failed to do due diligence on Feldhay, resulting in an embarrassing incident.
It gave the academic community and Haaretz an opportunity to lament the attack on academic freedom and warn about the specter of McCarthyism. Joseph Klafter, the president of Tel Aviv University took the unseal step of sending a letter to the Minister of Education to register his complaint.
This knee- jerk reaction is all the more troubling because the Roundtable was a diplomatic event sponsored by the Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Berlin. Israeli scholars - whatever their political orientation - have no self-ordained right to appear in state- sponsored functions. Academics have to earn such rights through respectable scholarship and fair- minded commentary on political reality.
Feldhay's academic and extramural record fail to meet this standard. An authority on science and culture, her publishing record is extremely modest; in spite of nearly three decades as faculty, her only book published by a reputable press is based on her doctoral dissertation.
What Feldhay missed in research, she made up by full- throttled political, activism which she learned from her PhD supervisor Professor Yehuda Elkana from the Hebrew University. Elkana's engagement with the "nazification of Israel" project followed closely the path pioneered by Yeshayahu Liebovitz and Israel Shahak. In 1988 Elkana, a Holocaust survivor, denounced what he called the "political manipulation" of the Holocaust, for right-wing reasons, the visits of youths to the Yad Vashem museum and worse: his personal testimony to the mistreatment of Palestinians, "bulldozers burying people alive, soldiers breaking the arms of civilian population, including children." At a memorial to Elkana at Van Leer Institute, Feldhay gave a passionate tribute "to my teacher Yehuda - a man of many qualities."
Feldhay's take on political reality followed closely that of her mentor. In 2001 she signed a petition calling on the international community to deploy a peacekeeping force to protect the Palestinian population in the territories from the Israel Defense Force. In 2008, Feldhay was a signatory an open letter appreciation for students who refused to serve in the territories .
In 2012, during the debate on the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, Feldhay criticism of the CHE was based on an egregious misrepresentation of facts. She wrote that the "university proceeded to grant the department three new positions and meticulously supervised the process by which the candidates were chosen, and the follow-up team expressed a deep appreciation for the steps taken by the university in response to the criticism that was voiced. Finally, after the positions were filled, the CHE follow-up team commended the department and the university management for their implementation of the recommendations and added that they expected the new approach, aimed at diversifying the curriculum and research methods, to continue to guide the department in the future, based on the assumption that such a change inevitably occurs through a gradual process."
As well known, the follow-up team which included Professor Thomas Risse, a member of the original committee, found that only one of the new hires fulfilled the original recommendation. Worse, in a rebuke to its hiring practices, the Department was urged to adopt a proper recruitment procedure used in Germany and the West.
As for the president of Tel Aviv University, he should not have rushed to denounce the government. It would behoove him to look into the Minerva Humanities Center to find out why the Israeli taxpayers are supporting a group of academically mediocre scholars whose only claim to excellence is Israel bashing. Surely, academic freedom in a public university is not limitless and requires an accountability to the public stakeholder.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/netanyahu-vetoes-left-leaning-israeli-academic-s-participation-in-merkel-meet.premium-1.482643
Netanyahu vetoes left-leaning Israeli academic's participation in Merkel meet
Tel Aviv University professor was due to participate in a round-table discussion with Netanyahu and Merkel, meant to be the height of the summit being held by the two governments in Berlin on Thursday.
By Barak Ravid | Dec.05, 2012 | 2:55 PM |
Prime Minister Netanyahu's Office has demanded that a faculty member of Tel Aviv University cancel her participation in a meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Netanayhu with academics in Berlin, because of her political views and criticism of government policy.
Professor Rivka Feldhay, the head of the university's Minerva Center for Human Rights, was invited to the event by Israel's embassy in Germany a few weeks ago. The event is meant to be the height of the summit being held by the two governments in Berlin on Thursday.
As part of the event, there will be a round-table discussion featuring both Merkel and Netanyahu alongside some ten academics and scientists from Germany and Israel. Following brief remarks by both leaders, each participant will say a few words about their area of research.
Feldahy, the wife of Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, a senior member of the Israel Democracy Institute, had already arrived in Berlin when she received a phone call on Wednesday morning from the Israeli embassy in Germany, informing her that she could not take part in Thursday's event.
"The cultural attache spoke with me this morning [Wednesday] and told me that my participation had been canceled," Professor Feldhay told Haaretz from Berlin.
"When I asked why, the embassy in Germany explained to me that the national security adviser, Maj. Gen. (res.) Ya'akov Amidror, refused to approve my participation because I have said things that are critical of the government."
In recent years, Professor Feldhay has sharply criticized the government's policy in the West Bank. In the past four years, she has leveled criticism over infringement of academic freedom. She has also come out against calls to close the Department of Politics and Government of Ben Gurion University, and has also criticized plans to accredit Ariel University Center in the West Bank as a university.
A member of Netanyahu's inner circle confirmed that Amidror had vetoed the professor's participation in the meeting with Merkel, due to a petition she had signed in 2008 supporting Israel Defense Forces soldier's refusal to carry out operations in the Palestinian territories.
"The Prime Minister came to Europe, among other things, to speak on behalf of IDF soldiers who do all they can to prevent attacks on civilians, while the other side is making efforts to target as many civilians as possible, and so, we refused to include the professor in the event," he said.
Feldhay told Haaretz that she had no recollection of signing such a petition.
Feldhay also said on Wednesday that she had not even planned to speak about political issues during the Berlin meeting with Merkel and Netanyahu. Instead, she intended to speak about her academic research, and about the importance of the humanities in every society. Feldhay said also that her criticism of government policy over the past ten years related mainly to the protection of academic freedom.
"This move is a silencing of academics and harms freedom of expression," Feldhay said. She added that Israel cannot ignore the conduct of a government in which the national security council is "engaged in finding enemies within, those who criticize the government, and following that blocks the presentation of scientific projects."
"It is hard to believe that this is what Israel looks like in the year 2012," she said.
German government officials refused to comment, or respond to Haaretz.
Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal'on said: "An evil wind of McCarthyism is blowing from the Israeli government… Professor Feldhay echoes the criticism of Meretz and other Israeli citizens. Every day, Netanyahu is becoming more like his partner, Lieberman."
A member of the Labor Party's campaign, MK Nachman Shai, commented on Netanyahu's move, saying the prime minister is attempting to silence other views. "Instead of presenting to Germany a pluralistic and free Israel," the prime minister's office prefers to only present views that suit Netanyahu, Shai said.
http://isacademyunderattack.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/prof-rivka-feldhay-professional-evaluation-or-political-persecution/
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Prof. Rivka Feldhay: Professional Evaluation or Political Persecution?
Whoever has been holding on to the belief that the activities of radical right-wing organizations in Israel such as Im Tirzu (“If You Will”) satisfy themselves with scattering threats and intimidations has lately been forced to realize that these groups are aiming much higher, as they are currently dangerously close to bringing about the actual closure of an existing university department. Several weeks ago, the subcommittee of the Israel Council for Higher Education (ICHE) publicized its approval of a proposal recommending the prevention of new students from registering to the Department for Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University in the upcoming school-year. If this proposal is approved by the general assembly of the ICHE, it will inevitably lead to the closure of the department. The proposal presented itself as deriving from the conclusions of an evaluation process that was undertaken by a professional committee, appointed by the ICHE in order to promote the department and improve its academic achievements. However, a closer look at the details proves that the link between the proposal and the committee’s recommendations is entirely unwarranted. The professional committee, which found much to praise in the department alongside the criticism it expressed, listed a series of steps to be implemented by the university. Ben Gurion University immediately acknowledged the committee’s demands and submitted a workplan to a follow-up team, also appointed by the ICHE, which approved the plan and wrote that if it is executed the option of closing the department, which was mentioned as a last resort in the original report, will be abandoned (by the university, not the ICHE!). The university proceeded to grant the department three new positions and meticulously supervised the process by which the candidates were chosen, and the follow-up team expressed a deep appreciation for the steps taken by the university in response to the criticism that was voiced. Finally, after the positions were filled, the ICHE follow-up team commended the department and the university management for their implementation of the recommendations and added that they expected the new approach, aimed at diversifying the curriculum and research methods, to continue to guide the department in the future, based on the assumption that such a change inevitably occurs through a gradual process.
In light of all this, the proposal approved by the ICHE subcommittee to prevent new students from registering for the upcoming school year is an absolutely arbitrary decision, bearing no relation whatsoever to the work of the follow-up team. In fact, it stands in stark contradiction to the team’s evaluation. Such an act is unacceptable not just because it comprises a crude intervention in the autonomy of university institutions as anchored in the law of the ICHE, and a brutal violation of the principle of academic freedom that has been a fundamental part of the university since its formation in medieval Europe. This decision—if it is approved by the ICHE plenum—is, in my eyes, utterly senseless, especially when viewed alongside another decision that was passed several weeks ago, granting university status to the University Center in Ariel (at the West Bank) based on an inadequate evaluation process that included not one professional expert from abroad—as testified by the head of the Planning and Budget Committee, Professor Manuel Trachtenberg.
In this state of affairs, the only way to interpret the recommendations of the ICHE subcommittee is as a right-wing political act aimed at harassing the department whose staff members belong, for the most part, to the left and hold a critical approach to the government. If implemented, this decision will lead to the indecent burial of the academic evaluation processes initiated by the ICHE and will undermine trust in it in the future. In addition, such a decision means a de facto politicization of higher education in Israel, creating a state in which lecturers are persecuted because of their political views as well as their professional and critical positions. In short: the oppression of the spirit and freedom of the academic. Taken together with the worrisome events that have been taking place in the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the recurring attempts to undermine the independence of the government’s General Attorney, and the domination of the press by means of the right-wing tabloid Israel Today, this last step comprises a castration—no less—of the guardians of democracy vis-a-vis the government. A democracy without free criticism is a contradiction in terms; such a regime can no longer be called a democracy.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.1881401
נשיא אונ' ת"א לסער: מצער מאוד שישראל מחרימה חוקרת
פרופ' קלפטר הביע מחאה על החלטת לשכת רה"מ לבטל השתתפותה של פרופ' פלדחי באירוע עם נתניהו ומרקל - בשל עמדותיה הפוליטיות
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נשיא אוניברסיטת תל אביב פרופ' יוסף קלפטר שלח הערב (חמישי) מכתב לשר החינוך גדעון סער, ובו מחה על ההחלטה למנוע מפרופ' רבקה פלדחי להשתתף במפגש של קנצלרית גרמניה אנגלה מרקל וראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו. השתתפותה של פרופ' פלדחי, ראש מרכז מינרווה למדעי הרוח באוניברסיטת תל אביב, בוטלה על ידי לשכת ראש הממשלה בשל ביקורת שהשמיעה בעבר כלפי מדיניות הממשלה.
קלפטר ציין הערב במכתב ששיגר לשר כי פרופ' פלדחי הוזמנה למפגש על ידי שגרירות גרמניה. "אנו מצרים על כך, שחוקרת מוערכת שלנו, שהוזמנה לשאת דברים על מחקריה, ביחד עם שורה של חוקרים נוספים, מצאה את עצמה בעין הסערה, כאשר הדי הפרשה נשמעים היטב גם מחוץ לגבולות מדינת ישראל", כתב נשיא האוניברסיטה לסער.
"בשנים האחרונות מדינת ישראל הזדעקה לא אחת על מקרים בהם אנשי אקדמיה וחוקרים ישראלים הוחרמו בזירה הבינלאומית על רקע פוליטי", כתב, "מצערת מאוד העובדה שעתה מדינת ישראל היא זו שמחרימה חוקרת ישראלית בזירה הבינלאומית על רקע דעותיה הפוליטיות".
פרופ' פלדחי, אשתו של המשפטן פרופ' מרדכי קרמניצר, מראשי המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה, כבר הגיעה לברלין, אולם אתמול בבוקר היא קיבלה שיחת טלפון משגרירות גרמניה בישראל, שבה התבשרה כי לא תוכל להשתתף באירוע. "נספחת התרבות דיברה איתי בבוקר ואמרה לי שהשתתפותי מבוטלת", אמרה פרופ' פלדחי בשיחה עם "הארץ" מברלין. "כששאלתי למה, הסבירו לי בשגרירות גרמניה שהיועץ לביטחון לאומי, האלוף במילואים יעקב עמידרור, סירב לאשר את השתתפותי כי השמעתי דברי ביקורת נגד הממשלה".
בשנים האחרונות השמיעה פלדחי ביקורת חריפה נגד מדיניות הממשלה בגדה המערבית, ובארבע השנים האחרונות מתחה ביקורת חריפה על הפגיעה בחופש האקדמי. פלדחי יצאה נגד הכוונה לסגור את המחלקה לפוליטיקה וממשל באוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב וכן תקפה את הכוונה להכיר במרכז האוניברסיטאי באריאל כאוניברסיטה. "המהלך הזה הוא סתימת פיות של אקדמאים ופגיעה בחופש הדיבור", ציינה פרופ' פלדחי.
גורם בפמליית ראש הממשלה בגרמניה אישר שעמידרור הטיל וטו על השתתפותה של פרופ' פלדחי במפגש עם הקנצלרית מרקל. לדבריו, היא חתמה ב-2008 על עצומה שתמכה בחיילים שמסרבים לבצע פעילות מבצעית בשטחים. "ראש הממשלה הגיע לאירופה גם כדי לדבר בזכות חיילי צה"ל, שעושים הכל על מנת למנוע פגיעה באזרחים בזמן שהצד השני עושה מאמצים מכוונים לפגוע בכמה שיותר אזרחים, ולכן סירבנו לשתף את החוקרת באירוע". פרופ' פלדחי אמרה בתשובה לשאלת "הארץ" כי אינה זוכרת שחתמה על העצומה המדוברת.
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MainAll NewsInside IsraelAryeh Deri resigns from Economy Ministry
Aryeh Deri resigns from Economy Ministry
Shas head Aryeh Deri steps down from role as Economy Minister. MK Yellin: 'Deri is a coward and not a leader.'
Hezki Baruch, 24/10/15 20:22
Aryeh Deri
Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90
Shas head Aryeh Deri has announced that he will leave his position as Economy Minister due to his refusal to sign the gas plan and to go around the Antitrust commissioner's authority.
"It is difficult for me to leave the Economics Ministry. We are the the middle of carrying out reforms," Deri told an interviewer from Channel 2. He added that he will remain the Minister for the Negev and Galilee.
"I don't agree with the gas plan and I will not sign it," he added. "I won't bypass the anti-trust commissioner. I am ready to pay the price for this principle. They will find a minister who is no less qualified than I am."
Opposition MK Haim Yellin (Yesh Atid) responded to Deri's decision with the comment, "Deri is running away from the gas by submitting to threats and pressures. He is abandoning his transparency and giving rewards to the wealthy."
MK Yellin continued, "Deri has been proven to be a coward and not a leader who was chosen and expected to make decisions."
"Two years in prison has not taught him to consider the good of the public," he added, referring to Deri's notorious stint in prison for taking bribes between 2000-2002.
"Instead he only looks for his political interests and personal benefits," Yellin said of Deri. "This is the first time a minister in the Israeli government has begged the public to vote for him and protect his seat like he's on a reality show."
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Book Club / Competition Winners
The Official JW Book Club – Star Reviews!
by Sarah Jane Crawford · January 3, 2018
Congratulations to our first ever Star Reviewers for the Official JW Book Club! These readers entered the prize draw in issue 128 and won a copy of Rent a Bridesmaid by Jacqueline Wilson or Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald. They’ve read it and reviewed it to let us know what they thought!
Have you read these books? What did you think of them? Let us know in the comments!
Read all about why Jacky chose these books in issue 132 of The Official Jacqueline Wilson Magazine, and see quotes from all the reviewers featured here. It’s on sale now! You can also find out how to enter the prize draw to be a Star Reviewer and have your own review featured here and in the magazine!
Reviews of Rent a Bridesmaid by Jacqueline Wilson
Tilly’s review of Rent a Bridesmaid
The plot was really exciting. I couldn’t wait to read on and at the end of every chapter I tried to predict what would happen next. I felt like I really knew Tilly and I wanted good things to happen to her!
I loved the way the characters were described and how they changed by the end of the story. Tilly learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want something, there are some things you can’t change in life.
I felt sad for Tilly when her house was described, especially when it was contrasted with Matty’s home, which had a lovely, happy family feeling.
Jacqueline Wilson used colours and words to tell us about the characters. Aunty Sue’s surname was Brown and she always wore beige which gave us a clue about what she was like as a person. I want to do that in my writing now!
I really loved Tilly and Matty’s friendship. They are really different and yet the best of friends. It also made me think about families and how they come in different shapes and sizes. I realised that, as long as you are loved by people, that’s all that matters.
My favourite part was that the main character was called Tilly and that’s my name too! I would give this book 5 stars and will definitely be telling my friends to read it!
Tilly, 7, Cornwall
Megan’s review of Rent a Bridesmaid
If you like pink and fluffy things you will like this book!
There are a lot of ups and downs as we follow the main character, Tilly’s, emotions as she tries to become a bridesmaid and make her dreams come true.
Tilly sets up an advert called ‘rent a bridesmaid’ and there are three very different couples who apply. I like the way the book incorporated all their different views. But when Tilly’s best friend Matty heard about the gay couple there was a negative response.
The themes of the book are friendship between Tilly and her pals and also the relationships between all sorts of different adult couples and the book accepts and celebrates this.
I got very carried away in the book, thinking I was there in the moment as the description of the setting was fantastic and very detailed, especially of the dresses.
I really recommend it because it’s fun to read, very descriptive and, once you start reading it, you can’t put it down.
Megan, 12, Suffolk
Freya’s Book Review of Rent a Bridesmaid
I think that Rent a Bridesmaid was one of my favourite Jacqueline Wilson books and there is a lot to choose from!
I loved the plot in this book about weddings, friendship and family. Also, I think this book is very touching and about doing what you please and following your dreams.
I also loved that this book is about weddings, where getting married is the best thing. Tilly never gave up when she only had one letter at first, she kept on trying. The theme choice is, in my words, a little random for my usual choices but that doesn’t stop it being one of my top five most favourite books ever!
My favourite character was Tilly because she is a bit like me – I love drawing like her. I also really like Miss Hope because I think she is a very supportive character – she looks out for her pupils.
My favourite parts were the weddings because they made me want to be there at that moment in time and made me believe I was in the crowd watching the ceremony. This book just makes me want to be a bridesmaid! I loved all the detail about what Tilly did because I could picture everything clearly in my mind. It has reminded me I need detail in my stories! So, it’s been a big help by choosing this one!
My least favourite part was when Matty and Tilly fell out when Tilly went to Matty’s house, but Lewis really made me smile when he looks after Tilly when she is upset.
So, this is an AMAZING book!!!!!!!
Freya, 10, Wiltshire
Rent a Bridesmaid by Jacqueline Wilson
This fairy tale dream will whiz you away to a land of weddings.
This lovely book is about a girl whose wish is to be a bridesmaid. Her best friend hates weddings, but this doesn’t change Matilda’s decision. When she’s given a bridesmaid dress she’s over the moon and a week later she has a wedding to go to. It really was as simple as that.
She told her father and dragged him along to the wedding. Matilda has wanted this all her life. The wedding she has always, always wanted is her mum and dad’s but it just isn’t possible.
She goes to several weddings of all types. She then has to stop as her bridesmaid dress gets old and she starts to grow out of it, but Matilda would never forget these beautiful moments.
This book has a theme of determination and passion. It is a great, inspiring book and would encourage children to be confident and go forwards like Matilda did (maybe not by advertising to be a bridesmaid).
I would recommend this book to 8-12 year olds. It is very cheery and bright with not too difficult language depending on your reading level. I think that girls would particularly enjoy this exciting novel because the main character is female and the book is quite girly in the fact that is about bridesmaids.
This book has deserved a big five-star rating from me and I hope it has from others who have read this marvelous masterpiece.
Madeleine, 11, Northamptonshire
Daisy’s Review of Rent a Bridesmaid
The plot gets 5 stars from me, because it was very interesting and it tells you what it is like being a bridesmaid. Also, it surprised me because it all started with Tilly making a new friend called Matty who interestingly is called Matilda like Tilly is!
The characters also get a 5 star because they were amusing, especially Lewis because he always has something to say!!! Also, they had fall outs but made up again which was lovely.
I’m giving the setting 4 stars because one of the scenes was very hard to imagine, as they were going from one place to another which got a little confusing and difficult to follow.
The style gets 5 stars, because it is so detailed. Also, I loved all of the sentences because they were detailed, very interesting and funny!
The theme also gets 5 stars because it tells you what it is like without a Mum. Also, it explores growing up and friendship!
Daisy, 8, Cheshire
Reviews of Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald
Belle’s Book Review of Nancy and Plum
Nancy and Plum live at a boarding house… sounds like a boring house! (But the book is really NOT boring!)
Nancy and Plum have been sent to live at the boarding house because their parents were killed in a train accident. Their Uncle John was supposed to look after them, but he did not know anything about children so he gave them to Mrs Monday.
Mrs Monday is a horrible and mean housekeeper… she makes Nancy and Plum spend Christmas all on their own in their room, but they climb down the maple tree and go to the barn where they drink warm milk and eat hot potatoes and butter. It’s better than burnt oatmeal which is what they usually get. The sisters play imaginary games while they are eating their dinner. I think this is very clever of them. It is like Tracy Beaker!
I can’t decide my favourite out of Nancy and Plum. Plum is very brave and Nancy is very kind.
Their best friend is Eunice. She got an ugly doll for her Christmas present so Nancy and Plum try to make it look nice but in the end, they make her a new one and use the ugly one for a play called revenge which was about Marybelle Whistle who is Mrs Monday’s horrible niece. When she comes in, they turn it into a gardening play, but when she leaves they carry on. I thought this bit of the book was very funny and one of my favourite bits.
The book is exciting and funny. It reminds me a bit of Hetty Feather, which me and my mummy are reading together at the moment, because Hetty is living away from home and Matron is also very mean. It was also a bit of a reminder of Queenie (my favourite book ever!!!!!) It also reminded me of the film Annie and Matilda by Roald Dahl. There is one kind teacher in Nancy and Plum who is a bit like Miss Honey from Matilda. The kind teacher helps Nancy and Plum make a new doll for Eunice and also helps them at the end of the book when it gets very exciting… Nancy and Plum run away! They climb down the maple tree to escape… After a lot of adventures, they are found by a nice couple called Mr and Mrs Campbell but, unfortunately, Mrs Monday tracks them down and they are taken back to the boarding house.
But Mr and Mrs Campbell to the rescue! I won’t spoil it, but it’s a very happy ending!!
Belle, 8, Surrey
Katie’s review of Nancy and Plum
I really enjoyed this book because it was gripping and I wanted to find out what happened next.
My favourite character was Nancy, because she was kind, she thought things through and she listened to people.
I noticed, that the book was set in a year. It started at Christmas and ended the next Christmas!
Betty MacDonald describes it so nicely – I could imagine everything.
I was surprised at how it ended!
Katie, 11, Oxfordshire
Ellenna’s review of Nancy and Plum
The book I read is called Nancy and Plum and the author is Betty MacDonald.
The title is perfect for this book as the story is about two sisters living in a children’s home. A home that reminds me of the film Annie… (which I love as I have red curly hair!) Although, unlike the musical, I really felt like I’m right there with them – particularly during their exciting escape! My heart pounded really fast! Or have I said too much! (This was my favourite part).
I could not put this book down! When I got tired my mum and dad both read to me and we laughed a lot when my dad was trying to read Miss Gronk speaking with a cold! E.g. “Dadcy and Plub” instead of Nancy and Plum.
I loved the characters and their names. Marybelle was just plain, old horrible – don’t we all know someone as annoying as her! I really liked how the sisters looked after each other and are friends with the other children in the home. Also, after reading about a beautiful doll, it gave me lots of ideas on how to make and design a doll, which I’d now like to do!
I really enjoyed the descriptions e.g. “leaves and little sticks slowly whirled and drifted past” – it felt like I could touch it.
At times this book made me feel sad, then excited and then happy and it left me with a warm and cozy feeling. This book reminded me how lucky I am and although nothing is perfect (as that doesn’t exist) standing up for what you believe is right and being a good friend makes you amazing.
I rate this book 10 out of 10!
Ellenna, 7, Plymouth
Nancy and Plum: A children’s book by Betty MacDonald
Nancy and Plum is an excellent children’s book. It is a kind of sad story because of what happens to Nancy and Plum in the children’s home, but the book explores themes like friendship and growing up.
Nancy is a sweet daydreamer who is a kind friend to the other poor children in the home and is especially kind to one girl named Eunice. She is a happy friend and sings very beautifully.
Plum is a tomboy and is very adventurous. She swings on and climbs trees and isn’t afraid to create a little bit of mischief here and there. She is a very good speller and a mischievous little girl.
Mrs Monday and Marybelle are selfish and wicked and greedy people. Mrs Monday runs the boarding home and Marybelle is described as an ugly thing with a tendency to ruin things. Marybelle is Mrs Monday’s niece and is well-clothed and well-fed. Every night for tea, Marybelle and Mrs Monday have lovely food whilst the other boarders may as well starve because they are given oatmeal and prunes. Chicken pie is one of the delicious foods they are fed and they have waffles for breakfast sometimes. Mrs Monday locks Nancy and Plum up in the attic most of the time and they are lucky if they get one meal a day.
Old Tom is Mrs Monday’s brother but, unlike his sister, he is a kind person and when Nancy and Plum get no meals, he gives them fresh, warm milk.
The girls are happier at school than at home. Plum and Nancy are put in the school program and they have nice food for a picnic one day.
Overall, Nancy and Plum is a lovely children’s book and I like it very, very much indeed and I could not put it down.
Rhiannon, 11, Staffordshire
Nancy and Plum by Betty MacDonald
Nancy and Plum tells the story of two girls who live in Mrs Monday’s boarding house. Nancy and Plum are very creative girls who have wild imaginations and many friends. Plum has loads of ideas, is headstrong and brave. But Nancy is quiet, calm, yet very skilful. However, Mrs Monday, who owns the boarding house, is a cruel, hateful woman who fools guardians that their children are in good care. Her niece, Marybelle, is a plump girl who is mean to everybody and gets new clothes and decent food every day. My favourite character is Plum because she is brave, adventurous and is good with animals, like me!
I have noticed that Betty MacDonald has the same descriptive style and similar dialogue use as Jacqueline Wilson. Jacqueline has also taken ideas from this book, for example she uses the name of the teacher, Mrs Waverley, in “Wave me Goodbye.” She also uses the outline of the story for Hetty Feather.
Another reason I love this book is because there is lots of detailed description to help me see it all so clearly in my head. It makes me feel like I am actually there in the scene. I thought that the author could have used more powerful words than “said,” for example, muttered, screeched, questioned.
I recommend this book to any JW fan aged 8-11.
Anna, 9, Basingstoke
I absolutely love this book because it is set at Christmas and mentions the reindeer Dancer, Prancer and Vixen all playing together.
I love that Nancy and Plum do a Christmas play together. I think they did change by the end of the story because they were kinder at the end of the story. I can picture the setting as it says that it is Christmas Eve, and that’s a special time.
One of my favourite sentences that I loved was ‘Merry Christmas everybody in the world.’
I give this book 5 stars and will be telling my friends to read it too, as I really enjoyed reading it.
Isobel, 7, Buckinghamshire
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Ongoing game world stuff.
One day till internet..forgot about phone data tethering so using that now.
Anyhow.
Been thinking about how the world will work in the ongoing game. Before a lot of the randomized rogue-lite stuff is added, I think it's important to have a world that is dynamic and changes in interesting ways to begin with.
Initially I figured it would boil down to things like
-There are orcs
-There are bug enemies
-There are trees
-Orcs cut down trees
-Bugs lay eggs in trees, so attack orcs.
Because the game will not be a huge single screen, it will more likely be more akin to a boardgame with spaces. Each entity is like a piece that moves each turn (every time you sleep). So for example when the day begins, if orcs and bugs are on the same space, highlighting the space would show that they are fighting. Upon entering the space yourself, the game would read what pieces are in the space (be they resources, or enemies), place them in the screen based on what they're doing, and then the player's actions dictate the outcome of that action.
So for example if a space with orcs says "cutting down a tree", if the player does nothing, the next day this action will complete. If there's another entity that conflicts with this, it may not. Basically, every "piece" would be more like a group, and they would have very specific roles.
Then I started thinking about individual interactions. For example, lets say there's a large monster you can't beat. If you take away 25% HP, what happens? Does it just come back the next day? Instead, I think it would be better if the game keeps track. Monster is hungry > seeks out food. Monster is low HP > avoids other entities. This would make it a bit easier to have dynamic interactions that don't rely on a very specific rock-paper-scissors setup. For example, orcs may have a higher chance of being drawn to trees, but how much can vary. This would make dynamic interactions easier because behavior would still be possible to learn, yet the chaos caused by individual variance would prevent a status quo from going on forever. 5 Orcs may go to the same tree tile, but 1 of them may prefer lakes, so it goes a different way.
The other advantage is that the player could drive interactions between entities. Entities could be made passive by giving them items and befriending them, befriended entities could fight or befriend each other (or fuc). Whether the player fights everything or tries to befriend everything, the movement and introduction of new entities should throw a wrench into any plan. In the background entities will always be killing each other, moving, etc, and the player cant be everywhere at once.
Keeping track of stats should be fairly easy, since every time an entity is created it would be assigned a number (which other entities use to refer to it). An entity's stats would then just be lists; for example love would be a list of 6 values if there are 6 entities.
Where the index is the entity number, and the value is the value of the stat. An interaction would go something like:
entity 0 see's entity 1 (decide on action)
entity 1 is fighting (entity 6)
love stat 1 is (5) love stat 6 is (2)
attack (entity 1)
There would be a lot more calculating to do when deciding what an entity does in a turn (since every entity has to do stuff), however because everything would only happen when you sleep, it could be done without worrying about the game being slowed down to a crawl.
Anyhow, enough babbling for now.
Posted by Kyrieru at 2:48 AM
Yogozin May 6, 2019 at 3:30 AM
This concept seems so fragile, but like such a cool idea. There's so many things these kinds of interactions could bring, like maybe some exclusive equips!
I wonder what kinds of interactions would lead to new types of enemies though...
Maybe slimes that go near bodies of water that have fish would be able to shoot bubbles due to consuming the fish, and would also reduce the amount of fish that are able to be caught in the area?
Or maybe viney tentacle beasties would be on alert because there are some orcs or (insert whatever monster consumes/uses wood here) around and would have slightly higher range and be more aggro?
Whatever the case, this all seems fun and awesome, but be sure not to overwhelm yourself. We care about you!
Kyrieru May 6, 2019 at 1:24 PM
Essentially everything would follow the basic system, and layered on top of that would be unique interactions. (like an enemy changes based on location, or changes based on time of day, etc)
FrostedFireFly May 6, 2019 at 6:21 AM
So what you're referring to is basically to make the ongoing game a "systemic game". A game where the game mechanics not only effect the player and what they interact with, but a game where the entities act independently to the context of the player (along with the player input still being an important factor). Game Maker's Toolkit also made a video on this and honestly it's a system that every developer should try and make for their game, at least on a very basic level if they can at all.
If you've played Breath of the Wild, that's probably the best modern example of a systemic game.
Entities:
- Enemies will interact with Link by fighting him
- Link can interact with animals by hunting them for food (some put up a fight, others run away)
- Some animals will try to hunt Link for food but will flee if badly injured
- NPCs are by default friendly with Link and hand out quests plus rewards (some are enemies in disguise)
- Mountable animals are afraid of Link by default but can be tamed in for riding
Systemic:
- Enemies will attack both animals and NPCs when close enough
- NPCs will fight back but can be saved by Link (Link is rewarded for doing so)
- Enemies can tame their own mountable animals
- Most enemies will sleep at night and will leave their weapons close-by (will make a run to try and grab them if alerted)
- Some NPCs are seen physically travelling one location to another
I don't want to list EVERYTHING of course but it's a game worth taking small examples from if your looking into systemic mechanics.
An example I do love however in BotW is how much power weather and time of day has to change the way that not only entities behave, but also the environment.
- Lightning is capable of striking anything metal (including your metal weapons and armour)
- Metal weapons can be purposefully thrown at enemies during a lightning storm (with the right timing) to deal extra damage and paralysis
- When raining, there's spots on the map that will literally fill up with water and create a small pond or lake and will eventually dry up during sunny days
- NPCs will run for the nearest shelter when raining and have different in-game objectives at night
- Climbing is a bloody pain in the ass when it rains
It's the idea that players can learn how things collide with each other differently which makes games like these so fun. I'd love to see that in your game, even if it's on a much smaller scale. Only thing I'll say though is don't rush to have that as an immediate feature of the ongoing game. If it's ongoing, maybe make that a bigger update if you can't implement it easily enough.
But just to name a few examples, I think it'd be neat that if you had a travelling merchant in your game, they might also get attacked and violated on their way to the next town/settlement or whatever. Choosing to help them could give you an item from their shop for free or at a discount. On the other hand, if left to their own devices, maybe they'd win the fight without your help, or perhaps if they lose, maybe there's a stat which determines if they can get addicted to breeding with monsters. If this stat exists on the NPC, it might mean that the more they lose, the less chances you have actually encountering this merchant out in normal towns and such. By the time they've lost too much against orcs and the like, they might have changed their destination from towns to monster habitats, meaning you can only buy from that particular merchant by entering more dangerous areas. Of course this all depends on how you choose to implement this, but I think the examples you gave yourself are probably the simplest options.
In Breath of the Wild, a lot of things only happen when you're around, and it's what I think of as "open world illusion". You come across an event, or NPCs have simple behaviors, but don't really have persistent activities (or they are simplified). Ongoing game would probably have some things like that, that are more like "events", such as a guy showing up at your front door, even though he didn't spawn somewhere else and travel there.
The rest, such as enemy activity would be more persistent, if only because it's made easier by it not being a huge seamless world. Once everything is in an area and the game is playing, you would basically have the specific interactions always play out (like if an enemy always dies to fire in one hit, or seeks and eats rocks, etc), but then also the universal simple behavior interactions such as "I like this other entity, so I will move towards them". Map actions like "cutting down trees" could probably be done offscreen if I wanted to be lazy about it.
FrostedFireFly May 6, 2019 at 5:52 PM
Yeah, I suppose I was going more into how the mechanics spiral and interact together more than how things actually act on their own from the player, but if we were to scale it back again, maybe Majora's Mask is kind of a better example in those terms?
Everything runs on a clock so I suppose it doesn't really count, but if say the default of a game ran by a schedule like Majora's Mask did BUT instead, it was possible for RNG to disturb the balance of that schedule, things would get rather interesting.
SAYING THAT, I don't know if a game based on procedural generation can really have a schedule unless the AI was built to work around that.
Things wont have a schedule so much as each entity has stats, and acts upon them. Entities will also come and go when they die and new things take their place. So unless the player interacts with an orc and makes sure it sticks around, that orc may leave the world eventually.
The number of "spaces" would also be finite.
Now you're making me wish for a hidden stat where the longer you interact with an enemy, the higher chances it has to survive and come back later almost as a unique one. Kinda Shadow of Mordor vibes where you can get a nemesis based on what orc kills you/had a special run-in.
But yeah, I see what you mean. Either way the system you plan to put in place in general will definitely be what stops the game from feeling bland.
A lot of games think they can make it interesting just because the terrain is generated randomly. If the entities don't adapt and react within that, you're simply putting in moving pieces to decorate a room. I'm pretty sure you know what you're doing.
Well, there will probably be some factors that affect survival. Not sure yet.
My current plan is that all entities will have stats/behavior values and can level up. Names will be randomized (or initially, it might be that you have to name an entity yourself if you want to keep track of it)
Titles can also be applied based on actions fairly easily. (Vile)(Grasshop) the (Seedgiver).
In that sense, every enemy is unique from the beginning. Entities will have base stats, but have variance. Unique properties can be applied to any entity (like if there was a shrine, and any enemy who goes there has a 5% chance of getting buffed, etc.) Or if the player raises friendship or sexual stats with an enemy, it would probably stick around more and would behave differently.
Basically, most enemies will generally do what you expect, but there will be exceptions, and if you really want to you can shape specific entities into what you want. So it sort of doubles as a way of injecting constant flux, while also allowing some possibilities for the player to mess around.
Oh hell yeah, I'm definitely all for that.
hubert May 6, 2019 at 12:09 PM
Any release date planned?
The game will be free and ongoing, and will be updated every week or two.
It's what I'll be making on the side while I work on normal games that will be finished and sold as usual.
I just moved so I'm a bit slow at the moment, but I'll be back to work as normal in the next few days.
Two scales interaction seems good.
-Close, you affect what happens in an area unless defeated, so the result at the end of day for this tile is more likely to be what you intends to make happen.
-Far, things happens on a rock-papper-scisor way between loading/sleep times.
(still affected by changes you made (collect ressource, defeat ennemy type) even if you left for another tlle, since you broken the balance)
I guess the best is to divide "balance breaks" into simple types and assign one of them per ennemy type of a zone, for temporary events. Long term changes like transforming the human village into an orc stronghold you have to recapture may impact the flow (shops unavaiable, house probably occupied, etc) so it's tricky.
At best, adding a ressource type (like planting flowers that attract a new monter type, but can be trampled by other creatures if you don't defend it regularly) may works for long-term zone changes since it's more likely to disappear over time
Temporary/time-limited events on the other hand are easely managable. There's signs of a raid coming up, either intercept it, or defend the village (with help of NPCs?).
-You intercept, loot is your but no special reward.
-You win the defense, get rewards, but less enemies/loot.
-You lose the defense, shops offer less content for a while since they got raided.
-You lose interception, dice is rolled to see if the villagers won the defense.
So, about the trigger types...
Temporary events (mostly "raid" or "flee" events):
-ressource missing (intellegent races)
(no more wood to cut, minerals to mine, time to make a big move!)
-Ennemy type missing 1 (predatory species)
(No preys for beasts, time to approach this village! But creatures stay in the zone)
-Random (because why not? Joke/collab events are fun too)
(Welp, that's a dragon above the bank, guess you hoarded too much gold)
Long-term events (mostly zone-change, not affecting the house/village):
-Monopoly (intellegent races if left unchecked after "big move"?)
(Single race, no predators left and enough ressources to make a stonghold? change the zone from natural to inhabited by the said race. Maybe there's war with your village, maybe there's exclusive merchands...who knows. Defeat the leader to reset the zone.
Or use diplomacy if befriended. I guess the "consent" events may be linked to these special occurences, transforming the hub/village into race-type village, making humans ennemies until befriended. Mostly changing your spawn/stating point/house spot on the world map)
-Nature left unchecked (Lead of a duo in synergy)
(plant-monsters eat insects, but keep enough to proliferate. without orcs the forest overgrow in a more dangerous form. Forest stay overgrown even if insects disappear, hunt the zone boss to reset the zone state.
I don't relly see a "diplomacy" for this one...At best befriending would transform the zone into safe/sanctuary for the village to evolve? Could be a coexistence route locking the zone into this state unless you betray the zone boss to reset the zone)
-Ennemy type missing 2 (Synergy-dependant species)
(no more plants for insects they move out, raiding the village along the way (or fleeing the other way around with an exclusive boss you only encounter if you intercept them) then being absent until plant-monsters appear again)
-Special/Arbitrary (holidays skins or whatever)
(The whole world changed for no reasons in this build and will reset on next version, I guess? Special equipment may still be transfered as rewards if saves are compatibles)
I guess more and more pieces of the puzzle start coming together. How to justify "successor/child" pseudo-endings, a more organic world that evolves...There's lots of potential in this one game.
How's going the other projects? The "mario/sonic" doggy game looked like lots of fast-paced fun. Still hoping it will be resumed soon and wishing you the best for your project. ^^
I like the idea that a species can straight up go extinct, especially if you keep the system he was considering in mind, where you create the different worlds to explore.
Like if orcs get extremely overpopulated in a world, that would kind of be the driving motif of that one world. I think that would be pretty memorable. The problem I see is that if it's not balanced correctly you would probably see that same motif showing up again and again, kind of ruining the personality that once belonged to that one world
Kyrieru May 7, 2019 at 10:01 PM
@first anon:
The outcome of an action would depend on the action. For example, "cutting down trees" or "Stealing the treasure chest" would likely have the entities grouped around the trees, with maybe something indicating they are working, even if it's not a cutting animation.
Killing or beating up or distracting those entities would probably prevent it, and there would be indication when it happens that the action was canceled.
Things like monsters interacting (like if a cat girl falls in love with an orc)
would have a chance of happening offscreen, and would not be indicated as an action on the map. Though the map might indicate non-violent interactions are happening, and not what the result is going to be. Interaction would also happen in-map, if it physically happens, even if the two entities were not shown to be about to interact on the map.
Among the things you mentioned, the best example of the sort of thing I'll be going for is the monster village. If enough monsters group, it can change the type/role of the space on the map. Areas may also have individual houses spawn if an entity meets certain conditions (or there might be a house building entity, or the player). There would also be mixed race villages that are basically just a few houses where the inhabitants like or are not hostile towards each other. Most events would not be specifically crafted, but driven by the generic system. A giant monster might attack a village because there's a lot of food and it's starving, etc, and "buildings destroyed" might be a result that occurs based on the home owners dying, or some other factor. Even a slime could destroy a village if the villagers are exceptionally weak.
@second anon:
I don't think that anything will go extinct, per se. Basically I imagine that things will come and go. For example if you have 10 orcs on the map, 5 of them might get killed by something, die of "offscreen age", leave the map, etc. Even if they are all gone, other orcs may appear at the edges of the map, or within it. There may be a limit to how many entities are on the map, but there will probably be natural forces that ensures things are switched up.
That said, it is possible that once the game gets to the stage of having multiple worlds, a world could have a proclivity towards certain things over others. Or the ecosystem may be more fragile by design, compared to the "peaceful" world, which is meant to go on forever and mess around in.
Have you thought about setting up a Ci-en blog at all? A lot of H-game devs use the site. It might be a good way to reach out to Japanese users.
Maybe eventually.
Those are some very interesting concepts. It's kind of like putting together a life simulator or something.
Yeah, abeit a very basic one.
A lot of interactions will probably be limited by how animations I do for enemies. A lot of things will probably be limited to emotion bubbles, and basic poses that are re-used.
basically Dwarf Fortress II: The Lewdening
Kyrieru May 8, 2019 at 12:00 AM
Basically Dwarf Fortress 0.005: Except it's an action game.
The ideas you have for this game sound real good like. I have some suggestions for your gameplay.
- assign dash to a button primarily so the game is faster paced and the player won't have to murder his/her fingers to be cool
- have your attack animations be faster by removing a frame or too so the player can attack quickly and then zoom out of danger
- an alternative is just removing one startup frame but making the ending frames (of each individual attack) dash-cancelable
- weapons like a greatsword or greathammer could use the original 1 hit animation, but remember that you can vary frame speed in order to cut your animation work load down
- slightly increase dash speed for game speed upp
- make sure spell damage/utility is HIGH. If the game ends up being fast paced, stopping for a second to cast a spell will be risky, so the reward needs to be good enough to make the risk worth it
- make sure the enemies still pose some form of a threat to the player so the player isn't just straight-up invincible due to their speed
- Orcs: Massive size means player can't normally jump-dash over. A grab attack that throws the player backwards to prevent just damage-boosting through these massive threats. Large health pools. Several slow starting but incredibly damaging AOE moves to prevent attack spamming.
- Bees/Bugs: Super fast aerial movement which is much higher than the player's. Able to actively dodge attacks (as most bugs do) when not in the middle of attacking or other actions. Lower attack damage and health. Many attacks which utilize its movement capabilities.
Basically what Im thinking your game could end up being is Rouge-Lite Megaman Zx: The H-Game Where Enemies Aren't Useless Garbage and Actually Pose A Real Threat to the Player and the Environment.
Attack speed will be different depending on the weapon. That said I don't plan on having medium weight weapons have fast start up. I want weight, risk, and commitment, since movement and abilities of the player and enemies are limited.
A frame or two will be the difference between many weapons.
The way it's set up now is so that actions can't be canceled in such a way that attack frequency is drastically increased to the point of imbalance. If I may it possible to cancel attacks sooner, I need to add delay in other areas. You can already cancel start up by blocking, so the only difference I would make is making it so you can cancel the start up with a dash, rather than it buffering a dash after the attack.
Pressing up or down on a keyboard isn't really difficult, not sure what you mean. That said, controls will be rebind able.
All weapons will use the same animation, can't spend too much time animating clothing frames. (doesnt seem like much, but keep in mind I have to make economy choice dozens of times, and the frames add up quick.)
Frame speed for weapons doesn't affect workload; The player attack animation's speed is altered via code. A fast weapon is faster using the same frames, so each set of clothing only needs the one animation, and the rest is automatic.
Dash speed might be slower or faster based on stats, however fast dash speed = long jump distance which = enemies cant catch you. For this to be balanced, enemies would have to either be very mobile, or dashing would have to cost absurd amounts of stamina to avoid over using it. Alternatively dash jump could be low, but that would probably feel somewhat awkward. I don't plan on the game being very fast paced.
Not sure what spells will be at all, yet. Damage will be within reason (weighed against resource and stamina cost), and cast time will likely vary in the same way as attacks, using the same animation. (though spells could have more than one animation, probably one for shooting and one for AOE/self cast, since animations will be shorter)
As for all the enemy stuff, like I said I don't really plan on making the game super fast paced. Because stamina will play a role and interactions with entities could end up being more personal/varied, the combat will likely be slow and deliberate.
Basically, the reason why movement will probably be nerfed is because the combat will be notably unlike Megaman, due to the nature of the attacks and the ability to defend/parry. To be honest it's entirely possible that the dash gets replaced with a front step that resembles the backstep.
I see what you're sayin. I just getting ZX vibes from the demos. As for the frame thing. What I was talkin about not increasing/decreasing the framerate for the entire animation, but rather holding/removing startup and ending frames for heavy/light weapons. This way all weapons will appear to have a noticeable weight without you having to put the effort into new animations for each weapon weight. To keep it somewhat realistic you can also make it so the clothes have an animation for each part of the attack. Like:
Weapon Startup --> Weapon Strike --> Weapon Follow-Through --
(w/ possible hframes) (no hframes) (w/ possible hframes) |
/\---------------------------------------------------------------------
[repeat hframe count for subsequent strikes]
Clothes Startup --> Clothes Strike w/ Clothes Follow-Through -----
(no hframes) (no hframes) |
[can possibly be reused for both swing types depending on anim.]
O R
----------------------> Clothes ~Woosh~ ------------------------------
| (no hframes) |
[Repeat same ~Woosh~ per strike]
If ~Woosh~ method, then you can make one MAX ~Woosh~ and take out frames as needed so w/ lighter weapons, the ~Woosh~ will be small sized, but w/ really heavy weapons, the ~Woosh~ size will be MAX. Or just make one ~Woosh~ animation that can work w/ all swings, no matter the weapon weight.
Kyrieru May 10, 2019 at 3:42 AM
Not sure what you mean. I already have things decided (and programmed) as far as how weapons and clothing are handled though, so I'll go over it to clarify.
There are 10 frames used in the attack. Let's call these the "attack frame pool".
These frames are used to form a longer animation. Some frames are re-used in different positions; for example the first frame (leaning forward) is also used at the end of the animation, and is re-used in other animations (such as turning around, and some transitions for things like blocking.)
When animating clothing, this means that I don't animate a "turning around", "light attack", and "heavy attack" animation, I only animated the 10 frames in the pool. The rest is handled through code.
A simplified version of how the weapons work is like this (number is a arbitrary representation of section duration);
Medium weapon: Wind up(6)---swoosh(1)---follow_through(6)
Light weapon: Wind up(3)---swoosh(1)---follow_through(3)
The Swoosh is always the same duration, regardless of the weapon. The swish effect can be any number of frames, or can also be a projectile, depending on the weapon.
The follow through is roughly the same as the wind-up, since the attack loops.
Each weapon uses the same player-frame pool to make the player part, the duration of each part is just stretched. Clothing doesn't have to be animated more than once for any speed of attack, or weapon. The weapon itself is a separate layer, and the cut effect is also seperate.
Because the animations all use the same frames, it also means that based on stats, magic, etc, a weapon's swing can be sped up or slowed down.
The only other possibility is that there could be more player frames in the "swoosh" section. Arms at each angle, rather than straight to follow through.
This would mean 2-4 more frames to animate for every weapon, and 4-8 more frames to animate for each set of clothing (since there is a jump version)
Attacks would have to be handled and programmed differently since there is now a more defined swing (aside from the cut), however it wouldn't really change the intention to have a slow startup for medium and heavy weapons. Would be more of a question of economy.
Also, the cut effect will be different for each weapon.
Also, to note: the faster version in the control test would be a medium speed weapon.
Weapons like daggers would be faster.
P much what I was tryin to say lol
Den everyone wins.
ArKain May 9, 2019 at 11:21 PM
Starting to sound like a Civ game.
Also, hunting down a low HP enemy while it is actively running from you, while realistic, has got to be one of the most pain in the ass things to do.
While the sim elements will be there, they will generally be pretty simplified, especially initially. Games like Civ have a lot of variables going on, whereas this will have small set of variables that pretty much everything operates on (hunger, like dislike, etc). Things like towns and area types will be introduced slowly as development progresses.
As for enemies running in-map, hadn't really considered it. Enemies will avoid things on the board, but that's more down to where they choose to go per-sleep/turn. I havn't decided how moving throughout spaces will work for the player, yet, but I think the player will be far more mobile on the board than enemies are. They may only be able to move once per sleep while the player can move multiple times.
Crucifox May 10, 2019 at 4:06 AM
Haven't played it unfortunately. Only played Tri and the original.
Monster Lewder Vored
Hey Kyrieru, great work as usual. Will you ever release a demo of that Mario/ Sonic style game you previewed a while back?
Yes, it's one of the games that will be finished and released.
NominaNeko May 11, 2019 at 10:07 AM
Slime and beastkin !
Now if only there was that attention to detail and enjoyment with the eroge mechanics.
Well, the desire to do sim stuff originated from the desire to have sim H elements (marriage, pregnancy, relationships etc), so there will be a lot more to it than the average H game.
Nullinsky May 22, 2019 at 7:37 PM
This is a great idea! Faction systems, alliances, and natural predation makes for a living world.
What ticks me off in most games is why everyone is hostile only to the player, say in an rpg - giant rats and snakes would join forces to attack ignoring their natural enemies. This creature group system would be great.
Say, consider adding corruption mechanics to the heroine like slimification, fungal infections, demonization, vampirism, lycanthropy, etc., and make the associated creatures become friendly (along with granting special cosmetic looks, abilities and buffs... and weaknesses too maybe.), and gameplay would be awesome, varied and chaotic.
Though it might be a humongous amount of work adding each cosmetic version to animations... just thinking about the number of frames scares me.
Anyways, I'll be looking forward to this game. All the best Kyrieru!
It will only be viable because I plan on cheating a bit. Clothing will only use "universal" animations. Meaning if I add an enemy, I dont have to add "leather armor orc H", I just do "leather armor H, 1,2,3", and those are used for all enemies.
When an enemy has an animation for which clothing frames dont exist, the player will be stripped. That said, there will be some clothing/form/enemy specific animations. (Like if you have a vampire form, maybe you can fuck the vampire enemies with unique animations, etc)
Enemies will all use basic poses on each other, which is why any male (or equipped female) will be able to have sex with any female enemy.
Collisions. Beat up a goblin.
Attack stuff
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First JoeChat of 2007!
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
Buzzmaster: We're getting Joe right now. Send in your questions!
Ken Tremendous: Oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God!
Jay (Hermosa Beach, CA): Will ARod be AL MVP this season?
Joe Morgan: A couple of years ago when he won the MVP, I felt that everything would fall into place for him. This year, I'm not sure. There is so much riding on every pitch, every at bat, every ground ball he fields, I'm not sure how he'll react. I think we'll have to wait at least a month into the season before we get a reading.
KT: Booo-ring. Get crazy. And fast. I waited six months for this.
Brent S. (fjm): what are your thoughts on josh hamiltons comeback story?
Joe Morgan: I think it's great that a guy can straighten his life out and try to move forward.
KT: I said get crazy! How long do I have to wait before you say something--
Joe Morgan: I'm not sure baseball is the right place for that.
KT: Ahhhh. Here we go.
Joe Morgan: My first thought is that he's been out of the game for three years, due to substance abuse and I worry because there were so many other players in the minor leagues at the time trying to make the big leagues and doing all the right things and he has jumped over them. No matter what we say, he's taken someone's place who was trying to get to the big leagues. I always pull for guys trying to get their lives straight, but playing in the big leagues is a privilege, not a right. As happy as I am for him, I feel bad for some player that is in the minors and doing all the right things and not get a chance in the big leagues.
KT: So...you don't always pull for guys trying to get their lives straight. You think that baseball should not be a skill-based meritocracy. You think that if a kid screws up and has drug problems when he is like 22, he maybe should not be allowed to join the papacy -- er, sorry, the professional game-playing league -- because he was not a snow-driven angel like yourself. Okay. Well, you just retroactively invalidated the careers of like 1000 guys. Like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds (whom you no doubt still will defend to the death) and Mark McGwire and the entire 1986 Mets. Enjoy baseball without flawed people, Joe.
Joe Morgan: All that said, let's hope that he can keep his life together this time.
KT: Way to buy it back.
Joe Morgan: Baseball has had some disappointments from players in the past that its given several chances to and it hasn't panned. Maybe he should have started in AAA to prove he deserved to be in the big leagues.
KT: If he can hit, run, and field, or even do one of those things, at the MLB level, he deserves to be in the big leagues, you snob.
Carl (MA): Hello Joe. I always look forward to your first chat of the season! What do you think about J.D. Drew's $55 million contract? Do you think he will be successful in Boston? Thanks.
Joe Morgan: Well, I was shocked that JD Drew would opt out of a contract that still had $30+ million left on it. That tells me he knew he had some place to go.
KT: Pay attention. Joe is accusing the Red Sox of tampering, using for evidence what the Irish call "fuck-all."
Joe Morgan: In my opinion, Boston was the only place that could give him that kind of money.
KT: The Astros, a mid-market team, gave Carlos Lee $545 kabillion dollars over eleventy-six years.
Carlos Lee lifetime EqA: .284
J.D. Drew lifetime EqA: .306
And Drew can even field the ball!
Joe Morgan: In my opinion, that means something was up before hand.
KT: This is dangerously close to slander. Or, libel, I guess. Well -- Joe is probably dictating this to someone, so I'll say it's slander, with the typist being an accessory to the crime of libel.
Joe Morgan: Last year was the first year JD Drew drove in 100 runs.
KT: J.D. Drew had a WARP3 of 9.8 in 2004 with Atlanta. He scored 118 runs. His OBP was .436 and his SLG was .569. He walked 118 times and hit 31 HR. His career OBP is .393. It's 2007 and Joe Morgan still thinks that a player's teammates' ability to get on base in front of him is a good measure of that player's abilities. (Although -- and how's this for full disclosure? -- I just checked BP's RBI% page and in 2004 J.D. drove in a weirdly small % of runners from 3rd -- like 31% or something. So he should have had more RsBi. Whatever. It's still a dumb stat.)
Joe Morgan: I think he will help Boston, but a lot of suspicious things are involved as far as him leaving LA to go to Boston.
KT: If I were John Henry, I would sue. Seriously.
Josh (DC): With all the focus on HR and RBI can a middle infielder win the MVP again?
Joe Morgan: That's a great question that I've wrestled with the last four or five years. I've discussed in on Sunday Night Baseball. With the big numbers they're putting up, I think it's very difficult for any middle infielder to win the MVP. Look at last year's MVP voting. Morneau won, but he basically won for his offensive production. David Ortiz had a fabulous year offensively. The only one who was different was Derek Jeter, who plays the toughest position on the field defensively. He had a fabulous year as well. Statistically, though, home run wise, RBI wise, he's never going to add up to an Ortiz, Morneau, Dye, but that doesn't make him any less valuable.
KT: This is all very true. Jeter should have won the MVP last year. His WARP3 was like 3.5 higher than Morneau's. This is because of the relative value of his position on the field to Morneau's. So, good, then, we agree, Joe -- Jeter should have won last year.
Joe Morgan: Now I'm not saying Jeter should have won and Morneau shouldn't have, I'm just pointing out the differences.
KT: Oops.
Brad(NM): Hey Joe..it's great to have you back sir. Given all teams stay relatively healthy, who do you think will win the AL West?
Joe Morgan: That will probably be the most division to pick, because the Angels have so many variables they have to deal with in order to win. If Vladimir has another great year, I think the Angels will win. The A's are very close. I still think before the season is over, the A's will be more offensively challenged than the Angels. Losing Frank Thomas and Jay Payton hurt them. My darkhorse in that division are the other two - Mariners and Texas. I think either one could get hot and win. That's the most difficult division for me to pick a winner in.
KT: I only include this because the question was "who will win the A.L. West" and Joe named every team in the A.L. West. He even wrote "my darkhorse" (singular) and then snuck two teams in there when you weren't looking.
dave (Buckeye Lake,ohio): Joe, How do you see the Indians doing this year? Can they win it all?
Joe Morgan: Well, they definitely can win it all. CC Sabathia is due to have that great break out year and if he does, they have a chance. They have a very fine offensive team. Their defense is suspect, but I could see them winning that division. I see Detroit winning, but Cleveland has a chance. There will be a lot of teams involved in deciding who goes to the playoffs this year.
KT: And I only include this because the last sentence is the least insightful thing anyone has ever said about baseball in the history of ever and ever amen. Let's reprint it in large, bold, italics:
"There will be a lot of teams involved in deciding who goes to the playoffs this year."
Well done, sir. Well played.
Jason (DC): Joe -- all the new-fangled focus on stats is ruining baseball.
KT: I'm getting tingly.
they fail to account for the value of awesome players like erstad or eckstein and their scrappy winning plays. agree?
KT: I think this might be one of our spies sending this in. If so, identify yourself via email, please.
Joe Morgan: We have become a stat-oriented game. Everyone has looked at stats to prove a point. I believe that stats should only embellish a point, not be a point. For instance, I agree there are a lot of players that contribute to their teams winning, but it doesn't show up in the statistics - guys moving base runners, etc. There are so many intangibles that goes with winning that are overlooked. Honestly, I don't see it getting any better because statistics are what we base everything on now.
KT: Standard stuff. But then, this little gem:
It bothers me because I see little things going on in the game and I try to point them out on the broadcast, but there are little things going on every day.
KT: What, what what what, what, and what?
Darius(Minneapolis): Joe, Wondering if there is a player of today who reminds you of yourself as a ballplayer
Joe Morgan: As I just pointed out, the game is different now. We're more about statistics now than anything else.
KT: The question had nothing to do with stats. Joe is just still hopping mad and had to get more bile out.
Instead of saying someone reminds me of myself, I'll choose someone that I like to watch. Among the players that I love to watch at second base is Robinson Cano. But there are a lot of really good players out there in the game.
KT: The last sentence, again...we need experts for this?
Utek (LA): What's your take on the K-Rod cheating allegations? Remember, his bullpen mate Brendan Donnelly was suspended last year for doctoring baseballs, so he could have picked up tips from him.
Joe Morgan: Players are always looking for an edge whether it's pine tar on his body somewhere. It didn't help him last night, giving up that home run to Mike Piazza.
KT: 20 minutes or so after saying Josh Hamilton kind of shouldn't be in his sainted MLB because he had drug problems, Joe kind of condones cheating in baseball. I guess in Joe's world, the rules don't apply after you make the bigs.
SprungOnSports (Long Island): Which managers do you think are on the early hot seat?
Joe Morgan: I think there are a lot of those. I think you can start with New York and Joe Torre. Manuel. Mike Hargrove. John Gibbons. I think all of them plus some more are on a hot seat. Everyone's in a win-now situation.
KT: Hey Joe, which managers are on the hot seat?
Joe Morgan: Well, KT, I'd start with Joe Torre.
KT: Okay.
Joe Morgan: Maybe Charlie Manuel. Then I'd say Mike Hargrove...
Joe Morgan: Then maybe John Gibbons, some more guys, and everybody.
KT: So, everybody? All managers?
Joe Morgan: Correct.
KT: Thank you for your wisdom.
Brent S. fjm: Joe do you think the cards were the worst worldseries champ ever? Also, is ecksteins intagibles important?
Joe Morgan: I can't answer if they're the worst ever, because I didn't see all of the others that didn't win.
KT: You should hang out with Carl Everett. He can't believe in dinosaurs because nobody ever saw them. And he has no interest in the scientific instruments that allow us to analyze them. You guys are sympatico.
They certainly weren't favored, but when you get to the playoffs, all you need to do is play well for two weeks. They did that. The Yankees used to do that a lot. They played well for those two weeks and they won four championships. The key now is to get into the playoffs and then you have a chance.
KT: That's the key now. The key to winning the World Series before now was to not get into the playoffs and not have a chance. How times have changed.
Dan (NY, NY): Question about the infield fly rule. I know it's called to prevent a double or triple play on a routine fly ball out in the infield. Has there been any thought of changing the rule so all runners advance a base and the batter takes first if the fielder drops the ball?
Joe Morgan: No, not with the infield fly rule called, once it's called, he's out even if he drops it. The rule is to protect the offensive team, so you're protecting him by calling the infield fly and not getting a double or triple play. So you call it and not penalize the defense too much. The game is already a good game, we don't need a lot of changes.
KT: He just restated the infield fly rule and failed to answer the question. Then he made a stance on baseball that the Académie Francaise would greatly admire: no changes! Write it in stone! No new thinking! Give me back that calculator, friend. It's abaci and slide rules for you.
Jon (RI): What do you think was the greatest team of all time?
KT: Any guesses, people? No cheating. I'm going to guess 1975 Reds. Second place: 1976 Reds. Third place: All other Reds teams.
Joe Morgan: I put a lot of thought into it. But I'm prejudiced. I think the 76 Reds were the best team ever. It's hard because I didn't see the 27 Yankees. But the Reds are the greatest team I ever saw.
KT: You know you were on the team, right?
Not just because I was on the team, but they did everything right. People will say that our pitchers weren't that good, but if you look at our ERA, it is better than when the Yankees were winning their championships.
KT: It's hard to compare the teams because I never saw either of them. Oh wait...what's this thing I am typing on...a whatputer?
1927 Yankees Team ERA+: 120
1976 Reds Team ERA+: 100
SprungOnSports (Long Island): What are you looking forward to the most this season?
Joe Morgan: I'm looking forward to a lot of teams playing well and a lot of players playing well.
KT: So...this year in baseball...you're looking forward to..."stuff."
That's what makes baseball so great. Watching A-Rod in New York. Watching Barry Bonds in San Francisco. Those are interesting things to watch. Then watching teams perform - how will the Yankees, Dodgers, Mets perform? I just look forward to all the things that can happen during the season. There will be a lot of ups and downs, but that's baseball. It's a long, long season.
KT: You know what I'm looking forward to the most in baseball? People hitting. Also there will be pitching. Just people basically running around in organized ways. Score will be kept, and various outcomes will occur. My favorite thing about baseball is the playing of it (baseball), includings of all the mens and the happens. Baseball equals a series of goings and also there make happiness of celebration at end! English not my native languages, sorry, I never see game.
Rick H. (Selah, Wa.): Joe, Who was toughest lefty and righty pitcher that you ever faced?
Joe Morgan: Well, there were two guys - John Matlack from the Mets and probably Bob Viel who pitched when I was a rookie. But there were a lot of other ones.
KT: I wish he had named every pitcher he had ever faced. That would have been amazing.
Danny (Philly): Joe what young player in the league do you look most forward to watch in the league for years to come?
Joe Morgan: I'd probably say there are a couple of players - Rickie Weeks and Prince Fielder. I want to see how they get to where they're going to go. They're two different players.
KT: (Slowly, like to a frightened child) Yes, Joseph, Rickie Weeks and Prince Fielder are two different players. That's right, Joseph. Very good. Sleep, now.
SprungOnSports (Long Island): When Ichiro faces Dice-K next week, how much of an impact will that have on baseball and the international dynamic in the future?
KT: This is SprungOnSports's like fifth question. Is nobody writing in?
Joe Morgan: I think that they will have an impact, I don't know if it will be as great as people think, the international part. The Latin countries are producing the most players now. I think they'll have the most impact. Matsuzaka has a chance internationally, of course. We've seen Ichiro. Hideki Matsui. That's three that we've seen have a big impact, but overall I don't think internationally there will be as big an impact as people think.
KT: Everything I have read and heard about DiceK, and the throngs of reporters following him, and the ads in Japan, and the people staying up until 3AM to watch him pitch against the Royals, says differently. But I'm only basing that on things I have read. Joe is basing his comments on the time-tested device known as "nothing."
Joe Morgan: I'm glad I'm back and I'm glad baseball is back. I look forward to a lot of discussion with the fans. Next week, hopefully I'll remember to discuss the Hall of Fame Veteran's Committee voting.
KT: We're glad you're back, too, Joe. Truly.
Labels: joe morgan, joechat
posted by Unknown # 10:56 AM
Kudos to Brent S, who not only snuck "fjm" into his handle, but asked my favorite question of the chat, "Also, is ecksteins intangibles important?"
Our readers are awesome.
# posted by Murbles : 4/07/2007 12:25 PM
The Latin countries are producing the most players now. I think they'll have the most impact. Matsuzaka has a chance internationally, of course.
Has a chance to ... make an impact? What?
We've seen Ichiro. Hideki Matsui. That's three that we've seen have a big impact
Remember, he said Matsuzaka only has "a chance internationally." So the "three" he's talking about are Ichiro, Hideki Matsui, and the Latin countries? I'm going to say that's the first time those two people and that group of countries have ever been lumped together and referred to as three of a kind.
# posted by Junior : 4/07/2007 1:40 PM
I think it's important to note that Joe is wrong about the '27 Yankees / '76 Reds comparison, even without using adjusted ERA.
1927 Yanks team ERA: 3.20
1976 Reds team ERA: 3.51
Obviously, ERA+ is a better metric to choose -- but Joe's even wrong about the stat he chose himself.
# posted by dak : 4/07/2007 3:48 PM
As many of you have pointed out (Matt and Colleen were the earliest) in re: Josh Hamilton and being in the majors vs. AAA.
Hamilton is a Rule 5 pick. Meaning, if the Reds want to keep him at all, they have to have him on their major league roster. Demoting him to AAA is tantamount to offering him back to his old club, the Cubbies, who would probably gladly take him.
# posted by Unknown : 4/07/2007 5:06 PM
My apologies -- as reader Kenny pointed out, Hammy would go back to Tampa Bay, not the Cubs. Chicago was an interim stop in his long and twisted career. Anyway, Tampa would probably take him too, so it's a wash, and Joe still ends up being kind of ignorant.
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Andrei Kavun: Hunting for Piranha (Okhota na piran'iu, 2006)
reviewed by Jeremy Morris© 2007
If the director of this action movie had made a dollar every time viewers (and not just a film-literate one) thought to themselves: “hang on, that reminds me a lot of ‘X’ foreign action/thriller I saw on TV in a poorly dubbed version” then producer Valerii Todorovskii (director of the acclaimed Land of the Deaf [Strana glukhikh, 1997]) and his Rossiia Channel backers may well have made more on this film than from the actual box office receipts. Hunting for Piranha concerns audience expectations; the film engages in a “dialogue” with other Russian and foreign action films; as well as competes for the now profitable cinema audiences and, more importantly, the prestige status of these projects (which undoubtedly has financial implications) for the national channels that sponsor or produce such films.
The plot is as follows: during Soviet times little Prokhor (the adult character is played by a manic, campy Evgenii Mironov) lived an idyllic Soviet childhood―signified in the opening scene by Prokhor’s presentation to his soon-to-be deceased father of a childish drawing (incidentally, far too childish considering his age) of Mama, Papa (a lab worker for a secret chemical weapons program in the Far East of the USSR) holding Prokhor’s hand, and Lenin! Due to a rather ridiculous accident in the lab, Prokhor’s father is gunned down in front of him. All that remains are his memories and a five-kopek coin his father gave him for the drawing. Scarred by this experience, Prokhor becomes a very bad man indeed: a heavy drug user, dealer in chemical weapons, and a cold-blooded killer.
Already even the most jaded or die-hard action film fans may well be scratching their heads at the implausibility of a small child wandering around a heavily-guarded top-secret military lab in 1970s USSR. Perhaps this is why the whole flashback sequence that presents this part of the plot is shot in an almost monochrome, soft-focus: as if this might lend to the unlikely scenario an air of dreamlike memory. The musical score for the introduction to the film-proper is also notable―if only because it genuinely provides an atmosphere of menace. It is worth highlighting such specific elements of mise-en-scène because the film is so eclectic in almost every respect. Even in this opening sequence, the inexperienced director’s intent seems to be to play on the viewers’ memory of every deadly-chemical/biohazard-lab-about-to-go-horribly-wrong scene likely to have been seen in the standard Hollywood treatments of this motif: Twelve Monkeys (dir. Terry Gilliam, 1995), The Rock (dir. Michael Bay, 1996), etc.
It is now present-day Moscow. Enter Kirill Mazur (Vladimir Mashkov), a captain in the secret special-forces unit “Piranha.” Unfortunately the USSR’s deadly cold-war secrets are coming home to roost: in a short time Russia is to cede the area containing the lab (flooded and covered by a lake―a rather extreme safety device) to the Chinese. Mazur’s mission, should he choose to accept it, is to make the lab safe by destroying all traces of the deadly chemical (red mercury―that mythical substance beloved of spy-thrillers the world over). Mazur is assigned a feisty and occasionally-feminist sidekick in Ol'ga (Svetlana Antonova), an expert in chemical weapons. They travel to the Far East (mainly by raft, it would appear). Though they successfully destroy the lab, some of the vials have gone missing. Very soon they are captured by a mixture of Old-Believers, Cossacks, and Siberian aborigines (as reviews of the film call them). Prokhor appears―it turns out that not only is he in the chemical weapons trade, he also organises “hunts” in these wilds with the Old-Believers camp as his base and its inhabitants as his retinue. Stray tourists and captured special-forces officers are their prey. After an extended chase through the forest and a redundant shift in locale to a rather dull urban pursuit in what is presented as the wild East (opportunities here for further fights with local “rednecks”), Prokhor is rather abruptly (and suitably bloodily) defeated onboard a train bound for the border. None of the other hunted make it, apart from Ol'ga, of course.
A charitable analysis of the reasoning of the production and direction team might be that given a script (based on a book by Aleksandr Bushkov) that references, steals, borrows, and knocks over the head every popular action/thriller cliché going, they might as well get into the spirit of things and up the violence, bangs, guns, girls, and everything else one might expect in the supposedly saleable ekshn (action) genre. And this would seem the only course of action possible given such a risible script, and, if truth be told, the second-tier star status of Mashkov and Mironov (there is the usual solid supporting cast of Soviet-era actors on hand, including Sergei Garmash who threatens to upstage the main players until his character is rather quickly and wastefully killed off). Mironov, it is clear, enjoys a performance that seems to be based on the kind of villain who is not only irredeemably bad, but has a sadomasochistic thing going on—big guns, female sadists with dread-locks, and reading Goethe. Physically the performance recalls Gary Oldman’s corrupt cop-cum-drug addicted psychotic in Leon (dir. Luc Besson, 1994). In an early scene, where we are introduced to the villain in his lair, not only are we treated to a bleach-blond Mironov with a goatee and wearing a hairnet as he wields a samurai sword, but also to a quick glance at his taste in wall-art, which reveals photo portraits of Churchill and Colonel Khadafy. Mashkov, by contrast, looks to be as bewildered as his director: he is variously asked to step into the shoes of so many cinematic hard men that his performance is restricted to designing ways of killing (they are in the outback and he must fashion booby-traps and bows out of sticks, hair, and shoelaces), making sexist jokes (surely Ol'ga can urinate standing up?―they haven’t the time to stop the raft), and spitting blood during the torture (literal and metaphoric) inflicted on him. The irony is that Mashkov, a decent film actor, is rather out of his depth in being asked to play a chameleon role combining James Bond, Rambo, John McClane (Die Hard; dir. John McTiernan, 1988), Lewis Medlock (Deliverance; dir. John Boorman, 1972), the standard Van Damme/Seagal martial arts fighter beloved of Russian male youth, John Matrix (Commando; dir. Mark L. Lester, 1985), and a mythic Russian special forces captain who knows his Goethe.
A project like Hunting for Piranha needs to be viewed as part of the ongoing tussle for cinema prestige and income between the two leviathan state channels. While Channel One had a genuine blokbaster with Night Watch (dir. Timur Bekmambetov) in 2004, Rossiia, even though sponsoring various successful projects such as Shadow Boxing (Boi s ten'iu; dir. Aleksei Sidorov, 2005) had not achieved the action-thriller box-office success it craved. Hunting for Piranha was the project that was supposed to change that. It clearly didn’t (financially or critically) and in the mission statements of Rossiia and its production companies the magical words blokbaster and ekshn continue to feature heavily. Such hopes, and a huge amount of promotional money, have now been invested in Wolf-Hound (Volkodav; dir. Nikolai Lebedev, 2006), which the Rossiia promoters predict will become “the first Russian fantasy blockbuster.” Such a tagline sounds a lot like a description of Night Watch.
Those at Rossiia with pretensions to the level of success achieved by Channel One in cinema and the lucrative made-for-TV film market will have to do much better if they are seriously to challenge the ascendancy of Channel One. As one indignant Russian review put it, Hunting for Piranha has “nothing of its own” to offer, and relies on an uncomfortable borrowing from various staples of the action genre in literally every scene. This is cinematic parroting at its worst and in no way does the director present such borrowing other than as symptomatic of his and the scriptwriter’s lack of imagination; it is conceivable that a more confident production team might have credited its audience with a sense of irony and sought to inject a sense of humor, or suspense for that matter, into this conveyor of violence and death-by-numbers. Unfortunately this film has pretensions to which it cannot live up. Rather than the huge plugging Rossiia gave this film, they might have been better off actually spending something on the special effects, which are at times rather poor. Editing and continuity suffer too: a crucial scene linking the destruction of the underwater lab with the capture of the heroes is shot and edited in a perfunctory, hurried, and schematic way that confuses the viewer. Those wanting blood and guts cannot complain. Mironov is called upon to perform particularly gratuitous and visceral killings. Even in this failsafe resort to nastiness, however, this film shows itself to be out of kilter with the prevailing cinematic mood. Ultraviolence really reached the end of its useful life in Antikiller (dir. Egor Konchalovskii, 2002), where the violence at least had symbolic meaning and genuinely shocked. In Hunting for Piranha it is just unpleasant.
A final comment on three other aspects of the film that deserve derision. The dialogue is truly awful, even for action film standards (perhaps with the exception of Seagal’s films). A couple of choice lines, firstly, by Mironov in the final confrontation scene: “I cannot be killed; I died when I was eight”; secondly, by Ol'ga: “If this substance falls into the wrong hands, half of humanity could perish.” The film score, apart from the opening scene, consistently undermines any sense of suspense and excitement. In the scene introducing Mironov as a drug-crazed loon, Ravel’s Bolero plays, which perhaps reflects the character’s taste in music, but still comes across as completely incongruous and silly. Finally, the film’s “approach” to Ol'ga and the female sidekick of the villain makes even the worst Bond films look vaguely feminist in comparison. Ol'ga’s headstrong independence is shown almost immediately to be a sham, and after the first few scenes (including one where Mashkov and a male colleague share a joke behind her back about the size of her breasts) she is literally baggage with a cleavage.
As if to show the producers don’t quite have the confidence they should in the movie, even the title is a bit of a strange fish. Not a few reviewers have commented that it suggests a rather more bankable, hybrid horror movie such as Eight-Legged Freaks (dir. Ellory Elkayem, 2002), or indeed Night Watch. The promotional posters suggest as much (Mashkov in survivalist mode, with bow and arrow at the ready). The consensus reached by Russian critics is that the Russian ekshn has either exhausted its potential for the time being, or simply has not yet come of age. It is possible to look at it a different way: borrowing from a different cinematic tradition doesn’t really work that well, especially if the only concessions to local factors are quotations from Goethe (the hero and villain read books―differentiating them culturally from their Hollywood analogues) and the Dunaevskii song from The Children of Captain Grant (Deti kapitana Granta; dir. Vladimir Vainshtok, 1936)―he had a Soviet childhood―as if that too would make Mashkov appear a particularly “Russian” action hero. Mashkov singing “Captain, Captain, Give us a Smile” while wiping out Mironov’s henchmen, comes across more as a cry for help than a defining catchphrase of a franchisable Russian action hero. Bruce Willis he certainly isn’t.
Hunting for Piranha, Russia, 2006
Color, 125 minutes
Director: Andrei Kavun
Scriptwriter: Dmitrii Zver'kov, based on the novel by Aleksandr Bushkov
Cinematography: Roman Vas'ianov
Art Director: Igor' Shchelokov
Music: Dmitrii Taravkov, Vitalii Artist
Cast: Vladimir Mashkov, Evgenii Mironov, Svetlana Antonova, Sergei Garmash, Viktoriia Isakova, Andrei Merzlikin, Aleksei Gorbunov, Anna Banshchikova, Mikhail Efremov
Producers: Valerii Todorovskii, Il'ia Neretin
Production: Racoon-TV
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Fetch.AI Announces Token Sale on Binance Launchpad to Build Intelligent Machine-to-machine Economy
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Roberta Chan
CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 2, 2019 --
Funding to support further technical development and corporate deployments
Fetch.AI, the decentralised network providing the world's first decentralised infrastructure for digital representatives 'Autonomous Economic Agents' to find, communicate and trade with each other, today announced that its token sale on Binance Launchpad will begin on Monday 25 February at 14:00 UTC.
The Fetch.AI token (FET) acts as the medium of exchange, allowing autonomous agents to exchange tokens for data, services, and other goods within the Fetch.AI network, easily supporting machine-to-machine microtransactions.
For businesses, the new approach means virtually any networked machine or real-world asset, such as a hotel room or hospital bed, can now be represented by an autonomous agent so they can manage their own affairs, like autonomous booking, pricing, and maintainance.
Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.AI said: "Today's internet is built for ecommerce solutions but the new web needs to enable more autonomous solutions and this requires building the infrastructure and tools to make it deployable. Fetch.AI is building the deployment infrastructure, which brings the new AI-based autonomous machine economy to life."
For users, an autonomous agent can live on a smartphone continuously learning the intimate needs of the user based on decisions the human takes and by accessing data from calendars, email, and many other systems to enable highly personalised experiences. The data needed to inform this step-change in personalisation and automation remains sovereign to the user.
Giving a practical example, Sheikh added: "Let's take travel. Today, people rely on traditional travel agents or spend hours searching for the travel combinations they need. An autonomous agent learns from your behaviour to build a clearer picture of your needs. It uses that insight to search vast combinations of options, confirms availability with, say, an airline or rail network, negotiates a price and completes the transaction."
"The Fetch network is in a position to help overcome barriers presented by centralised systems for bringing data to life, leveraging an AI and decentralised solution," said Binance CEO and Founder, Changpeng Zhao (CZ). "We are looking forward to this project that will help create a decentralised digital world for the future of economic activities and marketplaces."
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Newman, actor, director, and racing driver, was born so good looking that people said it was а shame to waste such beauty on, boy. He was born in Cleveland, 0hio, in 1925, and did some acting in high school and college, but never seriously considered making it his future career. However, after graduating, he immediately started working in the theater. He met his first wife, Jackie Witte, while they were acting together, and they got married in 1949. They had three children, a boy and two girls He found work in the theater and on several TV shows in New York. When he was thirty, he went to Los Angeles and made his first film. It was what Newman called an ‘uncomfortable’ start in the movies, in the role of a Greek slave. The experience was so bad that he went back to the theater and didn’t accept another film role for two years. The film he chose was his big break.
He played the boxer, Rocky Graziano, in the film Someone up There Likes Me. Newman is a method actor who believes in living the part before beginning the film He spent days – from morning till night – with Graziano. He studied the fighter’s speech and watched him box, and they talked endlessly about Graziano’s childhood. The picture brought Newman stardom overnight. He was living in Los Angeles away from his family when he met Joanne Woodward, an actress who he had first met in New York. They worked together in The Long Hot Summer. His wife, Jackie, and Paul recognized that their marriage wasn’t working, and got divorced. Newman and Miss Woodward were married in Las Vegas in 1958. Newman went on to make films such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and Towering Inferno. He has made over forty-five films, and has won many awards, but he has never won an Oscar.
His marriage to Woodward is one of the longest and strongest in Hollywood. They have three daughters, and they have co-starred in six films. Ever since the film Winning, Newman has been passionately interested in car racing, and in 1979 he came second in the twenty-four hour Le Mans race. But the end of the 1970s was not all good news for him. In 1978 his only son, Scott, died of a drug overdose, and as a result Newman created the Scott Newman Foundation to inform young people on drug abuse. He has a strong social conscience, and has supported causes such as the anti-nuclear movement, the environment, and driver education.
All the money from ‘Newman’s Own’ salad dressing, popcorn, and spaghetti sauce, now a multi-million dollar business, goes to charity. He is more than just a movie star. would like to be remembered as a man who has tried to help people to communicate with each other,’ says Newman, ‘and who has tried to do something good with his life. You have to keep trying. Thafs the most important thing.’
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After 66 years of business, Lombardi Sports has closed its doors.
After 66 years of business in San Francisco, Lombardi Sports has closed its doors.
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Facing the fear: First LGBT+ art exhibit launched for T&T Pride Month
Alina Doodnath Created : 3 July 2019 Lifestyle
Photo L-R: Chairman of Pride TT, Rudy Hanamji, and Brandy Rodriguez, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Transgender Coalition, pose for a photo at the launch of 'Iere' Art Exhibit at the LOFTT Art Gallery in Port of Spain. Photos courtesy Paula Obe.
Artists and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community called on each other to face their fears through artistic expression at the launch of the first art exhibit for Trinidad and Tobago's Pride Month, called 'Iere', earlier this week.
Artists Adele Todd, Anthony Medina and Peter Sheppard addressed attendees of the exhibit, which is on at the LOFTT Art Gallery from July 1-12, 2019.
Iere Art Exhibit
(Photos courtesy Paula Obe. For commissions and enquiries email paulaobe@gmail.com)
The theme of this year’s Pride Month, Equity and Equality for All (#Equall), also focuses on the transgender community, which has helped support and propel the movement forward but still faces the fear of violence.
Pride TT Chairman, Rudy Hanamji, said a group of Trans people were attacked and beaten just a few weeks prior to the launch.
“Three weeks ago members of the Trans community were actually beaten within inches of their lives. One of them had to run to Tobago to seek refuge. So the risk of violence, both physical and emotional, is always present for our community and that is why Pride is so important because it helps to push back against those negative energies.”
“It cannot be denied that a large section of the artistic community does come the LGBTQI+ community. We wanted to put a spotlight because…there are LGBTQI+ artists who don’t feel free enough to express themselves. They sometimes create work through the lens of the hetero world…those kinds of issues need to be addressed because we need to encourage our artists to truly be themselves,” Hanamji said.
Speaking at the exhibit, Todd and Sheppard agreed that artists should face their fears when addressing LGBTQIA+ themes in their art.
“Most of the work in this gallery is very safe. We need to be bold, be responsible and express greater, these things without fear of being persecuted," said Sheppard.
Todd said while being an artist is difficult, being an LGBTQIA+ artist may be doubly so.
“We have the opportunity to begin this conversation. To be an artist in Trinidad and Tobago, or anywhere, is a difficult profession.
“You are your own critic, you have to motivate yourself and put the work out there. Many times some of the things you think people would like, they don’t even notice.”
“You cannot achieve (artistic expression) if you’re not comfortable with your sexuality…if you don’t want to take a chance,” she said.
She added that drawing the nude human body is not sexual in any way but is an act of artistic expression and that people shouldn’t feel uncomfortable because of this.
“Drawing the form is still important for art historians and artists who practice drawing the body. In London there are still portraiture shows,” she said.
She said hopefully one day people may be able to express themselves without labels.
Todd: We exist, get over it
Todd said it’s time for the people of Trinidad and Tobago to overcome their homophobia and acknowledge that people with in the LBTQIA+ community exist, and they always will.
“Being LGBTQIA+ has been with us forever, get over it. We exist and we always will.”
“When I first started to teach, and I had bigoted people in my class when people had an issue with sexuality, my stance was always, ‘Are you going to leave my class? Maybe you shouldn’t touch money either, because people in the bank who touch your money, their sexuality might offend you so greatly that you shouldn’t touch money, you shouldn’t touch food, you shouldn’t touch anything because you’re so sure that it would tarnish you’.”
“When I say that to people, they get it and they stop the bullsh*t, and they think, and (they realise) that thought was narrow,” she said.
Todd also expressed her full support for the exhibit.
“I support this wholeheartedly because, without it, creativity would die,” she said.
Pride Month in Trinidad and Tobago takes place from June 28-July 28, 2019, in memory of transgender woman Sasha Fierce who murdered in December 2017.
For more information on the exhibit, visit the LOFTT gallery on Facebook at https://bit.ly/324vN8e
For more information on Pride Month visit https://pridett.com
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StarQuest Talent Search Auditions set for October 11
Published on Thursday, 04 October 2012 17:05
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By: Chelsea Battle
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The Los Angeles Sentinel and Bakewell Media, creator of Taste of Soul, will launch AUDITIONS for their inaugural StarQuest Talent Search singing competition. ONE DAY ONLY AUDITIONS will take place on October 11 from 9 – 3 pm at the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza located at 3650 Martin Luther King Blvd (the corner of MLK Blvd and Crenshaw Blvd) on the Macy’s Bridge.
Twelve StarQuest semi-finalists will be selected to compete on stage in front of an expected crowd of 250,000 people during the Taste of Soul Festival on October 20. Two winners will be selected to perform on either the Radio Free KJLH (102.3 FM) stage or The Wave (94.7 FM).
A panel of judges will critique and score each contestant’s performance. The panel will include but is not limited to Executive Producer, Tony Cornelius, son of the legendary Soul Train Creator Don Cornelius, Yvette Bailey (former Soul Train producer) and talent executive Rayva Harrell (Nickelodeon’s All That, The Steve Harvey Morning Show). Surprise celebrity judges will be announced.
This one of a kind StarQuest Singing Competition will provide a monumental platform for Southern California’s rising stars
All talented singers are encouraged to come out and audition.
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For more information and contestant guidelines go to www.TASTEOFSOULLA.org or www.LASENTINEL.net. Please send all celebrity, talent and media inquiries to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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Home > Business > Dabur India Q1 net profit dips 10% to ₹264.86 cr
Dabur India Q1 net profit dips 10% to ₹264.86 cr
Agencies4 Aug 2017 5:46 PM GMT
FMCG major Dabur India on Friday reported a 9.80 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 264.86 crore for the first quarter ended June on account of de-stocking by trade partners ahead of GST rollout.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 293.64 crore in the April-June period of the last fiscal, Dabur India said in a BSE filing.
Total income during the quarter under review was down 7.04 per cent to Rs 1,871.34 crore, as against Rs 2,013.23 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago.
"Sales plunged in June across all consumer categories in view of the massive de-stocking by trade channels just ahead of the implementation of the GST. The overseas markets also continued to face severe headwinds with currency devaluations and economic turmoil in key geographies," Dabur said.
Dabur's total expenses were down 7.03 per cent to Rs 1,533.51 crore, as against Rs 1,649.54 crore.
Its revenue from consumer care business was down 9.06 per cent to Rs 1,425.10 crore in the first quarter of FY 2017-18 as against Rs 1,567.16 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago.
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Ambedkar's statue found vandalised
PTI5 Feb 2018 6:00 AM GMT
Mathura: A statue of B R Ambedkar was found vandalised in the Ambedkar Park here, an official said.
Some residents of the locality found the statue vandalised yesterday.
Soon locals gathered at the park protesting the act, Mathura Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Kranti Shekhar Singh said yesterday.
The protesters were pacified after an FIR was lodged against unidentified persons and arrangements made to bring a new statue from Aligarh, he added.
The situation was under control now, the SDM said.
As a precautionary measure, police personnel have been deployed in the area.
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FALKIRK AWAY - 07/10/17
Pars lack fizz in Irn Bru Cup exit
TEAM NEWS:
Callum Smith was recalled from the Scotland Under 19 get together and started up front alongside Nicky Clark. Callum Morris, Ryan Williamson and Fraser Aird were on international duty. Jean Yves M'Voto returned to the squad after one day's training following his injury. Joe Cardle and Michael Paton remained unavailable through injury. David Hopkirk seemingly picked up another injury (not mentioned in Allan Johnston's pre-match comments). The team lined up in the predictable 4-4-2 formation, when 4-3-3 would have been a better fit for the players selected.
MINUTES THAT MATTERED:
18' Conrad Balatoni put Falkirk 1-0 up after a needlessly conceded corner kick.
59' Miles Hippolyte made it 2-0 after more slack defending.
65' Falkirk keeper David Mitchell was stretchered off with what appeared to be a serious injury.
90+6' Dean Shiels was red carded after a rash challenge on Joe McKee.
Allan Johnston
The lack of "minutes that mattered" (above) tells its own story for the second consecutive game. Dunfermline had 2 efforts of note in the whole game, neither of which impacted the game and so have not been included in the list above: Declan McManus' second half shot was turned round the post, and later in the game Nicky Clark had an effort parried by sub keeper Robbie Thomson.
For all the pre-game talk of players being unavailable, the starting 11 contained regulars in Murdoch, Talbot, Wedderburn, Ashcroft, Higginbotham, Shiels, McManus, Clark and Smith. This was not a Pars reserve team, so there can be no excuses. Yes, Ryan Williamson was missed, as was Callum Morris. But if we are going to rely on 11 key players being 100% available every week of the season, we are in trouble.
The 11 players who started the game should have lined up in a 4-3-3 formation but as always Allan Johnston preferred to put a striker on the wing to retain his usual 4-4-2. For 10 minutes in the second half, it changed to 4-3-3 but not for long; Johnston changed it back to 4-4-2 and had 4 centre forwards playing, 2 of them out of position on the wings.
In some ways, it is a relief to be out of this pointless competition. The manner of the exit was so disappointing though. It was another no-show against our rivals, and has to be addressed immediately, if the manager is capable of doing so.
Pass marks to Jason Talbot and Declan McManus.
Photos and edits by Pars Review
Tomorrow: match photo gallery & matchday vlog
Totally agree, Dec and Talbot were pretty much the only players to leave with any dignity. The loss of Joe was noticeable against Dundee Utd but really noticeable today. We have no creativity on the wings, Higgy looked lost without Ryan behind him and didn't look confident with Martin behind him. I think AJ needs to take stock with what Clark actually brings to the team at the moment as well... he isn't scoring, isn't creating and when he does get a sniff of a chance he throws it away. Ryan should have started for what its worth.
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Interview with Go’s Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani
In this post I interview Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani, who work at Google on the Go programming language. They share with me their path to working on the language, what they find unique and valuable about it, and plans for it going ahead.
This continues our series on PhDs in industry working on programming languages (Avik Chaudhuri was the first). Thanks to Russ and Sameer for taking the time to share their experiences!
What is your academic background?
Russ: I completed bachelors and masters degrees in computer science at Harvard, and then I completed a PhD at MIT, working in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group led by Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris. When I arrived at MIT, the distributed systems community had started focusing on peer-to-peer networks, and so I spent a few years on related topics. For my PhD thesis I looked into the problem of how to design an extension mechanism for compilers so that extension plugins could reasonably coexist and be composed.
Sameer: I completed by bachelors in Computer Science at Cornell during 1994-1998, and completed a Masters & PhD at MIT between 1998-2004. My advisor at MIT was Barbara Liskov. My Masters research considered A Trusted Execution Platform for Multiparty Computation, and for my PhD I worked on Automatic Software Upgrades for Distributed Systems. I joined Google in 2004, and the Go team in 2012.
Russ: I grew up near Bell Labs, and during high school and college I had the good fortune to be able to spend time there hanging out in the computer science department, the birthplace of Unix and C but also lex, yacc, and the Dragon Book. At some level, knowing how to put together a language (little or big) and compiler was just part of the culture. That almost certainly led to my interest in making nicer programming environments for myself.
What is the origin story for Go, and your involvement in its development?
Russ: Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson started designing Go at Google in late 2007, to address the software development problems Google was facing.
The first problem is that networked systems are getting larger, with more interaction between more pieces, and existing languages were not making those interactions as smooth to express as they could be. The solution was to adopt the model of Hoare’s Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP). That may sound risky, but Rob and Ken had experience with a sequence of languages done at Bell Labs that used CSP to good effect.
The second problem is that programs are getting larger and development more distributed. A language that works very well for a small group may not work as well for a large company with thousands of engineers working on many millions of lines of code. When you’ve got that many engineers working together, you want to make sure the language doesn’t have dusty corners that only a few people know how to use well. A code base that size is so large that even maintenance requires mechanical help, and existing languages weren’t designed with that in mind. Even mundane issues like how many files must be read in order to build a program matter at that scale. All of those considerations, and more, led to the idea of hosting CSP in a new language instead of trying to bolt it onto an existing one.
I was finishing my PhD in spring 2008 and visited Google. I had worked with Rob at Bell Labs, and both he and Ken told me about Go, and I was hooked. When I joined the team in August, the language was still just a prototype, with almost no library. I took over the compiler and runtime, and I got to help to develop the standard library and all the revisions and refinements to the language prompted by that experience. Today, Rob and I lead the overall Go project at Google together.
Sameer: In early 2011, I attended a workshop given by Rob Pike about Go at Google NYC and been particularly impressed with the language’s concurrency features. I was working on the indexing pipeline for Google Maps at the time and writing code that dealt with replicated storage systems. I had a library in C++ to issue storage operations to F+1 replicas and fail over to additional replicas as operations failed or timed out; it was about 700 lines. I converted this code to Go and it was under 100 lines and far more comprehensible. I was sold. I started spending 20% of my time improving the Go’s libraries within Google. The team noticed, and in Fall of 2011 invited me to join Go full time. I joined the team in January 2012. At that point, the language was almost finalized; Go 1.0 was released March 28, 2012. My role was to make Go useful for building production systems inside Google.
In your view, what are some key things that distinguish Go from prior languages?
Russ: The most obvious thing that distinguishes Go is the focus on CSP, with lightweight threads of control (we call them goroutines) communicating by passing messages on channels. That was not a common model at all when Go launched. Erlang is the closest, but even in Erlang there are no explicit channels (it is more like the original CSP paper than Hoare’s followup work).
Sameer: Most mainstream languages provide concurrency support using libraries. Having it built into the language makes concurrent code easier to read and write (for example, see the use of closures in the Digesting a tree example), and the compiler and runtime (scheduler, GC) can make concurrent programs execute well.
Relatedly: What kind of application is a great fit for Go, but may not be for other languages?
Sameer: Go is a great fit for concurrent programs, especially servers. Request handlers in servers are mostly independent and so are naturally expressed as separate threads of execution. Go provides goroutines, which are extremely lightweight threads (4KB stacks that grow as needed). It’s common to have programs with hundreds of thousands of goroutines. Go provides channels to allow goroutines to communicate (synchronize and exchange data values) and a select statement to allow goroutines to wait on multiple communication events.
Russ: I agree with Sameer: Because of the strong support for concurrency, I think Go is a great fit for network clients or servers that are dealing with many different input sources or other events happening all at once. And because of the focus on software engineering scale, I also think Go is a great fit for any program that’s going to be worked on by more than a handful of engineers or grow to more than a few thousand lines of code. Now that the Go compiler has been moved from C to Go, I can finally say that I use Go for essentially all my day-to-day programming. It’s wonderful.
How has the research literature in programming languages influenced Go’s design (both positively and negatively), if at all?
Russ: Go’s design was influenced primarily by practical experience, particularly that of the original designers. Robert had worked on implementations of Modula-3, Strongtalk, and JavaScript before Go, and Rob and Ken had worked on Unix and C and the CSP languages I mentioned earlier. Those are the strongest direct influences, but there were certainly others. To take a trivial example, the way Go does semicolon insertion was actually taken from BCPL, with JavaScript serving as a warning of what not to do.
Go is more an engineering project than a pure research project. Like most engineering, it is fundamentally conservative, using ideas that are proven and well understood and will work well together. The research literature’s influence comes mainly through experience with its application in earlier languages. For example, the experience with CSP applied in a handful of earlier languages—Promela, Squeak, Newsqueak, Alef, Limbo, even Concurrent ML—was just as crucial as Hoare’s original paper to bringing that idea to practice in Go. Programming language researchers are sometimes disappointed that Go hasn’t picked up more of the recent ideas from the literature, but those ideas simply haven’t had time to pass through the filter of practical experience.
What are some of the features of Go that are important in practice but undervalued in the research literature?
Russ: I think programming language researchers sometimes underestimate the practical importance of simplicity and predictability in a language feature, especially in incorrect programs.
To take one example, Hindley-Milner type inference is very well understood and I think generally accepted in the programming language community as a good feature. But new ML programmers inevitably hit the situation where changing one part of a program causes a mysterious type error in a seemingly unrelated part. The solution is that in practice one writes type signatures for most functions. Hindley-Milner type inference is beautiful research, but it’s not as beautiful in practice. In Go, the only type inference is that if you say var x = e, the type of x comes from e. This rule is simple and predictable and doesn’t suffer from the kinds of “spooky action at a distance” of more complex type inference algorithms. I miss having more complex inference sometimes, but Go’s simple rule handles at least 90% of the cases you care about, with none of the unpredictability or mystery.
Sameer: The focus on software engineering aspects is just as important and often overlooked. For example, Go is amenable to machine transformation. We’ve used this to enforce automatic formatting and automatically update the import lines for a source file. As a result, Go programmers just write their code, then a tool updates their import lines as needed to pull in whatever packages are needed. We are working on new tools to automatically simplify code and change function signatures to plumb request-scoped data. These features allow Go to scale to large code base sizes and large teams and allows us to continue improving the quality of existing code even after the developers have moved on to other projects.
What’s the current state of the language, and what are some short term and long term goals?
Russ: The language is basically done for now. We’ve committed to stability and backward compatibility as language features.
Our short-term focus is on improving the implementation and making Go run in more places. We recently converted the compiler from C to Go (mechanically), and now we’re starting to think about adding SSA-based optimizations. In the runtime, the main focus is on implementing a concurrent garbage collector with bounded pauses. We’re also looking at making Go work for all the places that people run code today, from networked servers to mobile devices and everything in between.
In the long term, we want to make sure that Go continues to be a stable, reliable platform for people to get work done. If we keep doing that, we should keep attracting new programmers and growing the community.
What is your view of the value of a PhD when working at a company like Google? Why should people pursue a PhD if they are not going to end up at a University or research lab?
Sameer: Companies like Google value individuals who are self-directed and, in particular, who can think carefully about an underspecified problem, do independent research to find a solution, then create and execute a plan to implement that solution (usually using a team of people). The process of working through a PhD demonstrates many of these skills, but not all of them. In particular, PhD students many not know how to divide up a plan and delegate to teammates, and they might not know how to take a program that works well for small test cases and make it work well at scale in a production environment. These latter skills are often learned on the job or through side projects.
Russ: Fundamentally, learning how to do research is learning how to identify, develop, evaluate, and present new ideas. Most technology companies start with new ideas, so that’s a great fit. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that there are so many companies started by grad school dropouts.
But the new ideas don’t stop there. Computer hardware improves at such an incredible rate that, especially at a company like Google, software engineers having to be exploring new ideas to keep up and make the best use of that hardware. Much of the software development at Google has a research component, and papers Google has published about what were first and foremost development efforts have nonetheless had significant impact on the research literature. For more about that, I suggest Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, and Slav Petrov’s paper, Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research. And there is significant research at companies across the technology industry, not just at Google.
It is true, however, that research in the technology industry is inherently focused on ideas with practical applications, which makes it somewhat narrower in scope than academic research. There are positive and negative aspects to that.
What are some key lessons you’ve learned (about anything at all!) while working on Go?
Sameer: A small, highly-skilled team with a few talented designers is better than a large team with lots of opinions. A small, useful language with a few powerful features is better than a large language with lots of features. There’s great value in keeping a language small: it makes code much easier to read, write, and maintain, since there are fewer reasonable ways to accomplish a task.
Russ: The most important thing I learned is that a successful programming language is about far more than the language itself. 1 We spent a lot of time on the language definition and implementation, but we’ve spent even more on making it easy to get started with Go, trying to write good documentation, making sure that the right tools are in place for people to collaborate and share code, and cultivating active but respectful discussion lists for users and developers. I’m particularly grateful to all the excellent developers who have joined us in using and working on Go. The contributions from the open source community have been truly amazing!
Follow Russ and Sameer on Twitter at @_rsc and @sajma, respectively.
[Update: This interview has been translated into Russian by SDR phone recovery.]
This jives with data we presented in an earlier post about language adoption, which founds that developers rate libraries as the top feature of a language ecosystem. ↩
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14 Responses to Interview with Go’s Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani
Alwyn Goodloe
It appears they didn’t take a good look at OCCAM when they built GO. Yes! I can brag to my British friends I have programmed OCCAM on a Transputer. (Anybody else here remember Transputers?) OCCAM was based on the CSP in Tony’s book rather than the original CACM paper and as such had a nicer underlying theoretical foundation. In fact, there were algebraic laws for reasoning about programs. On the down side the language had a syntax that was confusing to the C and Fortran programmers that were trying to program networks of transputers and OCCAM didn’t really help overcome many of the underlying problems with programming those “hypercube” connected parallel machines.
Stephen Gantenbein
Rob Pike is very well aware of Occam, see slide 10: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/talks/slides/emerging-languages-camp-2010.pdf
smalltalkrenaissance
“I can brag to my British friends I have programmed OCCAM on a Transputer.”
I’m envious. Truly, I am. I was intrigued and fascinated by OCCAM many years ago. Pity it didn’t take off.
Good point about Occam. I would ask is there a single thing in Go that was not already present in Reppy’s CML 25 years ago?
taradinoc
Or 47 years ago? http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
“high skilled” team who can’t put generics and error handling mechanism into the language…
Sean McDirmid
The most important “skill” of all for a language designer is “restraint.”
Generics and error handling are not simple, I can understand why they didn’t go there. However, it does make Go look incomplete compared to other languages.
Yesudeep Mangalapilly
Okay, how do you propose to handle an exception that some thread in a library you are using throws up elsewhere in your application code?
rogpeppe
“I would ask is there a single thing in Go that was not already present in Reppy’s CML 25 years ago?”
From a brief scan of the CML docs Russ linked to above, synchronous and limited buffer size channels don’t seem to be there (and are a big deal for reasoning about concurrent programs). Neither does any form of structural subtyping (aka Go’s interfaces) or reflection.
Also “a successful programming language is about far more than the language itself”.
Fabio Tudone
For those that want (or need) to work on the JVM platform with Java or Clojure (or Kotlin soon), Quasar http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/ implements lightweight threads (fibers) and offers on top go-like channels, as well as Erlang-like actors and dataflow.
Pulsar adds Clojure bindings http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/pulsar/.
Existing JVM languages and libraries can be integrated with little effort, see for example the Comsat set of integrations: http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/comsat/
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I love Go. In fact, it’s one of “My Three Amigos of Programming Languages”: https://medium.com/@richardeng/my-three-amigos-of-programming-languages-1289774083d5
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James Colton
I fully concurr with Russ and Sameer. As it is, Go already has the essential constructs for solving anything. And its terse and clear expression is wonderful. Thank you Ken and team. If you think that you need generics then you dont know how to program using interfaces, structs, and routines.
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Tower of the University of Coimbra (**)-Goat, Cuckold the Balloon and as emblems of the city
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A esbelta Goat, is known as the Tower of the University of Coimbra located in the courtyard of the Palace was built between the Schools 1728 and 1733, substituting another lower, which greatly occupied the same space designed by Jean de Rouen. A Tower of the University of Coimbra is one of the best and unique, in his género, and is one of the best works of Baroque architecture in Portugal, with clear italinizante matrix (this style is part of eg a Church of Sao Roque (***) Lisbon or Convent of Mafra (****). Since its construction the tower of the University of Coimbra became the icon of this city. Highlighted by its towering city, for its scenery and for hosting the clock and bells that regulate academic ritual life.
Project was the Italian architect Antonio Canevari, then recently arrived from Court, replacing the plan Gaspar Ferreira, however this would be as a master-builder holder of University.
Coimbra view from Sky
Are 34 meters and 180 degraus until you get to the awkward way with terrace, there in order to install the observatory recommended by the King and the relevant mathematical tools that is an astronomical observatory. Tower of the University of Coimbra attains an unforgettable panorama. Anyway is not Coimbra view of the sky, but almost. The views extend into the Central Mountain Range schist, for the soft fields of the sea, coming to see the silver fringe of the Atlantic Ocean stopped by the Serra da Boa Viagem.
The tower is divided into 4 bodies being the last, under the terrace which are clocks and under these famous bells.
Goat, Cuckold and Balloon
The tower has 3 bells; the east side is the largest known bag-date 1561. The bell on the west side became famous as "bitch", and although it was remelted in 1900, was placed in 1741. There is a third, o “cabrão, turned north, which is dated 1824.
How to Visit the Tower of the University of Coimbra?
Currently tours are scheduled for group 15 people, larger 18 years, the 11:00 e às 15:00. The university community can visit it for free at 16:00.
As part of a visit to the Palace of Schools, The following are extraordinary monuments (learn about the contacts and schedules to visit this monumental set):
Capelos of Living (Rooms and Private Examination Room and Arms)
Library Joanina
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Chapel of St Michael (***)
Amphitheatre of the Faculty of Law of Coimbra (*)
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john penetration luis says:
9 November of 2012 at 7:18
I have no comments to these remarkable places, it is a land lived by myself and having visited many historical places in Portugal. Regarding the University of Coimbra, I was very charmed by the architecture of bygone times
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Efficient management of the distribution network, which is the interference between the discoms and the consumers, is imperative. The key components that will play a significant part in the ever-changing scenario are the switchgear and controls.
The World Bank recently has put out a report in which the demand for electricity in India is growing at the same rate as in France or Germany as millions of people in rural or impoverished areas seek access to power in their homes and workplaces. However, it also states that 240 million people in India still have no legal electricity connection. But with its 1.3 billion population, India is the world's third largest consumer of electricity. The report further says over 450 million ceiling fans are in use and 40 million sold each year in India.
This shows that the demand for electricity in India growing day-by-day. On one hand, that translates into an increase in investments in power infrastructure, on the other, it calls for dedicated efforts from the authorities' to provide quality and reliable power. A Research and Markets report details out the region-wise revenue share, 'The northern region accounted for the largest revenue share in the country during 2015-16, followed by the western region. Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Haryana states dominated the market with around 53.82 per cent market share regarding power sector investments in 2016. And between 2016-22, the northern and southern regions are anticipated to witness highest growth rate.'
Taking into consideration the Ministry of Power data, in 2015-16 alone, around 7,108 villages have been electrified which is 37 per cent higher than the past three years. The state-owned distribution entities and private discoms alike play a crucial role in ensuring the continuous and quality supply of electricity. As the distribution network is spreading its web into wider geographical areas, the demand for switchgear and control systems are climbing up.
Efficient management of the distribution network, which is the interference between the discoms and the consumers, is imperative. The key components that will play a significant part in the ever-changing scenario is the switchgear and controls.
Also, due to rise of commercial, industrial sectors clubbed with initiatives such as Make in India, the switchgear and controls market is expected to continue its growth momentum in the near future. The transmission and distribution (T&D) grid in the country is evolving into a more dynamic one by every passing day.
Unlike the past decade, last mile connectivity is gaining the required attention in the last two years. This is thanks to government initiatives like Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY), Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), and 'Power for All.' These schemes are considered the primary drivers of the switchgear and controls markets.
To achieve the set targets in generation capacity addition and giving access to electricity to all, GoI is planning to reach a renewable energy capacity of 175 GW by 2022. Adding more renewable capabilities and integrating it into the grid means there is a growing need to add capabilities in the T&D network; and switch gears and controls will be the equipment that will play a pivotal role here.
The appealing fact is that the power sector, especially in the distribution network is coming out of its slumber slowly. All thumbs up to the positive outcome of the UDAY scheme that gave the leverage to discoms to manage the ever-accumulating financial issues that were glaring at them for long.
Sector analysts are of the opinion, that India as a country lags far behind in adoption of the latest technology. Consider power distribution - despite the enormous rewards in terms of human and installation safety, increased energy efficiency, etc., the switchgear panel remains a black box. While this is slightly less true of motor control in industries, it is still far away from embracing the transformational potential of connectivity in industries.
All agree to the fact that, the discoms are moving to track where most of the crucial unattended issues are being addressed with dedicated efforts. This according to the industry will change the fortune and the markets for switchgear and controls.
The available data suggests that the total value of the global high voltage (HV) switchgear market was valued at the $11.6 billion in 2016. And the forecast for 2021 pegs it at the $15.86 billion. Registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4 per cent between 2016-21.
Geographically, the global market is segmented into seven regions; North America, South America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia Pacific, Japan and the Middle East and Africa. Asia-Pacific leads the pack with the majority share in global switchgear market, followed by North America, South America, and Europe respectively.
As Asia-Pacific region is expected to dominate the global market in the short term and the medium term, emerging countries like India and China in the region are extensively up grading and installing new transmission lines and distribution networks which are considered as the movers in the global switchgear market.
A report titled 'High Voltage Switchgear Market, Update 2017 - Market Size, Competitive Landscape, Key Country Analysis, and Forecasts to 2021,' put out by Reporter Link suggests that, 'China, one of the fastest growing economies with a largest fleet of transmission substations, topped the global HV switchgear market in 2016 with a value of $2.69 billion and is expected to reach $3.3 billion in 2021.
It represented over 23 per cent of global HV switchgear market in 2016. China is the world leader in ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission having made massive investments to develop transmission system of voltage level 765 kV and above. The country has higher potential for Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) in the Asia-Pacific region. Both 72-172 kV and above 172 kV segment have almost equal contribution in the country. By 2021, the share of China is expected to be 21 per cent of the global market value.
'India ranks second, next to China in global HV switchgear market with a market value of $976.2 million in 2016, contributing 8.4 per cent to world market. The power grid of India is in development stage, and investments have been made to strengthen the regional grids and to develop transmission capacity between interconnections,' it said.
'During the forecast period, share of GIS is expected to be higher than that of AIS, especially in voltage segments 400 kV and above. The GIS market is driven by utility sub-station demand, requiring HV switchgear with a smaller footprint to overcome space constraints. By 2021, the HV switchgear market of India is expected to reach $1,828 million by 2021, contributing close to 11.5 per cent of the global market,' the report further added.
According to another report published by the research firm 6Wresearch, 'The Indian switchgear market is projected to reach $3.7 billion by 2022 and is anticipated to witness robust growth during the forecast period as a result of development of power infrastructure due to surging energy demand from industrial, commercial and residential sectors. LV switchgear holds the significant revenue share on account of increasing homes, commercial buildings and industrial facilities with rising urban population.'
The report further said by quoting Ravi Bhandari, Research Analyst, 6Wresearch, 'By 2022, GIS is projected to register highest growth rate amongst all due to their ability to be installed in harsh conditions and constrained spaces and require minimum maintenance. Other type of switchgear such as solid insulated switchgear is also anticipated to witness growth owing to their smaller footprint and environment friendly nature in comparison to Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS) and GIS.'
In the same report another Prakhar Srivastava, Research Associate, 6Wresearch said, 'Power utilities accounted for the major revenue share in India switchgear market and would continue to dominate the market by 2022 with growing investments in power T&D in the country. Industrial and residential sectors are other key contributing verticals in India switchgear market owing to growing residential buildings and manufacturing activities across the country.'
Over the past half-decade, there has been a drastic emergence regarding technology in the switchgear and controls that revolutionised the segment. Technology enabled the industry to the concept of connected devices that enhanced the 'communication' space with real-time updates.
India, along with capacity addition in renewable energy, is looking at implementing smart grid application in both transmission and distribution segments. Smart grids are technology intense application that will take the last mile connectivity of electricity to the next level. Once the implementation starts, that will for sure push the switchgear and controls market further up. Smart power distribution in industrial terms means intelligent Motor Control Centres or iMCCs. The systems like SCADA, EtherNet, etc., will be the backbone for the smart grid applications.
The Indian switchgear and controls market is matured and highly competitive, especially for volume-driven products such as MCB, MCCB, and HRC fuses.
Fluctuating raw material prices, inadequate budget allocation electrical equipment products, imports from other countries are challenging for the domestic industry. In addition to the large MNCs dominating the market, there are a number of local players.
However, the ageing power infrastructure, HVDC transmission networks will also create higher opportunities in the switchgear market.
New buildings, OEMs and renewables will be the three primary segments that will give traction to the switchgear and controls in the next few years. Data centres, utilities, hospitals/healthcare, industries like pharma, F&B, and auto mobiles will continue to give a push to the segment market.
In the current era of fast urbanisation, Smart City initiatives will continue to see steady demand. Going forward, these buildings will be adopting the green building parameters. The 'Make in India' initiative will further fuel the demand. Renewable worldwide come to the fore front in the last couple of years and India is no different.
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You Can Take the Thug Out Of the Hood, But...
Success and money don't change what's inside.
By Guest Editorial | September 5, 2013
Although by no means a sports fan, I've followed the story of Mr. Aaron Hernandez with interest mixed with sorrow. Mr. Hernandez grew up in a tough neighborhood but became a high-school and college football star.
He nearly didn't make the NFL. Despite his obvious skills, teams didn't want him because he was known for lapses of judgment which got him into trouble. The New England Patriots took a chance late in the draft when they wouldn't have to pay him much.
The Patriots got a spectacular return on their investment. He gained more than 1,300 yards, nearly won the Super Bowl, and was one of the top 3 tight ends in the NFL. He signed a $4 million contract and moved into a $1.4 million house.
You Can Take the Thug Out Of the Hood, But ...
I first heard of Mr. Hernandez when he was arrested for murdering one of his old-time companions from the 'hood. A few weeks later, I ran across a young man who'd played football against Mr. Hernandez in high school. "He was good, but my team beat his team," I was told. "I don't care what they say, everybody who plays wants to make the NFL. He had it made and he blew it."
"So he couldn't get away from the 'hood?"
"Yeah, the 'hood got him. That's why I never go back. If I ever go back, I'll get killed."
I asked why Mr. Hernandez, who has reportedly confessed, had felt he had to kill the guy. My acquaintance told me that the cops had found that Mr. Hernandez had shot up a car while he was still in college and inflicted "serious bodily harm" on one of the occupants. He thought someone from the 'hood tried to blackmail Mr. Hernandez and got killed for it.
"Why shoot up the car?"
"To get street cred. He had to show them he was still tough so they'd leave him alone."
That didn't make sense. "Why didn't he go to the cops? He had a million dollar mansion. He was a taxpayer. His taxes paid cops' salaries. They'd have helped him."
I got a totally blank look. It seemed he didn't believe that the police ever helped anyone.
"If not cops, what about his coach? He got a thousand yards. They want another thousand yards; that's why they paid him so much. The guy who owns the Patriots is real rich. He's probably on a first-name basis with the governor. If he asked the governor to keep the 'hood off his thousand-yard guy, the state cops could put out the word. If not the staties, they could hire Pinkerton's and surround his house with guys with guns. Why didn't he ask for help?"
I got more blank looks. We clearly weren't communicating, so we talked about his iPhone instead.
The Cops and the Hood
On thinking about it, this man might have reasons not to think of the police as his friends. When cops patrol the 'hood, they generally go in pairs, and there are places they won't go no matter what. As a Detroit cop said when asked why he wasn't doing something about vandals stripping copper out of a building, "I ain't goin' in there, I'd get shot."
The cops figure that most every hoodie is either on welfare, which costs the city money, or dealing drugs which leads to criminal activity they have to try to contain. Could it be that cops develop a somewhat unfavorable attitude toward people in the 'hood? Is it possible that dope dealers and muggers think of law enforcement as unreasonable interference in their pursuit of an honest profit?
It may be that there were simply too many longstanding emotional barriers between Mr. Hernandez and the police for him to ask them for help, no matter what was threatening him. He seems to have thought he had to handle his troubles himself.
The 120 MPH Chase
After Mr. Hernandez' arrest, the papers told of the police pulling over an SUV after a 120-MPH chase. Mr. Hernandez was in the passenger seat. "It's all right, officer," he's reported to have said, "I'm Aaron Hernandez."
I thought that he might have gotten a glimmer of the notion that now that he was paying taxes, the police would have a different attitude toward him.
My friends who're sports fans assert that this was just another manifestation of our longstanding practice of cutting sports heroes generous slack. Although Mr. Vick got in trouble for dogfighting, college players have gotten away with rape, theft, and other misbehaviors that would put lesser beings in jail forever. My sports friends believe that Mr. Hernandez was totally alienated from the police but that he expected that his aura of sports hero would take care of a minor matter like speeding.
This isn't all that unusual. The NFL web site told how an Indianapolis Colts rookie safety was charged with disorderly public drunkenness and resisting law enforcement after an "altercation" with police:
"You can't arrest me, I'm a Colts player," Boyett repeatedly told the officers, according to The Indianapolis Star, citing an a police report that described the 23-year-old's behavior as "very abusive."
He later threatened a police officer, saying he was "going to come back and break your jaw," according to the report.
Professional sports seems to be a continuation of the 'hood - players regard cops as engaging in unwarranted interferense with their legitimate pursuits. Why do we idolize these guys?.
The 'Hood Will Getcha If You Don't Watch Out
To check further, I asked a person I know who managed to escape the 'hood. Her dad left her mother when she was quite young and they moved into the projects. One of her childhod friends was shot in a gang conflict. She was raped. Her mother worked very hard and finally earned enough money to leave the projects. She left the 'hood and went to college, but the memories stayed.
When I asked her why Mr. Hernandez didn't ask the cops for help, she said, "You gotta be kidding. All the cops I ever knew were on the take. If any strange kid can come to town and score drugs, don't you think the cops know who's dealing? No way he'd ever talk to the cops."
The 'Hood and the Cops
If my friends are correct in thinking that significant numbers of hoodies are totally alienated from the police, we have a real problem. If entire neighborhoods are growing up with no regard for law, we're going to have to deal with many, many people who're a total drain on society.
What's more, they're armed and dangerous. Guns have been common in the 'hood for generations.
No less an apostle of nonviolent protest than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in his right to keep and bear arms. In "MLK and His Guns," the Huffington Post reports:
Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding his home and family.
... Glenn Smiley, an adviser to King, described King's home as "an arsenal."
Mr. Hernandez had no trouble getting hold of enough guns to shoot up a car and then to kill a man who was bothering him. If his willingness to take violent action instead of involving the police when he felt threatened is a common attitude among people of his background, we're in for a lot of trouble.
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"One of the leading English composers of his generation, Vaughan Williams was a pupil of Parry, Charles Wood and Stanford, and later of Bruch and Ravel. In his work as a composer he went some way towards creating a specifically English musical idiom, influenced by his interest in folksong but coloured by his own personal vision and language.
The stage music of Vaughan Williams includes the Shakespearean opera Sir John in Love (based on The Merry Wives of Windsor), the masque for dancing Job, and The Pilgrim's Progress. Incidental music for the theatre includes music for The Wasps by Aristophanes, from which the overture is often heard. He also wrote a number of film scores.
Vaughan Williams wrote nine symphonies, the first A Sea Symphony for solo singers, chorus and orchestra (with words taken from Walt Whitman), the second A London Symphony, and the third Pastoral Symphony. The Sixth Symphony, completed in its first version in 1947, seemed to break new ground and was followed by a seventh, the Sinfonia antartica, that had its origin in a film soundtrack.
Compositions by Vaughan Williams for solo instrument and orchestra include the pastoral romance The Lark Ascending for solo violin and a Concerto accademico for solo violin and string orchestra. There is an attractive Oboe Concerto and two concertos unusual in their solo instrument: one for harmonica and the other for bass tuba. Flos campi uses a viola and is scored also for small choir and chamber orchestra.
Suites etc.
Vaughan Williams made direct use of folksong in, among other works, his three Norfolk Rhapsodies, his Fantasia on Greensleeves for solo flute, harp and strings, and his English Folksong Suite for military band. His Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for two string orchestras returns to the 16th century for its musical inspiration.
Choral and Vocal Music
Vaughan Williams made a substantial contribution to English choral and vocal repertoire in compositions that include the fine Serenade to Music, completed in 1938. Other compositions range from hymn tunes to an oratorio, from folksong arrangements to the evocative On Wenlock Edge, a setting of poems by A.E. Housman.
Vaughan Williams wrote relatively little chamber music and even less music for piano. His organ pieces, however, provide a few useful repertoire items.
Theatre and Film Music
The incidental music Vaughan Williams provided for the theatre was principally for a series of Shakespearean productions in 1913, when he was musical director at Stratford-upon-Avon for Sir Frank Benson's company. From 1940 onwards he provided music for a number of films." - Introduction from Naxos
This playlist was compiled after the work list on AllMusic (sorted by year), plus a few works that are not listed there, like the Bucolic Suite, and Dark Pastoral. Different editions and arrangements by the composer are also featured: 1920 version of A London Symphony, 2008 edition of Symphony No.5, original version of Symphony No.6 (premier recording by Stokowski), original version of The Lark Ascending (for violin and piano), the composer's arrangement of his pupil Patrick Hadley's Fen and Flood, and more. The Wasps are presented with the popular suite, and the complete incidental music (about 100 minutes). The lovely Serenade To Music comes in three versions: 16 soloists, 4 soloists, and orchestra alone. At the end of the playlist there are some recordings of the composer's speeches, and a excerpt from his funeral service.
Get this collection in one Spotify playlist: Ralph Vaughan Williams - Complete Chronological Catalogue (755 tracks, 55 hours). Ctrl (CMD) + G to browse in album view.
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Comparison of efficacy among various topical anesthetics: An approach towards painless injections in periodontal surgery
P Koppolu, A Mishra, LA Swapna, K Butchibabu, A Bagalkokar, Kusai Baroudi
January-March 2016, 10(1):55-57
Background and Aims: Local anesthetics (LAs) are most commonly used agents in dentistry. They are used to prevent the pain and nociception generated during dental procedures. Since pain associated at the time of injection of LA is uncomfortable, most of the dentists are on pursuit of painless administration of LA injection and use of topical anesthetics prior to the injection has proven effective in reducing anxiety and pain to the patient. The aim of this study is to compare pain responses after application of three types of topical anesthetics with control in the patients referred for periodontal full mouth flap surgery. Materials and Methods: A total of 83 patients (42 males and 41 females) participated in the study with age group ranging from 30 to 50 years. The present study is to evaluate the efficacy of three topical anesthetics (Precaine gel, Benzocaine topical paste and Lignocaine spray) before infiltration in altering visual analog scale (VAS) scores of pain during LA injection. The statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 15.0 software. Repeated analysis of variance was performed to know the effect of each variable and reveal statistical significance. Results: Results revealed that Precaine gel had least VAS score compared with other topical anesthetics. Conclusion: From the present study, it can be concluded that procaine gel is a better than other topical LA agents, as the number of studies on this subject is rare and clinical results are mixed, further studies are required with a larger sample before its routine application in our field.
Fluoroscopy guided transforaminal epidural anesthesia in ankylosing spondylitis
SM Channabasappa, S Dharmappa, R Pandurangi
January-March 2016, 10(1):101-103
A 48-year-old male patient with a long-standing history of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) presented for ureteroscopic stone removal. On preoperative assessment, tracheal intubation was likely to be difficult due to decreased cervical spine mobility. Traditional neuraxial block was impossible due to the fusion of vertebral bodies. AS patients present the most serious array of intubation, which is secondary to decrease in cervical spine mobility and possible temporomandibular joint disease. Management of a case of AS can be very challenging when the airway and the central neuraxial blockade, both are difficult. Fluoroscopic assisted central neuraxial blockade may lead to predictable success in AS. We present a case report with severe AS where conventional techniques failed and C-arm assisted helped in successful epidural anesthesia for ureteroscopic stone removal.
Central bronchial carcinoid: Management of a case and anesthetic perspectives
D Goswami, L Kashyap, RK Batra, C Bhagat
Obstructing lesions of the central airways present with a variety of symptoms and are often associated with pneumonia or asthma-like states. Anesthesia to these patients often presents challenges right from the preoperative stabilization of underlying lung condition, mask ventilation in the supine position to maintaining oxygenation and ventilation in the intraoperative and postoperative period. We present here a case of a young woman with a central bronchial tumor with significant airway obstruction with potential for major bleeding and subsequent anesthetic management without lung sacrificing measures and cardiopulmonary bypass assistance.
Successful management of a refractory case of postoperative herniorrhaphy pain with extended duration pulsed radiofrequency
D Thapa, V Ahuja, P Verma, C Das
Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is a distressful condition following hernia surgery. A 25-year-old, 55 kg male patient presented with severe pain on the right side of the lower abdomen that radiated to the testicle and the inner side of the thigh. Patient was symptomatic since 5 months following inguinal herniorrhaphy surgery. The pain was not relieved with pharmacological and interventional nerve blocks. An ultrasound-guided ilioinguinal-iliohypogastric (II-IH) block with extended duration (42°C, four cycles of 120 s each) pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) and a diagnostic genital branch of genitofemoral nerve (GGFN) block provided pain relief. After 1-month, an extended duration PRF in GGFN resulted in complete resolution of symptoms. During a regular follow-up of 9 months, patient reported an improved quality-of-life. We believe the successful management of CPSP following hernia repair with single extended duration PRF of II-IH and GGFN has not been described in the literature.
Anesthetic consideration in dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
AS Narejo, MU Khan, WM Alotaibi, MM Khan
Epidermolysis bullosa is a group of inherited rare skin disease, characterized by bullae formation in the skin or mucous membranes. The fundamental abnormality is collagen degeneration leads to splitting of various epidermal layers. Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) is one of the major forms of epidermolysis bullosa. These patients often admitted to the hospital for corrective surgeries, change of dressing, contracture release, and skin grafting. Anesthetic management of these cases is always a challenge. We are reporting a case of 5-year-old boy diagnosed as a case of DEB scheduled for upper lip contracture release, skin grafting and debridement of nonhealing scars under anesthesia. In this case, we have focused mainly on the anesthetic management, preparation of the monitoring, transportation, difficulties in establishing the venous accesses, and airway management.
Anesthetic management of a patient with Weaver syndrome undergoing emergency evacuation of extra-dural hematoma: A case report and review of the literature
RS Khokhar, MSM Hajnour, M Aqil, AH Al-Saeed, S Qureshi
January-March 2016, 10(1):98-100
Weaver syndrome is a rare disorder of unknown etiology characterized by skeletal overgrowth, distinctive craniofacial and digital abnormalities and advanced bone age. In general, craniofacial abnormalities that cause difficulty with tracheal intubation may improve, worsen, or remain unchanged as craniofacial structures mature. Furthermore, there is an estimated risk in these children of ≤1.09% of rhabdomyolysis or malignant hyperpyrexia. We report a case of a boy with Weaver syndrome who underwent emergency evacuation of extra-dural hematoma under general anesthesia.
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Multiple levels paravertebral block versus morphine patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative analgesia following breast cancer surgery with unilateral lumpectomy, and axillary lymph nodes dissection
Summayah Fallatah, WF Mousa
Background: Postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery is not uncommon. Narcotic based analgesia is commonly used for postoperative pain management. However, the side-effects and complications of systemic narcotics is a significant disadvantage. Different locoregional anesthetic techniques have been tried including, single and multiple levels paravertebral block (PVB), which seems to have a significant reduction in immediate postoperative pain with fewer side-effects. The aim of this study was to compare unilateral multiple level PVB versus morphine patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for pain relief after breast cancer surgery with unilateral lumpectomy and axillary lymph nodes dissection. Materials and Methods: Forty patients scheduled for breast cancer surgery were randomized to receive either preoperative unilateral multiple injections PVB at five thoracic dermatomes (group P, 20 patients) or postoperative intravenous PCA with morphine (group M, 20 patients) for postoperative pain control. Numerical pain scale, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, Time to first analgesic demand, 24-h morphine consumption side-effects and length of hospital stay were recorded. Results: PVB resulted in a significantly more postoperative analgesia, maintained hemodynamic, more significant reduction in nausea and vomiting, and shorter hospital stay compared with PCA patients. Conclusion: Multiple levels PVB is an effective regional anesthetic technique for postoperative pain management, it provides superior analgesia with less narcotics consumption, and fewer side-effects compared with PCA morphine for patients with breast cancer who undergo unilateral lumpectomy, with axillary lymph nodes dissection.
Effects of perineural administration of dexmedetomidine in combination with bupivacaine in a femoral-sciatic nerve block
Safaa M Helal, Ashraf M Eskandr, Khaled M Gaballah, Ihab S Gaarour
Background and Aim: Perineural administration of dexmedetomidine, a α2-adrenoceptor agonist, prolongs the duration of analgesia. We hypothesized that adding dexmedetomidine to bupivacaine would prolong postoperative analgesia after below knee surgery. Materials and Methods: After ethical approval, 60 patients scheduled for below knee surgery under combined femoral-sciatic nerve block were randomly allocated into two groups to have their block performed using bupivacaine 0.5% alone (group B) or bupivacaine 0.5% combined with 100 μg bupivacaine-dexmedetomidine (group BD). Motor and sensory block onset times; durations of blockades and analgesia were recorded. Results: Sensory and motor block onset times were shorter by 20% in group BD than in group B (P < 0.01). Sensory and motor blockade durations were longer in group BD (+45% and +40%, respectively) than in group B (P < 0.01). Duration of analgesia was longer in group BD by 75% than in group B (P < 0.01). Systolic, diastolic arterial blood pressure levels, and heart rate were significantly less in group BD, six patients in group BD, and no patients in group B developed bradycardia (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The addition of dexmedetomidine 100 μg to bupivacaine 0.5% during ultrasound-guided combined femoral and sciatic block for below knee surgery was associated with a prolonged duration of analgesia. However, this may be associated with significant bradycardia requiring treatment.
Ultrasound-guided rectus sheath and transversus abdominis plane blocks for perioperative analgesia in upper abdominal surgery: A randomized controlled study
Khaled Abdelsalam, OW Mohamdin
Background: Regional anesthetic techniques can be used to alleviate postoperative pain in patients undergoing major upper abdominal surgery. Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of bilateral ultrasound (US)-guided rectus sheath (RS) and transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks for better perioperative analgesia. Patients and Methods: It is a prospective, observer-blinded, randomized clinical study. 40 eligible patients undergoing elective liver resection or Whipple procedure were included. All patients received a standardized anesthetic technique. Group 1 (n = 20) received preincisional US-guided bilateral RS and TAP blocks using 20 ml volume of bupivacaine 0.25% for each, and group 2 (n = 20) received local wound infiltration at end of surgery with 40 ml of bupivacaine 0.25%. A standardized postoperative analgesic regimen composed of intravenous paracetamol and a morphine patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). The use of intraoperative fentanyl and recovery room morphine boluses, PCA-administered morphine, pain scores as well as number of patients' experienced postoperative nausea and vomiting in the ward at 6 and 24 h were recorded. Results: Group 1 patients received a significantly lower cumulative intraoperative fentanyl, significantly lesser boluses of morphine in postanesthesia care unit, as well, significantly lower cumulative 24 h postoperative morphine dosage than the group 2 patients. Pain visual analog scale scores were significantly lower at both 6 and 24 h postoperatively in TAP group when compared with the no-TAP group. There were no complications related to the TAP block procedures. No signs or symptoms of local anesthetic systemic toxicity were detected. Conclusion: The combination of bilateral US-guided RS and TAP blocks provides excellent perioperative analgesia for major upper abdominal surgery.
Use of an Android application "clinometer" for measurement of head down tilt given during subarachnoid block
RB Dixit, MM Neema
Context: Head down tilt is given to patients after sub arachnoid block for adjustment of height of block. However, the amount of tilt given is subjective and cannot be documented. Aims: We used an android application named "clinometer" to measure exact degree of tilt given by anesthesiologists as their routine practice. Settings and Design: This observational study, at a medical college hospital, was done in 130 patients given sub arachnoid block for lower abdominal surgeries. Materials and Methods: We observed and documented vital data of patients and measured tilt given by application "clinometer." Results: We observed that the application was easy to use and measured tilt each time. The result obtained can be documented, digitally saved and transferred. In 130 patients studied, we observed incidence of degree of tilt as follows: 6-8° tilt in 38 patients (29.23%), 8-10 in 36 patients (27.69%), 10-12 in 30 patients (23.08%), 12-14 in 12 patients (9.23%) and 14-16° tilt in 14 patients (10.77%). Use of application was received with enthusiasm by practicing anesthesiologists. Various possible uses of this application are discussed.
Enhancing needle visualization during parasagittal approach in paravertebral block for patients undergoing simple mastectomy using in-plane, multiangle ultrasound needle guidance system
MA Mansour, ME Sonbaty
Background: Ultrasound-guided paravertebral blocks during breast surgeries with in-plane needle approaches can be challenging due to difficult needle visualization. The purpose of this study was to assess the usefulness of using a needle guide while performing in-plane parasagittal approach paravertebral block for breast surgery. Patients and Methods: Eighty patients, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I-III, aged 20-40 years with breast mass scheduled for simple mastectomy surgery, were involved in prospective, controlled, randomized study, and were randomly divided by closed envelope method into two groups: Group I (n = 40): Scheduled for ultrasound-guided paravertebral block or group II (n = 40): Scheduled for ultrasound-guided paravertebral block using the needle guide. Both techniques compared as regards: (i) Needle visibility and block performance time; (ii) number of needle passes; (iii) duration of the block; (iv) doctor and patient satisfaction; and (v) incidence of complications. Results: Needle visibility score was better in group II (2.92 ± 0.26 vs. 1.9 ± 0.44, P < 0.0001). Block performance time was shorter in group II (90.92 ± 15 vs. 128.25 ± 16s, P < 0.0001). A number of needle passes were less in group II (1.27 ± 0.45 vs. 2.2 ± 0.68, P < 0.0001). Doctor and patient satisfaction were better in group II (P = 0.015). No differences were found regarding the duration of the block and incidence of complications between groups. Conclusion: A needle guide can help reduce the time needed to perform a parasagittal in-plane thoracic paravertebral block, with a significant reduction in the block performance time, the number of needle passes, better needle visibility and better doctor and patient's satisfaction. However, there was no significant difference regarding the duration of the block or incidence of complications.
Comparison of effects of ropivacaine with and without dexmedetomidine in axillary brachial plexus block: A prospective randomized double-blinded clinical trial
Ananda Bangera, Mukka Manasa, Prasad Krishna
Background: Addition of dexmedetomidine to ropivacaine for peripheral nerve blocks has shown to improve the efficacy of ropivacaine by prolonging the duration of analgesia. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of ropivacaine alone and in combination with dexmedetomidine in the axillary block. Materials and Methods: A total of 80 patients belonging to American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I, II, and III, scheduled for elective forearm and/or hand surgeries were randomly allocated into one of the two groups to receive either 39 ml of 0.375% ropivacaine and 1 ml normal saline (Group R) or 39 ml of 0.375% ropivacaine and 1 μg/kg dexmedetomidine diluted to 1 ml with normal saline (Group RD). Results: There was a significant early the onset of sensory and the motor block in Group RD. Duration of sensory block in Group RD was 677.25 ± 99.64 min and in Group R was 494.38 ± 70.64 min and the difference was clinically significant (P < 0.001). Duration of motor block in Group RD was 712.88 ± 89.32 min and in Group R was 526.25 ± 70.229 min and was clinically significant. Duration of analgesia in Group RD was 764.38 ± 110.275 min and that in Group R was 576.88 ± 76.306 min and was clinically significant. There was a significant alteration in hemodynamics in Group RD when compared to Group R without any side effects. Conclusion: Dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant to ropivacaine provides quicker onset of anesthesia, longer duration of analgesia. It offers convenient, simple, effective mode of anesthesia, and postoperative analgesia for forearm and/or hand surgeries.
Effect of preoperative flupirtine on postoperative morphine sparing in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy
D Thapa, V Ahuja, C Dass, S Gombar, A Huria
Background: Flupirtine is a unique non-opioid, centrally acting analgesic with muscle relaxant properties. So far no study has evaluated, use of preoperative flupirtine on postoperative morphine sparing effect in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). Materials and Methods: We performed a prospective, controlled, and randomized study in 50 female patients of American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I-II, aged between 30 and 60 years scheduled for TAH under general anesthesia (GA). Patients were randomized to receive either single dose flupirtine 100 mg or placebo 1 h prior to surgery. A standard anesthetic and analgesic protocol was followed in both the groups. Postoperatively, a titrated loading dose of intravenous morphine 0.1 mg/kg was followed with patient-controlled analgesia with morphine (bolus of 0.01 mg/kg with a lockout time of 7 min). The primary outcome was cumulative morphine consumption at 48 h postoperatively. Secondary outcomes included hemodynamics, visual analog scale (VAS) at rest, VAS on cough, and any adverse effects. Results: All enrolled 50 patients completed the follow-up. The cumulative mean morphine consumption (standard deviation [SD]) at 48 h (40.4 [6.0] vs. 47 [6.6] mg, P = 0.001) was reduced in-group flupirtine as compared with placebo. The cumulative mean VAS at rest (SD) (3 [0.7] vs. 3.7 [0.7], P = 0.001) and on cough (3 [0.9] vs. 3.8 [0.5], P = 0.002) were reduced in-group flupirtine as compared with placebo at 48 h postoperatively. Conclusion: Preoperative use of flupirtine exhibited morphine sparing effect in patients following TAH under GA at 48 h.
Pain relief after ambulatory hand surgery: A comparison between dexmedetomidine and clonidine as adjuvant in axillary brachial plexus block: A prospective, double-blinded, randomized controlled study
A Das, S Dutta, S Chattopadhyay, S Chhaule, T Mitra, R Banu, P Mandal, M Chandra
January-March 2016, 10(1):6-12
Background: For ages various adjuvants have been tried to prolong axillary brachial plexus block. We compared the effect of adding dexmedetomidine versus clonidine to ropivacaine for axillary brachial plexus blockade. The primary endpoints were the onset and duration of sensory and motor block and duration of analgesia. Materials and Methods: A total of 90 patients (20-40 years) posted for ambulatory elective hand surgery under axillary brachial plexus block were divided into two equal groups (groups ropivacaine dexmedetomidine [RD] and ropivacaine clonidine [RC]) in a randomized, double-blind fashion. In group RD (n = 45) 30 ml 0.5% ropivacaine + 100 μg of dexmedetomidine and group RC (n = 45) 30 ml 0.5% ropivacaine + 75 μg clonidine were administered in axillary plexus block. Sensory and motor block onset times and block durations, time to first analgesic use, total analgesic need, postoperative visual analog scale (VAS), hemodynamics and side-effects were recorded for each patient. Results: Though with similar demographic profile in both groups, sensory and motor block in group RD (P < 0.05) was earlier than group RC. Sensory and motor block duration and time to first analgesic use were significantly longer and the total need for rescue analgesics was lower in group RD (P < 0.05) than group RC. Postoperative VAS value at 18 h were significantly lower in group RD (P < 0.05). Intraoperative hemodynamics were insignificantly lower in group RD (P < 0.05) without any appreciable side-effects. Conclusion: It can be concluded that adding dexmedetomidine to axillary plexus block increases the sensory and motor block duration and time to first analgesic use, and decreases total analgesic use with no side-effects.
Effect of addition of magnesium to local anesthetics for peribulbar block: A prospective randomized double-blind study
R Sinha, A Sharma, BR Ray, R Chandiran, C Chandralekha, R Sinha
Background: Magnesium sulphate has been used along with local anesthetics in different regional blocks and found to be effective in decreasing the time of onset of the block and increasing the duration of the block. Objective: To evaluate the effect of addition of magnesium sulfate to standard local anesthetics mixture on the time for onset of the globe and lid akinesia for peribulbar block in ophthalmic surgeries. Materials and Methods: Sixty patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists status I to III undergoing ophthalmic surgery under peribulbar block were included in this study. Patients were randomized into two groups. Both the groups received 4.5 ml of 2% lidocaine, 4.5 ml of 0.5% bupivacaine with150 IU hyaluronidase. Group NS received normal saline 1 ml in the peribulbar block and Group MS, magnesium sulfate 50 mg in 1 ml normal saline. The onset of akinesia, satisfactory block and complications were observed by an independent observer. Results: Demographic data was statistically similar. In the Group NS at 3, 5, 10 and 15 min after the block, complete akinesia was seen in 0, 2, 11 and 28 patients respectively. In the Group MS, at 3, 5, 10 and 15 min after the block, complete akinesia was seen in 13, 23, 27 and 28 patients respectively. Patients received magnesium sulfate showed the statistically significant rapid onset of lid and globe akinesia than the control group till 10 min (P < 0.000). None of the patients needed a supplementary block and had complications during the surgery. Conclusion: Addition of 50 mg of magnesium sulfate to the lidocaine-bupivacaine mixture for peribulbar block decreases the onset of akinesia without any obvious side effect.
Elective surgery cancelation on day of surgery: An endless dilemma
A Fayed, A Elkouny, N Zoughaibi, HA Wahabi
Background: Cancelation of surgery is a constant agonizing dilemma for nearly all healthcare services that has been intensively investigated to find out its roots, consequences, and possible solutions. The rates of cancelation of surgery vary between centers and more so among surgical specialties with numerous reasons standing behind this phenomenon. Patients and Methods: In the current study, analysis of monthly cancelation rates from January 2009 to December 2012, and assessment of establishing new operating rooms (ORs) using statistical process control charts was conducted. A detailed review of a total of 1813 cases canceled on the day of surgery from January to December 2012, to examine the various reasons of cancelation among surgical specialties. Results: The average cancelation rate was 11.1%, which dropped to 9.0% after launching of new theaters. Four reasons explained about 80% of cancelations; Patients "no show" was the leading cause of cancelation (27%). One-fourth of cancelations (24.3%) were due to the need for further optimization, and the third most prominent cause of cancelation was a lack of OR time (19.5%). Unavailability of staff/equipment/implants accounted for only 0.7% of cancelations. The "no show" was the most common cause of cancelation among all surgical specialties ranging from 21% for plastic surgery to 32% in ophthalmic surgeries. Conclusion: It was confirmed that there is a unique profile of cancelation of surgery problem for every institute, an extension of infrastructure may not be the only solution. Control charts helped to enhance the general picture and are functional in monitoring and evaluating changes in the cancelation of surgery.
Induced hypotension in ambulatory functional endoscopic sinus surgery: A comparison between dexmedetomidine and clonidine as premedication. A prospective, double-blind, and randomized study
A Das, A Mukherjee, S Chhaule, S Chattopadhyay, PS Halder, T Mitra, SR Basunia, SK Mandal
Background: Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is the mainstay of a therapeutic technique for nasal pathologies. This study is to compare the ability of preoperative dexmedetomidine versus clonidine for producing controlled hypotensive anesthesia during FESS in adults in an ambulatory care setting. Materials and Methods: Sixty patients (25-50 years) posted for ambulatory FESS procedures under general anesthesia were randomly divided into Group C and D (n = 33 each) receiving dexmedetomidine 1 μg/kg and clonidine 1.5 μg/kg, respectively; both diluted in 100 ml saline solution 15 min before anesthetic induction. Nasal bleeding and surgeon's satisfaction score; amount and number of patients receiving fentanyl and nitroglycerine for analgesia and deliberate hypotension, duration of hypotension, post anesthesia care unit (PACU) and hospital stay; hemodynamic parameters and side effects were recorded for each patient. Results: Number and dosage of nitroglycerine used was significantly (P = 0.034 and 0.0001 respectively) lower in Group D compared to that in Group C. Similarly, number of patients requiring fentanyl and dosage of same was significantly lower in Group D. But, the duration of controlled hypotension was almost similar in both the groups. Group D patients suffered from significantly less nasal bleeding and surgeon's satisfaction score was also high in this group. Discharge from PACU was significantly earlier in Group D, but hospital discharge timing was quite comparable among two groups. Intraoperative hemodynamics was significantly lower in Group D (P < 0.05) without any appreciable side effects. Conclusion: Dexmedetomidine found to be providing more effectively controlled hypotension and analgesia, and thus, allowing less nasal bleeding as well as more surgeons' satisfaction score.
Validation of acute physiologic and chronic health evaluation II scoring system software developed at The Aga Khan University, Pakistan
M Hashmi, A Asghar, F Shamim, FH Khan
Objective: To assess the predictive performance of Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) software available on the hospital intranet and analyze interrater reliability of calculating the APACHE II score by the gold standard manual method or automatically using the software. Materials and Methods: An expert scorer not involved in the data collection had calculated APACHE II score of 213 patients admitted to surgical Intensive Care Unit using the gold standard manual method for a previous study performed in the department. The same data were entered into the computer software available on the hospital intranet (http://intranet/apacheii) to recalculate the APACHE II score automatically along with the predicted mortality. Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC), Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistical test and Pearson's correlation coefficient was computed. Results: The 213 patients had an average APACHE II score of 17.20 ± 8.24, the overall mortality rate was 32.8% and standardized mortality ratio was 1.00. The area under the ROC curve of 0.827 was significantly >0.5 (P < 0.01) and had confidence interval of 0.77-0.88. The goodness-of-fit test showed a good calibration (H = 5.46, P = 0.71). Interrater reliability using Pearson's product moment correlations demonstrated a strong positive relationship between the computer and the manual expert scorer (r = 0.98, P = 0.0005). Conclusion: APACHE II software available on the hospital's intranet has satisfactory calibration and discrimination and interrater reliability is good when compared with the gold standard manual method.
Dexmedetomidine as an additive to local anesthetics compared with intravenous dexmedetomidine in peribulbar block for cataract surgery
AM Abdelhamid, AAA Mahmoud, MM Abdelhaq, HM Yasin, ASM Bayoumi
Background: No studies compared parenteral dexmedetomidine with its use as an adjuvant to ophthalmic block. We compared between adding dexmedetomidine to bupivacaine in peribulbar block and intravenous (IV) dexmedetomidine during peribulbar block for cataract surgery. Materials and Methods: A prospective, randomized, double-blind study on 90 patients for cataract surgery under peribulbar anesthesia. Study included three groups; all patients received 10 ml of peribulbar anesthesia and IV infusion of drugs as follows: Group I: Received a mixture of bupivacaine 0.5% (4.5 ml) + lidocaine 2% (4.5 ml) + normal saline (1 ml) + 150 IU hyaluronidase + IV infusion of normal saline, Group II: Received mixture of bupivacaine 0.5% (4.5 ml) + lidocaine 2% (4.5 ml) + dexmedetomidine 50 μg (1 ml) +150 IU hyaluronidase + IV infusion of normal saline and Group III: Received mixture of bupivacaine 0.5% (4.5 ml) + lidocaine 2% (4.5 ml) + normal saline (1 ml) +150 IU hyaluronidase + IV dexmedetomidine 1 μg/kg over 10 min; followed by 0.4 μg/kg/h IV infusion. We recorded onset, duration of block, Ramsay Sedation Score, intra-ocular pressure (IOP), hemodynamics, and adverse effects. Results: There was a significant decrease in the onset of action and increase in the duration of block in Group II as compared with the Group I and Group III. Mean Ramsay Sedation Score was higher in Group III. The IOP showed a significant decrease in Group II and Group III 10 min after injection (P < 0.01). Heart rate showed a significant decrease in Group III in comparison with the two other groups (P < 0.05). Only two patients in Group III developed bradycardia. Conclusion: Dexmedetomidine as an additive shortens onset time, prolong block durations and significantly decreases the IOP with minimal side effects. IV dexmedetomidine, in addition, produces intra-operative sedation with hemodynamic stability.
Role of intraseptal anesthesia for pain-free dental treatment
G Gazal, WM Fareed, MS Zafar
Pain control during the dental procedure is essentials and challenging. A complete efficacious pulp anesthesia has not been attained yet. The regional anesthesia such as inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) only does not guarantee the effective anesthesia with patients suffering from irreversible pulpitis. This main aim of this review was to discuss various aspects of intraseptal dental anesthesia and its role significance in pain-free treatment in the dental office. In addition, reasons of failure and limitations of this technique have been highlighted. Literature search was conducted for peer-reviewed articles published in English language in last 30 years. Search words such as dental anesthesia, pain control, intraseptal, and nerve block were entered using a web of knowledge and Google scholar databases. Various dental local anesthesia techniques were reviewed. A combination of block anesthesia, buccal infiltration and intraligamentary injection resulted in deep anesthesia (P = 0.003), and higher success rate compared to IANB. For pain-free management of conditions such as irreversible pulpitis, buccal infiltration (4% articaine), and intraosseous injection (2% lidocaine) are better than intraligamentary and IANB injections. Similarly, nerve block is not always effective for pain-free root canal treatment hence, needing supplemental anesthesia. Intraseptal anesthesia is an efficient and effective technique that can be used in maxillary and mandibular adult dentition. This technique is also beneficial when used in conjunction to the regional block or local dental anesthesia.
Concerns about usage of smartphones in operating room and critical care scenario
JP Attri, R Khetarpal, V Chatrath, J Kaur
Smartphones and tablets have taken a central place in the lives of health care professionals. Their use has dramatically improved the communication and has become an important learning tool as the medical information can be assessed online at anytime. In critical care settings, use of smartphone facilitates quick passage of information through E-mail messaging and getting feedback from the concerned physician quickly, thereby reducing medical errors. However, in addition to the benefits offered, these devices have become a significant source of nosocomial infections, distraction for medical professionals and interfere with medical equipments. They may also put privacy and security of patients at stake. The benefits could be severely undermined if abuse and over use are not kept in check. This review article focuses on various applications of smartphones in healthcare practices, drawback of the use of these devices and the recommendations regarding the safe use of these devices.
Role of oral care to prevent VAP in mechanically ventilated Intensive Care Unit patients
A Gupta, A Gupta, TK Singh, A Saxsena
Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common nosocomial infection in Intensive Care Unit. One major factor causing VAP is the aspiration of oral colonization because of poor oral care practices. We feel the role of simple measure like oral care is neglected, despite the ample evidence of it being instrumental in preventing VAP.
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Dr. Ron’s Research Review – December 18, 2019
This week’s research review focuses on Fenugreek as an aromatase inhibitor.
A study determined the effects of an aromatase and 5-α reductase inhibitor (AI) on strength, body composition, and hormonal profiles in resistance-trained men. (Wilborn et al., 2010)
Thirty resistance-trained men were randomly assigned in a double-blind manner to ingest 500 mg of either a placebo (PL) or AI once per day for 8 wk. Participants participated in a 4-d/wk resistance-training program for 8 wk. At Weeks 0, 4, and 8, body composition, 1-repetition-maximum (1RM) bench press and leg press, muscle endurance, anaerobic power, and hormonal profiles were assessed. Statistical analyses used a 2-way ANOVA with repeated measures for all criterion variables (p ≤ .05).
Participants were matched into one of two groups according to total body weight. They were then randomly assigned in a double-blind manner to ingest capsules containing 500 mg of placebo (maltodextrin; PL) or 500 mg of T. foenum-graecum (standardized for Grecunin; AI; Indus Biotech, India). Participants ingested the assigned capsules once per day in the morning on non-training days and before their workout on training days for 8 weeks.
Significant Group × Time interaction effects occurred over the 8-wk period for percent body fat (AI: -1.77% ± 1.52%, PL: -0.55% ± 1.72%; p = .048), total testosterone (AI: 0.97 ± 2.67 ng/ml, PL: -2.10 ± 3.75 ng/ml; p = .018), and bioavailable testosterone (AI: 1.32 ± 3.45 ng/ml, PL: -1.69 ± 3.94 ng/ml; p = .049).
Significant main effects for time (p ≤ .05) were noted for bench- and leg-press 1RM, lean body mass, and estradiol. No significant changes were detected among groups for Wingate peak or mean power, total body weight, dihydrotestosterone, hemodynamic variables, or clinical safety data (p > .05).
The AI group underwent average increases of 6.57% and 12.26% for total testosterone and bioavailable testosterone, respectively (p < .05). Moreover, we did not see a decrease in serum estradiol and DHT levels, as would be expected from the AI; instead we observed non-significant increases (p > .05) of 26.62% and 6.10%, respectively.
The authors concluded that 500 mg of daily AI supplementation significantly affected percent body fat, total testosterone, and bioavailable testosterone compared with a placebo in a double-blind fashion. (Wilborn et al., 2010)
Effects of a purported aromatase and 5α-reductase inhibitor on hormone profiles in college-age men.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an alleged aromatase and 5-α reductase inhibitor (AI) on strength, body composition, and hormonal profiles in resistance-trained men. Thirty resistance-trained men were randomly assigned in a double-blind manner to ingest 500 mg of either a placebo (PL) or AI once per day for 8 wk. Participants participated in a 4-d/wk resistance-training program for 8 wk. At Weeks 0, 4, and 8, body composition, 1-repetition-maximum (1RM) bench press and leg press, muscle endurance, anaerobic power, and hormonal profiles were assessed. Statistical analyses used a 2-way ANOVA with repeated measures for all criterion variables (p ≤ .05). Significant Group × Time interaction effects occurred over the 8-wk period for percent body fat (AI: -1.77% ± 1.52%, PL: -0.55% ± 1.72%; p = .048), total testosterone (AI: 0.97 ± 2.67 ng/ml, PL: -2.10 ± 3.75 ng/ml; p = .018), and bioavailable testosterone (AI: 1.32 ± 3.45 ng/ml, PL: -1.69 ± 3.94 ng/ml; p = .049). Significant main effects for time (p ≤ .05) were noted for bench- and leg-press 1RM, lean body mass, and estradiol. No significant changes were detected among groups for Wingate peak or mean power, total body weight, dihydrotestosterone, hemodynamic variables, or clinical safety data (p > .05). The authors concluded that 500 mg of dailyAI supplementation significantly affected percent body fat, total testosterone, and bioavailable testosterone compared with a placebo in a double-blind fashion.
Wilborn, C, et al. (2010), ‘Effects of a purported aromatase and 5α-reductase inhibitor on hormone profiles in college-age men.’, Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab, 20 (6), 457-65. PubMed: 21116018
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Vernon K. Robbins
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abbreviation: A form of oral-scribal intertexture where one text recites another but condenses or shortens the recited text. The abridged account does not vary factually from the written version, but the author is free to use his or her own words so that the recitation functions appropriately in its new context.
acquired honor: is honor actively sought and garnered most often at the expense of one's equals in the social contest of challenge-response, where one attempts to publically usurp the reputation of another. It contrasts with ascribed honor, which is bestowed upon a person due to circumstances such as birth, family connections, etc.
action set: An example of one's relation to groups, it is a set of persons who join together as a coalition (a temporary alliance of distinct parties for a limited purpose) to coordinate their actions to achieve a particular goal. Leadership emerges as or after they join forces to achieve the goal. Click here for examples.
agonistic culture: one in which equals regularly engage in contests or games of honor which held the prospect of a win, a tie, or a loss (from the Greek agon, which is an athletic contest or a contest of any sort between equal parties). These games of honor regularly take the form of challenge-response (risposte).
allusion: part of cultural intertexture, it is a statement that presupposes a tradition that exists in textual form, but the text being interpreted is not attempting to "recite" the text. With allusion, the text interacts with phrases, concepts, and traditions that are "cultural" possessions which anyone who knows this culture may use.
alternation: part of innertexture, it refers primarily to the change between narration (the writer's or narrator's voice) and speech (the voice that the narration attributes to specific people). It can, however refer to other kinds of shifts in the story, such as from direct to indirect speech, from first person (I) to second person (you), or to shifts in specific words (good ... bad).
alternative culture: See counterculture
anachronism: presupposing something for one period of time that was present only during a different period of time. Anachronistic interpretations unconsciously impose our social-economic systems of production and distribution on meanings and values in first century Mediterranean society that were the context for the production of our New Testament texts.
analogies: one of the topics or argumentative devices used in thematic elaboration; it embellishes the argument, helping to persuade the audience of its truth. An example of an analogy: as seeds die and a new body grows up, and as there are earthly and heavenly bodies, so a person whose earthly body dies rises up as a heavenly body.
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anthropological theory: an area of study into which social and cultural texture takes the student. It deals with contemporary (modern) scientific theories about the nature of humanity; how people think, behave, interact with others, organize communities, etc.
anthropology: Anthropology is the scientific study of humankind from its beginnings to the present. It is usually broken up into specific but related disciplines: social/cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology.
apocalyptic: An aspect of divine history, it is one of the major types of first century Christian discourse. In apocalyptic, certain seers see revelations from heaven as the end time approaches, making events and procedures of the endtime known before they occur.
apocalyptic rhetorolect/belief system/form of life: One of six major first century Christian rhetorolect/belief systems. First century Christian apocalyptic belief blends human experiences of the emperor and his imperial army (firstspace) with God’s heavenly temple city (secondspace), which can only be occupied by holy, undefiled people. In the space of blending, God functions as a heavenly emperor who gives commands to emissaries to destroy all the evil in the universe and to create a cosmic environment where holy bodies experience perfect well-being in the presence of God. Apocalyptic belief, then, features destruction of evil and construction of a cosmic environment of perfect well-being. The goal of this blending is to call people into action and thought guided by perfect holiness. The presupposition of the belief system is that only perfect holiness and righteousness can bring a person into the presence of God, who destroys all evil and gathers all holiness together in God's presence. Apocalyptic redemption, therefore, means the presence of all of God’s holy beings in a realm where God’s holiness and righteousness are completely and eternally present. Return to Rhetorolect/Belief Systems table.
argumentative devices: Aspects of thematic elaboration that create argumentative texture, argumentative devices are used by rhetoricians in stories as well as speeches to persuade the reader to think and act in one way rather than another. They include: assertions, rationales, opposites, analogies, examples, and recitations of ancient written testimony. See also reasoning.
argumentative texture: A subtexture of inner texture that refers to the reasoning a text employs to persuade its reader to a conclusion. The reasoning may either be logical, where assertions are supported by syllogistic reasoning, or qualitative, where the reader is led to accept an assertion or portrayal as true because of the quality of the support of the assertion or portrayal. Click here for examples.
ascribed honor: A type of honor that befalls or happens to a person passively through birth, family connections, or endowment by notable persons of power. Its counterpart is acquired honor.
assertions: one of the major argumentative devices used by ancient rhetoricians, it is essentially the thesis presented by the discourse which must then be supported by the other devices.
attributed actions: the behavior, movement, deeds, etc. that a narrator gives to his/her characters. Early Christian discourse, for example, attributes much of its action to people like Jesus, Peter, and Paul.
attributed speech: the words that a narrator puts in the mouth of his/her characters. Early Christian discourse, for example, attributes much of its speech to people like Jesus, Peter, and Paul. See also recontextualization in attributed speech.
authoritative testimony:
Definitions based upon Vernon K. Robbins, Exploring the Texture of Texts, Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996 and Vernon K. Robbins, The Tapestry of Early Christianity: Rhetoric, Society, and Ideology, London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
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Reading Challenge Book #10, Before, After, and Somebody in Between by Jeannine Grasser
By taylaholman May 21, 2012 May 21, 2012 Books/reading
Date started: May 16, 2012
Date finished: May 17, 2012
Taken from GoodReads: “One hour into her first day of tenth grade, Martha Kowalski knows she’s really in trouble. The school bully, Chardonnay, has already threatened her life–and at home, things are even worse. Martha’s mom, fresh out of rehab, is shacking up with an obnoxious jerk in a neighborhood that can only be described as a ‘ghetto.’
More than anything she’s ever wanted, Martha wants to play the cello. But even music becomes dangerous to her health–because nothing is what it seems in this place. With her mother’s willpower dissolving, Martha watches helplessly as her own dreams slip further away.
But in an exhilarating twist that would stun even Cinderella, everything changes. A wealthy lawyer invites her into his family’s home and Martha is given a chance to start over. The warm, caring Brinkmans treat Martha like one of the family and even though it feels so right, she knows they can’t be as perfect as they seem. And she knows that this fairy tale can’t last forever…
An unforgettable debut, Before, After and Somebody in Between is smart, poignant, and very real.”
I have very mixed feelings about this book. It was only after finishing it that I realized that it is supposed to be a YA novel, which surprised me a bit considering some of the material. But the protagonist’s voice is definitely that of a 14-year-old which, now that I am almost a decade removed from that age (wow, that makes me feel old), might as well be a foreign language. While I sympathized with Martha in some parts, I mostly found her to be incredibly petulant, especially while she was living with the Brinkmans. Yes, her situation was horrible, but I felt that a lot of her misfortune was her own fault. I realize expecting teenagers to be rational is completely irrational, but how could she not learn her lesson after seeing the outcome the first, second, fifteenth time? After all, you can’t keep poking a sleeping bear and expect it not to attack, and apparently that is something that our protagonist simply doesn’t understand.
That said, I really have to disagree with the last line of the summary. This book is neither unforgettable, smart, poignant, nor very real. While the themes — child abuse, alcoholism, racism — are real, the book itself doesn’t feel realistic. The ending felt rushed and is incredibly ambiguous — good in some cases, but not in this one — and the characters don’t have any real depth. Richard Brinkman takes Martha in because she reminds him of his deceased daughter? Chardonnay bullies Martha simply because she’s white? Nikki hates Martha because she’s jealous that her father took her in? Are these people really that shallow?
I really did want to like this book. The premise sounded really interesting and the sample I read before buying it hooked me. But the more I read, the more bored and frustrated I got. For Martha to be such a smart girl, she repeatedly made really stupid choices. Ultimately, I doubt I will remember this book months from now but, if I do, it will be with disappointment for the loss of potential that made me want to read it in the first place.
Tagged alcoholism, before after and somebody in between, child abuse, jeannine garsee, racism.
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Best known as home to one of Turkey's most famous and populrt football teams, Fenerbahçe ("the Yellow Canaries"), Fenerbahçe is a waterside suburb that is home to the big Kalamış Marina. It's named after the local lighthouse (fener) and is a generally well-heeled residential area with lots of inviting cafes and restaurants dotted about its streets. Just a handful of old wooden houses survive from the original neighbourhood.
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Fenerbahçe play to crowds of up to 54,000 spectators in the modern Şükrü Saraçoğlu Stadium which was completely renovated in 2006. Nearby stands a statue of one of the team's most famous players, Lefter Kücükandonyadis (1925-2012).
The old Kadıköy Salı Pazarı (Tuesday Market) now takes places in nearby Hasanpaşa but is only really worth the effort of getting to if you feel the urge to stock up on cheap T-shirts.
Opposite the Kalamış Marina the small 19th-century Church of Hagios Ioannis Khrysostomos is easy to overlook and of no great architectural interest. The narthex does, however, retain an old stone printing block that shows what İstanbul used to look like.
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Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics arrives in stores today!
As we mentioned in our earlier article today, which included exclusive interviews from San Diego Comic-Con, Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics, an all-new documentary produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and DC Entertainment, arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD today, Friday, October 25, 2013,at a retailer near you.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has provided an all-new official clip from the film featuring Kevin Conroy, the fan favorite voice of Batman; Zack Snyder, director of “Man of Steel”; and Dr. Andrea Letamendi, renowned geek psychologist; as well as the recognizable voice of ultimate villain Christopher Lee, who provides the narration for the documentary. The topic of the clip is whether or not villains are born bad.
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics explores the thin line between right and wrong, the nature of evil and how super-villains can reflect society’s dark side as well as our own personal fears. It also offers keen insight as to the reasons why comic book fans are so fascinated by the very characters they hope to see defeated. Featuring interviews with such luminaries as directors Richard Donner (Superman), Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim) and Zack Snyder (Man of Steel), the film focuses on DC Comics’ most terrifying villains, including The Joker, Lex Luthor, Bane, Black Adam, Black Manta, Catwoman, Darkseid, Deathstroke, Doomsday, General Zod, Sinestro, the Suicide Squad, and more.
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The British Golf Museum - 5 interactive programmes
The British Golf Museum
5 interactive programmes
Client: British Golf Museum
Located at the Home of Golf in St Andrews, the British Golf Museum had a requirement to make more of their artefacts & collections accessible to the public other than simply on display in cases and graphic panels.
Working with designers Ross Associates and the Museum curators, SIAV and Pixelstag designed, produced and created 5 new interactive programmes. The origins of Golf Clubs in far flung corners of the globe were explored, an interactive quiz on the attributes of the 'stars' of the vast trophy collections throws up interesting facts. Visitors are invited to create their own 'legal' golf club............approved by the R&A rules or find out about some of the early club & ball makers working in St Andrews.
The costume collection is featured in an interactive which allows the visitor to design their own front cover for a golf magazine, selecting era, feature stories and then taking a photo of themselves to insert as guest editor before emailing it home -to anywhere in the world, by all accounts proving very popular!
In 2015 Campbell & Co commissioned a film for the new entrance hall exhibition, and SIAV created a compilation of golfing images & films from throughout the history of golf, featuring some of the famous faces & special moments accompanied by a specially created sound effects track.
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Fat reduces strength of muscle tissue, SFU study finds
Intramuscular fat changes the way muscles work, possibly creating impediments to recovering from obesity.
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High-fat content changes muscle fibres and robs them of strength, according to new research published by researchers at Simon Fraser University.
“Understanding how this fat alters the ability of our muscles to develop force will mark an important step to help maintain mobility and a healthy lifestyle in all Canadians, even if we can’t halt the process completely,” said lead researcher James Wakeling.
Intramuscular fat — which may reside within muscle fibres or accumulate as blobs that bloat and reshape entire muscles — tends to increase in people as they age and in people who become obese.
“Accumulation of intramuscular fat seems to be ubiquitous during aging and for people with obesity,” said Wakeling.
Graduate student Hadi Rahemi stumbled onto the effect while studying the properties of different kinds of muscle fibres and discovered that muscles containing more fat are less powerful.
The fibres in fat-bloated muscles are oriented at different angles because of increased muscle size in obese people and due to muscle shrinkage in the elderly.
When the fibres of the muscle don’t line up with the main direction of force in the muscle, it is robbed of strength, explained Wakeling. In addition, the quality of muscle fibre changes with fat content, which makes them stiffer so more energy is required and muscle force is reduced.
So, our ability to perform everyday tasks declines as fat accumulates in muscles.
With the help of SFU math professor Nilima Nigam, the researchers were able to create mathematical and computational models of five different fat content scenarios, some in which fat was simply added and the amount of muscle fibre remained constant and others where it replaced some muscle tissue.
“I thought that adding fat to muscle would decrease force in proportion to the amount of contractile tissue that was replaced by fat,” said Wakeling. “But the force went down far more than expected.”
The finding suggests that fat content alters the performance and mechanics of the muscle tissue itself, decreasing the force it generates.
“It appears to be working harder against itself or the fat within it,” said Wakeling.
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I Hate Indiana Jones: Day 45
Day 45: Indiana Jones and the Absence of a Good Henchman
When talking about the Indiana Jones franchise the villains tend to get a lot of attention and rightfully so. The first film's 1-2 punch of Belloq and Toht makes for one of the greatest villain combinations of all time, and while Mola Ram doesn't get a lot of screen time in Temple of Doom, it doesn't stop him from being memorably menacing. By comparison, the lack of any quality or even noteworthy villains in Last Crusade is yet another strike that film has against it. As wonderful as those central villains are, though, in praising them we can wind up overlooking the smaller characters that made the film's action sequences so compelling: the henchmen.
Specifically I'm speaking of the three henchmen played by one actor across two films. The actor/stuntman's name is Pat Roach, and he was former British wrestler who cut an imposing figure and could sell a punch like nobody's business. In Raiders of the Lost Ark he portrayed both the giant sherpa who wrestles with Indiana Jones in Marion's bar and the Nazi mechanic who has an unfortunate run in with the flying wing's propeller. He returned for Temple of Doom to don offensive brownface once more as the giant thugee guard who forces Indiana Jones to drink blood and enter the thugee black sleep.
Each one of those characters gets a fantastic fight scene and while it would be esay to credit those scenes' success to the fact that they all featured the same skilled stuntman, but it's actually far more complex than that. A combination of writing, direction and performance combined to create fight scenes in which the person beating up Indiana Jones isn't just a large thug, but rather an actual character the audience can understand.
Starting with the Raiders of the Lost Ark, think about the beautiful moment with the Sherpa in the bar as he and Indiana Jones wrestle over Indy's pistol. Bored of watching them struggle, Toht orders one of the Nazis to shoot both of which his MP40. Harrison and the Sherpa are shocked for a moment, but then immediately bond over their imminent danger and team-up just long enough to pump the Nazi full of holes before going back to fighting one another. It's a perfect moment where an otherwise completely throwaway henchmen character acknowledges the fact that he's a real person who values his own life, and is more than willing to compromise his goals if it means preserving his own life. At least for a few minutes, anyways.
The fight with the mechanic is just as interesting in a different way. Just as with the Sherpa, this character has essentially no dialogue, bu in the brief seconds we see the character the audience gets to know him a little. Demonstrating through body language alone, were introduced to a character who absolutely loves to fight. Who, based on his fighting style, was probably an amateur boxer at some point in his past. He's clearly bored being stuck out in the desert maintaining vehicles, and so the second he sees a chance to beat someone up, he tries to make the fight last as long as he possibly can. He could finish Indy off at any point in the fight, yet every time he knocks Harrison down, the mechanic demands that he get back up and continue the fight in a fair manner. That's what makes his end so hilariously ironic - it's his utter focus on the fight that keeps him from noticing the propeller closing in on him.
Probably the most affecting of Pat Roach's appearances in the Indiana Jones films is his turn as the giant thugee, better known as the man who gets pulled into the rock crusher. That's another great moment of cameraderie - Harrison Ford is desperately fighting for his life against a man twice his size, but when the guard's belt gets caught in the crusher the dynamic instantly turns. Indy goes from battling the guard to desperately trying to save him. It is a wonderful moment of horror dropped in at the end of that fight, as the audience is shown that no matter how awful someone might have been, absolutely no one deserves to die like that.
So what is there to compare in the Valley of the Crystal Skull? Like last Crusade before it, absolutely nothing. Oh, there's still a fight scene - in fact two of them against the same large henchman, but the henchman himself is so utterly lacking in personality that the two fights might as well have been against different people. What makes the whole situation all the more egregiously awful is the Indiana Jones doesn't even win the fights in an Indiana Jones kind of way. There's no luck, no cleverness, no trickery, absolutely nothing special about these fights. Indiana Jones just wins. Two fights against a man thirty years younger and likely twice as strong.
At least in the first fight Indiana Jones having a chance makes a modicum of sense. The fight starts with Indiana Jones knocking the commie off of a platform and through plate glass window. Conceivably this could have weakened the younger man enough that Indiana Jones would've had a fighting chance. Even that slight sliver of plausibility goes right out the window at the fight's resolution, which has both Harrison and the Commie clinging to the front of a Rocket sled pulling three Gs as it blasts out of a secret tunnel. Indy wins the fight not through cleverness or treachery, but rather because a man in his late 50s manages to effectively resist the force of being strapped to the front of a rocket while a highly trained and tough as nails Russian soldier 30 years his junior does not. I know the entire point of the Indiana Jones character is that he's a little tougher than the average person of his build, but there's a line and this is well across it.
Their second battle is even worse from a filmmaking standpoint, because we're left with absolutely no explanation as to how Indy could've possibly won the fight. He just does. The two men engage in fisticuffs in a miniature arena created by a sea of flesh eating ants. Despite the communist soldier being Indy's physical superior in every conceivable way he loses a fair one-on-one fistfight. It's not like India has the help of the ants or the crystal skull or even John hurt who was sitting right there the whole time. Indy winning this fight is the equivalent of Rocky Balboa beating Ivan Drago without the spirit of American jingoism backing him up.
The whole thing is rendered all the more unpleasant by the fact that the filmmakers decided to wrap up the fight with a gross-out scene intended to remind viewers of the big henchmen fights from Raiders and Temple. The main difference is that while the gruesome resolutions of those fights were left tastefully off camera and for the most part out of Indy's direct control, this one is presented in in the middle of the frame in living Technicolor. It's also surprisingly mean-spirited.
At the end of the flight Indy has thoroughly beaten up the giant Russian. Once the fight is, for all intents and purposes, over, Harrison delivers a coup de grace knocking the Russian back into the sea of swarming ants, causing him to be pulled, alive and screaming, into their giant anthill, for the 'worse-than-death' fate of being devoured alive. Just to be absolutely clear, Indiana Jones apparently does this on purpose.
Compare this to his other fights. Having the mechanic get chopped up by the propeller blades is the only thing that save's Indy's life. Things aren't looking so good in the fight with the thugee guard when he's dragged into the rock crusher, but despite Indy's life being in imminent danger, his first instinct is to try to help his opponent. In Crystal Skull, Indy has already won the fight, but rather than just let the Commie slump to the ground, beaten and broken, he elects to feed him to a swarm of carnivorous ants.
Does that seem just the least bit out of character to anyone else?
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Lyrica Anderson is no doubt dope, but she most definitely gets it from her momma, Lyrica Garrett.
Houston-raised Lyrica Garrett has always had a song in her heart. She was discovered by the legendary Tina Turner and got her career poppin’ at the age of 12. She’s done a few tours in the US and Europe and even toured with a little production known as The Wiz for two years, you might’ve heard of it since it’s kind of a big deal. She’s worked with some legends like Rick James, Chaka Kahn, Stevie Wonder, and Luther Vandross– to name a few. In the years prior to his death, Lyrica performed often with Ike Turner. See for yourself, she definitely put in that work!
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Applebee's holds Charity Auction to bring HOPE to Pekin
On Saturday morning, October 19th, Pekin Applebee’s Restaurant will be auctioning off all their memorabilia décor as they prepare to remodel their Pekin Facility. The Charity Auction will begin at 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. with doors opening at 8:00 a.m. to the public for viewing all items for sale. Auction proceeds will benefit the Pekin Community through The HOPE Chest of Pekin as they help underpriviledged families right here in Tazewell County.
The Pekin Applebee’s will be undergoing a 1 week remodeling project in early November. To give back to their community they decided to hold a Charity Auction and sell the memorabilia that has been decorating their establishment for years. Items for sale will includevarious Pekin JFL team photos and medals, PHCS team photos, Tiffany Lamps, various beer signs, 8”x10” framed photos of celebrities, Coca Cola items, a carousel horse, Rail Road items, sports items, Cubs, Bears, and NASCAR memorabilia, and much much more. Senator Dirksen items have been donated to the Pekin Public Library. All items will be auctioned Oct. 19th beginning at 9 a.m.
Absentee bids can also be placed by stopping by the restaurant prior to the auction.
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Preview: Vamos festival turns up heat for summer
Updated 16:29, 6 Jun 2014
By David Whetstone
The annual Vamos festival gives a Latin flavour to art, music, food, film and much, much more
Brazillian dancers perform a mardi gras dance routine to drums and trumpets
Looking for a warm-up for the World Cup in Brazil? ¡Vamos! should do the trick. The North East celebration of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking cultures always turns up the heat... and Portuguese, of course, is the language of Brazil.
The festival, nine years old this year, has become a fixture on the North East calendar.
Perhaps you wouldn’t have bet much on its staying power when it was conceived. The North East, you might have thought, traditionally looks to northern Europe and Scandinavia rather than the lands of sombreros, tapas and flamenco.
But Nik Barrera – ¡Vamos! co-director with Patricia Oliart and Sara Lourenco – says the festival, which made its debut in 2006, has brought together all sorts of people with different reasons to thrill to the sound of a Latin American beat, whether musical, literary or otherwise.
They are immigrants, descendants of immigrants, academics and, increasingly, people who have developed a passion for the vibrant cultures of the countries – European or South or Central American – which fall under the ¡Vamos! linguistic parasol.
To enjoy the festival or participate in it you don’t have to speak Spanish or Portuguese. Knowing that ¡olá! and ¡hola! mean hello should be enough.
Nik reminds me that he has a personal interest because of his Colombian father, whom he grew up not knowing.
The official language of Colombia is Spanish. Nik, who came to the North East from Bristol to study art at Northumbria University, made his curiosity and yearning for a country and a culture he didn’t properly know the subject of his degree show. After graduating, he stayed in the region.
Hannabiell at the Vamos festival 2014
Through ¡Vamos! he has drawn together a community of people who share his fascination for places far away and has caused their number to grow.
The festival has extraordinarily broad appeal, as was clear at the launch on a grey Newcastle Quayside when Brazilian dancers wearing little more than their mardi gras feathers gamely managed not to shiver.
“I’ve always been passionate about the visual arts but the festival brings lots of different art forms together,” says Nik.
“We celebrate music, food, literature, film and much more (Mexican wrestling, for example). I love the idea that we could come up with 10 different versions of the festival programme and they would all be equally exciting.”
Nik says support for the festival has always been keen. Key partners such as Newcastle University and Arts Council England have stayed faithful to the concept and it has wooed some substantial audiences.
“We come across a lot of people who say they come to ¡Vamos! but don’t necessarily go to other cultural events in the region, so I believe people have developed a sense of ownership of the festival,” says Nik.
“I think we are changing as a nation, too. Even if the Latin American proportion of the population is still relatively small, we’re becoming more multi-cultural and a Latin American festival in the North East, while still being quite exotic, can also be inclusive at the same time.” With his particular interest in the visual arts, Nik secured Arts Council funding to commission Brazilian artist Flavio Morais to make a special ¡Vamos! pavilion.
This will appear at various locations during the festival – for instance, outside Northern Stage to meet the opening Mardi Gras parade on June 7 – but will then also be used to take festival highlights around the country.
Touring ¡Vamos! is one of Nik’s aims, along with making it a year-round brand.
Among the many attractions of this year’s festival are film screenings at Side Cinema, a Cubano-inspired pop-up restaurant at Newcastle College’s Lifestyle Academy, lunchtime concerts by Young Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead and a Miró exhibition at the Balman Gallery in Corbridge.
But the main action of the festival is focused on three vibrant June weekends...
WEEKEND ONE (June 6-8)
A Mardi Gras procession featuring musicians, dancers and children from eight Newcastle schools will parade up Northumberland Street at noon on June 7, culminating in a performance on the lawn outside Northern Stage and heralding an afternoon of free activities. In the evening at the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre there will be a performance by Jaleo Flamenco from Seville.
In Middlesbrough, a new commission by artists Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, who form avaf, will open on June 5 at mima and be on display until June 22.
WEEKEND TWO (June 13-15)
Get along to Summerhill Bowling Club, Winchester Terrace, Newcastle, for an evening screening of Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down by cult Spanish film-maker Pedro Almodóvar on June 13 and a free family picnic on the 14th with lots of music, dancing and children’s activities.
Attractions include award-winning Afro-Brazilian band De Lata and Element Dance Company.
On the 15th, Radio Revellers will present The Blade of Xorro at the bowling club – laughs and slapstick aplenty – and Portuguese Day will be marked with an event at Bar Loco, Leazes Park Road, when Newcastle University will also celebrate 50 years of teaching Portuguese.
WEEKEND THREE (June 20-22)
The broad scope of ¡Vamos! allows for a major literary conference on June 20-21 at Great North Museum: Hancock and Mexican wrestling on June 21 at the Toffee Factory, Newcastle Quayside.
The conference will look at forms of storytelling in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds and speakers will include Peruvian writer, journalist and radio producer Daniel Alarcón, Basque graphic novelist Javier de Isusi and Gabriela Wiener, chief editor of Marie Claire in Spain.
The festival will end with a free beach party at Crusoes cafe in Tynemouth, on the 22nd.
¡Vamos! will run from June 6-22. For the full programme of events and activities visit www.vamosfestival.com
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Gill Hale: Inequality will create lingering issues for us all
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Unison regional secretary Gill Hale says we can't reform our economy if it means widening the gulf between the haves and have nots
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As I was driving to work recently I heard a statistic that really staggered me.
Oxfam reported that, by 2016, the top 1% will possess more than 50% of the world’s wealth.
To me, this is absolutely staggering. It started me thinking about the growing inequality in our society and the increasing divide between those that have and those that have not.
The Greek election results have shown that there is rising condemnation of the austerity measures. Grassroots opposition is permeating throughout Europe, including in Italy and Spain, with growing opposition to the punishment imposed by a remote elite on working people.
We have lived with an economic philosophy for over 30 years that wealth would “trickle down” to working people. Austerity has been sold to us as necessary to build a future for the next generation that would eventually lift living standards.
The reality has been that working people have watched their wages stagnate while business profits soar. Where are the quality jobs and higher living standards we were assured would result?
Inequality is growing and it is individuals locally and the trade union movement collectively which should be pushing the debate with politicians and economists to place inequality at the forefront of future discussions on economic policies.
Reforming our economy and productivity cannot ignore the social impact of inequality. Inclusivity must be at the heart of the agenda for economic and social strategy that creates jobs, with decent rates of pay, which raises living standards, and thereby shares economic growth within our communities. Reform can both drive productivity growth and fairly share its benefits.
Leader of Syriza left-wing party Alexis Tsipras
For far too many in our society their reality comprises loan sharks, zero hours contracts, food banks and grinding poverty.
Through no fault of their own, they are working multiple jobs on minimum wages and suffering in work poverty. They have few opportunities of improving their employment chances.
Dependent on in-work benefits, they are seeing themselves being demonised as scroungers by the media.
The world of work has changed significantly and many are fearful of their employment status.
When George Osborne lauds that new jobs are being created and unemployment is falling, the question has to be asked as to what type of jobs are they.
The latest annual report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has highlighted that insecure, low-paid jobs are leaving record numbers of working families in poverty, with two-thirds of people who found work in the past year taking jobs for less than the living wage. As George Bernard Shaw, said, “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”
The growing sense of insecurity is having a profound effect on individuals. In the UK last year, 50 million prescriptions were issued for antidepressants, and more young men died from suicide than any other cause. This is a sad reflection on the state of our society, and a tragedy for the individuals concerned.
Inequality is not a fringe issue, politicians and governments need to acknowledge and accept that they have to grasp this as a priority.
As Guardian columnist and author Owen Jones recently wrote: “it is essential that they recognise that nurses, builders, teachers, labourers, hairdressers, shop assistants and service sector workers are as much generators of growth as bankers, investors, businesses and multinational companies.”
Together we should be debating what kind of a society we want to live in. What are our values and how can these be linked to sustainable and equitable growth? Ethics, which appears to be absent from the politics of reform, should be at its centre helping to truly enable social mobility and economic growth in the 21st century.
As individuals I think we know when things just don’t seem right, and I think there is a necessity for us to ensure that the issue of inequality is tackled as a priority.
I also believe that we want to see social justice and a fair distribution of wealth, which allows for the building of a just and fairer society for us all. This is not an unreasonable demand. People deserve to live with dignity and earn a living wage.
It isn’t rocket science to realise that if this issue is not addressed then we will be creating a huge social problem that will not go away.
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The group of words derived from the Latin saeculum (age or generation) are often ambiguous and their ambiguities are too often exploited for polemical purposes. In mediaeval times ‘secular’ meant temporal or worldly as opposed to the timeless realm of the divine but applied – for example – to clergy who lived ‘in the world’ rather than in monastic seclusion.
This meaning of ‘belonging to the world and its affairs as distinguished from the church and religion’ (Oxford English Dictionary) remains the central meaning of the word today, but it has also taken on another meaning derived from coinage of the term ‘secularism’ by G J Holyoake in the 1850s to label a non-religious but ‘positive and ethical’ philosophy of life.
But ‘secularism’ has come to mean something more specific: the political philosophy that the state should preserve a distance from religion, should be neutral as between rival religions and beliefs. This is a doctrine that has derived much support from the growth of ideas about human rights and their enshrinement in international treaties and national laws since World War II.
A by-product of this development, however, has been a de-centering of religion – or rather, of Christianity – from its customary privileged place in European and other ‘western’ societies. Not unnaturally, traditionalist churchmen have seen the ideas of secularism as hostile to their interests, and so have come to lump together all secularists, denouncing alike those who support an open, neutral society (among whom many are in fact religious) and those ‘secularists’ who are hostile to religion, such as the so-called ‘new atheists’.
In the papers in this section it is secularism as a political philosophy that I concentrate on. The paper The Challenge of Secularism explores more of what is meant by secularism in this sense, and the paper Humanism and the Open Society argues the case for an open society in which Humanism will be just one more ‘religion or belief’. The paper Freedom of Religion and Belief and Freedom of Speech in an Open Society takes a more detailed and political view and asks three questions: 1: What is the legitimate role within society of groups representing a religion or belief? 2: What are the limits of self-govt for such groups within society? 3: What are the limits of free speech in the public space for religions and beliefs? Secularism – an approach from Human Rights points up the way that human rights almost entail a secularist politics.
The article Secularism in Europe takes a bird’s eye view of the constitutional and legal position in Europe; and another short article sounds the alarm about threats to secularism in the UK and Europe.
Finally, a paper on a more specialised topic concerns the way that the European Union engages with religion and belief: Article 17: Reasons for Concern produces evidence of a bias towards religion and discrimination against non-religious philosophies, contrary to the principles of the EU.
A collection of papers written over a period of years by David Pollock, trustee of Humanists UK and sometime president of the European Humanist Federation.
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Some of the damage in Portsmouth, Dominica, following the passage of Hurricane Maria. (M. Elcock/BGIS)
Damaged homes, businesses and offices are no match for the resilience and determination of residents living in Portsmouth, a town on the northwest coast of Dominica.
They have already begun to pick up the pieces after the category five-Hurricane Maria slammed into the island on September 18.
The residents have been using their personal vehicles to free the roadways, clogged with debris left behind by the hurricane, while at least one other ensured that his community was well lit at night through the use of his generator.
Jenner Boston, an electrician by profession, not only threw open his doors to close to 40 persons from his community during the storm’s passage, but continued to run power at night using his own generator so his neighbours could receive electricity.
“I purchased the diesel before the storm struck so I had the tank full before the storm,” he explained.
Like some others, he has already begun repairing the damaged areas of his home, which included replacing three windows and two doors. “It was a very scary experience and I am still shaken,” he admitted.
Meanwhile, shelter assistant at the Roosevelt Douglas Primary School, Alicia Christopher, did not allow her personal situation to deter her from helping others.
“Gas is among things we salvaged from our homes, which were totally destroyed, so we brought them here to use them [to the school] to help others,” she stated.
Christopher, who is also a healthcare practitioner, said there were presently 150 people staying in the shelter, among them babies, a pregnant woman, elderly persons, asthmatics and diabetics.
“Right now we have a need for water, formula and baby items,” she appealed.
However, she said, it was the residents who came to their assistance in refilling the tanks until help arrived from the Dominica Fire Station and Ambulance Service.
When a Barbados Government Information Service team visited the Portsmouth Hospital, the building, like few shops and a gas station, was open for business despite sustaining damage.
Dr Francine Jeffrey said the hospital sustained damage to its children’s and female wards. “It was a mess but we cleared it,” she said, noting they were presently working with just two doctors and eight nurses for the entire hospital.
Despite these challenges, the staff was able to stabilise a number of patients, including a mother and two-day-old baby who were airlifted from Benjamin Park in Portsmouth by a French helicopter to Martinique for further medical care.
In addition, she said the hospital was also preparing other patients to be airlifted to Martinique for further treatment.
Meanwhile, homeowners in the remote area have also started the rebuilding exercise, with several of them beginning to clean inside their homes, which were flooded during the hurricane.
However, while they have begun the rebuilding effort, like the rest of Dominica, residents in Portsmouth are happy to see that aid is coming.
(By Julia Rawlins-Bentham – Caribbean News Now)
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The Art of Film and TV Title Design
in Art, Film, Television | April 26th, 2012 1 Comment
PBS' web series Off Book talks to artists working hard, whether they're doing so in the street, in tattoo parlors, on Etsy, or on film and television title sequences. In the latest installment above, Karin Fong and Peter Frankfurt discuss their now-iconic Mad Men title sequence, as well as their earlier and more troubling opening credits for David Fincher's Se7en. Ben Conrad explains how his title work integrated into the physical world of Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland, allowing zombies to rampage right through floating letters announcing things like "Columbia Pictures" and "Produced by Gavin Polone," and spelling out the numbered rules of post-apocalyptic survival even as the protagonists observed, bent, and broke them. Jim Helton tells the story of his back-and-forth with director Derek Cianfrance in designing the titles for Blue Valentine, which take exploding-firework imagery and aesthetically unify it with the scattered memories that make up the movie. All of them face the challenge of simultaneously inviting audiences into a story, reflecting its sensibility, and on top of that, making an original contribution to the production as a whole.
Though the meeting of design, film, and television has never been more enthusiastically examined than in this era of internet video, this line of work has a rich history. After this episode of Off Book's end credits, the interviewees all give props to title designer Saul Bass — "Saint Saul," Frankfurt calls him — who, if you believe them, elevated title sequences, corporate logos, and other previously plain and straightforward means of visual communication into art forms unto themselves. Watch Bass' creations in North By Northwest, The Man With the Golden Arm, and West Side Story, some of the earliest title sequences to showcase the form's capacity for implication and abstraction, and you'll understand his importance to these modern-day designers. Perhaps this brief visual introduction to Bass' designs, previously featured on Open Culture, will inspire you to get into the business yourself.
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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
Derek Cianfrance has been an inspiration to us all. Thanks for posting this.
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Paintings & Little gardens
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Zoi Pappa
GARDENS | SOLO SHOW
Images credits: Agostino Loffredi, Nikolas Panagiaris
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Greek artist and curator Zoi Pappa, winner of Nuovi Mondi Creative Contest, exhibits in CORTE’s spaces “Gardens”, her first solo show in Italy.
“Gardens” is a series of existing and future artworks that Zoi Pappa is working on under the concept of the new worlds. Wallpaper is a ready-made painting she paints over keeping some parts of the existing illustration. The viewer will hardly distinguish where the painting of the wallpaper ends and where painting intervention starts. The core of the project is the idea of experimenting in the processes of perception. Nothing is as it seems, nothing is for granted. Worlds of transience where subjects, objects, and territories live states of continuous transformation and facing surprisingly their potential renaissance, creation, evolution, dissolution and disappearance. This juxtaposition highlights the contingent and transient nature of life that structure our daily experience, where a random incident can penetrate anytime and change the flow of things.
In certain way these “Gardens” constitutes “other worlds” made up from slices of unexpected which is visually reflected in the selection of the diversity of images. It is a reaction against the prevailing values and structures of society. A romantic refusal of that ‘sense of reality’ which strives to invade and control the personal sphere of emotions. Through the use of a language half-rooted in the sub-conscious imagery of symbols, dreams and myth, and half-rooted in the outer world of impressions, science, nanotechnology, physics, mathematics, architecture, chemistry, biology and anatomy, Zoi attempts to achieve a ‘non-sense’ and an incoherence that leads to the entire exploration of the inner sense and the substance.
A poetic transformation of the world into a spiritual world, where everything is combined and related. Human achievements, researches, observations and knowledge that grows and flourish from nature. The desire is to go beyond the values of current morality, to return to innocence and create a world independent of any logic or principle. The selective and individualised points of view will provide stimuli for personal mythologies and diversity of interpretation and meaning.
In the course of the evening the Contest catalogue featuring the ten finalist artworks will be presented: "Punti di Vista" by Danilo Chiesa & Walter Larteri, "Mappe per un nuovo mondo" by Arianna Favaro, "Take the white tablets first/ Permenides of Elea" by Fabio Gaudio, "Io amo l'invisibile" by Golsa Golchini, "Letsworktogether" by Martin Ernst Groß, "Eterogenesi" by Matteo Preite, Alessandro Legittimo & Gianmarco Macchia, "Cheloide alchemico" by Jacopo Mandich, "Gardens” by Zoi Pappa, "Cosmomorphia" by Roberta Isai & David Erwin Sever, "Guggenheim NY" by Luca Zanta.
---Zoi Pappa (Athens, 1975) has a dual identity as an artist and independent curator. She is the owner of the alternative project space Zoi’s and occasionally work as an art tutor in several institutions. She was employee of the Exhibition Department of Glasgow School of Art and the Contemporary Art space Tramway (Glasgow-Scotland). She was part of the Reconstruction Community, a platform initiated by a group of art theorists and historians, architects, sociologists and artists. The starting point had been the rethinking of the actual scene of Athens as a contemporary metropolis. Curatorials: Trauma Queen, Athens, Greece. Transleat me, Athens, Greece. Who cares about Greek art?, Athens, Greece. Trash Art, Athens, Greece. Guest curator On Books and Translation, 98 Weeks project space, Beirut, Lebanon. Street Hacker, Centro de Extensión de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, San Diego-Chile.
Nuovi Mondi Creative Contest, in numbers: 13 nationalities, 14 creative fields, 1 launch event, 112 participants, 8 jurors, 10 finalists, 2 official languages, 1 catalogue, 1 exhibition. The contest - launched in June 2014 - was attended by artists of different nationalities coming from different creative fields: painting, illustration, design, architecture, graphic design, scenography, animation, digital art, audio-video installations, video art, photography, writing and poetry, technology. They were asked to express their perceptions and interpretations of Nuovi Mondi, meant as new visions, new landscapes, new colours and new materials. Nuovi Mondi are physical and virtual spaces, stratified and multicultural, where borders are crossed and mould-breaking mechanisms of interaction are possible. They are territories to be explored, utopian yet possible spaces.
Nuovi Mondi is the first creative contest launched by the elective co-working group CORTE. It combines the professional and the cultural world, maintaining a profile based on the affinity of the audience of both. CORTE is an extended family of experts in different fields that weave their working lives within the same high walls. Founded in Rome in September of 2013, it has already won a place in the increasingly interconnected middle ground that embraces architecture, design, communication, visual arts and cultural services. A collective authorship, combining seemingly distant areas of knowledge and makes them available to integrated projects. It is in the context of this multidisciplinary research that "Nuovi Mondi" fits, an ideal declination and meeting point between visions.
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GARDENS | Zoi Pappa solo show
January 30 - February 12 2016
monday - friday, 10 am/6 pm
opening and Contest catalogue launch
January 30, 6.30 pm
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186 – Anthony Citrinite: Founder and CEO of The MeetHook App, The Director at The Collective School of Music in New York
by Matthew Crouse · Published September 20, 2018 · Updated September 20, 2018
MeetHook Founder & CEO Anthony Citrinite is an established pro musician with a number of career highlights including playing on live TV with the classic rock band Boston at the Fiesta Bowl in 2002, Katy Perry and Joe Perry in 2009 at Radio City Music Hall on the MTV Video Music awards, and playing percussion for Coheed and Cambria to a sold out show later that year. He can be heard on a number of notable major label releases & movie soundtracks with his band The SmashUp. Anthony has been a part of The Collective School of Music executive staff and board for 23 years.
Anthony is a visionary who is constantly coming up with new ways to help all people follow their passions while sustaining a career in music.
In this episode, Anthony talks about:
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Anthony’s journey
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Spreading the word about MeetHook
The importance of making connections in the music business
Anthony endorses: MRP Custom Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Vater Drumsticks, Evans Drumheads
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To date the PlayStation 4 has been the bestselling of the next generation consoles, however the market research firm NPD has now released figures for the sales of the first full month since both consoles have been released and it shows that, for December at least, the Xbox One topped the charts in the US. Microsoft shifted a massive 908,000 Xbox One units in December, along with 643,000 Xbox 360 consoles, giving it the first and third positions for the bestselling consoles.
Sony’s Senior Director of Corporate Communications, Dan Race, blamed Sony’s sales in December on a lack of stock, explaining that, "We sold every PS4 available at retail in the US and were out of stock in December due to overwhelming consumer demand. With more than 4.2 million PS4 systems sold worldwide, it’s clear that the PS4’s gaming and entertainment features are resonating with large audiences and we’re doing our best to provide additional inventory in all the 53 countries where it’s available."
Sony has sold more units cumulatively than Microsoft worldwide, shifting 4.2 million PS4s in 2013 compared to 3 million Xbox Ones, however Sony will need to keep up with the demand of their customers if they’re to maintain their lead.
The figures come hot off the statement from Microsoft’s Australia Vice President of Retail Sales and Marketing, Alan Bowman, that the differences in hardware between the two consoles are "marginal". He went on to say that, "The purists are gonna argue the toss, but I think it comes down to the games. You’re gonna see great exclusive games on Xbox One, and when you look at the cross-platform games… there’s gonna be exclusive content on Xbox One."
Only time will tell which of the next generation consoles will continue to dominate the top of the sales charts, but which do you think will continue to see the greatest success? Is it the games that will decide your console choice? Or does the hardware or even brand loyalty play a bigger role? Have your say below.
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[Leonard Arrington]
Boyd Packer repeated very strongly his concerns to Earl [Olsen] and said that we must find some way of preventing the printing of these things from occurring in the future and said that unless we can come to some agreement on it we would have to change the management. I asked Earl what that meantwhether it meant getting a new Church Historian or getting a new Assistant Managing Director or just what. Earl said he was not sure, but he thought he meant that he would seek to have another advisor rather than Brother Hunter or perhaps another Acting Managing Director rather than Brother Anderson. I said to Earl, "Does that mean that Brother Packer himself wants to be our advisor?" Earl said he thought that was the case.
Earl said something about clearing things through correlation. I said that would be the worst thing that could happen. How can they possibly judge us on what is good history and what is bad history. Earl said that we may be forced to it. I said I thought the Twelve [Apostles] would outvote Brother Packer if he made such a suggestion.
At any rate, it seems clear that Brother Packer is making some kind of crusade out of it and will not be satisfied to leave it in the hands of Elder Hunter and Elder McConkie. Earl said as a minimum we ought to bring it up with our advisors at our next meeting and get their counsel of what if anything we should do. Earl says Brother Packer expects some kind of an answer and we need to raise this with the advisors.
Maureen [Beecher] brought Gene England in yesterday and he wanted to talk with me at considerable length about the reasons for withdrawing Maureen's piece from Dialogue. I told him that in my judgment it would not be wise to make an appeal on this. That I wanted to leave it on an ad hoc basis and not force a situation which would establish some kind of a rule that I would have to follow in the future. Gene is looking for a job here. The University of Utah will not hire any committed Mormon in English. BYU would be willing to create a special slot to employ him but Neal Maxwell does not want to go to the board with a special slot bearing his name on account of his former Dialogue association. ...
Jim Allen and Doug Alder returned late in the afternoon yesterday from the American History Association convention in Chicago. They reported a very successful meeting of [session sponsored by] the Mormon History Association. ... There were some all-night meetings of LDS, RLDS, and non-LDS which included Jim and Doug and also Jan Shipps, Paul Edwards, Bob Flanders, Larry Foster, Larry Hunt and some others I don't recall. These were productive, interesting, and inspiring, according to Jim and Doug. ...
I expect to start on a biography of Brigham Young before the end of the year. ...
[Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018]
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After Dark, by Wilkie Collins
One evening they were sailing near Sorrento, with a light wind. The beauty of the coast tempted them to keep the boat close inshore. A short time before sunset, they rounded the most picturesque headland they had yet passed; and a little bay, with a white-sand beach, opened on their view. They noticed first a villa surrounded by orange and olive trees on the rocky heights inland; then a path in the cliff-side leading down to the sands; then a little family party on the beach, enjoying the fragrant evening air.
I looked up, motionless, speechless, breathless. The candle, fully spent, went out; but the moonlight still brightened the room. Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bed-top, and still my panic-terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress on which I lay—down and down it sank, till the dusty odor from the lining of the canopy came stealing into my nostrils.
"Think of our bride's brother amusing himself in such a place as that with cooking drugs in saucepans," muttered Monsieur Justin, peeping into the room. "I am the least particular man in the universe, but I must say I wish we were not going to be connected by marriage with an amateur apothecary. Pah! I can smell the place through the window."
Armadale, by Wilkie Collins
"Miss Gwilt's story begins," said Bashwood the younger, "in the market-place at Thorpe Ambrose. One day, something like a quarter of a century ago, a traveling quack doctor, who dealt in perfumery as well as medicines, came to the town with his cart, and exhibited, as a living example of the excellence of his washes and hair-oils and so on, a pretty little girl, with a beautiful complexion and wonderful hair. His name was Oldershaw. He had a wife, who helped him in the perfumery part of his business, and who carried it on by herself after his death. She has risen in the world of late years; and she is identical with that sly old lady who employed me professionally a short time since.
Round the outer edge of the assemblage thus formed, flying detachments of plump white-headed children careered in perpetual motion; while, mysteriously apart from the rest of the inhabitants, the musicians of the Baths stood collected in one lost corner, waiting the appearance of the first visitors to play the first tune of the season in the form of a serenade. The light of a May evening was still bright on the tops of the great wooded hills watching high over the town on the right hand and the left; and the cool breeze that comes before sunset came keenly fragrant here with the balsamic odor of the first of the Black Forest.
On reading over his composition before sealing it up, Allan frankly acknowledged to himself, this time, that it was not quite faultless. "'Picnic' comes in a little too often," he said. "Never mind; if she likes the idea, she won't quarrel with that." He sent off the letter on the spot, with strict instructions to the messenger to wait for a reply.
In half an hour the answer came back on scented paper, without an erasure anywhere, fragrant to smell, and beautiful to see.
Basil, by Wilkie Collins
After a long absence, he came home on a visit. How well I remember the astonishment he produced in the whole household! He had become a foreigner in manners and appearance. His mustachios were magnificent; miniature toys in gold and jewellery hung in clusters from his watch-chain; his shirt-front was a perfect filigree of lace and cambric. He brought with him his own boxes of choice liqueurs and perfumes; his own smart, impudent, French valet; his own travelling bookcase of French novels, which he opened with his own golden key. He drank nothing but chocolate in the morning; he had long interviews with the cook, and revolutionized our dinner table. All the French newspapers were sent to him by a London agent. He altered the arrangements of his bed-room; no servant but his own valet was permitted to enter it.
I have founded the main event out of which this story springs, on a fact within my own knowledge. In afterwards shaping the course of the narrative thus suggested, I have guided it, as often as I could, where I knew by my own experience, or by experience related to me by others, that it would touch on something real and true in its progress. My idea was, that the more of the Actual I could garner up as a text to speak from, the more certain I might feel of the genuineness and value of the Ideal which was sure to spring out of it. Fancy and Imagination, Grace and Beauty, all those qualities which are to the work of Art what scent and colour are to the flower, can only grow towards heaven by taking root in earth. Is not the noblest poetry of prose fiction the poetry of every-day truth?
There was no need for him to have told me that he was an epicure in tea; the manner in which he made it would have betrayed that to anybody. He put in nearly treble the quantity which would generally be considered sufficient for two persons; and almost immediately after he had filled the tea-pot with boiling water, began to pour from it into the cups—thus preserving all the aroma and delicacy of flavour in the herb, without the alloy of any of the coarser part of its strength. When we had finished our first cups, there was no pouring of dregs into a basin, or of fresh water on the leaves. A middle-aged female servant, neat and quiet, came up and took away the tray, bringing it to us again with the tea-pot and tea-cups clean and empty, to receive a fresh infusion from fresh leaves.
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
I turned instinctively to the walk beneath my study-window, where I had seen her the evening before with her little dog, and followed the path which her dear feet had trodden so often, till I came to the wicket gate that led into her rose garden. The winter bareness spread drearily over it now. The flowers that she had taught me to distinguish by their names, the flowers that I had taught her to paint from, were gone, and the tiny white paths that led between the beds were damp and green already. I went on to the avenue of trees, where we had breathed together the warm fragrance of August evenings, where we had admired together the myriad combinations of shade and sunlight that dappled the ground at our feet. The leaves fell about me from the groaning branches, and the earthy decay in the atmosphere chilled me to the bones. A little farther on, and I was out of the grounds, and following the lane that wound gently upward to the nearest hills. The old felled tree by the wayside, on which we had sat to rest, was sodden with rain, and the tuft of ferns and grasses which I had drawn for her, nestling under the rough stone wall in front of us, had turned to a pool of water, stagnating round an island of draggled weeds. I gained the summit of the hill, and looked at the view which we had so often admired in the happier time. It was cold and barren—it was no longer the view that I remembered.
I reached the moor—I stood again on the brow of the hill—I looked on along the path—and there were the familiar garden trees in the distance, the clear sweeping semicircle of the drive, the high white walls of Limmeridge House. The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. It was like yesterday since my feet had last trodden the fragrant heathy ground. I thought I should see her coming to meet me, with her little straw hat shading her face, her simple dress fluttering in the air, and her well-filled sketch-book ready in her hand.
I placed myself sideways against the railing of the verandah—first ascertaining, by touching them, the position of the flower-pots on either side of me. There was room enough for me to sit between them and no more. The sweet-scented leaves of the flower on my left hand just brushed my cheek as I lightly rested my head against the railing.
I opened the proceedings by publicly appealing to Mr. Fairlie to say whether I appeared there with his authority and under his express sanction. He extended an arm, on either side, to Mr. Kyrle and to his valet—was by them assisted to stand on his legs, and then expressed himself in these terms: "Allow me to present Mr. Hartright. I am as great an invalid as ever, and he is so very obliging as to speak for me. The subject is dreadfully embarrassing. Please hear him, and don't make a noise!" With those words he slowly sank back again into the chair, and took refuge in his scented pocket-handkerchief.
The drawing-room, to which we had now withdrawn for the rest of the evening, was on the ground-floor, and was of the same shape and size as the breakfast-room. Large glass doors at the lower end opened on to a terrace, beautifully ornamented along its whole length with a profusion of flowers. The soft, hazy twilight was just shading leaf and blossom alike into harmony with its own sober hues as we entered the room, and the sweet evening scent of the flowers met us with its fragrant welcome through the open glass doors. Good Mrs. Vesey (always the first of the party to sit down) took possession of an arm-chair in a corner, and dozed off comfortably to sleep. At my request Miss Fairlie placed herself at the piano. As I followed her to a seat near the instrument, I saw Miss Halcombe retire into a recess of one of the side windows, to proceed with the search through her mother's letters by the last quiet rays of the evening light.
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Parting ways: Athletic trainer Dee Mahoney to retire, reflects on time spent at Westfield High School
By Anna Skinner on February 19, 2019 Westfield Cover Stories
For athletic trainer Dee Mahoney, the key to effectively treat an athlete’s ailment is trust. From working with professional USA Track & Field athletes in the 1990s to high school athletes at Westfield High School for the past 25 years, Mahoney has had a full and rewarding career.
She plans to retire at the end of 2018-19 school year.
“I knew in high school I wanted to be an athletic trainer. I’m a jock,” Mahoney said. “Sports are my life. I never saw myself wearing a suit and pumps. I always saw myself in comfortable clothes and helping others. I love sports. I wasn’t going to be a professional athlete, and athletic training was a door to be involved and help people, so it was a perfect profession for me.”
Mahoney played NCAA Division I softball at Oregon State University. She graduated in 1985 and completed graduate work at the University of Miami (Fla.). She then began her career with USA Track & Field.
Mahoney met her husband, Duffy, through working with USA Track & Field. When she returned from a work trip to Europe in 1992, she discovered that Hurricane Andrew seriously damaged her Miami home, which eventually paved her way to moving to Indiana.
Dee Mahoney, left, is inducted into the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 2018 with IATA President Tim Drudge. (Submitted photo)
“I meet this great guy and then hurricane Andrew put me out of my comfort zone,” she said. “I moved into my office because I couldn’t live at home.”
Mahoney and Duffy moved to Indiana and got married.
Mahoney began working with Methodist Sports Medicine, where she worked as a researcher in the mornings and did outreach at schools in the evenings. She visited different schools each week to conduct injury checks and was a contracted athletic trainer at home games. But she after a period of time, she decided she wanted to have a permanent working home.
“If nobody knows who you are and this strange person comes up, do you think someone is going to tell you, ‘This hurts?’” she said. “There was never a relationship. I did that for a little bit over a year and I thought, ‘This is not how I roll,’ so I applied for some jobs.”
Mahoney was hired at Riverview Hospital as the sports medicine coordinator. Mahoney encouraged the hospital to place an athletic trainer at every school it serviced. She placed herself at Westfield High School because the school’s mascot is a shamrock and she’s Irish. WHS also was the closest school to her house. That was in 1994, and she’s been there ever since.
“The quality of care depends on the relationships you build with the student-athlete,” she said. “(Students) have to believe what you say. They have to believe, even though you may be sore, it’s OK to play. Our job is to try to get a kid back on the field or the court as soon and as safe as possible. We are going to do everything in our power to get you on the field safely, so whatever brace, tape, whatever I give you to prepare you for it, you can do this.”
Mahoney is a parent. She said she never crafts treatments plan or makes doctor referrals for students if it wouldn’be the the same choice she would make for her own child in the same situation.
WHS junior Eli Patchett plays varsity football and basketball. He said he and his teammates visit Mahoney often and trust her treatment methods.
“For me, personally, I got banged up a lot this year. I had two sprained ankles, dislocated my thumb, and two days after that, I was playing,” Patchett said. “She’s like a miracle worker. It’s awesome. The average player comes in here three times a week to get stretched out or help with tweaks and stuff like that. It helps tremendously.”
Mahoney and her husband plan to move to Ft. Collins, Colo. after she retires. WWS plans to hire another athletic trainer for the 2019-20 school year.
Mahoney was recognized durning the Jan. 18 boys and girls home basketball doubleheader.
Dee Mahoney tapes a student’s ankle. (Photo by Anna Skinner)
A hands-on approach
Dee Mahoney’s athletic training office at Westfield High School is full of tape, splints, foam rollers and other treatment items. Most of all, she said she does a lot of manual therapy to help students return to action.
“I don’t even ice that much anymore. I use it for pain management, but (for treatment) I use massage and manual therapy tools and things. I use my hands,” she said. “I use my hands to release tissue and change tissue type to enhance healing and performance. Manual therapy is what I do the most, and I think it has reaped the most benefit.”
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Jamie xx "Loud Places" (John Talabot Higher Dub remix)
Jamie xx burst forth this year with his much-acclaimed solo debut In Colour, prefaced by the entrancing single "Loud Places." That track has been tinkered with and transformed by the likes of John Talabot and Herbert, and now the former has offered up another take on the same song.
His "higher dub" remix joins the first one on a 12-inch single for Young Turks, but before you get your hands on a copy of the white label vinyl, you can listen to the sprawling 10-minute new rendition of Talabot's interpretation of "Loud Places" in the player below.
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US Probing Stolen Plane Crash In Seattle
In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, an Alaska Airlines jet moves past others already parked at a terminal at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
The FBI is looking into the man's background. Investigators are trying to find how he got on the plane.
US Federal authorities are continuing to seek what drove an airline worker to steal an empty plane from Seattle's airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of airforce fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed onto a sparsely populated island.
A Horizon Air ground service agent climbed entered a Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft on Friday night in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and took off, Horizon sister carrier Alaska Airline said.
He flew for about one hour, often erratically, before crashing on Ketron Island in Puget Sound, about 40 kilometres to the southwest.
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The 29-year-old man, who has not been named, appeared to have acted alone, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, which said the employee was believed to have been killed in the crash.
"Doing stunts in air or lack of flying skills caused crash into Island," the Sheriff's Department said on Twitter.
In partial recordings of his conversations with air traffic controllers, the man said he was sorry to disappoint people who cared about him and described himself as a "broken guy".
"Got a few screws loose, I guess," he is heard saying in the recording. "Never really knew it until now."
The Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the incident.
"Until the FBI has the opportunity to get better background on the person, find out what motive they had, it's a little too early to make a determination on what the objective was," Debra Eckrote, the NTSB's western Pacific region chief, said.
"He's ground support so they have access to aircrafts," she said of the man.
Two F-15 fighter jets took to the air from a base in Portland, Oregon, and were on the scene within minutes. The jets were armed but did not open fire, North American Aerospace Defence Command, spokesman Cameron Hillier said.
Instead, the F-15 pilots and air traffic controllers tried to guide the plane west, away from populated areas, said Hillier. No one was hurt on the ground, authorities said.
It was unclear how the employee was able to taxi the plane on a runway and take off without authorisation.
Plane Crashes After Being Stolen From Seattle Airport
The sheriff said earlier the employee was an airline mechanic but the airline said he was a ground service agent.
Fire crews were working on putting out the fire from the crash on Ketron Island in Puget Sound. No one was injured on the ground, authorities said.
"We're working to find out everything we possibly can about what happened," Brad Tilden, chief executive of Alaska Air Group, said in a statement.
The FBI is looking into the man's background and try to determine his motive, she said. Investigators are trying to find how he got on the plane.
Investigators expect they will be able to recover both the cockpit voice recorder and the event data recorder from the plane.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that President Donald Trump is "monitoring the situation".
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The hole to prove it
"Bangkok Bombing Investigation Becomes Even Murkier" Grey Wolves using Uighurs like Israel uses MEK.
"Norwegian bank issues anti-Semitic credit card, says sorry" How do you suppose they found out about this and got a photo of it unless they did it themselves as part of the usual program.
"The Dirty-Dirty Narrative War and the Smear Attacks on Palestine Activists" Textbook hasbara.
"Schumer’s Troubling Mideast Record"
"Why rich political donors are wasting a lot of money – Rick Newman/YahooFinance" Something missed here. All these one-issue guys own almost all the media outlets (there is a reason it is known as the Jew-controlled media). Almost all the hundreds of millions of dollars in donations goes to media buys. The Jewish billionaires just take money out of one pocket and get it back in another. This massive political manipulation of the United States in favor of Wars For The Jews is essentially free to them.
"Ex Schröder Aide on 9/11: 'We Thought the Americans Would Overreact'":
"You know, during my time in Bosnia in the 1990s, I worked very closely and very successfully together with Richard Holbrooke, who was President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans. He was a diplomat, but he was one of the most direct people I know. Back then, he held a round of talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in an Air Force museum where a cruise missile was on display, just to make clear to Milosevic what could be in store for him if he refused to back down. I was never a fan of Talleyrandian diplomacy, which conceals its true motives and spreads an aura of secrecy. I don't think it works."
The hole to prove it: "Serbia's revenge". Links no longer work but you can see pictures of the kind of hole made by 'sea-launched cruise missiles' here. A neat small roundish hole punched through the facade, with relatively little damage adjacent. Just like the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The attack blamed on al Qaeda.
"Confirmed: US to "Use" Al Qaeda to Take Syria" "Petraeus' Trial Ballon - "Let's Work With Al-Qaeda"" Just think of all the Wars For The Jews fought, being fought, and to be fought, all on the phony basis that al Qaeda is the existential threat to the United States (al Qaeda is already being used in the Saudi-American attack on Yemen). It was all bullshit.
"The Israeli Jew suspected of trying to join the Islamic State – Adam Taylor/Washington Post":
"The man has not been named, and it is not clear whether he will face charges. Sources in the Israeli Foreign Ministry have told reporters that they are treating the matter as a humanitarian rather than a security issue. Despite his age, the man was still under his parents’ legal guardianship, and Israeli authorities have not provided more details about the case due to what Haaretz describes as its “sensitive nature.”"
"Kissinger on Ukraine (by CP)" Significant lying to cover up for fellow traveler Nudelman. Remember how Kissinger managed to do everything to facilitate Israel obtaining nukes while leaving the impression he was against it? How come the so-called 'dual loyalty' comes up every single fucking time?
It is difficult not to notice the centrality of Petraeus in recent deep American politics: "Emails show Hillary's political sleuthing" Despite the fact they eventually had him put down, he keeps popping back up.
Faint signs, very faint, of non-treasonous activity in the American government: "Russian Expeditionary Force in Syria?"
"dealing with Netanyahu" Jewish adviser tells you that Netanyahu is a nut, and the only way to deal with a nut is to give him absolutely everything his asks for, and more.
No-cry zone
I smell toast
Assad is a winner
Vela Incident
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The only czars are Russian
Dead pig
Fathomless loxism
Ministry of Parasites
Oyfn Veg, Shteyt a Boym
Instagram blackmail
Hilarious stupidity
Sordid tales
Super predator
Superior people
'Dual' loyalty
Bogeyman to ally
Jaws of defeat
Nobody did anything wrong
Louche, alcoholic, lazy
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"FBI sent planeload of agents to frame Assange in Iceland, got snubbed by minister". "Iceland Interior Minister Reveals Plot By Obama Administration "To Frame Julian Assange"". For those still maintaining that the US has no interest in Assange and the Swedish corruption is just normal functioning of the Swedish legal system.
That attempt at Sunnistan ended quickly: "Militants Routed in Aleppo: Idlib Is Next".
"Has the US and Its Allies Used Covert Airdrops, Drones to Supply the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh)?"
"Jill Stein Sees Russia From Her House". I think that's the end of the US Green Party (although there is some hope in that Stein has gone rogue on this Clintonista tangent). The tell of the deep corruption is the unnecessary inclusion of the Russian crap.
"The CIA Moves To Invalidate U.S. Presidential Elections By Blaming Russian Hacking". "Krugman's Latest Twitter Meltdown Lays Out Democrats' Next Steps" (see also). Still part of the plan to create a legitimacy crisis to stifle any legislative moves by the Trump administration (and so limited, not a bad thing). Very unlikely to be a full coup as the resulting violence, which would just keep getting worse, would be very bad for 1% interests.
A very clarifying election, outing even, sadly, Bill Moyers.
The problem with Barry endorsing the validity of the election while he was in possession of the supposedly damning intelligence.
'Believe'.
"Unpacking The New CIA Leak: Don’t Ignore The Aluminum Tube Footnote".
"BREAKING: The CIA Never Ever Lies". "McCarthy’s Smiling Ghost: Democrats Point the Finger at Russia".
After the Jew-controlled media have spent the last weeks breathlessly informing us of all the neocons to be in the Trump cabinet, Bolton is the only one who made it, presumably Trump's last-minute gift to Adelson for his last-minute shekels.
"The Reince Revolution". The start of voter's remorse.
From 2014: "Illegal Voters Tipping Election Scales?".
From 2013: "Washington Post, Bezos Must Disclose Relationship With CIA: Media Watchdogs". "CIA Cloud Over Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post".
"Leaked Footage Exposes CNN Producing Fake News During First Gulf War".
Typical tweets making the argument that the absence of proof of Russian involvement is proof of Russian involvement.
"The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted by the Washington Post Has Apparent Ties to Ukrainian Fascism and CIA Spying" (Ames). Ukrainian neo-Nazis and e-x-t-r-e-m-e American right wingers (Foreign Policy Research Institute).
""The Stop Arming Terrorists Act"".
"New Tempest Erupts over ‘Russian Hacking’… plus a suggestion for Donald Trump":
"I have a suggestion for Donald Trump. He probably won’t heed it, but I will offer it anyway: that immediately upon assuming office, he order the Office of Management and Budget to investigate how much tax money was squandered by the Obama administration in nearly six years of efforts to overthrow the government in Syria. Maybe Trump could order a ‘deep dive’ and ask the OMB to have the report completed within his first 60 days in office.
Many people, naturally, would see such a call as a retaliation for the investigation now being ordered by Obama–and certainly the media would report it that way–but the results of an investigation of this sort would be at least as beneficial, and probably a whole lot more interesting, than anything that might be turned up about Russians hacking into the computer systems of two thoroughly corrupt political parties."
Mondoweiss is an odd place for this kind of discussion of group supremacism which would get gentiles banned from the comments: "‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’ — Really?".
"Israeli leadership’s sex crime problem".
"Anti-antisemitism, Thought-control Bill moves through Congress".
Canadian voting system news: "Roundup: A catalogue of ineptitude".
"“Drug War Has Failed” – Governor To Pardon Thousands Of People Convicted For Pot". By internet form.
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What dreams tangerines on dream books Vanga, Miller
What does it mean if you dreamed of mandarins: interpretation options
The appearance of mandarin in a dream is positive. This promises you a quick holiday or the arrival of guests.
There are many more meanings of this dream — in reality it can be expressed in the most bizarre way.
The overall interpretation of sleep may be vague. It is better to take a closer look at the details.
What is the meaning of the dream tangerines?
Tangerines in a dream is a good sign, but the vision can have serious consequences in reality. For example, you watched as someone treated to fruit.
Suppose it was a little boy or girl, it means that you will accomplish something that will affect relationships with loved ones. You divided the fruit into slices and the juice fell on you — this is a sign that a big trouble will happen, which will be connected with your character. Mandarin was rotten — in reality there is likely a conflict with relatives.
There will be deceit or betrayal if the fresh-looking fruit is rotten.
If it happened to observe immature or green tangerines in a dream, in this situation it is worthwhile to put off holidays and parties for the time being, as it is possible to get an infection or a disease. In the dream, they saw that they were eating sour mandarin — this is a sign that soon you will not have the desire to go towards your own goal.
You have observed in a dream a tree that has blossomed — this sign promises you to achieve your goal in the coming days.
You can dream a variety of things associated with the image of a tangerine — it may be, for example, citrus juice, spilled from a container for drinking on your or someone else’s clothes. All the events that you saw in the dream, differently reflected on reality.
Clearing a mandarin peel in reality can be a forerunner of the addition to the family, if the fruit is rotten, there is a risk of catching an infection and seriously getting sick.
Interpretation of different dream books
Eastern dream book. You have to rest and calm down in the event that in a dream you felt the pleasant aroma of citrus.
The girl who bought rotten tangerines, waiting for deception. Things will be more productive if you have eaten a lot of fruit in your dreams.
Dream interpretation E. Avadyaeva. Bought tangerines in a dream — this is a sign that the dreamer is waiting for love. Selling fruit will lead to the goal.
Bargaining for a long time — getting the benefits of the planned enterprise
Dream Vanga. In a dream, they grew tangerine trees, which means you will certainly get what you want.
Engaged in the sale of orange fruit in their dreams — it promises you a quick illness. The fruit turned out to be rotten when you opened it — this indicates an imminent loss of strength and the lack of desire to perform the tasks assigned.
Dream Miller. In a dream, you enjoyed the tangerines — you should trust the people from your surroundings less, otherwise you will soon have to face enemies or traitors.
If a man dreamed of how a tangerine tree blooms, this is a good omen — order and welfare will soon reign in his family.
Combined dream book. It was possible to eat in a dream a sweet and juicy citrus fruit, which means you need to avoid contact with strangers in the near future.
You will do a good deed, provided that in a dream you were treated to tangerine slices of a child. In a dream, you divided the fruit into slices and poured over it with juice — this means the appearance of trouble that will happen through your fault.
Great Dream. Wait for guests in the event that in a dream saw a tangerine. You trust too much to others — this is indicated by the fruit you ate in your dream.
A woman dreams of a tangerine — it is a harbinger of the fact that her husband hides a secret from her. You are treated to a treat by a child in a dream — you can expect that you will commit an act that will serve as a reason for a change in the attitude of those around you.
In their dreams they saw how citrus juice got on clothes — wait for trouble. Tangerine fruit tree most likely means the emergence of well-being and success in business.
Ancient dream book. You dreamed tangerines, it is worth preparing for the imminent arrival of welcome guests from afar.
Or maybe a holiday is planned in the house? The road to success will be very difficult if you ate mandarins in a dream.
You saw how the tangerine tree grows — you expect growth in the field of career, and if it had time to appear and ripen the fruits, then the profit will appear in large numbers. Mandarins were rotten or tasteless — this is a sign that you will meet a person who will not be the person he claims to be.
Selling or buying fruits you obviously need to think about maintaining your own health — there is a considerable risk of getting sick. There are unripe fruits in a dream — this is a bad sign, which is a warning about an undesirable situation with unkind people.
Allow it to be very difficult.
Medieval dream book. It was believed that in a dream to eat a rotten fruit means to lose a relative in life or to feel deception and betrayal about yourself. You saw that someone divided the mandarin into slices — a sign that you will soon spend a considerable amount of money wasted.
To give a fruit in a vision to someone means a new acquaintance in reality.
They observed in their dreams how the tree grows and bears fruit — with a high probability you will find an addition to the family. Well-being and profit foreshadows a dream in which you saw a lot of mandarins.
Very juicy and large fruits in a dream speak of the emergence of new opportunities for which you will have time and money. Over-ripe tangerines are a sign that an event will soon happen that will change your life, and for the worse or for the better, depends on the degree of ripeness of the fruits seen.
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Dr. Magesh Chandramouli, Associate Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, in the College of Technology at Purdue University Northwest has been elected as the Director of Programs for the Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). ASEE is the premier national organization for engineering technology education and is committed to promoting quality education and creative endeavors in engineering technology. The EDG Division promotes teaching, research, discussion, and coordinates activities that pertain to engineering graphics, design and education.
Dr. Sun Lulu, Chair of Engineering Design Graphics Division, says: “The Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) was founded in 1928 and is the oldest division within The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). As the Chair of EDGD, I am very pleased to have Dr. Magesh Chandramouli as our new selected Director of Programs because of his strong instruction-related research, his passion and enthusiasm for the Division. I look forward to Dr. Magesh’s dedication and commitment to EDGD. Heartfelt congratulations!”
Dr. Magesh Chandramouli is a recipient of the EDG Journal Editor’s Award for the Outstanding Technical Paper for his work integrating VR-based research framework for instruction of hardware concepts. He was also recently recognized by the International Honor Society of Technology when he was awarded the 2018 Warner Professional Practices Award for exemplary teaching and research in the profession of technology.
“Dr. Chandramouli is an accomplished researcher and outstanding classroom teacher. He has engaged his students, enriching their learning through his research activities with his peers. He brings his knowledge to the classroom, which helps prepare his students to be ready for relevant careers,” says Dr. Niaz Latif, Dean, College of Technology.
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Regardless of what his day brings, Wes Davis lives by a simple motto: Don’t be afraid to chase what you really love.
Davis, who earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics in 2018, has been putting in long hours and a lot of airline miles to chase his passion serving clients across the food and agricultural industry as a consultant for EY. Every Monday, Davis boards a plane to travel to a client’s office for the week before flying to his home in Chicago.
“I love that every day is a new day full of new tasks,” Davis said. “I feel like the work I’m able to do moves the industry forward.”
Davis is an idea generator. He helps his clients solve problems, implement strategic business changes, and stay competitive in an ever-changing industry. This high-energy schedule has him meeting with executives and asking thought-provoking questions meant to help feed a growing world. Aside from the schedule and the work, however, the need for continuous personal growth keeps him going.
“For me, everything goes back to using all of my potential and all of my ability to accomplish the tasks that are in front of me,” Davis said. “The worst thing you can do is forgo the opportunity to maximize those things and settle for the status quo and just do what gets you by.”
Davis has been maximizing opportunities his whole life. He is a first-generation college student from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and knows opportunities are not always easy to come by. But for Davis, ideas proved to be even more powerful. His family taught him to chase his passions even when he was a kid. No matter his ideas, his parents were there to support him and challenge him to dream bigger.
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Although he no longer spends his time managing his own chicken operation, Wes Davis puts his agricultural economics degree to use as a consultant for EY. Whether he is making presentations or helping guide his clients’ strategic direction, Davis says he is helping to shape the future of the agricultural industry.
Even so, he never conceived of having a jet-setting career. His ability to think big and capitalize on opportunities made him maximize the big moments in his life.
“I knew I always wanted to do something in food and ag, but I didn’t know exactly what that looked like,” Davis said. “To have this job now is almost fiction to me.”
Not surprisingly, his current success started humbly. When he was in fourth grade, Davis’ parents bought him a couple of rabbits simply for pets. Those few rabbits quickly multiplied into more than 35, and Davis’ entrepreneurial story was born. Eventually, Davis sold his rabbits as he got busier with school.
A couple months later, he was at the county fair and convinced his brother to give him money to buy what he thought would be a drink. Instead, Davis returned with a chick. Like the rabbit, this one chicken grew into more. Over time, Davis’ impulse buy turned into one of the largest free-range chicken operations in the state — and one of the biggest passions in Davis’ life.
“I was obsessed with making the birds productive and managing them well,” Davis said.
Although the chicken operation was a source of income, the chickens provided him with much more. They taught Davis how to manage a business and bring an idea to life. He was faced with many bumps in the road, but these ultimately prepared him for the next big moment in his life. Moreover, Davis said the business helped him to see the impact of acting on his ideas. After starting college, Davis sold his chickens, but his love of turning ideas into action remained.
For Davis, there is something special about the experiences he had growing up. While his parents encouraged his love of business, he learned to be tenacious and chase his goals. In high school, he learned to embrace failure and value hard work. “It’s not just one day you wake up and you’re like, ‘I have grit,’” Davis said. “It’s a process you have to develop. And getting told, ‘No’ a lot only helps that process.”
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Used 2011 Ford F-150 Lariat Truck For Sale In Perry OK
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520 Delaware
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There are now four different engines offered on the F-150: a 302-hp, 3.7L V6; a 360-hp, 5.0L; a 411-hp, 6.2L V8; and a 365-hp, 3.5L turbocharged V6. All four come hooked only to a 6-speed automatic transmission with tow/haul mode and they can be had with either rear- or 4-wheel drive. There are also several cab lengths, and Regular, SuperCab and SuperCrew cab styles.
The latter of the four engines--the EcoBoost turbo V6--is the star of the lineup-- it produces V8 levels of power, but with V6 fuel efficiency. Peak torque for the EcoBoost V6 is 420 pound-feet that starts as low as 1,700 rpm and models with this engine are rated at a best-in-class 11,300 pounds and a best-in-class payload of 3,060. What's more, this engine, which Ford will be promoting as an alternative to step-up V8 models from competitors, runs just fine on regular unleaded gas.
Both the new 3.7L V6 and 5.0L V8 engines incorporate Ti-VCT variable valve timing, which harnesses oil pressure, directed with electronically controlled solenoids, to quickly change engine timing as needed for more power or better fuel economy. As a result, they produce impressive power and torque while also posting fuel economy improvements over the engines they replace. The base V6 returns EPA ratings of up to 16 mpg city, 23 highway, while the 5.0L 'Coyote' V8 is rated at 15 city/21 highway. The 6.2L V8--still the likely choice for those who have to tow heavy loads for long distances--gets 12/17 mpg.
F-150 trucks are purchased for such a mind-bogglingly wide range of uses, ranging from simple construction work to weekend haulers to cowboy commuters and those who use their rigs as a family vehicle, so Ford offers a very wide range of cab, bed, and trim levels to fit almost everyone.
Ford's SYNC interface is available throughout the lineup; the feature allows an easy Bluetooth-based, voice-command-driven interface with phones and smartphones, and allows other features such as traffic reports, news, and weather. For those who truly work out of their trucks, Ford is again offering a Ford Work Solutions in-dash computer with, among several noteworthy features, a tracking system for tools.
The F-150 lineup now includes ten different models, including XL, STX, XLT, XLT Custom, FX2/FX4, Lariat, Lariat Limited, King Ranch, Platinum and Harley Davidson F-150. Base XL models have vinyl seats, manual windows and wind-up windows, but they do include air conditioning and an AM/FM stereo. The STX adds keyless entry, cruise control and power accessories, while the XLT gets a little more of a dress-up, with fog lamps, a chrome grille and upgraded wheels. On the XLT, you can option up to the V8, but the Lariat includes it, along with some of the features of a luxury vehicle, including power-adjustable pedals, leather upholstery, SYNC and Sirius Satellite Radio. Lariat Limited and Platinum models add even more luxury, including remote start, power seats, ventilated seats, and wood and leather trim. The Lariat Limited also gets huge 22-inch wheels. Harley-Davidson and King Ranch models put it over the top in luxury, with a moonroof, heated second-row seats, a navigation system and special badging. The Harley Davidson model of course bows to its motorcycle namesake in appearance, while the King Ranch's interior is swaddled in top-caliber hides.
If you want a truck that's equipped more for sport, you should go for the FX2/FX4 models, which include a power driver's seat, SYNC, telescopic steering adjustment, blacked-out trim, 18-inch off-road wheels, and a power inverter. There's also a separate, even more intense off-road machine: the F-150 Raptor--featuring the 411-hp, 6.2L V8 plus a long-travel off-road suspension, skid plates, wide fenders and special electronic off-road controls.
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The Ford F-150 has an all-new roster of engines for 2011, including Ford's first-ever turbocharged. The entire engine lineup is now mated to 6-speed automatic transmissions. The EcoBoost V6 is also one for the history books--a turbocharged V6 that claims to provide V8 power and torque with V6 fuel economy, while still maintaining truck-duty standards of durability. The already extensive lineup of F-150 models has also been expanded to include Lariat Limited and XLT Custom models. Newly available on some F-150 trims is a message center that includes a 4.2-inch display screen that shows trip computer functions, towing performance and off-roading information. The system also includes a higher-resolution rearview camera display.
The middle passenger in the back seat now gets a shoulder belt and head restraint; express up/down front windows are included, a 110-volt outlet, remote start, a telescopic steering wheel, HD radio and a perimeter alarm are newly available.
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Ford claims class-leading fuel economy, as well as best-in-class towing and horsepower for both its base V6 engine as well as both of the available V8s. Ford also says that it's the only automaker to offer a 6-speed automatic transmission across its entire model lineup. The F-150 is also the only full-size pickup so far to offer electric power steering, which saves fuel and gives an improved steering feel.
Across the lineup, the F-150 carries through with the full redesign that the truck received for 2009; since then, the F-150's very purposeful, upright instrument panel and vastly upgraded interior materials have stood out in this very competitive class.
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HARANGODY, LUKE
Valencia Basket 44 Forward
Height: 2.03 Born: 2 January, 1988 Nationality: United States of America
EuroCup 2014-15 STATISTICS
Totals 9 7 206:43 83 13/23 14/28 15/17 20 35 55 9 5 6 2 0 8 12 126
Averages 9 7 22:58 9.2 56.5% 50% 88.2% 2.2 3.9 6.1 1 0.6 0.7 0.2 0 0.9 1.3 14
Eighthfinals
19 vs Khimki Moscow Region 21:22 12 4/4 1/3 1/1 1 3 4 1 1 16
20 * at Khimki Moscow Region 10:18 4 1/1 1/2 1 2 3 1 1 8
Average 15:50 8 100% 50% 66.7% 1 2.5 3.5 0.5 0 0 0.5 0 0 1 12
17 vs FC Bayern Munich 18:53 2 0/1 0/2 2/2 1 2 3 1 1 2
Average 18:53 2 0% 0% 100% 1 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
11 * vs SLUC Nancy 21:31 10 2/3 1/1 3/4 1 9 10 2 1 1 2 22
12 * at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 33:48 14 3/4 2/5 2/2 3 4 7 1 1 1 3 19
13 * vs CSU Asesoft Ploiesti 24:56 10 1/3 2/3 2/2 2 4 6 2 1 1 1 14
14 * at CSU Asesoft Ploiesti 24:57 13 1/2 3/4 2/2 3 6 9 1 1 1 1 22
15 * at SLUC Nancy 23:31 10 1/3 2/4 2/2 7 2 9 2 1 2 2 1 15
16 * vs Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 27:27 8 1/3 2/5 1 3 4 1 1 1 2 2 8
6 Totals 156:10 65 9/18 12/22 11/12 17 28 45 7 5 6 1 0 7 10 100
Average 26:01 10.8 50% 54.5% 91.7% 2.8 4.7 7.5 1.2 0.8 1 0.2 0 1.2 1.7 16.7
EuroCup 2014-15 individual rankings
#4 in Field goal % (75%)
#7 in 3-point % (50%)
#1 in Free throw % (100%)
#1 in Games Started (6)
#4 in Offensive Rebounds (17)
#7 in Total Rebounds (45)
#24 in 3-point % (54.5%)
Index rating 26 MZT Skopje Aerodrom vs. UNICS Kazan 12/18/2013
Points 18 MZT Skopje Aerodrom vs. UNICS Kazan 12/18/2013
Offensive rebounds 7 SLUC Nancy vs. Valencia Basket 2/4/2015
Defensive rebounds 9 Valencia Basket vs. SLUC Nancy 1/6/2015
Total rebounds 10 Valencia Basket vs. SLUC Nancy 1/6/2015
Assists 4 ratiopharm Ulm vs. Zenit St Petersburg 11/1/2017
Steals 2 ratiopharm Ulm vs. Tofas Bursa 10/10/2017
Blocks 1 Joventut Badalona vs. UNICS Kazan 12/11/2019
Minutes 33 Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar vs. Valencia Basket 1/14/2015
Played college basketball at Notre Dame (2006-10).
Signed for the 2010-11 season by Boston Celtics.
On Feburary'11 signed by Cleveland Cavaliers.
Signed for the 2011-12 season by Canton Charge, NBDL.
On February'12 signed by Cleveland Cavaliers.
Signed for the 2012-13 season by Fort Wayne Mad Ants, NBDL.
Moved to Russia for the 2013-14 season, signed by Unics Kazan.
Moved to Turkey for the 2015-16 season, signed by Darussafaka Dogus Istanbul.
Moved to Germany for the 2017-18 season, signed by Ratiopharm Ulm.
Moved to Spain for the 2018-19 season, signed by Joventut Badalona.
Named the 2015-16 EuroLeague Round 6 MVP.
Named to the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 All-Big East 1st Team.
2014-15 Valencia Basket 10 105 10.5 21/36 58.3 17/35 48.6 12/12 100 48 8 9 6
2015-16 Darussafaka Dogus Istanbul 23 222 9.7 58/97 59.8 32/64 50 10/14 71.4 99 9 13 4
2016-17 Darussafaka Dogus Istanbul 29 109 3.8 26/43 60.5 17/37 45.9 6/10 60 71 3 11 6
Totals 62 436 7 105/176 59.7 66/136 48.5 28/36 77.8 218 20 33 16
Averages 62 436 7 105/176 59.7 66/136 48.5 28/36 77.8 3.5 0.3 0.5 0.3
2013-14 Unics Kazan 24 180 7.5 42/73 57.5 27/61 44.3 15/19 78.9 107 14 19 5
2014-15 Valencia Basket 9 83 9.2 13/23 56.5 14/28 50 15/17 88.2 55 5 9 2
2017-18 ratiopharm Ulm 7 78 11.1 18/33 54.5 9/21 42.9 15/17 88.2 39 3 8 1
2019-20 Joventut Badalona 10 80 8 17/31 54.8 13/29 44.8 7/8 87.5 44 3 8 2
Totals 50 421 8.4 90/160 56.3 63/139 45.3 52/61 85.2 245 25 44 10
Averages 50 421 8.4 90/160 56.3 63/139 45.3 52/61 85.2 4.9 0.5 0.9 0.2
2006/07 Notre Dame 32 359 11.2 133/289 46.0 0/1 0.0 93/114 81.6 197 28 38 15
2007/08 Notre Dame 33 672 20.4 256/509 50.3 3/9 33.3 151/198 76.3 351 26 55 29
2008/09 Notre Dame 34 792 23.3 286/615 46.5 14/38 36.8 178/229 77.7 401 31 70 31
2010/11 Boston Celtics 27 63 2.3 26/61 42.6 2/10 20.0 5/8 62.5 55 4 10 7
Cleveland Cavaliers 21 130 6.2 37/79 46.8 14/56 25.0 14/18 77.8 88 11 20 10
2011/12 Cleveland Cavaliers 21 60 2.9 18/44 40.9 5/21 23.8 9/12 75.0 53 6 6 3
Canton Charge 19 360 18.9 108/209 51.7 31/77 40.3 51/66 77.3 223 7 23 13
2012/13 Fort Wayne Mad Ants 17 338 19.9 104/227 45.8 23/57 40.4 61/78 78.2 201 17 33 14
2013/14 Unics Kazan-VTB 2 5 2.5 1/2 50.0 1/4 25.0 0/0 0.0 3 0 1 0
2014/15 Valencia 40 340 8.5 84/152 55.3 52/121 43.0 16/22 72.7 191 40 26 14
2015/16 Darussafaka 26 297 11.4 77/130 59.2 37/89 41.6 32/40 80.0 170 19 27 10
2016/17 Darussafaka 23 203 8.8 60/90 66.7 21/55 38.2 20/27 74.1 112 15 37 5
2017/18 Ulm 24 204 8.5 45/105 42.9 27/74 36.5 33/39 84.6 133 15 26 12
2018/19 Joventut Badalona 34 305 9.0 89/156 57.1 34/91 37.4 25/27 92.6 169 18 37 12
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Facebook Home reaches 1 million downloads, usage on the rise
Cory Gunther
Back during the beginning of April Facebook finally released their “Home on Android” simply called Facebook Home. Now just a month later they’ve confirmed the application has already reached 1 million downloads, and as a result Facebook usage for those with Home installed has increased roughly 25%. That isn’t all either, they have new features coming soon too.
Today while hosting a small event Facebook had tons of news to share regarding download and usage numbers, updates, new features and more according to Tech Crunch. Facebook Home officially hit devices on April 12th, and in just 10 days reached 500,000 downloads. Now less than a month later that number has doubled and they’ve hit the 1 million milestone. However, they didn’t say how many of those were active installs, which is the important stat here.
We don’t know how many people are still using Facebook Home, and surely many tried it out just for fun and didn’t decide to keep it. Facebook did mention that for those enjoying Home their Facebook usage has increased by 25% a day. That’s quite a bit if you ask us. We’re already on Facebook enough, but to each his own. Then while going over the numbers Facebook shared some details on an incoming update. Facebook will see a bug fixing update (in the Play Store of course) later today, and coming soon is an improved and tweaked user experience.
As you saw in our Facebook Home Review, the concept is good but it just limits too many of those phone and Android features we know, love, and need. It sounds like Mark Zuck and company took notice of everyone’s complains, because the new update will address many of these issues. They’ll be adding a “Dash Bar” to manage and start chats more easily, an improved “dock” as well as a better “new user experience”.
The minor bug fixing update should arrive soon, then the improved Facebook Home experience is also in the works, but no details on when that will arrive.
[via TechCrunch]
Facebook Home Review
Facebook Home available outside the US later today - updates coming soon
Facebook brings voice calling feature to Messenger in the US
Facebook Home hits 500,000 installs
Facebook in talks with Waze for potential $1 billion acquisition
Facebook Home
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Rehabilitation Research
Trudy Mallinson; Heidi Fischer
Trudy Mallinson, PhD, OTR/L, NZROT, is Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Heidi Fischer, MS, OTR/L, is Clinical Research Coordinator, Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Centennial Vision / Evidence-Based Practice / Health and Wellness / Home Accessibility/Environmental Modification / Neurologic Conditions / Rehabilitation, Participation, and Disability / Departments / Centennial Vision
Research Article | May 01, 2010
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, May/June 2010, Vol. 64, 506-514. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2010.09080
Trudy Mallinson, Heidi Fischer; Rehabilitation Research. Am J Occup Ther 2010;64(3):506–514. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2010.09080
The Centennial Vision of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA; 2007a) marks a significant step forward in occupational therapy by creating a clear statement about what the practice of occupational therapy will look like in the future. In 2007, several ad hoc work groups were assigned the task of translating this vision into actionable goals for key areas of practice. The panels met to answer key questions that would provide a road map to guide research and practice in those areas. Each panel produced a report for the AOTA Board of Directors. In its report, the Ad Hoc Work Group on Rehabilitation, Disability, and Participation concluded that to achieve the Centennial Vision, occupational therapists in rehabilitation need to focus on supporting lifelong participation through implementation of context-based assessments and interventions. The work group determined that occupational therapy’s essential skills and knowledge must be used to address individual and environmental issues that impede a person’s ability to engage in occupations and, ultimately, to fully participate in society. To meet this goal, the profession will need to continue to develop evidence-based interventions and assessment tools that are focused at the level of activity and participation and that occur in context-rich environments (AOTA, 2007b).
The work group praised the alignment of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (AOTA, 2008) with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (World Health Organization, 2001) and the importance of an expanded view of functional performance to include “freedom and citizenship … contributing to communities of choice” (Hammel, Jones, Gossett, & Morgan, 2006, p. 43). It suggested that in the future, occupational therapy would need to develop an expanded focus on access to the community and barriers to participation, which will require an increased emphasis on regaining occupational skills in real-world environments and research that focuses on developing and testing participation-level outcomes and interventions.
Activity- and participation-level interventions that focus on developing skilled performance in the context of everyday activities and environmental modifications will increasingly require that therapy explore and exploit the similarities and differences between real-world and therapy environments. The field of motor control is examining the role of adaptation, that is, calibrating the brain’s prediction of how the body will move and how learning transfers between therapy environments, such as treadmills and robotic reaching devices, and real-world environments (Bastian, 2008).
Several measures of underlying capacity are widely used in occupational therapy (e.g., dynamometers, pegboard tests). Such assessments are often easily administered in any environment and require little equipment. Activity- and participation-level assessments can be more challenging to administer and interpret because they are more influenced by the environment and contextual factors. For example, even simple tub transfers can be influenced by the height and width of the tub, the availability of handrails and tub chairs, and the presence or absence of water. With respect to patient-reported measures, if the therapist asks an individual to rate his or her difficulty with dressing, is the person thinking about putting on work clothes or sweatpants? Are the clothes already laid out, or do they need to be retrieved from the closet? To date, most assessments of activity and participation either ignore the role of context or control it to such a degree that relevance to real-life situations may be limited.
Clinicians also frequently comment that the rating scales associated with activity- and participation-level assessments do not always capture the changes in performance being achieved in therapy. Because impairment-level assessments tightly control the performance requirements and elements of the environment, they are useful for capturing small discrete changes in capacity. In the world of slow progress that can be rehabilitation, such assessments can be appealing and motivating for both therapists and patients. Yet such assessments do not capture the true goals of rehabilitation, which are to have the person return to the least restrictive level of functioning and to participate in personally meaningful activities. Occupational therapy will face a growing need to challenge current measurement paradigms, to find ways to measure both person ability and environmental supports and barriers simultaneously, and to describe performance outcomes as an interaction of both of these factors, not just in terms of person capacity.
In summary, future occupational therapy research will need to focus on the promotion of activity and participation, conducted in real-life contexts, and should evaluate the impact of the environment on occupational performance.
In this article, we report on the systematic review of 14 occupational therapy rehabilitation research articles published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) between January 2008 and September 2009 in the practice areas of work and industry and rehabilitation, disability, and participation (Table 1). A separate review (Gillen, 2010) published in AJOT addressed rehabilitation research studies in the areas of stroke and traumatic brain injury.
Summary of Research in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Participation and Work and Industry
Summary of Research in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Participation and Work and Industry×
Author and Year Systematic or Narrative Review Effectiveness Study Efficacy Study Basic Research Instrument Development and Testing Link Between Occupational Engagement and Health Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Method Level of Evidence
Baker & Redfern (2009) X Quantitative
Canny, Thompson, & Wheeler (2009) X Quantitative
Darragh, Harrison, & Kenny (2008) X Quantitative II
Dunn, Carlson, Jackson, & Clark (2009) X Qualitative
Finlayson, Garcia, & Cho (2008) X Quantitative
Gentry (2008) X Quantitative III
Jang, Chern, & Lin (2009) X Quantitative
Kay, Bundy, & Clemson (2008) X Quantitative
Kielhofner, Braveman, Fogg, & Levin (2008) X Quantitative II
Lindstrom-Hazel, Kratt, & Bix (2009) X Quantitative
May-Lisowski & King (2008) X Quantitative
Poole, Willer, & Mendelson (2009) X Quantitative
Rallon & Chen (2008) X Quantitative
Warren, Moore, & Vogtle (2008) X Quantitative
To evaluate how well studies published in AJOT meet the Centennial Vision for rehabilitation research, we read and reviewed the articles and classified them by level of evidence and types of research as previously described by Gutman (2008, Table 2): systematic or narrative reviews, effectiveness studies, efficacy studies, basic research about disability, instrument development and testing, and studies with a link between occupational engagement and health.
Summary of Study Design and Methodology of Research in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Participation and Work and Industry
Summary of Study Design and Methodology of Research in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Participation and Work and Industry×
Author and Year Research Methodology Used Level of Evidence Sample Selection Method Sample Characteristics and Inclusion– Exclusion Criteria Instruments or Interventions Used Statistics Used Results Study Limitations
Baker & Redfern (2009) Descriptive, correlational Convenience sample from the university Adult keyboard users between ages 18 and 65 with no history of upper-extremity fracture or traumatic injury that limited upper extremity use K–PeCS, videotaping χ2, Spearman’s rank correlations ρ Significant difference in hand posture between right and left hands External validity, moderate intrarater reliability, hand dominance not identified
Canny, Thompson, & Wheeler (2009) Prospective, test–retest, and interrater reliability Convenience sample from treatment center N = 60 Age: 20–68 yr Dx: fibromyalgia, healthy control participants Gender: female Box and Block Test of Manual Dexterity ICC Paired t test Test–retest, .90; interrater,.85; fibromyalgia patients scored significantly below control group and normed values. Convenience sample may not be representative; both treatment and control groups scored well below norms.
Darragh, Harrison, & Kenny (2008) Quasi-experimental, pretest–posttest II Convenience sample from facility where study took place Full-time production workers who were microscope operators Laboratory Assessment Checklist, Employee Comfort Survey, ergonomic education and training ANOVA, ANCOVA Significant increase in body positioning and workstation design in the education + training group and lesser increase in the education-only group compared with control group Not blinded, inflation, participant bias, external validity (limited generalizability)
Dunn, Carlson, Jackson, & Clark (2009) Qualitative, secondary analysis Participants of previous study who developed pressure ulcers 19 men and women with spinal cord injury who developed pressure ulcers N/A N/A 46 pressure ulcer events in a 1- to 5-yr period; 8 main response categories with subcategories identified that described response to pressure ulcer events Limited generalizability (only looked at people who developed ulcers, not those who did not and compared); categorization of pressure ulcer not confirmed in medical record.
Finlayson, Garcia, & Cho (2008) Prospective cohort Direct mail to consumer groups, advertising in care centers N = 1,282 Age: 63.8 ± 9.4 yrDx: Multiple sclerosis Structured telephone interview Proportional odds model 38% of participants used occupational therapy since diagnosis; occupational therapy services considered important to well-being; more activity limitations and urban location associated with use of occupational therapy in past year. Limited geographic region, participant recall of service use only, details of occupational therapy service use not collected
Gentry (2008) Cohort III Convenience sample from local clinic and local chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Community-dwelling people with multiple sclerosis who had cognitive impairment RBMT–E, COPM, CHART–R, PDA checklist or occupational therapists trained participants to use PDAs as cognitive aid at home Repeated-measures ANOVA, t test Significant increase in performance and satisfaction; significant increase in mobility, cognitive and social subscales; no significant change in behavioral memory Sample not fully representative, not randomized, subjective report; treating clinician also conducted evaluations.
Jang, Chern, & Lin (2009) Prospective, reliability, and validity Convenience sample from two schools, three employment services, and local high schools N = 130 Age: 15–28 yrDx: intellectual disability and healthy control participants LOTCA Pictorial IQ test
Spearman’s ρ
Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis
Mann–Whitney U
ANOVA with Tukey’s Honestly Significant Difference
Confirmed structure of LOTCA with confirmatory factor analysis, low internal consistency for motor praxis scale. LOTCA subscales correlated .26–.63 with Pictorial IQ test. None acknowledged. Convenience sample may not be representative.
Kay, Bundy, & Clemson (2008) Retrospective, cohort All clients referred to center over a 10-yr period. N = 838 Age: 53 ± 20 yr Dx: orthopedic, neurologic, cognitive impairment, traumatic brain injury, vision impairment, other VRST–USyd on-road driving assessment Rasch Analysis (including MnSq fit statistics, point–measure correlations, principal-components analysis of residuals) All items fit the Rasch model; test does not cover full range of driving competence; principal-components analysis provided evidence of unidimensionality; reliability = .95, no significant DIF for gender; prediction of road performance sensitivity = 77%, specificity = 92%, PPV = 67%, NPV = 95% Convenience sample may not be representative. On-road assessors were not blinded to off-road performance results. Reliability information of on-road test was limited.
Kielhofner, Braveman, Fogg, & Levin (2008) Quasi-experimental, pretest–posttest with standard of care control II Convenience sample from four local supportive living facilities Adults with HIV or AIDS who are homeless or at risk for homelessness SSC–HIV/ ESD program Productive participation χ2; odds ratio Significantly higher levels of productive participation in model program participants. Nonrandomized; 29% attrition rate; standard-of-care control group may not be equivalent to true standard of care.
Lindstrom-Hazel, Kratt, & Bix (2009) Prospective, interrater reliability Convenience sample of students N = 73 Age: not given Dx: healthy Jamar hydraulic dynamometer, B&L Engineering pinch gauge ICC ICCs for Jamar dynamometer ranged from .996 to .998; for pinch gauge, from .949 to .99 Pairs of raters were not screened, so they might have seen what other rater scored. Convenience sample of raters may not be representative.
May-Lisowski & King (2008) Within-subjects repeated measures Convenience sample from local university University students, right‐ hand dominant, no history of upper‐extremity injury Motion monitor, videotaping, measures of shoulder flexion, abduction, internal rotation Paired t-tests; Cohen’s d effect size Significant increases in shoulder flexion/abduction during wrist immobilization; no significant difference with internal rotation Generalizability to population with upper-extremity injuries
Poole, Willer, & Mendelson (2009) Cross-sectional Advertised for participants from national scleroderma foundation and local chapters Mothers with scleroderma with children (birth to 18 yr) living at home PDI, VAS, HAQ, MAFS Spearman ρ correlation coefficients between instruments Poorer health, higher levels of pain, fatigue, and more activity limitation were related to greater parenting difficulty Sample was not representative; author did not collect ages of children.
Rallon & Chen (2008) Prospective, cohort Convenience sample from local clinic N = 30 Age: 56 ± 11.9 yr Dx: orthopedic hand MAM–36 TEMPA
Rasch Rating Scale analysis
Unpaired t test
Moderate to strong correlations between MAM–36 and TEMPA, significant differences between dominant and nondominant hands for TEMPA unilateral tasks Convenience sample may not be representative. Severity of hand dysfunction not categorized.
Warren, Moore, & Vogtle (2008) Cross-sectional Convenience sample from local community 81 healthy adults between ages 20 and 90 Brain Injury Visual Assessment Battery for Adults, visual search strategies, and checking work or time 2-factor ANOVA, 2-factor χ2 Horizontal, left-to-right, top-to-bottom search pattern found to be predominant with no significant differences in age or gender; older adults (>age 60) took longer to complete tests; older adults more likely to check work. External validity regarding ethnicity and culture
Table Footer NoteNote. ANCOVA = analysis of covariance; ANOVA = analysis of variance; CHART–R = Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique–Revised; COPM = Canadian Occupational Performance Measure; DIF = differential item function; Dx = diagnosis; ESD = Enabling Self-Determination; HAQ = Health Assessment Questionnaire; ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient; K–PeCS = Keyboard Personal Computer Style; LOTCA = Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment; MAFS = Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale; MAM–36 = Manual Ability Measure; N/A = not applicable; NPV = negative predictive value; PDA = personal digital assistant; PDI = Parent Disability Index; PPV = positive predictive value; RBTME = Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test–Extended; SSC–HIV = Sign and Symptom Checklist for People With HIV/AIDS; TEMPA = Test d'Evaluation de la Performance des Membres Supérieurs des Personnes Âgées; VAS = visual analog scale; VRST–USyd = Visual Recognition Slide Test–University of Sydney.
Note. ANCOVA = analysis of covariance; ANOVA = analysis of variance; CHART–R = Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique–Revised; COPM = Canadian Occupational Performance Measure; DIF = differential item function; Dx = diagnosis; ESD = Enabling Self-Determination; HAQ = Health Assessment Questionnaire; ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient; K–PeCS = Keyboard Personal Computer Style; LOTCA = Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment; MAFS = Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale; MAM–36 = Manual Ability Measure; N/A = not applicable; NPV = negative predictive value; PDA = personal digital assistant; PDI = Parent Disability Index; PPV = positive predictive value; RBTME = Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test–Extended; SSC–HIV = Sign and Symptom Checklist for People With HIV/AIDS; TEMPA = Test d'Evaluation de la Performance des Membres Supérieurs des Personnes Âgées; VAS = visual analog scale; VRST–USyd = Visual Recognition Slide Test–University of Sydney.×
We also summarized studies by methodology, sampling design, analytic methods, and findings (see Table 2). Levels of evidence in Tables 1 and 2 are based on AOTA’s levels of evidence rating system (Lieberman & Scheer, 2002):
Level I: Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials
Level II: Two groups, nonrandomized studies (e.g., cohort, case-control)
Level III: One group, nonrandomized (e.g., before and after, pretest and posttest)
Level IV: Descriptive studies that include analysis of outcomes (single-subject design, case series)
Level V: Case reports and expert opinion that include narrative literature reviews and consensus statements.
In addition, we further classified the studies according to our interpretation of the priority areas identified by the Ad Hoc Work Group on Rehabilitation, Disability, and Participation (see Table 3). These categories included use of activity- and participation-level measures, use of activity- and participation-level interventions, context-based interventions, and environmental modifications.
Summary of Centennial Vision Priority Areas Related to Research in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Participation and Work and Industry
Summary of Centennial Vision Priority Areas Related to Research in Disability, Rehabilitation, and Participation and Work and Industry×
Author and Year Activity or Participation Measures Activity or Participation Interventions Context-Based Interventions Environmental Modifications None of These
Baker & Redfern (2009) X
Canny, Thompson, & Wheeler (2009) X
Darragh, Harrison, & Kenny (2008) X X X X
Dunn, Carlson, Jackson, & Clark (2009) X
Finlayson, Garcia, & Cho (2008) X
Gentry (2008) X X X X
Jang, Chern, & Lin (2009) X
Kay, Bundy, & Clemson (2008) X X X
Kielhofner, Braveman, Fogg, & Levin (2008) X X X
Lindstrom-Hazel, Kratt, & Bix (2009) X
May-Lisowski & King (2008) X
Poole, Willer, & Mendelson (2009) X
Rallon & Chen (2008) X
Warren, Moore, & Vogtle (2008) X
Number of studies (N = 14) 7 4 4 2 7
Of the three effectiveness studies, none could be classified as Level 1 systematic reviews or randomized controlled trials. Two studies could be classified as Level 2 nonrandomized studies. One study could be classified as a Level 3 nonrandomized, one-group pretest–posttest design. No studies were Level 4 descriptive studies (see Table 1).
Fourteen articles included in this review were classified into the following categories: 5 instrument development and testing studies, 3 effectiveness studies, and 5 basic research studies. None could be classified as an efficacy study or systematic review. One study established a link between occupational engagement and health. One study was qualitative, and the remaining 13 were quantitative (see Table 2).
Only half of the studies could be classified according to the priority areas established by the AOTA working group (see Table 3). Six studies used activity- or participation-level measures, 4 incorporated activity- or participation-level interventions, 4 used context-based interventions, and only 2 included environmental modifications. Seven of the 14 studies did not fall into any of these areas.
In recent years, most studies in this area of rehabilitation have tended to focus on instrument development and validation. In addition, the instrument development studies typically used small (between 30 and 130) convenience samples from a single setting or geographic region that are not necessarily representative of the patient groups they address. The three intervention studies used quasi-experimental and cohort designs, in part, their authors noted, because of the challenge of randomizing in real-world community and employment contexts (Darragh, Harrison, & Kenny, 2008; Gentry, 2008; Kielhofner, Braveman, Fogg, & Levin, 2008). Occupational therapy has a long tradition in qualitative methods, so the limited number of studies using this methodology is somewhat surprising. By contrast, occupational therapy has had less of a tradition of population-level studies, so it is encouraging to see epidemiologic methods such as those used in Finlayson, Garcia, and Cho (2008) beginning to be reported in the literature.
Activity and Participation and Context-Based Interventions
Few of the studies used strong methodological designs such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs). RCTs allow for a level of explanation of causal agents that other designs do not and often reflect the culmination of knowledge gained from numerous earlier, more exploratory studies. As such, RCTs can reflect a level of maturity and organization in thinking about a particular area of inquiry that demonstrates that a field is systematically building its knowledge base. Of the 14 studies, 3 were treatment effectiveness studies (Darragh et al., 2008; Gentry, 2008; Kielhofner et al., 2008). All 3 included activity- and participation-level interventions, and all 3 were context based. Although not a randomized controlled trial, Gentry’s (2008) study embodied how occupational therapy uses knowledge of underlying capacity to provide context-based, participation-level interventions that improve occupational performance. Participants with multiple sclerosis were trained to use personal digital assistants to compensate for cognitive impairments and to enhance participation in everyday life tasks at home and in the community. In more rigorous research studies that included control groups, Kielhofner et al. (2008) and Darragh et al. (2008) provided interventions to increase productivity in community settings, supported living facilities, and the workplace, respectively. These kinds of studies, although not RCTs, exemplify the Centennial Vision for occupational therapy research by promoting participation in real-world environments.
In other studies, the use of occupation was more tangential. For example, May-Lisowski & King (2008) had able-bodied people pick up brownie pieces to analyze upper-extremity movement. The rationale for using this food was not described. It was not clear that substituting brownies for apples or even a foam block would have made any meaningful or substantive difference to the interpretation of the study.
Activity and Participation and Context-Based Assessments
Of the 14 studies, 6 included activity- or participation-level assessments as the primary focus or outcome measure. The assessments included self-reported self-care and instrumental activities of daily living limitations (Finlayson et al., 2008); off- and on-road driving assessments (Kay, Bundy, & Clemson, 2008); the Laboratory Assessment Checklist (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2001), used in Darragh et al. (2008); upper-extremity function during everyday activities, using the Manual Ability Measure (Chen, Kasven, Karpatkin, & Sylvester, 2007) and the Test d’Evaluation de la Performance des Membres Supérieurs des Personnes Âgées (Desrosiers, Herbert, Dutil, & Bravo, 1993), both used in Rallon and Chen (2008); the Parent Disability Index (Katz, Pasch, & Wong, 2003), used in Poole, Willer, and Mendelson (2009); the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM; Dedding, Cardol, Eyssen, Dekker, & Beelen, 2004) and the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (CHART; Whiteneck, Charlifue, Gerhart, Overholser, & Richardson, 1992), both used in Gentry (2008); and participation in work, school, training, or volunteering (Kielhofner et al., 2008).
Three of the studies used a combination of both impairment-level and activity- or participation-level measures. For example, Gentry (2008) used the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test–Extended (Wilson, Cockburn, Baddeley, & Hiorns, 1989) to evaluate memory and the COPM and the CHART–Revised to capture activity and participation levels. Kielhofner et al. (2008) evaluated both symptoms with the Revised Sign and Symptom Checklist for people with HIV/AIDS (Holzemer, Hudson, Kirksey, Hamilton, & Bakken, 2001) and productive participation with self-reports of employment status, school and training, volunteer involvement, or all of these. Poole, Willer, & Mendelson (2009) captured impairment-level pain with a visual analog scale and fatigue with the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale (Tack, 1991), while capturing activity or participation level with the Health Assessment Questionnaire (Fries, Spitz, Kraines, & Holman, 1980) and a parenting tool, the Parent Disability Index.
Eight of the 14 studies used only assessments that evaluated impairment-level constructs such as manual dexterity (Keyboard Personal Computer Style instrument, Baker & Redfern, 2005, used in Baker and Redfern, 2009, and the Box-and-Block Test, Cromwell, 1976, used in Canny et al., 2009); cognition (Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment; Itzkovich, Elazar, Averbuch, & Katz, 2000) and general intelligence (Pictorial IQ test; Hsu & Lu, 1995), both in Jang, Chern, and Lin (2009); grip strength (dynamometer; Lindstrom-Hazel, Kratt, & Bix, 2009); kinematics through motion monitoring of upper-extremity movement (May-Lisowski & King, 2008); and visual function (Brain Injury Visual Assessment Battery for Adults; Warren, 1998) used in Warren et al. (2008) . Although understanding impairment is indeed relevant to occupational performance, this level of assessment predominates the occupational therapy studies reviewed here. More important, information from this level of performance evaluation is not being translated into greater understanding of activity- and participation-level interventions. The authors of these studies have generally not made explicit how such assessments help understand the person–task–environment interaction that is at the heart of human occupation.
Environmental Modifications
Only 2 of the 14 studies included environmental modifications. Darragh et al. (2008) and Gentry (2008) modified work and home environments, respectively, to improve their clients’ functional participation. To prevent work injuries, Darragh et al. (2008) altered workstations to improve body position and ergonomic design of workstations for workers manufacturing microscopes. Gentry (2008) modified clients’ home computers and gave them personal digital assistants to use at home to enhance their functional memory to perform everyday life tasks.
One of the most telling statistics about these articles is not reported in the tables. Five of the 14 studies did not acknowledge a funding source, 2 reported funding internal to their organization, 2 were student or PhD research, 1 was funded by a national society, 2 were funded by National Institutes of Health career development K-awards, 1 was funded by a government science award (Taiwan), and 1 was funded by a National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research field-initiated award. Only the last three categories represent research proposals that receive significant external peer review. The career development awards are encouraging because these awards build the next cadre of researchers. However, building a systematic body of rehabilitation research requires investigation over multiple years, requiring sustained research funding not generally reflected in this group of articles.
Occupational therapy research in the areas of rehabilitation, disability, and participation and work and industry is showing progress toward meeting the Centennial Vision, with several studies focusing on context-based interventions that result in changes in client activity and participation. Activity- and participation-level outcome measures were the focus of several studies, yet most studies continue to use impairment-level measures as the primary outcome.
An area of concern for an intervention-focused profession such as occupational therapy is the paucity of rigorous effectiveness studies, that is, Level 1 research. In an era of increasing accountability and public reporting, clear evidence-based demonstrations of the effectiveness of occupational therapy research will be critical to the profession’s continued credibility and value. For example, Medicare is increasingly requiring public reporting of quality indicators (Rhoads, Konety, & Dudley, 2009). As we have noted previously, quality indicators require that we define and demonstrate the effectiveness of our interventions, deliver them consistently to all relevant clients, and routinely document their outcomes (Mallinson, Fischer, Rogers, Ehrlich-Jones, & Chang, 2009). These concerns are also reflected in the new priorities of the AOTA/American Occupational Therapy Foundation Research Advisory Panel (2010), which noted that in the next decade it will be “imperative that efficacy and effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions be ascertained” (p. 1).
We found evidence that a handful of rehabilitation studies focused on the effectiveness of occupational therapy in promoting occupational engagement and well-being. These studies highlight the importance of context in producing therapeutic change. Yet, a major concern remains that enough of these kinds of studies simply do not exist to build a coherent system of knowledge that serves as a foundation for advancing the Centennial Vision.
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Notre Dame du Lac Parish, Lac du Bonnet
Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba
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In 1946, the Franciscans were invited by Archbishop George Cabana of St. Boniface to take over the Lac du Bonnet parish and the missions attached to it. The missions included Bisset, and Red Lake, which could be reached by plane. Besides these, there was Great Falls, Seven Sisters, Milner Ridge, Maple School district and Pointe du Bois. Fr. Sylvestre Beaudet and Fr. Stan Frytek were appointed to take over the work. Fr. Englebert Paradis after his release as an army chaplain was sent to Lac du Bonnet. He used his army pay to buy a new residence on the lake shore that would serve as the Friary.
Fr. Alberic Frechette was appointed pastor after Fr. Englebert Paradis departed to become the pastor of St. Francis Parish in Edmonton. After Fr. Frechette was offered the Parish at Maillardville, today part of Coquitlam, Fr. Ulric Ell was appointed pastor in 1953-1961. Fr. McRae arrived in 1954 to help with the missions.
In 1955, construction began for the new church building. Fr. Ulric Ell also designed and built the chapel in Whiteshell in 1968. Fr. George Hart was appointed Pastor after Fr. Ulric Ell; the assistant pastor was Fr. Bonaventure (Dureau) until he went to Peru and was replaced by Fr. Fred Doll.
In 1963, the Franciscans left Lac du Bonnet and were replaced by the diocesan priests of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface.
Fonds consists of records pertaining to Notre Dame du Lac Parish in Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba, as well as its surrounding missions and Red Lake missions in Ontario. Records include historical and foundation documents, reports, chronicles, minutes, photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.
Maintained arrangement of files previously processed and arranged by GW.
Contains accession 06-04. No further accruals expected.
Previous numbers F10D.185A, F10D.185B, and F10D.185C.
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There’s a thing about football clubs and communities. Whilst, especially in contemporary days, ownership may rest in the hands of some mega-rich businessman or faceless corporate enterprise, football clubs in reality belong to the community. That is simply the case, because without that community, the fan-base, it’s very difficult to sustain a club at all. You can’t just have a stadium standing around and decide to launch a football club to up its commercial value. Well, actually, you can sometimes. It’s pretty much what happened at Stamford Bridge in 1905 when Chelsea Football Club was launched. For every one that succeeds, many more fail. One such enterprise was Thames AFC. Continue reading →
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Author, Chimamanda Adichie clarifies her stance on trans-women
By Patricia Uyeh
Last week, Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie appeared on Channel 4 and spoke on trans -women.
According to her, the whole problem of gender in the world is about our experiences and not because of the genitals we have. This obviously did not go down well with lots of people, who criticised her statement.
In order to clarify her statement, the ”Americannah” author took her Facebook page to wrote a lengthy post that read:
‘Because I have been the subject of much hostility for standing up for LGBTQ rights in Nigeria, I found myself being very defensive at being labeled ‘trans phobic.’ My first thought was – how could anyone think that?
“I didn’t like that version of myself. It felt like a white person saying ‘I’m not racist, I supported civil rights.’
“Because the truth is that I do think one can be trans phobic while generally supporting LGBTQ rights.
“And so I want to put my defensiveness aside and clarify my thoughts. To make sure that I am fully understood.
“I said, in an interview, that trans women are trans women, that they are people who, having been born male, benefited from the privileges that the world affords men, and that we should not say that the experience of women born female is the same as the experience of trans women.
“This upset many people, and I consider their concerns to be valid. I realize that I occupy this strange position of being a ‘voice’ for gender rights and so there is an automatic import to my words.
“I think the impulse to say that trans women are women just like women born female are women comes from a need to make trans issues mainstream. Because by making them mainstream, we might reduce the many oppressions they experience.
“But it feels disingenuous to me. The intent is a good one but the strategy feels untrue. Diversity does not have to mean division.
“Because we can oppose violence against trans women while also acknowledging differences. Because we should be able to acknowledge differences while also being supportive. Because we do not have to insist, in the name of being supportive, that everything is the same. Because we run the risk of reducing gender to a single, essentialist thing.
“Perhaps I should have said trans women are trans women and cis women are cis women and all are women. Except that ‘cis’ is not an organic part of my vocabulary. And would probably not be understood by a majority of people. Because saying ‘trans’ and ‘cis’ acknowledges that there is a distinction between women born female and women who transition, without elevating one or the other, which was my point.
“I have and will continue to stand up for the rights of transgender people. Not merely because of the violence they experience but because they are equal human beings deserving to be what they are.
“I see how my saying that we should not conflate the gender experiences of trans women with that of women born female could appear as if I was suggesting that one experience is more important than the other. Or that the experiences of trans women are less valid than those of women born female. I do not think so at all – I know that trans women can be vulnerable in ways that women born female are not. This, again, is a reason to not deny the differences.
“Why does this even matter? Because at issue is gender.
“Gender is a problem not because of how we look or how we identify or how we feel but because of how the world treats us.
“Girls are socialized in ways that are harmful to their sense of self – to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.
“A trans woman is a person born male and a person who, before transitioning, was treated as male by the world. Which means that they experienced the privileges that the world accords men. This does not dismiss the pain of gender confusion or the difficult complexities of how they felt living in bodies not their own.
“Because the truth about societal privilege is that it isn’t about how you feel. (Anti-racist white people still benefit from race privilege in the United States). It is about how the world treats you, about the subtle and not so subtle things that you internalize and absorb.
“This is not to say that trans women did not undergo difficulties as boys. But they did not undergo those particular difficulties specific to being born female, and this matters because those experiences shape how adult women born female interact with the world.
“And because to be human is to be a complex amalgam of your experiences, it is disingenuous to say that their being born male has no effect on their experience of gender as trans women.
“Of course there are individual differences. But there are always individual differences. We speak of ‘women’s issues’ knowing that while there are individual differences, the truth of human history is that women as a group have been treated as subordinate to men. And we speak of male privilege acknowledging that individual men differ but that men as a group are nevertheless accorded privileges by the world.
“I think of feminism as Feminisms. Race and class shape our experience of gender. Sexuality shapes our experience of gender. And so when I say that I think trans women are trans women, it is not to diminish or exclude trans women but to say that we cannot insist – no matter how good our intentions – that they are the same as women born female. Nor do I think that we need to insist that both are the same.
“To acknowledge different experiences is to start to move towards more fluid – and therefore more honest and true to the real world – conceptions of gender.”
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Warming seas are bad news for farmed salmon
December 3, 2019 Aquaculture News,News-Global
Researchers have evaluated how climate change could affect Norwegian salmon farming over the next 50 years.
Ocean temperatures off the Norwegian coast have increased by 1°C on average since the 1980s. Over the next decades, temperatures will continue to rise due to human-induced climate change.
This is bad news for farmed salmon, which is vulnerable to temperature increases.
Can cause problems for salmon
Salmon farming takes place along the whole coast of Norway and the country is divided into 13 production regions.
Nofima scientist Elisabeth Ytteborg and colleagues have analysed how the temperature scenarios will affect salmon farming in all 13 regions from today until 2070.
“Even under the mildest scenario we see that rising ocean temperatures may pose a challenge for salmon”, she says.
The research has been conducted by researchers from Nofima and the University of Stirling as part of the EU-funded ClimeFish project. The results were recently published in the scientific journal Aquaculture.
Warmer seas may lead to fish death
Salmon have biological and environmental criteria that must be fulfilled to make farming possible.
The ideal water temperature is between 8–14°C: the fish eats well and grows quickly.
If the water is warmer than 16°C, the salmon gets stressed, eats less and experiences reduced growth.
When temperatures exceed 23°C, the fish may die.
Few areas in the world meet the environmental criteria for sea-based salmon farming. Rising sea temperatures in the future may limit production at Norwegian fish farms.
Temperatures will vary significantly across the country, and the fish’s tolerance can also vary. Previous research states that salmon die at 23°C, but recently there was a case where production fish died at 20°C.
“This means that the biology is more complex than we’ve assumed. We must include other factors than just temperature when assessing the biological impact of climate change,” she says.
Possible solutions and research needs
The aquaculture industry should develop new strategies to adapt to these scenarios.
“New technologies, breeding for improved temperature tolerance and alternative farming locations are some of the solutions that could help maintain healthy fish”, she says.
However, possible measures will require more information and knowledge.
“When it comes to determining which measures we should implement, we still don’t know enough about how the farmed salmon will react to higher temperatures, increased ocean acidification, and reduced oxygen. Our research has revealed major knowledge gaps in terms of both available datasets and the biology of salmon”, she says.
About ClimeFish:
A four-year Horizon 2020 project funded by the EU.
Led by UiT, with Nofima as a key research partner. The project concludes in April 2020
21 research and industry partners from 16 countries participate in the project, which aims at ensuring a sustainable increase in seafood production in areas – and for species – with potential for sustainable growth.
The project includes 16 case studies investigating the impact of climate change on European fisheries and aquaculture.
The case study on Norwegian farmed salmon is one of the project’s most comprehensive studies in the project.
For more, visit the project website
Research strategy:
IPCC has projected several scenarios for temperature increases based on greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.
The ClimeFish researchers made temperature trajectories based on IPCC RCP 4.5 – IPCC’s mildest realistic scenario, in which the increase in the global average temperature stays below 2°C.
The temperature data for RCP4.5 were scaled down by the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research’s calculations for ocean temperatures along the Norwegian coast from today until 2070.
Temperature estimates were then calibrated against historical temperature data from fish farming localities across Norway, with projections from today until 2070 for a total of 56 production localities from all 13 production regions in Norway.
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Restaurant industry lifer from Toronto, now lucky enough to call Bayfield, Ontario (a village on the shores of Lake Huron) home. When not spreading granola love, she can be found at her family’s restaurant, The Black Dog Village Pub & Bistro. Or at the beach. Or on a bi-weekly four-hour phone call to her sister who really, really needs to live just a little bit closer.
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The cash infusion coincides with a rough period for Uber, which is facing lawsuits and an image problem, and follows a detente in China after Uber agreed to essentially cede the market to Didi in exchange for a significant stake.Bloomberg | May 01, 2017, 08:21 IST
By Christina Larson
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing just raised more than $5.5 billion, giving Uber Technologies’ chief executive officer Travis Kalanick one more thing to worry about.
Didi’s record funding round is said to value the company at more than $50 billion and gives it a war chest to ramp up efforts to harness artificial intelligence, build driverless cars, and compete more aggressively in foreign markets.
"The bruising battle with Uber taught [Didi] a lot," said William Bao Bean, a Shanghai-based partner at venture capital fund SOSV.
"Now it’s battle-hardened, and can buy the best talent in the world to attempt to go big in China, and also go global."
While Didi confronts many of the same challenges bedeviling Uber-—both are bleeding money and battling regulators—investors are still betting both will eventually have fleets of driverless vehicles in cities around the world. It’s a daring vision, but perhaps too good a dream to pass up.
"The biggest risk any investor faces isn’t losing money," says Andy Mok, managing director at Red Pagoda Resources, an executive search firm in Beijing, "but missing out on the next Apple or Google."
For Didi and Uber, which offer appealing visions of a future when driverless vehicles shuttle people around cities using artificial intelligence, the technology represents a massive opportunity because of its ability to reduce costs, said Kai-Fu Lee, one of China’s most prominent venture capital investors.
"Profitability is heavily dependent on the success of autonomous vehicles," said Lee, a veteran of both Microsoft Corp. and Google. "If you look at the breakdown of the costs of either Uber or Didi, a very large part of the cost – about two thirds – is based on their drivers, on what they pay for drivers, insurance, driver acquisition."
Didi has powerful supporters of its vision, including SoftBank Group Corp., whose founder Masayoshi Son is famous for making big bets. Almost 20 years ago he backed a small Chinese e-commerce outfit that would become Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and deliver a profit of more than $80 billion.
"SoftBank is known for making pretty risky investments -- like in Alibaba and Yahoo. Sometimes they pay off very big, sometimes they don’t," said Duncan Clark, founder and chairman at advisory firm BDA China and author of "Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built." "Son tolerates very high levels of risk."
The Didi-Uber relationship is complicated — Uber owns about 17.5 percent of Didi, making it the largest shareholder, and also allowing it to benefit from Didi’s success.
But even if they no longer vie with each other in China, they both have ambitions to be big, global players and are poised to clash in other markets.
Didi has expanded outside its home turf mostly by making investments or forming partnerships with ride-hailing companies such as Grab in Singapore, Ola in India and Lyft Inc. in the U.S.
For Uber, which is present on every populated continent, India represents its largest overseas market and a pivotal battleground.
As Didi develops its autonomous driving technology, it could have the capacity to knit together a far-flung global network of allies, focused on developing markets in Asia and the Middle East, Bao Bean said.
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