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Devon Moth Group are flying high after millionth sighting
PUBLISHED: 16:00 08 October 2019
Alex Walton
A million moths recorded in Devon. Picture: Devon Moth Group
Picture: Devon Moth Group
The Devon based moth group are celebrating a milestone achievement.
Devon Moth Group are celebrating the collection of one million moth sightings across the county. Kevin Johns’ garden in Newton Abbot showing his light-trap used to record moths. Picture: Kevin Johns
One Million moths have been sighted fluttering around Devon, much to the delight of local naturalists.
It has taken more than 20 years for Devon Moth Group to collect, check and record the sightings since its formation in 1997.
The records date back to the mid-19th century and provide a long-term view of the changing wildlife of Devon.
The landmark millionth record was of a V-Pug, a small green moth with a characteristic black v-shaped mark on its wings, which was spotted by Devon Moth Group member Kevin Johns in his Newton Abbot garden.
Devon Moth Group are celebrating the collection of one million moth sightings across the county. The V-Pug moth (Chloroclystis v-ata), which was spotted by Devon Moth Group member Kevin Johns in his Newton Abbot garden. Picture: Phil Dean
Moths, like so much of our wildlife, are in serious decline. For example, populations of the V-Moth (not to be confused with the V-Pug) have crashed by 99 percent in Britain since the 1960s, while the stunning Garden Tiger, once a familiar sight to naturalists, has slumped by 92 percent.
Moth recording plays an important role in conservation as the information gathered shows which species are flourishing and which are in danger.
The sightings then identify parts of Devon where threatened and declining moths still remain so that conservation action can be targeted effectively.
All of the records gathered are shared with the Devon Biodiversity Records Centre, Devon Wildlife Trust and the UK-wide National Moth Recording Scheme.
Around 1,700 moth species have been recorded in Devon, some two-thirds of the total for Britain. These include nationally important species such as the rare Scarce Blackneck, Beautiful Gothic and Devonshire Wainscot.
Gardeners can do a great deal to help moths including planting a variety of moth-friendly flowers for nectar, especially native plants, keeping a few areas rough and untidy, and avoiding the use of insecticides wherever possible.
Kevin Johns, who has been a regular contributor to the Devon moth database, was delighted to learn that his V-Pug record turned out to be the one that passed the million mark.
He said: "It was a brilliant surprise, really quite special". Kevin's garden is close to mature woodland which means that a good number of moths are attracted to his light-trap to be noted and released unharmed. "I'm really pleased with what I get", he added.
Devon Biodiversity Records Centre manager, Ian Egerton, said: "Devon Biodiversity Records Centre is a partnership-led organisation set up to gather information on Devon's species and habitats.
We ensure that biodiversity information feeds into decision-making locally and nationally, and over the last 25 years, our efforts have been underpinned significantly by the county's huge network of volunteer recorders.
Their passion and interest in specific species has created much of the data we now hold, and the level of knowledge and expertise within groups such as the Devon Moth Group, is key to supporting a conservation sector which could not operate without them."
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Expats See Top Returns From Low Cost UK Property
By Fiona Moore, for ExpatBriefing.com 03 September, 2014
A UK-based company that specializes in finding properties for overseas investors has said that it saw sales activity on behalf of UK expats increase by 60 percent during the first half of this year, compared with a year earlier.
Find UK Property said that sales to expats and to non-UK nationals of properties worth GBP70,000 (USD116,000) or less had risen by 55 percent during January to June, 2014, against the same period in 2013. The most popular properties were worth between GBP70,000 and GBP55,000 coming with full management, repair guarantees, and guaranteed rent.
According to the company, many residents of other countries see the UK as a "safe haven" when considering long-term property investment, with well-regulated selling laws and clear title ownership.
Andy Noble of Find UK Property explained that investors are being forced to look beyond London due to high prices. He said that Find UK Property's best-selling house costs GBP54,999 and delivers a rental yield of eight percent, while a comparable two-bedroom property on the outskirts of London could cost over GBP250,000 and deliver a rental yield of just three percent. Noble added that less expensive properties often have greater potential for capital growth, and also give investors greater flexibility.
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The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, located in UpTown Waterloo, is dedicated to exhibiting and collecting ceramic, glass, enamel and stained glass works of art. Featuring newly renovated gallery spaces, it is a popular destination for art enthusiasts of all ages.
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Explore the history of Waterloo at the City of Waterloo Museum. Located in Conestoga Mall, the museum shares the stories of Waterloo from its founding in 1806 to today. With over 10,000 historical objects in its collection, the museum changes its exhibitions regularly.
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Landmark Wolverhampton church moves one step closer to closure
By James Vukmirovic | Wolverhampton | News | Published: Aug 9, 2019
A landmark church in Wolverhampton has moved one step closer to closing its doors.
Darlington Street Methodist Church dome taken from Beatties roof garden.
The congregation at Darlington Street Methodist Church, which has stood at the corner of Darlington Street and School Street for 118 years, have begun the process of seeking permission to close.
If approval is given by the Methodist District Synod in September, the congregation plans to hold a final service on September 29.
The church has been part of the city's architecture for 118 years
The decision to close comes after over a year of uncertainty, with church leaders having originally met in 2018 to discuss how to overcome "increasing challenges", which included dwindling congregation numbers and the departure to new premises of Good Shepherd, who had previously occupied part of the building.
Reverend Christopher Collins, the minister of Darlington Street Methodist Church spoke about the difficult decision the congregation had to make.
He said: “The church council has been on a faithful and prayerful journey about the future of the church for some time. Faced with the mounting costs of maintaining the property and the energy required to manage such a building effectively, the church council has taken the decision to close.
"This has taken great courage and grace given that Darlington Street is not only significant to members and their families but is also a notable building in the city and in the history of Methodism locally."
Darlington Street Methodist Church in the 1900s
The future of the building, which hosts several organisations including the Wolverhampton Fairtrade shop, is not yet certain as discussions continue with property consultants Bruton Knowles about plans going forward.
Details of events planned for September will be available from the church and worshippers who attend services at Darlington Street will be seeking other churches to attend.
Reverend Collins hopes that the building can still be used in the future as a centre for Methodist worship.
He said: “In reaching this point, the church council has explored a broad range of possible solutions and there are still hopes that the building can be utilised for the benefit of the city in line with our Methodist ethos.
“Methodism should be rightly proud of the contribution of the church to the life of the town since the 1740s and from our current site since 1825 and it is our prayer that Methodism still has much to offer the life of our city centre.”
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Schillings Announces Stelios Win In Ryanair Libel Battle
July 20, 2010 EPR Law News Leave a comment
Schillings law firm has announced that Sir Stelios Haji-loannou has won his libel battle against Michael O’Leary and Ryanair.
Sir Stelios, the founder of easyJet and the easyGroup business empire, accepted a complete apology and retraction from O’Leary and Ryanair over a series of libelous adverts in January and February this year which portrayed Sir Stelios as a “Pinocchio” character and alleged he had “hidden the truth” about easyJet’s on-time statistics. By doing so, they alleged he had lied when he had not.
In settlement of the claim, O’Leary and Ryanair have taken out advertisements in The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph apologising to Sir Stelios for including him in the original advertisements.
In an agreed statement read in the High Court this morning, Sir Stelios’ lawyers Schillings said: “Mr. O’Leary and Ryanair accept that the advertisements should not have been published referring to Sir Stelios and have made a complete offer to settle his claim. In doing so they fully accept that Sir Stelios did not lie about the matter.”
The Claim was issued after Sir Stelios’ complaint about the original adverts was met with a robust and public response from O’Leary and Ryanair. After challenging Sir Stelios to a race around Trafalgar Square or a Sumo Wrestling Competition to resolve the dispute, O’Leary and Ryanair have now agreed to pay damages, legal costs and undertake not to repeat the claim in addition to the public apologies.
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Schillings Academy Welcomes Professor Gavin Phillipson
January 19, 2010 EPR Law News
Schillings, the leading law firm protecting the privacy and reputations of corporates and high-profile individuals, has announced that privacy and freedom of expression expert, Professor Gavin Phillipson will join as a tutor at the Schillings Academy.
Professor Gavin Phillipson will deliver the Advanced Privacy module over four months, covering topics including the philosophical values that underlie the notion of privacy as a fundamental right. He will also be covering comparative perspectives on privacy and freedom of speech.
A Professor at Durham Law School and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University’s Centre for Media and Communications Law, Professor Gavin Phillipson is regarded as a leading expert on privacy. Mr Justice Eady recently recommended that attendees read Professor Phillipson’s recent article entitled ‘Max Mosley Goes to Strasbourg’ whilst speaking at a law conference in December 2009. Professor Phillipson is the author of several leading articles on civil liberties and the Human Rights Act, as well as co-author of two books and co-editor of a leading edited collection. His most important contribution has been in the area of the development of a common law right to privacy on which he has published several influential articles.
Speaking about his involvement with the Schillings Academy, Professor Gavin Phillipson said: “I am delighted to be invited to be part of this remarkable programme of development and am looking forward to working with some of the leading lawyers in the field of privacy. I’m particularly looking forward to exploring, in discussion during the Academy, some of the opposing arguments to those professionally advanced by claimant lawyers such as Schillings.”
Keith Schilling said: “It is a testament to the high quality of education the Schillings Academy is delivering that we have attracted such a well respected lecturer in privacy and freedom of expression to join our programme. The skills and specialist knowledge we are delivering through the Schillings Academy enable us to have the most talented, experienced and qualified solicitors practicing libel and privacy law.”
Keith also said: “We have continued to recruit solicitors whilst many other firms have had to downsize their businesses recently. The Schillings Academy is providing all our talent a unique programme and encouraging the very best to join our growing Firm, in addition to retaining our existing exceptional people.”
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Law Offices of James Scott Farrin Attorney Earns Board Certification
December 28, 2009 EPR Law News
The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin is proud to announce that Attorney Barry Jennings has recently passed the exam to become a Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law.
Board Certified Specialists are lawyers certified by the North Carolina State Bar as having demonstrated special knowledge, skill and proficiency in a specific area of law. The certification process for workers’ compensation law requires at least five years of substantial involvement practicing workers’ compensation law, completing at least 36 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits in workers’ compensation and related legal fields, a satisfactory review by at least five legal peers, and passing a comprehensive written examination.
Prior to joining the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin in 2006, Jennings worked as a defense attorney defending employers against the claims of injured workers. This experience has given him a keen appreciation for workers’ compensation law from both sides of the table.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, Jennings currently represents workers who have suffered serious injuries as a result of a work accident. He is a member of The Order of Barristers, the Workplace Injury Litigation Group and the North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
Four of the six Board Certified Specialists in Workers’ Compensation law practicing in the city of Durham work for the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin. In addition, James Scott Farrin Attorney Rick Fleming is a Board Certified Specialist in Social Security Disability Law.
“We are committed to providing top notch legal talent for our clients,” says Founder and President James S. Farrin. “We believe that our experienced, capable attorneys, including our Board Certified Specialists, can make a difference in our client’s cases.”
Founded: 1997 by James S. Farrin, Duke University School of Law, J.D. (1990) in Durham
Number of employees: Approximately 130, including 24 attorneys. Approximately 20 staff members are fluently bilingual, speaking English and Spanish.
Offices: 13 statewide, including Durham , Raleigh , Charlotte , Fayetteville , Greensboro , Greenville , Goldsboro , Henderson , New Bern , Roanoke Rapids, Rocky Mount , Sanford , Wilson
Major practice areas: Personal Injury, Intellectual Property, Civil Rights, Social Security, Workers’ Compensation
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Presently leading one of the largest civil rights cases in United States history: In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation, Case No. 08-mc-0511 (PLF) (D.D.C.), which deals with the United States Department of Agriculture’s discrimination against African-American farmers.
The firm’s many philanthropic pursuits include Duke Children’s Hospital, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The firm has a matching-gift program wherein it matches an employee’s philanthropic contributions.
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Schillings Assist Earl And Lady Spencer In Winning Libel Action
December 8, 2009 EPR Law News
Schillings solicitors has won their libel action against the Sunday Express on behalf of Earl Spencer and his daughter Lady Kitty Spencer.
The judgement has meant Earl Spencer and his daughter Lady Kitty Spencer have won an apology, Statement in Open Court as well as substantial damages and their legal costs from the Sunday Express after bringing a libel action in the High Court.
The Sunday Express article of 30 August 2009 entitled “The It girl making the Spencers glamorous”, made various false allegations concerning Earl Spencer’s divorce from his wife Caroline and was critical of his behaviour and that of Lady Kitty in connection with the divorce.
The Sunday Express has accepted that the allegations complained about were false. In an apology to be published on Sunday 6 December 2009 the Sunday Express will say:
“On 30 August 2009 in an article “The It girl making the Spencers glamorous” we published several false allegations about Earl Spencer and his eldest daughter, Lady Kitty Spencer. We regret the suggestion in that article that either of them acted improperly in any way in connection with Earl Spencer’s divorce from his wife Caroline, or in relation to the division of the family assets.
We would like to apologise to Earl Spencer and Lady Kitty Spencer for the distress and embarrassment we may have caused.”
The Sunday Express also joined with Earl Spencer and Lady Kitty Spencer in making a Statement in Open Court whereby Express Newspapers accepted that they should not have published the article as they did and formally apologised. Express Newspapers has also paid substantial damages and legal costs in full.
About Schillings
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to reputation management and safeguarding the rights of international corporations and brands, high-profile business people and those in the public eye. The firm’s 25 year track-record in defamation, privacy law and copyright cases together with family law, matrimonial and commercial dispute resolution is second to none, prompting The Independent newspaper to call Schillings a “spectacularly efficient media law firm”.
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Schillings Grows Family Department To Meet Increasing Client Demand
November 24, 2009 EPR Law News
Schillings, the leading law firm protecting the rights and reputations of corporate organisations, high-profile individuals and those in the public eye, has increased its family department to meet the growing demand from its clients, particularly those who want to ensure their family and matrimonial matters are not publicised by the media.
Schillings has recently recruited Davina Hay to join its family law department alongside Keith Schilling, Rachel Atkins and David Greer. A litigator with expertise in family law, Davina advises on separation, divorce and ancillary relief, jurisdictional disputes, multi-jurisdictional divorce cases involving significant assets and enforcement issues. Before she joined Schillings, Davina trained and qualified at a City law firm where she spent six years acting for a number of well known actors, successful entrepreneurs and international clients. She brings with her extensive experience as a litigator and enhances the firm’s provision of advice to high net-worth and high profile individuals in all aspects of divorce, relationship breakdown, ancillary relief, pre- and post-nuptial agreements and private children matters.
Schillings’ family department is led by Keith Schilling, the founder and senior partner of the firm, who represented Shan Lambert in her successful appeal in 2002, achieving the first 50/50 split of assets in a “big money” divorce.
Working alongside Mr Schilling is Partner Rachel Atkins who earlier this year, together with Associate David Greer, acted for a celebrity father in a test case following the introduction of new rules allowing media attendance in family proceedings, and succeeded in application to exclude the media from attending court hearings concerning his child.
When speaking about the growing family department Keith Schilling said, “In the last few years we have seen a significant increase in the demand for advice from high net worth and high profile individuals in connection with matters relating to divorce, often involving multiple jurisdictions, children and most notably pre- and post-nuptial agreements.”
Mr Schilling went on to say, “High net worth individuals and those in the public eye regularly discover their privacy has been invaded or their reputation defamed when details of their personal lives or the breakdown of their relationship are leaked to the press and publicised. It is logical, therefore, to respond to the demand from our clients by strengthening our team and combining our family and matrimonial advice with the firm’s pre-eminent experience in the area of reputation protection, so that we can ensure that press interest is managed to our client’s advantage.”
Speaking about the press interest surrounding high net worth individuals and those in the public eye Davina Hay said, “Clients, even those without a high public profile, are increasingly finding themselves the subject of intrusive press interest following relationship breakdown or in the event of disputes involving children. Aside from the unwanted emotional strain at an already stressful time, the financial consequences of the resulting reputational damage can be devastating. However, it is possible to manage such threats and give clients the space to resolve family issues free from unwanted media scrutiny.”
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Schillings Announce Libel Claim Win For Michael Essien Against The People
November 3, 2009 EPR Law News
The Chelsea premiership footballer Michael Essien, represented by London law firm Schillings, has won his libel claim (Case number HQ09X02164) against the People newspaper.
Libel proceedings were issued against MGN Limited, the publisher of the People newspaper, following the publication of two articles. The first article, published on 25 May 2008, carried the headline “Chelsea Cheat Michael Essien: I’ll Stand by my Love Child”. This was followed by another article on 3 May 2009 under the headline “Sex Cheat Star Essien Gets Boot”.
The articles claimed that Mr Essien had cheated on his long term partner by having numerous affairs with other women and fathered a child behind his partner’s back. As a result, his partner had called off their wedding. These allegations were found to be false and grossly defamatory towards Mr Essien.
The People has accepted that these allegations are untrue, and has paid Mr Essien substantial damages as well as agreeing to pay his legal costs. The People have also undertaken not to repeat the allegations.
In its apology, the People said: “On 25 May 2008 and 3 May 2009 we reported that Michael Essien had cheated on his long term girlfriend Nadia Buari by having numerous affairs behind her back including one in which he fathered a child. On 3 May we reported that as a result of his behaviour Ms Buari called their wedding off. We now accept that these allegations are untrue. We apologise to Mr Essien for any distress or embarrassment caused.”
A representative of Schillings who represented Michael Essien said: “There has been a lot of inaccurate reporting concerning Michael and he was not prepared to allow this misreporting to continue.”
Schillings also said that, “these allegations were not put to Michael or his representatives prior to publication and had the People done so they would have been informed of their utter falsity.”
Caroline McAteer of The Sports PR Company said on behalf of Michael Essien: “Michael is delighted to have won his case and to have set the record straight. He would have preferred not to take action, but had no alternative in this case. Michael is pleased that this matter has now been resolved.”
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Shillings Win Apology And Damages For Olivier Martinez From The Sun
October 9, 2009 EPR Law News
Olivier Martinez, represented by London law firm Schillings and Paris law firm Asmar & Assayag has won his libel action against The Sun, at the High Court in London, following the publication of false allegations that Mr. Martinez cheated on Kylie Minogue during their relationship. (Case number: HQ08X02862)
On 26 November 2007, The Sun published an article under the headline “Kylie ‘still loves’ ex Martinez” which contained the defamatory and untrue allegation that Mr Martinez had cheated on Kylie Minogue. In order to vindicate his reputation Mr. Martinez issued libel proceedings against News Group Newspapers Limited in relation to the article.
A representative of Schillings said that: “This false allegation has caused Mr. Martinez considerable embarrassment and distress.”
They also said that: “Mr. Martinez is glad that The Sun has accepted that the allegations are false and that the article should never have been published at all”.
In the High Court in London The Sun newspaper apologised to Mr. Martinez, agreed to publish an apology in the newspaper and to pay damages and legal costs.
The Sun’s lawyer said: “The Defendant sincerely apologises to the Claimant for the distress and embarrassment this article has caused. It accepts that the allegations are untrue and ought never to have been published.”
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Schillings Will Be Taking Part In A Panel Discussion At The 2009 Reputation Conference
August 25, 2009 EPR Law News
Schillings, the leading law firm protecting individual and corporate reputations, will be taking part in a panel discussion, chaired by Dr Kevin Money Associate Professor and Director of the John Madejski Centre for Reputation, at the 2009 Reputation Conference.
Keith Schilling is Senior Partner and Co-Founder of Schillings and is a Solicitor-Advocate. He is one of the most sought after reputation management lawyers in Britain due to his work in defamation and privacy and in 2008 he was placed 10th in the Times list of the 100 most powerful and influential lawyers in England for his work in achieving a number of landmark decisions in privacy law. He has helped to protect the reputations of film, sports and entertainment stars as well as international corporations and business executives.
Keith Schilling, joins a panel of experts in protecting reputations to answer the question ‘Future avenues for building reputation. Where do we go from here?’ The panel will close the conference with a review of the learnings from the day and discuss how organisations should prepare themselves for the future challenges in managing reputations and corporate responsibility.
As a new decade approaches, the conference will examine the challenges of managing reputation and relationships in times of organisational change and will consider the lessons learnt from recent corporate scandals in the management of reputation.
About Schillings:
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in defamation, privacy law and copyright cases, as well as commercial litigation is second to none.
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Schillings Client Jacob Zuma, The President Of South Africa, Has Won Very Substantial Damages After A Libel Case Against The Guardian Newspaper Following False Allegations Printed Earlier This Year
July 31, 2009 EPR Law News
On 6 March 2009, the Manchester based newspaper published an article that falsely claimed that President Zuma was guilty of rape, corruption and bribery. President Zuma began legal action against the daily newspaper earlier this year claiming defamation, saying the article was grossly false and indefensible.
After being taken to court, the Guardian has apologised to the ANC leader and agreed to pay very substantial damages as well as cover legal costs.
In a statement read in the High Court on 30 July 2009, Schillings solicitor Jenny Afia described the allegations as being “of the utmost seriousness and totally untrue”. She went on to explain that: “In light of the facts that the [Guardian] is now willing to pay very substantial damages and it has publicly apologised to [President Zuma], [President Zuma] considers that his reputation in this matter has been entirely vindicated and he is prepared not to proceed any further in his action against the [Guardian].”
Speaking from Mahlambandlovu last night, the president’s official residence in Pretoria, President Zuma said: “What was said was extremely serious, not just for me but for the ANC. I am very pleased that the Guardian has now apologised. I firmly believe in press freedom and freedom of expression. I have fought for these and other basic rights my whole life and I will continue to support this. We had to take action in this matter because the publication crossed the line. Media around the world are obliged to exercise their freedom of speech in a responsible manner.”
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to reputation management and the safeguarding of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in media management, privacy law and copyright cases, as well as commercial dispute resolution and sports law is second to none.
Defamation, privacy and copyright are at the heart of the firm’s work, prompting The Independent newspaper to call Schillings a “spectacularly efficient media law firm”.
Schillings clients include supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Kate Winslet, seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, premiership footballer Wayne Rooney, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, pharmaceuticals maker GlaxoSmithKline, steel maker Arcelor Mittal, the Harrods Group and the London Stock Exchange.
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Schillings Take First Place At The Lawyer Awards 2009
July 3, 2009 EPR Law News
Once again Schillings has reason to celebrate the successes of their legal team as one of its lawyers, Matthew Himsworth, wins first place in the Assistant Solicitor of the Year category at the Lawyer Awards ceremony.
Matthew Himsworth is an associate at Schillings and specialises in reputation protection on behalf of corporations, brands and public figures. He has developed his career over the last seven years, having trained with Schillings, and has built a strong profile both within the firm and externally within the legal profession and with clients.
The award is presented to the solicitor who has demonstrated entrepreneurship, business building skills and technical legal skills. Matthew’s commitment to both the firm and its clients extends beyond his core role and is evident in the numerous projects he has initiated. In particular he developed the firm’s trainee coaching programme with the objective to provide full training in the practical legal tools as well as promoting thought-leadership on relevant topics. This training programme helps prepare trainees so that when they qualify they can build upon their legal technical know-how by enrolling in the Schillings Academy.
Matthew’s highest profile success was for the stock broking firm, Collins Stewart in its well documented libel action against the Financial Times. This was the largest claim ever brought and Matthew helped achieve a ground-breaking apology on the front page of the Companies and Markets section along with and substantial damages
Speaking after the awards, Matthew Himsworth said, “It was a great surprise and a huge honour to win the award. It’s a tremendous accolade to be recognised by your own profession.”
Matthew has received praise from many of his clients, mainly from the firm’s sports law practice, which he has been instrumental in developing. Clients commend Himsworth as, “Personable whilst providing clear and sensible advice”, and that, “He offers excellent strategic recommendations”. One major sporting body went on to state, “We have found Matt to be extremely professional and we are delighted to be associated with him”.
This award follows a number of recent achievements at various industry awards. Schillings won first place in the Partner of the Year category in 2008 and has twice been winners of the Niche Firm of the Year (2002 and 2003) at the Lawyer Awards. In addition, the firm won the Young Solicitor of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2008.
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in defamation, privacy law and copyright cases, as well as commercial dispute resolution and sports law is second to none.
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Schillings Launches The Schillings Academy
June 4, 2009 EPR Law News
Schillings the leading law firm protecting the privacy and reputation of corporates and high-profile individuals has launched the Schillings Academy, an advanced and unique course which will provide unparalleled training to staff at the firm.
The Schillings Academy will be delivered in-house and will equip the firm’s employees with the skills and specialist knowledge to provide the same excellent client service that the firm’s partners have become known for.
The Schillings Academy is the result of two years of development and will concentrate on building excellence in three key areas including advanced legal training for qualified lawyers, enhanced teaching for trainees and commercial skills training for the business support function. The first phase of the Schillings Academy will roll out a two year, 100 hour bespoke training programme in reputation management and privacy law to qualified lawyers currently working at the firm. Additionally the programme will carry CPD points and will ensure that all qualified lawyers exceed their CPD requirements without the need to go on external generic courses.
The four main components of Schillings Academy for qualified lawyers will be advanced modules on defamation, privacy law and confidence and advocacy and related reputation management laws. Working together with leading professors including Professor Gavin Phillipson and the College of Law, the Schillings Academy will foster and harness new ways of thinking on how to approach and deploy the law to achieve the best results for the firm’s clients.
Speaking on the firm’s 25th anniversary, Keith Schilling, founding partner of Schillings, said: “Schillings is fortunate to have created a reputation over the last 25 years for being at the forefront of privacy and reputation law. The launch of our Schillings Academy demonstrates to our clients our continued commitment to deliver excellence to our clients in everything that we do. It is with great pride that we are launching this market leading initiative, which demonstrates Schillings commitment to providing the best training to its lawyers, with the most advanced knowledge and expertise available. This academy takes the firm into a new season and we look forward to our next 25 years.”
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s 25 year track-record in defamation, privacy law and copyright cases, as well as commercial dispute resolution and sports law, is second to none.
Defamation privacy and copyright are at the heart of the firm’s work, prompting The Independent newspaper to call Schillings a “spectacularly efficient media law firm”.
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Schillings Law Firm Has Been Shortlisted In The Lawyer Awards 2009
May 20, 2009 EPR Law News
Schillings, one of the UK’s foremost law firms leading the way in protecting reputations by employing legal tools including privacy, defamation, copyright and commercial litigation, has announced that Matthew Himsworth has been shortlisted for the Assistant Solicitor of the Year award at this year’s The Lawyer Awards.
Matthew Himsworth is an associate at Schillings and specialises in reputation management on behalf of corporations, brands and public figures. He has developed his career over the last seven years, having trained with Schillings, and has built a strong profile both within the firm and externally within the legal profession and with clients.
A strong factor in Matthew’s shortlisting for ‘Assistant Solicitor of the Year’ was his demonstration of entrepreneurship and business building skills, when identifying new opportunities for creating additional revenue streams f r o m an area within the practice. Working with the Schillings marketing team, Matthew devised a strategy for formally growing the sports law practice. The objective was to create a short, medium and long term plan to provide partners and fee earners with a framework to facilitate keeping in regular contact with existing clients and a method to raise brand awareness and generate new business development leads.
Matthew’s highest profile success was for the stock broking firm, Collins Stewart in its well documented libel action against the Financial Times. This was the largest claim ever brought and Matthew helped achieve a ground-breaking apology on the front page of the Companies and Markets section and substantial damages.
Matthew’s legal technical skills together with the many excellent references he received have contributed to his nomination in the upcoming Lawyer Awards.
The Lawyer Awards, now in its fifteenth year, remains the benchmark for excellence within the legal profession and are open to participation by private practice, in-house counsel and members of the Bar. The winners of the awards will be announced at the Awards ceremony on Tuesday 23rd June 2009 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in defamation, privacy law and copyright cases, as well as commercial dispute resolution and sports law is second to none. Defamation, privacy and copyright are at the heart of the firm’s work, prompting The Independent newspaper to call Schillings a “spectacularly efficient media law firm”. Schillings clients include supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Kate Winslet, seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, premiership footballer Wayne Rooney, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, pharmaceuticals maker GlaxoSmithKline, steel maker Arcelor Mittal, the Harrods Group and the London Stock Exchange.
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Schillings Has Announced The New Seminar Programme For The Upcoming ‘PR And The Law – Annual Briefing 2009’
April 23, 2009 EPR Law News
The event will take the form of a breakfast briefing and focus on the drivers and key trends likely to affect communications strategies and corporate reputation management in an economic downturn.
Joining Rod Christie-Miller, Partner at Schillings, to help lead the briefing will be Dr Kevin Money, Director of the School of Reputation and Relationships at Henley Business School and Director of The John Madejski Centre for Reputation.
Dr Kevin Money will cover the subject of motivational drives and organizational theories. An understanding of these drives (the drive to acquire, learn, bond and protect) and how they may change during times of economic uncertainty – can provide a competitive edge to anyone shaping communications strategies.
Recent research suggests that in an economic downturn, the drive to protect is likely to assume greater importance in our lives, and Kevin will explore how that drive is likely to be the biggest driver of reputation.
Rod will then take over to deliver a session how to use the law to protect corporate reputations. In the sphere of reputation management, the unconscious drive to protect is borne out by the very real threats that corporates now face.
Over the coming year, the economic downturn will change the nature of the reputational threats that corporates will face. Rod will also look at look at how the law can be used to neutralise such threats and in particular he will look at:
– The cult of the CEO and protecting the privacy senior staff – Malicious insiders and protecting confidential information from leaking to the media – How the internet and the economy are causing the decline in quality journalism
Rod will explain how despite these new threats, the potential to protect reputations via a combined PR and legal approach is actually stronger than ever.
The briefing will finish off with a round of questions to the panel.
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in defamation, privacy and copyright cases, as well as commercial dispute resolution is second to none.
Schillings clients include supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Nicole Kidman, seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, premiership footballer Wayne Rooney, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, pharmaceuticals maker GlaxoSmithKline, steel maker Arcelor Mittal, the Harrods Group and the London Stock Exchange.
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PR, Communications and the Law – Annual Briefing 2009
Schillings, top UK law firm dedicated to protecting the reputations of international corporations, brands and celebrities, has announced the new conference programme for the upcoming ‘PR, Communications and the Law – Annual Briefing 2009’ at the Paramount Club, Centre Point in London on 28th April.
The event will take the form of a breakfast briefing and will cover the subjects of what should drive communications strategies and corporate reputation management.
Joining Rod Christie-Miller, Partner at Schillings, to help lead the briefing will be Dr Kevin Money, Associate Professor at Henley Business School and Director of The John Madejski Centre for Reputation.
Rod will then take over to present a talk on the important subject of reputation management. In the sphere of reputation management, the unconscious drive to protect is borne out by the very real threats that corporates now face.
Over the coming year, the three key threats for people working in PR and communications are liable to be:
– Responding to leaks and whistleblowers
– Tax gaps and the Board
– Protecting the corporate reputation during high-profile employment disputes
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Schillings Announces Details Of The Protecting Reputations In Sports Conference
March 5, 2009 EPR Law News
Schillings, one of the UK’s top law firms dedicated to protecting the reputations of international corporations, brands and celebrities, has announced the full conference programme for its upcoming forum in protecting reputations in sports at the Paramount Club, Centre Point in London on 31st March.
The half day Schillings conference will bring together leading experts in the industry. The keynote address will be delivered by the former international rugby star Kenny Logan, winner of more than 70 caps for his country. The speaker panel will debate issues facing sports brands and sporting professionals from a public relations, media and legal perspective.
The sports industry is a sophisticated and competitive marketplace. Correctly balancing the needs of the corporate sponsor, with those of the sporting team and the players and personalities involved, can provide a winning formula. However, in reality this balance is hard to achieve and even harder to maintain in an increasingly celebrity obsessed society.
Attendees at this event will:
– Gain a complete insight into the reputation management issues facing the sports industry
– Find out how the glare of the celebrity spotlight and the pressure of sponsorship can affect a sports personality’s performance
– Understand the importance of brand value and realise the commercial potential of brands
– Examine the new threats of unscrupulous marketers and the increasing cases of false endorsements in the sports world
– Discover how to use the law and PR to protect brands from a media threat
– Network with the industries’ leading figures over a networking lunch and drinks reception
The Schillings conference programme will open with a networking lunch followed by presentations covering brand value from both individual and corporate perspectives, before moving on to the realities and practicalities of a media crisis. The conference will then conclude with a panel discussion and drinks reception.
Representing Shillings will be the Conference Chairman and Schillings Partner, John Kelly, and Schillings Associate, Matthew Himsworth.
John Kelly heads up the Sports practice at Schillings as a litigation lawyer who represents high profile brands and individuals in the entertainment and sports world. As well as advising premiership and international football clubs and agents he also provides sports stars with advice on contract and commercial dispute resolution, sponsorship deals as well as general media management matters.
Matthew Himsworth is a lawyer who specialises in reputation management on behalf of corporate brands and public figures. Matt has extensive experience in dealing with the media in both pre- and post-publication matters. His sports practice includes clients such as Lance Armstrong, the Professional Rugby Players Associations, WMG and Premiership football.
Other speakers include Tim Luckett, Managing Director at Hill & Knowlton and Phil Hall, CEO of PHA Media
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in defamation, privacy and copyright cases, as well as dispute resolution is second to none. Defamation, privacy and copyright are at the heart of the firm’s work, prompting The Independent newspaper to call Schillings a “spectacularly efficient media law firm.” Schillings clients include supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Nicole Kidman, seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, premiership footballer Wayne Rooney, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, pharmaceuticals maker GlaxoSmithKline, steel maker Arcelor Mittal, the Harrods Group and the London Stock Exchange.
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Schillings announce briefing to businesses on protecting investor value in a downturn
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Following on from the success of the previous BITESized briefings Schillings, one of Britain’s top law firms, dedicated to safeguarding the privacy and reputations of international corporations, celebrities and high-profile business people, has announced the subject of the latest event to be held on 28th January.
These information events by Schillings are intended to help their clients and PR professionals keep up to date with how to use the law as a tool in protecting reputations and this event will cover the extremely pertinent and important subject of protecting investor value in a downturn.
Previous Schillings BITESized briefings were extremely well received and covered subjects such as handling social media threats, legal tools for crisis management, the importance of HR in averting media crisis, executive Reputation Management, cleaning up and restoring an online reputation and brand management
The upcoming event is intended to help businesses prevent and deal with scurrilous rumours which can badly damage investor confidence, in turn causing serious problems for companies and their directors. Subjects being addressed include finding out how to act quickly to identify and quell the sources of harmful false allegations before they do more harm, and the steps that can be taken to prevent these allegations from crossing into the mainstream media.
This briefing forms just part of the wide ranging regular calendar of Schillings events and seminars for specific interest groups where people come together to learn about how the law can be used to help protect both personal and corporate reputations.
Registrations are already being taken for the event and based on previous briefings, places are expected to fill up quickly.
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people. The firm’s track-record in defamation, privacy and copyright cases, as well as dispute resolution is second to none.
Schillings clients include supermodel Naomi Campbell, actress Nicole Kidman, seven times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, pharmaceuticals maker GlaxoSmithKline, leading investment bank Kaupthing, steel maker Arcelor Mittal, the Harrods Group and the London Stock Exchange.
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Schillings to discuss privacy and reputation management issues at Legal Weeks Private Client Forum
Schillings, one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the privacy and reputations of international corporates, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people, will be represented by senior partner Keith Schilling at Legal Week’s Private Client Forum. The main theme will be “Assessing Risk in a Volatile World”, which will be looking at changes the international wealth market has faced in 2008 and the new risks brought about in an ever increasingly volatile market.
Keith Schilling, senior partner at Schillings, will participate in a panel discussion on the topics of privacy, reputation management and human rights and will discuss, along with fellow panelists, how the world’s high-net worth individuals are in a constant battle with the media to protect their own privacy and reputations.
The conference will examine the major issues that have arisen following the advent of the credit crunch and the economic strain currently being suffered on a global scale. Increased pressure from regulatory authorities in Europe and the US government also spell uncertain times for the world’s financial safe havens.
These developments and more will provide the basis for a three day programme for the world’s leading private client lawyers.
The first day of the conference will offer a view of the impact of the credit crunch and how the shift of wealth globally has brought about new risks in wealth management.
The second day will feature a Q & A style debate on the future of international financial centers and a discussion assessing the effects of new US exit tax laws which will form a wider discussion on the reach of exit, gift and inheritance taxes globally.
The third day will see Keith Schilling, recently voted one of the 1000 most influential people in London, join a European panel discussion on privacy and reputations. His fellow panelists include Basile Ader from the French law firm Ader, Amigues et Jolibois; Professor Dr. Matthias Prinz from the German law firm Prinz Neidhardt Engelschall and Jennifer McDermott from Withers in the UK. The panel will outline the differences in privacy laws across a number of jurisdictions and the steps to take to avoid unwanted media attention and what to do if it arises.
Keith Schilling said about the conference, “At this time of volatile market conditions, the threat of a global recession and fears about the security of individuals’ wealth, the media are increasingly focusing on the private wealth of high-profile people. We are seeing a trend in the media towards ‘money being the new celebrity’ and we are working with our high-net worth clients to advise them how to protect their reputations and manage their own and their families private lives. This conference is on at a time of unprecedented financial turmoil and proves just how important an issue it is.”
The firm uses the law to protect the reputations, privacy and confidentiality of clients by helping them and their PR advisers to manage what is published and broadcast about them. It is their ability to adapt to the threats posed by the ever changing media landscape which keeps them at the forefront of this specialist area.
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Schillings Image Rights Specialist Simon Smith Is Set To Release A New Book – The 2nd Edition Of Image, Persona And The Law
Schillings partner Simon Smith is set to release the latest edition of “Image, Persona and the Law” this winter, with the book providing a comprehensive analysis of the current state of the law in England and Wales regarding the protection of name, image and other aspects of persona.
The second edition of the book will also go into detail on both the specific context of commercial exploitation without the individual’s consent and in the separate context of invasion of privacy. The book also presents a detailed analysis of the numerous developments which have occurred in relation to the right to privacy in the UK.
Using the knowledge and experience gained as a litigator specialising in protecting and restoring the reputations of high profile individuals, entrepreneurs and corporate organisations, Simon Smith’s book will assist entertainment and media lawyers in the UK and US who represent celebrities and other personalities in the media, enabling them to advise their clients on their right to privacy and the right to publicity in the UK.
The book has a number of key features that will benefit entertainment lawyers looking into the areas of reputation management and discusses the numerous significant decisions which have occurred since the previous edition of the book was released in 2001 as well as examining the leading privacy decisions which have been brought, together with an analysis of the Data Protection Act 1998, including the Douglas-Zeta Jones and Murray (JK Rowling’s son) decisions, the later being brought to action by Schillings recently.
Simon Smith is a Partner at Schillings and specialises in defamation, privacy, image endorsement, confidence and contracts. Considered to be one of the best in the area according to the Chambers and Partners directory, he has pursued many successful High Court libel cases for Hollywood’s ‘A’-List stars on high profile libel actions brought in England.
He is regularly asked to comment on live TV and radio and writes in the national press and legal reviews on media related matters in addition to speaking at international legal conferences and in Parliament on media issues. He is also a member of a specialist global group of leaders in their field investigating and researching image rights.
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Schillings announce the topics for their upcoming BITESized briefings, a series of short information and Q&A events
Schillings, one of Britain’s top law firms specialising in the areas of reputation management and brand protection, are to hold their second series of BITESized briefings, These information events help their clients and PR professionals keep up to date with how to use the law as a tool in managing and protecting reputations.
These Schillings events will fall into one of three categories: preparation, prevention and publication. Schillings Lawyers will show those who attend the events what to do early on, in order to prepare for and avoid unwanted media attention, what to do if faced with the threat of a damaging story being published and how damage can be limited and reputations restored after publication.
The first of this season’s BITESized briefings, which was held at Schillings offices in London at the start of September, focused on the subject of executive reputation management. Knowing that Senior Executives’ reputations are as important to a corporate brand as the company’s performance, Schillings Lawyers demonstrated how to keep personal information such as details of bonuses and family information out of the press and how, by protecting the privacy and reputation of its senior executives, a company can ultimately protect the corporate reputation.
The next briefing to be held later in the month will focus on the importance of HR in averting a possible media crisis. With a large number of media situations arising as a result of activities by disgruntled ex-employees, Schillings will explain the practical steps which can be taken by HR professionals to prevent any issues escalating into a communications and media crisis.
The third event in the autumn season will concentrate on the legal tools available for dealing with crisis management. The session will aim to dispel the myths about using the law in assisting with a media crisis and explain how the law can help set the record straight when faced with defamation issues. Schillings will also explain how employing such legal tools can provide the PR and communications teams with positive messages for restorative communications.
Further BITESized briefings from Schillings will commence in the winter, offering advice and information on handling the media and protecting reputations from a legal perspective.
Schillings is one of Britain’s top law firms dedicated to safeguarding the reputations of international corporations, brands, celebrities and high-profile business people.
Schillings Lawyers use the law to protect the reputations, privacy and confidentiality of clients by helping them and their PR advisers to manage what is published and broadcast about them. It is their ability to adapt to the threats posed by the ever changing media landscape which keeps them at the forefront of this specialist area.
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A Man in His Office Kitchen: Chef Sam Talbot at Home
By Kurt Soller
As Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season, it only seemed appropriate to take our Man in His Office series to a different work environment: the kitchen. That's where Sam Talbot, a heritage-wear-loving chef who just released a new cookbook, The Sweet Life: Diabetes Without Boundaries, gets his job done — whether it's creating new recipes for dinners or books, conceiving new television and web projects, or just making some on-the-go snacks that help him keep his blood sugar under control. When we visited his apartment in New York's Lower East Side, it was the first time in years he hadn't been spending every night in a restaurant kitchen. So there he was, in the midst of preparing for one of his many for-hire engagements — this time, a charity taco-tequila tasting — while tackling the looming question many men face at Thanksgiving: What tools do I need to rule the kitchen? See this expert's must-haves in the slideshow below...
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Essex traffic and news updates on Tuesday, January 2
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Tommy WathenMultimedia Journalist
Happy New Year and welcome to Essex Live's daily blog on Tuesday, January 2.
Stay with us throughout the day for live news, traffic and weather updates across the county.
If there are traffic delays on the A12, A130, A10, M11, M25, Dartford crossing or another main route in Essex, you can read about it here.
Brentwood club Sugar Hut slammed by New Year's revellers after they were turned away 'without explanation' from pre-paid party
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Dartford Crossing bridge to close due to high winds
The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at the Dartford Crossing will close from 11pm tonight because of severe winds brought by Storm Eleanor.
The Met Office have issued several warnings to the people of Essex urging them to prepare for winds of up to 80mph which could be a ‘danger to life’.
Damage to buildings is also expected as a result of the wind gusts.
Get the full details on the closure here.
Delays on the London-bound A13
The London-bound carriageway of the A13 is partially blocked near the A176 (Five Bells Interchange) following an accident.
Traffic is currently moving slowly.
Damaged road surface causes heavy delays on A130 as inside lane closes
There are heavy delays on the southbound A130 after the inside lane had to be closed because of a damaged road surface.
The affected area is just after the A12 at Howe Green (junction 17) with cars queuing all the way back to the roundabout.
Police assault shut down a masquerade ball at Brentwood bar shortly before New Year's countdown
An assault on a police officer at a masquerade ball in Brentwood’s Slug and Lettuce saw partygoers miss the New Year’s countdown when they were all ejected before midnight.
The Slug and Lettuce party – touted as the “biggest and final day of the year” - closed shortly after the incident that happened at around 10pm on Sunday.
A130 Southbound Junction 7 will be closed from 7:30pm tonight
The A130 Southbound junction 7, will be closed from 7:30pm tonight and thruogh the night between Howe Green and Rettendon for repair works to the road surface to take place.
The inside lane has been closed for several hours as repair works have started on the damaged surface, causing traffic delays.
Chelmsford man 'attempted to murder his ex when he found out she had a new partner'
A Chelmsford man flew into a “jealous rage” and attempted to murder his ex-girlfriend when he found out she had a new partner, jurors heard today.
Terry Wayne Margetson kicked down the door of Gemma Saye’s flat in Rookes Crescent, Chelmsford, on July 6, 2017 and grabbed a carving knife from the kitchen drawer, it is claimed.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how the 43-year-old first attempted to stab Miss Saye’s new partner Neil Barden before stabbing Miss Saye in the chest, neck and arm.
Read the full story from court here.
West Ham United fans take note
If you’re travelling to tonight’s game between West Ham and West Brom at the London Stadium here is some handy information courtesy of Greater Anglia
Service information for @WestHamUtd vs @WBA Premier League match this evening: pic.twitter.com/nY1law9dnb
— Greater Anglia (@greateranglia) January 2, 2018
Potential bridge closure
Highways England have said there is a strong possibility the A14 junction 56-57 (Orwell Bridge) will be closed from 9pm tonight for safety reasons because of the high winds expected.
The bridge will reopen tomorrow but no time has yet been stated. Although the bridge is in Suffolk this could cause problems on the nearby A12 north of Colchester.
It's going to be a windy next 24 hours so be careful out there!
With high winds possible in next 24 hours, please check now & secure things that may blow or fall onto our roads and footways. Report fallen trees at https://t.co/obm1Uuw6L9 . pic.twitter.com/qYYd5QYgog
— Essex Highways (@essexhighways) January 2, 2018
Emergency overnight road closure on A130
There is an emergency overnight road closure from 7.30pm tonight on the southbound A130 between Howe Green and Rettendon Turnpike for repair works.
Work is expected to be completed by Tuesday rush hour, weather permitting. There is a signed diversion route throughout.
Train service update
So far so good for Greater Anglia train services as commuters get ready for their first evening commute home after the New year break.
There a few minor service alterations to some scheduled train journeys, which you can find by clicking here.
Stapleford Tawney accident UPDATE
The earlier accident on the A113 at Stapleford Tawney near the junction of Epping Lane has been cleared.
Handover time...
Right, Tommy is about to leave for the day so the rest of the news team will keep you updated throughout the rest of the day.
Met Office update for tonight:
Further rain soon spreading east this evening, heavy at times but clearing to blustery showers by the early hours. Windy, with gales likely across the north Norfolk coast by morning. Minimum temperature 4 °C.
On the trains:
Both Greater Anglia and Transport for London services are both still running a good service.
2018 has been good for the rail companies so far...
Traffic Update:
In general, the roads are looking pretty fine at present, although two accidents have been reported.
First - Oliver Close in both directions near Oliver Road in Thurrock is blocked outside Energy Limited due to a two vehicle accident.
Second - Woodgrange Drive is partially blocked in both directions at Huntingdon Road, Southend-on-Sea, due to an accident.
Traffic is pretty heavy, so expect delays.
If you’re looking for a fun way to exercise in the New Year, then this jaw-dropping obstacle course could be for you.
Inflatable 5K is a huge run where you have to crawl, jump, slide and scramble your way through a set of huge obstacles.
Met Office issue weather warning as Storm Eleanor to batter Essex
The Met Office has warned the people of Essex to prepare for strong winds tomorrow, as Storm Eleanor prepares to batter the county.
Storm Eleanor is the fifth named storm of the season, and the Met Office is telling people in Essex and across the the south east to be prepared for her to bring strong and gusty winds through much of Wednesday, January 3.
Serious accident in Stapleford Tawney - UPDATE!
Emergency services have descended on a road in Stapleford Tawney following a serious road traffic accident.
Officers from Essex Police, the East of England Ambulance Service and Essex County Fire and Rescue Service were all in attendance at the scene of the accident on London Road in Romford shortly before 10am this morning (January 2).
We asked Micky Norcross about the NYE issues at the Sugar Hut:
The boss of Brentwood’s Sugar hut has defended the decision to turn away people from a New Year party as they were securing the safety of partygoers inside.
The Brentwood club has been inundated with complaints from people who said they were refused entry, despite having already bought tickets.
Broomfield Hospital 'under significant pressure'
Pictures from Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford show there is an alarming backlog of ambulances queuing for A&E.
Around 12 to 13 ambulances from the East of England Ambulance Service were seen waiting around outside the accident and emergency entrance on Tuesday morning (January 2), with some containing patients on board.
Fight between group of baseball bat-wielding men in Chafford Hundred on New Year's puts a man in hospital
Essex Police were called to a fight between a group of men wielding baseball bats in Chafford Hundred in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Officers were sent to the scene after reports of a disturbance in Sewell Close at around 2.40am on January 1 with one man suffering a cut to his head.
Brentwood man caught by 'paedophile hunters' released without charge
A Brentwood man has been released without charge after a self-styled ‘paedophile hunters’ group accused him of waiting to meet a 13-year-old girl.
The 30-year-old was arrested on suspicion of sexual grooming and hit headlines after he was captured on video in a snare set up by the group on December 30.
Serious accident:
The A113 London Road is blocked in both directions near Stapleford Tawney due to a serious accident.
It is understood that the accident happened near Epping Lane, with the police blocking the road to allow an air ambulance to land.
Expect delays in the area throughout the next few hours
Popular TOWIE hotspot closes for good after shock announcement
After 8 years in business, one of the hotspots from The Only Way is Essex has closed its doors for good.
The Brickyard, which is located in South Street, Romford, promotes themselves online as ‘Essex’s Number 1 Venue’ and has always been a popular place for the cast members of the hit ITV reality show to enjoy a meal and drinks with friends.
Yesterday's top stories:
Our New Year’s Day team worked hard yesterday to kick the year off with plenty of news from across the county.
Here are some of the top stories throughout the day:
What about the trains?
Greater Anglia: As of 06.54, all services are generally good. There are no significant route issues at present.
Transport for London: As has been the same situation on the London Overground services since the end of last year, there is still no service from Gospel Oak to Barking due to Network Rail’s major works to enable new, longer trains to run from spring 2018. This is expected to last until Sunday, January 14. Elsewhere though, all other lines are running a good service.
On the roads:
Just the two things currently coming up on our online traffic systems:
1) There are emergency repairs on the A130 Southbound just after the A1114 Great Baddow Bypass/A12 J17/A1245 Southend Road (Howe Green). One lane has been closed due to damage to the road surface, but traffic is coping well at present.
2) Dagenham Road is partially blocked in both directions around 8 miles west of Brentwood betweeen Central Park Avenue and Park Drive. This is due to an accident. Traffic is coping well, but having to take it in turns to pass around the accident, which happened near Eastbrook School. It is also understood that the 174 bus route has been affected, so a diversion is in place.
Met Office weather update:
After a chilly but bright start with some sunshine, thickening cloud and rain will spread east during the morning, with the odd heavier burst possible. However, drier and brighter weather will return from the west later in the day. Maximum temperature 10 °C.
Hello everyone! Reporter Tommy Wathen checking in for today’s live news and traffic blog - the first one of 2018!
Stay tuned with us throughout the day as we’ll bring you the latest Essex news, traffic updates and more.
If you want to get in touch with us, you can email us at newsdesk@essexlive.news
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French UMP leader Copé quits amid election funding scandal
He insists he did nothing wrong – but French conservative UMP opposition leader Jean-Francois Copé, caught up in a major political scandal, is resigning as a result of pressure from both inside and outside the party.
It follows a police search of UMP headquarters in Paris, amid claims that in 2012, the party ordered fake invoices to cover spiralling costs in then President Nicolas Sarkozy’s failed re-election campaign.
Bogus bills were allegedly used to mask the fact that official expenditure had gone beyond a legal ceiling.
A search was also carried out at offices of the public relations company Bygmalion which organised campaign events. Earlier, its lawyer called a news conference in which he made explosive claims about millions of euros worth of bogus invoices.
“At the request of the UMP, the Bygmalion company had to draw up invoices for the UMP, whereas they should have been for the body in charge of financing the campaign for the candidacy of Monsieur Sarkozy in 2012,” said lawyer Patrick Maisonneuve.
“They are indeed falsified invoices.”
Senior UMP official Jerome Lavrilleux, who has worked closely with Copé, then went on live television and, with tears in his eyes, acknowledged that “anomalies” had occurred to cover campaign costs . But he insisted that this was known neither by Sarkozy nor Copé, two of whose friends founded Bygmalion.
The affair has been a long-running talking point in the French media – as has a likely return to politics of ex- President Sarkozy. He now also faces difficult questions which some say could jeopardise any comeback.
Copé‘s position was already weakened after the UMP was beaten by the far-right National Front in Sunday’s European elections.
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Brisbane defeated by Collingwood
Round 7, Gabba, Attendance: 21850
Sunday, 6th May 2018, 4:40 PM AEST
Brisbane Betting Odds: Win 3.60, Line +22.5 @ 1.92
Collingwood Betting Odds: Win 1.31, Line -22.5 @ 1.92
Brownlow Votes: 3: J De Goey, 2: D Zorko, 1: S Sidebottom
Brisbane 3.0 10.0 14.2 18.6 114
Collingwood 4.2 10.3 15.4 19.7 121
Brisbane Player Stats | Collingwood Player Stats | Match Head to Head Stats | Scoring Breakdown | Highlights
Brisbane Match Statistics (Sorted by Clangers) Coach: Chris Fagan
Player K HB D M G B T HO GA I50 CL CG R50 FF FA AF SC
Dayne Zorko 22 12 34 7 4 0 10 0 1 10 2 7 1 4 1 176 164
Luke Hodge 16 5 21 13 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 6 3 0 1 98 77
Alex Witherden 12 5 17 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 2 71 43
Zac Bailey 10 7 17 3 1 0 4 0 0 2 0 5 0 1 3 67 55
Daniel Rich 19 5 24 4 0 0 3 0 1 3 3 4 7 2 0 93 89
Dayne Beams 16 15 31 5 2 0 5 0 0 4 5 4 3 1 2 120 108
Allen Christensen 11 8 19 6 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 76 61
Charlie Cameron 10 6 16 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 4 3 3 0 2 52 68
Matt Eagles 7 4 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 2 3 34 48
Stefan Martin 18 10 28 8 0 0 2 24 0 4 7 2 2 3 1 130 114
Daniel McStay 3 4 7 3 2 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 51 67
Eric Hipwood 6 5 11 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 49 41
Hugh McCluggage 11 4 15 8 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 2 0 77 53
Oscar McInerney 3 1 4 2 1 0 7 10 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 61 65
Cameron Rayner 6 12 18 4 0 0 2 0 1 4 4 2 0 1 0 63 73
Mitch Robinson 8 15 23 2 1 0 7 0 0 4 5 1 1 2 1 93 100
Darcy Gardiner 8 3 11 5 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 4 1 0 50 60
Lewis Taylor 11 7 18 3 4 2 1 0 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 86 107
Harris Andrews 9 9 18 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 1 0 73 80
Jarrod Berry 5 6 11 2 1 0 1 0 2 3 3 1 0 0 1 40 52
Jacob Allison 4 5 9 3 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 2 0 1 28 32
Tom Cutler 6 4 10 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 43 46
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Collingwood Match Statistics (Sorted by Clangers) Coach: Nathan Buckley
Brodie Grundy 4 12 16 1 0 0 11 39 0 1 4 6 1 1 4 111 110
Samuel Murray 17 7 24 10 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 6 5 1 1 101 76
Jordan De Goey 13 7 20 7 5 2 3 0 3 4 2 5 1 1 2 113 123
Jaidyn Stephenson 13 8 21 6 2 0 1 0 0 3 3 5 1 0 1 86 84
Taylor Adams 8 6 14 3 0 0 2 0 1 2 4 4 1 1 2 48 45
Lynden Dunn 5 2 7 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 4 1 2 27 31
Scott Pendlebury 9 11 20 1 1 0 4 0 1 3 4 3 1 1 1 72 63
Ben Crocker 6 4 10 1 0 0 2 0 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 35 31
Flynn Appleby 10 3 13 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 4 2 1 51 57
Travis Varcoe 10 9 19 4 1 0 1 0 1 4 2 2 0 0 1 67 83
Christopher Mayne 10 8 18 5 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 83 75
Steele Sidebottom 17 17 34 6 0 1 2 0 0 4 6 2 2 1 1 110 94
Will H-Elliott 10 3 13 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 58 43
Jack Crisp 14 5 19 5 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 0 84 86
Adam Treloar 12 14 26 1 1 1 7 0 2 7 9 2 0 1 1 100 110
Matthew Scharenberg 6 8 14 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 44 71
Mason Cox 6 4 10 4 1 0 2 10 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 60 76
Jarryd Blair 8 8 16 3 0 0 4 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 64 68
Jeremy Howe 12 5 17 7 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 81 92
Tom Phillips 18 10 28 10 1 0 1 0 3 6 4 1 7 0 0 114 131
Josh Thomas 12 10 22 7 3 0 2 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 103 113
Darcy Moore 3 2 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 28 34
Brisbane Statistic Collingwood
221 Kicks 223
152 Handballs 163
373 Disposals 386
1.45 Kick to Handball Ratio 1.37
109 Marks 99
56 Tackles 56
34 Hitouts 49
21 Frees For 18
18 Frees Against 21
18 Goals Kicked 19
13 Goal Assists 15
4 Behinds Kicked 6
2 Rushed Behinds 1
24 Scoring Shots 26
75.0% Conversion 73.1%
20.72 Disposals Per Goal 20.32
15.54 Disps Per Scoring Shot 14.85
37 Clearances 48
58 Clangers 57
40 Rebound 50s 37
56 Inside 50s 61
2.33 In50s Per Scoring Shot 2.35
3.11 Inside 50s Per Goal 3.21
39.3% % In50s Score 41.0%
32.1% % In50s Goal 31.1%
Average Attributes
Brisbane Attribute Collingwood
189.3cm Height 188.7cm
88.7kg Weight 87.9kg
24yr 3mth Age 25yr 0mth
77.6 Games 94.0
Total Players By Games
Brisbane Games Collingwood
9 Less than 50 8
6 50 to 99 5
3 100 to 149 3
4 150 or more 6
Quarter by Quarter Scoring Breakdown
Brisbane First Quarter Collingwood
3.0 18 Score 4.2 26
3 Scoring Shots 6
100.0% Conversion 66.7%
Lost quarter by 8 Result Won quarter by 8
Trailing by 8 End of Quarter Leading by 8
Brisbane Second Quarter Collingwood
Won quarter by 5 Result Lost quarter by 5
Trailing by 3 Halftime Leading by 3
Brisbane Third Quarter Collingwood
Brisbane Final Quarter Collingwood
Lost game by 7 End of Game Won game by 7
Scoring Breakdown For Each Half
Brisbane First Half Collingwood
10.0 60 Score 10.3 63
Lost half by 3 Result Won half by 3
Brisbane Second Half Collingwood
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THE NEW AGE MAGAZINE. The Official Organ of The Supreme Council 33 (complete 1969 & 1970 in 2 vols) (Used)
by Pouler, Aemil (ed)
Book ID: 20523, 20523
House of the Temple 1969-1970, Washington, DC, 1969. Book Condition: fine copy. in two volumes, short octavos, vol. LXXVII, 107pp, (inc. extensive index), plus 12 issues of 62pp each, vol. LXXVIII, 108pp, (inc. extensive index), plus 12 issues of each 62pp, title pages in color, illustrated, and on thicker stock, color and b & w illustrations throughout, some of which are full-page These two fat volumes are packed with all kinds of Masonic trivia, lore, and quite a few serious articles showing considerable research. The authors range from the disgraced and later imprisoned council to President Nixon Charles "Chuck" Coulson, to John C. Montgomery, who was librarian at the Washington Lodge. The bindings, which are moderately attractive, though slightly miss-matched, appear to be by the publisher. Single issues are pretty easy to find on the net, bound runs are not. bound in gilt red & maroon calf.
Grimoire of the Baron Citadel: The Book of the Four Ways.
Hamilton-Giles, Peter
Three Hands Press
As the governor of the Dead and the burial ground, the Baron Samedi is one of the most distinctive and potent loa of Haitian Vodou. An imposing figure in black raiment, he is most often pictured as a corpse. His other magical domains, less discussed in esoteric literature, include disruption, obscenity and -- importantly for the practicing sorcerer -- not only the arts of Magic but the very fabric of which it is made.
Emergent from the spiritual crossroads of traditional Vodou and English w...
The Complete Mystical Records of Dr. John Dee: Transcribed from the 16th-Century Manuscripts Documen
Klein, Kevin
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
A lavishly packaged, two-volume box set containing the most faithful and accurate versions of John Dee's journals ever published. This is a must-have treasure for Dee aficionados and esoteric scholars who absolutely need the most meticulously detailed version of these highly influential works. A labor of love twenty years in the making, these volumes include transcripts of four manuscripts from the British Library and one from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Two of these manuscripts have never b...
Gnosis 19: The Trickster. A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions
"As long as we lie to ourselves, the Trickster will be with us. He'll show up just when we least want him, to embarrass us on a first date, to prove us fools in front of the learned company we're trying to impress, to make us miss a power breakfast with that all-important business contact."
- Richard Smoley, from the introduction
Contents -- Spring 1991
Deconstructing Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician
Churton, Tobias
Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
In November 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced the death of "the greatest man in the world," yet few knew who he was talking about. Enigmatic, misunderstood, declared a charlatan, and recently dubbed "the Rasputin who inspired Mary Poppins," Gurdjieff's life has become a legend. But who really was George Ivanovich Gurdjieff?
Employing the latest research and discoveries, including previously unpublished reminiscences of the real man, Tobias Churton investigates the truth beneath th...
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Laptop stolen from Henry Ford urology clinic; Epocrates acquires app producer Modality;
> A laptop stolen from a urology office at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit contained patient names, medical record numbers, dates of birth, snail mail and email addresses, telephone numbers and data on treatments and doctor visits for an unspecified number of prostate patients. FierceHealthcare
> Epocrates has acquired Modality, a Durham, N.C.-based developer of digital training, assessment and reference apps for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Press release
> Atlas Medical, Calabasas, Calif., has introduced Atlas Mobile, an add-on module to the Atlas LabWorks CPOE and results-reporting system that allows physicians to place orders and view test results on the iPad. Press release
> Building on its Vena mobile communications platform, Cambridge Consultants, Cambridge, Mass., have introduced The Minder, a portal for collecting and transmitting data from wireless home monitoring devices to EMRs and for facilitating two-way communication between patients and healthcare professionals. Press release
> The Vodafone Americas Foundation and the mHealth Alliance are giving away $650,000 in cash and prizes for innovation in wireless and mobile health. Entries are due Dec. 15. Website
> Prescription Solutions, the PBM subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has launched My Medication Reminders, a text messaging service to help patients remember to take their medications as prescribed. Press release
And Finally... Flying over the Thanksgiving holiday? You might want to make a statement. Website
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All roads lead to Thornton for Memorial Park’s games
Thornton Games will again bring together some of the area's leading athletes.
The Highland Games circuit in Fife continues this Saturday with the 166th celebration of the Thornton Highland Gathering in the town’s Memorial Park.
A full programme of events is lined up including a pipe band contest, running, cycling, heavy events Highland dancing and solo piping.
Good entries have been received for the track events in which the open competitors will have races over 90m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m and 3200m, all handicaps.
The youth athletes are also well catered for and will contest events over 90m, 200m, 800m and 1600m.
The open cyclists have four races, 1600m, 3200m, 4800m and Deil tak the Hindmost with the youth bikers having an 800m and 1600m.
The heavy events are always popular with he crowds and the strongmen will do battle in seven disciplines, 16lb and 22lb shot put, 16lb and 22lb hammer, 28lb weight for distance, 56lb weight over the bar and caber.
As ever there will be a big entry for the Highland dancing with age categories ranging from five year olds to adults.
Outwith the main arena there will be a licensed tent, fairground, trade stalls and static displays.
Children’s fun races will take place midway through proceedings.
Highland Dancing commences at noon with the track and field events at 12.30pm.
• Half a century ago a young athlete from Leslie decided to give the Highland games circuit a bash.
1969 was the year, the name John Thomson.
John first appeared on a games day programme at Ceres’s Boys Marathon.
Fife Flyers launch first ever ice hockey Pride weekend
Turn the clock forward 50 years to 2019 and that name once again appeared on the Ceres programme.
Thomson, now an over-60 vet and living in Glenrothes, would never have envisaged all those years ago that he would still be turning out on the games circuit - and winning.
On Saturday Thomson raced to his third success of the season following wins at the Games at Markinch and Selkirk.
On Saturday at Ceres John triumphant in the longest race run on the Bow Butts the 15 laps of the 3000 metres handicap.
Since starting out all those years ago John has now won in the region of 150 races on the games circuit.
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Sebi fines this firm for not settling clients’ funds
Published: December 30, 2019 7:27:54 PM
As per the circular, the actual settlement of funds and securities shall be done by the broker, at least once in a calendar quarter or month, depending on the preference of the client.
In a separate order, Sebi levied a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Satco Capital Markets Ltd for misusing the clients’ funds on several instances.
Markets regulator Sebi on Monday levied a fine of Rs 5 lakh on India Advantage Securities Ltd for failing to settle accounts of both active and inactive clients.
The order came after the regulator conducted an inspection between April 2016 and December 2017 to examine the running account settlement mechanism of India Advantage Securities.
Pursuant to the probe, it was found that the broker had violated Sebi’s circular issued in December 2009.
However, the broker failed to do so.
“The default committed by the Noticee by failing to settle the accounts quarterly of both active and inactive clients, where some of the clients’ accounts stood unsettled for more than one and a half year cannot be viewed leniently,” Sebi said.
Consequently, Sebi imposed the monetary penalty on India Advantage Securities.
The mis-utilisation of the clients’ funds by Satco Capital is in the range of Rs 24.27 lakh on April 2, 2015 to Rs 11.95 crore on June 30, 2016, Sebi noted.
“The Noticee has misused the funds of its credit balance clients for its own purposes and also for its debit balance clients thereby violating the provisions of the Section 23D of the SCRA (Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act) read with Sebi circular no … dated November 18, 1993,” it added.
Besides, Sebi, through separate orders fined five entities–Shailibhadra Infosec Ltd, Sonal International Ltd, Gujarat Meditech Ltd, Gujarat Narmada Flyash Company Ltd and Hani Industries– for failing to redress investor grievances pending in SCORES.
The fines have been levied in the range of Rs 1-3 lakh.
SCORES is a centralized web portal wherein unresolved grievances pertaining to securities market are registered.
Complaints received by Sebi in SCORES are electronically forwarded to the listed company which in turn is required to resolve the same and furnish the action taken report in electronic form.
Sebi fines this firm for not settling clients’ funds
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Review: "The Hundred-Year Barn"
Reviewed by Chris Stuckenschneider, Missourian Book Editor
It’s a contemplative story, much like the mood fall ushers in; “The Hundred-Year Barn” by Patricia MacLachlan relates the seasons of life for a stalwart structure that means the world to a family — a barn built “in a meadow” in 1919, townspeople working on its shared construction.
The narrator of this down-home tale, adorned with illustrations by Kenard Pak that reflect the shades of autumn, is 5-year-old Jack, holding his mother’s hand as the pair watch the land being cleared for the barn’s stone foundation.
During the barn building, Jack’s father loses his wedding ring, “ . . . a plain gold band.” Jack finds it and puts it in his pocket but the pocket has a hole and the ring slips through. Everyone searches, but to no avail, Jack’s grandmother tells her husband, “We’re still married.” To which he replies, “Now I’m married to the barn, too . . . ”
Year after year, the barn stands, a shelter for owls, farm animals, and a cherished place for celebrations. As it ages, shingles are replaced, and new coats of red paint are applied, memories within its walls mount as cousins gather to tell scary stories and play games.
“The Hundred Years” Barn” is dedicated to McLachlan’s German grandparents who left Russia, landing at Ellis Island and going to the North Dakota prairie. It’s a lovely story with a surprise that brings this tale of Americana full circle. Preschool-third grade.
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The implementation of Culture and Sustainability Centers in municipalities that house ENGIE projects has become one of the Company’s main socio-environmental responsibility actions, reflecting its committee to the development of the communities of which it is part. These spaces are specifically set up to offer the community cultural, recreational and educational activities, and are equipped with amphitheaters, museums, libraries, trade education and digital inclusion workshop rooms, and exhibition areas. The spaces are designed, implemented and maintained under ENGIE sponsorship using both own funds and tax incentives funds. Click here to learn more.
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The Wellsprings Conservation Program began in 2010 in the southwestern Paraná municipality of Chopinzinho, and has since then been replicated in several regions where ENGIE operates. Its purpose is to protect watersheds and ensure water supply and quality for local communities’ current and future generations. The project is enabled through partnerships involving ENGIE, social entities and local communities. The Program is aligned with the United Nations Organization’s (UNO) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – more specifically, with SDG 6 – Ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Click here to learn more.
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To improve the conservation status of the Brazilian biodiversity, ENGIE Brasil carries out a series of actions connected with the conservation of the fish fauna of the Uruguay and Iguazu Rivers. The project has contributed to the conservation of five fish species endemic to the Iguazu and Uruguay Rivers. Click here to learn more.
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ENGIE Brasil’s Volunteers Program aims to enable solidary citizenship and to share its corporate values. In association with the corporate social responsibility programs that the company carries out in the five regions of Brazil, it encourages the involvement of employees and their family members in areas near their homes, thereby contributing to their integration and communication with society. Participation begins with an open invitation listing the activities available and contacts to enable employees to apply. Then a Letter of Engagement is signed and, finally, the results of the experience are published. For its first edition, in 2018, several employees enrolled in the Program partners with the ENGIE Foundation’s projects. Read about some of ENGIE Brasil’s social projects next.
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In a partnership with the MUSEUM OF TOMORROW, the Between Museums Project enables popular access to museums in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This fosters more democratic access of children and youths to science, history, the arts and culture, contributing to expanding their knowledge and potential. By attending and sharing cultural spaces, communities, instructors and students become closer with knowledge as the link between them. With funds from the ENGIE Foundation, it directly benefits 1,200 children and youths from vulnerable areas in the Rio de Janeiro seaport zone. Click here to learn more.
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An ENGIE Brasil partnership with the ENGIE and GOL DE LETRA Foundations, the Open Game Project aims to help enforce the rights to education, culture, sports and leisure as provided in the Statute of Children and Teenagers in communities experiencing high socio-economic vulnerability, such as the Caju community, in the Rio de Janeiro seaport zone. Social and sports activities directly benefit 2,000 people between the ages of 3 and 18. Click here to learn more.
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In partnership with the ENGIE Foundation, Inmed Brasil’s Melhores Dias Institute has since 2011 carried out the Healthy Children, Healthy Future Project in communities of 25 municipalities with low social development in the regions near the Jirau (state of Rondônia) and Estreito (state of Maranhão) Hydro Plants and the Trairi Wind Farm (state of Ceará). The Project’s purpose is to improve the living standards of children and communities by means of sanitary, health and nutrition education. It is based on transforming children as agents for change, building a sound foundation for long-term sustainability. The project is highly replicable and has benefitted 19,000 children. Click here to learn more.
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Theo Jansen, Strandbeest “Umerus”, 2009, Installation view Frankfurter Kunstverein, Photo: Norbert Miguletz, ©Frankfurter Kunstverein, Courtesy: the artist
Theo Jansen, Portrait of the artist in front of Strandbeest "Umerus“, 2019, Installation view Frankfurter Kunstverein, Photo: Norbert Miguletz, ©Frankfurter Kunstverein, Courtesy: the artist
Theo Jansen, Strandbeest "Ordis", 2006, Photo: Norbert Miguletz, ©Frankfurter Kunstverein
Theo Jansen, Sketches, Installation view Frankfurter Kunstverein, Photo: Norbert Miguletz, ©Frankfurter Kunstverein, Courtesy: the artist
Theo Jansen, “Duabus Caudis”, 2015, ©the artist, Courtesy: the artist and Media Force Ltd.
Theo Jansen, Strandbeest, “Umerus”, 2009, Photo: Loek van der Klis, ©the artist, Courtesy: the artist and Media Force
Theo Jansen, Strandbeest, “Umerus”, 2009, ©the artist, Courtesy: the artist and Media Force
Theo Jansen, Strandbeest, “Uminami”, 2018, ©the artist, Courtesy: the artist and Media Force
Theo Jansen, “Strandbeest”, 2013, Photo: Uros Kirn, ©the artist, Courtesy: the artist and Media Force
Theo Jansen, Strandbeest, “Mulus”, 2017, ©the artist, Courtesy: the artist and Media Force
Empathic Systems
Kindly supported by: Mondriaan Fund, Königreich der Niederlande, Audemars Piguet
The Frankfurter Kunstverein has invited Yves Netzhammer, Theo Jansen, and Takayuki Todo to present a selection of their works in solo shows, under the shared thematic title “Empathic Systems.”
With his kinetic sculptures, Theo Jansen pursues his vision of creating new artificial life forms. The exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein presents two of his creatures, the so-called “Strandbeests”, “Umerus” and “Ordis”. Drawings and technical sketches visualize the mathematical equations that the machines’ movement mechanisms are based on.
Jansen has succeeded in bringing non-biological creatures made from industrial materials to life that evoke the impression of living beings for the viewer. It is their movements that elicit an emotional reaction in the viewer and serve to amaze them. The uniqueness of the forms lies in the fact they develop independent movement from wind power alone. Jansen calls his constructions “Strandbeests” because he creates them for the specific environmental conditions of a beach. Jansen continually creates these constructions with ever developing capabilities. He labels each form as a separate genus, giving them Latin names in the style of a scientific approach. “Ordis” is derived from the conjugated Latin verb “you begin,” and “Umerus” from the noun for shoulder.
Theo Jansen’s exhibition is presented on the upper floor of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. One of his largest kinetic sculptures, “Umerus” (12 x 2 x 4 meters), is in the great hall. “Umerus” will be periodically animated by compressors. In the other space Jansen is showing the sculpture “Ordis” (2 x 2.30 x 1.70 meters), which visitors can move with their own strength, offering a physical experience. Drawings and technical sketches complete the presentation by visualizing mathematical equations that describe the workings of the machines.
Theo Jansen studied applied physics at the Technical University in Delft. He has been creating his works in the context of artistic practice since the 1990s.
The origins of Jansen’s “Strandbeests” come from a computer program that he developed in 1991. This system is applied to all his works so the Jansen movement principle has become internationally renowned. In 2016, NASA invited Theo Jansen to participate in a think tank to develop potential projects for autonomous engines that could be deployed in future space missions to Venus. Jansen has a worldwide community of admirers who use the unique mechanisms of his works as a starting point for the further development of fundamental ideas and forms in the fields of science and art.
Jansen uses yellow plastic tubes, cable ties, and plastic bottles as raw materials in his work. Each “leg” has a crank system with 11 tube parts. The tubes are perfectly coordinated so that the creatures’ movements glide along a horizontal line. By storing wind, the kinetic structures can even move without an external energy source for a short period of time. Wings pump air into empty PET bottles that serve as the creatures’ body parts. The proportions of the tubes are pivotal for the motion sequence. The creatures’ so-called “brain” consists of a step counter based on a binary system that allows the sculptures to interpret and respond to their environment like primitive creatures. “Umerus’” system is based on a series of empty bottles filled with air. When the creature enters the water, the bottles fill up with liquid instead, changing the function of the binary system and reversing the running of the machine. This is how “Umerus” perceives its location in the world; it locates itself in a certain position and derives an idea of where the danger of the surrounding sea is, as well as the remaining landscape. In a general sense, one could speculatively ask whether the machine produces its own—albeit simple—conception of the world.
Jansen has continuously developed his “Strandbeests” over the years. In a few years, according to Jansen’s vision, they should be able to exist in nature both independently and in groups. Although they do not have any metabolic processes, nor do they reproduce autonomously, in their ability to move and react to environmental conditions Jansen sees the basic characteristics of artificial life, which he continues to develop.
His creatures’ movements usually trigger a fascination in the viewer based on the idiosyncratic nature of their complex movement patterns, which appear organic and reminiscent of living beings. The structures are clearly recognizable as artificial, yet they evoke the organic walk and motor skills of long-legged insects, or caterpillars in the case of some creatures not shown.
Jansen’s creatures are reminiscent of archaic skeletons that dwell aesthetically somewhere between biomorphic and inorganic growth forms. Although Jansen’s constructions are obviously lacking intellect and free will, and he clearly remains the human author, their autonomous motion processes make one forget this. Movement becomes the characteristic trait of the living. At the same time, the viewer develops the assumption—through emotions and cognitive knowledge—that motor skills are the attribute of a living being.
In their uniqueness the creatures stand as novel aesthetic forms. The power of Jansen’s work is that they are free of any function; their actions are unintentional. They repeat the unchanging action of progressing in space and time, of walking on, drawing their power from the wind alone. They are independent of the metabolism of a living body and independent of the energy supply of a machine. They are creatures of their own form. What fascinates viewers is that they act without an awareness of the principals of their own mortality. They exist and do not fear their own decay. They follow their inner program and purpose without understanding these as fate. It is the viewer who can recognize something in their form that the creature does not posess itself. Their physique and their physical nature have been created by Jansen in such a way that their effect on the viewer unfolds on several levels simultaneously: the cognitive and the emotional.
About the exhibition “Empathic Systems”
The works of the three artists use varying aesthetics and result from completely different artistic processes. Nonetheless, all the works share a corporeal appearance despite being synthetically made. They are capable of touching the viewer solely through the form of their physical activity in space, beyond any recognizable linguistic conceptualization.
The exhibition revolves around the complex emotional relationship between humans and technology. Communication processes no longer only happen from human to human, but between humans and technology. Digital technologies are also increasingly exchanging data solely between each other.
Yves Netzhammer’s artistic oeuvre offers an examination of the central issues of being human in the digital age. His humanoid figures are reminiscent of anatomical puppets, devoid of any individual traits or facial expressions. Through them, Netzhammer formulates metaphors that translate the spectrum of human emotions into images. In a sequence of gestures and moments, he creates moods that the viewer knows how to decode, should they be willing to empathize and feel on behalf of the figures. Netzhammer’s figures define themselves through interaction with their environment. The reduced arrangements result in dense scenes where individual interaction processes take place that act as syntheses of human action and feeling. He extracts the essence of human experience and uses digital drawing and programming techniques to create animations that evoke empathetic reactions in the viewer. Netzhammer occupies three floors of the Frankfurter Kunstverein with a selection of his digital animated films, graphic works, and new kinetic installations.
Theo Jansen creates expansive kinetic sculptures and describes them as a new form of non-biological life. He builds the sculptures from synthetic materials such as polyurethane tubes, cable ties, and plastic bottles. The creatures he constructs are then are set in motion by wind, building up kinetic energy to start moving. Via a computer program that Jansen developed, an algorithm calculates the mechanics of the walking apparatus. The supporting skeleton is constructed in precise proportions. This creates flowing, insect-like movements that have an immediate effect on the viewer. The empathic relation to the creatures is not established by their face, anthropomorphic traits, or an expression, but rather their movements in space.
With his work “SEER,” Takayuki Todo explores the emotional effect of eye contact and facial expressions in the interaction between humans and technology. Using 3D printing modules, miniature motors, and facial recognition software, Todo has created an anthropomorphic head that seeks the viewer’s gaze, reciprocates it, and mirrors their facial expression. The minimal movements create an immediate synchronization of the gestures and facial expressions between human and humanoid, as well as an emotional reaction in the viewer. An asymmetry in the interaction emerges. For the viewer, the machine’s behavior seems like an expression of emotions. What the technical body accomplishes is the deconstruction and reproduction of the human gaze and the movements of the face’s surface. Though the viewer projects human intentions onto the machine, they are essentially looking at a reflection of themselves.
All three artists work at the intersection of engineering and computer science with psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and ethics. They bring together a variety of technical, artistic, and psychological principles. The works elicit a level of feeling in the human viewer that is not always linguistically graspable, but instead appeals to an empathic sensitivity. In a number of ways, their artificial apparatuses become mirrors viewers encounter and recognize themselves in: sometimes in their doubling, sometimes in their distortion.
Humans and machines differ substantially in the sensory apparatuses they use to perceive and understand the world. Recognizing things begins by grasping them sensorially. Humans experience and understand the world through their body and their sense organs. In doing so they create their interpretation of the world in the form of cognizance. The body is the medium for human being-in-the-world. It acts as the link between humans and the world, or between subject and object. It belongs to the ego and the world at the same time, it is subject and object in one. Technology does not have this corporeality.
Today’s state-of-the-art computer science has produced programs and algorithms that generate machine-specific knowledge through data sets and associated information. The ways that humans and machines generate knowledge and their consequent actions are still different. But the questions remains whether this gap narrow in the future.
Although there is neither a unified theory of emotions in the natural and behavioral sciences nor a definition that is accepted across the disciplines, interdisciplinary research projects are investigating different methods of increasing the human emotional response to digital agents under the heading of “Affective Computing.” Numerous industrial sectors have a great interest in recognizing emotional systems in order to use them for the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Functions should sound and look “more human,” thus minimizing the difference between human feeling towards technology as opposed to other humans.
For the most part, human beings can only recognize emotional signals and signs on the basis of physical characteristics. As such researchers are working to ensure that speech interfaces, talking robots, or humanoid nursing assistants, for example, are designed accordingly. Interfaces are being developed that implement knowledge about the meaning of emotional states and moods.
Research into emotions is thus gaining an increasingly central role in the research and development of artificial intelligence. Technologies are being used that examine users’ moods and their emotional reactions to content. Systematized knowledge about feelings, emotions, sensations, as well as moods, perspectives, and intentions is already being implemented in a targeted manner. So-called “online sentiment analysis” is being conducted, namely algorithmic tests that classify all content according to whether it was created with a subliminal positive or negative sentiment. Each author’s content and attitudes are evaluated. Political entities and commercial enterprises benefit from in-depth knowledge about the emotional responses of an individual, who is always also a user, consumer, patient, citizen, and thus part of an overall social system. Digital assistants and systems are undergoing further development to the point their speech recognition not only understands what a human is saying, but also the emotional state they are in as they do so.
The question concerning the meaning of emotions and the gaze of the other is one of the eternal human issues that have played a central role in all of cultural history. The exhibitions at the Frankfurter Kunstverein seek to show and reflect the connection between contemporary art production and current social phenomena. The perspectives of the interdisciplinary research field of Affective Computing will have an impact on a wide-ranging social and political scale.
The exhibitions devoted to Yves Netzhammer, Theo Jansen, and Takayuki Todo offer a concentrated view of each of their artistic worlds and aesthetic formulations. The exhibitions function through spatial experiences in which viewers encounter the works physically and sensually.
Netzhammer’s works beguile visitors with their intense visual and acoustic power. Todo’s SEER requires the visitor to actively interact with the robot, stepping directly in front of it to establish an emotional connection through eye contact. Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures are animal creatures that visitors can set in motion with their own physical strength in a sandy landscape.
Art has the ability to make people pause, perhaps halt time for a moment, forget for a moment, and to marvel. In amazement there lies an existential force, a yearning for deeper knowledge, for an understanding of the inner workings, for what “it” is and how to grasp it. The artistic view of the world is restless, questioning, searching, and striving for forms of representability. It employs for metaphor in the search for knowledge. Those who follow this view can succeed in experiencing something new through feeling empathy with others and re-experiencing themselves in this realm. In this encounter, art can become a transformative force.
Curator: Franziska Nori
Trees of Life – Stories for a Damaged Planet
10. Oct 2019 – 16. Feb 2020
Soil, a contested common property: surface or living body?
23. Jan 2020 – 18:30
Public guided tour
8. Feb 2020 – 14:00
Opening: Yves Netzhammer – Theo Jansen – Takayuki Todo „Empathic Systems”
13.06.2019 — 13.06.2019 | Event
Animation Strandbeests
14.06.2019 — 08.09.2019 | Press
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The Future Is Now—Emerson launches Integrated Operations initiative for remote process management
Emerson invited select customers, industry partners, and members of the press to preview its new Integrated Operations (iOps) initiative and Customer Experience Center in Round Rock, Texas.
Matt Migliore
Emerson Process Management’s Integrated Operations Initiative
Emerson's iOps program includes collaboration centers where team members can video conference to analyze and make decisions on process data in real-time from remote and/or geographically disparate locations.
Emerson Process Management hosted a grand opening ceremony to showcase its new Innovation Center in Round Rock, Texas. As part of the festivities, Emerson invited select customers, industry partners, and members of the press to preview its new Integrated Operations (iOps) initiative, which aims to help customers effectively manage applications that are in remote, hazardous, and/or locations that are generally not suitable for human beings to live and work.
The technology demonstrated at the event provides some insight on what the future of industrial process automation and control may look like.
“Running safe, profitable production operations is becoming increasingly challenging in the locations our customers are working in,” said Peter Zornio, chief strategic officer of Emerson Process Management. “These locations are sometimes referred to as ‘the Four D’s’: dull, distant, dirty, and dangerous. These are often places few people want to go. The cost and scarcity of skilled workers just compounds their challenges.”
READ ALSO: Emerson Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Showcases Innovation Center & Integrated Operations Initiative
To overcome these challenges and improve operational effectiveness, Emerson expects more and more manufacturers to turn to a new model called Integrated Operations (iOps). While implementations vary, key ingredients include: collocation of cross-functional teams in more desirable locales, collaboration tools like video conferencing and other applications, real-time access to process and asset data, and streamlined decision making workflows.
Another key driver of Emerson’s move toward a centralized command center for operations is the rapid rise in the number of measurement points businesses are now monitoring. With the evolution of digital technology and the falling price of sensors, more and more devices are being introduced into the process, and they all have a story to tell. At the same time, the continued growth of wireless technology is enabling the remote monitoring of sensors in distant and harsh locations.
Emerson has coined the phrase “Pervasive Sensing” to describe the growth of sensor points in process applications. The concept of Pervasive Sensing not only ties into Emerson’s iOps Initiative, but is also critical to its push on another hot topic in the world of industry at the moment—“Big Data,” or as Emerson calls it “Big Data Analytics.”
“We like to say Pervasive Sensing is the ‘Data’ in ‘Big Data,’” said Bob Karschnia, vice president of Wireless for Emerson Process Management, during his presentation, “Pervasive Sensing—Changing the Fundamentals of Automation.”
“Customers have steadily seen operational improvement for years by deploying smart automation technologies that provide them more data—more visibility—into what’s really happening,” said Jim Nyquist, group vice president for Emerson’s Process Systems and Solutions business. “But data alone isn’t enough. The real opportunity is to imagine new organizational workflows, like the formation of cross functional collaboration centers that bring together decentralized expertise to enable better, faster decision-making. That’s iOps.”
Second, to give customers a clear sense of what’s possible in the future of Integrated Operations, Emerson has recently opened its state-of-the-art iOps Center at its Round Rock, Texas facility. The center is a real-world, working model of a production enterprise where customers can experience the collaboration and real-time, multi-disciplinary decision making that iOps aims to enable.
Emerson is evaluating plans to expand its network of iOps customer experience centers around the globe to support growing demand.
Matt Migliore is the director of content for Flow Control magazine and FlowControlNetwork.com. He can be reached at Matt@GrandViewMedia.com.
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78-year-old woman pushed down and purse stolen in LR Sam’s parking lot
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Police responded to a call about a purse snatching in a store parking lot in West Little Rock on Monday.
Crystal Wood, 78, said she was walking to her vehicle in the Sam’s Club parking lot on S. Bowman Rd. when a white male followed her, pushed her down and stole her purse.
Wood told police she was not injured but reported pain in her elbow after the incident.
Witnesses described the vehicle the suspect rode away in as a white Chevy S10 pickup and police were able to find the address that the vehicle returned to.
Police are still investigating the situation.
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Mother charged with letting men rape toddler daughter
Azzie Watson, 25, of Independence, was charged Tuesday with child abuse and endangerment. Photo courtesy: Wyandotte County Detention Center.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City-area woman has been charged with letting men rape her 2-year-old daughter.
Azzie Watson, 25, of Independence, was charged Tuesday with child abuse and endangerment. Bond is set at $75,000. No attorney is listed for her in online court records.
WDAF- reports that court documents say Watson's boyfriend recorded Watson talking about repeatedly taking her daughter to a house where her daughter was raped about five times. She says on the recording that she watched. Police were given the recording last month while responding to a rape report at a hospital.
Court documents say Watson told detectives that what she said in the recording was a lie because she was scared of her boyfriend.
Watson also said she didn't know how her daughter contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
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Watches, bikes, specialized jobs aid Wayne County surge
Headlight Data ranked Wayne County first in the nation for growth in manufacturing jobs in 2014.
Watches, bikes, specialized jobs aid Wayne County surge Headlight Data ranked Wayne County first in the nation for growth in manufacturing jobs in 2014. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/1JaR9Dw
John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press Published 12:51 a.m. ET July 20, 2015 | Updated 12:52 a.m. ET July 20, 2015
Metro Detroit developing a reputation as a place where smaller-scale manufacturing is supported culturally and also literally with available skilled labor and reasonable shop space to rent.
Will Branch (left) of Ferndale and Zachary Klein of Howell are the owners of Corridor Sausage Co. in Eastern Market.(Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)
Entrepreneurs Will Branch and Zachary Klein launched their Corridor Sausage Co. in Detroit in 2009, mixing gourmet meats by hand and selling them to friends and then to the public from a stand at Eastern Market.
Today their products are distributed across Michigan, and with seven full-time and three part-time staffers, they’re looking to hire more people. Corridor Sausage’s growth is one small piece of a much larger surge in manufacturing jobs in Wayne County last year that was tops in the nation, a welcome sign for a county and state built and sustained since World War II on the strength of its production economy.
Headlight Data, an Austin, Texas, research firm, ranked the county first in the nation for growth in manufacturing jobs last year, adding 4,225 production jobs, or an increase of 5.3% from 2013. That’s more than four times the national rate of 1.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Study: Wayne Co. leads nation in new manufacturing jobs
Macomb County ranked third with 3,727 added jobs, and Kent County in western Michigan ranked seventh with 2,492. Headlight crunched BLS data from more than 2,700 counties to produce its rankings.
Wayne County manufacturing job growth also is accelerating this year. As of May, there were 89,800 manufacturing jobs in Wayne County, 5,595 more than the monthly average for 2014, or a 10% increase over May 2014. Most of the new jobs this year are in the automotive sector. But specialty manufacturing has taken hold in Detroit and has given that job creation rate a boost.
The positive labor statistics for the county and entire state punctuate what many in Michigan already know — that the state’s hard-hit factories have enjoyed a welcome recovery since the depths of the Great Recession five years ago.
The auto sector for the state is back to peak prerecession levels of sales, and the transportation equipment industry has seen its workforce grow 50% from 127,000 in the depths of the recession to 187,400 this year on average. Michigan’s major industrial fields — furniture making in western Michigan, foundries, machine shops, machinery making — have also rebounded to a greater or lesser degree.
Corridor Sausage Co. in Eastern Market. (Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)
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But metro Detroit, lately, is developing a reputation as a place where smaller-scale manufacturing is supported culturally and also literally with available skilled labor and reasonable shop space to rent. Some note a palpable entrepreneurial spirit taking hold, fostering a local food manufacturing economy and a new custom bike-building industry, among other niche products.
In June, the luxury goods maker Shinola announced it would hire eight more watchmakers and 30 more leather workers for a Detroit workforce of about 150. More growth could be in the works as the company continues to expand the number of its retail outlets in the U.S. and Europe.
And Detroit Bikes, a bicycle manufacturer founded in 2011, now employs 25 people and expects to hire another 20 skilled workers over the next two years as it aims to produce 5,000 bicycles in 2016 at its 50,000-square-foot factory at 13639 Elmira St. on Detroit’s west side. It operates its flagship retail store at 1216 Griswold in downtown’s Capitol Park district.
Asked about the ecosystem for food entrepreneurs in Detroit, Branch strikes a hopeful note.
“There are more support services than there’s ever been,” he said last week. “These are things that weren’t available to us six years ago. There’s a lot of people out there who want to help, and it’s a great supportive community so take advantage of that.”
There’s also a cautionary note: A simple glance at the data reveal that the region’s manufacturing recovery still has a long way to go. As recently as 2006, just before the Great Recession, Michigan boasted about 650,000 manufacturing and production workers across multiple fields, from auto assembly and auto parts manufacturing to food producers. That statewide total shrank to about 463,000 during the recession. It has since rebounded to a monthly average this year of 589,000, but the total remains well short of prerecession levels.
And there’s no guarantee the state will ever recover all those remaining factory jobs. For one thing, it’s unclear how much more auto sales will grow, since sales now are at historically high levels. And automation continues to eliminate the need for factory workers just as it has for more than a century. Even at peak prerecession production levels, automakers today need fewer workers than before.
Products of Corridor Sausage Co. on display at the store in Eastern Market. (Photo: Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press)
Predictable rebound
In many ways, the brisk recovery in manufacturing employment should not be a big surprise. Even with the Great Recession biting deep, the region retained a huge cadre of manufacturing engineers and a skilled workforce, not to mention a vast capacity in plants and equipment. And the Detroit area and Michigan at large has ranked as a leading manufacturing state for decades and had recovered from recessions many times before.
This surge in manufacturing has produced benefits for some Detroiters in need of work. Detroit Employment Solutions Corp., the city’s official workforce development agency, works with local manufacturers to provide qualified workers. In the past three years, DESC has help more than 2,300 job seekers find work in manufacturing and production jobs after receiving services from DESC.
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“We are definitely seeing a surge in advanced manufacturing jobs returning to Detroit and even more returning to the region,” said Pamela Moore, president and CEO of DESC. “These middle-skilled jobs often require skilled workers to have technical training, experience, and exceptional employabality skills. All indicators show that these well-paying career opportunities will continue to increase.”
Among the workers helped recently by DESC was Ahmed Al Khafaji, 40, who arrived with his wife and two children in metro Detroit earlier this year from his native Iraq. An English teacher in Iraq, he fled the violence in that country to come to America. A DESC caseworker helped him get a job at Ford’s Dearborn Stamping Plant.
“Getting a job in America is very difficult,” he said last week. “It is not something easy that you can get at any time or anywhere. It’s a challenge, actually.” But he credits his caseworker with giving him the confidence to pass Ford’s hiring tests. “She believed in me. She believed that I can do it, I can pass the examination. And I did.”
The top employers for whom DESC has provided recruits are Detroit Manufacturing Systems, which makes automotive assemblies for Ford; Howard Finishing, Hicks Plastics, Sakthi Automotive, Mobis North America and 5R Processors.
The pay for those workers varies significantly but the average manufacturing wage for workers placed by DESC was $10.90 for the year ending June 30, up from $10.28 a year earlier.
Institutes help, too
Also enhancing Wayne County’s position as a center of manufacturing talent is the recent creation of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), at 1400 Rosa Parks Blvd. in Detroit’s Corktown area. Sharing the space with a Detroit-based institute called Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow (LIFT), both IACMI and LIFT are using federal grant dollars to develop metals and techniques to make vehicles and other machines that are stronger, lighter and more fuel-efficient than ever.
“Michigan’s industrial base has achieved a remarkable turnaround following the recession’s steep losses, particularly in the all-important auto sector,” Tom Dubin, president of the Evanston, Ill.-based Manufacturers’ News publishing company, which has been surveying industry since 1912, said recently. “The Big Three continue to expand in the state and investment programs such as the Michigan Strategic Fund have helped fuel start-ups and innovation.”
At Corridor Sausage, the two partners credit the blossoming local food movement with giving entrepreneurs a chance to create more jobs in food production.
“Having the stand at Eastern Market was one of the things that really propped us up,” Branch said. “We got to show people what makes us different. We got to talk about the quality of the meats we used, the recipes, the care we put into sausage.”
And asked for advice for other would-be entrepreneurs, Branch quipped, “If you’re sleeping well at night you’re probably doing it wrong.”
Contact John Gallagher: 313-222-5173 or gallagher@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @jgallagherfreep. Staff writer Kristi Tanner contributed to this report.
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An IsraAid volunteer works under the deck of a West Virginia home. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
West Virginia flood relief comes from half a world away
When a historic natural disaster arrived, so did a group from thousands of miles away.
by Benyamin Cohen | Friday, July 15, 2016
Severe flooding in West Virginia damaged more than a thousand homes in the Appalachian state, and now a group from 5,000 miles away has flown in to help the communities rebuild. IsraAid, a humanitarian aid agency from Tel Aviv, Israel, dispatched a team of volunteers to the devastated areas to assist in the cleanup and reconstruction.
"The floods caused so much disaster in parts of our state," David Leviev, a law student at West Virginia University, told From The Grapevine. "It's heartening to see groups like IsraAid and others from across the globe swoop in to help out in our time of need."
A representative from U.S.-based Team Rubicon (left) and one from IsraAid assess the damage. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
IsraAid is no stranger to disaster relief. In recent years, they have dispatched groups of aid workers to far reaches of the globe – from Vanuatu to Nepal, where the organization's volunteers created an unconventional method to deliver much-needed medicine.
"We come with a smile and a lot of good vibe," said IsraAid's Dan Friedman, who made the trip to West Virginia. For this project, they teamed up with U.S.-based Team Rubicon. Volunteers in both groups share a unique bond – all of them are veterans. "We've been working with them for years," Friedman added. "We're happy to be here."
Below are some photos from this summer's relief efforts in West Virginia...
A mud-soaked volunteer takes a break in the back yard. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
IsraAid volunteers take apart a floorboard damaged by the recent flooding. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
An IsraAid volunteer suits up before heading into a mold-infested crawl space. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
A local resident (left) snaps a photo of the cleanup process. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
IsraAid volunteers often stay for weeks after a disaster to help out. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
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Kevin Harvick: Too Impatient for Driver, Team Development?
October 16, 2008 Bryan Davis Keith, Truck Series 2
Do I think Carmichael is ready for a full-time Truck ride? No. But Harvick and KHI seem to think he is. And given Harvick’s record as an owner, I am concerned for Carmichael and his career development should he get that promotion. Carmichael, given how green he still is not just in the ranks of NASCAR, but in racing stock cars period, is a rookie that is going to require a lot of patience, even more than with most. Patient is not something Harvick has ever been as an owner.
Tracking the Trucks: 2008 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega
October 5, 2008 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tracking The Trucks Race Report, Truck Series Comments Off on Tracking the Trucks: 2008 Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega
*In a Nutshell:* Todd Bodine took the checkered flag 0.074 seconds ahead of Ron Hornaday, Jr. to win the Mountain Dew 250 presented by Toyota Saturday afternoon at Talladega Superspeedway. Bodine took the lead in the final turn of the last lap to win his third consecutive superspeedway race. Kyle Busch, Colin Braun and Mike Wallace rounded out the Top 5. *Who Should Have Won:* Erik Darnell. Erik Darnell ran sixth quickest in the final practice session and started on the pole with teammates Jon Wes Townley and Colin Braun right there with him. Within the last 15 laps, Darnell got out of line, went four wide and ended up losing several positions, dashing any hopes of a visit to victory lane. Darnell led a total of 48 laps and ended up finishing 12th.
Tracking the Trucks: 2008 Qwik Liner Las Vegas 350
September 22, 2008 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tracking The Trucks Race Report, Truck Series Comments Off on Tracking the Trucks: 2008 Qwik Liner Las Vegas 350
*In a Nutshell:* Mike Skinner took the checkered flag 0.020 seconds ahead of Erik Darnell to win the Qwik Liner Las Vegas 350 Saturday night. Several cautions set up the green-white-checkered finish that allowed Skinner to pull past Darnell at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Matt Crafton, John Andretti and Ron Hornaday, Jr. rounded out the Top 5. *Who Should Have Won: Erik Darnell.* Darnell ran second quickest in the first practice but dropped off considerably in the final practice. The problems the No. 99 team had during the final practice turned around when the team took the track under the lights. Darnell lead 56 laps only to be passed by Mike Skinner on the sixth green-white-checkered finish of the season.
Tearing Apart the Trucks: Johnny Benson and Ron Hornaday, Jr. Look to Win Big in Vegas
September 18, 2008 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tearing Apart the Trucks, Truck Series Comments Off on Tearing Apart the Trucks: Johnny Benson and Ron Hornaday, Jr. Look to Win Big in Vegas
As the Craftsman Truck Series rolls into Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend, all eyes will be on points leaders Johnny Benson and Ron Hornaday, Jr. The two are separated by just 74 points going into the first of four intermediate tracks left on the schedule. Last season, Ron Hornaday, Jr. led Mike Skinner by 29 points going into this race, and a blown tire sent him to a 22nd place finish and second in the points standings; Johnny Benson finished second to race-winner Travis Kvapil. Over the last 10 races, Johnny Benson and Ron Hornaday, Jr. have combined to win eight races. Either driver could experience problems that leave the championship wide open for the other.
Tracking the Trucks: 2008 Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky
July 20, 2008 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tracking The Trucks Race Report, Truck Series Comments Off on Tracking the Trucks: 2008 Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky
*In a Nutshell:* Johnny Benson took the checkered flag 0.474 seconds ahead of Michael Annett to win the Built Ford Tough 225 presented by the Greater Cincinnati Dealers at Kentucky Speedway. Benson held off a charge from his rookie teammate with just 18 laps remaining to win his second race this season and take over the point lead. Matt Crafton, Dennis Setzer, and David Starr rounded out the Top 5 finishers. *Who Should Have Won: Johnny Benson.* Shortly after the green flag flew, Benson made a strong charge behind teammate Mike Skinner and nearly challenged Skinner for the lead. He then took the top spot again for the final time after completing a four wide pass with just 32 laps remaining, well on his way to his first victory at Kentucky Speedway.
Tracking the Trucks: 2008 AAA Insurance 200 at Dover
June 2, 2008 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tracking The Trucks Race Report, Truck Series Comments Off on Tracking the Trucks: 2008 AAA Insurance 200 at Dover
*In a Nutshell:* Scott Speed took the checkered flag 3.379 seconds ahead of Jack Sprague to win the AAA Insurance 200 Friday night at Dover International Raceway. A two tire pit stop with just 67 laps remaining helped Speed gain valuable track position and ultimately the win. Ron Hornaday, Jr, Travis Kvapil and Matt Crafton rounded out the Top 5. *Who Should Have Won: Kyle Busch*. Busch led the first 96 laps before smoke forced him to take the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota to the garage. It took his team just 19 laps to change his transmission. Once back on the track, Busch managed to gain two of his laps back but was left to finish 17th, 17 laps down.
Tearing Apart the Trucks: 2008 Season Preview Part II
February 14, 2008 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tearing Apart the Trucks, Truck Series Comments Off on Tearing Apart the Trucks: 2008 Season Preview Part II
Last week we talked about Craftsman leaving the series, team mergers and splits, and the 2008 rookie class. This week, we examine which drivers find themselves with new teams during the offseason and what to expect from the series.
Down in Daytona 2008: Jack Sprague, Ron Hornaday Take Friendly Rivalry to KHI
January 12, 2008 Truck Series, Truck Series News Comments Off on Down in Daytona 2008: Jack Sprague, Ron Hornaday Take Friendly Rivalry to KHI
Jack Sprague and Ron Hornaday have long been friendly rivals with both drivers taking turns winning the Craftsman Truck Series' title in four of the first five years. Driving for rival owners, Dale Earnhardt and Rick Hendrick, Sprague and Hornaday had a few run-ins between 1996 and 1999, but both are now competing for a record fourth title under the same banner at Kevin Harvick Inc.
Tracking the Trucks: 2007 Silverado 350K at Texas
November 3, 2007 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tracking The Trucks Race Report, Truck Series Comments Off on Tracking the Trucks: 2007 Silverado 350K at Texas
Ted Musgrave took the checkered flag under caution ahead of Brendan Gaughan to win his first race since 2005 in St. Louis. Musgrave survived a green-white-checkered finish in the Silverado 350K at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night that saw the two frontrunners, Chad McCumbee and Jack Sprague, wreck each other shortly after taking the green flag. Mike Skinner, Mike Bliss and Rick Crawford rounded out the top five.
Tracking the Trucks: 2007 Kroger 200 at Martinsville
October 20, 2007 Beth Lunkenheimer, Tracking The Trucks Race Report, Truck Series Comments Off on Tracking the Trucks: 2007 Kroger 200 at Martinsville
*In a Nutshell:* As the field wrecked behind him, Mike Skinner took the checkered flag ahead of Jack Sprague to win the Kroger 200 at Martinsville Speedway Saturday afternoon. A late-race red flag set the field up for a three-lap shootout, and Skinner prevailed, winning his third race at the 0.526-mile short track. Ron Hornaday, Jr, David Starr and Rick Crawford rounded out the Top Five. *Who Should Have Won:* Terry Cook. Cook was the third fastest in practice Friday afternoon with speeds just four-tenths of a mile per hour off of Jack Sprague, who topped the leaderboard. The No. 59 Harris Trucking Toyota started deep in the field after posting the 24th quickest qualifying time. Cook took the lead on lap 27 under caution after Brian Scott spun off of turn one. He led the following 108 laps before contact with Sprague opened the door for Skinner to lead. Cook ended up 29th, 11 laps down.
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Gareth Griffiths; web developer, petrolhead, cat owner and all-round good egg.
Games That Never Were: Arena
As some people may know, I’ve dabbled in the world of game development before. I’ve never been particularly good at it, if I’m honest, not really down to anything other than a lack of good ideas, and a lack of time to do any ideas I had justice.
It’s something I keep meaning to have another bash at, not in any serious manner of course, just in a “bedroom programmer” kind of way.
Still, I thought I’d make a post about a game of mine that never quite made it past development. It ranks as the most ambitious game project I ever undertook, and actually got quite far down the line.
The year was 2002, and the game was called Arena: Multiplayer Deathmatch and, as the name suggests, it was an Internet/LAN deathmatch game designed for up to 32 players (although I only ever tested it with 4 or 5 before the project kind of fell by the way side.)
Written in Blitz Plus, Arena was my first attempt at an Internet-enabled multiplayer game, and for all intents and purposes it worked rather well. As a game, it wasn’t really far enough along to be particularly enjoyable – there was no real objective to speak of, just kill the other players – and in the test version everyone had every weapon available from the start, so there was no real challenge.
Nevertheless, I really should have finished it – I vaguely remember showing it to some people that agreed to betatest it, and the feedback I received from the versions earlier than the one I have was positive.
Unlike most programmers and developers, who work with “placeholder” graphics for as long as possible, one of my biggest flaws as a developer was that if I didn’t like what I was looking at, I lost interest in developing, so I used to spend a long time doing graphics for a game that, if not final, were “one step up” from placeholders.
This was the main menu screen of the test version. Only the first two options did anything (and Exit) with the first option allowing you to setup a server and start a new game:
Of the options on this screen, the only thing that didn’t affect the game were Kill Limit and Time Limit, which I never got around to implementing as it was still really just netcode testing. Available Maps were pulled from a folder in the game directory, and one would be picked at random from the selected maps list every round.
Starting the game would give you spectator view at first, instructing you to “Press fire to spawn.” You could move the camera around the map and watch the action before diving in.
And here’s a basic in-game shot with just two players. I’m the green one, shooting the blue one with my assault rifle and spilling rather a lot of blood.
There were six weapons available – a 9mm pistol, a sub-machine gun, an assault rifle, a shotgun, a flamethrower and landmines. All were pretty similar, the only differences between the first three were rate of fire. The shotgun was an “arc” of bullets that fired out, the flamethrower was similar to the assault rifle, but with “bullets” that didn’t always come out completely straight and did lasting damage, and the landmines were placed on the ground behind the player and exploded on contact with another player, or after 20 seconds.
Many of you will recognise the graphics in the screenshot above, shamelessly ripped from Team17’s Alien Breed series of games. Obviously I would have changed these had the game progressed to being released, but as placeholder graphics they were nice to look at and thus kept my interest!
And that’s pretty much it – nothing else really became of the project. Who knows, maybe I’ll revisit it in the future, but I suspect the market for top-down deathmatch games is even smaller these days than it was back in 2002, when 3D shooters like Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament were all the rage.
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General News of Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Source: Starrfmonline.com
Don’t be quick to link Odorkor suspects to ISIS – Aning
A security analyst, Dr. Emmanuel Kwesi Aning has called for extreme caution in linking the suspects arrested with a cache of explosives at Odorkor, a suburb of Accra to extremist organisations like ISIS.
StarrFMonline.com on Monday January 15, 2018 broke the news of the arrests of the suspects identified as; Abdul Karim, Osman Alhassan 33, and Ishmael Ali Musa 31.
Dr. Aning’s warning comes as police sources who spoke to StarrFMonline.com disclosed that one of the suspects is believed to be a member of the dreaded terrorist group ISIS.
“I think we should be cautious about the way in which we interpret the available information now and the possible linkages or otherwise of these individuals [suspects] to some external violent extremist organizations,” he admonished on Monday’s edition of Starr Today.
“Having said that,” he continued “this found once more goes to confirm the need for strengthening our border security management system and the manner in which they manage our armaments and our stockpiles.”
Ballistic experts brought in
The Director of Police Public Affairs ACP David Eklu told Starr News that a team of ballistic experts have been called on to examine the explosives.
“We are now examining the explosives. We have invited other agencies that have expertise in this issue and then we know exactly what they are,” he stated.
He said the suspects are being interrogated by the CID and that more details will be furnished the public after they have connected “all the dots because there is still more work to be done.”
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Libya’s oil must now be used to drive development and foster peace
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With Colonel Gaddafi’s 42 year dictatorship apparently drawing to a close, the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) and supporting countries must put measures in place to guard against a Libyan “oil grab” and ensure the Libyan people benefit fully from the exploitation of Libya’s natural resources, said Global Witness today.
Libya’s oil sector has been abused for decades by the small elite surrounding Gaddafi, with oil revenues enabling him to keep a grip on power for 42 years. A transparently managed oil sector could prove the catalyst for much-needed development and stability in the country. But any perception that the rebels or NATO countries have their own designs on Libya’s oil could stir further division and conflict.[1]
“Libya currently stands at a crossroads in several senses – one of the best ways to ensure it takes the path of peace and prosperity is to bring transparency to its oil sector,” said Brendan O’Donnell, Senior Oil Campaigner at Global Witness. “By drawing a line under Gaddafi-era corruption and the mismanagement of public wealth, the NTC could champion resource justice in the transitional constitution and set a great precedent for Libya’s future.”
Several actions must be taken to guarantee that oil and public funds benefit the Libyan people:
No new oil concessions should be brokered until an elected government is in place. Any deals at this time could raise concerns within Libya that international support for the NTC is driven by a desire for access to oil rather than for the benefit of the Libyan people. The NTC is likely to have to honour Qaddafi-era contracts in order to get oil revenues flowing. But no new deals for the exploration or exploitation of oil fields should be considered until an elected government can review existing rules and laws to ensure robust transparency and accountability, The Libya contact group should use its influence to ensure that companies in their markets do not attempt to broker deals at this time.
Concrete transparency provisions should be written into the transitional constitution to ensure the just exploitation of Libya's natural resources. These should require the public disclosure of how Libya manages its oil sector and disclosure of all revenues associated with it.
Public finances including unfrozen assets, funds raised against frozen assets, resource trading and aid should be made open to public scrutiny. The terms of existing oil contracts should also be disclosed and details of agreements made by the NTC with governments and companies involving sovereign funds or the exchange of cash, crude oil or 'IOUs' secured against frozen assets should be made public and open to scrutiny by Libyan civil society and NGOs. This is particularly important as the UN, EU and others start to unfreeze and return billions of dollars of Libyan assets held overseas.
All funds should be released through a transparent mechanism such as a strengthened Temporary Finance Mechanism which was set-up by the NTC and the Libya Contact Group to manage aid flows.
Governments should assist the NTC to track down and recover the funds that Gaddafi and his cronies looted from the state, and punish those banks that accepted this money.
“Our experience shows that once bad financial practice is established in a fragile state, it takes decades to undo. Libya is a small country with a lot of oil – its people should prosper from their wealth, but this may not happen unless the transition phase is managed openly,” continued O’Donnell. “Both the NTC and the Libya Contact Group have a responsibility to take all necessary steps to ensure that the people of Libya benefit fully from their country’s wealth.”
/ Ends
In May this year Global Witness published a leaked document detailing $65bn worth of investments held by the Libyan sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority. According to the document HSBC, Société Générale and Goldman Sachs were among the key western bankers for Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.
Brendan O’Donnell on +44 207 492 5898 or 07970 379 387, bodonnel[email protected]
Robert Palmer on +44 (0)20 7492 5860 or +44 (0)7545 645 406, [email protected]
[1] Statements by the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy on state television on Monday (22nd August) that the Italian oil company Eni “will have a No. 1 role in the future” in the North African country” do not help in terms of perceptions that the rebels or NATO countries have their own designs on Libya’s oil which could stir further division and conflict.
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In Tangerines, old men pick fruit in a battle zone, and force two opposing soldiers into an uneasy truce.
Jeremy Martin
While Tangerines may seem an odd title for a tightrope-tense wartime drama, stranger still is that the principal players actually spend most of their time onscreen sipping tea. “No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,” David Byrne yelps in the Talking Heads' “Life During Wartime” and, as though even this declaration is burning up valuable minutes, “I ain't got time for that now.” The talk of general paranoia and vans full of weapons in the song's lyrics definitely match the mood of Estonia's official 2015 Academy Award entry. As for “lovey dovey,” the closest thing to romance in writer-director Zaza Urushadze's Tangerines—in which all female characters, mothers, wives, granddaughters, are represented only as memories and photographs—is the idealistic way in which soldiers initially view the glories of battle or the way the older characters, believing themselves wiser, view the homes they've made for themselves and refuse to abandon as Estonians in the violently contested Georgian-Abkhaz territory circa 1992. But conflict or not, Tangerines’ main characters seem to have plenty of time to spare.
Their families have since fled to safer territory, but elderly neighbors Estonians Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) and Margus (Elmo Nüganen) have remained behind, hoping to harvest one last tangerine crop before the seemingly unavoidable war sweeps through. But even as Margus hurries to pluck his fruit before it rots in the trees and Ivo struggles to build boxes to ship them in, both men retain the air of retirees puttering around empty family homes that have grown too large for them. That they amble in the future paths of tank treads seems of secondary concern to the quotidian chores they've assigned themselves, simultaneously giving themselves a false sense of control in these familiar tasks.
When machine gun-toting mercenary Ahmed (Giorgi Nakashidze) approaches Ivo’s workshop demanding food, Ivo treats the intrusion almost like the unexpected arrival of beloved, or at least tolerated, relative, who will help break up the tedious, time-killing nature of one’s twilight years. Little wonder Ahmed takes to calling him “grandpa.” And like a frustrated youngster confronting his doddering old relatives, Ahmed brings a clear-eyed perspective to the elderly men’s plans to harvest, ship, and sell citrus fruit in the middle of a battle zone.
The question of what exactly constitutes futile behavior during wartime becomes crucial as the fighting comes closer. Aside from tangerine harvesting, there are bodies to bury, bombed-out vehicles to clear from the roadways, and the wounded to treat. Ahmed, now bleeding to death from gunshot wounds, has returned, and Ivo seems to think it worth his time to nurse him back to health. Margus, concerned for his tangerines, worries Ivo won’t get his boxes built in time to ship. Ivo, perhaps having seen the light, tells Margus he thinks making business deals concerning tangerines at a time like this is “stupid.”
After he regains consciousness, Ahmed does not protest Ivo’s decision to forget about the damn tangerines, of course. He does, however, think it a ludicrous waste of time for Ivo to also care for Nika (Misha Meskhi), a Georgian soldier with a shard of shrapnel from an antitank missile embedded in his brain, a missile Ahmed fired. Even if Ivo succeeds in saving Nika’s life, Ahmed reasons, he would just have to kill Nika anyway. Better and more time-efficient to just let the Georgian die. Ivo, who later insists this conflict “belongs” to nobody, refuses to choose sides between Ahmed and Nika, forbidding either to kill the other while they recuperate inside his home.
This might sound like the setup for a dark Eastern European sitcom, but Tangerines’ spare punch lines go for the gut in a different way. Urushadze is more interested in exploring our reaction to wars we can't control or avoid, how we decide our responsibilities on the battlefield, and whether any individual human action has any meaning in the scope of subjective existentialism.
After pushing a military vehicle off the side of a cliff, Margus watches disappointed as it barrel rolls to an anticlimactic stop. “I thought it was going to explode,” he says. Ivo explains that only happens in the movies. “The cinema is one big cheating,” he says. Tangerines, never allowing its characters any such easy tricks, ultimately seems to offer Ivo only one constructive criticism concerning how he spends his time: Make those wooden boxes man-sized.
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VCAM Building
Maker Arts Space
Haverford’s Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility is a 24/7 creative hub for students, faculty, staff, and the wider community.
VCAM houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, a Maker Arts Space, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and its Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives initiative.
Call for Applications: Ethnocine Artist Residency at Haverford College
Haverford College’s VCAM Media and Makers Initiative seeks two feminist ethnographic filmmakers to participate in a joint one-week residency at Haverford College, March 18-24, 2020. Deadline to Apply: January 17, 2020.
COOL CLASSES: “Body Media: Wearable Technology and Digital Bodies”
This visual studies course introduces students to critical design and creative practices that address technologies that are worn on the body, that digitize the body, and that extend the body.
Technology and Justice 2019-20
This series focuses on the ethics of technological adoption and adaptations, inviting technologists, academics, activists, and artists to examine issues from algorithmic decision-making in the criminal justice system to the near constant surveillance of our actions to the future of work in an automated world.
Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Contemporary Japanese Cinema invites you to experience Japanese culture and society through stories that depict love, loss, and friendship. This series features three films: Mixed Doubles (Dir. Ishikawa Junichi, 2017), Hanagatami (Dir. Obayashi Nobuhiko, 2017), and Mori, The Artist’s Habitat (Dir. Okita Shūichi, 2018).
Exhibitions Boom
Thanks to its flexible Create Spaces, resources, and support, VCAM has made possible a surge in faculty-inspired, curriculum-related, and student-initiated creative projects on campus.
VCAM Wins SCUP/AIA-CAE Honorable Mention
VCAM has received a SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions or Adaptive Reuse Honorable Mention. The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Excellence Awards program is a juried competition that showcases how using strategic, integrated planning can result in exemplary buildings, grounds, institutional success, and careers that inspire.
VCAM featured in Architecture MN
Joel Hoekstra writes that the building "allow[s] makers of every stripe to indulge their creativity—whether it’s baking cookies, crafting a documentary, or soldering a motherboard—whenever the impulse strikes."
VCAM Wins AIA Minnesota Honor Award
VCAM is one of four projects to win an AIA Minnesota Honor Award this year.
VCAM Featured in Architectural Record
Describing the building’s multilevel insertion, Josephine Minutillo writes, “It’s the way those spaces in the new block interact with the rest of the building that makes the project sing.”
Strange Truth 2019
Strange Truth 2019 explores the non-fiction imagination in the film and installation work of mediamakers Christopher Harris, Laura Parnes, Jonathan Olshefski, and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon. This year’s series engages with the politics of place, race, history, performance, and cinema itself.
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Three Centers Summer Programs Open House
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"Wild Side" Screening and Masterclass with Director Sébastien Lifshitz
20/20 VISION Exhibit Opening Party
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Incredibell 1
Mirrycle 1
Mirrycle Incredibell Jellibell
The Mirrycle Jellibell is a fun way to let pedestrians and other riders know you're coming! The Jellibell has a see-through top so you can see the gears spin as it rings. It's weatherproof, too! - Dome Diameter: 48mm (1.9") - Fits handlebars with 21mm – 22.5mm (.83" – .89") outside diameters
Knog Oi Bell - Small
Bike bells generally look & sound a bit ugly. But why? What if they looked sexy & sounded like an angel playing a glockenspiel? A bell with a beautiful tone, but also a remarkable style and choice of materials that embodies a rider’s personality. The Small Oi fits 22.2mm diameter bars, e.g Mountain bike (near the grips), BMX & some old commuters. Please make sure you know where on your handlebar you are going to place the bell (grips or stem) before you order as you may need a different sized bell. THE LOOK Where bells usually protrude up or out, Oi doesn’t. It appears to hover around the handle bars. In one sense, it's discreet. But in another, it stands out as unrecognisable. THE SOUND Knog tested numerous prototypes to get the perfect pitch, length of ring, and volume. With a spring-loaded actuator built into the mount, the strike of the bell is firm and fast, allowing a good balance of volume and longevity of sound. It actually has several pitch tones - one core and several supportive higher tones to ensure it's unmistakable and safely heard. To compare it to a musical instrument, where some bells play a single note, Oi plays a chord. THE MOUNT What about the handle-bar cables? No worries. Built into the shape of the mount is a cable management system. So not only does it allow the bell to look and sound uninterrupted, it also helps gather your cables (for the organiser inside us all). What about getting it on the bar. Again, not a thing. Just pop it over, give the hex screw a quick tighten up, and you're good to go. No sliding down the handlebars, no dismantling and re-assembling.
Knog Oi Bell - Large
Bike bells generally look & sound a bit ugly. But why? What if they looked sexy & sounded like an angel playing a glockenspiel? A bell with a beautiful tone, but also a remarkable style and choice of materials that embodies a rider’s personality. The Large Oi fits 23.8 to 31.8mm bars e.g. drop bar road bikes and some cruiser / commuters. Please make sure you know where on your handlebar you are going to place the bell (grips or stem) before you order as you may need a different sized bell. THE LOOK Where bells usually protrude up or out, Oi doesn’t. It appears to hover around the handle bars. In one sense, it's discreet. But in another, it stands out as unrecognizable. THE SOUND Knog tested numerous prototypes to get the perfect pitch, length of ring, and volume. With a spring-loaded actuator built into the mount, the strike of the bell is firm and fast, allowing a good balance of volume and longevity of sound. It actually has several pitch tones - one core and several supportive higher tones to ensure it's unmistakable and safely heard. To compare it to a musical instrument, where some bells play a single note, Oi plays a chord. THE MOUNT What about the handle-bar cables? No worries. Built into the shape of the mount is a cable management system. So not only does it allow the bell to look and sound uninterrupted, it also helps gather your cables (for the organizer inside us all). What about getting it on the bar. Again, not a thing. Just pop it over, give the hex screw a quick tighten up, and you're good to go. No sliding down the handlebars, no dismantling and re-assembling.
Incredibell Bling Adjustable Bell
Accessorize your bike in a way that announces your presence in style. The omni-directional rotating top produces a clean, clear, loud ring. - Fits handlebars with 22.2mm - 31.8mm (.87-inch - 1.25-inch) outside diameters - Dome Diameter: 44mm (1.6")
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Dust and glory: Valentino's 100 Km of Champions in video
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A quiet Saturday at the Ranch with Valentino Rossi
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A bin of pinot gris grapes harvested in the north Willamette Valley rests before being crushed by Luisa Ponzi and her team at Ponzi Vineyards. (Photo courtesy of Ponzi Vineyards)
Hops and Sips
Northwest Wine: Pinot gris remains Oregon’s flagship white
The grapes were first planted in Oregon by Northwest wine pioneer David Lett in 1965.
by Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue
Friday, October 12, 2018 1:30am
LifeHops and Sips
We all know Oregon’s signature red grape is pinot noir. For many vintages, the state’s signature white has been pinot gris.
It might seem a curious choice to some. While the two grapes are genetically related, pinot noir’s ancestral home in France is Burgundy, where the dominant white variety is chardonnay. Though a bit of pinot gris is grown in Burgundy and known as pinot beurot, the pinkish-skinned grape often is associated with northern Italy, Champagne and the Alsace region of France near Germany and Switzerland, where it has been called tokay d’Alsace.
However, pinot gris has been grown in Oregon since 1965 when the late David Lett established the West Coast’s first commercial plantings of the grape. According to a 1992 speech delivered by Lett, he produced just 25 cases per year of pinot gris from 1971 to 1981 for The Eyrie Vineyards. And the University of California-Davis grad traded most of it to fisherman for salmon.
Now, Oregon’s wine industry harvests more than 13,000 tons each fall. It’s more than twice that of chardonnay, while pinot noir dominates all varieties with 53,457 tons crushed in 2017.
Lett, who came to be known as “Papa Pinot,” proved that the white grape is well-suited for the relatively cool Willamette Valley. The resulting wines are loaded with orchard and tropical fruit, all backed with sleek acidity, allowing them to pair perfectly with seafood, shellfish, pasta in a white sauce, pork dishes and hearty stews.
Here are a few delicious examples of Oregon pinot gris we have tasted recently. Ask for them at your favorite wine merchant, or contact the winery directly.
Ponzi Vineyards 2017 Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, $19: Viewed as leaders in the Oregon wine industry for their work with pinot noir and chardonnay, Luisa Ponzi and her family deserve similar praise for pinot gris, which her family first planted in 1978. Three of the family’s certified sustainable vineyards, as well as longtime sources throughout the Willamette Valley, come together for this delightfully dry yet tropical offering. Dried papaya and pineapple notes are joined by white peach, apricot and pear. There’s a dusting of minerality in the clean and long finish.
Owen Roe 2017 Pinot Gris, Eola-Amity Hills, $21: Subtle and smooth, this unoaked pinot gris from Crawford Beck Vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley teases the palate with delicate flavors of lemon, green apple and lime zest, which entices you to keep reaching for another sip. Suggested pairings include oysters on the half shell, caramelized onion tart or crab Louie. These wines also are available at their tasting room near Yakima.
Abiqua Wind Vineyard 2016 Estate Caleb Knorr Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, $15: Four decades ago, the Buffingtons first planted pinot gris at their vineyard in the breezy Cascade foothills east of Salem, Oregon, and they opted to name their flagship wine to honor a grandson. This former strawberry field remains a legacy to the late David Lett, who sold the pinot gris cuttings for Pete Buffington’s first vines. The drink is fun and complex from start to finish, opening with aromas of peach taffy, piña colada and Ambrosia salad. There’s some roundness on the entry before the vibrant rush of quince and vibrant lemon/lime.
Panther Creek Cellars 2016 Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, $20: Pinot gris makes up more than 25 percent of this storied brand founded in 1986 by Oregon legend Ken Wright. It’s now his friend, Tony Rynders, who is helping Bacchus Capital Management to raise its winery’s profile in Washington, where there’s a tasting room for it in Woodinville near Purple Cafe and Wine Bar. Complex aromas of orange, cling peach, starfruit and coconut are joined by brioche. On the palate, it’s definitely Oregon pinot gris with its bone-dry style, driven by Asian pear, white peach and pineapple. Apricot skin and charming acidity provide delicious depth.
Elk Cove Vineyards 2016 Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, $19: The winemaking team of Adam Campbell and Heather Perkin combined to produce the top two pinot gris at last fall’s Great Northwest Invitational Wine Competition, including this entry. Much of the hand-harvested clusters were taken from the Campbell family’s original planting, which they populated with pinot gris starting in 1985. It resulted in a bounty of citrus notes, showing off lemon, lime and tangerine aromas with a floral influence of sweet freesia.
Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman operate Great Northwest Wine, an award-winning media company. Learn more about wine at www.greatnorthwestwine.com
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Man stumbles into another man in pub and gets smashed in face with a glass
A man was attacked after accidentally falling over in a pub
Alice Cunningham
Police have released CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to after a Hemel Hempstead man was assaulted in a pub last month.
Officers are investigating an assault that took place in the Market Arms Tavern on Waterhouse Street between midnight on Saturday May 25 and 12.30am on Sunday May 26.
The victim, a 25-year-old man, was leaning on a pillar close to the door when he lost his footing and stumbled into another man.
The man then responded by hitting the victim with a beer glass, causing a large gash to his cheek.
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He was treated by staff at the venue before being seen by emergency services. He was then taken to hospital due to heavy bleeding and is now recovering at home.
Detective Constable Katherine Stevens, from the Dacorum Local Crime Unit, said: “We appreciate that these images aren’t of the highest quality but perhaps you recognise this man’s stance, or the clothes he is wearing?
Police are looking for this man captured on CCTV (Image: Hertfordshire Police)
“We believe he may have information that could prove vital to our investigation so if you know who he is, please get in touch.
“I would also appeal to anyone who saw this incident, or has any other information that could assist us, to contact me as soon as possible.”
They are looking to speak to this man in connection with the assault (Image: Hertfordshire Police)
Any witnesses or anyone with information should contact DC Stevens by email or the non-emergency number 101, quoting reference 41/47051/19.
Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or via their untraceable online form.
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Furman University hires former Villanova official as its new athletic director
Furman University has hired a replacement for former athletic director Mike Buddie.
Furman University hires former Villanova official as its new athletic director Furman University has hired a replacement for former athletic director Mike Buddie. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/2019/07/25/furman-new-athletic-director-villanova/1826135001/
Manie Robinson, The Greenville News Published 11:35 a.m. ET July 25, 2019 | Updated 12:10 p.m. ET July 25, 2019
Furman University has completed its search for a new athletic director. Jason Donnelly, previously a senior administrator at Villanova University, will begin his tenure Aug. 12, university president Elizabeth Davis announced Thursday morning.
Donnelly served in the Villanova athletic department since 2005. In 2015, he took the role of senior associate AD and executive director of development at Villanova. According to a university release, Donnelly spearheaded a campaign to raise more than $120 million and a 330 percent fundraising increase through the last four years.
Jason Donnelly (Photo: Provided by Villanova University)
Donnelly will replace Mike Buddie, who vacated the position in June to accept the same role at Army West Point.
Furman hosts Chattanooga Saturday, November 3, 2018, at Paladin Stadium. (Photo: EDDIE BURCH)
“I am truly honored to join the Paladin family and to do my part as a steward of an incredible athletics department," Donnelly said. "We will compete for championships and our student-athletes will earn their degrees, and we will do both with the utmost of integrity and class. My family and I can’t wait to get to Greenville and get started.”
Donnelly initially served as an assistant men's basketball coach and director of operations at Villanova under coaching luminary Jay Wright. Villanova won national championships in 2016 and 2018.
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Donnelly also served as director of basketball operations for USA Basketball during the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil.
“We are excited that Jason is joining the Furman team,” Davis said. “He has been a highly successful administrator and fundraiser at Villanova, demonstrating a key understanding of the important role that athletics plays in higher education. We welcome him to Furman and look forward to the vision and energy he will bring to the university.”
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Some of the world's greatest academics have been Gresham Professors over the past 400 years. Find out about them, our Visiting Professors and the wide range of visiting speakers who continue to provide free public lectures at Gresham College.
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Obstetrics and Gynecology International
Obstetrics and Gynecology International / 2019 / Article
AbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResultsDiscussionConclusionData AvailabilityEthical ApprovalConflicts of InterestAcknowledgmentsReferencesCopyright
Research Article | Open Access
The Relationship between First Trimester 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 Levels and Second Trimester Femur Length and Their Effects on Birth Weight and Length at Birth: A Preliminary Study
Elif Ganime Aydeniz ,1 Umut Sari,2 Isil Tekin,3 and Talat Umut Kutlu Dilek4
1Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Atakent Hospital Assisted Reproductive Techniques Unit, Istanbul, Turkey
2Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Atakent Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey
3Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
4Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Istanbul, Turkey
Academic Editor: Curt W. Burger
Received01 Feb 2019
Revised12 Jun 2019
Accepted28 Aug 2019
Published18 Sep 2019
Objective. The main goal of our study was to assess relationships between first trimester 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and infant birthweight and length at birth. Materials and Methods. We conducted a study over our medical records of 154 live-term births at Acibadem Atakent Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. Subjects were classified into five independent groups. Results. We retrospectively reviewed a total of 154 live birth records. They took vitamin D3 supplement 1000 U/day. We classified the serum vitamin D levels into 5 groups by concentration. Group 1 comprised serum vitamin D levels <10 ng/ml (n = 41); group 2 comprised serum Vitamin D levels between >10–16 ng/ml (n = 33); group 3 comprised serum vitamin D levels >16–20 ng/ml (n = 26); group 4 vitamin D level between >20–30 ng/ml (n = 33) and group 5 comprised vitamin D levels >30 ng/ml. The femurs of infants were found to be longer between the groups, although the differences were not significant (). There was also a statistically significant difference in the neonatal birth weight (). Conclusion. We observed associations between low and high maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and fetal growth at birth weight but no difference in birth length. We conclude that we always need to conduct further research to be able to predict the effects of vitamin D deficiency.
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem. Low vitamin D levels can be coexistent with preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, small-for-gestational age sizes, skeletal problems, diabetes, and asthma. The effects of vitamin D levels on pregnancy bone mineralization and fetal growth are known. Controversies remain about the relationship between pregnancy serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and neonatal weight. Two observational studies have reported a positive association [1]. The multiple ethnicities in the groups of both studies are a major limitation of their findings. The risk of neonatal vitamin D deficiency and the risk of lower birth weight are both increased by a maternal vitamin D deficiency [2]. Controversially, several studies have reported positive effects on birth length and birth weight. There is growing evidence that links vitamin D deficiency to immune system dysfunction, abnormal angiogenesis, and preeclampsia [3].
2. Objectives
In the first trimester, the fetus’ daily accumulation of vitamin D in the skeleton is 2-3 mg, and in the last trimester, this rate doubles. Pregnant women’s calcium absorption increases from early pregnancy but peaks in the third trimester. Research has shown that impaired placental development causes both abnormal angiogenesis and a decrease in the production of placental vitamin D and that low blood calcium levels are associated with hypertensive disorders [4]. A lot of studies have also shown that there is a communication between vitamin D levels and newborn size. A pregnant woman needs a daily intake of vitamin D of 800–1000 IU, but the actual need varies according to ethnicity, nutritional factors, and sunlight exposure [5]. It has also been shown that intrauterine bone hypomineralization is associated with vitamin D deficiency and then a reason for congenital rickets, craniotabes, and osteopenia [6]. Because of the possible effects on fetal somatic growth, our study’s goal was to assess relationships between first trimester 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and birthweight and infant birth length [7].
3. Materials and Methods
Our clinical retrospective review consists of the medical records of 154 live-term births from the Acibadem University of Mehmet Ali Aydınlar Atakent Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Center, Istanbul, Turkey, between 2016 and 2018. The Ethical Committee of the Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University Ethics Committee granted ethical approval. All the procedures we performed that involved human participants were carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of our institution and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later Amendments or with comparable ethical standards. Multiple pregnancies and pregnancies with previously known metabolic disorders were excluded from the study. Blood samples were collected in 12th to 14th weeks to measure 25-hydroxyvitamin D3. We used electro-chemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA) on the Roche Modular Analytics E170 (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) for serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 evaluation. The intra-assay coefficients of variation were 2.4% at 40.48 ng/mL.
Subjects were classified into five independent groups for first trimester serum vitamin D levels. Group 1 was comprised of serum vitamin D levels <10 ng/ml (n = 41); group 2 was comprised of serum Vitamin D levels between >10–16 ng/ml (n = 33); group 3 was comprised of serum vitamin D levels >16–20 ng/ml (n = 26); group 4 vitamin D level between >20–30 ng/ml (n: 33) and group 5 was comprised of vitamin D levels >30 ng/ml. We carried out our statistical analysis using MedCalc statistical analysis software version 12.3. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to assess the distribution of variables. The analysis of normally distributed continuous variables was done by the ANOVA test, and the analysis of non-normally distributed variables was done through the Kruskal–Wallis test. We considered the results statistically significant if the value was less than 0.05.
We conducted a retrospective review of the medical records of 154 live births. Table 1 shows first trimester 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels (ng/ml), midtrimester femur lengths (mm), birthweights (g), and neonatal lengths (cm).
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 value
Femur length (mm) 35.19 34.86 34.87 33.4 35.87 0.054
Birth weight (g) 3292.8 3073.93 3279.57 3326.51 3469.52 0.048
Birth length (cm) 50.52 50.29 50.5 50.97 51 0.79
Expressed as mean. , statistically significant.
Comparison of 5 different groups by vitamin D3 levels.
47% of the deliveries were vaginal and 53% were by cesarean section (C-section). The median birthweight was 3287.5 g, and the median femur-length at birth 51 cm. The serum vitamin D levels were classified into 5 groups by concentration. Group 1 was comprised of serum vitamin D levels <10 ng/ml (n = 41); group 2 was comprised of serum vitamin D levels between >10–16 ng/ml (n = 33); group 3 was comprised of serum vitamin D levels >16–20 ng/ml (n = 26); group 4 vitamin D level between >20–30 ng/ml (n: 33) and group 5 was comprised of vitamin D levels >30 ng/ml. We measured second trimester femur lengths by ultrasound; and infant birthweight and birth length were compared for each of the five groups. The femurs of infants were found to be longer between groups, although the differences were not significant (). (Figure 1).
Relationship between vitamin D and body length of delivery.
Birthweights between the groups were statistically significant (Figure 2) There was also statistically significant difference in the neonatal birth weight ().
Relationship between vitamin D and birth weight.
Vitamin D deficiency is a common global problem during pregnancy. The primary source of vitamin D is the exposure to sunlight. Studies have shown that serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels are very important chronic diseases such as diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and infections [8–10]. Sedentary indoor lifestyles, obesity, and avoiding sunlight each contributes to increased vitamin D deficiency. Pre-eclampsia is especially more prevalent when serum vitamin D levels are less than 10 ng/ml [10, 11]. Last studies showed that, in pregnant women, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 serum level is not in a certain relationship with fetal growth in Europe and the United States [11]. The current evidence suggests there is no proof that maternal vitamin D levels affect bone formation in utero.
Growth occurs in femur at 34th week, and we can see it growing with ossification. Mahon et al. [11] developed a femoral splaying index (distal femoral CSA/FL ratio) by femur length (FL) and distal metaphyseal cross-sectional area (CSA).
All the pregnant women in our study took the multivitamin 1000 IU (25 μg) D3 daily. Also, the pregnant women were not classified by open or closed clothes such as burka, seasonal variations, life habits (indoor life and regular walking), and feeding.
There is no study supporting the hypothesis that there is a link between vitamin D deficiency and impaired fetal growth. Another study reported that pregnant adolescents with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 >50 nmol/L at delivery had higher fetal femur length (FL) and humeral length (HL) Z-scores at the 34th weeks. Also, a maternal calcium intake of less than 1050 mg/day was associated with lower FL and HL Z-scores. Both FL and HL Z-scores were higher in women with a sufficient calcium intake >1100 mg/d and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 >50 mmol/L compared with the group with a combined calcium/vitamin D insufficiency (calcium intake <1100 mg/d and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 <50 nmol/L) [12]. Fernandez-Alonso did not find any association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and crown rump length (CRL) when using a routine first trimester ultrasound exam [13].
In our study, we compared vitamin D and fetal growth values in pregnant Turkish women, and we evaluated each of the growth parameters by ultrasound screening between weeks 22 and 24t of pregnancy. We determined the first trimester maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 and femur length generally in the 22nd week of pregnancy (though sometimes in the 21st or 23rd weeks) and compared these values by birth weight and birth femur length. There was no relationship between vitamin D levels and neonatal birth weight and length in the first trimester. Although we did not follow up any relations between pregnant serum vitamin D and baby development, infant birth weight, and length at birth in our study, the outcomes of our study should not be interpreted as that serum vitamin D levels are not an important determinant during pregnancy, until future studies provide new data. Our study had some limitations, such as its cross-sectional design and limited sample size. Future studies should encompass more parameters, such as the woman prebirth body mass index, height, weight, and weight gain during pregnancy.
Next studies are necessary to define the role of vitamin D and calcium supplementation for fetal growth and neonatal birth weight. We did not observe statistically significant differences between maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels and fetal birth length. We conclude that we need to conduct further research to be able to predict the effects of vitamin D deficiency on pregnancy and the newborn.
Our data table has been deposited in figshare at DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7679621.
Ethical Approval
This study was approved by the ethics committee (no. ATADEK-2017/16).
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
We thank the members of Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic for their support and our medical school student Isıl Tekin for data collection.
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Speech Given By Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, Commander, United States Naval Base, Cardiff, Wales at a Luncheon for the Lord Mayor of Cardiff
U.S. Naval Forces Operating in European Waters
U.S. Naval Port Officer <Base>, Cardiff
Oct 14/18
TELEPHONE, CARDIFF 1316 MERCHANTS EXCHANGE BLDG.
CABLE ADDRESS, “PORTAM”
Dear Admiral,
Here is a copy of a short speech I made today at a Lord Mayor’s lunch1 – a farewell to his friends before going out of office.
Philip Andrews
CARDIFF LORD MAYOR’S LUNCH OCTOBER 14, 1918.
Admiral Andrews: It is a very great pleasure to be at this lunch to do honor to the Lord Mayor near the close of his successful tour of office. It is a very great pleasure and honor to be in this country doing what we can to bring the war to a successful conclusion. The signs look good, and must be grateful to all Britons who have so nobly borne the brunt of the struggle in so many different parts of the world. We began with few vessels and few men. They have increased, and are still increasing at a very rapid rate due to the wisdom of your government in furnishing vessels for transport. But the main value our troops and vessels had for some time was their injection into a war worn area, of our optimistic spirit, our enthusiastic energy.
This is characteristic of our people, due to the sunshine we are blessed with. They said in France that our men’s boyish enthusiasm and eagerness to get at the Hun, threw a wave of hope and high spirit into our war worn British and French Allies. This infusion of optimism and energy has had no small part in recent successes.
We hear much of co-operation; and we are told that our vessels and our troops are co-operating. It is a poor attempt at a word to describe what has really been done. Our vessels have been under the orders of your Naval Commanders. Our troops have been put here and there in the line where they were needed. They have only recently been gathered together under our own Generals because of the great number we now have.
Our destroyers have done some good things and made some fine rescues. Working together with your own, each has spurred the other on to greater heights of achievement and daring.
Only the other day occurred one of the finest pieces of brave seamanship I every heard of – an apparently impossible feat.
I refer to the rescue from the “Otranto” of well nigh 500 souls who must have perished but for their rescue by a British Destroyer. The seas were enormous, going alongside seemed impossible. The Otranto’s Captain2 warned the destroyer Captain3 not to add to already certain disaster. But this brave lad had the true British spirit.4 Never give up – When anything is to be done; do it, and don’t talk about it. Wonderful piece of work.
Of course we can’t all work and fight together and then go to our several houses and forget about it. We are bound by the sacrifices we make together, to continue to work and fight together in peace as we have done in war.
We are told we are to have a League of Nations following the Victory and Peace which will come in time. In that League those Nations which have furnished the most and suffered the most, will lead.
The most powerful nations in moral and physical resources will guide that league of nations and furnish most of the force by which world peace must be preserved. This fact will make British and American union <unity> more necessary, and more certain.
Understandings between nations and individuals must be kept alive by communication, by interchange of visits and ideas.
Above all we must have a common standard of ideals, of justice, of action. The leading nations will keep Hun tendencies under control, and eventually perhaps educate them in to better ways.
Peace is coming – some time. But I would remind you that our President|5| said the other day, that nothing had occurred (and he referred to the German peace note) which gave the slightest reason for relaxing our best military efforts. On the contrary in his Liberty Loan speech, he urged the biggest response to the loan possible. He asked a big over-subscription. He said now more than ever was the time to show what our people felt about the war.
It would seem that the Germans are worse off than we thought; but for peace or a discussion of peace, we are bound to enforce guarantees which Germany may not yet be willing to concede. It is clear though that we are definitely approaching peace. It is only a question of time when Germany will surrender without conditions.
When Peace comes we will have great problems to handle which will take fine qualities of patience, justice and forbearance. Here we must have British and American <unity> Union, and it will surely come about that the great English speaking peoples will hand in hand lead the League of Nations along the path of peace; with malice toward none, and justice and charity for all.
F I N I S.
Source Note: DT, DLC-MSS, William Sims Papers, Box 49.
Footnote 1: Amos Child Kirk.
Footnote 2: Capt. Ernest Davidson.
Footnote 3: Lt. Francis Craven, Commander, Mounsey.
Footnote 4: Otranto was the flagship for Convoy HX-50, transporting troops from New York to Queenstown. While in the northern channel of the Irish Sea, the convoy encountered a strong storm on 4 October that got even stronger over the next several days. By 6 October, the storm prevented accurate navigation and, as a result, Otranto collided with Kashmir, another troopship in the convoy. The high winds and heavy seas caused by the storm prevented the launching of any lifeboats. Nevertheless, Capt. Davidson decided not to abandon ship just yet in the faint hope that some passengers and crewmen might be able to swim ashore once the ship got closer. About a half hour after the collision, the British destroyer Mounsey appeared after searching for the convoy during the night. Despite Davidson's order to stand clear, Lt. Craven positioned his ship on Otranto's lee side to allow the men aboard the sinking ship to jump aboard. Several times the two ships struck, causing considerable damage to Mounsey. Nonetheless, Craven kept his small ship close, rescuing 300 American troops, 266 officers and crewmen of Otranto, one YMCA morale officer and 30 French fishermen, although many more men had been washed from the decks or crushed between the two ships. Despite the weight of the rescued men and the damage sustained during the rescue, Mounsey reached Belfast safely. For more on this incident, see, R. Neil Scott, Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), 85-100.
Footnote 5: Woodrow Wilson.
Philip Andrews, Woodrow Wilson
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The codeshare cooperation with our strategic partner in Italy includes direct flights operated by Iberia and Air Italy between Madrid and Milan and Madrid and Naples, respectively, and distribution to some domestic destinations in the two companies' networks beyond Madrid, Rome and Naples.
This codeshare agreement allows our customers to enjoy the Moroccan company's offers on flights between Morocco and Spain and to reach numerous points across Morocco via the RAM hub in Casablanca.
The agreement with our oneworld partner is centred on Royal Jordanian operations between Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) and Amman. We are currently analysing expanding the cooperation to destinations beyond Madrid and Amman, connecting with non-stop flights between these two cities.
In addition to being a oneworld member, the young Russian company allows us to offer our customers more flights between Madrid and Moscow as Iberia can add its code to S7 Airlines operations.
The agreement is completed with numerous destinations in Russia thanks to our partner's hub at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow.
Ukranie International
Allows Iberia customers to travel from Spain to the Ukraine capital, Kiev.
Thanks to the codeshare agreement with this IAG Group company, Iberia can provide access to its customers to an extensive range of domestic and European destinations served by Vueling from its hubs in Barcelona and Rome and to various destinations in Morocco, Gambia and Senegal.
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How Shared Microbes Are Saving Chocolate
The product of these fruits make life worth living, so it is just as well the leaves host protections against disease, which can be passed on to seedlings. PixieMe/Shutterstock
By Stephen Luntz
Please try to remain calm, but the global chocolate supply is under threat. Along with climate change and failed cloning experiments, the future of the world's favorite treat is endangered by Phytopthora palmivora, a fungus thriving in warm, wet environments worldwide. Fortunately, adult Theobroma cacao plants, from which chocolate comes, have a defense mechanism, and now botanists have learned how this gets transferred to baby plants.
Over two decades of research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have shown that tropical plants have their own version of mammals' gut bacteria, or microbiome, which protects us against being colonized by pathogens. The fungus Colletotrichum tropicale, for example, usually forms a symbiotic relationship with plants, occupying their leaves and making them unappetizing to insects and hostile to pathogens.
"When human babies pass through the birth canal, their bodies pick up a suite of bacteria and fungi from their mother. These microbes strengthen their immune system and make the baby healthier," said University of Indiana PhD student Natalie Christian in a statement. "We showed that an analogous process happens in plants: adult cacao trees also pass along protective microbes to baby cacao plants."
Since seedlings spring from seeds, rather than being birthed through the mother's body, transmission of these protective bacteria and fungi is tricky. To see how it occurs, Christian and her colleagues had cacao seeds sprout in a sterile environment. They exposed a third to dead leaves from healthy cacao plants and a third to a random mixture of leaves from the forest floor, keeping the rest as controls that, like caeserian births, didn't get inoculated.
All three sets were then taken into a tropical forest to meet whatever might come, before being returned to the greenhouse and infected with P. palmicora, whose name means “plant destroyer” and is blamed for the loss of 10-20 percent of global cacao production.
In Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Christian reports that the seedlings exposed to adult cacao leaves suffered only half the damage of those that encountered the mixed-leaf litter. Unsurprisingly, they also did much better than the controls.
By culturing the microbial communities of the seedlings and sequencing the fungal DNA, Christian confirmed that the difference lay in the presence of C. tropicale. Having transferred from the leaves of adult cacao plants, the healthy fungus made it hard for pathogenic equivalents to gain space.
Cacao farmers can benefit from this work by inoculating their crops from healthy plants. The researchers hope to use the work as a launchpad for understanding how microbial communities develop in the wild. The findings demonstrate how plants can benefit from growing close to their relatives, counteracting the dangers experienced when high densities of a single species facilitate parasite spread.
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WinWin Issue 30
NTT DOCOMO takes a co-creation approach to 5G
Mar 23, 2018 By Linda Xu
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DOCOMO, INC. is gearing up for one of the world’s earliest and most high-profile 5G launches, targeting commercial deployment in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. But behind the scenes the company is going to great efforts to ensure that a whole range of new markets benefit from its 5G strategy. Dr. Hiroshi Nakamura, CTO of NTT DOCOMO, talks about how to make 5G a reality.
A key takeaway from CTO Hiroshi Nakamura’s keynote appearance at Huawei’s Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) 2017 was that partnerships will be vital to 5G success. DOCOMO is working with an extensive list of partners, from mobile technology suppliers to railway companies and local governments in Japan.
The operator has been researching 5G technology since 2010, the same year it launched 4G. In the last three years it’s partnered with 13 technology vendors to test 5G across existing spectrum bands, such as 800 MHz and 2 GHz, and higher frequency bands like 3-6 GHz, 6-30 GHz and >30 GHz. Its network partners include Huawei, Fujitsu, NEC, and Mitsubishi Electric, and other partners include the systems solution vendor Panasonic, the chipset vendors Intel, Mediatek, and Qualcomm, and the test and measurement providers Keysight Technologies and Rohde & Schwarz.
At MBBF Nakamura described its work with Huawei as “One of the most important partners we‘re working with,” referring to Massive MIMO technologies. “We have greater spectrum efficiency using Massive MIMO,” stated Nakamura, revealing that a test in Yokohama in the 4.5 GHz spectrum band achieved a maximum spectral efficiency of 79.82 bps/Hz at each cell site.
Aside from the technology trials with mobile network vendors, it’s DOCOMO’s work with partners outside of the traditional telco industry that’s establishing 5G as a true revolution.
“5G is unique compared with previous generations because industries are already showing a big interest, even before commercial services are available,” commented Nakamura. “As an operator DOCOMO can provide 5G and AI technologies to the market to enable new services and new business models, but we also believe we cannot do that alone. We need partners to realise such new services. For example, automated driving will definitely require working with car manufacturer partners; VR will require partnering with content providers. Collaborating with partners is what’s required. Co-creation for such new services is fundamental.”
5G trial sites
In May, 2017, DOCOMO opened a series of 5G trial sites, which have seen the operator and its partner companies collaborate in creating new services that aim to leverage 5G’s strengths such as low latency, ultra-high-speed, ultra large capacity and massive device connectivity.
During his keynote presentation at MBBF, Nakamura referenced 8K live video streaming services as part of the trial sites, as well as 4K video streaming services to multiple devices on an experience tour of a newly debuted express train.
“We opened the 5G trial sites to invite a lot of verticals to evaluate and help jointly create 5G use cases,” Nakamura explained. “We need to identify what kind of businesses we can create with our vertical partners.”
Nakamura said that a variety of industries are already on board: car manufacturers, TV broadcast companies, construction companies, railway companies, security companies, image processing companies, printing companies, display companies and IT service companies, “These verticals have their own requirements and issues. We as an operator need to hear their voices to help create new services.”
Two of these use cases were highlighted by Nakamura in more detail. DOCOMO’s work with a TV broadcast company saw the broadcast company use large table-sized screens with viewers stood around the screens and interacting with the screen via augmented reality (AR) technology. “Using large images and AR, we definitely require broadband communications. 5G is an exact use case for that demonstration,” noted Nakamura.
Meanwhile, DOCOMO has teamed up with a construction company to trial the use of remote-controlled vehicles that can be used in areas deemed unsafe for human work or where highly skilled drivers are unavailable. The vehicles are equipped with 4K and 8K cameras. “This requires high-speed and high-bandwidth data communication as well as low latency for the remote control,” reflected Nakamura.
AI’s role in 5G
With artificial intelligence (AI) as something of a buzzword in the industry right now, Nakamura is also convinced the technology will play a major role in DOCOMO’s 5G future. “I believe 5G and AI are core technologies for realizing such a new world and new lifestyles,” he stated. “AI also requires working with partners.”
Nakamura outlined how AI can be used for two different purposes: as a “personal agent” to enhance people’s lives, and for “social system optimization.”
As a personal agent, DOCOMO is using AI to improve its eCommerce service platform that has around 15 million customers. In June the operator went a step further by opening up its AI agent platform to partners. Nakamura said its AI Agent Open Partner Initiative means “partners can create their own agent and improve their business or create new services using our AI platforms.”
The initiative is device agnostic, “So our partners can use the AI agent devices as their choice,” he said.
Nakamura claimed that a lot of partners are already showing support for the initiative and using it to create their own AI agent, including chipset companies, price comparison websites, department store chains, computer hardware manufacturers, and machine tool manufacturers.
In terms of AI use cases for social system optimisation, Nakamura heralded the potential for vertical industries as “unlimited.” One agricultural use case highlighted by the CTO was the local government of a northern Japanese city, which has used DOCOMO’s “deep learning” AI technology, incorporating photo images from drones, to overcome the problem of plant disease and insect damage in rice fields and pine forests.
A different example saw DOCOMO helps taxi drivers boost their income. Nakamura explained that the operator applied AI technology and deep learning to population statistics to predict 30-minute future demand for taxis in certain locations. “The analytical results are sent to the driver who can go to specific areas to pick up passengers. After three months of field tests we were able to increase each driver’s sales by about 1,400 yen per day, that’s around USD$12 to USD$13,” revealed Nakamura. “That’s another example of using AI for improving business.”
5G standardization
NTT DOCOMO’s open approach to 5G also extends to officially ratifying the technical standard. Earlier this year DOCOMO was part of a global push to speed up the standardization of 5G, with 3GPP agreeing to finalize the non-standalone New Radio standard by December 2017, well ahead of an earlier target of June 2018.
“DOCOMO will use this December’s first non-standalone spec for our commercial 5G services,” confirmed Nakamura in an interview at MBBF 2017. “We’re completely in line with 3GPP and 5G specifications.”
With less than 1,000 days before DOCOMO launches its commercial 5G service, it’s clear the operator isn’t embarking on this journey alone. As Nakamura concluded at Huawei’s MBBF event in London, “When thinking about services in the 5G era, the important thing is partnerships and co-creation with our verticals. We as an operator can enable the market, but we definitely require partnerships with them to create new services.”
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Military won't accept responsibility for soldier's botched brain tumour case
The Canadian Press CP Politics
OTTAWA - A 24-year-old reservist says the Canadian military is refusing to accept responsibility for misdiagnosing her brain tumour and she won't get the support she was promised by Defence Minister Jason Kenney.Leading Seaman Robyn Young, originally from Windsor, Ont., went to a military doctor complaining of headaches and double vision.Despite displaying symptoms of a brain tumour for four years, Young was sent for corrective eye surgery — something that civilian doctors say was unnecessary and contributes to her ongoing health problems.A tumour the size of a toonie was found and removed last June, and the family wants National Defence to pick up the tab for her continuing care.But during a meeting with military official today, Young was told a quality of care review concluded her condition was not attributable to military service.Young's mother, Pearl Osmond, says her daughter's ongoing health problems are related to the unnecessary surgery and noted that Kenney pledged last month in the House of Commons that she would be helped.
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08/12/2017 Fri 11:44 in All markets by Bridgette Hall
UPDATE: Convoy Global chairman arrested
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Chairman of Financial services firm Convoy Global Holdings Quincy Wong Lee-man was arrested Saturday local media reported. According to the South China Morning Post, he was arrested at the airport when he returned from a holiday.
Two other executives vice-chairman Rosetta Fong Sut-sam and executive director Christie Chan Lai-yee were arrested Thursday in a joint operation by the ICAC and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) reported RTHK. The firms are under suspicion of corruption.
Meanwhile, Convoy announced the appointment of six new Directors Sunday. The appointments include veteran accountant Johnny Chen as interim chairman and five executive directors. Chen is a senior advisor at LionRock Capital. He was formerly China chairman of Zurich Insurance, and before that, he was managing partner of accounting firm PwC’s Beijing office.
ICAC said in a statement that it and the market regulator, the SFC, had searched eight premises in a joint operation and had arrested three senior executives of a listed company for suspected corruption on Thursday but didn’t give specifics.
Trading was halted for the financial services firm after Convoy confirmed senior executives had been arrested and their duties suspended. The share prices dropped 7.2% following the announcement.
One of the arrests Thursday included former Chief Executive Officer of Convoy Mark Mak Kwong-yiu who is the current chairman of Lerado Financial Group. In June the SFC ordered Lerado to suspend trading after the firm allegedly gave misleading information in a 2015 announcement.
In a stock exchange filing on Thursday, Lerado said it had been invited to assist an ICAC investigation. “The company is cooperating with ICAC in providing documents and records,” said executive director Kenneth Lai Kin-chung in the filing.
The Standard reported the operation involved 50 officers, a dozen people including the company’s executives were driven to the anti-graft agency’s headquarters for investigation. Headline Daily said that some employees were suspected of using the Hong Kong-based company to solicit an advantage of about HK$47 million between March and June 2015.
Deputy chairwoman and executive director of financial advisers, Rosetta Fong Sut Sam is believed to have cooperated with the ICAC probe. Fong was escorted from her Sai Kung home by anti-graft officers to the ICAC offices in North Point. Officers also searched her home and removed some documents according to the Standard report.
The South China Morning Post reported that the SFC has in recent weeks taken action against companies connected to Convoy and Cho Kwai Chee, an executive director of Convoy as well as a well known local investor nicknamed “Doctor Cho” because he is a medical doctor.
One of these companies, Town Health International Medical Group, of which Cho is executive deputy chairman, was ordered by the SFC to suspend trading in its shares on November 27, after the regulator said it found the company’s earnings report for the first half of 2016 and its annual report of the same year included “materially false, incomplete or misleading information.”
Convoy Global is a financial adviser to Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Fund pension scheme and a provider of retirement planning and insurance services. They are also the biggest shareholder of First Credit Finance Group. In late November, the SFC directed the Stock Exchange to suspend all dealings in the shares of First Credit Finance Group too.
In May, Convoy Global had been identified by shareholder activist David Webb as one of “50 stocks not to own,” for undisclosed holdings in companies.
Local media reported that in an internal message, the group’s president Ng Wing Fai said the people in suspected connection with the case have been suspended from duty and employees were reassured that the company is in good financial health, the company would be cooperating with the investigation, and that business will continue as usual.
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Kele Goodwin has spent his life in three places: in Juneau, Alaska; on the Navajo Nation; and in the misty Pacific Northwest. He makes music that sings from bone marrow, from a life and landscape alternately charted and lost, crushed and rebuilt. It is music made familiar by the experience of pain and its lessons. It is music to live by.
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A whole bunch of ways to make enchiladas
Addie Broyles, abroyles@statesman.com
The number of ways to make enchiladas surely equals or exceeds the number of households in Mexico.
I grew up eating flour tortillas filled with shredded chicken, rolled and lined up in a 9-inch-by-13-inch glass casserole dish, smothered with canned green sauce and shredded Cheddar cheese. That’s quite a different dish than the breakfast enchiladas I devoured in Mexico City last year that were filled with chicken, folded in half, topped with Oaxaca cheese and more traditionally enchilada’ed — enveloped in the sauce instead of simply sleeping under it.
Iliana de la Vega, chef and owner of El Naranjo in Austin, Texas, says that there are more than 150 different traditional recipes, not to mention the what she refers to as the cousins, which include enfrijoladas (tortillas dipped in or covered in black bean sauce), entomatadas (tomato sauce), enmoladas (mole sauce) or the pastel azteca, a dish of layered enchiladas that looks a lot like the generic “Mexican casseroles” you might find on this side of the border.
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Texas has its own enchilada tradition. Tex-Mex enchiladas start with a roux — the flour cooked in fat base that is also used in gumbo — and, instead of fresh or dried chilies, use powdered chilies.
It’s a wide world to explore, and last year, San Antonio restaurateur Cappy Lawton hired De la Vega and a few other Mexican food experts to help put together “Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex,” a wide-ranging book that covers all the bases, including how to make tortillas, rice, beans, many kinds of sauces and variations on whatever kind of enchiladas you grew up eating or like to eat today.
De la Vega taught at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio for several years and now leads culinary expeditions in Mexico. She says the idea behind enchiladas dates back many centuries, but the name only came around during the 1800s.
What goes inside the tortillas, how thick to make the sauce, what kind of garnish goes on top are all up to the head cook; however, one of the universal keys for traditional enchiladas is corn tortillas. No one is stopping you from using flour tortillas, of course, but they don’t soak up the sauces in the same way corn tortillas do — and they can get gummy pretty quickly.
Even if you don’t think you like corn tortillas, try passing one quickly through hot oil and then some good enchilada sauce to see if that shifts the texture and taste in a way that might change your mind. You don’t want to fry them too long or they will become too crispy to fold. (But then you’ll have tostadas, another wonderful blank canvas to play with.)
Although vegetables, cheese, meat and seafood are the most popular fillings, De la Vega says that there are some kinds of enchiladas with no filling at all. Enchiladas can be rolled, folded or stacked, but usually three tortillas are considered a serving.
If you do want cheese on top of or inside your enchiladas, what type should you use? That depends on whether you are going to bake or broil the enchiladas after you’ve prepared them. Melting cheese, such as that Oaxaca cheese I enjoyed in Mexico City, is good for that. But it’s just as common not to cook enchiladas after they are prepared and to just use a crumbled cotija cheese, queso fresco, or Mexican crema. Sour cream would be an Americanized substitute.
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To make your own sauce, you can use fresh or dried chilies, though powdered chilies from the baking aisle can also do the trick. For fresh chilies, you’ll blacken the skins over a flame or under the broiler so they can be removed easily and discarded, and then puree with other ingredients. For dried chilies, you can cut them open to shake out the seeds and then reconstitute them in water for about 15 minutes before pureeing. In “Enchiladas,” the authors suggest roasting the dried chilies on a cast iron surface first, but that’s a step that not everyone thinks is required.
America’s Test Kitchen always has useful shortcuts. For enchiladas, they suggest making a quick red chili sauce with onions, garlic, spices and tomato sauce. They poached the chicken directly in the sauce, which both enhanced the flavor of the sauce and ensured moist, flavorful meat for the enchilada filling. Instead of using tongs to dip the tortilla in hot oil, they brushed the tortillas with oil and microwaved them to make them pliable.
That method would probably make plenty of Mexican grandmothers roll their eyes, but in this story, we wanted to show the many paths that appear when you start with a few tortillas and a little sauce.
Chicken Enchilada Casserole (Pastel Azteca)
Pastel azteca, which translates as “Aztec cake,” is an enchilada casserole composed of alternating layers of corn tortillas, tomato sauce, shredded chicken, poblano chilies, cheese and Mexican crema. Slaw makes a great side dish.
2 lb. Roma tomatoes
1/2 medium white onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic, peeled
Kosher salt, to taste
6 poblano chilies, divided
3 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, poached and shredded
Vegetable oil as needed for softening tortillas
1 Tbsp. butter or vegetable oil for greasing casserole
1 1/2 cups Mexican crema
1 1/2 firmly packed cups queso asadero or Monterey Jack, grated
Chopped tomato, for garnish
Place whole tomatoes in a saucepan, add 3/4 cup water, cover and cook over medium-low heat until the tomatoes barely burst open. Set aside to cool slightly in the cooking liquid.
Using a slotted spoon, transfer the tomatoes to a blender along with the onion and garlic. Blend to a very smooth puree, adding tomato cooking liquid as needed to achieve a thick sauce consistency.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a saucepan, add the tomato puree and cook until it slightly darkens, 10 to 15 minutes. Season with salt to taste, cover and set aside.
Place whole chilies directly on a barbecue grill over hot coals or a gas burner flame. Turn the chilies to blacken them evenly. When chilies are evenly blistered and blackened, remove and place them in a paper bag. Place the paper bag inside a plastic bag, close and allow the chilies to steam for several minutes (until cool enough to handle).
When cool, remove skins, stems, veins and seeds from chilies and slice into strips or rajas. To maintain maximum flavor, chilies should not be rinsed with water.
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix the shredded chicken with two-thirds of the poblano strips (reserve a third for topping). Pour oil to a depth of 1/2-inch in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Heat to low frying temperature, about 300 degrees. Place each tortilla in the oil and fry for a few seconds, just long enough to soften. Drain on paper towels.
Butter or oil a shallow ovenproof casserole dish that will accommodate four tortillas in a single slightly overlapping layer. Spread a few tablespoons tomato sauce on the bottom of the casserole.
Place four softened tortillas in a single layer on top of the tomato sauce, followed by half of the poblano/chicken mixture, 1/3 of the remaining tomato sauce, 1/2 cup Mexican crema and 1/2 cup queso asadero. Layer with four more tortillas, the remaining chicken/poblano mixture, 1/3 of the tomato sauce, 1/2 cup Mexican crema, and 1/2 cup queso asadero.
Top with the last four tortillas and remaining tomato sauce, Mexican crema and queso asadero. Decorate the top with the reserved poblano strips. Bake until the cheese is melted and the pastel is heated through, about 15 to 20 minutes.
Remove from oven and garnish with tomato. Loosely cover with aluminum foil and let rest for a few minutes before serving. Serves 8.
— From Iliana de la Vega, chef/owner of El Naranjo and published in “Enchiladas: Aztec to Tex-Mex” by Cappy Lawton and Chris Waters Dunn (Trinity University Press, $39.95)
This America’s Test Kitchen recipe includes a few shortcuts and flavor enhancers that you could use anytime you’re making enchiladas, or poaching chicken for that matter.
1 onion, chopped fine
1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips
2 (8-oz.) cans tomato sauce
1/2 cup minced fresh cilantro
1/4 cup jarred jalapeños, chopped
12 oz. sharp cheddar cheese, shredded (about 3 cups)
12 (6-inch) corn tortillas
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in medium saucepan over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add onion and cook until softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in chili powder, garlic, coriander, cumin, sugar and salt and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in chicken and coat thoroughly with spices. Stir in tomato sauce and water, bring to simmer and cook until chicken is cooked through, about 8 minutes.
Strain mixture through fine-mesh strainer set over bowl, pressing on chicken mixture to extract as much sauce as possible, and reserve the sauce. Transfer chicken mixture to separate bowl, refrigerate for 20 minutes to chill, then stir in cilantro, jalapeños and 2 1/2 cups cheese.
Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees. Spread 3/4 cup sauce over bottom of 13-by-9-inch baking dish. Brush both sides of tortillas with remaining 2 tablespoons oil. Stack tortillas, wrap in damp dish towel and place on plate; microwave until warm and pliable, about 1 minute.
Working with 1 warm tortilla at a time, spread 1/3 cup chicken filling across center of tortilla. Roll tortilla tightly around filling and place seam side down in baking dish; arrange enchiladas in 2 columns across width of dish.
Pour remaining sauce over top to cover completely, and sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup cheese down center of enchiladas. Cover dish tightly with greased aluminum foil. Bake until enchiladas are heated through and cheese is melted, 15 to 20 minutes. Serves 4 to 6.
— From “The How Can It Be Gluten-Free Cookbook Volume 2” from America’s Test Kitchen (America’s Test Kitchen, $26.95)
Salsa Verde (Green Sauce)
Salsa verde is one of the most popular kinds of enchilada sauces. If you’re ready to skip the can, here is a basic recipe to get you started. If you add the cream or crema, you’re heading toward enchiladas suiza, a popular 1950s-era export out of Mexico City.
6 anaheim chilies
6 tomatillos, husks removed
1/2 small white onion, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup cream or Mexican crema (optional)
Roast chilies on stove, blackening on all sides. Place evenly black and blistered chilies in a jar or bag, seal for 15 minutes. Remove skin, seeds and stem. In blender, combine chilies, tomatillos, garlic and onion. Blend until smooth.
Pour into saucepan and add cream if desired. Heat to warm, add salt to taste, and proceed with enchilada recipe. Makes enough sauce for 4 to 6 servings.
— Adapted from a recipe in “Mi Comida Latina” by Marcella Kriebel (Burgess Lea Press, $30)
Enchiladas Celayenses
Ceyala is a city in Guanajuato, Mexico, where this sausage-based enchilada recipe originates. Instead of filling the tortillas with the sausage and potatoes, the enchiladas are filled with raw onions mixed with fresh cheese and then garnished with sausage, potatoes, lettuce, banana peppers and radishes.
7 dried ancho chilies, seeds and stems removed
1/2 tsp. oregano
2 Tbsp. lard, divided
1/2 lb. linguica or other pork sausage
2 lb. peeled and diced potatoes
16 oz. fresh cheese or grated queso fresco
1 head lettuce, washed and cut into thin strips
6 pickled banana peppers, sliced
1 bunch radishes, cut into thin slices
Mexican crema, to taste
Cover the chilies in water and soak for 15 minutes. Remove the reconstituted chilies and reserve the water. Blend the ancho chilies with garlic, oregano, salt and a little water in which they were soaked, until the sauce has the right body: not too runny, but not too thick. Set aside.
In a pan, melt 1 Tbsp. lard, fry the sausage and remove from pan, reserving the remaining fat in the pan. Add the potatoes to the pan and cook over low heat until softened. Remove from pan.
Add remaining lard to pan and melt over medium heat. Dip the tortillas in the ancho chili sauce and fry quickly in the lard. Combine cheese and onions. Fill each tortilla with cheese and onion blend, and then fold or roll and place in a baking or serving dish as you repeat with remaining tortillas.
Top the enchiladas with lettuce, potatoes, fried sausage, banana peppers, radishes and cream. Serves 6.
— Agencia Reforma
Enchiladas Oaxaca
Oaxaca is known for its mole, which is often used as an enchilada sauce. Here, you’ll mix some of the mole with shredded meat and save the rest for adding on top of the filled tortillas.
For the mole:
5 oz. mole paste
4 cups chicken stock, warmed
3 cups shredded chicken, pork or beef
For assembly:
3 Tbsp. lightly toasted sesame seeds
Thinly sliced red onion, for garnish
Cream, for garnish
For the mole, heat 1 tablespoon of lard in a saucepan. Incorporate mole paste and gradually pour the hot stock, until the sauce reaches desired consistency. Reserve half of the mole sauce. To the remaining half, add the shredded meat, bring to a simmer and then remove from heat.
To assemble the enchiladas, heat the remaining lard. One by one, gently fry the tortillas and fill with shredded meat and mole sauce. Roll or fold in half and repeat with remaining tortillas. Place the enchiladas on a plate and top with several spoonfuls of the remaining sauce. Garnish with sesame seeds, onions and cream. Serves 4.
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A team of scientists and archaeological explorers relocated and documented the site of a Grumman TBF Avenger off Oahu, Hawaii 77 years after it was lost. The site is believed to be associated with three US servicemen missing in action from World War II. Members of Project Recover, private research vessel Petrel and the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) used state-of-the-art technology to image the deepwater site in unprecedented detail. Catastrophic Collision On 11 October 1942, three US TBF Avenger aircraft from squadron VT-3 collided during a training flight off Naval Air Station Kaneohe, now Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Two of... (read more)
Teledyne Marine Announces 2020 Academic Product Grant
Six months free product usage and technical consultations
Teledyne Marine offers the next generation of technologists and explorers the opportunity to utilize the organization’s leading-edge technology for planned 2020 programmes free of charge via their 2020 Academic Product Grant. The company delivers the widest range of technology in the industry and will share a full suite of these technologies with the academic community to address an array of potential global research programmes. This grant is open to all students from accredited universities or institutions pursuing oceanographic or hydrographic studies and provides up to 6 months' free product usage and technical consultations to help ensure their success. Products in this year’s grant... (read more)
Hydro International's Editorial Team to Produce 'Show Daily' at Oceanology International 2020
Registration is open for Oceanology International 2020 (17-19 March 2020), marking the 50th anniversary of the world’s best known and most celebrated ocean technology exhibition and conference. Organizers Reed Exhibitions predict that OI 2020 will be the largest edition in the expo’s 50-year history, with in excess of 500 companies exhibiting to more than 8,000 buyers and influencers across 17,000+m2 of indoor exhibition space in ExCeL London. Visitors can register for exhibition tickets via the OI 2020 website. Hydro International's editorial team will be producing the Show Daily, a printed newsletter distributed daily on the exhibition floor. Focused on Oceanology International 2020... (read more)
NOAA Deputy Administrator: "I Wanna See a Kid With a NOAA Shirt"
In November, President Trump declared the United States would 'act boldly' on a gigantic task: mapping a chunk of the ocean floor that's larger than the combined land area of all 50 US states. Armed with this strong backing from the White House, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is ready to go where no man has gone before. The agency this year plans to accelerate exploration of the entire US Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), with the goal of completing the job by 2030, E&E News, a news organization focusing on energy and the environment, reports. An official described the exploration... (read more)
BlueROV2 Connected Through the Tether Cable Eliminates the Need for Batteries
Blue Robotics has announced their newest product, the Outland Technology Power Supply for the BlueROV2, which was developed and manufactured by Outland Technology of Slidell (Louisiana, US). The Outland Technology Power Supply (OTPS) provides a solution to power the BlueROV2 through the tether cable, eliminating the need for batteries and allowing it to be operated indefinitely. The OTPS is available immediately from Blue Robotics, starting at $11,300 for a complete system. The challenge with powering any ROV from the surface is the electrical power loss through the tether. A long tether with small wires, like that used on most ROVs,... (read more)
Rovco Launches Live 3D Subsea Streaming Technology
Subsea technology company Rovco (Bristol, UK) has launched 'SubSLAM Live’, a 3D streaming technology which allows users to video and live-stream 3D underwater point clouds to any device in the world. The stereo camera technology system sends images and 3D models of assets from the seabed to a computer browser in any location globally. This offers customers instantaneous access to information as an inspection or construction activity is taking place. The firm trialled the technology earlier in the year with an oil and gas Super Major, at a renewable wind farm, and more recently in 0.5m of visibility at an... (read more)
Inspection and 3D Modelling Project at Galloper Offshore Windfarm Completed
Subsea technology specialist Rovco has completed an extensive ROV inspection contract. This circa £1 million contract has resulted in the completion of the baseline asset integrity survey at the newly constructed Galloper Offshore Wind Farm, a 353MW installed capacity wind farm which lies 30km off the coast of Suffolk, UK. The project, which was awarded by Innogy Renewables UK, began in September - with 24-hour ROV operations provided over a four-week period. Rovco deployed a Cougar XT ROV fitted with both 3D imaging sonar and their SubSLAM 3D technology to complete planned asset inspection activities. The project was performed from... (read more)
International Team of Scientists Explore Santorini Volcano in Greece
A NASA-funded, international oceanographic research expedition will study the seabed around the active submarine volcano of Kolumbo, off the Cycladic island of Santorini (Greece), the Greek state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported. The international mission, made up of 30 scientists from the US, Greece, Australia and Germany, is backed by the Greek-owned vessel DP-2 CLV Ocean Link, granted by the company Maritech International. The expedition team will work in Santorini until November 27. NASA's goal is to test so-called intelligent technologies with AUVs in the sea, which in the coming decades are intended to be used to explore extraterrestrial oceans in... (read more)
Multiplexers Simultaneously Transmit Data Along a Single Communication Channel
MacArtney, headquartered in Denmark, has recently supplied the latest in a series of seven customised NEXUS MK C ‘Super MUX’ multiplexers to MMT, providers of customised marine surveys for the offshore energy industry. Multiplexers, designed to simultaneously transmit data along a single channel of communication, provide operators with the opportunity to gather numerous types of data at once. The Swedish based, MMT working in close collaboration with Reach Subsea, ordered the customised NEXUS MK C connectivity solution (named the Super MUX by MMT) from MacArtney Underwater Technology earlier this year. Offshore Energy Industry MMT assists the global industry with a range... (read more)
Researchers Find Japanese WWII Aircraft Carrier Destroyed in the Battle of Midway
Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken Second World War ships have uncovered the wreck of a Japanese aircraft carrier destroyed in the Battle of Midway. Fought on June 1942, the clash saw US aircraft carriers ambush their Japanese enemies and sink all four opposing Imperial Navy (IJN) flattops, thanks partly to intelligence gained through intercepted communications. The crew of the research vessel Petrel, in conjunction with the US Navy, revealed on Friday that it had found the Japanese carrier Kaga 350 miles (560 km) northwest of Midway Island, lying at a depth of 5.4km. This week, the crew... (read more)
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iLounge > News > Apps > Apple Music
Apple partners up with NBA for new Apple Music playlist
Haider Ali Khan
Saturday, January 18, 2020 11:43 AM UTC
The NBA and Apple have collaborated on the Apple Music platform and released a new playlist, dubbed ‘Base: Line’. It features various independent artists from emerging labels and will be comprised of forty songs mostly from the hip hop genre.
NBA and Apple
‘Base: Line’ will be distributed via the NBA website and app, and will be played alongside game highlights on social media. NBA fan and Apple executive Eddy Cue has played a role in the deal, saying that Apple encourages and supports emerging urban artists and their creations.
UnitedMasters, a new label will be providing the songs, which will be played on Apple’s music subscription platform. Apple intends to release new playlists on a weekly basis and allow subscribers to connect with more than 100,000 independent artists through their music.
It’s estimated that Apple Music has 60 million-plus subscribers, right below Spotify’s. The move could bring in more subscribers, especially fans of the NBA.
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1st ODI: Australia outplayed us in all departments, says Virat Kohli
David Warner and Aaron Finch slammed twin centuries as Australia crushed India by 10 wickets in the first ODI in Mumbai.
Mumbai Published on: January 14, 2020 22:01 IST
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Australia outplayed us in all departments, says Virat Kohli
Indian captain Virat Kohli said that the batsmen may have been a bit too respectful to the Australian bowlers after his side fell to a massive 10-wicket loss in the first ODI between the two sides at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday. Australian skipper Aaron Finch and David Warner ensured that the visitors chased down a target of 255 without losing a wicket.
"Totally outplayed in all three departments. It's a very strong Australian team, and if you don't play well enough, they will hurt you," said Kohli in the post-match presentation ceremony.
"In phases, we were too respectful against their bowlers, and didn't take the game by the scruff of the neck. It's another challenge to bounce back from here," he said.
Kohli had come in at number four instead of his usual spot of number three, where KL Rahul had batted. It meant that he came in only in the 28th over with India having lost Rohit Sharma and Rahul and was dismissed after making just 16 runs. He said that the decision was made to accommodate the in-form Rahul in the lineup. The 121-run partnership that Rahul shared with Shikhar Dhawan ended up being India's highest and one of the few passages of the game where the hosts looked comfortable.
"We've had this discussion in the past. Because of the way KL has batted, we have tried to have him bat up in the lineup. We might have to think about this. Every now and then, it's about putting people up there and testing them. People need to relax and not panic. Today was one of the days it didn't come off," said Kohli.
The second ODI will be played on Friday at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot.
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ElectronicsTactical FlashlightsTactical Lanterns
Tac Light Power Pro Review – Super Bright Compact Tactical Flashlight?
Flashlights have seen a surge in popularity over the last few years, with individuals in increasing numbers purchasing them for emergency situations, power outages and roadside breakdowns.
Due to the current influx of fame, flashlights could be seen in virtually every household around the nation. Not only are they useful tools, but some make decent weapons from the most dire of situations.
One flashlight that has been making headlines due to its favorable reviews recently is Taclight Power Pro, a heavy-duty flashlight that rival the likes of Maglite for dominance and recognition in the marketplace.
What Is Tac Light Power Pro?
As stated before, Taclight Power Pro is among the leading flashlight brands in the market. It provides users the reassurance and safety of owning a heavy duty flashlight, minus the extra weight. In fact, Taclight Power Pro is made of aircraft aluminum, which makes it equally resistant to tear and wear while still being light enough to be carried anywhere.
As a heavy duty torch, Taclight Power Pro should allegedly continue one at least five decades or 10,000 hours of usage. This is much more than other manufacturers in the exact same space, with the vast majority of other goods offering a lifetime that is less than one year.
The whole unit is built from aircraft aluminium, making it both lightweight and powerful enough to withstand even the roughest environments.
This usually means that you can adjust the visibility broad or small, and can use the flashlight as a strobe for signalling crises. The flashlight is significantly brighter than other torches at 1,000 lumen, making it among the brightest and longest-lasting torches on the marketplace these days.
Tac Light Power Pro Special Offer
For a limited time, shoppers can take advantage of Taclight two for one offer. What this means is that one can get a separate Tac Light torch if they are willing to pay an extra $6.95 for shipping and handling.
The versatile nature of this tactical torch means that one can use it submerged in water, frozen in ice, or in the most adverse of weather conditions. The torch’s power and reliability comes from its ability to remain functional thanks to the reinforced aluminum casing.
In order to take advantage of the Taclight special offer, one simply pays the shipping charge of $19.99 to have the product sent. Shoppers who choose to pay via credit card should have their deliveries fulfilled within 3 to 5 working days, although international shipments may take longer than expected.
Tac Light Power Pro Summary
In light of the numerous testimonials the company has obtained, there is enough evidence to indicate that Taclight Power Pro is recommendable to both friends and family. The product is relatively inexpensive and there are hundreds of reviews that one can read. Though Taclight Power Pro is a relatively new brand, it's already making headlines and is set to overtake its major brands in the market.
More information on the terms and conditions of the Tac Light Torch is available via the company’s website.
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Water, sewerage, chemical and solid waste treatment plants Technology Offers
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University of VigoUniversity of Vigo
University of Vigo posted this:
Innovative process for the removal of persistent organic pollutants present in wastewater streams.This is the first time that surfactants-based aqueous phase segregation has been proposed for the remediation of aromatic organic pollutants. Up to know, biological degradation was used alone or in combination with other physical and chemical methods (e.g. volatilization, sorption, electrokinetic, oxidation, extraction with supercritical fluids, etc.), that often entail economic and environmental disadvantages. Therefore, the proposed strategy is an environmentally friendly alternative that entails benefits such as low energy consumption, low cost, availability of reagents at bulk quantities and easy implementation.
Ivan Rodriguez RoselloUniversidad de Alicante
Ivan Rodriguez Rosello
Licensing Manager at Universidad de Alicante
Ivan Rodriguez Rosello posted this:
Removal of odours in recycled plasticsThe research group "Waste, Energy, Environment and Nanotechnology (REMAN)" of the University of Alicante has developed a procedure for the elimination of odours in recycled plastics by steam stripping. This procedure comprises the following stages: (i) separation and conditioning of plastic; (ii) shredding of plastic; (iii) chemical washing with surfactant; (iv) rinsing of plastic material; (v) mechanical drying; and, (vi) deodorization of plastic. This last stage is done in a steam distillation column and is where the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are extracted from the clean, dry material by steam distillation, and where the VOC-free plastic exits at the bottom of that column. In this way, it is possible to improve the quality of recycled plastics and increase the reuse of plastics from both domestic and industrial waste as raw material for products for later use. Companies interested in the commercial exploitation of this technology through licence agreements and/or technical cooperation are sought.
Laser Consult Ltd.Laser Consult Ltd.
Laser Consult Ltd.
Laser Consult Ltd. posted this:
Innovative Technology to Utilize and Recycle Sewage SludgeOur partner, a Hungarian company, developed a patented technology that provides a solution for transforming municipal sewage sludge into solid fuel (Solid Recovered Fuel -SRF), which also enables sewage plants to achieve significant cost savings. The company is looking for potential licensing partners in the field of sewage plant construction and operation.
Eduard Hernandez BaladaBioconservacion
Eduard Hernandez Balada
Freelancer at Bioconservacion
Eduard Hernandez Balada posted this:
Formulation of dry scrubber with 80% H2S absorption capacityThe formulation has been repeatedly tested in a laboratory, yielding an absorption capacity of > 80 g H2S/100 g product (using ASTM D6646). I am looking to find a company in the gas/air phase treatment industry that is keen on taking this product to the market. Given its superior absorption capacity, the operational costs are significantly lower than its competitors. Please contact me to further discuss.
Guillermo RodríguezBiótica, Bioquímica Analítica,S.L.
R&D Manager at Biótica, Bioquímica Analítica,S.L.
Guillermo Rodríguez posted this:
Test for rapid quantifying Legionella in waters (1 hour) (Legipid) based on Immuno-Magnetic Separation (IMS)Advanced immunosensing for determination of Legionella in water scenarios. Friendly packaging. Validated and certified technique. Proven technology with available successful cases on both preventative and outbreak situations, supported by scientific and technical papers. Immuno-Magnetic Separation (IMS) requires the sample to be prepared according to the concentration step from ISO 11731:2017. There is an environmental test kit available for the detection of Legionella spp. which attaches microscopic magnets to live bacteria in order to enable detection. The result can be crudely measured by a colour change, or more accurately with the use of a photometer. This method can be advantageous in field laboratories which do not have the facilities to handle the growth and disposal of hazardous micro-organisms.
Yissum - Research Development Company of the Hebrew UniversityYissum - Research Development Company of the Hebrew University
Yissum - Research Development Company of the Hebrew University
Yissum - Research Development Company of the Hebrew University posted this:
Clay-Polymer Sorbents for the Removal of Organic Pollutants from WaterClay-Polymer Sorbents for the Removal of Organic Pollutants from Water Project ID : 8-2012-2876
Paloza LLCPaloza LLC
Paloza LLC
Small and Medium Enterprise
Paloza LLC posted this:
Smart heavy metal scavenger materials and technologyWe developed smart heavy metal scavenger material that can remove heavy metals such as Pb2+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Ag+ etc. After removing the heavy metal ions, the material can be regenerated for reuse. The synthesis process of the material is well established and the material can be synthesized in large scale. We now look for users or large companies that can market our materials and technology for us.
CVT VALORISATION SUDCVT VALORISATION SUD
CVT VALORISATION SUD
Technology Transfer Network
CVT VALORISATION SUD posted this:
SCRAPERBOX - Device and method for thickening sludgeScraper Box is a simple, efficient and low cost innovative technology for thickening liquid sludge. It can be automated and does not require conditioning polymer.
University of HuelvaUniversity of Huelva
University of Huelva
University of Huelva posted this:
New procedure for the purification of water contaminated by metals and the respective systemsThe invention solves the problems of inefficiency which usually shows the conventional passive treatment systems. The reactive fills developed for the removal of inorganic contaminants historically have focused on removing low concentrations of these (typical features of coal mining), however when these fillers are faced to high concentrations of metals (sulfur mining, uranium, industrial water waste…) quickly clogging and loss of reactivity occurs. The present invention allows the removal of metals without clogging and/or loss of reactivity. This is achieved by the use of a coarse inert material with high surface mixed with a fine-grained reactive material, so that the surface of the inert material is breaded with reactive material. Coarse fragments of inert material act as a frame, providing large pores that reduces clogging by precipitates. The small particle size of the reactive material provides a large surface area that increases its reactivity.
Universidad de AlicanteUniversidad de Alicante
Research & Technology Organization
Universidad de Alicante posted this:
Simultaneous determination of anion and cation content in water samples through ICP-AESThe main innovation of the present system is the development of a single method allowing the sequential preparation and automatic quantification of ionic species in water samples employing a commercially available ICP-AES.
uacooperauacoopera
uacoopera
uacoopera posted this:
Process for converting waste, effluents and organic by-products in recyclable materialsA group of researchers from a Portuguese university has developed a biological process to treat waste, effluents and organic by-products with industrial origin characterized by high biodegradability that adds value to conventional biological treatment processes, integrating their assumptions on the concept of biorefinery. The invention aims to reduce by 96% the organic matter content of the starting substrate allowing generally meet the discharge criteria set out in the legislation.
Laboratory device to measure gas diffusion coefficients at real conditions.The Applied Petrology Group of the University of Alicante has developed an automatic device and a method to determine gas diffusion coefficients of single gases from a gas mixture under atmospheric conditions. The device works in a wide range of relative humidity and temperature and can be employed to test any permeable or porous material. The procedure allows to calculate the gas diffusion coefficients for samples with different size and nature (soils, rocks, concretes, synthetic materials, etc.). It is a non-destructive test that can be used to calculate the gas diffusion coefficients of more than one gas at the same time. It is looking for companies that are interested in this technology for its commercial exploitation.
Cracow University of TechnologyCracow University of Technology
Cracow University of Technology
Cracow University of Technology posted this:
New way of detection Cryptosporidium and Giardia protozoa.Advantages of the technology: - Our method is sensitive, reproducible, species-specific and inexpensive way to detect Cryptosporidium sp. oocysts ad Giardia intestinalis cysts in various environmental samples. - There is not necessary to use highly specialized and expensive equipment. All the materials for realizing the invention (chemical reagents and equipment etc.) are commercially available. - It is not requirement the use of toxic flammable solvents to ensure the safety of personnel conducting the test. - The use of appropriate materials, allowed to simplify and shorten the work, to improve the reproducibility of detection and reduce the cost of detection procedure. - To achieve sensitive detection method allows subjecting the examination of much smaller volumes of liquid samples in comparison with that provided by the USEPA protocols (United States Environmental Protection Agency).
New sustainable adsorbent for bleaching efficient industrial effluentsMany industries, such as those belonging to the textile, wine, and paper industry, consume huge volumes of water and, as a result, generate a large amount of contaminated water containing persistent colour pollutant compounds. These compounds represent an environmental and health threat due to their well-known associated problems, such as carcinogenicity, toxicity and mutagenicity. Furthermore, they entail a great environmental impact when discharged in aquatic environments, perceptible at very low concentrations, creating an undesirable visual impact, which, in many cases, does not meet the degree of conformity under the current directives on the wastewater treatment for industrial effluents (Directive 91/271 / EEC). The solution proposed by the research group Chemical Engineering at the University of Vigo, is the use as adsorbent of peat, or a similar lignocellulosic material, immobilized in calcium alginate beads. This process is efficient, cheap and environmentally friendly, unlike other processes and technologies. In fact, the utilization of peat instead of activated carbon as industrial adsorbent has the advantage that peat requires no activation, unlike activated carbon, reducing operating costs. In addition, the low cost of the adsorbent would be translated into significant economic benefits. Moreover, depending on the contaminant removed from the waste effluent, the exhausted adsorbent may be used as soil fertilizer at its end of life.
FOP AzarenkovFOP Azarenkov
FOP Azarenkov
FOP Azarenkov posted this:
New Energy Technologies on the Basis of Fundamental ResearchThe system "Pyrolysis oven&camera smokeless universal" is used for disposal, recycling and disinfection of wood, waste processing.
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Alsco/Cheddar’s to sponsor Spring XFINITY race at Bristol
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Ombudsman’s Office Says Youths Not Tortured
Members of the National Preventive Group against Torture under Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman have visited youth activists Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov at Baku Detention Center, the Ombudsman’s Office said.
Opposition NIDA Civic Movement members Giyas Ibrahimov and Bayram Mammadov were arrested on May 10, 2016. Both activists are charged were charged under Articles 234.4.1 (illegal manufacturing, purchase, storage, transportation, transfer or selling of narcotics, psychotropic substances or their precursors – on preliminary arrangement by a group of persons or by an organized group) and 234.4.3 (- in a large amount) of Criminal Code. Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov were ordered detained for 4 months by Khatai District Court’s decision of May 12, 2016.
Youth activist Giyas Ibrahimov had written “Happy Slave Holiday” and “fuck the system” on the late Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev’s statue facing the Central Bank near the 28-May metro station, and Bayram Mammadov had taken a photo of the slogans on the statue. The youths were subjected to torture during interrogation at the police office. The youth activists have written personal statements about the torture and their lawyers have filed complaints with relevant authorities over the fact of torture.
According to the statement of Ombudsman’s Office, members of Ombudsman’s National Preventive Group visited Baku Detention Center of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice without prior notice.
The statement reads that National Preventive Group (NPG) members held one-on-one meetings with Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov, who were held in the said facility. It is said that the above mentioned individuals’ bodies were inspected with the participation of an NPG member who is a doctor. No injury was reportedly found during the inspection.
According to the statement, Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov were satisfied with their detention conditions at Baku Detention Center and were able to freely contact their families by phone and to meet with their lawyer.
The youth activists’ lawyer Elchin Sadigov said that the Ombudsman Office’s statement did not reflect reality. “When I met with Bayram Mammadov at the detention center on May 18, he said that the Ombudsman’s representatives even took photos of his injuries and both youths informed them about the torture they had been subjected to. Although they acknowledged that Bayram Mammadov’s body bore injury marks, they said it had not been caused by torture. Bayram Mammadov objected, saying that the cut and festering wound on his wrist was caused by being pulled by handcuffs, the cuts on his ankles was caused by fetters and the wounds on his body by baton, punches and kicks,” Elchin Sadigov said.
On a side note, Ombudsman’s representatives have never ever confirmed the facts of torture and violence against inmates a single time.
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Details of Easter Rising national conference revealed
NUI Galway summit is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations
Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 21:08
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Crowds outside the GPO in Dublin in the aftermath of the Easter Rising. The details of the national conference on the 1916 Easter Rising have been announced. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
The details of the national conference on the 1916 Easter Rising have been announced.
The conference is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny will open the conference in NUI Galway on Thursday, November 10th. The conference will last until November 12th.
The theme of the conference will be 1916-2016: The Promise and Challenge of National Sovereignty.
Participants will include Prof Roy Foster, the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, the political theorist Prof Philip Pettit and Prof Clair Wills from Princeton University.
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Speaking at the launch of the conference in NUI Galway, Mr Kenny said the event will “facilitate the exchange of views and opinions about the past, and how our understanding of the past can help us shape the future.
“The wide-ranging events around the conference will extend and enlarge the conversation [and] bring in new audiences and perspectives.”
Minister for Arts and Heritage Heather Humphreys said 2016 had been an extraordinary year for the country.
She said the theme of the conference will be “to look to the future and explore ways in which we can build on the positive experiences of our centenary year”.
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In addition to the conference itself, there will be a fringe programme of talks, exhibitions and performances.
Broadcaster Hector Ó hEochagáin will convene a special sitting of the 2116 parliament, where 10 guest speakers will each deliver a five-minute motion, after which questions will be taken from the floor.
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St Louis protests after police shooting
Two arrested as mayor says shooting of teenager cannot be compared to Ferguson
Thu, Dec 25, 2014, 12:59 Updated: Thu, Dec 25, 2014, 13:08
Courtney Palmer, cousin of Antonio Martin, an armed man fatally shot by police late on Tuesday, kneels with her family in front of a memorial at the site of the shooting in Berkeley, Missouri. Photograph: Kate Munsch/Reuters
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Protesters confront police at an intersection after a man was fatally shot by a policeman in Berkeley, Missouri, December 24, 2014. Photograph: Aaron P Bernstein/Reuters
Protests flared into early Thursday in the St Louis suburb where a white policeman fatally shot a black man who allegedly brandished a gun at a gas station on Tuesday night.
A group of protesters marched onto Interstate 170 in the city of Berkeley, Missouri blocking traffic for roughly 45 minutes. The demonstration followed a vigil at the Mobil On The Run gas station where the shooting occurred.
The site was just a few miles from the Ferguson street where a white police officer shot dead 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, fueling weeks of protest in the region and across the country.
Demonstrations that drew as many as 150 people were largely peaceful throughout the night, but at one point officers disrupted an attempt by several people to break into a beauty supply shop.
At least two people were taken into police custody. Authorities were unable to provide further details.
Black public officials in Missouri were at pains on Wednesday to distinguish the death of the suspect, whom they noted was holding a gun, from cases of unarmed black men who had been killed by police officers. The latter incidents have led to protests across the United States and bitter debate about how US police forces treat non-white citizens.
“This is not a policeman in the city of Berkeley going out half-cocked,” Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins said the shooting could not be compared with what happened in Ferguson.
Shortly after the shooting on Tuesday night, a crowd of up to 300 people gathered at the scene, where bricks and three fireworks were thrown, two of them at the roughly 50 officers at the scene, St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said.
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Two officers were injured and four people were arrested for assault, Belmar said.
The shooting occurred three days after a man summarily shot dead two officers in their patrol car in New York City, targeting them only because of the uniform they were wearing.
The Berkeley encounter unfolded after the officer, a six-year veteran of the town’s police department who was responding to a report of a theft, got out of his car to talk to two men at the gasoline station.
One of them pointed a loaded 9mm handgun at the officer, Chief Belmar said. Police released an indistinct, distant surveillance video from the gas station, edited to end just before the shooting.
In the corner of the frame, one of the people at the station can be seen raising one or both arms in what might be a shooter’s stance near the police car, although the footage is too dark and grainy to establish that the person is holding a gun.
Two other videos released later by St Louis County Police were similarly ambiguous, recorded by security cameras that appear to have only restricted views of the scene.
The officer fired three shots, Chief Belmar said, a sequence captured on one of the three videos. One bullet struck the man with the gun, whom paramedics declared dead at the scene, he said.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper named him as 18-year-old Antonio Martin.
Police said they found a handgun with a defaced serial number at the scene.
The officer, who was not identified and was put on administrative leave, had been given a body camera in a pilot program but was not wearing it at the time of the shooting. The dashboard camera on the officer’s car was also switched off.
Protests in Ferguson have taken place for months and spilled over into violence when a grand jury decided a month ago not to charge the police officer who shot Brown.
Demonstrations in cities across the country gained in momentum when a New York grand jury decided not to indict a police officer over the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man who died in July when police tackled him and put him in a choke hold.
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Is Your Mobile Device Lost, Locked or Damaged?
Forensic investigators should routinely determine if backup files exist during their initial case assessment. A backup file is a like a snapshot of the devices memory in time. It is an excellent alternative to a lost or locked device or when other forensic procedures cannot recover the data. A backup may be found in the cloud or may be stored on a computer or mobile device. It would require the user’s credentials or a forensic acquisition of the device it was stored in. Attempts to restore a backup without the proper training could result in the contamination and permanent loss of data. A backup file is also a good alternative when faced with a locked device with an unknown pass code. However, advances in technology allow examiners to overcome more locked devices than ever before. Because of the rapid pace of technology, the forensic community lags behind. New tools are created regularly so reviewing the latest forensic capabilities periodically is recommended. Damaged devices can often be accessed after making only minor repairs, more often than not. For example, the simple and inexpensive process of replacing a broken screen may be the only thing preventing the examiner from accessing the device. Water damage can also be easily mitigated, but requires the investigator to follow a recently updated standard procedure. Depending on the device and the current state of the devices power certain actions should be taken. See the iPhone Collection Flowchart and the Android Collection Flowchart.
Jim2019-06-11T11:15:48-04:00June 11th, 2019|Categories: Cell Phone Forensics, Computer Forensics, Digital Evidence Forensics, Investigations|Tags: Android, Backup Files, Case Assessment, Cell Phone Forensics, damaged device, digital evidence, Digital Evidence Case Assessment Method, digital forensics, Digital Innocence, evidence, forensic investigator, Forensic Tools, iPhone, Locked Device|Comments Off on Is Your Mobile Device Lost, Locked or Damaged?
ICYMI: CT Man Jailed for 17 Years, Exonerated Thanks to Digital Evidence
A New Haven, CT man who served 17 years in prison for murder and robbery was freed back on April 25, 2018 after he was exonerated by cellphone records. Read Article The digital evidence is out there to save more lives, but defense teams may not be as educated as the prosecution, who have access to state labs, as to what to look for, where to look for, and how to obtain all the necessary digital evidence needed to prevent or exonerate wrongful convictions. For further information see: Digital Evidence Case Assessment Method Digital Evidence Innocence Initiative
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What Every Attorney and Investigator Needs to Know About GPS Location Data
Modern mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and portable navigation devices can contain a history of a user’s location for many months and sometimes many years depending on the device characteristics. The location data stored in the device memory can originate from many sources with the most common being Global Positioning System (GPS) information. The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses satellites orbiting the earth to determine the location of a GPS enabled device. GPS is more accurate than other sources of location data, and this data can be plotted on a map including date and time. The GPS data could reside in many different types of data. The GPS location information could be contained in the metadata of a photo or video, from the use of an installed third-party application, and from web browsing or a mapping program. So if you have access to the device it’s easy to forensically image and triage it to look for location data, user settings, installed applications and metadata fields. For more information IRIS LLC Toolbox-Location Data
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NEW!!! Digital Evidence Case Assessment Method (DECAM) White Paper
FROM COLLECTION TO THE COURTROOM: DIGITAL EVIDENCE A NEW Standardized Method for Investigators and Attorneys IRIS LLC is proud to announce the creation of the first standardized Digital Evidence Case Assessment Method (DECAM) for indigent defense organizations. Developed for the defense community to reduce pre-trial incarceration and prevent future wrongful convictions in cases involving digital evidence. Click here to read the New DECAM White Paper
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Updated Standards and Best Practice Guides in IRIS Digital Evidence Toolbox
When digital evidence is encountered during an investigation, many questions arise: What is the best method to preserve the evidence? How should the evidence be handled? How should valuable or potentially relevant data contained be preserved? The key to answering these questions begins with a firm understanding of the characteristics of digital evidence. Updated standards can be found in our Digital Evidence Toolbox at https://www.irisinvestigations.com/iris-digital-evidence-toolbox/
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Hackers sought a $23,000 ransom after freezing a N.C. county’s website. They’re not getting it.
A county employee in North Carolina on Monday opened their inbox and clicked on a phishing email, inadvertently pulling up an attachment containing spyware and appearing to expose the county's computer system to hackers overseas. The hackers, believed to be operating from Iran or Ukraine, asked the county for $23,000 to unfreeze the system, Mecklenburg County officials said. They gave the county an email address and instructions on how to pay the ransom. They also gave the county a deadline — 1 p.m. Wednesday. READ THE FULL CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLE HERE>
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Best Practices for Searching Social Media for Evidence
Researching the online publicly available presence of potential parties, witnesses, the scene, even your own client should be a routine practice. It should follow the best practices, begin as soon as possible, be fully documented and be regularly monitored. Read the full article here>
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FBI rebuts reports that county reset San Bernardino shooter’s iCloud password without consent
The FBI on Saturday rebutted media reports that San Bernardino County technicians acted without the agency's consent when they reset the password for the Apple iCloud account belonging to one of the shooters involved in the Dec. 2 terror attack at a county facility that killed 14 people. Read the full LA Times Article here>
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Congress to Consider Encryption after Apple Refuses to Build ‘Backdoor’
Reversing course, a key congressman said lawmakers will need to step into the debate over encryption vs. privacy after Apple said it would oppose a court order demanding it help the FBI hack a spree killer's cell phone. Read the full article here>
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Apple Rejects Court Order for ‘Master Key’ into San Bernardino Shooter
Apple will fight a federal judge’s order to help crack the locked cell phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the CEO said in a letter to customers Wednesday. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE>
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ISG in the hunt for five Construction News Awards
ISG is in with a great chance at the Construction News Awards having been shortlisted in a fantastic five categories, news that represents outstanding recognition for our people and ground-breaking projects.
Now in their 23rd year, the prestigious awards recognise the best of the construction industry, and demonstrate the passion those in the sector have for what they do.
ISG has been nominated in the following award categories:
• Contractor of the Year (turnover over £500m)
• Supply Chain Excellence – The BBC Headquarters project at Central Square, Cardiff
• Project of the Year, up to £20m – Corn Exchange, Manchester
• Project of the Year, £20m-£50m – The Temperate House, Kew
• Health and Safety Excellence – The Temperate House, Kew
In the running for the Contractor of the Year (turnover over £500m) accolade, ISG is set to report its best-ever financial performance for 2018, which has been driven by a focus on driving operational efficiency throughout the business, delivery excellence, delighting clients and a determination to offer an unbeatable employment experience for its 2,800-strong global team.
ISG’s BBC Headquarters project at Central Square, Cardiff, for client, Rightacres, is shortlisted for the Supply Chain Excellence award, a category which recognises outstanding performance by a supply chain where all partners have worked together and improved performance.
We have transformed the way we work with our supply chain in the past year, and an increased focus on early engagement, collaboration and consistency has driven fantastic results across ISG projects.
Nowhere is this strategy more prevalent than the delivery of the BBC Headquarters in Cardiff, which saw a highly technical and challenging building delivered on time, within budget and to the highest standards. ISG engaged suppliers early, fostering a collaborative environment based around a strong team ethic, and also worked closely with consultants at the tender stage to meet the project’s sustainability needs.
Our Corn Exchange project involved a complex £13 million refurbishment to the Grade-II listed, bomb-damaged Corn Exchange building, which sits in one of the busiest areas of Manchester.
The scheme, a project for developer, Queensbury, presented ISG with significant challenges, including extensive remedial works and structural alterations, as well as heritage work to the windows and features, and refurbishment of three architecturally-listed stair cores, in order to restore the building to its former glory. The team also delivered a full hotel fit out, and the revamped 114-room Roomzzz aparthotel now boasts a gym, lounge and breakfast area, and several management suites.
Our historic transformation of world’s largest surviving Victorian glasshouse, The Temperate House at Kew Gardens, is nominated twice in the Project of the Year, £20m-£50m, and Health and Safety Excellence categories.
The jewel in the Kew Gardens crown reopened to the public in May 2018 after an extensive £41 million, five-year restoration. Temperate House reopened amid rapturous fanfare, with global media showcasing the historic project and legendary broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, describing the revamped glasshouse as “a breathtakingly beautiful space”.
The project provided significant challenges, magnified further by the fact that the glasshouse sits within the Royal Botanic Gardens, a major global tourist attraction which attracts 1.8 million people every year, and which remained open to the public throughout the works. The team safely managed over one million man-hours without any reportable accidents and incidents during the movement of over 3,000 deliveries – a major success for the team and project.
ISG will now present to a panel of judges, who will decide which entries walk away with a trophy on 11 July 2019 at Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
To take a look at the full shortlist, click here.
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Microsoft files patent for possible taskbar replacement
“A method for managing windows in a display” would sound particularly familiar to every Windows user as “that strip at the bottom of the screen with the Start button and clock” or perhaps the more formal name, the taskbar. On July 12 the Patent Office processed a patent application from Microsoft filed on the 9th of February, 2006 of what appears to be a possible alternative for the decade-old taskbar we all know and cherish in Windows.
The taskbars styles of the last two Windows release. (Composited) images credit: Wikipedia user BWCNY
Time and time again, Windows enthusiasts have jumped on the idea of replacing the taskbar in the ‘next’ version of Windows as one of the most revolutionary user interface changes Microsoft can make. For Windows Vista (Longhorn), the center of attention was the sidebar before undergoing major feature-reduction surgery in 2005 – a lot of people fantasized about how the sidebar could become the taskbar replacement, however that soon worn-off.
This time around a bunch of Microsoft Researchers have come up with a way to manage multi-tasking windows by the use of what they call a “clipping list”. The inventors, Tara Matthews, George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski and Desney Tan are all except Tara, part of the infamous MSR VIBE (Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment) project aimed at enhancing information presentation and work efficiency. Ironically, they can’t seem to do the same for the website – it’s renders horribly in Firefox.
Their proposed solution, one of many I’d imagine, detailed in over 30 or so odd pages can be summarized as thumbnails with an icon – “A clipping comprises an image of a region of a window and an icon.” To picture what that might look like, imagine each of your minimized application buttons represented by a ’tile’ and an overlaid icon with text. These tiles would then be stacked vertically on the side of the screen looking somewhat a sidebar. The following diagrams were provided.
Fig 1: A representation of the current taskbar model whereby windows are represented by icons docked at the bottom of the screen. Each window has its own icon.
A task bar containing icons is a way to manage windows for a plurality of tasks by representing the windows with images smaller than the windows. A more effective way to manage windows is to use “clippings.” A clipping comprises an image and an icon. The image in a clipping is a region of a window with which the clipping is associated. The icon represents the application with which the window is associated. Clippings “distill” the information contained in a window to make it easier for users to quickly understand the status of the window and the task for which the window was created.
Fig 2B: The “Presentations” window becomes clipped and thus displayed outside the focal region and inside the peripheral region. Windows can be clipped by either dragging or pressing the “minimize” button. This clipping has an icon and title.
Fig 4: Clippings however are not just thumbnails. Whilst the default clipping is a thumbnail of the top-left corner of the actual window, certain application can also render dynamic and optimized content for the clipping. In this case, a presentation application can render an outline or display the progress of changing content.
Fig 8: To organize clippings, you would also be able to categorize certain applications and their associate clippings under user-defined categories such as “Presentation” or “Conference”. This is along with the ability to reorganize taskbar buttons are probably two of the most demanded requests for taskbar improvements, which they’ve obviously addressed.
Fig 10A: Last but not least, like today, clippings will flash like mad to grab out attention when something’s happened or your friends on instant messenger have a life or death situation they need to share with you with the use of dancing emoticons.
Obviously this is very preliminary information on how this solution works but I like what I’m seeing. For the same reasons why in Windows Vista, the window thumbnails are popular and well received, people prefer visual representation than text – most of the time its easier to identify. However at the same time I can also raise several usability issues which they do not address. I know some (crazy) people who can have up to 30 windows open at one time, how will the ‘clipping list’ expand? I hope they have a solution to that somewhere in the MSR vault because this is certainly worth following up on.
Even though this is still very much research and experimentation, there is at least one thing I like about Sinofsky and that is he can take and persist bold risks like the new user interface in Office 2007. I bet his proposed changes sent shivers down the spines of countless executives and stakeholders, but he still took a bet with it. Whether or not he’ll take a bet with Windows we will know in a few year’s time.
Michael Ciarlo says:
http://www.aeroxp.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9266
I’m glad to see that these ideas were presented before Microsoft filed this patent application. As you stated, there are a few usability issues that come into play when trying to manage 30 or more open application windows, but that is something that I’ve just finshed =).
I should add that the link I presented earlier does not contain any images of Cairo’s taskbar using a method similar to Microsoft’s new patent, but the topic is discussed and has been created in a dozen unreleased concepts for the project.
The aim of Cairo will be to revolutionize the desktop experience and provide users a brand new way of interacting with their computers. I’m glad to see that my thinking parallels Microsoft, but I guess that means I’m not thinking far enough outside the box =).
Steve Sinchak says:
I don’t think this is a taskbar replacement, rather a way of grouping a set of Windows related to the same task on the desktop.
please no thumbnails. those things are way too small to allow a quick identification. when i have several tasks open that look quite similiar, the thumbnail view in the taskbar (or alt+tab) are totally useless to me. only the text/description then helps.
I didn’t see, how this could improve usability. Thumbnails aren’t that good to represent a window. The taskbar is one of the best interface designs ever created. It’s small, it’s on the longer border (widescreen displays!), the buttons are at the border and are very big (Fitt’s Law) compared to this concept and now with Vista it has the best presentation of information: 1. the small icons gives you a hint what application it is (orange for example is Firefox, yellow Outlook, blue Word…), 2. the title says what document it is and 3. the thumbnail can give you more information. It’s a perfect information pyramid.
This research concept looks a lot like the Dock bar in OS X and has some of the prominent disadvantages of the Dock. The beauty of the current taskbar is, that with the start menu it represents the whole operating system in such a small space. And you can always reach a task because there is always a representation of all things that are started (different to the Dock bar and the concept here).
My suggestion would be to let one reorganize the taskbar buttons and for grouping some tasks, just use virtual desktops. They could be managed with tabs on the left side (like a small sidebar) where you can drag & drop windows to different desktops.
Alex Khristov says:
Don’t judge until you see the whole operating system. For those of you who oppose thumbnails, look at Vista’s task bar. Thumbnails and buttons. The new way wouldn’t be as hard to get used to as you guys think.
DRMFiltered says:
URGH!
Gem & MSDOS here we come!
Armand du Plessis says:
Sounds very similar to Apple’s Dock. Minimized applications are already displayed as thumbnails and if you move the dock to the side you get a similar effect as to what is mentioned in the article.
I believe the new drawer functionality in Leopard improves further on this.
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Toph says:
The taskbar image looks like two XPs and a Vista to me. 🙂
Anyway, sounds interesting. The taskbar works all right the way it is for me. But I’ll reserve judgement until this actually materializes (or doesn’t).
Thanks Long! Nice read. This kind of article is why I’m looking forward to each of your posts!
To everyone, they’re not really thumbnails. Whilst thumbnails is an option, their idea also encompasses lists and outlines in the ‘clippings’.
I was just making a point, I wasn’t saying that those were thumbnails.
Not you Alex.
Interesting find, I wonder if Microsoft is up to finally breaking away from the current Windows GUI and setting up for something totally new and revolutionary… time will tell but I doubt it, It’s too difficult for MS to change the Windows GUI dramatically but you never know.
Paralel says:
I think it’s just too bad that MS missed out on the “Dock” concept that Apple implemented with OS X, I think it is one of the best setups I have seen for launching frequently used applications.
If they combined this “sidebar” concept for open windows with a “Dock”-like concept they probably would have something people would want.
[Note: I am not a mac user, in fact I don’t like the majority of Apple’s products very much at all, I just think the Dock concept was really one of their best ideas]
I dont think that its too difficult for MS to change their GUI dramatically. Its more a question if the mass market is ready for such a change. I highly doubt that. Thats why we will see only minor changes.
@Toph, you’re right. The bottom one is XP with Classic styling. Post edited.
Kevin Ruston says:
Hmm: looks exactly like what happens on in Mac OSX when you hit the f9 key…? It will probably take MS abother 5 years to do this so don’t hold any breath – S plays a catch-up game with the Mac every time – Win 3x; Win 98, WinXP and now Vista. If they could speed up the catch-up cycle they might be offering something useful in the timeframe people actually want and expect it. So in 2011 Windows Mobile will finally have some iphone-like usablity 😉
sorry to mention but most of the features in mac osx were first shown in the longhonrn demos. its not apple that invents all stuff, they just impelemented the ideas quicker. its also easier for them cause they had more regular updates (which cost btw).
this should change with the new product life cycle ms wants to follow. every 2-3 years a new os.
Brandon Live says:
Paralel –
What advantage do you believe the Dock has over the Taskbar plus Quick Launch? Cute “genie effect” aside, I don’t think there is one.
The Dock is a horrible mess, clearly putting form above function. The Windows setup of quick launch + taskbar makes far more sense, seperating the launcher from “running tasks” and providing a more consistent experience and a simple view of what’s currently running.
The F9 key is Expose, right? This looks absolutely nothing like that. Expose is much more comparable to Alt+Tab, Flip3D, etc.
Marco that’s what I meant, of course technically speaking MS is able to do whatever they want with their OS, they have more than enough programmers and programming experience to do such a change, it’s what the market expects from MS and the backward compatibility and training of thousands of people these companies will have to go through that will hold Microsoft up from doing it IMHO; sorry I didn’t make my point clear.
ah sorry Ely – i totally agree with you 🙂 now i understood
@Paralel: The Dock bar is less usable than the taskbar IMO. Even Apple’s (ex-) designers think so. The biggest problem is, that it is a dock, so that windows aren’t reachable over the Dock, when they are opened. Think of a large window in front of a smaller one. You can’t reach the smaller one in the background. Thats why they have introduced Exposé.
BTW the Dock was introduces by Steve Job’s NeXT and moved over with him to the Mac. Maybe that’s why I think it doesn’t fit into the Lisa interface and feels like a third party plugin that get’s new features on top in every new version.
n4cer says:
This paper from the VIBE page provides more info:
Matthews, T., Czerwinski, M., Robertson, G. & Tan, D. (2006). Clipping lists and change borders: Improving multitasking efficiency with peripheral information design. To appear in Proceedings of ACM’s CHI 2006.
http://research.microsoft.com/research/vibe/pubs/CHI2006-ClippingLists.pdf
I have to agree with Brandon and the others with the same opinion about the Dock; not to bash OSX or anything but to me the Dock is dumb and obtrusive, I really fail to see the advantages of it, The taskbar and quick launch are a lot more useful, I would hate it if Windows would ever go that route.
maybe we’ll see a silverlight gui?
Aden Frost says:
Could this be a progression of the GroupBar concept.
http://techscreen.blogspot.com/2007/07/clippings-to-replace-taskbar-in-windows.html
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Looks great for me at least but Vista over all 🙂
This works like Windows 3.1
Brian Shapiro says:
Even if the taskbar buttons were just multi-line to fully show for instance the application name and the open document name it might be useful. And it might be useful to look at this clipping list in the way of something like collapsing applications into compact versions in a way to resemble some of the purposes of the sidebar, like collapsing media player into a sidebar application, or an IM program.
However if its a replacement for the taskbar, it also takes away the essential usability benefit of how windows does window management in allowing you to have many windows open and view ones that are in the background.
Also I would rather the default clipping be just something that looks like a taskbar button with an icon and title, with it being the responsibility of the application to create clipping content. I know using thumbnails everywhere is now the vogue in the Windows team, but it can be horribly overused from an aesthetic perspective.
In fact, it might even work as a combination of a sidebar and a taskbar, if the compact clipping region only showed if a window were minimized, and otherwise it would show up, but looking like a taskbar button. So windows are all shown but only clipped when minimized.
Of course, from a user’s perspective this might also create a little confusion. But the point is that I think Microsoft needs to keep taskbar functions in whatever they do.
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Well, I am training to he a user experience designer, and I really get annoyed at patents like this. Who’s to say the open-source projects I’ve worked on in the past didn’t have concepts that would infringe on this patent when it undoubtedly gets approved? We obviously have prior art, but at that point it’s almost like reverse onus where we have to prove we had it first to get them to stop.
I dislike the way the law is headed in the US, I’m very glad right now and looking into the future, that I’m not there right now.
I’ll tell you all what, I’m starting a blog on sourceforge where we develop user interface concepts and establish a strong prior art by developing the ideas and concepts to patentable detail, and promptly release them into the open-source community under the GPL.
This means anybody and everybody (microsoft included) is free to use them and modify them, sell them whatever they want, but if they use them in something, that entire something must itself assume the same open-source licence, ensuring that the ideas contained within will always be free.
Sad to see that microsoft has little creativity left except to rip off Apple, and now apparently ripping off linux and people who develop these ideas for charity essentially. They went from stealing from a competitor to stealing from a church basically. It doesn’t get much lower than that.
is Vista reliable to use? i mean on web lots of people say it is not good for using at all…
nawaskhan says:
molotov says:
@Brandon Live
“The Windows setup of quick launch + taskbar makes far more sense, seperating the launcher from “running tasks” and providing a more consistent experience and a simple view of what’s currently running.”
If in OS X I have ten dock items and I open all ten of those programs, I still only have ten icons on my bar/dock/screen. In XP, If I have ten icons in the quick launch bar, and open ten programs, I now have ten tabs, plus ten icons (assuming I’m not using the expandable menu and it’s in the default location).
Separating the launch-icons from the programs makes less sense. I can’t stand explorer.exe anyway. I use litestep.
Daniel R. H. says:
To RUSTY:
Remember that most forums and web pages are used for support and shows the people problems and not the good things of Vista, is good that you try trial/demo/unactivated version of vista, if everything works good then buy the license.
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Excellent diagram!
This diagram represent the application with which the window is associated. Clippings “distill” the information contained in a window to make it easier for users to quickly understand the status of the window and the task for which the window was created.
paul lee says:
갑자기 컴퓨터 아래부분 이나오지않습니다.그곳엔 시작버튼과 여러가지 버튼들이 있는태스크 바가 있는데 보이지 않으니 쓸수가 없습니다.
Jayzon says:
I’ve dreaming of something like that before since Windows 98. Good for developers who used to open a lot of apps for their development process..
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Venture Kamloops executive director Jim Anderson holds a copy of the new promotional video.
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An entrepreneur hired to create a promotional video for the city decided that the $10,000 contract wasn't sufficient to do his subject full justice.
Kamloops - A Story of Champions was premiered at Sagebrush Theatre on Wednesday night with a celebratory flare resembling a feature film release.
"Tonight we're really proud and really excited to give a premiere of the video," said Jim Anderson, executive director of Venture Kamloops, after kidding that it was three hours and 20 minutes long.
Actually, it's only 41/2 minutes long yet succeeds in capturing and projecting the spirit of Kamloops in order to lure business.
The project became a labour of love for producer Peter Cameron-Inglis of Mastermind Studios. He put more of his own money into the production than the contract provided, Anderson said.
Cameron-Inglis said they initially considered using clips from previous promotions of the city before stepping back to rethink the project.
"We wanted to show some views of Kamloops that even locals don't see," he explained. "We wanted to create pride in the city."
Over a 14-month period, Mastermind worked through six different concepts and 17 scripts, tying in 122 different scenes and featuring nine champions who call the city home. From a marketing standpoint, the video makes 140 different selling points in less time than it takes to finish a cup of coffee.
"We have a diverse community of champions," Cameron-Inglis said. "I love how we as a community build new champions every day."
Mayor Peter Milobar said the video will nicely complement the city's earlier promotional video, A Place in the Sun. Champions represent the pinnacle of competition, which is equally important in the business world, he noted.
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4. What Waukesha County residential and business development owes its name to a beer baron?
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6. What golf tournament at North Hills Golf Course in Menomonee Falls draws big names from the sports world every June?
7. What major clothing and department store retailer has its corporate headquarters in Menomonee Falls?
8. Which area community is known as the “Baseball Capital of Waukesha County”?
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13. What village are the writers and directors of the movie “Airplane” from?
14. Which famous Milwaukee brewing company built a resort in Whitefish Bay in the late 1880s?
15. Which North Shore village covers just one square mile?
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20. What South Milwaukee company made shovels used for digging the Panama Canal?
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22. What South Milwaukee trail is said to be haunted?
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26. In establishing its emerging City Center in the 1980s, what mall did New Berlin have in mind as a model for development?
27. What community was originally known as the town of Kinnickinnic?
This 1987 file photo shows Liberace wearing his shiny rings and dress. (Photo: Associated Press)
28. Name the two suburbs that claim Liberace as their own.
29. What suburb was created as an experiment as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation?
30. How many baseball diamonds, skiing/snowboard and tubing runs are at The Rock Sports Complex in Franklin?
31. Three brothers from Pewaukee play in the NFL. Name them.
1. Lapham Peak at Lapham Peak State Park in Delafield claims this distinction, with an elevation of 1,233 feet. The observation tower adds another 45 feet.
The 45-foot observation tower at Lapham Peak sits on the highest point in Waukesha County. (Photo: Chelsey Lewis/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
2. 750,000 gallons. Construction of the city's new water tower was completed in October 2017 to replace the old water tower, nicknamed "Old Rusty," that had the words "Town of Pewaukee" on it. "Old Rusty" was demolished in October 2018. The "town" of Pewaukee hasn't been around since it incorporated as the city in 1999.
3. Oconomowoc. Although there is some debate over where the movie made its official premiere in 1939, one thing seems certain: Oconomowoc was among the first.
4. Pabst Farms in Oconomowoc. The name comes from Frederick Pabst, for whom the Pabst Brewing Co. is named. Pabst bought the first parcel of land at the site when it was just farmland.
5. David Koepp.
6. The Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Lombardi Golf Classic, which started in 1971. It raises money for cancer research. Participants this year included former Packers Frank Winters, Lynn Dickey, Ryan Longwell and Josh Bidwell, as well as Brewers great Gorman Thomas and Olympic speedskaters Dan Jansen and Bonnie Blair.
7. Kohl’s, which opened its corporate office in the Silver Spring Corporate Park in 1996.
8. Lannon. The community has participated in the Land O'Lakes League since it started in 1922, according to the village website. Lannon won four straight Land O'Lakes grand championships, the first team to accomplish the feat, and has won more league grand championships than any other team. Lannon's Joecks Field was the site of ESPN's first live broadcast Sept. 7, 1979 — Game 1 of the American Professional Slowpitch Softball League World Series, a best-of-nine series between the Milwaukee Schlitz and Kentucky Bourbons.
9. The foundation restored an old Chicago & Northwestern Railroad caboose that stands on the east side of the Historic George L. Clarke House, 12810 W. Hampton Ave. The house is open for tours from 1 to 4 p.m. the second Sunday in May through October, with the exception of Fathers Day. Admission is free, although donations are accepted. Tours of the caboose are available by appointment and on random Sundays. Check the Historic Clarke House Facebook page for tour dates.
10. Whitefish Bay.
11. Paramount Records, which was founded in Port Washington in 1917. The record label was a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Co. and produced its records in Grafton. From 1917-32, the label was a premier producer of African-American artists who shaped the blues, jazz and rock era. Artists included Ma Rainey, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, King Oliver, Ida Cox, Blind Blake and others. Paramount Records closed in 1932; the Wisconsin Chair Co. closed a year later.
12. Mequon.
13. Shorewood. The writers and directors are brothers David and Jerry Zucker, along with Jim Abrahams. The trio grew up together in Shorewood, and directed comedic TV series together, such as "Police Squad!" "Top Secret!" "Ruthless" and the "Naked Gun" series.
14. Pabst Brewery built the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort, which lasted until its demolition in 1915. The site of the former resort is now occupied by the Herman Uihlein house, which was under construction from 1917-19. The building at 5270 N. Lake Drive is now owned by REV Group CEO Tim Sullivan, who bought the property in 2007.
15. Thiensville. The village is the third-smallest incorporated community in the Milwaukee metro area (the United States Census Bureau considers that to consist of the communities in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties). The village of Newburg in Ozaukee County is slightly smaller, at 0.90 square miles. The village of Butler in Waukesha County is the smallest, covering just 0.79 square miles.
16. Wauwatosa. It was originally called “Wauwautosa,” but an error by the then Wisconsin Territorial Legislature omitted the "u” in the second syllable, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. The meaning of the Indian word is a mystery, but the historical society's website said it may be a combination of two similar pronunciations of words stemming from the Menominee and Potawatomi meaning “firefly” and “the lost brave.”
17. Joe Thomas.
Cleveland Browns tackle Joe Thomas walks on the field during an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in Cleveland. (Photo: David Richard, Associated Press)
18. Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha is the final resting place of Les Paul, also known as the "Wizard of Waukesha." The inventor and musician was buried there Aug. 21, 2009, after dying eight days earlier in White Plains, N.Y. Paul was the inventor of the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording techniques.
Les Paul is in his natural setting - with guitar - in this photo, taken between 1940 and 1950 for Capital Records. (Photo: Courtesy Les Paul Foundation)
19. The Meidenbauer Log Cabin. German immigrant John Konrad Meidenbauer arrived in New Berlin in July 1848 and purchased 84 acres, including a two-story log house on Lawnsdale Road. It was constructed of hand-hewn oak logs and had a stone cellar that stored fruits and vegetables. The outside of the building is available for the public to see any time at Historical Park, 19885 W National Ave. Tours of the building are given by the New Berlin Historical Society only during scheduled open houses or by special arrangement.
20. Bucyrus International Inc. supplied 77 shovels between 1904 and 1908 for the canal’s construction. The company was bought by Caterpillar in 2011.
21. Waukesha. It was known in the late 1800s for its spring water supply. More than 50 springs were located in the city, with others scattered around Waukesha County. Tourists flocked to the area, responding to claims of miraculous cures for a variety of maladies, including kidney disease, constipation and more. The craze started in 1868 when Richard Dunbar claimed he was cured of diabetes after drinking 12 glasses of water from an unnamed spring east of the Fox River. He moved his family to Waukesha and bought the property with that spring, naming it Bethesda.
22. The Seven Bridges Trail in Grant Park. According to Anna Lardinois, author of "Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends, and who runs ghost tours through her company, Gothic Milwaukee, people have claimed to see the spirit of a woman in white wandering the trail, crying and looking for her children, who died in Lake Michigan.
23. Carroll University, which changed its name from Carroll College in 2009. It is located in Waukesha, and was founded on Jan. 31, 1846. Beloit College was established just two days later on Feb. 2, 1846. Nashotah House, a theological seminary in Nashotah, was founded in 1842. There's some contention over which is the older "institution of higher learning," depending on how you define it.
24. Oak Creek. The store held its grand opening in May 2018.
People line up to get in before the grand opening of the IKEA store in Oak Creek in May 2018. (Photo: Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
25. Muskego was home to Muskego Beach Amusement Park from 1861-1967, later known as DandiLion Park from 1968-77.
26. Bayshore. Originally known as Bayshore Town Center, the redevelopment of the mall into a mixed use town center was completed in 2006. The property was originally built as an outdoor mall in 1954 and made into an enclosed mall in the mid-1970s.
27. Greenfield. The city changed its name to Greenfield from the town of Kinnickinnic in 1841. "Greenfield" comes from the name of the post office of the area, and the name of the post office was chosen by the postmaster at that time, Olney Harrington. Speculation is that "Greenfield" won the day because it was easier to say and spell than "Kinnickinnic."
28. West Allis and West Milwaukee. Liberace was born in West Allis but grew up in West Milwaukee.
29. Greendale. The federal government built a couple planned communities that would offer a urban-rural lifestyle to working class families. The Greendale Historical Society recently bought and plans to turn one of those "Original" homes into a museum of sorts.
30. Six baseball diamonds, four adult and two Little League, and nine skiing/snowboarding runs ranging from easy to black diamond. The complex also includes three terrain parks — small, medium, large — along with a 20-lane tubing park in the Snow Park area of The Rock.
31. J.J. Watt (defensive end, Houston Texans), Derek Watt (fullback, Los Angeles Chargers) and T.J. Watt (linebacker, Pittsburgh Steelers)
28-31 correct: Congratulations! You’re a master of minutiae — at least when it comes to the local ‘burbs. Try not to lord it over your family and friends too much. In fact, you might consider a hobby; you seem to know an awful lot about a little.
25-27 correct: Call yourself a suburban smartypants. You’ve got a good handle on where you live.
22-24 correct: Consider yourself an average Joe. Pour yourself a cold one and toast yourself.
18-21 correct: We might consider you a suburban shut-in. Do you get out enough? You might want to brush up on life in the 'burbs with a visit to a local park or museum. Or stop by the average Joe’s house and tip a few with him while he regales you with tales of his knowledge.
17 or fewer correct: You might be living under a suburban rock (possibly Lannon stone. Which gets its name from William Lannon, an early settler in the area back in the 1800s for whom the village of Lannon is named. The popular building stone is quarried in the area. ).
Contact Alec Johnson at (262) 875-9469 or alec.johnson@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @AlecJohnson12.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's best suburban photos from August
The resident therapy dog Winnie, a Sheepadoodle, gives a smooch to Brunno, a nine-week-old Bracco Italiano owned by the Burden family of Menomonee Falls, during the Dog Days of Summer event at The Gables of Germantown Senior Community on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The free event featured local trainers, groomers, veterinarians and plenty of four-legged companions. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Martin Luther linebacker Fred Guydon (21) intercepts a pass and returns it for a touchdown during the game at Greenfield on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Mackenzie Herro of Oconomowoc poses for a photo in a patch of 500,000 sunflowers at a farm in the town of Merton on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. Colin Boyle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jaylyn Estinable, 6, of West Allis eats a cream puff Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, at the Wisconsin State Fair. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Haydn Blank of Lisbon creates a giant bubble during the National Night Out celebration in Sussex on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. National Night Out is an annual campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and camaraderie to make neighborhoods safer places to live. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Marquette quarterback Matt McDevitt gets hit by Muskego defensive lineman Jared Beilfuss during the third quarter. Colin Boyle / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Four-year-old Raegan McCullum (left) of Port Washington and Liza Weide, 7, of Whitefish Bay, enjoy a sudden downpour at the Ozaukee County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Chris Gorecki of Oconomowoc stays "oiled up" during Oconomowoc's 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" premiere on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Lainie Stephens, 3, of Germantown and Parker Danz, 1, of Sun Prairie, enjoy the 15th annual Pewaukee Antique & Classic Boat Show on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, at Lakefront Park. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Penelope the alpaca and friend Mona Lisa are 14-month-old alpacas from London Dairy Alpacas Ranch. They traveled from Two Rivers with their human (and owner) Kevin Stoer to the Compeer Financial Discovery Barnyard at State Fair Park. Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Muskego linebacker Anthony Tomczak gets his hand on a pass against Arrowhead on August 30, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Muskego defensive back Tyler Arthur delivers a hit to Arrowhead wide receiver Brayden Arnett on August 30, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Sussex Hamilton players react after scoring a point during a match at the 2019 Joust tournament Aug. 31, 2019, at Homestead High School. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Tatum Kebisek, left, and Morgan Daugherty team up for a block during a match at the 2019 Joust tournament at Homestead High School. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Cedarburg senior Kiara Reinhardt hits a spike over the net against Burlington during the 2019 Joust tournament at Homestead High School. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Members of the Burlington volleyball team celebrate after winning a match at the 2019 Joust tournament at Homestead High School. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Cedarburg players gather together after scoring a point during a match at The Joust. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Catholic Memorial Obacoso Allen tries to shed Brookfield Central defensive back Ryan Johnson in a high school football game Friday, August 30, 2019, at Carroll University. Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Brookfield Central wide receiver Kaleb Vraney makes a catch while defended by Catholic Memorial's Alex Oeschsner in a high school football game Friday, August 30, 2019, at Carroll University. Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Catholic Memorial wide receiver Joe Sikma streaks down the sideline on his way to a touchdown against Brookfield Central in the third quarter of a high school football game Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, at Carroll University. Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jordy, a Border Collie owned by Kate Nelson of Milwaukee, tries to cool off in a drinking bowl after competing on the lure course at the Bark ‘N Brew event in Wauwatosa's Hart Park on Saturday, August 24, 2019. The annual two-day event for dog owners and beer enthusiasts features demonstrations, competitions, vendors, food, drink and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Four-year-old Emma Greene of Okauchee tumbles down an inflatable slide during Community Day at Okauchee Lions Park on Saturday, August 24, 2019. The event, hosted by the Okauchee Lions Club, featured children's activities, live music, games, food and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Four-year-old Trinity Schroeder of Oconomowoc works on a coloring project during Community Day at Okauchee Lions Park on Saturday, August 24, 2019. The event, hosted by the Okauchee Lions Club, featured children’s activities, live music, games, food and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Kettle Moraine head coach Matt McDonnell celebrates after his defense recovers a fumble against Waukesha West on Aug. 23, 2019 Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Waukesha West defensive back CJ Grisar celebrates after the Wolverines secure a win over Kettle Moraine on August 23, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Kettle Moraine defensive back Nicholas Randgaard (3) tracks down a fumble as teammate Lukas Spencer looks on against Waukesha West on August 23, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Mukwonago running back Ryan Genrich is tackled by Waukesha North safety Chimere Dike on August 23, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Waukesha North senior Chimere Dike rips through a banner as he leads his team on the field prior to their season opener against Mukwonago on August 23, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Waukesha North honors former teammate Kai Lermer on its helmets. Lermer died in April. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Germantown quarterback Ethan Sawyer (2) gets tackled for a loss by Menomonee Falls linemen Brett Boram (2), Deland Smith (25) and Reis Jesko (57) during the season opener at Germantown on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Martin Luther defensive back Jacob Hartlaub, left, wraps up Greenfield running back Matt Fischer during the game at Greenfield on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Greenfield wide receiver Chris Lopez (7) struggles for extra yardage during the game at home against Martin Luther on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Greenfield defensive lineman Jalonnie Williams (93) blocks a punt by Martin Luther's Jacob Hartlaub (10) and returns it for a touchdown during the game at Greenfield on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Muskego runs out on the field before facing Marquette on Thursday, Aug. 22. Colin Boyle / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Muskego defensive back Joseph Wachowiak breaks up a pass during the fourth quarter in the Week 1 game on Thursday, Aug. 22. Colin Boyle / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sienna Burden, 11, of Menomonee Falls holds Brunno, her nine-week-old Bracco Italiano, during the Dog Days of Summer event at The Gables of Germantown Senior Community on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The free event featured local trainers, groomers, veterinarians and plenty of four-legged companions. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Annette Trenkle of The Elegant Pet in Germantown, grooms a Shih Tzu rescue named Holly, during the Dog Days of Summer event at The Gables of Germantown Senior Community on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The free event featured local trainers, groomers, veterinarians and plenty of four-legged companions. Scott Ash/Now News Group
The resident therapy dog Winnie, a Sheepadoodle, greets visitors during the Dog Days of Summer event at The Gables of Germantown Senior Community on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The free event featured local trainers, groomers, veterinarians and plenty of four-legged companions. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Juggler Dan Kirk entertains youngsters with his giant bubble machine during the Summer Carnival at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Whitefish Bay on Tuesday, August 20, 2019. The event features live entertainment, carnival rides, games, food and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
JCC Chief Marketing Officer Chad Tessmer spends time in the dunk tank during the Summer Carnival at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Whitefish Bay on Tuesday, August 20, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old Anna Moir of Whitefish Bay checks out her new face painting during the Summer Carnival at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Whitefish Bay on Tuesday, August 20, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Volunteer Katie Smith of Kohls Cares gives a belly rub to an adoptable dog from the Humane Animal Welfare Society (HAWS) during the 12th annual HAWS Pet Fair in Menomonee Falls on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
A woman poses for a photo in a field of an estimated 500,000 sunflowers on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, next to Stone Bank Elementary School in the town of Merton. The sunflowers were planted in the middle of June. Because of the need to rotate crops, the sunflowers are grown at that specific field near the school only every six or seven years. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A field of an estimated 500,000 sunflowers are next to Stone Bank Elementary School in the town of Merton. The sunflowers were planted in the middle of June. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Artist Les Leffingwell of New Berlin takes part in the Plein Air painting competition during the 15th annual Pewaukee Antique & Classic Boat Show on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, at Lakefront Park. The event, hosted by the Glacier Lakes Chapter, ACBS, features antique and classic boats, classic cars, 1900s big wheel bikes, live music, food and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Sara Lee of Menomonee Falls carries Fluffles, her Apple Head Chihuahua, as they explore the 12th annual Humane Animal Welfare Society (HAWS) Pet Fair in Menomonee Falls on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Artist Tim Kannard of Laughing Dawg Studio creates a caricature of Chelsea Lovell's Golden Retriever during the 12th annual Humane Animal Welfare Society (HAWS) Pet Fair in Menomonee Falls on Saturday, August 17, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
A swarm of Muskego defenders bring down a Cedarburg ball carrier during the Brookfield Central scrimmage on Aug. 16, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
A Brookfield Central receiver throws a stiff arm to a Grafton defender during a scrimmage on Aug. 16, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
A Brookfield Central runner spins as he is brought down against Grafton during a scrimmage on August 16, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Football players from Greendale and Racine Horlick high schools play at Greendale High School's Gavinski Stadium during a scrimmage featuring Greendale, Brookfield East, Racine Horlick and Milwaukee Riverside on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Colin Boyle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Football players from Greendale and Brookfield East high schools play at Greendale High School's Gavinski Stadium in Greendale, Wis. during a scrimmage featuring Greendale, Brookfield East, Racine Horlick and Milwaukee Riverside on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Colin Boyle/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Norah Cadwell, 7, and her aunt Laura Herman of Oconomowoc pose for a photo during Oconomowoc's 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" premiere on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Statues adorn Oconomowoc's Wizard of Oz Plaza during the 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" premiere on Thursday, August 15, 2019. The event featured family activities, food, games, costume contests and a screening of "The Wizard of Oz" movie on a giant outdoor screen. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Thousands of movie-goers fill Wisconsin Avenue in Oconomowoc for the 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" premiere on Thursday, August 15, 2019. The event featured family activities, food, games, costume contests and a screening of "The Wizard of Oz" movie on a giant outdoor screen. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Adeline Wachholder, 3, of Beloit came to Oconomowoc's 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" dressed just like Dorothy with ruby slippers on her feet and a basket with a stuffed animal Toto in her hands. Adeline's mom, Melani Wachholder, grew up watching the film, just like her daughter. Hannah Kirby/ Now News Group
Oconomowoc's clock tower glows emerald green during the 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" premiere on Thursday, August 15, 2019. The event featured family activities, food, games, costume contests and a screening of "The Wizard of Oz" movie on a giant outdoor screen. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Eden Saniter, 7, of Ixonia talks to media after placing third in the girl's 7 to 11 costume contest at Oconomowoc's 80th anniversary celebration of "The Wizard of Oz" premiere on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Catholic Memorial players work on a hook-and-ladder drill during practice on Aug. 13, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Volunteers release nearly 2,000 plastic ducks into the Bark River near Delafield's Liberty Park for the inaugural Lucky Ducky Veteran's River Race hosted by the Delafield American Legion Post 196 on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. The ducks were collected at the fish hatchery bridge with all proceeds benefiting local veteran's organizations. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Michael McIntyre, 7, of Greendale leaps off the Stunt Jump attraction at the Greendale Village Days festival on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The annual three-day event, sponsored by the Greendale Lions, features food and drink, live music, festival games, fireworks and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
The Precinct Tap & Table restaurant in Germantown features an open kitchen design as seen on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
The Javier Pizza at the Precinct Tap & Table features charred pineapple, scallions, ham and goat cheese as seen on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Greendale Municipal Judge Mark Kapocius reacts after being dunked at the Greendale Village Days festival on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The annual three-day event, sponsored by the Greendale Lions, features food and drink, live music, festival games, fireworks and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Five-year-old Raiden Johannsen of Greenfield plays a game at the Greendale Village Days festival on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The annual three-day event, sponsored by the Greendale Lions, features food and drink, live music, festival games, fireworks and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Local musician Andrew Gelles performs with his band at the 13th annual Waukesha Rotary BluesFest in Delafield on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old David Bolstad of New Berlin listens to music with his grandfather Scott Bolstad during the 13th annual Waukesha Rotary BluesFest in Delafield on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. The two-day festival, hosted by the Waukesha Rotary, features live music, an art show, food, beverages and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old Josiah Higgins of Brookfield operates a fire hose with Brookfield Firefighter/Paramedic Noah Engelhart during Brookfield's National Night Out celebration on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. National Night Out is an annual campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and camaraderie to make neighborhoods safer places to live. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Brad Wagner, 10, of Lisbon checks out a fire truck during the National Night Out celebration in Sussex on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
The grand champion steer, a 1,333-pound Maine-Anjou from Burlington is presented by Riley Runkel at the 2019 Wisconsin State Fair Governor's Blue Ribbon Livestock Auction on Wednesday, Aug. 7. Runkel's steer was bought for $47,500 by Meijer. Colin Boyle / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Arianna Taylor, 17, of Vincent High School embraces her grandmother who came to support her in the Market Lamb Show at the Wisconsin State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 7. Hannah Schroeder / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Durst, also known as the Viking who poses for photos at festivals, enjoys a funnel cake at the Wisconsin State Fair. Jim Stingl / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Daniel Valandia of Whitnall engages in a block during a drill at practice on August 6, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Quarterback Myles Burkett runs passing drills with his teammates during football practice at Franklin High School in Franklin on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Hannah Schroeder/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Neel Patel hauls in a pass during Whitnall's first football practice of the season on August 6, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Joe Haas of Oconomowoc uses an umbrella to shield the heat and sun from his daughter, 6-month-old Indigo, at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis on Monday, Aug. 5. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Germantown's Mason Durand sheds a blocker during a drill at practice on August 6, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Whimsical artwork from "The Gourd Lady" Sue Jones of Sullivan attracts visitors during the Firefly Art Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in Wauwatosa. The two-day fair features food, drink, a silent auction, live music, kids activities, a historical exhibit and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Six-year-old Emma Fetkenhauer of Mayville rides the lolly swings at the Ozaukee County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Alania Jarmuz, 12, of Grafton competes in show jumping at the Ozaukee County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old Cat Czuppa of Cedarburg makes friends with a sheep at the Ozaukee County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Leann Hengel of New Berlin found the perfect likeness of her dog Charlie at the Pop Art Pets booth during the Firefly Art Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in Wauwatosa. The two-day fair features food, drink, a silent auction, live music, kids activities, a historical exhibit and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
The WonderFair Wheel is seen as evening sets in on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019, at the Wisconsin State Fair. This is the third straight year the Ferris wheel has been at the fair. Christopher Kuhagen / Now News Group
David Wichert, 11, holds his sister Destiny, 4, as they go down the yellow slide at the Wisconsin State Fair on Aug. 1, 2019. Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Baby ducklings are seen at the 2019 Wisconsin State Fair. Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Cancer Full Moon Supermoon - January 1, 2018
Monday's CANCER FULL MOON SUPERMOON at 11 degrees brings a powerful, emotionally-charged start to the year. As Uranus stations direct on the 2nd and MARS moves toward an exact conjunction with JUPITER in Scorpio on the 6th, major change is brewing that can help us awaken, heal, and flow in matters of the heart.
Major change, fruition, and culmination points are brewing. Can you feel it?
You'll find Parts 1 and 2 of the full moon forecast below. Part 1 contains the astrological breakdown of the full moon, while Part 2 is the Womanrunes Card Reading for the full moon (and what a reading it is!).
Honor what's in your heart. Take time out to feel, release, and heal. Get clear on what your greatest passions are and what's ready to be acknowledged, and then share it with those who need to hear it most.
*~Many blessings for a powerfully transformation full moon, and a very happy new year!~*
Cancer Full Moon Supermoon Forecast - Part 1
Part 2 - Full Moon Womanrunes Card Reading
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New Video - Winter Solstice Themes and Womanrunes Card Reading
Greetings, everyone! Today marks the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The Sun moved into Capricorn today, marking a profound turning points as we embody greater stability, resolve, and maturity.
The Sun also joins with SATURN today, marking the beginning of a new yearly cycle of career efforts, building our dreams, and finding more of our inner authority. These themes also carry through the next few years, as this conjunction sets the tone for Saturn's journey through Capricorn until December 2020.
As a solstice birthday girl, this day has always been deeply special and magical to me. To celebrate, I've published a YouTube video with my thoughts and experiences of the power of this time, plus a WOMANRUNES CARD READING with insights for those watching. (It's a bit on the lengthy side, but I didn't have it in me to skimp on such an important topic and day!)
Many Solstice blessings and warm wishes to you! May magic find you as we rest in the belly of midwinter.
Saturn Moves Into Capricorn
Solid. Sturdy. Steady. Grounded.
This is how I found myself feeling after Saturn moved into Capricorn late last night. As I took a few quiet moments out to meditate before bed, I felt the shift immediately...and boy, did it feel good!
Part of this heightened sense of connection to Saturn's big move is because Saturn is still conjunct my Sagittarius Sun, giving me a sense of confidence, surety, and "calm, cool, and collected" that I can't say I've ever felt before. I sense the tangible physical blessings of this transit already on their way, feeling more connected to and at home in the physical world than before (and believe me when I say that grounding is not my strong point!).
Sagittarians, it's time to pat yourselves on the back - you made it. You faced the hard lessons, you grew, you got real about who you were and what you came here to do. Now you can carry the gifts of those lessons forward as you work toward manifesting the potentials of your deep digging as Saturn enters the sign of manifestation for the next three years.
Capricorns, you're up - it's your time to be reborn again, stronger and more confident and wise and resolute than ever before. Nobody can handle Saturn's lessons better than you, as Saturn is your ruling planet and are wholly attuned to its energies. You'll emerge from this transit a different person, more aligned with truth and values and a sense of purpose than ever before.
Regardless of whether Saturn is contacting personal planets in your birth chart now or not, we're all about to benefit immensely from this shift. Saturn is now in its home sign for the first time in about 30 years, bringing us back to lessons in maturity, physical manifestation, and acting as a catalyst for everyone to reap exactly what they've sown during the time between. And that's only bad news for those who have abused power or acted unjustly - the consequences of those actions will be stark wake-up calls, indeed.
It's said that the first 24-hours of a planet's shift into a sign is the most powerful time to set the tone for how the rest of the cycle unfolds in our lives. With Saturn in my 3rd House, I've been multi-tasking like a pro today, making business plans for the coming year, and my natural procrastination instincts are already fading away. Hallelujah!
Tune in to where you feel called to put your focus, time, and energy today. As the moon waxes in Capricorn, the light of Monday's new moon is carried on as the earliest potentials of those "new beginning seeds" begin to crack open slowly. It's a powerful time to begin formulating plans and taking action, no matter how small.
Saturn remains in Capricorn through December 17, 2020, except for its first dip into Aquarius from late March through mid-June 2020.
It's time to get real about our greatest aspirations and make them come to life; to build the most solid life foundations that we can; to connect to the gifts and wonder of the physical world in ways that benefit the all, perhaps even regaining lost connections to what we might call "old wisdom" - the wisdom in the rocks, trees, soil, waterways, all the ancient pillars of life and structures that support us throughout all time.
It's also the perfect opportunity to honor that which provides the foundation in our lives, and to create our own to make our dreams a reality. Look to the house that contains Capricorn in your birth chart to see where potential is about to come to live in the next three years (generate a free chart at www.astro.com, or book a reading with a qualified astrologer to take it even deeper).
Where are you feeling the shift?
Jen Howell
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The Junior League of Chicago is located in the Gold Coast neighborhood, one of Chicago’s most treasured residential areas with its quiet, tree-lined streets, stately homes and connections to the city’s past. From its earliest days, the Gold Coast neighborhood has been home to many important Chicago families, people who have contributed substantially to the social, cultural and economic history of the city. Today’s owners and residents appreciate this legacy and strive to preserve and enhance the quality of life and the beauty of the area, including the members of the Junior League of Chicago. To learn more about the neighborhood, visit the Gold Coast Neighbors Association website at http://www.goldcoastneighbors.org/.
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Garage Parking is available at 1445 N. State Parkway Condominium (cash only). The entrance to the garage is on Burton between State and Astor streets. Parking is also available at the 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive residential building.
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Recently, 10 individuals from throughout the Research Triangle in North Carolina used their social media prowess to generate buzz for the 2016 Toyota Prius while also competing to win donations for charitable organizations. Following a successful #TriPrius campaign, The National Organization for Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (NODCC), Raleigh Public Record and Raleigh Crime Stoppers will each be awarded $1,000 to help further their missions.
“We have seen great success in working with non-traditional media to promote the Toyota brand,” said Christie Caliendo, public relations lead, Southeast Toyota Distributors. “Our influencer campaigns throughout the Southeast have enabled Toyota to tap into new brand ambassadors who generate authentic online content, allowing us to reach and appeal to various segments of the market.”
#TriPrius was a collaborative effort between Toyota Motor Sales, Southeast Toyota Distributors and 10 Raleigh-area social media influencers of varying genres. The influencers were encouraged to drive the all-new Prius around the Triangle for a week and post about their reactions. Some participants focused their messaging on the Prius’s advanced technological features, such as Toyota Safety Sense (TSS), others posted images of its stylish and innovative design, while some touted the trunk’s capacity to haul groceries for a family of four. Regardless of the theme, the message was clear: the 2016 Toyota Prius is a hit!
The weeklong campaign also featured group outings to incorporate all three cities of the Triangle, including a kick-off dinner at Durham’s Basan Bull City Sushi, a walking tour of Chapel Hill to view some of Michael Brown’s murals, a meet-up soiree at Joule in Raleigh and social media challenges. A panel of judges then reviewed the social engagement and selected a winner in each of three categories:
The Pixel Hunter (Jennifer Martin benefiting Raleigh Public Record): Toyota highlighted several hidden gems and national treasures located throughout the Triangle. The winner was the influencer who visited the most destinations on the #TriPrius map by end of the week.
The Game-Changer (Jed Record benefiting NODCC): This winner was the participant who captured the most creative photographic content featuring their Prius and local surroundings.
The Multiplayer (Jennifer Martin benefiting Raleigh Crime Stoppers): The individual who generated the most engagement across their social media platforms.
“Toyota’s #TriPrius campaign not only gave us the chance to explore the Triangle and connect with some amazing people in our community, but also to compete on behalf of a local charity,” said Jennifer Martin, executive director of Shop Local Raleigh. “We wouldn’t hesitate to participate in another influencer event with Toyota. They are an ideal model of a true community partner committed to paying it forward.”
This philanthropic initiative highlights the commitment of Toyota and its area dealers to positively impacting the communities they serve, and allows the brand to support three vital organizations on behalf of these Triangle influencers.
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BSCI's Faculty Member Among the Finalists for the Distinguished Teaching Award
John Johnson of the Department of Biological Sciences is among the finalists for the Distinguished Teaching Award.
John Johnson, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent Campus is among the finalists for the distinguished teaching award. Ten faculty finalists were chosen from a group of more than 250 nominations for this year’s 47th Annual Kent State University Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award. The three recipients of the award will receive a $1,500 cash prize and a crystal apple, and they will be honored at the University Teaching Council Conference luncheon on Friday, Oct 24.
Each year, the Kent State University Alumni Association recognizes Kent State’s outstanding faculty members by awarding three nominated educators with the Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Award is the most prestigious award that Kent State accords to full-time, tenure-track faculty members.
In order to be nominated, faculty members must have been employed at the university for at least seven years and be in a tenure-track position.
Materials provided regarding his nomination reveal that Dr. Johnsons is able to communicate the complex material behind neuroscience in a clear and interesting way. Students who learn from Johnson know how challenging, yet rewarding, his assignments are.
“Dr. Johnson’s breadth of knowledge on the subject of neuroscience was simply astonishing,” a student nomination letter states. “He always knew what the latest findings were, and could always help with challenging assignments.”
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Minister of Defence of Ukraine inspects readiness of service personnel and equipment to participate in Independence Day parade
Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, posted 10 August 2018 16:25
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Ozerne airfield, Zhytomyr oblast, hosted military parade training (mechanized component) on occasion of the 27th Anniversary of independence of Ukraine.
According to Minister of Defence of Ukraine General of the Army of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak, the service personnel and equipment are ready to participate in the parade.
“Generally, service personnel and equipment are ready to participate in Independence Day parade. 4 500 people within 24 units will take part in it”, he underscored.
During this year parade new armament and military equipment, which are currently used by the Ukrainian army, advanced weapons and weapons undergoing state tests will be demonstrated (totally, 250 pieces of military equipment).
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09:55, 14 October Commemorative events Prime Minister I express gratitude to the women and men defenders for the opportunity to live in a free and successful Ukraine, says Oleksiy Honcharuk
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Dancin’ the Night Away – Dance Team Works Toward Northeast Competition
Marisa Wherry, Staff Writer
TOWAMENCIN – Every January, the North Penn High School dance team competes in the annual North East Dance Competition held in South Brunswick, New Jersey. The competition consists of three levels: Junior Varsity, Varsity, and College level. North Penn competes at Varsity level, and in 2011, the dance team placed first in Jazz and second in hip-hop; in 2012 the girls placed fourth and fifth in the two categories.
Dance Team Captains Leanne Louden, Jacqueline Depue, and Ashley John hope to lead the sixteen-girl squad to another victory in 2013.
“We love to get first in competitions, that was the best feeling ever. We all did that sophomore year so that gave us a flavor of it, and it would be awesome to do that again as seniors,” said John, who has been dancing since she was seven years old. Louden and Depue have both been dancing since age three.
Besides performing at the annual North East Dance Competition, the dance team regularly entertains crowds at the North Penn basketball games and occasional pep-ralleys. Routines for these events consist of both hip hop and jazz that Louden, Depue, and John choreographed themselves. While the captains are self-sufficient, they do have help from coaches Susan Mchugh, a North Penn High School Librarian, and Jen Kransbluky, an instructor from Jane Lopten School of Dance in Lansdale.
Other than placing first at the North East Dance Competition this year, the captains’ goal is to make people more aware of the dance team.
“It’s awesome to have a crowd to bounce energy off of,” said John. “It’s hard to perform to blank faces, so it would be really good to get a lot of hype about us.”
But dance isn’t all about choreography and performance; it’s about self-expression and individualism, yet at the same time teamwork and coordination.
“I just love moving and feeling the music, expressing myself and having fun doing it,” Louden said.
Marisa Wherry, Senior, Staff Writer
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San Francisco 'swatting' case targets Instagram executive
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - The 911 call to San Francisco police was a hoax.
The call claimed there was a shooting inside a home in the 100 block of Fair Oaks Street just before one o'clock Saturday morning.
But officers couldn't know it was a prank and responded. An ambulance also arrived.
"They were able to make contact with the owners of the residence and were able to determine there was no merit to the shooting or emergency inside the house," said police spokesman Sgt. Mike Andraychak.
This appears to have been a case of swatting. That's when a caller purposely phones in a fake report that will require police and perhaps a swat unit to respond.
Records show the owner of the residence is a top executive at Instagram who used to work for Facebook.
It is the second incident of swatting this month.
On January 9, Palo Alto police received a similar call from a man who told 9-1-1 he had shot his wife. That too was phony.
The victim of that hoax was a Facebook executive.
"Certainly we would reach out to Palo Alto to see if there are similarities or lineage," said Andraychak.
Police say making a fake emergency call is a crime. And, that they have a way of investigating them.
"Typically we are going to rely heavily on cooperation with the telephone companies and internet service providers with the possibility the call originated on a voice over internet protocol type of phone system," said Andraychak.
One neighbor on Fair Oaks, between Noe Valley and the Mission District, says he is disgusted someone would pull such a stunt.
"It is really sad because it might take a life from someone who would need their help while they were at the swatting-fest," said Terrence Tilley.
Police say there is nothing funny about swatting.
In one 2017 case, Wichita, Kansas police shot and killed a victim of a prank call.
"The level of tension believing or not believing if they are walking into a shooting or potential hostage situation," said Andraychak.
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Fireworks to blame for Austin apartment fire
Sixteen people were displaced after the illegal use of fireworks caused an apartment fire.
Author: Molly Oak, KVUE News Staff
Updated: 5:17 PM CST January 1, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas — Some Austinites are out of their home on New Year's Day after a fire in the Mueller district was started by fireworks.
It happened at the Mueller City View Apartments on Reinli Street around 12:30 Wednesday morning.
"I saw that there was a lot of kids running, and then we saw the whole fireworks exploding and it was really, really close to the building," said Leydy Carreño, who has lived in the complex for three years.
Carreño lives in the building that was damaged. The Austin Fire Department reported $450,000 worth of damage but no one was hurt.
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According to investigators, people using fireworks illegally started the fire.
"I was having a lot of emotions. I was mad. I was like, 'Why did someone actually think it was OK?'" Carreño said. "I was feeling worried for the people that were inside. I was like, 'Are there people inside, kids inside, dogs?' I’m not sure."
The Red Cross is now helping the 10 adults, six children and one dog who were displaced from four apartments.
The illegal use of fireworks is a Class C misdemeanor.
The AFD reported that they also responded to about 30 brush fires from illegal firework use overnight, which they said is fairly typical for New Year's.
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Native to northern Europe and Asia, this fieldfare, a member of the thrush family, has caused a stir by making a rare appearance in Salmon Arm. The bird was spotted by Nan Bearmore among a flock of robins during the Dec. 16 bird count. (Roger Beardmore photo)
Rare Russian bird sighting sees birdwatchers flock to the B.C. Shuswap
The fieldfare, a member of the thrush family, might have made its way to B.C. from Russia
Barb Brouwer
Bird fanciers have been flocking to Salmon Arm following a report of a rare sighting.
The subject of the excitement is a beautiful fieldfare, a member of the thrush family and native to Northern Europe, Asia and North Africa, says avid birder Roger Beardmore who, thanks to his wife Nan, was able to see and take photos of the unusual visitor.
The Beardmores and their good friends Peter and Sharon Lawless were taking part in the annual bird count on Sunday, Dec. 16 as they have done for a number of years.
The weather was dull and drizzly as the couples headed to their usual observation grounds along Salmon River Road.
They took a right off Salmon River Road on Branchflower, hoping for their usual good luck.
“When we get to Branchflower and Crick Road, typically there’s families with bird feeders, which is often a good indication there will be birds, but there weren’t many birds,” Roger says, noting there weren’t as many feeders as in past years. “We were a bit disappointed.”
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The group carried on to the corner of Kernaghan and Crick Road where they noticed robins in a mountain ash tree.
“We got out the binoculars and Nan said, ‘that one looks different,’” says Roger of the fieldfare that was among a flock of about a dozen robins. “I looked through my glasses and said, ‘yeah that is different; looks like a robin, but has a stripy chest.’”
Thinking it was perhaps a juvenile robin, the couples headed back to their vehicle, underwhelmed by what they had seen.
But something nagged at Roger, who took out his camera and went back to the tree to get a picture of the fieldfare.
He didn’t think much more of it until he downloaded the photos and did online research, where he read about an “unusual vagrant” that showed up in Victoria one year. It was a redwing thrush, which is also a European species.
“It made quite a sensation, so I Googled red wing and right beside it was a picture of a fieldfare,” he says. “And I thought that looks like this bird, a perfect match, so I sent the notice to Melissa Hafting, the provincial rare bird alert co-ordinator.”
The fieldfare’s range is referred to as “Northern Hemisphere Old World Europe, Asia and North Africa,” Roger says, pointing out the bird breeds in the northern part of that range and winters as far west as Iceland.
“If you’re going to get a vagrant, typically it would be most likely to go to eastern Canada, although they do occasionally come across from Russia to Alaska,” he adds, surmising this fieldfare arrived down the coast from Alaska and somehow made it into the Interior.
The rare sighting was recorded on an American Birding Association blog that set off a storm of excitement among birdwatchers.
Roger says visitors have come to view the fieldfare from as far away as the Lower Mainland and Seattle, and perhaps Georgia.
Despite the less-than-stellar weather, Beardmore says he and his fellow birdwatchers enjoyed the outing and recorded 30 species in their section of the bird count – eagles, swans, red-tail hawks, a northern shrike and other “usual suspects,” including pigeons, crows and ravens.
Meanwhile, Shuswap Naturalist Club member and annual Salmon Arm bird count co-ordinator Ted Hilary said Wednesday that, so far, 71 species had been accounted for.
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“The highlight, of course, is the fieldfare,” Hilary says, pointing out some 22 volunteers in four teams spread out over four quadrants in a 15-mile circle around Salmon Arm, a circle that was first established in 1971.
“Starting at the Tim Hortons at the top of the hill, we go east as far as Canoe, south along Highway 97B to the junction of 97A including Grindrod and touches on the west side of Mara Lake, south on Salmon River Road to the Silver Creek store and west to Ford Road in Tappen,” he says.
The most prolific bird this year was 2,000 Canada geese, along with 1,200 starlings and “a goodly number of robins” – more than 500.
Also included in the count as of Wednesday morning were about 400 goldfinches, more than 800 pine siskins, some 500 Bohemian waxwings and, in another unusual sighting, four snow buntings were spied on the wharf in Canoe. And watchers saw one red-necked grebe, a bird that eats fish so needs open water and usually winters in Idaho, California, or the B.C. coast.
“This is a really good year for mountain ash berries so, depending on how harsh the winter is, in February and March, I think we will have lots of birds – wax wings, robins, siskins and grosbeaks,” says Hilary, who is still waiting for more bird count information, particularly from those who counted visitors to their bird feeders.
barb.brouwer@saobserver.net
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Azkaban at College
I go to Azkaban once a week and very surprisingly it is in my college and that too in my department buliding! Everytime on the day i have to go there i go crazy. I’ll have loads of work to do, but can’t do it. Can’t do anything as planned,can’t take leave, can’t have lunch at mess, can’t do anything worthwhile after coming from Azkaban. I can’t even prepare for going there. 🙁
Ok, enough of unnecessary hype. The Microprocessor lab where I go for my Digital Systems lab is the place under questions. There are loads of hidden dementors and a few visible ones in the form of my batchmates, who suck out all the energy, happiness and hope inside me and I’d end up feeling empty.
There are non-living dementors too-the ICs, trainer kit and the bread board, which could’ve performed the Dementor’s kiss on me instead of leaving me in such a traumatic state so often. Whatever experiment is to be done will never happen correctly as if its destiny’s wish. Everyone else would seem to be having patronuses to protect them. They finish all the experiments in a jiffy when my batch couldn’t do it for weeks together.Our group would almost often stand out as the only one, which didn’t finish the scheduled experiment(s).
Even if everything goes well, the circuit is connected perfectly and there are adequate wires, the output would never come for eternity for God-knows-why. The materials and apparatus of all the other batches would seem to be working immaculately. But when we take theirs and try to do something, our Midas touch(??) would make sure that nothing would work. We would dismantle everything and reconstruct the circuit again with a vigour and hope but worse would befall us. The hope, the energy and the enthusiasm would vaporise and it wouldn’t take long to give up.
A couple of good-for-nothing guys in my batch who don’t help a bit but still disturb by talking too much of themselves would add to the misery.The hollow gloating would irritate me like anything. They would also never miss opportunities to make rude comments about others-girls particularly or to film some offensive stuff using their mobile cameras. Gits!!!
With everything against the completion of experiments and such wonderful 🙁 batchmates, often we’ll end up lagging behind by a mile. At times we shamelessly borrow the circuit from the other batches to show the output to the lab sir or even get it signed by a sir who wouldn’t even come near our bench but still would gladly sign our lab observation notebooks.
I don’t know where this will end. With such practice, I doubt if I could clear my semester practical exam. I’m worried about it because i’m in a no man’s land without a bit of my fault.
September 17, 2007 by Guruprasad L 0 comments on "Food for thought!"
Today, a soul-wrenching experience hit me. A classmate, a silent and a non-violent one, took a seminar on a very vague topic and subject. He couldn’t even spell common words correctly and all he did in the name of seminar was to read from the book-very poor at it, which was not a problem as Sir was not present in the class and there was a stopgap sir.Neither do I degrade that poor chap, nor blame him. All that I could do was to regret his condition and lament about our education system of which he is a very routine product. 🙁
Our education system emphasises more on marks and knowledge is of zero value. As a result everyone including the teachers, students, their parents and tuition centres become mark-crazy and kill the capacity in a student to learn.
That a 2nd year student in a very reputed institution and highly-valued course can’t even spell a few basic words or read a few sentences continuously and properly is a shame to everyone of us.
He may have got into the college and the course due to his marks earned by rote memory or by the evil reservation. I’m not against reservation but the purpose it is being used these days is evil. It neither helps the students benefiting out of it, nor the other meritorious students who are victims of reservation.
The purpose of reservation is to empower educationally backward people, but even after gaining out of reservation, they make zilch progress. The better idea would have been to raise the educational standards of such people instead of pampering them with reservation and making sure they never learn or rise in their lives. 🙁 .
The political parties have gone overboard with reservation and are over-killing the vote-earning cow. The reservation in Tamil Nadu has exceeded the Constitutional/Supreme Court’s limit of 50%. They’re even contemplating on Religion-based reservation which is unsecular and unIndian.People of many castes want their castes to be included in the Backward classes and even fight and indulge in violence with people of other castes which disturbs the harmony of India.
When will this injustice end? Even God may not know. But it is a pity that such people who benefit from reservation suffer more, failing miserably in the higher levels of education and life. I pray to the Al(l)mighty!
September 15, 2007 by Guruprasad L 0 comments on "Early to bed and early to rise"
Early to bed and early to rise
“Early to bed and early to rise” is an oft-quoted virtue but very difficult to follow in the hectic paced life of today. Having a sufficient daily sleep is very essential for everyone to be sane and fresh as well. Sleeping and waking up at odd hours affects the body’s biological clock and as a result you still fall into sleep during odd times-most often in the classroom, when the lecturer’s words seem to be a lullaby.
I used to have atleast the “Early to bed” virtue, but now being a hostel resident and with the hectic life I lead, I’ve shamelessly lost the good habit.
Getting up early in the morning gives more benefits than sleeping beyond the alarm ringing in vain. The day and the activities to be done can be planned and implemented leisurely rather than indulging in bad habits like skipping bath as a result of getting up late. 🙁
Getting up early without adequate sleep can lead to sleepiness in the daytime, so its very essential to have a good sleep which i’m in dire need of daily. Getting up late leads to shortage of time, hurry and unwanted stress which my body and mind cannot afford. It also often makes me irregular!!??!!!(As if I’m regular otherwise!). 🙂 . So “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” is not only a virtue to be read, it is to be preached and followed. I hope to be healthy, wealthy and wise! 🙂
September 15, 2007 by Guruprasad L 0 comments on "FStival’07!"
FStival’07!
Today we celebrated Software Freedom Day in our college. We had a talk on FOSS and GNU/Linux by Mr.Praveen Krishnamoorthy, a FOSS enthusiast and a distinguished alumnus of our college. There was also a demonstration on the installation of Ubuntu Linux by Mahesh of 3rd year and the features of Ubuntu were demonstrated by Mr.Subramani, another alumnus, who along with Mr.Senthil, answered the queries of the audience. We had a T-Shirt designed for this year’s FStival and almost all of the guys involved, wore it.
Then a lot of students from schools in Madurai and the students from the other department visited the halls in the CSE department where there were demo stalls on various GNU/Linux tools. I, alongwith Venkatachalam and Raju, hosted a stall on LaTeX, a powerful typesetting language. It was fun demoing stalls to the visitors. The other stalls were GIMP by J.Aravind, Krishnakumar, Content Management System by K.Manikandan, Vi by S.Anugraha and co., Blender by Deepika and co., Emacs by M.P.Aravinth and co., and so on. The demo stalls were open for about 2 1/2 hours and then we closed them. My only regret was that I couldn’t visit other stalls.I visited the Blender stall i the midst of an explantion and it was very attractive to me as I was already very much interested in 3d animation and 3Ds max.Even when Blessings came to near my stall, it was about to be closed and I was explaining seriously to seniors visiting my stall and when I was done with it, Blessings was nowhere to be found there.
When I went to the Microprocessor Lab, Blessings and co., had closed their stall and were leaving. All the other stalls i visited thereafter were closed and I was a bit disappointed as I had thought that the stalls would’ve been open till evening.
Then we brought back all the computers to the PP lab and connected them. Then we had a photo session with Senthil anna, Bala anna and Ravishankar anna shooting pics with their camera. Then we walked our way out of the college, as a group with a lot of cheerful talking. Today has been an unforgettable day in my life.
September 15, 2007 by Guruprasad L 0 comments on "Chak de India!!!"
Chak de India!!!
The Twenty20 World Cup match between India and Pakistan was a spinechiller. Right from the first few overs where Mohammad Asif rocked the Indian batting lineup with extraordinary swing and seam bowling, Robin Uthappa’s cool and clinical hitting, Irfan Pathan’s cameo and Dhoni’s composed innings, it had all the unique flavours of an India-Pakistan cricket match.
Pakistan had to achieve the target in about 15 overs to knockout India, who had shared their first match with Scotland, who lost to Pakistan earlier, due to rain. If they took more than 15 overs, India would be through to the Super8 round alongwith Pakistan.
But a target of 142 is moderate in Twenty20 game and that too against a Pakistani side with a great batting depth and many fearsome hitters like Shahid Afridi. The Pakistani start was cautious and steady. There was never a doubt that, if they batted the full 20 overs, they’d win. A couple of wickets put a brake on the scoring rate and Irfan Pathan,making his comeback, bowled dream over-a wicket maiden,a rarity in Twenty20 cricket. There was a run-out in the first ball of the over due to mixup and excellent fielding by none other than Yuvraj Singh. A couple of balls later, Pakistan received a huge jolt when Younis Khan chopped an Irfan Pathan inswinger onto the stumps. The hostel theatre, where I was watching the match was erupting into joyous shouting and I enjoyed being a part of it. A short while back, there was total silence and a grim mood in the theatre, when India lost too many wickets too cheaply. There were cheers only when Uthappa, Dhoni and Pathan hit glorious shots. Now with Pakistan wickets falling, there was everything to shout out in joy. When it became clear that Pakistan could notwin in 15 overs, India could not be knocked out and everyone was happy that India had made it to the Super8 avoiding a repeat of this year’s World Cup in the West Indies. But still there was a match and pride to be won. India had never lost to Pakistan in a World Cup match.
The required run-rate was mounting steeply and “Boom Boom” Shahid Afridi arrived at the crease with about 50 runs required in 30 balls. Harbhajan Singh, who has had nightmares against Afridi, bowled two excellent overs without conceding boundaries. To add to the drama, Ajit Agarkar dropped a skier from Afridi off his own bowling. There was a feeling that he could’ve dropped the match. But Harbhajan snared Afridi in the next over and I was rooting for an Indian victory as the asking rate was more than two runs per ball.
But, to add to the heat, Ajit Agarkar bowled a “characteristic” over giving away 17 priceless runs and Pakistani batsmen made the most of it. Misbah-ul-Haq, a fresher in the Pakistani team benefited out of Agarkar’s generosity. 12 runs were required off the last over to be bowled by Sreesanth. First three balls read 4,1,1. 5 runs of 3 balls and it was anybody’s game. India had to block out the chances of conceding a boundary, as a boundary would be GAME OVER. But Misbah-ul-Haq squeezed out a boundary and the scores were tied. Just 1 run was required off 2 balls and a Pakistani victory was certain. After long consultations with his captain Dhoni and a few field changes, Sreesanth bowled a short ball angling across the righthander and no runs were scored. One ball to go, but still Pakistan’s victory was almost certain. But India and Sreesanth had other ideas. All the fielders were brought inside the 30yard circle to save a single. Sreesanth bowled a similar angling short ball and Misbah-ul-Haq hit it in the direction of the cover and set off for a single. Robin Uthappa picked up the ball, threw it to Sreesanth who dislodged the bails with Misbah-ul-Haq short of his crease and the match was tied. Indian players were overjoyed and everyone watching the match in the theatre.
There was to be a bowl-out to decide the winner. The bowl-out was Twenty20 cricket’s equivalent of a penalty shootout. India had nominated Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, Irfan Pathan and Sreesanth for the shootout, while Pakistan’s nominees were Asif, Gul, Afridi, Sohail Tanveer. Sehwag, Harbhajan and Uthappa hit the bull’s eye for India while Arafat, Gul and Afridi all missed and it was an Indian victory.
What was remarkable was the way India fought back after being reduced to tatters by Asif and when the match seemed lost when Misbah-ul-Haq hit his second boundary off the last over. Their fielding was excellent and their body language was equally good. Pakistan too fought back very well when the chips were down and almost won the match before India spoiled their party.
This match was an excellent advertisement for the much-debated Twenty20 with wildly swinging fortunes and an equal contest between bat and ball, which happens very rarely in Twenty20 cricket. I was privileged to watch such a match and enjoyed every bit of it. Three cheers for Indian cricket team for showing immense mental strength and holding their nerves to win a great match of Twenty20. Good luck to India and Pakistan for their Super8 matches.
September 8, 2007 by Guruprasad L 0 comments on "Out of the blocks…."
Out of the blocks….
Guruprasad here. I’m on my mark, raring to go..
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Considering Mattachine, Bilitis, ONE, all seem to be cropping up on the West Coast rather than here [on the East Coast] where a vigorous and active gay set almost bump one another off the streets—what is it in the air out there? Pioneers still? Or a tougher circumstance which inspires battle?
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Zion National Park, Utah - The Narrows is one of my favorites hikes of all time. The trail is the river; you wade in the water up to your waist at some points for miles through this incredible canyon. When sunlight hits the top of the canyon, it reflects the orange in the rock to the opposite wall. This effect bounces the light all the way down to the base of the canyon, and creates incredible vivid colors in the deepest parts of the canyon. I particularly love the little strip of bright green ferns clinging to the canyon walls in this image that gave relief from the orange/blue color palette. A long exposure was used to blur the river and capture these vivid colors in this incredible canyon.
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Nat Couture: Gaspesia 100 Race Report
I took all pressure off of myself for Gaspesia100 by completing Eastern States 100. When I signed on to ambassador the new race in Gaspe I knew it would be a tall order for me to run the 100 miler so close to ES100 so I made no promises about what distance I'd run. As it turned out, I came out of Eastern States pretty wrecked and in far worse shape than I had hoped. I wasn't sure I'd even be able to run pain free in two weeks let alone race 100 miles. Nonetheless, I had committed to being in Gaspe to help promote the new Gaspesia100 race so I told myself I would volunteer on the course if I couldn't run in the event.
Through some miracle recovery, my feet and legs healed up faster than I've ever seen before and during my second week of recovery after Eastern States I was running comfortably and felt confident that I'd be able to run at least one of the shorter distances in Gaspe. I've been running ultras for 7 years and I've never experienced recovery like this. There is no doubt in my mind taking Liv9 Balance and Energy had a positive effect on my recovery so I wanted to thank Greg and Dan for all the support I received from Liv9 during this season.
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I traveled on Friday with a NS runner named Krista whom I convinced to come with me to do what would be her longest race to date. I picked her up in Bathurst around noon, giving us lots of time to chat, drive and prepare for the race that would start at 8am on Saturday. To be honest I still hadn't completely decided to go with the 100 mile distance but after the race briefing and talking to the race director I decided to stick to the plan and give it a go. I met the other ambassadors and some of the other runners and was looking forward to getting to chat with them on the trail. I should point out, that secretly I was also really looking forward to running a few miles with Florent Bouguin, a well known super fast runner out of Quebec.
A few minutes before the start, the ambassadors were called out to the front of the line for the start of the race and shortly after lining up the gun went off. The first 22k were mostly single track up to some beautiful lookouts up on the ridge and back down to the beach. This was probably the nicest section of the course. Quite a large group of us missed a turn early on but JF was on top of things and got us back on track before too much damage was done. Somehow Florent, having taken off much faster than everyone else, didn't make the mistake and built up a pretty sizable lead early on. During this time I ran with a bunch of different runners, a 2015 eastern states alumni, Martin Rouillard, Xavier, Yves, Claude, and others whose names I forget. Everyone was super friendly and enjoying the incredible day. Martin and I ended up running together for an hour or two and shared our experiences at other races. A few kms after leaving the second aid station we ended right back at the aid station (Belvedere). We didn't know why off hand but after a quick chat with JF we were back on track. So once again Florent increased his lead. Not that I was overly concerned this early in the race, but I was here to race for a win and with less than 15k completed I was getting a bit worried that these mistakes were going to add up.
At the 22.5k mark we reached "Coin du Banc" aid station which we'd see two more times in the race and was meant to be a central point of the race for crews, aid and spectators. As it happened, fellow Frederictonian Mary Rooney was there to snap some photos and cheer me on. What a boost. I was feeling awesome at this point in the race and was about to hop onto the beach for 5k on a pretty unique and amazing stretch of the course. I was about 30 minutes behind my predicted time, but my wrong turns accounted for most of that. I was still running with Martin at this point and we slowly caught up to another runner on the beach, whom I believe was Claude. I was feeling great coming off the beach and onto the pave for an 8k section and wanted to stretch out the legs. Martin dropped back at this point as he wasn't as keen on the road. I reached Vauqulin (38k) in second place, about 40 mins back of Florent.
I was moving well and was entering what I believed would be a 25mile lolipop loop leaving this aid station. A couple kms up the road a volunteer sent me up the road in what I believed to be the wrong direction based on the course map/instructions, but I could see Florent's foot prints so I knew I was at least following the leader. At some point a volunteer in a truck came driving down the road and explained that someone had stolen all the signage on this 25mile loop and so we'd be doing a shorter out n back. I didn't get any other details and just kept running up the largest climb of the course. Eventually I crossed Florent who was on the return; we shared greetings and encouragements, and after he passed I looked at the time so I could gauge how far he was ahead. I ran well up to the turn around and back to the Vauqulin aid station to find out I had made up some time. I was now about 30-33 minutes behind and about to hop on the pave for 5-8k. We were supposed to be at about 83k at this point, but due to the shortened course we likely only had about 55k. Surely we'd be making this up somewhere else, but we just weren't sure where yet. After about 10k, I reached an X on the road ahead of me, and noticed a trail option to my left. It was the only option so I took it. I ran down a short distance and I saw Florent running back toward me. He indicated to me that he just spend 30 minutes looking for the trail and was quite sure it wasn't in that direction. I ran back to the main road with him to examine the X placement relative to the map. It appeared as though the X was on the wrong road, and going straight was the intended route, so that's what we did. We didn't remove the X as we weren't sure we were going in the right direction, but 3k down the road we started seeing markings indicating to us that we were on the correct route. We figured we'd tell the volunteer at the next station and they'd be able to correct the course. After a few hours we started wondering where the aid station was, as the course guide had indicated 15k for this section. At this point we remembered that the section was lengthened by 5k so we figured 20k. Florent and I were running about the same pace so we stuck together and figured we'd navigate this course better together. I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep up, but so far the pace seemed reasonable to me. His GPS passed 22k and we had been out of food and water for quite some time. When we hit a river crossing I couldn't wait and just drank. Florent wasn't as keen on this, but I knew if I didn't get water and salt in me I'd be in trouble later. Finally, after 25k, we reached the Aid Station, it was not were the guide had indicated. We also noticed 3 people passed us based on the log book and were now 45 minutes ahead of us. This was not possible, as some of the folks who were now ahead of us were at the Vauqulin AS with me 3 hours prior and we were definitely running quite a bit faster. Florent and I knew something wasn't right. Turns out that some of the runners that turned at the X, were clever enough to bushwack there way forward toward a point on the course near the aid station, cutting about 10k off the intended route. Purely unintentional course cutting, but frustrating for both us and them once we all found out what happened.
Because this aid station was misplaced, we only had 6.5k back to Coin du Banc instead of 11.5, so that was nice. We ran some wicked single track on this section and even got to see an amazing cascading waterfall, and can you believe it, in the daylight. Reaching CdB AS for the second time, Florent's GPS read out 94k, about 15k shy of the original route. I figured my earlier mistakes were about the same as Florent's, so I adopted his mileage from that point on. Leaving CdB, we were getting ready for the night, (it was 6:30pm) and we were about to do a 37-40k loop on mostly single track and would be coming back to CdB for the third and final time. From there it would only be 15k to the finish. JF, suggested we needed to do the 40k loop twice, to make up for lost miles, but Florent disagreed, and figured that if we finished the planned route as is, we'd have at least 150k, which we all agreed was close enough. Leaving here, we ran on a train track for 5k, which absolutely sucked. Florent was killing it, and I was running behind him feeling nautious and staring at the wood bars under his feet as they went by only made things worse. After this horrible section we entered some pretty sweet technical singletrack. It was now dark enough for lights so we fired them up and went to work. We had 4 sections to cover as a part of this 40k loop, the first 3 would be each about 12k, and the fourth was 3-4k. We made quick work of the first two and ended up at "the old Usine" aid station, which was a bar/club on the edge of the ocean. It was a great spot for an aid station. It was now about9:30pm, We took in some broth and a few pretzels and got back on our way. Somehow we missed a marker on this 3rd section and ended up staying on a paved road rather than getting on small trail that ran parallel to the road for a short while. Through some miracle we got lucky and found a Gaspesia100 sign on the side of the paved road where a snowmobile trail intersected the road. We didn't see the normal markers, but figured this was the correct route (turns out the sign was intended for the volunteers). Eventually we came to an intersection that we'd seen earlier in the day(which was expected) however because we entered it from an unintended direction we ended up following an arrow up to Belvedere(for my 3rd visit), which was not correct according to our guide and map. Florent did figure out which direction we were supposed to head in from the intersection but things still werent' clear to us as to why we had approached the intersection from the wrong trail.
Anyways, we now had some more bonus miles to add to the bunch, doing another 4-5k on that section. Finally, we got to "Petit Montreal" the end of the 3rd 12k section on this loop and we knew from here it was only 3-4k back to Coin du Banc and this would be all downhill and mostly on pave. We made it back to CdB around 2am, and we're still moving well, although my legs were giving me some trouble on the steep descents. This last 15k section included a really cool 3k beach section that required some technical bouldering skills(due to the high tide) and both Florent and I thought that was wicked fun and a nice change of pace. We then had a 400m climb up to the races' first aid station(Gargantuan) via a new route which included some 4 wheeler trail and some paved road. This section was about 8k and was pretty steep and slow. Once we reached the top we knew it was only 7k and mostly dowhnhill singletrack. JF met us with 3k to go and took a few photos as we made our way down to the finish line. We looked at our watches and thought we might even be under 20 hours. We missed it by 3 minutes. Florent and I crossed the finish hand in hand and hugged at the end. We'd spent the last 14 hours running side by side and had a blast doing it. Even though we were both pretty "business" when it came to the race we had a hell of a time running together and did find the time to chat about our families, training, races and work. This was one of the best racing experiences I've had to date and I'll remember this race for a long time. Not sure if you'll read this Florent, but thanks for sharing those miles with me, I really enjoyed your company and I'm glad it worked out the way it did. Hopefully we get to do it again some time.
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Home Carl Cox Classics Live sets Techno Carl Cox - Live @ Twilo (New York) - (24-01-1999)
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Carl Cox - Live @ Twilo (New York) - (24-01-1999)
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Something about Carl Cox:
I can't remember a time without the strains of soul music drifting through our house. With both parents coming from Barbados I was brought up very much in tune with a natural party ethos that went hand in hand with a love of good music. My earliest musical memories are of Booker T and the MGs, Aretha Franklin and, of course the great Elvis, and I used to hijack my parents collection of 70's soul 45's and get the whole family grooving round the lounge! I guess the early signs were there - my passion for music combined with an over-whelming desire to entertain as many people as possible.
By 10 I had well and truly caught the bug and was spending every bit of my pocket money on soul and funk records. I got my first pair of decks (just the 2!) by the age of 15 and I started to play as many parties as I could, discovering that I could buzz off a crowd whilst funding my habit at the same time. As the 70's became the 80's I followed the musical trend from soul to disco to hip-hop but it wasn't really until I moved to Brighton in 1986 that I discovered, along with so many others, the pure thrill of acid house.
The 'Summer Of Love' was special for me in more ways than one. It was at the Sunrise rave on the outskirts of London in 1988 that I had had my biggest breakthrough yet. I was already something of a regular on the infamous M1/Orbital rave circuit but it was at Sunrise that I had the idea to hook up a third deck. At 10.30am on a hazy Sunday morning I managed to tempt 15,000 partied out ravers back onto their weary feet and kick the party back into action - it was an amazing experience- and since then my phone has not stopped ringing with offers for 'The 3 Deck Wizard'. I was fortunate enough to participate in many of the events that have gone down in history as defining moments in the history of UK club culture, such as playing the opening night at Rampling's legendary Shoom, running The Project with Oakie as well as holding a residency at Brighton's ZAP club.
With my reputation as a DJ well and truly secured I was able to turn my attentions towards producing. Initially signing to Perfecto I had my first hit in 1992 with 'I Want You' and, believe me, no one was more surprised than me when I found myself performing on Top Of The Pops when my record peaked at number 23 in the UK charts!!
Despite the fact that the follow up 'Does It Feel Good To You' also charted in the top 40, commercial success was never what I had been aiming for, it was all somewhat too far removed from the reality and buzz of setting a dance floor alight. Whilst fellow spinners such as Grooverider and Fabio moved from raves into Jungle, choosing to focus on a very UK and London orientated sound, I couldn't escape the American and European influences that had always been there whilst I was growing up. I have always been very globally minded which comes across in my choice of music, which I use to cross physical and cultural boundaries to bring people together. Essentially my heart lies with house and techno and it was for this reason that I chose to take a back seat from my impending career as a pop star and be true to myself by going underground and re-discovering my roots.
Artist: Carl Cox
Tittle: Live @ Twilo
Rls date: 24-01-1999
Genre: Techno
1. Artist Unknown - Untitled (Silver)
2. Marc Williams - Untitled (white Label)
3. Chump - "The Vega EP" (white Label)
4. Secret Cinema - Untitled (white Label)
5. Conga Squad - "After Hours" (Rotating Speakers)
6. Copper - "7 Hours In A Bathroom" (Neo)
7. Carl Lecebusch - "Puente Latino" (white Label)
8. Vince Wacson - "Glow" (Primate)
9. High Lonesome Sound System - "Champion Sound" (Exist Dance)
10. Continuous Cool - "Automatic" (Strictly)
11. Index - "Independed Experimental EP" (Template)
12. Torohiro Natamuka & Storia Orinako - "Route 4" (Rotation)
13. Mad-Onna - "New Style" (Rate Xxx)
14. Future Primitive - "The Future" (Groovilicious)
15. The High Tech Child - "Tribal Storm" (Tronic Music)
16. Access 58 - "Red Districk EP" (white Label)
17. Papson Movement - "Peace Love & Music" (white Label)
18. 1FM/075 - "The If EP" (If Music)
19. Sound Associates - "Music" (Tortured)
20. Adam Beyer - "Drum Code 16 " (white Label)
21. Code Red #8 - "unknown " (white Label)
22. A Small Phatt One - "Music For Pushchairs" (Very Limited)
23. Astrid B & JP - "Green Glow" (Bush)
24. Langston Hugg - "High On High" (Bush)
25. Devil Fish - "Touch Of Evil" (Bush)
26. Plastika - "Disco Dancing" (ffrr)
27. Underworld - "King Of The Snake" (white Label)
28. Geezer - "Prozac" (Smitten)
29. Dutch Liquid - "Funk E" (STW)
30. Carl Lecebusch - "Funk Tee" (Acknowledgment)
31. Sky Master - "Shooting Stars" (Off Shoot)
32. DJ Stew - "123" (Funky Fresia)
33. Marco Bailey - "Purple Haze" (Intense)
34. Mark Broom - "Work That S***" (Dark House)
35. DJ Tresto - "Space Age Invensions" (Black Hole)
36. Adam Beyer & Marco Corola - "Drum Code 16" (white Label)
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Misshapes: The Making of Tatty Devine
August 8, 2019 by Intern
20 July – 11 August 2019
Lethaby Gallery (Central Saint Martins), 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, N1C 4AA
By Abi Tominey-Smith
Crafts Council have collaborated with Central Saint Martins within the University Arts London to bring you Tatty Devine’s first solo showcase, including jewellery work, video footage, sketchbook drawings, fashion work and installation pieces. Set in a bright, open setting, reflecting the style of this incredibly cool brand.
University of the Arts London graduates themselves, Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden joined forces about 20 years ago to create the brand Tatty Devine, an original and independent jewellery company based in London. They have challenged the basic conventions of jewellery through their acrylic laser cutting, quirky design and use of scale.
Acid Blossom Ultra Bead Necklace by Tatty Devine.
This body of over 100 work shown spans over their whole creative careers as Tatty Devine, with themes across their collections from Rebellion, Space, Music, Magic, Food to even a reference to Haberdashery!
Being one of the first companies to use laser cutting as a jewellery making technique, their work was bound to stand out. You can see the talent and creative spark of these ladies, as their jewellery is full of originality and personality. The fun colours, shapes and larger scale they’ve played with definitely makes a statement.
Lobster Giant Necklace by Tatty Devine.
Inside Misshapes, there are multiple screens to showing a looped step by step video of how the various materials are turned into wearable jewellery through laser cutting and hand techniques. It shows the process of bending, joining and piecing together such pieces as the Lobster Giant Necklace (above). Many more wacky pieces, similar to the Lobster are on display here.
Tatty Devine are a company very passionate about change and equality which is obvious throughout their work and team with all of their jewellery handmade in the UK by a group of 30 women.
They’ve teamed with The Fawcett Society to fight for women’s rights and often pay homage to the movements such as LGTBQ+ through colour and wording, allowing for their platform to speak up and spread empowering, strong messages.
Courage Calls Necklace (left) and Votes for Women Badge (right) by Tatty Devine
‘Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere’, was a line taken from a speech by feminist Millicent Fawcett that was given after the death of fellow suffragette Emily Davidson. This along with the Votes for Women badges are Tatty Devine’s way of showing support for the suffragettes and women’s rights everywhere. This and many more under the theme of ‘Causes’ are displayed at the exhibition.
Rainbow Halo Instillation with Rosie (left) and Harriet (right) by Tatty Devine, 2018.
Another area covered within Misshapes is their public art, where more recently they have been commissioned to make works for spaces such as the Peninsula Square, Greenwich, where they’ve been able to take their use of scale to a whole new level. Themes of Love, Peace and Magic were the inspiration for this Christmas based instillation. More photographs of their crazy public displays are shown in the exhibition, alongside some of the pieces included.
Altogether, the exhibition was buzzing, innovative and a very engaging experience. With a broad range of subject matters, there’s something for everyone – whether you’re a creative mind or not. It’s definitely a must see!
All images (courtesy from the Misshapes exhibition)
Filed Under: Embroidery, Fashion, London Tagged With: central saint martins, CSM, embellishment, exhibition, jeweller, jewellery, laser cutting, tatty devine, UAL, university of the arts london
Hawthorne& Heaney on CSM BA 2016
July 8, 2016 by Natasha Searls-Punter
As the academic year is coming to an end, Central Saint Martins, a college in University of the Arts London have hosted their whole school degree show. The university has been transformed into exhibition rooms presenting a small selection of every student’s final collection.
CSM Degree Shows 2016
Each department have presented their work in an appropriate way from glamorous fairy lights in BA Jewellery design to sturdy pieces of scaffolding in BA Fashion. Some stunning examples of embroidery were presented from the BA Fashion students, and as expected all collections portrayed real hard work and creativity to be individual and stand out from the crowd.
BA Fashion – CSM Degree Shows 2016
Fashion student finalist Santiago Garcia Trias featured sequin embroidery heavily in his final collection forming very complicated areas of handmade sequins of all colours and textures.
Garment Close up – Santiago Garcia Trias – CSM Degree Shows 2016
A wide range of materials have been used to create this unusual surface for example metallic paint has been applied over the sequins to create an extra sheen. Santiago has contrasted the highly embellished areas with black silicone and rubber to create the structure of the garment. The close up above is a section of one of his works featuring a range of distorted summer florals. Each garment in his collection has a floral element, the emphasis on the contrast between busy embellishment plain dark fabric helps to emphasise the detail in the embroidery.
Santiago Garcia Trias – CSM Degree Shows 2016
Many of the students have chosen to concentrate on unusual techniques in their projects. Textile Design finalist Molly McAndrew has based her project on woven beadwork and tapestry weaving developing a range of samples using crystal beads from collection sponsors, Swarovski.
Exhibition Space – Molly McAndrew – CSM Degree Show 2016
The fashion accessory collection explores ‘The Adventures of Neko Chan and Gingham Man’ taking real inspiration from people in Japan. The geometric nature of the woven beadwork really creates an innocence and simplicity to the pieces in the collection and it is clear to see that the main influence is Japanese manga art in various forms. A very justifiable collection of work appreciating the laborious yet honourable work of an artisan.
Visualization – Molly McAndrew – CSM Degree Show 2016
As well as delicate intricate work catching the public’s eye throughout the exhibition CSM’s degree shows had a wide range of bold colourful pieces. Jina Park really explored the concept of large handmade sequin work throughout all of the garments in her final BA Fashion collection.
Jina Park – CSM Degree Show 2016
A wide range of paper materials have been used to create this heavily embellished neck piece. She has duplicated the same motif in a range of sizes and colours and used it throughout the collection.
Jina has made the sequins out of a reflective materials which really has really helped with portraying movement and fluidity in such big accessories. To see more garments from her collection visit www.jinapark.co.uk
By Philippa Martin
Filed Under: Art, Embroidery, Fashion, London Tagged With: accessories, central saint martins, Clothes, CSM, embroidery, exhibition, fashion, graduate show, jewellery, London, new designers, print, sequins, students, textile design, textiles
Hawthorne & Heaney for Andrew Totah
June 30, 2016 by Natasha Searls-Punter
This year we were lucky enough to work with a very promising CSM MA student called Andrew Totah. We produced a series of embroideries for him which feature in his final collection which are so vibrant and exciting, we couldn’t wait to share them with you.
Andrew Totah’s collection is based on his travels through South Africa and features a wonderfully vibrant colour palette which reflects the culture. Andrew’s collection is very much about telling a story through his designs so his girls are superheroes of a kind who modify their clothes and empower themselves by take back control of their city in the night.
We produced a series of heavily machine embroidered patches to compliment his collection, all of which were his own graphic designs. Most of the embroideries are raised from the surface of the fabric, that combined with the punchiness of the colours makes a strong impression.
To see more about the collection and the inspiration behind the designs, as well as the embroidery on the garments shown in the show at the end then have a watch of the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3bs5Yu_1gI
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[Help]Sidescroller Engine
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Post by zrrion » Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:35 pm
Hello. This is my first post on these forums, so I apologize if this is the wrong place for this post.
Anyway. I've taken a look at löve and it looks to be the exact thing I would want for an indie sidescroller. Problem is, I am unsure where to start. From my searching there don't appear to be any basic 2D sidescroller engines floating around for love, but rather every project has built their own.
Is this the case? If it is, where would I look to start building my own?
If it is not the case, can anyone point me towards an engine?
tl;dr could someone point me in the right direction for making a sidescroller, either to an engine, or to someething that would help with creating my own?
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Post by Jasoco » Tue Nov 24, 2015 5:42 pm
If you don't need slopes, you can look into kikito's Bump 3.0 (Not 2.0. Both threads are in the Demos forum. 3.0 is better.) collision detection and resolution library. It has a simple demo of a platformer. But it's very simple. If you want to actually do scrolling you should look into a camera library if you don't want to try and figure it all out yourself. I code my own from scratch but it's a lot of work. You could start simple and go the Knytt route where the level is divided into non-scrolling screens. Then you don't have to bother with camera math and can implement that into a later project once you've gotten the hang of coding.
See, one thing you need to remember when scrolling is that you have to learn how to cull stuff that isn't on screen. Like if you have a large tile map, you don't want to be looping over every single tile in the level every frame because like 80% of it is off screen and it's wasting time and slowing down. So you need to do some math and only loop over the visible tiles. That's one tip to remember.
Also, physics for a platformer are simple usually, but can still be a bit overwhelming. If you are new to programming you can start with a different kind of game like a top-down game where you don't need to really worry about whether you're jumping or standing on a platform.
Also, don't use Box2D for your 2D platformer unless you know exactly how to use Box2D to make it work like a normal platformer. It might be tempting to use it because it's there, but it also does not work like a regular platformer out of the box. It takes a lot of tweaking and work to make sure you can work the physics correctly. Just way too much work. Just look at Concerned Joe/Move or Die. Those are built in Löve with Box2D but took a lot of work to get where they are but the character physics might still feel "floaty" to someone used to other platformers.
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Post by adnzzzzZ » Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:13 pm
Jasoco wrote: Also, don't use Box2D for your 2D platformer unless you know exactly how to use Box2D to make it work like a normal platformer. It might be tempting to use it because it's there, but it also does not work like a regular platformer out of the box. It takes a lot of tweaking and work to make sure you can work the physics correctly. Just way too much work. Just look at Concerned Joe/Move or Die. Those are built in Löve with Box2D but took a lot of work to get where they are but the character physics might still feel "floaty" to someone used to other platformers.
All you have to do is use body:setLinearVelocity and do velocity/acceleration calculations on your side to make it not floaty. Then whenever you need the physics engine to take over (like when you want to push an object based on some force), use body:applyLinearImpulse or body:applyForce and make sure to disable your setting of body:setLinearVelocity so the body's velocity isn't overwritten while it's being pushed. This is relatively simple logic that gives you control over how movement works.
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Post by pgimeno » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:03 pm
adnzzzzZ wrote: All you have to do is use body:setLinearVelocity and do velocity/acceleration calculations on your side to make it not floaty. Then whenever you need the physics engine to take over (like when you want to push an object based on some force), use body:applyLinearImpulse or body:applyForce and make sure to disable your setting of body:setLinearVelocity so the body's velocity isn't overwritten while it's being pushed. This is relatively simple logic that gives you control over how movement works.
I'm not the OP, but wanted to thank you for the advice anyway
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Post by Lafolie » Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:45 pm
A physics library can be great, but when you're starting out I do believe that it's a very good idea to have a go at doing some pseudo physics yourself. Having an understanding or insight as to how things like Box2D work internally can help you solve problems when you do use them, and adds to your overall grounding. You might even pick up some habits or techniques that are useful elsewhere (this is particularly true with data structures).
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Face at the Window: Three Stories
by Louise Welsh
Face at the Window: Three Stories Synopsis
The three stories in this short collection from acclaimed author Louise Welsh all confront fear. In 'The Face at the Window' Fiona is convinced someone is breaking into her house, but the only evidence for the break-in is a face at the window that no one else can see. In 'Realm of the Census' Maryanne travels from house to house, collecting census information from strangers, and encounters a woman who lives with ghosts. In 'The Queen of Craigielee' Ailsa is photographing the interior of an abandoned high-rise which is about to be demolished when she sees the faint figure of a girl in a doorway of one of the condemned flats. These three dark stories are tales to savour; they will linger in the mind long after you've finished reading them.
Publication date: 13th February 2014
Author: Louise Welsh
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton John Murray
Categories: Horror & ghost stories,
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June 2018 Digital Marketing News Roundup
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Summer is here, and things are heating up online in more ways than one. Some people are heated over the wrong dates associated with their content in Google’s search results, and others are upset over lost rankings due to a Yoast bug.
It’s not all bad, though. There are also some exciting updates this month as well– the recent Google News makeover brings new features; Instagram may allow users to post hour long videos; Facebook took away their trending section and is in the process of adding some new features. Keep reading for more details about these latest changes.
Google Displays Wrong Dates for Content
Source: Search Engine Roundtable
Google sometimes displays a date next to the meta descriptions in search results. It’s a way to let users know if the content is outdated.
Unfortunately, Google has been displaying the wrong dates for some results. John Mueller says it’s because the bot picks up another date from the content instead of the published date.
The other issue is that some publishers have discovered this bug and have used it to their advantage to make their content look updated when it’s outdated. Publishers simply place a current date on the page, and Google picks it up during a crawl and then displays it in the search results.
Google continues to work on a fix for this but encourages anyone who sees incorrect dates to submit feedback to them by clicking on the small icon under the search result.
Yoast Apologizes for Ranking Drops
Source: Search Engine Journal
A Yoast update earlier in the year has caused a lot of strife for some users. A bug in the tool has caused “Panda-like problems,” leading to dropped rankings.
Users who noticed a drop in rankings after March 6 were probably affected by the Yoast SEO Plugin bug. Settings in an earlier version didn’t convert to the updated one (version 7.0.2). This caused all posts/pages using Yoast to lose valuable optimized data.
Yoast Founder Joost de Valk had this to say to users:
“This post serves both as a warning and an apology. …We’re so very sorry. …we messed up. I myself, am sorry. More so than normal, because I came up with and coded this change myself…”
Google News Makeover Shows Off New Features
Google News is all new, and with it comes new features. This is what they had to say about the changes:
“With the launch of the new Google News, we re-evaluated some features, tags, and schema guidelines which were built over many years for publishers. While we are keeping and evolving certain features, we have also deprecated others.
Our goal is to engage the publisher community with features that bring substantial value to both our publishers and our users. Some of the underlying ideas for these deprecated features may show up in new ways in the future.”
Publishers need to be aware that they will no longer receive error notifications from Google Search Console for errors such as incorrect article length, there are off-site redirects, date not found, and if there are any news-specific errors.
Ditching Facebook Trends for New Features
Facebook has removed Trends from its application because it wasn’t being widely used. Now, the social network wants to replace it with something that may be more popular.
Breaking News – This will be a feed of the most current news worldwide. Notifications may be included with this new feature.
Today In – This will include local news. Facebook wants to feature content from local publishers, especially from officials and organizations.
News Video in Watch – This will be video coverage of local, national and worldwide news. Important events may be streamed in this section.
Instagram Considers Hour Long Videos
Source: Wall Street Journal
As people spend more time on social networks like Instagram, long-form content has increased in popularity. To meet the demand, Instagram is exploring the option of allowing users to publish hour long videos.
Wall Street Journal published, “The Facebook Inc.-owned photo and video sharing app is preparing to launch a new feature that will include long-form video, according to people familiar with the matter. The feature, which could allow videos of up to an hour in length, will focus on vertical video, or video that is taller than it is wide, one of the people said. Until now, Instagram hasn’t allowed users to post any videos longer than one minute.
The people said the plans are tentative and subject to change.
In recent weeks, Instagram has had conversations with content creators and publishers about producing long-form video for the platform, a person familiar with the matter said. The feature, if it launches, will do so within the Instagram app, another person said.”
The summer is off to a great start in digital marketing. We don’t know about you, but we’re excited to see what else this season has in store for us. Make sure to check back in for July’s News Roundup!
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The Best Free Online Calendars: 7 Options Compared
Dan Price April 24, 2019 24-04-2019 5 minutes
You don’t need lots of fancy productivity tools. If deployed correctly, a simple online calendar should suffice for most of your organizational needs.
There are lots of free online calendars to choose from. At one end of the scale, there are well-known apps like Google Calendar. At the other end, you’ll find several niche apps that are worth considering.
Here are some of the best free online calendars.
1. Google Calendar
Starting with Google Calendar is a no-brainer. The free app is tightly integrated with Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Keep, and the rest of the company’s suite of productivity apps.
The feature list is extensive. Sharing calendars with other users is a breeze, you can color-code single appointments and entire calendars, and there’s a helpful Find a Time meeting scheduler which can scan all invitees’ calendars for a mutually available free slot.
But while Google Calendar is the most recognizable app in the sector, it is not without its drawbacks. Power users complain about the lack of labels and tags, and—critically for some users—there’s no offline support when using the calendar on a desktop.
Google Calendar is also available on Android and iOS.
2. MyStudyLife
If you’re a student (or a teacher!), you need to check out MyStudyLife.
As a sector, education relies heavily on calendars. Thing such as class timetables, homework deadlines, revision sessions, exam dates, and coursework submission all need to be logged and monitored.
The developers have created MyStudyLife with these types of agenda items in mind. The app supports week and day rotation timetables, comfortably manages school holidays and new academic years, and offers a full-featured task manager.
The app has a central dashboard which displays information from all your categories at the same time.
MyStudyLife is available on the web, Android, and iOS. All the platforms have an offline mode and sync to the cloud.
3. Cozi Family Organizer
Running a family is a full-time job. Juggling kids’ extra-curricular activities, planning meals, organizing shopping trips, and visiting doctors arguably requires even more careful attention to agendas than typical 9 to 5 employment.
If you want to make sure your family is all on the same page, you could sign up for Cozi Family Organizer.
It’s a free web calendar that has separate sections for activities such as meals, birthdays, and health appointments. There’s also a contact manager, a family journal, and a built-in way to send SMS messages to other family members.
The free version of Cozi is ad-supported. It’s $20 per year for the Gold version. It removes ads and introduces a few extra features such as month view on mobile and a birthday tracker.
4. TimeTree
If support for calendar collaboration is essential to you, check out TimeTree. It’s another of the best free online calendars.
The app’s specialty is being able to share an event with anyone else, even if they are not a TimeTree user. You can also share and collaborate on entire schedules, such as a kid’s calendar or a work agenda.
To aid collaboration and event organizing, TimeTree lets you pick what type of calendar you are working on. For example, there are relationship calendars (for two-person sharing), a friends’ calendar (which has a built-in chat feature), work calendars, and more.
TimeTree also has a native reminder and note functionality. Like the calendars, you can share your notes with other users and work on them collaboratively.
5. Outlook Calendar
There are three big names in the world of free web calendars—Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Although there are some differences between them, you can’t go far wrong whichever of the three you decide to use.
Some of Outlook Calendar’s best features include a shared family calendar for your Microsoft family group, automatic integration with your Outlook email address for events and other calendar entries, and support for Cortana.
Cortana support is particularly noteworthy. You can add events, set reminders, and more, without needing to open the main site.
6. Jorte
Japanese company Jorte is another company which offers a free online calendar with paid extras for those who need them.
The app attempts to recreate the flexibility of a paper schedule in a digital form. That means you can use each day’s slot in a variety of ways, including for pictures to make the calendar function more like a diary or journal.
And if you’ve already got an existing calendar with Google, iOS, or Yahoo, you can easily sync it with Jorte from within the app.
Jorte also lets you follow other people’s calendars; they will appear directly in your schedule. You can find calendars for everything from garbage collections dates to local event listings.
Three pro plans are available. They cost $1.99, $2.99, and $3.99 and offer more features.
7. Any.do
Any.do includes a free web calendar that’s tightly integrated with the much-loved note and task management app. The former standalone app is now part of the broader suite; you cannot download it separately.
The main benefit of using the Any.do calendar comes from its impressive notifications. You can take advantage of location-based reminders, daily task preview alerts, and manage travel-time notification delays.
All the usual suspects—like Google Calendar, iCloud, and Outlook—can be made to sync with the Any.do interface.
And the Any.do Moment feature lets you plan each new day in seconds after you wake up by combining your calendar appointments and task list.
Finally, Any.do supports one of the widest number of platforms. In addition to accessing your calendar online, you can also use it on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Wear OS, Apple Watch, Amazon Alexa, and Google Assistant. It even works with Slack!
Other Calendar Apps to Check Out
If you’re looking for the best free web calendar, one of these seven options should meet your needs.
But some smartphone calendar apps are worth checking out too. To learn more, make sure you look at the best free calendar apps for Android and best calendar apps for iOS The 8 Best Calendar Apps for Your iPhone The 8 Best Calendar Apps for Your iPhone Looking for the best calendar app for iPhone? Here's our roundup of the best to help you find the perfect one for your needs. Read More .
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DayViewer is a planner and organizer system with a calendar and many features. Useful for work, study and every day planning. The team rooms are private team calendars with additional task features. Worth looking at.
We used TeamUp.com for a shared calendar. The Free version gives us several sub-calendars and doesn't require an account to manage/access. Give out the URLs for various things and you're good. On the flip side - whoever _has_ those URLs can do whatever they're allowed to in that context. Generally save the "admin" one for just the admins, create several "read-only" views, and then allow limited "create only" options for people to add events. One or two have "edit" within certain categories/sub-calendars, but few have carte blanc access.
We wanted something that wouldn't require people to have yet another login/account on a system to keep track of, but still be consumable by normal users. That met our needs.
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Senator Anning says "Egg Boy" Will Connolly deserved the slap he gave him.
Senator Fraser Anning says the mother of a teenage boy who broke an egg on his head should have slapped her son around a long time ago.
The Queensland federal MP also said he was acting in self-defence when he struck the Melbourne boy who’d just cracked the egg on the back of his head during a press conference on Saturday.
He also says a press statement in which he blamed the Christchurch mosque massacre on Muslim immigration was taken out of context.
But the independent senator again said citizens should have a say on how many migrants are allowed to settle in Australia and who is allowed to stay.
“It’s all okay for politicians who live behind their high fences, they don’t have to rub shoulders with these people, but (it is) the people in the street who are being attacked,” he told reporters in Brisbane on Monday.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has urged voters to dump Senator Anning, who’s been branded a disgrace for his comments on the Christchurch terror attack.
The Morrison government and the opposition have rejected calls from the Greens to change laws to allow politicians to be expelled from federal parliament.
Mr Dutton said voters would be able to react to Senator Anning’s “appalling” comments at the May election.
The government and Labor will move a censure motion condemning Senator Anning’s comments when parliament returns next month.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott believes Senator Anning will be booted out of parliament at the election.
“It was a lunatic thing to say and he deserves censure, he absolutely deserves censure and I’m sure that’s what he’s going to get from the parliament when we go back,” Mr Abbott told 2GB.
Senator Anning replaced One Nation’s disqualified Malcolm Roberts in 2017 but quit the party to sit as an independent after a falling out with Pauline Hanson.
The One Nation leader says she will abstain from voting to censure Senator Anning because it won’t “prove a damn thing”.
A censure motion is one of the stronger forms of rebuke parliament can make.
But Greens leader Richard Di Natale wants the parliament to go further, saying his party is exploring all options including changing the Privileges Act to allow politicians to be expelled.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Senator Anning should face the full force of the law after he reacted violently to a teenage boy who cracked an egg on the back of his head.
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the senator’s comments were a disgrace.
Australian man Brenton Tarrant, 28, from Grafton in NSW, has been charged with one count of murder over the shooting in Christchurch, which resulted in the deaths of 50 people.
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Manticore Games is creating CORE, a digital playground and community designed to unleash imagination and revolutionize game creation, distribution, and play.
We’re looking for an experienced and creative Technical Writer to join our Creator Relations team. A platform’s success depends on the documentation that supports it, which means CORE needs to have helpful, readable, and up-to-date content that helps our creators thrive. As a member of the team, you’ll build the how-to guides, tutorials, API documentation, and video scripts that educate and inspire our creator community. Working in tandem with Product, Engineering, and DevRel, you’ll play a key role in Manticore as the primary curator of our documentation and developer-focused external content.
Ideally you combine a flair for language with a fascination with the syntax of code. You have experience writing documentation for a live product, which you’d be excited to establish as best practices in Manticore. You can synthesize complex information into clear and concise wording, then adapt it from a wiki entry to a YouTube video script. If you’ve ever looked at an API reference and described it as “beautiful”, we’d love to talk to you.
Produce clear and concise technical documentation including but not limited to: tutorials, quick start guides, technical guides, and FAQs
Write guides and tutorials that inform creators and bring in search engine traffic for key topics
Adapt content and writing style to a wide variety of audiences, such as new users, expert creators, and casual players
Work with the Creator Relations team to design and create reference games and sample code
Define the voice, tone and standards for Manticore as represented in documentation, blog posts, and tutorials
Coordinate with API developers to produce best-in-class standardized API docs
Write scripts and content for social media, such as YouTube videos, forum posts, and patch notes
Work directly with Product and Engineering to monitor product updates for changes and deprecations, ensuring all documentation is up-to-date for all end users
Monitor the community for common problems and proactively make solutions to help them
Work with technical staff to make CORE easier to use, and thus require fewer instructions
Identify gaps in documentation and work to resolve them
Contribute to the documentation style guide and documentation process guides, again working across disciplines as necessary
Act as primary content reviewer for other technical writers
BS/BA or equivalent in Technical Communication, English, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience, with 3+ years of experience writing documentation for a technical audience
Experience with a docs-as-code workflow, a markup language such as Markdown, AsciiDoc, or reStructuredText, and at least one programming language
Ability to deliver high quality documentation while paying attention to detail
Ability to write in both explanatory and procedural styles
Samples of writing done for a technical audience will be required
Pluses
Experience using Git as a version management tool, including working with branches, pull requests, and merge conflicts
Knowledge of video creation and production, especially with regard to tutorials
Familiarity with documentation for games-related services
Experience with game engines, platforms and modding tools such as Unity, Unreal, Minecraft Forge, and Roblox
Interested in representing the company publicly in the online community, such as in forum threads and videos
Please submit a writing portfolio (3-5 writing samples) that includes samples of API writing, tutorials, internal documentation, content architecture, and process visualization
Manticore Games provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Let’s get loud: Bellamy
Thu 25 Aug 2016, 04:27 PM
Storm coach Craig Bellamy has urged Melburnians to turn AAMI Park into a sea of purple pride on Friday night.
A big crowd is expected for the blockbuster clash against the Broncos as Melbourne aim to secure the 2016 minor premiership.
Storm have enjoyed a strong record at home this season, winning eight of their nine games at AAMI Park.
The coach hopes tomorrow night will see the city unite behind their side against the Broncos.
“It would be great to get a good crowd here tomorrow night. Hopefully it will be a noisy crowd, we cop that when we go away so hopefully we can return serve tomorrow,” Bellamy said.
“The Melbourne supporters are terrifically passionate and always very loyal.
“Hopefully they will turn up in numbers and if there are a few people out there who haven’t seen a game of NRL before, you’re probably not going to see a better game than a Broncos-Storm game.”
Be at AAMI Park when we take on the Broncos, Friday 26 August, 7:30pm.
Needing just one more win to secure top spot, it would be easy for the focus of the playing group to waver.
However with tomorrow’s tough test against the Broncos starring them in the face, there is no time for looking too far ahead.
“We will get through today’s session, get through tomorrow night and then we will make plans for the next week,” Bellamy said.
“I try to not look too far ahead, especially at this time of year so we will just see what happens today, tomorrow and then go from there.”
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REINCARNATE — Take it or Leave it (review)
Demo · 1982 · NWoBHM
3.5/5 · 2010-08-10
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Great NWoBHM fare from Reincarnate, with a kind of distinctive charm and wild energy that's immediately appealing, and completely transcends the otherwise average nature of the songwriting. The A side is a strong song called Take It or Leave It - and, yes, that's the immediate impression.
But something about it worms its way into your banger-bone, or whichever part of the anatomy is responsible for making a person want to nod their head uncontrollably - and for the songs duration at least, you're hooked.
Once it's over, you've forgotten it - which is kinda cool, as I hate songs that take residence in some hard-to-get-at part of the back of your brain that you'd otherwise use for concentrating in lectures or meetings, or getting to sleep at night.
There are also no less than two guitar solos on offer here - so real value for money for the serious air guitar afficiando. We're not talking serious technical shreddery, of course, but then again, it's way beyond the one-finger wonders and bluff merchants, with arcing curves and nimble-fingered runs and squeals - just the ticket.
The flipside is an altogether stranger affair, and much more distinctive, with beautiful Phrygian (read "Egyptian") flavoured passages and unexpected details in the arrangement that make it a pure delight. Inna heavy kind of way, you understand.
There's not much here not to like - sure, it's a bit rough here and there, and instantly forgettable (in a good way), but the vocals are a bit better than yer average NWoBHM demo quality, which is nice, the guitars have a smokin' tone, and the ride is a hugely enjoyable one, if not an adrenaline-rich rollercoaster.
If I was getting a compilation of "Best of NWoBHM" together, I definitely wouldn't want to leave this off, and even though it'd probably end up on CD 3 or 4 or something, it'd be one of those that you constantly re-discover.
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Seychelles International weather
Today. Maximum daytime temperature: 32 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 26 degrees Celsius. Sunny intervals. Sunrise: 06:19; Sunset: 18:40. UV: Extreme;
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Thursday. Maximum daytime temperature: 32 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 26 degrees Celsius. Sunny changing to partly cloudy by early evening. Sunrise: 06:20; Sunset: 18:40. UV: Extreme;
Sunny changing to partly cloudy by early evening.
Friday. Maximum daytime temperature: 32 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 26 degrees Celsius. Light showers changing to sunny intervals by lunchtime. Sunrise: 06:20; Sunset: 18:40. UV: Extreme;
Light showers changing to sunny intervals by lunchtime.
Saturday. Maximum daytime temperature: 31 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 26 degrees Celsius. Light showers changing to sunny intervals by lunchtime. Sunrise: 06:20; Sunset: 18:40. UV: Extreme;
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Tuesday. Maximum daytime temperature: 31 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 26 degrees Celsius. Heavy showers. Sunrise: 06:21; Sunset: 18:41. UV: Very high;
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Communing with Queer Ancestors
How do you commune with our queer ancestors?
"These dead are hungry. Fuck, dance, run, kiss, steal, eat decadently, sing, destroy, create. The energy of life, ecstatic life, draws them close, nourishes.
Let your kissing, dancing, fucking, creating, destroying move you into trance.
Give them space and adorn it lavishly. Speak to them there, where they are comfortable and at home.
The dead, and especially the queer dead, are unorganized, chaotic. Don't expect organization. Instead find nodes, affines, contact among them. They'll coordinate amongst themselves.
Learn their names, all their names, the secret ones too. All the better to call them by.
Research obsessively, research frantically, research ecstatically.
Study their codes, commit yourself to the argot, the signs, open yourself up to veiled messages.
Pay attention to subtle omens—on the radio, in thrift stores, bookstores, passing conversations—they work through synchronicity.
There is no such thing as a coincidence.
Pay especial attention to outcasts, ranters, mad-ones, drunks.
Experiment with divinatory modes: practice bibliomancy, pay attention to birds, scry in wine, quiet your mind.
Alter your state of consciousness with drugs, with fasting, with dance, with chant.
Hold vigils, visit memorials, pour libations, light candles..."
These are just some of the many suggestions and directions in First Protocols of Queer Goetia, a small zine I found at The Scarlet Sage in San Francisco. It has no attributed author; rather, it reads as if it has been authored by our honored queer dead. You can order your own copy of First Protocols of Queer Goetia from Contagion Press.
I hope today and every day you find ways to honor the ancestors who came before us, who lived in ways that made it possible for us to live our lives in freedom and struggle.
Over the last several weeks, I’ve had several students and friends ask me about my practices for cultivating well-being and healing.
One of my favorite rituals right now is making and drinking my morning coffee. As I make my pour-over, it’s like making a potion or casting a spell, bringing together water and earth, the heat of fire, and the rich aromas carried on the air. Lately I’ve been drinking Café du Monde coffee with chicory because it’s what my grandmother drank and it reminds me of my roots growing up in Louisiana. I’ve also been adding ground cardamom and ground cinnamon, which is more of a Middle Eastern and North African tradition, a region that gave birth to so much of the life and culture on our planet—including traditions like astrology that are integral to my worldview.
As I stir, I express gratitude for the people who do the work to bring water into my home, who farm and carry and roast and grind my coffee, for the artist who crafted my mug, and for my senses that give me access to this experience. My mug becomes a cauldron for the elements I hold as sacred, for memory, for gratitude and lineage.
When I take a sip, I experience it as a joyful reunion with my Self: the water of the coffee joining with the water of my body, the earth of the coffee and spices joining with the minerals of my body, the heat from the coffee joining with the keep generated by my own cells, and the aromas wafting off the surface of the coffee carried on my breath. It is a moment at the start of my day to recognize that I am not separate; I am not alone. I belong to a vast system of life in constant connection with itself, and those connections are sacred. Starting each day with gratitude, connection, and belonging—all with a cup of coffee—are such simple and important steps toward living into my own healing and well-being.
What are your practices for well-being and healing?
If you are looking for support in connecting to your own purpose, your own practice of healing, or making sense of your life and direction, I have consultations available on April 27 and May 25. You can visit my Bookings page to schedule a session.
Elemental Rites at the End of the World
I have been a witch almost as long as I’ve been a dancer. Art and magic, choreography and ritual, came into my life at the same time—the same years that I came to acknowledge and accept myself as a queer person.
As I have moved through and between these practices for nearly 20 years, I have come to recognize their deep inextricability in my life. Dion Fortune famously described magic as “the art of changing consciousness at will”—a definition popularized by Starhawk.
What we know as dancers—and yogis and body workers and healers, not to mention athletes, neurologists, biologists, philosophers, and so on—is that consciousness is embodied. To change consciousness at will is a physical practice; making magic is always doing so with and as a body, or as iele paloumpis teaches, witchcraft is a corporeal practice.
We also know that our bodies are part of—not separate from—the Earth. Every part of ourselves is constituted of this place, thus to recognize the Earth as sacred is also to recognize the body as sacred. Or, as Joy Harjo writes:
“Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.”
Over the last several years, I have been teaching classes and workshops on the ways in which we embody the elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. These are not symbols and they are not separate from us. These elements compose us, connect us to worlds within and beyond us. Doing this work in my dance practice has informed my magic-making and how I facilitate rituals. It has affected how I understand the elements in astrology and tarot. Invoking the elements, working with their energy and qualities, is to invoke and work with that which is inseparable from our humanity—yet remains irreducible to the human.
On March 1, I premiered a performance-ritual entitled “Elemental Rites at the End of the World” at the Wexner Center for the Arts. This piece is one way in which this body magic is fusing my art and my witchcraft. It is an effort to grapple with the sacred, with the more-than-human, in the context of devastating troubles. How do we call on the deep and abiding resources of our sacred connections to this planet while we as a species also hurdle ourselves through relentless violence and the threat of our own extinction?
You can view a video of this performance-ritual here: https://vimeo.com/325694048
Choreography, performance, and original text by Michael J. Morris
Videography by Abby Koskinas
Vernal Equinox + Full Moon in Libra
Today is the Vernal Equinox, Ostara, the first day of spring. It is a time for celebrating new life, the crocuses sprouting up through the muddy earth of late winter, the return of birdsong, the buds of new leaves and flowers just beginning to sprout at the tips of branches. It is the midway point between the solstices, when the hours of daylight and nighttime are equal, the balanced place as we journey into longer days and the abundance of light. As the Sun moves into Aries—the sign of its exaltation—there’s a burst of energy, the spark of an ignition, the rush of sprinting into something new. Aries is a cardinal fire sign, and in many schemas, it is considered the first sign of the zodiac. It craves freedom and self-sufficiency, charging ahead into new situations and projects, blazing its own path, without necessarily concerning itself with the follow-through or outcome. With springtime beginning to blossom all around us, it certainly feels like the time for new beginnings, new experiences, new ventures, new loves, and new perspectives. But remember that Mercury is still retrograde until March 28, asking for patience, careful review, reflection, and in some cases delay. The equinox is a time of balance, and part of what we’re balancing right now is looking forward and looking back, processing what we’ve said and done as we dream that which is yet to come. With Mars—the ruler of Aries—in Taurus, our drive for erupting into the new may feel tempered by the grounding energy of slowing down, paying attention to body and earth, and finding our footing on solid ground.
Today is also the Full Moon in Libra, the sign of the scales, ruled by Venus. The Moon is gathering up the light of the Sun as it carries us into this new season, and sending it back to us in all its glory. The day and night might be equal, but the light will be constant. This lunar cycle is coming to its climax, reminding us that although some things are just beginning, other cycles are coming to their fullness or completion. We live within and between all of these processes, all of these cycles, and this full moon invites us to consider how we might use all this initiatory energy of the start of spring to also bring process that have already been unfolding into the light. Libra is a cardinal air sign that holds many perspectives and points of view in harmony. It is associated with beauty and grace and justice, and it understands that the more perspectives we can see and the more stories we can hear, the more beautiful our world might become. Justice will never emerge from a single point of view; the full flowering of justice requires us to reach out and listen to others who are not like us, and to find how multiple experiences and truths co-exist.
Blessings on this first day of spring and this full moon.
March 2019: Mercury Retrograde, Uranus in taurus, New Moon in Pisces
This is a big week in astrology:
On Tuesday, March 5, Mercury stations retrograde at the final degree of Pisces.
Then on Wednesday, March 6, Uranus ingresses into Taurus, where it will spend the next 7 years.
That same day, we have a new moon in Pisces in an almost perfect conjunction to Neptune in Pisces.
Mercury retrogrades happen multiple times a year. People talk about them a lot with anxiety or trepidation, or blame these periods for everything that’s going wrong. But Mercury moving retrograde is not a cause for panic; it’s a time for review, reflection, revisiting and revising the things we say, the messages we send, the stories we tell ourselves and one another. It’s a time for taking care, for remembering what Brené Brown has written: “Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.” This feels even more true and necessary as Mercury retraces its pathway through Pisces, the mutable water sign that turns us toward receptivity, empathy, and compassion. Pisces feels so deeply and is willing to allow what we feel to transform us, to set us in a new direction. With Neptune co-present with Mercury in Pisces, clarity might feel especially elusive, and boundaries may seem to dissolve when faced with the immensity of the world’s feelings or the process of reviewing our own narratives. Our task through this Mercury retrograde will be to remember—as Brené Brown has also written—“Compassionate people are boundaried people … If we’re going to practice acceptance and compassion, we need boundaries and accountability.” Mercury will station direct on March 28, so over the next few weeks, how can you take this opportunity to slow down, reflect on your own boundaries—what is and is not okay—and communicate those boundaries with clarity in order to practice deep, transformative compassion with those around you?
Uranus is the planet of disruption, upheaval, revolution, and radical invention. It spends 7-8 years in each sign of the zodiac. As it moves into Taurus on Wednesday—where it spent a few months in the middle of 2018, and where it will remain until 2026—seismic transformation will begin to rumble through whatever part of our charts Taurus occupies. Taurus is a fixed earth sign. It is steady and grounded, rooted in resources for sustainability and pleasure. Taurus knows that the sensuous awareness of body is one of our greatest teachers. It is reliable, sometimes even to the point of stubborn resistance to change. Uranus demands revolution. Some of our most steady and reliable support systems may be asked to change at both personal and collective scales. What would be a revolutionary approach to the wisdom of your own body? How might you invite disruption and invention into the ways that you resource your life and the lives around you? As Uranus moves through the Taurus part of your life, transformation will no longer feel optional. As we look around our world, it is obvious that revolutionary transformation is needed. How will you work with this need for change, rather than trying to resist or struggle against it?
All of this gets channeled into the start of this new lunar cycle, as the Moon and Sun meet up with Neptune in Pisces. The new moon of each lunar cycle is like the seed of the month ahead, a cycle that will climax and reach full visibility at the full moon. The full moon will be on Wednesday, March 20, with the Moon at the first degree of Libra and the Sun at the first degree of Aries—also known at the Vernal Equinox. This new moon in Pisces conjunct Neptune may feel nebulous, mysterious, and diffuse—especially with Mercury retrograde in the same sign. At this point in the cycle, it may not be clear where we are headed. This is a time for allowing yourself to drift in dream states, listen to the subtle vibrations of inspiration, the ebbs and flows that draw your attention in different directions. There is not a lot of focus at this new moon, but we know that this cycle is moving toward the balance of the equinox, the changing of the seasons at the Sun ingresses into the cardinal fire sign Aries and the Moon catches its light in cardinal air sign Libra. Alongside the much longer cycle of transformation initiated by Uranus in Taurus, over the next several weeks, we might be asked: what needs to change in order to move toward clarity and balance? What are we dreaming and imagining in watery Pisces this week that will launch us into a new season with the assertiveness of fire and air in the weeks ahead?
If you would like to talk through the astrology of your own chart and the wisdom the sky holds for you in the days ahead, I have consultations available in March, April, and May. Please visit the bookings page to schedule a consultation, and the offerings page to learn more about my approach.
Michael J. Morris is a witch, an artist, a writer, and a teacher.
For information about booking a consultation, please visit my bookings page.
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In memory of a rising geology superstar
Shane Lasley
Julia Lane lights up the room with her smile and impresses with her geological knowledge while explaining Carlin-type gold mineralization at Rackla during a 2011 visit to the Yukon project.
On Aug. 8, 2011, I landed at the exploration camp at ATAC Resources' Rackla Gold property, a place buzzing with excitement and activity from the recent discovery of Carlin-style gold mineralization. Finding out more about this intriguing new find was the highlight of my tour of Yukon mineral projects that year.
This is where I first met Julia Lane, a 25-year-old geologist tasked with explaining "Carlin-style gold mineralization" to me and my media colleagues and what this unique geology meant for ATAC Resources and its work at Rackla.
Being young, enthusiastic and photogenic, I initially assumed that Julia was a geological underling selected as a spokesperson for ATAC. It did not take long, however, for me to be deeply impressed with her solid understanding of Carlin-style gold and the geology of the enormous Rackla property.
The only thing that may have outshined Julia's geological acumen was her passion for mineral exploration and ability to imbue this excitement into anyone who listened to her talk about the work being carried out at Rackla.
Over the years since I first met Julia, she spread her deep geological knowledge and passion with the wider mining community while discussing ATAC's Carlin-type gold discoveries and their characteristics at conferences across Canada and the United States. As a result, many others have gained the respect and admiration of this geologist I met on that August day in the Yukon.
As a result of her excellent work and understanding of the various mineralized systems across the enormous Rackla Gold belt, by the age of 29 Lane had earned the post of vice president of exploration for ATAC.
On Aug. 6, 2019, however, the North of 60 Mining sector lost this rising geology superstar to a tragic plane crash while flying from Rackla to the Yukon community of Mayo.
While I did not know Julia well – having only spoken with her during that first visit to Rackla and a few times at mining conventions – I felt a deep sense of loss at hearing the news that she was one of the two people aboard the downed plane.
This sense of loss for someone I did not know personally speaks to the lasting impression Julia left on the mineral exploration sector in the Yukon and beyond – an influence established with her bright eyes and cheerful smile, and then solidified with a remarkable understanding of geology.
Julia Lane explains intercepts from a hole drilled at the Carlin-type gold on the Osiris project on ATAC Resources' Rackla Gold property in the Yukon.
This ability to light up a room and then impress with knowledge seemingly beyond her years is reflected in the words of some of her closest colleagues.
"Julia's infectious enthusiasm and passion will be deeply missed by ATAC and the entire exploration community," said ATAC Resources President and CEO Graham Downs, summing up how many of us who had the opportunity to meet her feel.
"Julia was beloved by everyone who had the opportunity to work with her and was deeply respected across the industry," said Rob Carne, former president of ATAC Resources.
Mining Explorers 2019 is dedicated to the memory of Julia Lane, a rising geology superstar who will be missed by family, friends, colleagues and one journalist whom she impressed with the enthusiasm of youth and knowledge that seemed to defy it.
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HomeOne DirectionOne Direction Debut “Girl Almighty” – VIDEO
One Direction Debut “Girl Almighty” – VIDEO
12/24/2014 mj santilli One Direction, Video, X Factor UK 0
One Direction: The TV Special aired on NBC last night to soft ratings. According to TVByTheNumbers, the show earned a 0.7/2 rating in the demo with 3.13M viewers tuning in. Eh. A special airing two days before Christmas is probably not going to attract eyeballs beyond the diehard fans.
In any case, the special featured the boys at Universal Studios in Orlando meeting fans, romping around, singing. The usual. I did record it just in case there was something new. And there was! Here’s a brand new song, never before sung live. It’s titled “Girl Almighty” and is from the quintet’s new album, Four.
Erm. I kinda like this song. It reminds me of the power pop I loved back in the 80’s and 90’s. Three minute pop songs featuring appealing guitar riffs and awesome melodies are kind of my thing. The A&R people who choose songs for One Direction? I hope they are being paid well.
One Direction – Girl Almighty
BONUS VIDEO: Niall Horan dances in his underwear.
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“The Interview” is Streaming on Google Platforms Beginning Today
Watch Craig Wayne Boyd Sing “My Baby’s Got a Smile On Her Face” on Ellen (VIDEO)
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Are Patients Being Informed?Sean Manning2019-12-06T08:49:13+00:00
Are Patients Being Informed?
It is noted the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologist’s review into Cervical Check is due to be presented to Government on the morning of the 3rd December 2019.
It is understood that the Review examined more than 1,000 smear test results in the wake of the Cervical Check scandal.
That Review has been carried out by the United Kingdom Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
It is understood that the Review is intended to ascertain as to whether there were any failures to prevent cancer or to intervene at an earlier stage.
Although certain women have been contacted to tell them whether or not there was a failure to identify abnormal cells, and if this meant cancer could have been diagnosed at an earlier stage, it is urged as a priority that all women who are subject to this Review ought to be contacted prior to publication of the Report concerned.
The Report content is awaited and accordingly, its findings ought to be respected by Government and other relevant interested parties as a reference publication for the purposes of ascertaining what events occurred.
Yet, this Report does not replace on an individual basis an assessment of each woman’s own circumstances to determine whether negligence so occurred. It would be wrong for any woman who receives a Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists letter to rely upon that letter as the basis upon which a determination ought to be made as to whether a negligence claim can be advanced.
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Fiona Kenyon graduated with an Honours degree in Zoology from Edinburgh University, then gained a PhD studying sheep scab mites at Moredun.
Fiona then completed a Post-doctoral position at Edinburgh University studying drug resistance in malaria before returning to Moredun to work on the management of anthelmintic resistance in sheep. Fiona is currently interested in how different anthelmintic treatment strategies affect the development of anthelmintic resistance, and has been working on developing targeted treatment (optimised whole-flock treatments) and targeted selected treatment (treating only those individuals within a flock that will gain a benefit) strategies in sheep.
Selected Key Publications
Morgan-Davies, C., Lambe, N., Wishart, H., Waterhouse, T., Kenyon, F., McBean, D., McCracken, D. 2017. Impacts of using a precision livestock system targeted approach in mountain sheep flocks Livestock Science
Melville, L., Kenyon, F., Javed, S., McElarney, I., Demeler, J., Skuce, P. 2014. Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the sensitive detection of Haemonchus contortus eggs in ovine faecal samples Veterinary Parasitology 206(3-4):308-312.
Charlier, J., Morgan, E.R., Rinaldi, L., Dijk, J., Demeler, J., Hoglund, J., Hertzberg, H., Ranst, B.V., Hendrickx, G., Vercruysse, J., Kenyon, F. 2014. Practices to optimise gastrointestinal nematode control on sheep, goat and cattle farms in Europe using targeted (selective) treatments Veterinary Record 175(10):250 - 255.
Charlier, J., Voort, M., Kenyon, F., Skuce, P., Vercruysse, J. 2014. Chasing helminths and their economic impact on farmed ruminants Trends in Parasitology 30(7):361 - 367.
Busin, V., Kenyon, F., Parkin, T., McBean, D., Laing, N., Sargison, N.D., Ellis, K. 2014. Production impact of a targeted selective treatment system based on liveweight gain in a commercial flock The Veterinary Journal 200(2):248-252.
Kenyon, F., McBean, D., Greer, A.W., Burgess, C.G.S., Morrison, A.A., Bartley, D.J., Bartley, Y., Devin, L., Nath, M., Jackson, F. 2013. A comparative study of the effects of four treatment regimes on ivermectin efficacy, body weight and pasture contamination in lambs naturally infected with gastrointestinal nematodes in Scotland International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance 3():77-84.
Burgess, S.T.G., Innocent, G., Nunn, F., Frew, D., Kenyon, F., Nisbet, A.J., Huntley, J.F. 2012. The use of a Psoroptes ovis serodiagnostic test for the analysis of a natural outbreak of sheep scab Parasites & Vectors 5(1):7.
Kenyon, F., Jackson, F. 2011. Targeted flock/herd and individual ruminant treatment approaches Veterinary Parasitology 186(1-2):10-17.
Demeler, J., Küttler, U., El-Abdellati, A., Stafford, K., Rydzik, A., Varady, M., Kenyon, F., Coles, G., Höglund, J., Jackson, F. 2010. Standardization of the larval migration inhibition test for the detection of resistance to ivermectin in gastro intestinal nematodes of ruminants Veterinary Parasitology 174(1-2):58 - 64.
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French Soldiers in Italy, 1792-1814
Hygiene and Pollution: French Soldiers Gaze upon Dirt, Dust and Disease.
by Fergus Robson
M. Thiébault, Bonaparte Touchant les Pestiférés (1835)
Image Credit: © Musée de l’Armée/ RMN-Grand Palais, Paris, France
The eighteenth century saw many changes in the way people thought about bodily hygiene, smells, rotting matter and pollution. These changes however were gradual and emanated from the elite, and older understandings of the intersection between environmental, bodily and moral-spiritual pollution still loomed large alongside more modern notions of disease and cleanliness. This post will consider the ways French soldiers saw, described and thought about dirt, disease and pollution in Italy and Egypt. Some of their ideas now seem humorous, others still feel very relevant, especially when we consider these men as, in a sense, tourists. Ideas of insanitary conditions, fears and realities concerning the spread of contagious disease and the descriptions which link these with moral degradation; examined together will allow us to penetrate some way into the mental universes of these men living on the cusp of changing understandings and who were exposed to the stresses of experiencing strange places and alien cultures. The ways in which they understood and related their experiences should cast some light not only on the shifting ways of thinking about cleanliness and disease, but also on ideas of moral superiority and national identity as bound up in simple social practices.
Insanitary Conditions: Marshes, Narrow Streets and Bad Air.
Prevailing understandings of the properties of air were undergoing radical changes during the eighteenth century, scientists proposed new theories as to its effect on health and the body. The French Royal Society of Medicine conducted a major inquiry among its correspondents as to the incidence of different illnesses in different regions at different times of year, one of the main themes of which was the quality and character of the air. These elite preoccupations seem to have either reflected or influenced the way in which French soldiers during the Revolution thought about the atmosphere. Soldiers on both campaigns made reference to ‘unclear air’ which Laugier for instance, believed emanated from the marshes around Mantua. Bricard agreed that the entire area was ‘extremely unhealthy’. Such swampy terrain elicited similar complaints in Egypt where, around Lake Manzaleh, Millet was convinced that the unclean air from the marshes was causing widespread disease. A concern with the insanitary effects of swamps and marshes was widespread during the eighteenth century and clearly found its way into the soldiers’ thinking. Worse yet was the Kamsin, a desert wind which they believed caused temporary and sometimes permanent blindness.
Urban hygiene was also a concern, the narrow streets which they frequently complained about were thought to allow bad air to linger and encourage disease to breed. Bricard’s disgust is palpable when he writes of ‘the narrow dirty streets…small shops offering repulsive food, unhealthy lodgings’ and went on, without a hint of irony, to decry how ‘the poor sleep in filth, never undress and are crawling with vermin’. Were they to have looked twice at French towns, especially Paris they would have seen similar conditions. Their surprise and disgust, should not surprise us however, the unfamiliarity of the environment meant that similarities with home were easily lost in the kaleidoscope of conflicting sensations. This contradictory effect of gazing upon, and inhaling, a new and richly different environment was reinforced when they visited the merchant or European quarters that existed in some Egyptian towns. Grandjean described the one in Cairo as ‘better built and cleaner than the rest of the city’.
From what is known about urban environments in eighteenth century Europe, they were clearly guilty of applying double standards. It is instructive that despite frequently having to put up with filthy lodgings and the putrefying gore of battlefields, the soldiers who saw and smelt the dirt of both Italy and Egypt, but particularly the latter, expressed their disgust in the strongest of terms, disgust that indicated a moral judgment as well as a purely physical one. Vaxelaire’s horror at the ‘terrible smell and lack of cleanliness’ can be understood given that he came from the unpolluted Vosges Mountains. The disgust of urbanites, especially Parisians such as Bricard, is less easy to comprehend but must at least in part be due to the perception of difference assailing their senses while trying to navigate an often hostile and threatening environment.
Cleanliness and Contagion: Curious Conceptions and Medical Mentalities.
Even today it is not that uncommon to hear people voice their distrust of medicine and doctors, the profession had an even more ambiguous reputation in the past. Many soldiers, Girard in Toulon and Bonnefons in Antibes among them, preferred to hide their illness or injury rather than entrust themselves unto the questionable care of military hospitals. At the same time soldiers were more exposed to doctors than any other non-elite members of society and so did see the advantages of medical treatment for certain problems. However they did enthusiastically shared their folk-remedies and quack cures and understandings of medication and health were, by modern standards, somewhat ridiculous. They did however understand the benefits of bathing. The dragoon lauded the virtues of the Nile’s waters as clean and purifying while Grandjean became very attached to Hammam baths which he qualified as ‘very necessary and good for the health’ and Henry Laurens reports that the troops were recommended to bathe regularly. Others used their own conceptions of cleanliness to mock, or at least question the ritual ablutions integral to Islamic practice. Charvet for instance observed that ‘they are so superstitious that they believe this will remove any stain’. In this context the word tache could be understood as either a moral stain or a dirty mark or both, illustrating the subtle intersection of physical and moral pollution.
Ideas of cleanliness to avoid falling ill were one thing but once the soldiers did catch something their ideas about how to cure it were eccentric. Millet was convinced that he survived the plague by lancing the boil that developed, praying and not going anywhere near the hospital. Chatton’s memoir included instructions for a poultice of fresh pigeon blood that a Neapolitan had shared with him for his unspecified illness, and Bricard highly recommended the blend of aqua amara and quinine, used to treat fevers in northern Italy. He also complained about the sale of the army’s stock of wine which he saw as ‘among the most vital necessities for curing the unfortunates who had fallen ill’.
Understandings of how to avoid contagion were more sophisticated, the dragoon held that the ‘huge number of public ladies who infest the camps have caused numerous illnesses’. Moiret also remarked that ‘even the most intrepid libertines would recoil in horror at the filth of the brothels’. He also wrote at some length about the variety of diseases which afflicted the inhabitants and the French troops which he put down to ‘unhealthy air, dirty water’ and general pollution. The worst of these diseases however was the plague, which struck a number of times during the expedition. Thurman assiduously used a tweezers to dip his possessions in vinegar to disinfect them during an outbreak of the plague, demonstrating the medical progress and keeping him alive while those around him died. Quarantines were established and hospitals struggled to deal with the infected. One French doctor was publicly humiliated for having refused to treat plague victims. His punishment was to be brought around the city on a donkey, dressed in women’s clothing with a sign around his neck which read ‘this man does to deserve to be called French, he is afraid of death’. The contradictory rumours about the plague illustrate the often contorted thinking around disease. On one hand it was often repeated, by Pépin and Charvet for instance that the French and other Europeans were less at risk of infection than locals. Thurman wrote that ‘I think the disease spared all the natives in Aboukir’, indicating an idea that somehow the Europeans suffered more from it. Millet was convinced that it was a consequence of the filth in which he insisted the Egyptians lived, wherein ‘they left dead animals rotting in their yards and streets, corrupting the air and allowing pestilential illnesses to flourish’. Others, including Malus described the disease in all its horror as an equal opportunities killer which spread between friends and family members regardless of race or status. These, along with the mixed attitudes towards medicine and strange ideas of cures and cleanliness shine a light on the transitional nature of understandings of sickness and health at the time and across different social classes and levels of education. While some responses to disease were genuinely effective, others had nothing whatsoever to do with medical treatment and were informed by popular attitudes, rumour, superstition and prejudice.
Polluted Streets, Polluted Minds: Discourses of Dirt and Degradation.
The prejudices which led some soldiers to see themselves as more immune to disease than Egyptians, and others to see the Egyptians as somehow protected from the disease are but one way in which the cultural encounters between French soldiers and natives in both Italy and Egypt can shed light on constructions and imaginations of identity. Throughout a significant number of the surviving accounts a certain set of parallel imagery depicting locals (especially in Egypt) as somehow both morally and physically unhygienic and dirty. Thus Bricard’s ethnographic description of Egyptians blends images of people ‘living in utter filth like animals do in Europe’ with ‘the horror we felt when confronted with the habits and mores of the inhabitants’. Sometimes the prevalent dirt and pollution are seen to be linked with the supposed moral decay, the laziness, incompetence and perverse sexual practices Egyptians were accused of. Millet for instance inferred a connection between the degeneration of Egyptian civilisation, ‘the Turks’ laziness and lack of involvement in commerce…since they are so insanely jealous they constantly monitor their women instead’, and then goes on to liken their ‘dirty, ugly cabins’ to ‘foxes’ holes’. Such a collage of perspectives provides us with a perfect intersection of judgments and mentalities around morals, decay, hygiene and humanity. In other situations the locals themselves seem to have been dehumanised to the point of being seen as a type of dirt that needed, in the dragoon’s words, ‘to be cleaned from the environs of their bivouac’. Similarly to the way in which David Barnes has shown that social transgressions were linked to disease in the popular imagination in France, the dirt was in some way symbolic of the inferiority of the Egyptians and was intimately related to their other perceived defects.
These are fascinating possibilities for two reasons, not only do they look backwards to Early-Modern conceptions of religious hygiene and moral pollution of communities by members of other confessions but they also look forward to colonialist discourses about locals’ need for civilisation and how European settlement and rule would allow these inferior and debauched people to rise above their current lowly status. Both of these conceptions infer a legitimisation of violent cleansing, whether it is from a religious and moral perspective or a civilising and secular standpoint. Both seem to have informed the thinking of the common French soldiers in Egypt who in a sense provide a link between these two different ways of enacting an imagined mission to cleanse the world. The dragoon suggested that to clean Egypt of prostitutes ‘they should be tied in bags and thrown in the Nile’, the river whose cleansing properties he had previously praised and whose waters the French had appropriated as their own by taking control of the annual flooding ceremony and using it to transport troops and the taxes and goods they had seized. Thurman, as always, gives an illuminating counter-example by describing ‘the extreme repugnance the locals had when it came to touching a French corpse’ in the clean up after the second battle of Aboukir.
The metaphors of dirt, decay and degradation which were used to portray the Egyptians as morally and in a sense intellectually incapable of rational choice or self-rule were props which justified conquest, massacre and extraordinary punitive taxes and other requisitions. The way in which soldiers wrote about the Dutch further supports this interpretation. Putigny noted the cleanliness and prosperity of the Dutch peasantry while Laugier lauded the ‘good order and cleanliness’ he saw all over the Low Countries. These were clearly civilised fellow Europeans, who needed French help to regain their liberty but were not degraded or degenerate in the same way as they saw the Egyptians.
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Dr Fergus Robson (Trinity Collge Dublin)
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